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 314th 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

May 1, 2023 – May 7, 2023

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Major updates

(Updated) Licensing Check implementation for Teams DLP

MC546441 | May 5 – Updated May 5, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Teams helps organizations prevent sensitive data from being shared via Microsoft Teams channel or chat session. To prevent users from sharing sensitive information on Teams, customers need to assign Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/F5 licenses to their users as Teams DLP is made available through Microsoft 365 E5/A5/G5/F5 licenses. You can find a list of…View more

Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

MC550081 | May 3 – A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It’ll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate – giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.Every post is now a true…View more

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes

MC538385 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We will not be rolling this feature to customers in GCC at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.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…View more

Viva Connections Dashboard Customization

MC549347 | May 2 – We are excited to announce that dashboard customization is now available on Viva Connections Mobile! This feature allows your employees to personalize their mobile dashboard with the information that is most relevant to their work.We want to inform you that this feature is enabled by default for all your employees. However, we understand that every organization is different, and you may have specific requirements or preferences. Therefore, we want to let you know that as a tenant admin or site…View more

Additional updates

Your To Do users will no longer be able to join shared lists from consumer accounts

MC551021 | May 5 – In Microsoft To Do, users from your tenant can be members of lists that are shared with them through consumer accounts (sharing accounts can only be consumer accounts and not accounts from other organizations). We are retiring this feature in the near future.View more

Conditional Access and OneNote iPad for features that use Webview

MC551020 | May 5 – Note:If your organization does not use the OneNote iPad app you can safely disregard this message.The OneNote iPad app leverages a technology called WebView for certain features, such as Meeting Details. However, when Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access, as part of Microsoft Entra, is applied to the user of this device, WebView features are not supported, and conditional access checks will fail. This means that, the feature will be inactive and not available for use.If the…View more

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings

MC551019 | May 5 – We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Participants in Together Mode will have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Additionally, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-preview. Lastly, Together Mode will display raised hands and reactions within the view. This…View more

Signaling Epic when guest drops out from initial lobby.

MC550530 | May 4 – With this update Microsoft EHR connector will be able to track each individual disconnect when a guest leaves the initial lobby after joining a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector virtual visit via Teams. Until now the disconnect signal was not being sent to Epic to show a guest has left the meeting from initial Lobby. This was only happening in v1.1 or v1.2 of the Microsoft Teams EHR Connector.View more

(Updated) Meeting Recap on Outlook on the web

MC500906 | May 4 – Updated May 4, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.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…View more

(Updated) Graph Connector Content Results Experience Switches to Results Inline in All Vertical

MC545914 | May 4 – Updated May 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.You will soon see Graph Connector results merged inline in the All vertical on SharePoint (organization level) and Office.com. This means that your users will experience Graph Connector results seamlessly integrated with Microsoft content instead of the current result cluster experience which is bound to a fixed place in the middle of the page and has a maximum of two results from a single custom…View more

(Updated) Bookings end point URL for customers will change

MC528980 | May 4 – Updated May 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The self-schedule URL for the Microsoft Bookings Calendar, which is the customer facing URL for your Bookings Calendar to create/update/cancel appointments will be changed.Existing URL format:”https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/<Bookings_page_SMTP_Address>/bookings/”The new URL format:”https://outlook.office365.com/book/<Bookings_page_SMTP_Address>/”Customers who have the old URL…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Filter Update for Quarantine Portal

MC528356 | May 4 – Updated May 4, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your 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 or other admin actions. Admins/ SecOps can view messages which are quarantined due to a…View more

Multi account support will be available for Microsoft To Do on iOS

MC550046 | May 3 – You will now be able to use multiple accounts with Microsoft To Do iOS. You will only see data from one account at a time. Easily switch between account from the settings page.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98121View more

cloud.microsoft domain for new Microsoft 365 apps

MC550044 | May 3 – Recently Microsoft provisioned the cloud.microsoft domain to provide a trusted, dedicated space to host our authenticated first-party SaaS experiences going forward. From May 2023 onward, all new Microsoft 365 first-party app experiences will launch on cloud.microsoft from the start. Existing Microsoft 365 workloads will also begin to transition to the new domain later this year. There will be further communications leading up to each workload transition.View more

Configuration Change: Search-MailboxAuditLog cmdlet, multi-geo scenarios

MC550039 | May 3 – In multi-geo Exchange environments, when you run Search-MailboxAuditLog cmdlet in a different region from the mailbox that you’re trying to search, you might receive the error, “An error occurred while trying to access the audit log.”View more

New functionality coming to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

MC550037 | May 3 – We’re introducing new functionality to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to enable integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Additionally, we’re rolling out connectors for Salesforce and Zoom to enable increased visibility across your data estate. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102404and 124884View more

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes

MC550035 | May 3 – We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124818View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Search Experience on Teams App Store

MC546446 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re improving the search experience on the Teams App Store, designed to enhance app discoverability by extending search capabilities to include short and long descriptions, category names, and support for minor typing errors.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122521View more

(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hourly option for notifications

MC383901 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are adding a new hourly option to end user quarantine notifications, which will allow users to rely on receiving prompt notifications about quarantined items when appropriate. With this feature, users will be updated frequently once new items land in their quarantine folder. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93304.View more

(Updated) Avatars for Microsoft Teams

MC533652 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Avatars for Microsoft Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions.Represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions. Save up to three avatars for different meeting types, such as casual,…View more

(Updated) Modern Translator feature in Microsoft 365

MC528354 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.The Modern Translator feature continues to rollout the previously announced changes, and, in this update, we will share the intended completion dates for all release channels along with the current channels the changes are in and the minimum monthly forks for the Current and Monthly Enterprise channels. Microsoft 365 (Windows) Current and Monthly Enterprise channels are targeting…View more

(Updated) Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard App in Teams

MC543868 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The new Microsoft Whiteboard app in Teams allows you to create, collaborate and share right within Teams, outside of Teams meetings. You can now easily access all your whiteboards in one single place inside Teams, pre-prep a board for your next meeting or add a whiteboard tab to your favorite chat/channels to collaborate with your team asynchronously.View more

(Updated) Teams Video Clip Auto-Generated Captions

MC534735 | May 2 – Updated May 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Teams Video Clip was released last November, we are updating the feature with auto-generated captions support.View more

Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders

MC549348 | May 2 – Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this,we are rolling out two features. The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers.Time to send reminder emails can be configured by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers. This message is associated with…View more

Improved Connect/Disconnect Tracking in Group Visits

MC549345 | May 2 – We’ve enhanced the ability to discretely track each individual Connect & Disconnect when multiple Organizers or multiple Guests join a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector visit via Teams.View more

Breakout Rooms participant shuffle

MC549343 | May 2 – Breakout Rooms Participant Shuffle delivers a new capability to randomly assign participants to rooms also after rooms are created.Participants can be randomly reassigned both prior to the meeting or during the live meeting. Shuffling can be applied to all participants or only to unassigned participants, re-distributing them evenly to existing rooms.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116532View more

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