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 322th 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.

View a summary of the updates.

Message center announcements

July 17, 2023 – July 23, 2023

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Major updates

Share Point: User experience and Image Coherence in Share Point Online (SPO)

MC653734 | July 21 –

We are currently working to improve user experience by providing a coherent profile photo experience across Microsoft 365. This primarily impacts those users of SharePoint online (SPO) who neither have an exchange license or are using Delve for uploading images. This may also impact a small number of SPO admin who upload the user profile image on behalf of the end users.

Windows Mail and Calendar are becoming Outlook

MC650424 | July 20 –

The Mail and Calendar apps for Windows are being replaced with the new Outlook for Windows. At the end of 2024 we will be ending support for the Mail and Calendar apps for Windows. The new Outlook for Windows helps people be more productive and in control of their inbox. We are excited about this change that will provide users with great new productivity features such as Microsoft Loop, message reminders, as well as file and people suggestions while composing an email. The new…View more

(Updated) PDF Tools app retirement

MC584834 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience.

We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by late July, 2023.

Please note that this doesn’t take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app’s usage will be impacted by this change.

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes

MC538385 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 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…View more

Basic Authentication retirement in Microsoft 365 Apps

MC649046 | July 17 –

Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. 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 resources. Continued use of Basic Authentication is a big security concern, so we have decided to deprecate it from all tenants.

We will retire this feature in…View more

Additional updates

Opportunity to roll back Teams Live Events to temporarily enable Attendee Guest Web join

MC653737 | July 21 –

Recently, we rolled out a change to the Teams Live Events attendee experience which did not allow Guest users to join as an attendee on the Web. This change came about as an update to improve the attendee experience and to support the new RTMP-In experience for Teams Live Events.

To better transition to the new Teams Live Events Experience, we are offering customers the opportunity to roll back the new Teams Live Events version to an earlier version to allow Guest users to join the…View more

Date picker during a check-in

MC653733 | July 21 –

We have made some changes to date picker during check-ins.

OneDrive: Recommended Files

MC653729 | July 21 – OneDrive will now display a list of recommended files in Home. This list allows you to keep track of work around you and quickly access files with activity you value most such as edits, mentions, and comments by people you interact with.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124871

GA Rollout for Microsoft Edge management service in the Microsoft 365 admin center

MC650423 | July 20 –

The Microsoft Edge management service, a new, dedicated and simplified management experience for Microsoft Edge in the Microsoft 365 admin center, is rolling out now for general availability. This tool allows IT admins to manage group policies and extensions with a simplified, intuitive UI. Admins can set policies through toggles and drop-down menus instead of the complexity of configuring JSON values, which helps reduce errors. This solution is another option for managing Edge that…View more

Forms PowerPoint Add-on to Enable Live Survey Experience

MC650417 | July 20 –

We are excited to introduce Microsoft Forms’ live presentation capabilities, offering a new way to share your forms or quizzes in any online or in-person event.

Embed the live present capability to Forms PowerPoint Add-on, with just a QR scan or short URL, audiences can participate in live surveys and view real-time responses, Presenters can stay in the presentation flow without opening another browser and jumping across screens.

SharePoint: New site creation experience

MC650415 | July 20 –

With this update, you will choose a site template based on your scenario to get started creating your site. When choosing a template you can see its capabilities, and even see a preview. This change will help site owners through the process by simplifying and providing additional guidance while creating the site.

As a part of this update, several site templates have been renamed to clarify their purpose and simplify the selection of a template as a part of the site creation…View more

Reminder: Microsoft Defender for Office Empowers End Users to Report Suspicious Messages in Microsoft Teams

MC650414 | July 20 –

This is a follow up of Message Center post – MC567478 and MC611677

The ability for Microsoft Teams users to report internal chats, channels and meeting conversations within Teams as a security risk will be turned ON by default….View more

(Updated) Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android

MC532193 | July 20 –

Updated July 20, 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 the Outlook Blog

Teams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on Teams or…View more

(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage

MC432475 | July 20 –

Updated July 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which…View more

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition in Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention

MC547641 | July 20 –

Updated July 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared across various services and devices. Coming soon to public preview, this release enables OCR support for images shared and stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive, Exchange Online, Teams, and Windows endpoints.

This…View more

(Updated) Announcing GA of “Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine” in DLP EXO

MC609877 | July 20 –

Updated July 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently available in preview, we’re rolling out a new action for Data Loss Prevention in Exchange Online called “Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine”.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124974.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)

MC537956 | July 20 –

Updated July 20, 2023: We have content with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

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 View more

Find Related Search

MC649940 | July 19 –

Find Related is a quick way to search for similar emails, usually on threads, directly from the Message List. Currently supported by Win32 and requested for OWA (Microsoft Outlook on the Web)/Monarch, it relies on local search, which caused problems in the past. To mitigate future risks and pair clients it’s proposed to migrate Find Related to 3S and build support for it on OWA/Monarch.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Browse files by Meetings in OneDrive

MC649938 | July 19 –

So much of our collaboration happens in the context of meetings, yet how many times have you found yourself trying to scroll back and find a meeting recording from a month ago? Or spent time digging through email to find pre-reading material for an upcoming meeting so you can be prepared going in? With this new meetings view in OneDrive, you’ll be able to get back to all of your meeting content with just a few clicks! When you come to meetings view, you’ll first see any meetings in the next…View more

Introducing New Method to Clear Throttling Policy Assignments for Mailboxes

MC649934 | July 19 –

We are introducing a new parameter to the Set-Mailbox cmdlet, which will allow you to clear off a throttling policy association for a given mailbox. Over the years, you might have asked Microsoft Support to raise specific limits for some of your mailboxes (Transport limits, Recipient Rate limit, protocol limits – Exchange Web Services, ActiveSync, PowerShell). Until now, there has been no other way to revert those changes other than open another support case and…View more

Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy

MC649929 | July 19 –

Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention policy from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Microsoft Teams: 1000 Channels per Team

MC649926 | July 19 –

Microsoft Teams channel limits are soon increasing to 1000 channels per team. Users will be able to create any combination of standard and shared channels, plus up to 30 private channels, for a total of 1000 per team, allowing for even more collaboration and organization within your team.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127496

Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels

MC649917 | July 19 –

Users can preview and play Stream videos directly in Teams Chat and Channel without having to open them in a browser and going to Stream.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127596

Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) Expanding to SMTP/Mailbox Forwarding

MC649482 | July 18 –

We’re making changes to SMTP forwarding from mailboxes in Exchange Online. This change will result in forwarded messages being rewritten with Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS).

We’ll further consolidate our rewriting feature for messages that are automatically forwarded outside of Exchange Online. Today, not all forwarded messages are rewritten using SRS. Messages forwarded with SMTP or mailbox forwarding have their P1 Mail From address replaced with the forwarding mailbox address….View more

Viva Suite app: Viva Pulse – Enabling Notifications

MC649478 | July 18 –

Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select individuals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working…View more

(Updated) Visio Organizational Trial offering

MC542827 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Beginning in May, we are enhancing our trial offering for Visio (MC306669, December 2021) by allowing users to sign up for a trial license, or request for a paid license with their AAD account. This update gives admins oversight and control over self-service trials and license requests. It also removes the need for users to input payment information when initiating a…View more

(Updated) OneDrive: Restore files to original location when turning off folder backup

MC559933 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

OneDrive: Restore files to original location when turning off folder backup.

This feature provides new functionality for users who turn off folder backup (also known as “PC folder backup” and “known folder move”). When users turn off folder backup, they will have the option to restore the files back to their original location. Note: when a folder contains files stored only in the…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update

MC600726 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 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…View more

(Updated) Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for iOS

MC557822 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Teams Personal Tabs will soon appear on Outlook for iOS. This will complete the changes announced in Oct 2022 in the Outlook Blog.

Teams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores

MC561700 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more…View more

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Discover and co-author documents labeled with user-defined permissions

MC617055 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently rolling out in public preview, SharePoint and OneDrive will support discovery and coauthoring of files labeled with user-defined permissions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85619

Visual Update for Microsoft 365 apps

MC638127 | July 18 –

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

The new look of Microsoft 365 apps introduced alongside Windows 11 in June 2021 will become the default look for Windows 11 Subscription and Perpetual 2021 users.

Viva Goals: Date Picker in Check-in Modal to Show UTC Timezone

MC649376 | July 18 –

Previously in Viva goals, when making a check-in, the user could update the date of check-in from the check-in modal, which was based on the user’s local time zone. Users in different time zones saw the date of check-in and its representation on the progress graph differently, computation of progress and status also became a challenge.

We are unifying the date picker to have the UTC date picker, which means that any Viva goals user making a check-in from any time zone will…View more

Microsoft Edge Workspaces now generally available for enterprises

MC649049 | July 17 –

Staying in sync on projects with many different links, files, and resources is difficult. With Microsoft Edge Workspaces, teams can view the same project websites and latest working files in one place as a shared set of browser tabs to help them stay in sync.

Microsoft Edge Workspaces is a new enterprise feature to help users and teams stay better organized and productive in their workdays. Users and teams can group browser tabs for a project together in a dedicated…View more

Call delegation feature enhancements

MC649047 | July 17 –

Call delegation feature enhancements –

Delivering a more tailored experience for delegates and delegators with a refreshed, simplified UI in the Calls app, and the ability for delegates and delegators to join active calls, if permitted.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123753

Cloud Video Interop New Release Notes

MC649045 | July 17 –

Microsoft will soon begin publishing release notes for Cloud Video Interop (CVI).

You can always get the latest from the public documentation for CVI.

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