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 275th 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,
July 18-24, 2022

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Major updates

 

(Updated) Microsoft Office default change – Blocking VBA macros in files from the internet

 

MC322553 | July 21 – Updated July 20, 2022: We’re resuming the rollout of this change in Current Channel. Based on our review of customer feedback, we’ve made updates to both our end user and our admin documentation to make clearer what options you have for different scenarios. For example, what to do if your users have files on SharePoint or files on a network share. Please refer to the following documentation: For end users, A potentially dangerous macro has been blocked For IT admins, Macros from the internet…

 

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(Updated) New Location for Key Functions and Direct Access to Other Microsoft 365 Apps in Outlook

 

MC390407 | July 19 – Updated July 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The new experience for accessing Mail, Calendar, People, and other Outlook apps that is being previewed behind the Coming Soon option is becoming the default experience.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88848

 

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(Updated) Upcoming behavior change to the “DoNotRewrite” List

 

MC373889 | July 18 – Updated July 18, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With the deployment of the Tenant Allow/Block List, as being the single source of truth for Tenant Allows, other mechanisms for Tenant Allows are being removed. This will give SecOps teams one place to manage all Tenant Allows.Today, “DoNotRewrite” list is used to Skipwrapping URLs Detonation(SONAR) Verdicts. The intended purpose of “DoNotRewrite” is to give tenants the ability to skip the wrapping of…

 

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Additional updates

 

Microsoft Viva: Meeting Category Insights Coming to the Viva Insights App in Teams

 

MC403916 | July 23 – Meeting categories in Outlook allow users to easily tag, label, and group calendar events. Meeting category insights is a new feature coming in theViva Insights app in Teams that will help users understand how they are allocating their time across these meeting categories. Users can view data for the last 3 months, the last 4 weeks, and the next 4 weeks. The feature will be available in an Effective meetings tab being introduced in the app. With future updates, users will see more personalized…

 

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(Updated) OneDrive: Sharing Experience – Share Menu Dropdown

 

MC403644 | July 22 – Updated July 22, 2022: We have updated this message to show as intended. We apologize for any confusion.We’re updating the Share button in Microsoft OneDrive to provide easy access to additional sharing options. When you select Share in OneDrive for Business on Web, you’ll see a contextual menu with all choices available to you for sharing files or folders with your teammates.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83727

 

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Microsoft Viva Insights App in Teams: UI Updates, Insights Web App Updates, and End-User Opt Out

 

MC403645 | July 22 – The Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams is being updated to deliver a simplified user experience. The Viva Insights web Home page, discoverable via insights.viva.office.com and the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com, is being updated to match the Viva Insights app in Teams.Additionally, the MyAnalytics web dashboard will be updated to reflect the Viva Insights brand and be accessible via a link from the Viva Insights app in Teams. A new privacy setting will allow end users to opt out of…

 

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(Updated) Reminder: Microsoft Office default change – Blocking VBA macros in files from the internet

 

MC393185 | July 21 – Updated July 20, 2022: We’re resuming the rollout of this change in Current Channel. Based on our review of customer feedback, we’ve made updates to both our end user and our admin documentation to make clearer what options you have for different scenarios. For example, what to do if your users have files on SharePoint or files on a network share. Please refer to the following documentation: For end users, A potentially dangerous macro has been blocked For IT admins, Macros from the internet…

 

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Language Interpretation in Microsoft Teams

 

MC402940 | July 21 – Language interpretation will allow professional language interpreters to translate what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow more inclusive and efficient meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other without waiting for an interpreter to repeat what was said after the fact. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87547

 

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(Updated) A new, improved user experience for sharing cloud file links in Outlook Web

 

MC397994 | July 20 – Updated July 20, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are updating the experience for attachments associated to files from cloud locations connected to Outlook Web App (OneDrive, SharePoint, or third-party file storage providers). In the new experience, links to files from cloud locations will be added as link in the body of the message

 

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(Update) Teams Chat with self

 

MC390416 | July 20 – Updated July 20, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users will now be able to chat with themselves. All the same chat functionality that works for chatting with others will work for the individual chatting with themselves. They will be able to start a chat with themselves by typing their full name in the To: field when creating a new chat. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88066

 

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Viva Engage, replacing Yammer Communities app for Teams

 

MC402427 | July 20 – At Microsoft Inspire, Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, announced Microsoft Viva Engage, the newest app in Microsoft Viva, designed to help people and teams to be their best, have a voice, and feel included in the workplace. Viva Engage brings people together across the organization to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share their unique story, and find belonging at work. Viva Engage builds on Yammer, and brings together Yammer’s experiences—communities, open…

 

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Ability to manage third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin

 

MC402423 | July 19 – We will soon enable a centralized location in both Teams Admin Center and the Teams app store, where admins and end-users can view and manage all the third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased. This update improves the existing subscription management flow and makes it easier and more intuitive.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 92484 and 95920.

 

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(Updated) Cameo in PowerPoint Live

 

MC395422 | July 19 – Updated July 19, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.With Cameo in PowerPoint Live, users will be able to integrate Teams camera feed into PowerPoint presentation and customize how and where they want to appear on slides.⁠Cameo supports all personalization properties like any other Office graphical object such as those offered by Pictures, Gifs and Shapes. This includes layering Cameo between content, adding motion effects such as…

 

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(Updated) Collaborative Annotations on Presenter Shared Screen

 

MC383876 | July 19 – Updated July 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732

 

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Teams on Mac Universal Binary PKG and Native Apple Silicon Support

 

MC402124 | July 19 – Note: If your organization does not use macOS you can safely disregard this message. We are happy to inform you that the Teams macOS desktop client is set to support Apple Silicon chips natively in the 3rd quarter of the calendar year 2022. This support will be delivered seamlessly to existing users via the usual update process. For new users and installation, the Teams macOS desktop client will come in a Universal Binary PKG which will automatically install natively for Mac devices that run on…

 

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Assign Seats in Together Mode

 

MC402122 | July 19 – Microsoft Teams users in a meeting will soon have the option to assign seats in Together Mode for all participants in a meeting.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83648

 

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Dynamically applied media logs settings in Teams

 

MC402121 | July 19 – This update is aimed to improve your experience when updating the “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic” Teams settings. Either turned on or turned off, the preference will be dynamically applied right away and will not require a client restart, as it used to.

 

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Enable media logs remotely with PowerShell cmdlets

 

MC402120 | July 19 – Teams Media Logging policy can be applied to users and groups and allows IT admin to enable user’s client settings “Enable logging for meeting diagnostic”. Applied via PowerShell cmdlets, the policy overrides client settings and sets Settings > General> Enable logging for meeting diagnostic to “On”. When applied, the setting is displayed as greyed out and can’t be updated via the client.

 

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OneDrive/SharePoint: Review mode for Word documents

 

MC402119 | July 19 – What is Review mode?When you open a document that was shared with you for review, you are automatically placed in Review mode. In Review mode, you won’t have full edit control but instead are allowed to add suggestions to the document in the form of comments or tracked changes. Document owners or other collaborators who have full edit permissions will then need to approve the incorporation of any suggested changes to the document. What’s new?We have changed the UI for Review Mode in the Share…

 

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

 

MC402114 | July 18 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel

 

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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Password protected download of quarantined messages

 

MC384330 | July 18 – Updated July 18,, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With this change we are giving the ability to password protects items they download from quarantine. We want users to be confident that the items they are downloading to their systems will not execute involuntarily without their consent, and this capability will allow them to safely transport the items to external analysis tools. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID93305

 

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