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Message center announcements
March 20, 2023 – March 26, 2023
NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA
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Microsoft Authenticator Lite in Outlook
MC532607 | March 24 – Authenticator Lite (in Outlook) is a feature that allows your users to complete multi-factor authentication for their work or school account using Outlook on their iOS or Android device. This feature will be enabled on May 26th for all tenants that have not disabled it. If you do not wish for this feature to be enabled on May 26th, move the state to ‘disabled’ or set user include and exclude groups prior to May 26th.We always recommend having users download Authenticator to complete their…
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(Updated) IPv6 coming to Azure AD
MC498471 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: Earlier, we had announced our plan to bring IPv6 support to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) enabling our customers to reach the Azure AD services over IPv4, IPv6 or dual stack endpoints. This is just a reminder that we’ll begin introducing IPv6 support into Azure AD services in a phased approach, starting March 31st, 2023. If your networks don’t support IPv6, you don’t need to take any action to change your configurations or policies. For most customers, IPv4…
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Launching new way to open links in Edge from Outlook for iOS and Android
MC531738 | March 25 – Currently users open links automatically from Outlook for iOS and Android in their default browser. This change will prompt users to choose their browser instead. Users can choose their default browser if they prefer and configure that preference in their Outlook Mobile settings.We apologize for not communicating about this change sooner, per our commitment to proactive change communication.
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Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop”
MC532608 | March 24 – Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118580
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Outlook: Bookings with me going Public
MC532606 | March 24 – “Bookings with me” is coming to help you reduce the back and forth in scheduling, while helping you maintain control of your calendar. You’ll be able to create custom bookable slots to share with others so they can easily find a time to schedule a 1:1 meeting with you according to your availability and preferences. When someone books a slot with you using your personal booking page, you will both receive an email confirmation. Attendees can update or cancel scheduled meetings with you directly…
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Changes to navigation in Outlook for iOS
MC532603 | March 24 – Originally announced in MC450188 (October ’22), Outlook for iOS is making it easier to find all your contacts, files, and more. See our blog post at Navigating Outlook for Android and iOSUsers will see changes to the tab bar at the bottom of Outlook for iOS, search will be renamed Feed with a new Icon, and Contacts and Files will be found under the “More” button. Users can re-order an pin these apps.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100568
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Tenant Allow/Block List will allow related URLs
MC532602 | March 24 – Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan.Email messages can be blocked because of a bad URL where the URL is a matched based on a sub path or portion of the URL contained in the message. In the case of a legitimate email getting blocked, this was difficult to correct through a submission. We have updated the way that we handle allowed URLs such that the partial matching behavior is included without the need to…
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Easier to filter and sort messages reported by users
MC532600 | March 24 – Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan. It is easier to filter and sort messages now reported by end users either through Microsoft report message add-in or Microsoft report phish add-in or Outlook Web Access build-in report button on User Reported under Submissions.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100159
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Microsoft Excel: Get
MC532199 | March 23 – We will be updating Get & Transform Data tools in Excel (aka Power Query).
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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for legacy Microsoft Teams call data records
MC532198 | March 23 – Microsoft Teams call data records (CDRs) are system-generated artifacts that contain information about meetings – for example, who joined and when they joined.Currently, retention policies for Teams (user chats, standard channels, shared channels, and private channel user messages) only apply to CDRs that were generated after September 21st, 2022.We now are pleased to include retention policy support for call data records generated prior to this date (legacy CDRs). This message is associated…
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New Indicator “EA” on Profile Picture for Microsoft Teams Public Preview users
MC532194 | March 23 – Microsoft Teams Public Preview provides early access to pre-release features for product quality, internal planning, adoption & training readiness before they roll out to the rest of their company. There are no program requirements or commitments. This is an opt-in channel controlled via IT admin policy. Up until today, users who were enrolled in Public Preview had a “P” next to their profile picture, however, that will change to “EA” indicating users have Early Access to Teams features.
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Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android
MC532193 | March 23 – Teams Personal Tabs will now appear on Outlook for Android. This will complete the changes announced in Oct 2022 in theOutlook BlogTeams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on Teams or Outlook, the personal tab will now appear automatically in Outlook for Android.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123861
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(Updated) Autosuggest location for Emergency location
MC524208 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: The rollout of this feature is in progress.This feature would allow users to easily get location recommendations for emergency location. Confirming the location via the autosuggest will mark the location as an assist driving emergency call directly to PSAP. We will still allow manual location confirmations. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 94692
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(Updated) Microsoft Entra admin center unites Azure AD with family of identity and access products
MC477013 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: Beginning April 1, 2023, Azure AD Admin Center (https://aad.portal.azure.com) will redirect to Microsoft Entra Admin Center (https://entra.microsoft.com). You will still be able to complete all your Azure AD management tasks from within the new admin center. To ensure uninterrupted access to the management experience, organizations should update their firewall rules. Will I still be able to access my Azure AD admin portal after April 1st, 2023?The Azure AD admin center…
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(Updated) Excel is blocking untrusted XLL add-ins by default.
MC524212 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: The Administrative Template files for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise has been updated to include a policy to control blocking Excel XLL Add-ins from untrusted locations. The policy is located under Administrative Templates > Microsoft Excel 2016 > Excel Options > Security > Trust Center > Block Excel XLL Add-ins that come from an untrusted source. The new Administrative Template files and details are available at Microsoft Download Center. We are…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Force Public Preview Setting
MC509574 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Teams Public Preview provides early access to pre-release features for product quality, internal planning, adoption & training readiness before they roll out to the rest of their company.Public preview is enabled on a per-user basis, and the option to turn on Public Preview is controlled via Teams admin policy as described here: Microsoft Teams Public PreviewToday, when admins enable…
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(Updated) Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”
MC470137 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.In December 2021, a new section was added to the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, featuring “Issues in your environment that require action.” These types of issues are not caused by Microsoft services being unhealthy, but by something specific to your organization that require an admin to take action. To ensure that these notifications successfully reach you, an email will now…
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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine Notifications enabled for Preset Security Policies
MC505088 | March 23 – Updated March 22, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are updating the recommended quarantine notification policy in the Standard and Strict preset security policies. Policy Quarantine Policy Standard Delivery location Strict Delivery location Anti-Spam SpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessPolicy* Junk folder DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy Quarantine Anti-Spam HighConfidenceSpamQuarantineTag DefaultFullAccessWithNotificationPolicy Quarantine…
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Outlook on the web: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME
MC531737 | March 22 – Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Customer admins could use set-label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly, and also it will support content marking of the label. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109582
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Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team
MC531736 | March 22 – What’s changing:In response to numerous customer requests, we’re improving visibility when an urgent task is published to a Microsoft Teams Team. After this feature is rolled out, when an organization uses the task publishing featureto publish a task with a priority set to Urgent,each member or owner of the team that receives this task will receive a Teams activity feed informing them that an urgent task was published to their team. This will ensure greater visibility for the time-sensitive…
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(Updated) Microsoft Loop App Coming to Public Preview
MC525137 | March 22 – Updated March 22, 2023: We have updated this message to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Loop is a web and mobile co-creation app. It is designed for your team to think, plan, and create together. The Loop App will be disabled by default for your organization. If you wish to enable the Loop App in your tenant, please follow the steps outlined below.You can learn more about Loop here: https://loop.microsoft.com/.
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Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team
MC531216 | March 21 – What’s changing:In response to numerous customer requests, we’re improving visibility when an urgent task is published to a Microsoft team. After this feature is rolled out, when an organization uses the task publishing featureto publish a task with a priority set to Urgent,each member or owner of the team that receives this task will receive a Teams activity feed informing them that an urgent task was published to their team. This will ensure greater visibility for the time-sensitive urgent…
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SharePoint: Improving the Page Authoring Experience
MC531214 | March 21 – We are releasing new improvements to the Page authoring experience in SharePoint. These new improvements should help reduce clutter, increase productivity, and add more value for users when editing a page. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117376and 117377
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Microsoft 365 admin center: Bring your own domain to use for Microsoft 365 product emails
MC531211 | March 21 – Email notifications from products within Microsoft 365 are sent out to users in various ways. In many cases the emails are sent out from the user but there are system emails, like alerts, batched, or digest emails. These are sent from various product-specific no-reply email addresses, like no-reply@sharepointonline.com, no-reply@planner.com, no-reply@project.com.Opting into this change means that administrators can select a verified domain to use for these emails. All products and features…
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(Updated) Teams update: Expanded view of the profile card in Teams
MC494734 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Beginning in March, users in your organization will be able to use expanded views of the profile card in Teams. The expanded view is already available in Outlook and includes more information, like an overview of the profile, contact information, organizational chart, and LinkedIn tab.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109526.
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Microsoft Teams: Change Call Queue and Auto Attendant Greetings and Announcements by Authorized Users
MC527929 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Changing business conditions often require adjustments to call queue/auto attendant greetings and announcements. However, it can be difficult to identify the right Teams admin to make these changes, and addressing high request volumes can be time-consuming for the responsible admins. With the introduction of user managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams Phone, authorized users (as identified by Teams tenant…
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(Updated) Send to Kindle feature shipping
MC519245 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We’ve updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We will be adding the ability for users to send documents from Microsoft Word (Win32, Web, Mac) to the Kindle e-reader device or Kindle app.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117542
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(Updated) Introducing OneDrive Home, the New Landing Experience
MC501991 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.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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(Updated) DMARC aggregate reports for enterprise
MC516348 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional details. Thank you for your patience.As part of the DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting & Conformance) standard, the owner of the domain whose MX is pointed to Office 365 can request DMARC aggregate reports through the RUA of the DMARC record. This will help the domain owner to monitor their domain’s traffic passing through Office 365 and adjust their sender authentication configurations to reach an…
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(Updated) SPO Site Sharing will now use Azure B2B Invitation Manager
MC525663 | March 21 – Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the content for clarity. Thank you for your patience.We are updating the SharePoint Online Site Sharing backend to use Azure B2B Invitation Manager instead of the legacy SharePoint Invitation Manager.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117557
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel
MC530470 | March 20 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel
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Microsoft Syntex: Combine Two or More PDF Files with Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for Android and for iOS
MC530467 | March 20 – Microsoft Syntex users can soon combine PDF files into one PDF file with the Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for Android and iOS. The Merge PDFs action lets you quickly combine multiple PDF files into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.This post is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 117547, 117549
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Updating the look and feel of OneDrive
MC530466 | March 20 – We’re making a small set of visual updates to OneDrive to help align the product with the latest iteration of Microsoft’s design language. Microsoft uses the Fluent design system to ensure a cohesive and accessible design for all Microsoft products and users.When this change is released, you will notice an updated color palette, refreshed icons, increased opacity for drop shadows, and rounded corners for square graphical elements.
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Power Apps – Update regarding Monitor for model-driven apps
MC530354 | March 20 – We are reaching out to inform you that we are disabling the Monitor for model-driven apps while we work on making improvements. You may continue to use Monitor for canvas apps. When will this change happen? This change will go into effect following the usual deployment schedule. We will notify you when Monitor is available again for model-driven apps. If you require assistance, please contact Microsoft Support.
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