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 300th 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.

 

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Message center announcements

January 23, 2023 – January 29, 2023

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Major updates

 

 

 

(Updated) Retirement of Exchange Online PowerShell with MFA

MC407050 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below.We will be retiring “the Exchange Online PowerShell module with MFA” on January 31, 2023 (previously December 31, 2022).Support for the Module will end on August 31, 2022. We recommend using the Exchange Online PowerShell V2 module (EXO V2 module), which uses modern authentication, and supports accounts with or without MFA.
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Additional updates

 

 

 

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine Notifications enabled for Preset Security Policies

MC505088 | January 27 – We are updating the recommended quarantine notification policy in the Standard and Strict preset security policies. Policy Quarantine Policy Standard Strict Anti-Spam SpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy Anti-Spam HighConfidenceSpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy Anti-Spam PhishQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy Anti-Spam…
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Planner Scope Based Diff Sync API Update

MC504328 | January 27 – Delta Query enables applications to discover newly created, updated, or deleted entities without performing a full read of the target resource with every request.The Delta Sync method allows your application to track changes to objects that the user can access from within Planner over time.When this will happenThe planner team will start rolling out the update by mid-February.The roll out is expected to be completed by end of February and associated documentation will be made available as part…
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Configuration of Private CDN is no longer required for SharePoint Online

MC504326 | January 27 – We are pleased to announce that the configuration of Private CDN is no longer required. It is now automatically managed within the SharePoint online service.
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Data Lifecycle Management – Removing the Preservation Hold Library (PHL) access in SharePoint

MC504322 | January 27 – We’re making an update to the ability to remove the Preservation Hold Library in SharePoint and OneDrive from being accessible through Site Contents or the site’s navigation. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103613
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

MC504049 | January 26 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel
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(Updated) Modern Commenting Experience Coming to Whiteboard

MC477852 | January 26 – Updated January 26, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With comments you can share your thoughts, celebrate with your teammates, or just have a conversation in Microsoft Whiteboard.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 98083
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(Updated) Microsoft Lists: Calendar Week Layout

MC496244 | January 26 – Updated January 26, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.While creating a calendar view, users can now choose between month layout or the new week layout to visualize their list information in a way that works best for them. There is a provision to create multiple calendar views – using both month and week layouts. Week Layout also supports all features from the month layout including the drag and drop operations to reschedule items and conditional…
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(Updated) Introducing OneNote viewer in Teams mobile apps

MC469578 | January 26 – Updated January 26, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are excited to announce the OneNote viewer feature within Teams mobile apps.Through this new feature, users will be able to open and view OneNote notebooks right within their Teams mobile apps. Users interested in editing the content will be directed to the standalone OneNote mobile app. The experience will be available as part of the Teams mobile apps on Android and iOS (including iPads)…
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(Updated) Preview – Enabling customization capabilities for SSPR, footer hyperlinks and favicon in Company Branding.

MC339117 | January 26 – Updated January 25, 2023: 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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Microsoft Teams: Simplified App Update Experience

MC503298 | January 26 – Microsoft Teams now maintains an index of all of the apps (and the corresponding versions) a user has consented to. Using this index, an app is automatically updated in real time everywhere it is installed for the user. After the user updates the app in any one context, the updated version is available in all other installed contexts, without any other user action.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95676
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Exchange: Test-Message coming soon

MC503297 | January 26 – We are introducing a cmdlet called Test-Message that tenant admins can use to independently investigate issues related to the processing of their Exchange Transport Rules (ETRs) and Unified DLP rules without having to engage Microsoft support for assistance.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100494
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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2023 release wave 1 plans available now!

MC503211 | January 25 – Today, we published the 2023 release wave 1 plans for Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform which is a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between April 2023 through September 2023. The new features and enhancements provide you with significant capabilities to help transform your business using our applications. You can use our new Release planner to view and manage release plans across all active release waves in a unified and interactive interface, while giving them the…
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(Updated) Exchange Online Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval Coming Soon

MC441064 | January 25 – Updated January 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.A common request from Exchange Online admins is for the ability to customize the message expiration timeout interval for messages sent by users in their organization. When a message in Exchange Online can’t be delivered or sent due to a temporary error, the message is queued for subsequent retries until either the message is delivered or sent, or until the message expires after the message…
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(Updated) Outlook: Reactions to Email Messages

MC445423 | January 25 – Updated January 25, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With reactions in Outlook, you can now react to an email message sent from someone in the same tenant without having to send a reply email. Show your appreciation and empathy with one click or tap.Users will see a reactions icon (a face) in a message for any messages sent from someone inside the same tenant. They can hover over or tap it to see all of the possible reactions to select from.Reactions will…
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(Updated) New ‘Activity’ Column in OneDrive ‘My Files’ list view

MC408694 | January 25 – Updated January 25, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are introducing a new Activity column in OneDrive My Files list view. The goal of this feature is to help users stay up-to-date on the files that they are working on with others by surfacing relevant activity information. We will show file activity related to actions, such as, user comments, edits, share, and @mentions. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88913
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Announcing General Availability for Release planner

MC502768 | January 25 – We are excited to announce that the Release planner is now generally available (GA) to users. The Release planner for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform enables users to view and manage release plans across all active release waves in a unified and interactive interface while giving them the option to personalize, filter, sort, and collaborate on release plans. Under the hood, the Release planner is powered by the Power Apps portal. It is created based on customer feedback to address the…
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Additional Filters in Approvals update

MC502190 | January 25 – We are providing this message as an update to MC449930 (October ’22).Microsoft Teams approval list within the personal app will include additional filters to filter your approval list. You can search for keywords in the Approval title or filter by Requested or Custom approvals. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 92486
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(Updated) Outlook for Windows: Cloud Signatures Coming Soon

MC450845 | January 25 – Updated January 24, 2023: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we made the decision to make additional changes prior to completing deployment. The new rollout timeline is below. Thank you for your patience.Upgrades to how your email signatures are managed will be launching soon. These enhancements change where the signature data is stored from per-device to per-account. This means the same set of signatures will be available on any Windows (Microsoft 365) or Web version of…
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(Updated) New Service Plans for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Viva SKUs

MC482179 | January 25 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated this message with additional details.As previously announced, we will be releasing our new experiences for Viva Engage and Answers in Microsoft Viva in early 2023. We are now assigning the new service plans to the corresponding SKUs to get ready for the release.
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Introducing OneDrive Home, the New Landing Experience

MC501991 | January 25 – We have refreshed the OneDrive Commercial Web landing experience to help you get to the files you’re working on quickly and easily. The new OneDrive Home experience surfaces your most recently used files, along with relevant file activity, so you can see everything at a glance and quickly prioritize where to start working.
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Teams in-context Stores

MC501986 | January 25 – The in-context stores are found in menus throughout the Teams experience that let users discover and install apps that support the specific context the user is in. For example, when a user opens the Message extension (ME) in-context store they are shown a selection of apps that have the ME capability. Discovering apps in the in-context Store keeps users in their flows and avoids unnecessary context switching.
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Microsoft Teams: Automatic lowering of a user’s Raised Hand after speaking

MC501981 | January 25 – Teams will soon have a feature that will alert attendees in meetings that have raised their hands and already had their questions addressed to automatically lower their hand. This will allow meeting organizers the opportunityto focus on unanswered questions.This release will be rolling out only to Microsoft Teams Desktop users.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 90022.
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(Updated) New SharePoint site templates

MC458661 | January 25 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are introducing 3 new SharePoint site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your HR department, to showcase Events, and a template powered by Microsoft Syntex to do contract management. With our new HR and Events communication site templates you will be able to build sites that highlight and showcase your content and share this information broadly with your organization. The HR site brings…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users ability to delete chats

MC466199 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Due to an issue with admin controls in TAC that we are actively working on fixing, please refer to the PowerShell documentation to control the setting for enabling or disabling delete chat capability. Link: Set-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy Users will be able to delete 1:1 chats, group chats, and meeting chats if they are a participant in Microsoft Teams. This permanently deletes the chat only for the…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Mention Everyone in chat

MC485628 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Similar to how users mention individuals in chat, users will now have the option for “Everyone” within their options for mentions. After typing @, users will see the same people results they see today, but a new option, “Everyone” will be available. By selecting Everyone and sending the message, a notification will be sent to all users in the group chat based on their selected notification…
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(Updated) Exchange: Message Recall Option to Disable the Recalling of Read Messages

MC445411 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are releasing a new Message Recall for Exchange Online feature that will recall messages that are flagged as “read” – the classic Message Recall in Outlook doesn’t recall read messages. Before we release the new feature, we want to let you know that tenant admins now have the option to disable the recalling of read messages for your organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365…
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(Updated) Custom Download Location for Files in Teams

MC420059 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Currently all file downloads from Microsoft Teams go to the Downloads folder. We are releasing a new feature that enables users to be able to choose their preferred download location for downloading files from Teams or specify a download location for each download.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 94719
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(Updated) Microsoft 365 admin center: New Teams Group Graph API and Teams Team Activity Counts

MC496246 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We’ve updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are adding new APIs within Microsoft Admin Center to support Microsoft Teams Groups and Teams Activity Counts. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109548
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(Updated) OneDrive Android: Extract PDF Pages

MC475170 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users of OneDrive for Android can now split PDFs and have PDFs saved back to OneDrive.
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Meeting Category Trends and Details in the Viva Insights App in Teams and Meeting Category Insights Card in Digest Email

MC434658 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Categories in Outlook and Teams allow users to easily tag, label, and group calendar events. In the Viva Insights app in Teams, using meeting category insights in the Effective meetings tab, users can see a percentage breakdown of how they are distributing their time across their categories.An upcoming update to this feature will allow users to: See how their meeting time distribution has changed…
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Outlook on the web – Update locations to message compose options

MC501737 | January 24 – Originally announced in MC427760 (September ’22), Outlook on the web is updating where some message-compose options are located, depending on how you use Outlook.For all users – The formatting bar will be relocated to the top of the message compose window, similar to the common “ribbon” you see in other Microsoft apps.For all users – When composing a new email message, the “Send”, “Discard”, and formatting bar will now be located at the top of the compose window.For users with “newest on top”…
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(Updated) Schedule Send for Teams Chat

MC427758 | January 24 – Updated January 24, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.As remote teams become more common and spread across multiple time zones, Teams is introducing the schedule send feature that allows users to schedule chat messages to be delivered in the future. With this feature, we can help build better work-life balance and support flexible schedules by scheduling chat messages so that they only deliver during our peer’s work hours. Users can schedule messages…
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Meeting Recap on Outlook on the web

MC500906 | January 24 – Meeting Recap is a new feature on Outlook on the web that allows meeting participants to quickly access meeting content, such as the meeting recording, easily from the calendar event. After a meeting has ended, users can open a meeting on their calendar to find links to meeting artifacts for easy access. The feature currently supports meetings scheduled using Microsoft Teams with the following limitations:Meeting recordings started through auto-record in Teams will not appear in the recapTeams…
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Microsoft Viva: Praise Highlights in Profile Card in Teams and Outlook

MC500903 | January 24 – Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. For both, admins can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to enable/disable Praise.With updates coming soon, praises received will be highlighted on a user’s profile card in Teams and Outlook. There are…
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Download History Functionality available on Service Trust Portal (STP)

MC500891 | January 24 – The Service Trust Portal is Microsoft’s public site for publishing audit reports and other compliance-related information associated with Microsoft’s cloud services.“My Download History” is a net new functionality now live on STP. On the My Download History tab, you can view and export a download history of documents downloaded from the Service Trust Portal within the last 18 months. The history includes the document title and download date, and the document status, such as whether it is live,…
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Changes to navigation in Outlook for Android

MC500888 | January 24 – Originally announced in MC450188 (October ’22), Outlook for Android is making it easier to find all your contacts, files, and more. See our blog post at Navigating Outlook for Android and iOS – Microsoft Community HubUsers will see changes to the tab bar at the bottom of Outlook for Android, a new Floating Action button, search will be renamed Feed with a new Icon, and Contacts and Files will be found under the “More” button.We apologize for the delay and are now proceeding with the rollout of…
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ContextIQ: Inline Search During Message Composing

MC500886 | January 24 – Originally announced in MC462919 (October ’22), ​​Context IQ allows users to easily search for and insert entities like people and files in a message they’re writing.We apologize for the delay and are now proceeding with the rollout of this feature. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88943
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