Message center announcements
August 28, 2023 – September 3, 2023
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Retiring Import-TransportRuleCollection in Exchange Online PowerShell
MC672157 | August 31 –
The Import-TransportRuleCollection cmdlet will be retired in Exchange Online PowerShell on September 30, 2023. This means that it will no longer be supported or available for use. The following steps are our recommendation to achieve the same results.
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(Updated) Windows Mail and Calendar are becoming Outlook
MC650424 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing of this change. Thank you for your patience.
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…
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(Updated) Use Microsoft Teams to produce Yammer Live Events
MC513603 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information.
This is an important message for customers who use Stream to host live events in Viva Engage.
We’re informing you of changes to the Message Center Post MC513603 titled “Use Microsoft Teams to produce Yammer live events”. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82054 and was originally sent on February 9, 2023 and stated that Stream Live Events…
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(Updated) SharePoint admin control for App registration / update
MC660075 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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…
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(Updated) Stream (Classic) Sets Retirement Date of April 15, 2024
MC496849 | August 29 –
Updated August 29, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Please review these new details.
Microsoft will retire Stream (Classic) on April 15, 2024. Additionally, end users will be blocked from uploading new videos to Stream (Classic) on September 15, 2023. Also end user will not be able to access Stream (Classic) at all after October 15, 2023, unless you delay this changes by using the new migration settings in Stream (Classic) admin center. …
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Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook Support for Multi-Tenant Multi-Account Scenarios
MC672757 | September 1 –
In parallel with the new Teams client supporting multi-tenant multi-account scenarios, Teams meeting add-in in Outlook will also start supporting the ability for users to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings.
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Microsoft Viva: Topic Page Improvements
MC672756 | September 1 –
We are introducing new improvements in Microsoft Viva to prevent locking of pages on session abandonment. This adjustment not only addresses inadvertent locking, but also ensures consistency between topic pages and card experiences through proactive page check-ins and showing the latest published version to viewers on topic pages.
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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Protection at Time of Egress on Endpoints
MC672755 | September 1 –
Just-in-time (JIT) protection applies a candidate policy to onboarded Windows 10/11 devices. The candidate policy blocks all egress activities on monitored files until policy evaluation completes successfully.
We have updated this feature since our Public Preview announcement, the document will be updated once we release the change.
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Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings General Availability
MC672752 | September 1 –
Teams 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.
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Preview the new Microsoft Teams on Mac
MC672547 | September 1 –
We’re rolling out the preview of the new Microsoft Teams desktop app for Mac to our users in the Public preview and Targeted release programs. Read <a…
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New Campaign Features in Viva Engage
MC672528 | August 31 –
We are soon rolling out two new features to Campaigns in Viva Engage: Campaign sashes and campaign co-organizers.
Users will have the capability to include a campaign sash in their storyline cover photo and avatar sash. Additionally, campaign managers (administrators and corporate communicators) will possess the ability to appoint co-organizers for their campaigns.
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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle and Records Management: New Graph APIs to apply
MC672527 | August 31 –
Retention labels can be applied to items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business programmatically today using CSOM and REST APIs. To offer more flexibility with our products and a more scalable solution, we’re excited to introduce these 4 new Microsoft Graph APIs:
· Set (apply) a retention label to items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business
· Get metadata information for the retention label applied to an item
· Remove the retention label from the…
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eDiscovery (Premium) – Data sources usability enhancements
MC672523 | August 31 –
Several usability improvements in the Data Sources page will be introduced in eDiscovery (Premium) service including list view updates, improvements to hold status and error messaging, error reports and quick hold retry.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 164895
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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Scheduling recurring reports for Mailflow status report – Mail flow view
MC672522 | August 31 –
We are introducing recurring schedule for the Mail flow view of the Mail flow status report.
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Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access General Availability
MC672521 | August 31 –
Teams 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:…
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Avatars: Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update
MC672518 | August 31 –
You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Avatars for Teams (MESH_AVATARS_FOR_TEAMS).
Avatars for Teams app is also updating the minimum hardware requirements to access this feature. The new minimum specified hardware requirement is a two core CPU with 6gb RAM. Users will not be able to utilize this feature if it does not meet the minimum hardware spec. This change is due to be able to provide users with a better Avatars…
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Viva Insights Updated Homepage for Organizational Leaders
MC672159 | August 31 –
Organizational leaders will soon see a refreshed Viva Insights homepage with content tailored to them. This update will only apply to organizational leaders who have already been assigned the Group Manager or Insights Business Leader role in Viva Insights (details can be found here). This updated content will include more emphasis on leader-specific…
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(Updated) Manage File Access in Microsoft Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Feed
MC644072 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings
MC523053 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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.
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(Updated) Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android
MC532193 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update
MC602596 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With this update, Teams Panels will support reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones.
All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in the top left of…
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(Updated) Rosters in Microsoft Planner Supporting Container Sensitivity Labels
MC669735 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Customers will soon be able to apply container labels to rosters in Microsoft Planner. This is enabled directly in Planner by using Microsoft Graph APIs. When this feature is rolled out, the roster sensitivity labels can be set to respect the policy settings. If the tenant admin has made container labels mandatory and has set a default label, then the default label will be used for…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update
MC537952 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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: 114938
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(Updated) OneDrive: Restore files to original location when turning off folder backup
MC559933 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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…
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(Updated) Microsoft Syntex Taxonomy Tagger
MC666614 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Syntex gives you the ability to automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in Taxonomy store using AI. These keywords are stored in a managed metadata (a.k.a Taxonomy) column on the item, making the documents easier to search, sort, filter, and manage.
Syntex Taxonomy Tagger is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and is not…
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(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score is Adding New Improvement Actions
MC666625 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.
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(Updated) Viva Topics app in Teams
MC546937 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.
Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party “Microsoft-built” app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can…
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(Updated) What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for August 2023
MC670897 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
Your Microsoft Intune account has been updated to the latest service build.
How does this affect me?
You will see the service release number updated in the Tenant Status blade of the Intune console soon. We’ve introduced some changes that we’re excited for you to try out.
What do I need to do to prepare for this change?
Click additional…
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(Updated) Follow up to MC513976: Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring
MC669730 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
This is a follow up to MC513976 (February ’23) to inform you that the change to provide more control over spacing in the text web part has been rolled back based on customer feedback. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your feedback.
—Original message content below for reference—
We are making some updates to improve SharePoint pages authoring. These…
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(Updated) Local Contacts Search
MC666613 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information.
Users will now have access to a quicker and easier method to search their Outlook Mobile contact list within the app. We are adding a search bar at the top of a user’s in app contact list that will allow users to type the name of a contact to easily find a contact. This search is limited only to the contacts within the Outlook Mobile app, and this feature does not search any device…
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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC Policy Handling
MC640228 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the timing of when these policies will take effect. Thank you for your patience.
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…
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(Updated) Avatars: Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update
MC669477 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 2023: We have identified that this message did not reach the intended audience. We apologize for any inconvenience and will be providing a new message, to the correct audience, shortly. You can safely disregard this message.
You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Avatars for Teams (MESH_AVATARS_FOR_TEAMS).
Avatars for Teams app is also updating the minimum hardware requirements to access this…
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(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations
MC579612 | August 30 –
Updated August 30, 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.
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Microsoft Intune In Development for September 2023 is now available
MC671842 | August 30 –
The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.
How does this affect me?
The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next…
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Power Automate app changing name to “Workflows” within Microsoft Teams
MC671824 | August 29 –
To provide a unified workflow experience within Microsoft Teams we will be merging the existing Workflows app with the Power Automate app. With this merger the Power Automate app will be changing its name to “Workflows”.
There will be no change to user experience within the app. Users will still be able to manage all their flows within the app along with browsing workflow templates or creating a new flow from scratch. Whether you have existing workflows in the Power Automate app or…
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Restricted Access Control for SharePoint and OneDrive Sites
MC671823 | August 29 –
We are introducing a new advanced capability for SharePoint Administrators to restrict SharePoint and OneDrive sites to specified users. With this feature, SharePoint administrators can restrict site access to specified users using Microsoft 365 group or AAD security groups. Users not added in the specified group(s) will not be able to access the site even if they were previously granted site access.
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Microsoft Syntex: rule to set content type based on filename
MC671822 | August 29 –
We are adding a new rule in Microsoft Syntex that will provide the capability to automatically set a content type to a file when it is added to a SharePoint library.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165699
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New SharePoint site theme options
MC671820 | August 29 –
We are adding two new SharePoint themes to our Change the Look menu. The addition of Black and Cerulean will enhance your site customization options by providing additional theme colors for the base of your sites.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117368
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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): Identify, add and preserve Teams channels as non-custodial data locations
MC671817 | August 29 –
Coming soon to Public Preview in eDiscovery (Premium) is the capability to pick relevant Teams channels (standard, private, and shared) as non-custodial data locations. This will intelligently identify associated custodian/group mailboxes and SharePoint sites related to the channel.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88815
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REMINDER: Upcoming Changes to Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience
MC671812 | August 29 –
Currently, there are two customization controls in the Viva Pulse In-App Admin Experience. The ‘Stock Questions’ control allows employees to edit stock questions. The ‘New questions’ control allows employees to create their own questions. In the upcoming release, we will be merging the two controls into one customization control.
This one control, when turned ON, will allow employees to edit stock questions and add their own questions in the Pulse survey. All…
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Update your iOS apps using MAM policies prior to upgrading iOS/iPadOS 17
MC671810 | August 29 –
Expected in September 2023, Microsoft Intune will report any applications with SDK versions earlier than 17.6.1 on iOS/iPadOS 17 and later as non-compliant to Conditional Access.
Organizations using the Conditional Access grant “Require App Protection Policy (APP)” must upgrade their iOS apps to the latest version prior to upgrading to…
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel
MC671574 | August 29 –
We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
· Current Channel
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SharePoint News in Outlook
MC671563 | August 29 –
With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, we’re also adding six templates in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number.
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