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 321th 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.

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Message center announcements

July 10, 2023 – July 16, 2023

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Major updates

(Updated) Stream Classic webpart retirement and new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart availability

MC561187 | July 14 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This is an important message for customers who use the Stream (Classic) webpart to add videos to SharePoint Pages and news posts. Microsoft will retire the Stream (Classic) webpart on Aug 15, 2023 and it will no longer be available for use after this date. The Stream (Classic) webpart will be replaced by the new Stream (on SharePoint) webpart.This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap: 124800View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

MC550081 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.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…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Updating the Bookings app to the Virtual Appointments app

MC560731 | July 12 – Updated July 12, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience..Bookings is supported across multiple entry points spanning Web, Teams and Outlook, however there is lack of parity in the feature set across these entry points leading to an inconsistent user experience. This fragmented experience has resulted in high DSAT for customers that has provided feedback to Microsoft to unify and provide feature parity in Bookings across all entry…View more

Additional updates

Manage File Access in Microsoft Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Feed

MC644072 | July 15 – Our new “Who can see this?” option in the file action menu will allow users to view and/or manage who has access to a file result. Users can only manage file permissions if they are the owner of the file or have permissions to update the file and its permissions. The aim of this feature is to help users understand why they are seeing a file in their search results and adjust its permissions as needed more easily on the search page. This will appear on file results in Microsoft Search in Bing,…View more

Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access Public Preview

MC644068 | July 15 – Cross Cloud Guest Access (CCGA) extends existing Guest Access functionality allowing a user to participate in rich collaboration experiences in teams, channels, documents and Teams meetings between tenants across Microsoft clouds. Guests are able to participate in a full collaboration experience including audio/video, screen share, file share and both 1:1 and 1: many chats. These features are enabled through the Azure Active Directory B2B feature and the newly released Cross Tenant Access…View more

Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings

MC644065 | July 14 – Cross-cloud authenticated meeting join (CCM) delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting hosted in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145460.View more

Enable 2nd video stream for Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature

MC642270 | July 14 – Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118580View more

Microsoft Edge for Business

MC642267 | July 14 – Microsoft Edge for Business, the new, dedicated work experience for Microsoft Edge, is coming soon. As announced at Build, Microsoft Edge for Business is currently in preview.Microsoft Edge for Business aims to address the needs of both end users and IT Pros. It is designed to help meet the needs of the evolving security landscape while empowering users to be more productive. In addition to the rich set of native enterprise controls you’re already familiar with in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge…View more

Retirement of “Tasks That Seem Important” Section from Suggestions in Microsoft To Do

MC642266 | July 14 – We will be retiring the “Tasks that seems important” section from the Task suggestions feature in Microsoft To Do.View more

Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms

MC642265 | July 14 – Cloud IntelliFrame is a new experience that allows online meeting attendees to see people in Teams Rooms more clearly, enhancing the hybrid meeting experience by creating smart video feeds of in-room participants. The smart video feed is created by zooming into their faces and eliminating distractions. You can see the expressions and gestures of the people in the room more easily, which will help improve collaboration in hybrid meetings. It creates equity in hybrid meetings as everyone can be…View more

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations

MC579612 | July 14 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard.View more

(Updated) SharePoint: New List Templates with Approvals

MC525660 | July 14 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are introducing two new list templates with the Approvals app integration. With this change, Microsoft Lists templates, specifically Travel Requests with approvals and Content Scheduler with approvals, will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100502View more

(Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update

MC600726 | July 14 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.This update improves the overall performance of Microsoft Lists and introduces new features, including the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, view date/time values in your preferred date settings and timezone, and more.This message is associated with…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights

MC546939 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app helps Viva Insights licensed users understand how they are allocating their time across meeting categories. Today, the feature uses the categories manually assigned by users in Outlook and Teams. In an upcoming update, meeting category insights will begin automatically categorizing meetings for users based on meeting size, cadence, and number of…View more

(Updated) Loop Component in Outlook Mobile

MC548102 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Loop components are live, interactive, collaborative objects that you can embed in team chats and now also on emails. When you send a Loop component, everyone in the email can view it inline, see changes instantly, and easily make edits. That means you can collaborate directly inside of an email message. Outlook Mobile users will see a live preview of the Loop component — with changes made across…View more

(Updated) Outlook: Support Pop-up Messages in Outlook that Warn/Justify/Block Emails Being sent with Sensitivity Labels

MC522574 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Outlook for desktop native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as am AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block emails being sent. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100255View more

(Updated) Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”

MC470137 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 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 be…View more

(Updated) Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts

MC400569 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to make sure that apps can access meeting transcripts for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s transcripts to which it is installed to, rather than providing them…View more

(Updated) Video Messaging in Outlook Mobile

MC540242 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Video Unfurl and Playback will unfurl video links into a delightful thumbnail when reading an email that contains a video. Upon tapping the thumbnail, the user will be able to view the video in their full mobile screen with full screen playback. Video Unfurl and Playback will be available on both iOS and Android soon.We’re also introducing Video Capture and Upload on Android: this will allow users to…View more

(Updated) Message List Selection UI updates for Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

MC556159 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.In order to save space on the message list in Outlook, we are making an UI update: From “selection circles on the left side of each row” to “Select mode that you have to get into before checkboxes appear”, using a button in the top-right corner of the Message List. Users may have to acclimate themselves to the new Selection user experience. In addition, mouse+keyboard multi-selection where users hold…View more

(Updated) Handwriting Beautification and Ink Straightening for Microsoft Whiteboard

MC565166 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The ability to make handwriting more legible & readable is coming to Whiteboard for the web, Microsoft Teams, Windows app and Surface Hubs/MTR experiences as well as Annotations in Teams meetings. The new capability will enable smoother collaboration while using ink. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124897View more

(Updated) New Graph APIs for accessing Teams Meeting Recording

MC600733 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to allow apps to access meeting recordings for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s recordings to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update

MC537952 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.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:114938View more

(Updated) New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon

MC598641 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your…View more

Microsoft Purview Records Management: Enhancing inherited and auto-applied retention label behavior in Exchange Online

MC567472 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are releasing an enhancement to better align Exchange item lifecycle behaviors with the principles of retention and labeling principles shared with other workloads like SharePoint Online. This change affects items which have a Microsoft Purview retention label or legacy MRM tag auto-applied or inherited from a parent folder which is then moved to the “Deleted Items” folder either by drag & drop…View more

(Updated) Planned Maintenance: Noise suppression in Stream will be down for limited time

MC567476 | July 13 – Updated July 13, 2023: We have completed necessary work. Thank you for your patience.We have maintenance planned for: Noise suppression in new Microsoft StreamView more

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC Policy Handling

MC640228 | July 13 – In order to better protect our customers from exact domain spoofing attacks and improve deliverability of email, we are making changes to how we handle DMARC p=reject and p=quarantine.For the enterprise customers, we are making updates to how DMARC policy-based reject can be handled. This change will help Security Administrators be able to choose how DMARC policy-based reject and quarantine can be applied within their organization.This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 117533View more

Feature Access Management in Viva Learning for Admin features

MC640227 | July 13 – We are introducing feature access management in Viva Learning for admin features. Global Admin and Knowledge Admin can delegate admin feature access to non-admin users via M365 groups.View more

SharePoint and OneDrive Information Barriers Insights Report – Public Preview

MC638131 | July 12 – Updated July 12, 2023: We have updated the Title to show correctly. We are delighted to introduce the new Insights Report feature for information barriers in SharePoint and OneDrive. With new insights reports, SharePoint or Global administrators can generate standardized reports to discover and take actions to further reinforce the IB policies on SharePoint sites and OneDrive accounts in their tenant.This capability is available for public preview for all organizations (IBv1 (legacy) and IBv2…View more

Microsoft Teams: Pin / Favorite Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie

MC638138 | July 12 – Teams Walkie is enabling users to pin/favorite up to five channels on the Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie Home Page. Users can easily switch in between the favorited channels with a single tap going forward. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99943View more

Service health and Message center: ‘Identity Service’ rebranding to ‘Microsoft Entra’

MC638137 | July 12 – Today, Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, we announced that Azure Active Directory will be rebranded as ‘Microsoft Entra ID’. Historically this service has been represented under the service name ‘Identity Service’, within Service health and Message center experience. To align on the changes included in today’s announcement, ‘Identity Service’ will be rebranded to ‘Microsoft Entra’ and represent Service health and change communications for that family of products.View more

Limiting public webinar attendee joins to three concurrent devices

MC638135 | July 12 – Currently in public webinars, an attendee can use their registration link to join and be present in a webinar with any number of devices. For public webinars, there is also a possibility for that attendee to forward their registration link to others who have not registered and have them join with the registered attendee’s join link. With this new update, only 3 concurrent join instances can be present in a webinar using the same registration join link. This means that attendees can now use only…View more

Introducing the Reminders Window in the New Outlook for Windows Preview

MC638133 | July 12 – Introducing the reminders window. This reminders window is a new notification style for the New Outlook for Windows preview. It is a pop-out window that organizes your meeting/event reminders and task reminders in one place. You can also snooze reminders, dismiss reminders, or join Teams meetings directly from the window.Here is how users can enable this reminder window:Go to Settings > General > Notifications.Turn on the For events checkbox and select Reminder popup.View more

Visual Update for Microsoft 365

MC638127 | July 12 – The new look of Microsoft 365 introduced alongside Windows 11 in June 2021 will become the default look for Windows 11 Subscription and Perpetual 2021 users.View more

Manage result layouts for SharePoint results in Microsoft Search

MC638126 | July 12 – We’re making changes to Microsoft Search. This update will allow Microsoft Search administrators to change result layouts for select SharePoint content using adaptive cards with Result Type feature in Microsoft Search administration.The default result layouts for SharePoint sites, pages, list items and Portable document format (PDF) results can now be replaced with layouts built using adaptive cards. The changes can be made for Organization level search applicable to Office.com and SharePoint…View more

Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals

MC638123 | July 12 – Planned Maintenance: Viva GoalsWe have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:Starting July 13, 2023 5:30 UTC.Ending July 13, 2023 6:00 UTC.View more

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

MC638063 | July 11 – We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel Monthly Enterprise Channel Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview) Semi-Annual Enterprise ChannelView more

Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

MC637370 | July 11 – Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). No action is required from you. The name change to Microsoft Entra ID represents the evolution and unification of the Microsoft Entra product family, and a commitment to simplify secure access experiences for everyone. No changes to capabilities, licensing, or pricing Features and capabilities of Azure AD will continue to be available in Microsoft Entra ID. Prices, terms, and service level agreements also remain the same….View more

Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID

MC637368 | July 11 – Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).No action is required from you.The name change to Microsoft Entra ID represents the evolution and unification of the Microsoft Entra product family, and a commitment to simplify secure access experiences for everyone.No changes to capabilities, licensing, or pricing Features and capabilities of Azure AD will continue to be available in Microsoft Entra ID. Prices, terms, and service level agreements also remain the same. To…View more

Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license

MC635992 | July 11 – Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.With this release, we are providing a way for Viva Engage admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users. Please visit the ‘Manage topics’ page…View more

Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com

MC635989 | July 11 – Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124932View more

Microsoft Teams: Capture Request to Use Shared Channels for External Collaboration

MC635987 | July 11 – Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration in shared channels. This update of Microsoft Teams will be rolling out on Teams admin center, Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web, and will provide a way for organizations to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration when users attempt to add an external member to a shared channel where B2B direct connect cross-tenant trust has not been mutually configured between the two…View more

Dynamic Emergency Calling on Teams Web

MC635983 | July 11 – We will be enabling Dynamic Emergency calling support for Teams Web. This will allow users to manually add an address on the web client before dialing the 911 call. Since this is critical functionality, we will be releasing this functionality as soon as possible.View more

Browse files by People in OneDrive

MC635976 | July 11 – OneDrive People View: Easily get to files shared by people with the new People view in OneDrive WebSometimes it can be hard to remember the name of a file or exactly when it was shared, but you know who shared it with you. Because of this, we’ve created an entirely new way to get back to your shared files both internal and external – organized by the people you work with! This view presents the people you have recently collaborated with, along with all the files that have been shared with you…View more

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