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 264th 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,
April 18-24, 2022

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

 

Basic Authentication – Remote PowerShell

 

MC363595 | April 23 – We’re 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.7 days from today we’re going to turn off Basic Authentication for Remote PowerShell in your tenant. Based on our telemetry, no-one is currently using Basic Authentication with Remote PowerShell in your tenant and so we expect there…

 

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Basic Authentication – POP3

 

MC363174 | April 22 – We’re 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.7 days from today we’re going to turn off Basic Authentication for POP3 protocol in your tenant. Based on our telemetry, no-one is currently using Basic Authentication with that protocol in your tenant and so we expect there to be…

 

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(Updated) Exchange Transport Rule Report moving to the new EAC from the Security and Compliance Center

 

Act by: March 31

 

MC316157 | April 22 – Updated April 22, 2022: We have updated the timing for GCC-High to reflect that we won’t proceeding with this change at this time. We will communicate to GCC-High organizations via Message center when we are ready to proceed.We will be retiring the Exchange Transport Rule (ETR) report from the Security and Compliance Center (SCC). The report will no longer be available in the security reporting dashboard, beginning early March 2022.Instead, we recommend the utilization of the replacement for…

 

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(Updated) Pairing naming convention between Teams channels and corresponding SharePoint folders

 

MC306666 | April 22 – Updated April 22, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We apologize for not sending an earlier update regarding our delayed rollout. We delayed the feature release to ensure the best possible experience for our users, and it is now ready. As previously mentioned (MC280294 – August), this new release will update the channel rename experience in Teams to simultaneously rename the corresponding folder in SharePoint sites whenever a channel in Teams is…

 

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(Updated) Change to mailbox forwarding behavior coming to Exchange Online

 

MC289686 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.We’re making some changes to which forwarded messages are rewritten with SRS.Starting in early November, we will be further consolidating our rewriting for messages that are automatically forwarded outside of Exchange Online. Not all forwarded messages are rewritten using SRS…

 

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Additional updates

 

NPS Sentiment Insights available to empower IT Admins to help end users

 

MC363214 | April 22 – NPS survey insights is an AI-driven dashboard available in Microsoft 365 Admin Center (Health -> Product feedback -> NPS survey insights tab). This feature has been helping Admins like you to obtain actionable insights derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.Based on your feedback, we are introducing a new feature that identifies the sentiment for each NPS verbatim feedback, so that you can learn what your users are feeling regarding Microsoft 365 products.This…

 

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Sensitivity Label as a condition support for PDF on Exchange Online

 

MC363212 | April 22 – We will be extending the ability to use sensitivity labels as a condition in Data Loss Protection (DLP) rules (for Exchange Online (EXO) location) to PDF attachments in Exchange emails. This feature will allow you to protect labelled PDF files through DLP policies using the condition “content contains sensitivity label” in the DLP rule.

 

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Anonymous user support for Live Captions in Microsoft Teams

 

MC362756 | April 21 – Participants who join Microsoft Teams meetings as Anonymous users will now be able to turn on and view Live Captions, CART captions and captions in other spoken language in Teams Meetings on desktop.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93049

 

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(Updated) Private drafts for SharePoint pages and news

 

MC291100 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We will deliver a new Message center post once we re-start the rollout. Thank you for your patience.This new feature will provide users the ability to create private drafts for pages and news posts. A private draft will be visible to only the page author, the people the author chooses to share it with, and site admins. Users will be able to…

 

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(Updated) People-centric search in Microsoft Search

 

MC320462 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This new feature, People-centric search (MC275345 – August) will soon roll out to Microsoft Search. This update will allow people in your organization to find content through people and understand people through their content.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68783.

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to URL Protection Report

 

MC318994 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are enhancing the URL protection report by including new click actions to the reporting. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88880.

 

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(Updated) OneDrive iOS: New information architecture

 

MC357317 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature has started rolling out and we ask you to pardon that we did not provide adequate advance notice as is our customer commitment to you. This release adds a new bottom sheet menu to OneDrive for iOS to make options like share, annotations, delete, and bookmark easier to find.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85571

 

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(Updated) Conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint

 

MC299210 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on early learning 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) Updated feedback experience in Message center posts

 

MC324461 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 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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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

 

MC362290 | April 20 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel

 

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OneDrive sync app will automatically configure accounts

 

MC362284 | April 20 – This release will enable the OneDrive sync app to sign into an account even quicker. Users will experience an improved single sign-on experience by automatically being able to see their OneDrive files within their file browser upon sign in or OneDrive app update.On Windows, users who are signed into the device with an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account will see their OneDrive folder start syncing without entering their account credentials. On macOS, users who are signed into another Microsoft…

 

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Unlimited audio upload minutes for web transcription on Microsoft Word

 

MC362278 | April 20 – Now your organization can transcribe unlimited minutes of uploaded audio using Word for the web transcription. Previously, the limit was 300 minutes per month per user. There’s been no change for live recordings; you can still transcribe unlimited minutes of live recordings.If your organization doesn’t use Word for the web transcription, you can disregard this message.

 

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Section Templates now available in SharePoint Pages

 

MC361749 | April 20 – Section Templates curated for beautiful image and text combinations can now be added in the plus menu.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88838

 

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(Updated) Loop components in Outlook Mail Preview

 

MC360766 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the content with additional details. Loop components are live, interactive, collaborative objects that you can embed in team chats and now also on emails. When you send a Loop component, everyone in the email can edit it inline—and see changes instantly. That means you can collaborate right inside an email message. To give it a try, compose a new email or reply to an existing one and insert a Loop component via the toolbar or copy and paste components…

 

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Announcing Microsoft Purview: Your home for Microsoft 365 compliance solutions

 

MC361277 | April 19 – Microsoft 365 compliance solutions will be consolidated under the Microsoft Purview brand name. This change will bring together Microsoft 365 compliance solutions and Azure Purview into a single portfolio and will align the naming of various solutions for consistency with other offerings.

 

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(Updated) Announcing graph support for Get Team Template List

 

MC311845 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.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…

 

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(Updated) Announcing continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center

 

MC296437 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re enhancing Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation functionality and enabling additional improvement actions and solutions for automated testing. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72222.

 

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(Updated) Activity Center for iPads, Tablets

 

MC344037 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Office app on mobile is launching Activity Center on iPads and tablets to enable users to stay on top of all their required activity and notifications. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88959.

 

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(Updated) Preview – Enabling customization capabilities for SSPR, footer hyperlinks and favicon in Company Branding.

 

MC339117 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re updating the Company Branding component of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-in page to enable customization capabilities for Self Service Password Reset (SSPR), footer hyperlinks and favicon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88928.

 

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(Updated) Export feature in Teams Admin Center

 

MC337332 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Teams admin center is adding support for downloading the data from the list pages like teams list page, members list page, channels list page and users list page. The downloaded data will be in the form of a CSV file. Admins can click on the “Export” icon placed on the table headers in these pages to generate the data and download the CSV from the downloads section in the header of the Teams admin…

 

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Microsoft Lists for Android

 

MC360768 | April 18 – With this new app, your users will now be able to access their Microsoft Lists (including SharePoint lists) on the go anytime, anywhere by using Microsoft Lists for Android.With Lists, you can manage events, track issues and assets, help with new-employee onboarding, and keep coordinated across inventory. With access on the go, easy sharing and quick photo capture, you can keep everyone connected with the latest information using Microsoft Lists.Note: The app is currently available to members…

 

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