In a rapid change of Office 365, Microsoft sends to Tenant Admin’s the news about what is changing and what is coming in Office 365.

 

This is the 259th email that Microsoft has sent to Tenant Admin’s Newsletter with Office 365 changes.

 

This Weekly digest is intended to reach the Administrators of Microsoft Office 365 within the latest changes that are happening to Office 365.

 

Below is an example that can be applied to your tenant, because these emails are based on the services that you have in your Tenant and subscription.

 

 
 

Message center announcements,
March 7-13, 2022

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

 

Safe Links Global Settings Migrated to Custom Policies

 

MC342072 | March 12 – To create a more consistent user experience across all policies in Microsoft Defender for Office portal the following Safe Links policy attributes will be migrated from the Global Settings flyout to the custom policy settings.Note: Use Safe Links in Office 365 AppsDo Not Track when users click protected links in Office 365 AppsDo not let users click through the Original URL in Office 365 Apps

 

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(Updated) Feature update: Modern Dynamic Distribution Groups

 

MC340293 | March 9 – Updated March 09, 2022: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.We’re modernizing Dynamic Distribution Groups (DDGs) to bring you a more reliable, more predictable, and better performing experience. We’re making changes that will reduce mail delivery latency, improve service reliability, and allow you to see the members of a DDG. This rollout will provide the functionality to all Exchange Online organizations.

 

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Every Meeting Online (EMO) by Default – Support for third-party online meeting providers

 

MC340779 | March 8 – Upcoming, we will be improving the Make every meeting online (EMO) feature in Outlook by turning it on by default and including partner online meeting providers. If your users do not have Microsoft Teams or Skype enabled, once this feature rolls out, all meetings created in Outlook will include an online meeting link using the preferred partner online meeting add-in, provided it’s deployed and available to your users. Note: This applies to Microsoft 365 accounts and Office Add-ins only.

 

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Additional updates

 

Introducing Power Platform admin center Home page

 

MC342090 | March 12 – We are introducing a new landing page to the Power Platform admin center. Rather than the default environments tab, which displays the list of owned environments, admins will be greeted with the newly introduced Home page. This new landing page experience for Power Platform admin center is aligned with admin experiences across other Microsoft services. We will begin rolling out this new experience on a regional basis beginning on March 17, 2022, and we expect it to be available for all…

 

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Search in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

 

MC342071 | March 12 – Teams admin center is rolling out a new preview search experience that enables the administrators to find entities, settings and workflows from a search bar placed at the header of the teams admin center. Administrators will now be able to search for entities like Users, Teams and quickly find them. In addition to this, administrators can search for Settings, Pages and Teams Apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83671.

 

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(Updated) List of the joined teams per user in Teams Admin Center

 

MC332869 | March 11 – Updated March 11, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We ask that you pardon us for not sending an earlier message, as is our customer commitment, regarding our early February rollout. Teams admin center is adding support for viewing the list of teams a user has joined.This integration will enable the admins to view all the teams that a user is a part of from a single view.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 87969

 

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Microsoft Teams: Text Predictions for Teams Mobile (Android)

 

MC341572 | March 10 – Text predictions is coming to Teams for Android. When you compose or reply to a message in Teams, Editor Text Predictions anticipates your writing and suggests a suitable word or phrase inline. This saves time and helps to reduce typos. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81573.

 

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Microsoft Teams: Casting from Teams desktop client to Microsoft Teams Rooms

 

MC341571 | March 10 – For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room and display content from the Teams desktop client (Windows and Mac). Users can share their screen and cast content stored locally on their computer or accessible via Office 365. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88027.

 

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(Updated) Connected Templates

 

MC312070 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are announcing the upcoming release of Connected Templates with Microsoft Teams and SharePoint. The connected templates will offer a new way of combining Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint templates. Prior to this integration, clients needed to deploy Microsoft Teams or SharePoint-specific templates.Microsoft Team Templates allow administrators to easily deploy consistent teams across their…

 

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(Updated) Teams Desktop Client Cross Cloud Anonymous Meeting Join

 

MC335634 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature update to Cross Cloud Anonymous (CCA) Meeting Join in Microsoft Teams will allow users to join meetings as unauthenticated (anonymous) users.This release expands the current unauthenticated (anonymous) meeting experience available for different tenants within a single cloud to all remaining Microsoft clouds (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DOD).Note: This new functionality will only affect…

 

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(Updated) Pin a chat message

 

MC317764 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This new feature will enable users to pin a specific message and provide chat members with quick access to critical content whenever it’s needed. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 82584.

 

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(Updated) Conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint

 

MC299210 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Search is adding the capability to find relevant Microsoft Teams, and Outlook conversations when searching in SharePoint and Office.com. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68779.

 

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(Updated) People centric search rollout update (SharePoint, Office.com)

 

MC320162 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Since previously communicated (MC275345 – Sept 2021), we have updated the people-centric search rollout timeline below. After the gradual rollout began in December, we have worked to improve your experience around finding content through people and understanding people through their content by offering greater consistency and reliability in SharePoint and Office.com. This message is associated with…

 

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(Updated) Chat filter for non-meeting chats

 

MC333623 | March 10 – Updated March 10, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.There will be a new chat filter within the Chat app filter which filters out meeting chats and chats with bots. It will filter for one on one and group chats with other users. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89436.

 

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Large Folder Delete on OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on Web

 

MC341151 | March 10 – Currently large folders (>10k items) cannot be deleted from OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web. With this new feature we will allow users to delete them. The process of deleting a large folder will be the same as deleting any small folder on the web today.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88979.

 

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

 

MC340782 | March 9 – We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel Monthly Enterprise Channel Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview) Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

 

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(Updated) Live Captions in all available languages and CART Captions on Teams Meetings on Web

 

MC317766 | March 8 – Updated March 08, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Live Captions in all available languages will now be available on Teams Meetings on web browsers. CART Captioning support will also be available on web browsers. Chrome/Edge/Safari on Win/Mac/Linux platforms will be supported. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84906, 84001.

 

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(Updated) Hardware Support for AJA and Blackmagic Devices

 

MC287353 | March 8 – Updated March 08, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The ability for Teams clients to stream content from a client to the local network via Network Device Interface (NDI) is being expanded to enable streaming content to select attached hardware devices. Users with the ability to turn on NDI will also be able to push content to attached hardware devices from AJA or Blackmagic Designs. This will enable users to push content from Teams out via attached…

 

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Microsoft Teams: Roaming bandwidth control

 

MC340286 | March 8 – Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location with higher bandwidth capacity. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81350

 

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Create and manage Power Apps from Microsoft Lists within Microsoft Teams

 

MC340285 | March 8 – Build low-code, mobile-friendly apps from Microsoft Lists directly inside of Microsoft Teams via a new integration with Power Apps. A published app can be added as a tab in a Teams channel and shared with the rest of your team, while maintaining its data connection to the list. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88894.

 

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Update to Safe Links Policy cmdlet

 

MC340284 | March 8 – Upcoming, we will be cleaning up the SafeLinksPolicy cmdlet params used as part of Set-SafeLinksPolicy and New-SafeLinksPolicy cmdlets.

 

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(Updated) Announcing graph support for Get Team Template List

 

MC311845 | March 7 – Updated March 07, 2022: We will not be moving forward with Get Template Details at this time and will communicate via Message center when it will be available. We have updated the content below to reflect this change as well as updated the rollout timeline. Thank you for your patience.This new release will bring Graph support toGet Template List. Team templates enable users to quickly create the right collaboration structure for their business needs. With Graph API support for Team Templates,…

 

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