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 310th 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

April 3, 2023 – April 9, 2023

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Major updates

 

 

 

Collaborative Meeting Notes

MC538385 | April 8 – Teams across Microsoft are coming together to provide tools that help make meetings more effective. More specifically, we’re improving how you track what you want to discuss (Agenda), what you discussed/decided (Notes) and what you need to follow up on (Follow-up Tasks). These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, Office.com and OneDrive for Business. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101509
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Additional updates

 

 

 

(Updated) Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring

MC513976 | April 8 – Updated April 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are making some updates to improve SharePoint pages authoring. These updates include two changes to the text web part from multilingual proofing to better control over line spacing, and a change to how external images are handled in hero web part.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117365
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Loop experiences admin policy setting update

MC538741 | April 8 – We’ve heard some feedback and we’ve updated the admin documentation to clarify how to enable and disable Loop experiences in your tenant.Starting December 2022, a new method for controlling Outlook, Word for the web, and Whiteboard integrations was added.
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Live Captions Usability Improvement in Teams Meetings

MC538737 | April 8 – The new Caption Settings pane now allows better discovery and easier navigation. Users have the ability to customize the size and color of their font as well as the height and position of the caption window with the option to scroll to review captions of what has been said, up to one minute ago.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107782.
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Meeting Recap Enhancements

MC538726 | April 8 – We are bringing improvements for Meeting Recapping. Now, you can find your recording, transcripts, meeting content, and meeting notes all under a single new Recap tab. Watch your recording directly in the Recap tab to catch up on what was discussed while reviewing the notes and transcript without having to switch screens/apps.
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New Microsoft Edge updater for macOS

MC538725 | April 8 – Starting with Edge 113, Microsoft Edge for macOS will begin using a new updater called EdgeUpdater. Note:This change only affects Microsoft Edge on macOS. Microsoft Edge on macOS Timing: Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 113 (scheduled for the week of May 4, 2023)Action: If you use update preferences for Microsoft Autoupdate to prevent browser updates, you will need to transition to the new EdgeUpdater UpdateDefault policy before Edge 113 to prevent future automatic updates.
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Power Platform admin center – Automatic deletion of inactive developer environments

MC538688 | April 7 – Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive developer environments from your tenant (inclusive of all entry points, including the Power Apps Maker Portal and Power Platform admin center). This change will begin rolling out in mid-April 2023 by region and will be available worldwide by the end of May 2023. With this change, developer environments will be first disabled after 90 days of inactivity. Once the environment has been disabled for…
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Microsoft 365 admin center: Teams apps Usage Tracking Soon Available within Usage reports

MC538387 | April 6 – Microsoft 365 admin center will soon support tracking on the usage of all Teams apps in usage reports. IT admins will have a first-hand view of monthly and daily active user counts for first-party, third-party store, and third-party line of business apps.
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Microsoft Search: Graph connector results in Bing ‘All’ tab

MC538384 | April 6 – Microsoft Graph connectors results is available for users to query from Bing’s ‘All’ tab. If the user’s query contains a pattern with Custom vertical name, the system will return relevant results on top in the Bing ‘All’ tab from the Custom vertical content. This is applicable for Custom verticals defined on Graph connectors.Examples: <query terms> in <vertical name> OR <vertical name> <query terms> etc. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93336
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(Updated) Announcing Public preview – System preferred multi-factor authentication method

MC523051 | April 6 – Updated April 6, 2023: We have updated the content with additional information. Thank you for your patience.Today, various authentication methods are employed by users to provide varying levels of security. Depending on the situation, certain methods may be more secure than others, so it is important to have a range of options available to ensure the right level of security is provided. Today we are announcing our solution for this challenge: System-preferred authentication for MFA –where we…
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(Updated) Reminder: Basic Authentication deprecation in Office Apps

MC499030 | April 6 – Updated April 6, 2023: We have updated the timing for this change below. Thank you for your patience.This is a reminder that Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps (originally communicated in MC454810, November ’22). We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access…
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(Updated) Take Action on Meeting Category Insights in the Viva Insights app in Teams and on the web

MC516906 | April 6 – Updated April 6, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Categories in Outlook and Teams allow users to easily tag and label calendar events. Users can get insights on the time they spend per meeting category in the Viva Insights app in Teams. Using meeting category insights, they can see how their meeting time is distributed (percentage breakdown), how that has changed (meeting trends), and details about each of their meetings contributing to their…
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(Updated) Microsoft Outlook: Extend Sensitivity Label to Meetings (GA Release)

MC513052 | April 6 – Updated April 6, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Coming soon to production (WW release), sensitivity labeling will be available for meetings in Outlook. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98924
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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)

MC537956 | April 6 – Users with a Teams Premium license will now be able to access a comprehensive meeting overview in the new ‘Recap’ tab in Teams, which leverages AI to provide personalized highlights and key insights from the meeting. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122529
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Plan sharing with file container.

MC537955 | April 6 – A new authorization model is implemented for Planner plans, which will be a ‘shared container-based’ authorization model, where OneDrive and SharePoint Online files can be linked to plans to provide users with access to the plan if they have access to the shared container. This means that file-based authorization for plans will provide streamlined access to roster-backed plans that are connected to one or more SharePoint Online/OneDrive files. Note: Graph API is available only in betaFor eg: A…
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Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update

MC537952 | April 6 – We are updating the chat details experience for Teams Mobile Group Chats, One on One Chats, and Self Chats.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID:114938
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Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions in Teams meetings

MC537415 | April 5 – With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering in Live Captions, users will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of the box, or if they want to see every word as-is.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 113412.
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Teams Rooms: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

MC537412 | April 5 – Teams Rooms on Windows devices that are eligible for Windows 11 upgrade will receive the Windows 11 22H2 release in May 2023. This will be offered and installed on their devices with 4.16 dot release (a newer release than 4.16.40.0 currently available). Devices that are not eligible due to an incompatible processor will continue to use Windows 10 per Windows hardware support policy. These devices will be offered Windows 10 22H2 release. Devices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 will continue to…
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

MC537341 | April 5 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel
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(Updated) Suggested Files in 1:1 Chats

MC513664 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.As an extension of Suggested Replies in 1:1 chats, you can now easily save time when you need to send a file in a chat by tapping on a “Share file” suggestion.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95065
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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Filter Update for Quarantine Portal

MC528356 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for patience.In the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, the Admin / SecOps can review quarantined messages on the Email & Collaboration > Review > Quarantine page. On this quarantine page, all the quarantined email messages are listed. These messages can be quarantined if the messages are classified as malicious or spam…
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(Updated) Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics

MC535703 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Feed items will soon show a Viva Topic pill when it is relevant for SharePoint content. This allows the user to easily learn more about the topic and get to the people and content related to the topic for that item.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118063
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management setup guide updates

MC526129 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for you patience.The Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management setup guide on the Advanced deployment guides & assistance page is getting revamped to help you manage data in your tenant. We’ll differentiate deployment tasks based on your license: Office 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Microsoft 365 E5.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117373
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(Updated) Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android

MC532193 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.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) SharePoint: Create Pages and News from the SharePoint app bar

MC535266 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With this update, users will soon be able to start creating pages and news as an action from the SharePoint app bar. This means that no matter where users are in SharePoint, they can jump right into the creation process and stay in the flow of work.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98143
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(Updated) Schedule Send Suggestions Available in Microsoft Teams Chat

MC510792 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.When composing a 1:1 message in Teams chat after-hours, users will see schedule send suggestions that enable postponing message delivery until the start of the chat recipient’s working hours. Schedule send suggestions will be available as default on.With schedule send suggestions for chat turned on, users with Viva Insights subscriptions can get an unlimited number of scheduling suggestions for…
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(Updated) Teams Help App Pops Out by Default

MC517333 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.In Teams, the Help app provides Teams guidance and support content. Previously, the Help app opened in full screen mode, filling the Teams window. With this update, Help will open as a pop out, in a separate window. This experience will allow users to view help content alongside what they are working on in Teams.
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(Updated) Updated Files On-Demand Settings on Windows

MC499439 | April 4 – Updated April 4, 2023: We have updated the content below with new information and timing. Thank you for your patience.We have an update to the OneDrive sync app advanced settings for Files On-Demand on Windows. Previously, a toggle was shown to allow users to opt out of Files On-Demand. After this change, users who have Files On-Demand enabled will no longer see that toggle. Instead, users will see two buttons: After this change, users who have Files On-Demand enabled will see two buttons: Free…
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Power Platform admin center – Changes to support request product list

MC537127 | April 4 – We are making changes to the product listing when creating a new support request in the Help + support page within the Power Platform admin center. Starting on April 7, 2023, this update will begin rolling out per our normal deployment schedule. How will this affect me? The following products, which were previously listed as problem subtypes under the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement product, are now available in the primary product selection menu: Dynamics 365 Sales Dynamics 365 Marketing…
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Updates to the User Administrator role in Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management

MC536889 | April 4 – On May 3, 2023, Microsoft will update Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management. This update will remove the ability for a user in the User Administrator role to manage Entitlement Management catalogs and access packages. If your organization has relied on users having the User Administrator role to manage Entitlement Management catalogs and access packages, add those users to the Identity Governance Administrator role. This ensures that those users can manage catalogs and access packages in…
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Changes in Normalization

MC536885 | April 4 – Stopping normalization on number that starts with plus sign (+)Normalization in Microsoft Teams was not designed to do normalization when the phone number starts with plus sign (+) as documented, but we’ve never enforced this in the Teams desktop or Web client. We are planning to enforce this in the future but for now we recommend avoiding this pattern.We are making this change to align with our Calling Service, other Teams services, Azure Communication Services SDKs, and other Microsoft…
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Chat RSC in Microsoft Teams

MC536877 | April 4 – We are pleased to announce the extension of the resource-specific consent (RSC) permission model for chat and channel scope in Microsoft Teams. RSC permissions have been expanded to include the ability for chat members to grant access to chats for applications running within Teams.
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