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 262th 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 28-April 3, 2022

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

 

(Updated) New Microsoft 365 Lists entry point in the SharePoint app bar

 

MC295021 | April 1 – Updated April 01, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Resources in the SharePoint app bar will be expanding to include an entry point toMicrosoft 365 Lists.Microsoft 365 Lists content is personalized to the individual userNote: The new Microsoft 365 Lists entry point cannot be disabled or customized.

 

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(Updated) Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint

 

Act by: March 25

 

MC274188 | April 1 – Updated April 01, 2022: We have begun rolling this out and will be monitoring customer reported issues to ensure a smooth deployment. To ensure the best experience we have postponed the start of final stage of this change until late March. The final stage is the part of the feature that actually stamps the expiration date on the file and physically deletes the file based on that stamped expiration date.For any tenant that does not have a custom policy in place already, we are updating the…

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Forms new App “Polls” in Teams

 

MC284259 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Forms has always focused on providing the best polling experience to our customers. However, according to customer feedback and telemetry, we have determined that many people don’t know the “Forms” App provides polling capability in Teams. To provide a better experience we are delivering a new Teams app specifically for polling capabilities. This new app will be discoverable in Teams…

 

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Skype for Business online contacts retirement

 

Act by: June 30

 

MC349675 | March 31 – With Skype for Business Online retired on July 31, 2021, Microsoft will soon be commencing the decommissioning process of the supporting infrastructure no sooner than June 30, 2022.

 

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Enablement of combined security information registration for Azure Active Directory

 

MC348869 | March 29 – In April 2020, the combined security information registration experience for registering both multifactor authentication (MFA) and self-service password reset (SSPR) was released for you to opt in. Upcoming, we will be making the new combined security information registration experience the default for all tenants.Note: This change will not impact you if your tenant was created after August 15th, 2020, or your tenant is located in the China region.

 

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(Updated) New policy settings available for Microsoft Feedback Portal

 

MC344040 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.We are introducing a new policy for admins to be able to manage user access to the Feedback portal (announced in MC289676). The Feedback portal allows your users to submit community feedback and interact with (upvote, comment) feedback submitted by other users. It also allows for users to track and follow-up on feedback they submit to Microsoft.The feedback we collect from your users is available…

 

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(Updated) Updating default tenant-level tag management settings

 

MC320163 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timelines below. Additionally, we have updated the content with additional details. Thank you for your patience.We’re updating the default tag management settings based on customer feedback. The new defaults eliminate the need for team members to ask owners to create or edit tags on their behalf. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88318

 

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(Updated) Play My Emails: Spotlight

 

MC282784 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This enhancement to the Play My Emails feature of Outlook Mobile identifies Spotlight Emails (emails deemed important) and prioritizes them to be read first before other email from the inbox.

 

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Retiring Hold statistics in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery

 

MC348215 | March 28 – We’ll be retiring the Hold statistics functionality from Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery, due to variability in the consistency of items count and size estimated from the statistics. This variability creates significant challenges for organizations who depend on consistent and repeatable results for eDiscovery legal hold workflows. Instead, we recommend the utilization of search and collection workflows within eDiscovery to get statistics on items on hold, which is where we will…

 

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Additional updates

 

SharePoint: Create from the SharePoint app bar

 

MC350768 | April 1 – Apologies for the delayed release of this new feature. Resources in the SharePoint app bar are expanding to include the ability to create sites, files, and lists as an action.

 

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(Updated) Microsoft 365 admin center: Creating more granular email notifications for Service issues

 

MC335614 | April 1 – Updated April 01, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are adding the ability to subscribe to separate email notifications for the different types of service issues that show up on the Service Health dashboard. Currently admins can enroll in email notifications for incidents and advisories, we are adding additional granularity for admins to subscribe to Microsoft service issues and issues occurring within your organization that require admin action….

 

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

 

MC317766 | April 1 – Updated April 01, 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) Updated feedback experience in Message center posts

 

MC324461 | April 1 – Updated April 01, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are updating the feedback experience in Message center posts so that admins can easily give more granular feedback on the posts.

 

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User requests for apps in Teams store

 

MC350372 | March 31 – Microsoft Teams is designed to be the digital workspace of the organization, to help users connect and collaborate within the experience. With the updated Teams App Store launch a few months ago, a new experience is available to discover and install apps inside Microsoft Teams. Now, users on Teams can browse and find apps in the Teams Store that are blocked within the tenant and request them from the admins by clicking the ‘Request approval’ button. Admins can receive the valuable signal from…

 

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(Updated) Teams apps designed for Outlook and Office.com available for users in Outlook and Office.com

 

MC334280 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the content below with a link to a blog with additional details.To get more done without constantly changing apps, we’re making new Teams apps also available for users in Outlook and Office.com. Users in Targeted Release will be able to acquire and use these apps in Teams, Outlook, or Office.com.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88942 and 88909

 

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(Updated) Conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint

 

MC299210 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: Based on early learnings we are postponing this feature for SharePoint and will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. We have updated the rollout timeline below for Office.com. 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) Update to the Conversations vertical in Microsoft Search in Bing

 

MC312491 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.As users of Microsoft Search in Bing, you are already familiar with finding Teams and Yammer conversations via the Conversations vertical. We are pleased to inform that the Conversations vertical experience in Microsoft Search in Bing will be enhanced with Email messages. Going forward the Conversations vertical will contain Teams conversations and Email Messages. We expect that this feature will…

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Lists: Custom list templates

 

MC267581 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This new feature will support the addition of custom list templates from your organization alongside the ready-made templates Microsoft provides to make it easy to get started tracking and managing information.

 

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(Updated) Groups icon change in Outlook on web

 

MC303512 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The Microsoft 365 Groups icon seen under the Groups section in left navigation pane will be changed. This change is applicable only to Outlook on Web application. Currently it is represented by a folder icon. It will be replaced by the Groups icon. This icon change will bring visual coherence between Outlook on Web and Outlook Desktop application. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap…

 

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(Updated) Forms distribution and email notification feature

 

MC320691 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Forms will soon enable a feature that will allow users to share a Form/survey directly with other users and distribution lists within the organization which will also include automated follow up emails and updates. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88886.

 

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(Updated) Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls

 

MC343429 | March 31 – Updated March 31, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls will play music to callers while on hold, ensuring that the caller knows that the call is still active. Feature will apply to 1:1 call hold and consult then transfer holdfor VOIP callsBlind transfer is not in scope.

 

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Turned-Off Basic Authentication – Exchange ActiveSync

 

MC349718 | March 31 – We are making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants. You can always read the latest information about our plans to turn off Basic Authentication here . Today we turned off Basic Authentication for the Exchange ActiveSync protocol in your tenant. Based on our telemetry, no-one is…

 

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Connect Microsoft Teams Shifts with Blue Yonder Workforce Management

 

MC349684 | March 31 – The Microsoft Teams Shifts connector for Blue Yonder Workforce Management is a first-party offering that’s hosted and managed by Microsoft. The Shifts connector allows for two-way replication of schedule and shift related data between Microsoft Teams and Blue Yonder Workforce Management (WFM). This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89109.

 

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

 

MC349551 | March 30 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel

 

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Forms Portal Page Experience Improvement

 

MC349513 | March 30 – Microsoft Forms Portal page will soon be receiving some overall experience updates. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88945.

 

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Connected experience controls for Whiteboard

 

MC348870 | March 29 – Microsoft Whiteboard is now integrated with the Microsoft Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS) . OCPS allows you to control policies that apply to Office products. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93184.

 

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(Updated) OneDrive: Move your shortcuts in OneDrive

 

MC316147 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.You can now move the shortcuts you’ve added using “Add shortcut to OneDrive” into any folders in your OneDrive. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82166.

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Enroll in Focus plan from the Insights app in Teams

 

MC336856 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Viva Insights is introducing updates to better enable users to protect time for focus from the Viva Insights Teams app. These updates to the protect time page will allow users to enroll in a focus plan and adjust preferences to auto book focus time on one’s calendar from within the Insights app in Teams. Users enrolled in a focus plan will also see insights about their progress towards their focus…

 

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(Updated) Forms: Split sending and sharing entry point

 

MC335638 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are making it easier to share a Form with a collaborator or with respondents by clearly separating out the sharing process. This is a follow up to MC24233. Based on feedback, we made the decision to make additional changes before we proceeded with the full rollout. We are now ready to move forward and apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your feedback and patience.This message is…

 

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(Updated) New Fluent Emoji style coming to Teams emojis and reactions

 

MC333941 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This update will have Teams joining Microsoft 365 and Windows in updating all emojis and reactions to the new Microsoft Fluent emoji style, bringing users a more vibrant and expressive emoji experience.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88277

 

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(Updated) Transcription in 1:1 VOIP Calls

 

MC298824 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Transcription in 1:1 VOIP Calls will soon be available. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68774.

 

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(Updated) Co-organizer Meeting Role

 

MC292796 | March 29 – Updated March 29, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Organizers will soon be able to assign the co-organizer meeting role to up to 10 specific people they invite to their meeting. Co-organizers will be granted most of the capabilities of the organizer in the meeting, including being able to access & modify the meeting options for the meeting.Usage of the co-organizer role for a meeting will be optional. If users choose not to use the co-organizer…

 

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Microsoft Teams: Text Predictions for Teams Mobile (Android)

 

MC341572 | March 29 – 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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MarkAsRead Volume Drop

 

MC348259 | March 29 – To improve the data quality of MarkAsRead we made some changes to how reads are counted. Previously, reads were counted multiple times and with this change reads are counted when an item’s status changes from Unread to Read. This change was rolled out late last year and we apologize for not communicating about it sooner.

 

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Loop components in Teams Chat

 

MC348227 | March 28 – Loop components: Previously announced Fluid live components (MC270177 July ’21) are now called Loop components and have a new icon. Loop components in Teams chat offer a new way to ideate, create, and make decisions together. Send a component — like a table, task list, or paragraph — where everyone in your chat can edit inline and see changes as they’re made.

 

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Presenter modes move and resize options

 

MC348225 | March 28 – Presenter modes on Video Based Screen Sharing (VBSS) (Screen or Window sharing) in Meetings enables immersive presentations on Teams meetings merging video and content on the stage. This new feature will allow presenters to decide how they will be shown with respect to the content. In Standout mode, they will be able to choose to appear on the left or right and adjust the overlayed video feed size to customize for each type of presentation!Flexible arrangement and customization of their…

 

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Microsoft Information Protection: Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts

 

MC348214 | March 28 – We’re introducing a compliant feedback mechanism to enable admins to report false positives for sensitive information types (SITs) and trainable classifiers detected and reported in Content explorer and DLP Alerts (non-legacy alerts). This Feedback Loop will improve the overall accuracy of SITs and trainable classifiers as it enables Microsoft to make systematic improvements in the product to reduce future false positives. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93210.

 

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