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 325th 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.

Message center announcements

August 7, 2023 – August 13, 2023

NUNO ÁRIAS SILVA

Major updates

(Updated) SharePoint admin control for App registration / update

MC660075 | August 12 –

Updated August 12, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.

This is an enhancement to the security measures for administrative governance that modifies the default procedures for SharePoint app registration via AppRegNew.aspx page and permission updates via AppInv.aspx page. Following the implementation of this change, site collection admin will be unable to register app or update app permissions through above pages unless authorized explicitly…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

MC550081 | August 12 –

Updated August 12, 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….View more

Optimized Multifactor Authentication text message delivery through WhatsApp

MC666628 | August 9 –

Today, Entra ID (Azure AD) Multifactor Authentication supports delivering one-time passcodes (OTPs) via text message. These texts get sent to the default messaging app on a user’s phone depending on the phone’s operating system. To help deliver OTPs…View more

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes

MC538385 | August 9 –

Updated August 9, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. 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…View more

Additional updates

(Updated) Introducing the Reminders Window in the New Outlook for Windows Preview

MC638133 | August 12 –

Updated August 12, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Upated) Office documents have a new default theme

MC666615 | August 12 –

Updated August 12, 2023: We have updated the content to show a intended. Thank you for your patience.

A new default document theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: View more

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (Preview)

MC667124 | August 12 –

The Content explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This feature is now available in Public Preview and allows admins to use a new cmdlet within the Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Update to the Minimum iOS System Requirements for Outlook for iOS

MC666969 | August 11 –

Outlook for iOS is supported on the two most recent versions of iOS. When a new version of iOS is released, Outlook’s Operating System requirement becomes the two most recent versions: the current version and the previous version of iOS, iPadOS and watchOS.

Outlook for iOS is preparing to drop support for iOS 15 when iOS 17 is released.

Microsoft Teams: Group Policy Assignment Rank Assistance

MC666964 | August 11 –

As an admin, you use policies to control Microsoft Teams features that are available to users in your organization. To easily manage different types of user needs, Teams provides group policy assignment, which lets you assign custom policies to user groups.

Effective policy for a user is determined by precedence rules….View more

Announcing Microsoft Search Answer Analytics

MC666963 | August 11 –

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft Search Answer Analytics will soon be available in the Microsoft 365 Search & Intelligence Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124910

Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources

MC666629 | August 9 – The proposed approach seeks to streamline the authentication process by suppressing authenticator notifications for requests originating from unfamiliar locations. By intelligently identifying risky sources like unknown IP addresses, the system can effectively differentiate potential malicious attempts from legitimate ones. This suppression of notifications will apply to both Phone-Sign in and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) notifications.

It’s essential to note…View more

New Stream (on SharePoint) web part release

MC666623 | August 9 –

This is an important message for customers who publish videos to SharePoint Pages and news posts. As noted in Message Center post MC561187, the Stream (Classic) webpart in SharePoint will be retired on August 15, 2023.

The Stream (on SharePoint) web part will support configuration of a single video and multiple videos for videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint.

This message is…View more

Local Contacts Search

MC666613 | August 9 –

With a newly added search bar, you may now search your local contact list in Outlook mobile by typing the name of a contact.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 135281

Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update

MC666173 | August 9 –

The purpose of Auto connect feature is to automatically connect the user to walkie talkie as soon as an intended channel to connect is determined, thereby reducing at-least 1 step in the process.

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals

MC666167 | August 9 – Viva Goals will be giving users the ability to share links to goals as rich adaptive cards, including progress and status. Users get the context they need around goals they’re working towards and can also update them in Microsoft Teams without losing focus or clicking away from the conversation. As part of this feature, Viva Goals will introduce a menu option to share goals content to Teams, under the “Share” menu in the application.

If your tenant does not support Microsoft…View more

(Updated) SharePoint: Page Sharing Feature

MC665222 | August 8 –

Updated August 8, 2023: We have added additional information below.

With this feature, users can share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like other Microsoft 365 files. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected.

Note: Only the page and items uploaded to the page, like images on the page, will be shared. Other linked content in the page like embedded documents, lists will have to be…View more

(Updated) New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon

MC598641 | August 8 –

Updated August 8, 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…View more

(Updated) Dynamic Emergency Calling on Teams Web

MC635983 | August 8 –

Updated August 8, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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.

(Updated) Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center

MC557823 | August 8 –

Updated August 08, 2023: As we are completing the broad rollout of this feature, we wanted to share some additional information on the service plan availability.

As announced in our blog post Introducing Multiple Viva Connections Experiences for Your Organization, a single Viva Connections…View more

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

MC666104 | August 8 –

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 Channel

Preview: Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices

MC665936 | August 8 –

Earlier this year, the new Microsoft device ecosystem platform built on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) was announced delivering state-of-the art security, reliability, and manageability with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Teams Android devices will be migrating to this platform. The first step in the migration is a firmware…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Edge for Business is coming in Edge version 116

MC642267 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Edge for Business, the new, dedicated work experience currently in preview, is planned to be released with Microsoft Edge stable version 116 (scheduled for the week of August 17, 2023). All users who…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update

MC600726 | August 7 –

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) Video Messaging in Outlook Mobile

MC540242 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 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…View more

(Updated) Introducing “Microsoft Default” setting to Teams Tag Management Settings

MC591878 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting to Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.
If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default…View more

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

MC547641 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline and details 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. This release enables OCR support for images shared and stored in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Windows endpoints. OCR support on Exchange online and Teams is…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings

MC523053 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is going to support an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

This message is associated…View more

(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels.

MC554158 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550

(Updated) Upgrade to the Forms Start Page Experience on Office.com

MC661829 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Forms has been improving get-started experiences since last year, we are now bringing the latest portal page experiences to all customers on all hosts, including upgrading the launch page experience in office.com. Users will be directed to Forms web and access all new functionalities released recently.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Compact Chat List

MC609889 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Compact chat list is a feature addition that allows users to condense the view of their chat list and hide message previews. This new design will enable users to keep messages more private, view more chats in their chat list and navigate the chat list more easily. This feature addition will be the default chat list experience for compact mode users. Compact chat list will…View more

(Updated) OneDrive: Recommended Files

MC653729 | August 7 –

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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 View more

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