Message center announcements
September 11, 2023 – September 17, 2023
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience
MC550081 | September 12 –
Updated September 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….
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(Updated) Stream live events replacement service
MC513601 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: To ensure organizations have time to make necessary changes we are updating the timing of this change from September 15, 2023, to January 31, 2024.
This is an important message for customers who use Stream (Classic) or Yammer to create and host Stream live events. Microsoft will retire the Stream live events service on January 31, 2024. Microsoft Teams live events, with encoder support, will become your new platform to host and run live events.
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OneNote for Windows 10 retirement of the Translation Feature
MC674736 | September 11 –
We will be retiring the Translation feature in OneNote for Windows 10 from the start of November 2023.
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Meeting Protection Support and Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android
MC675503 | September 16 –
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes new in-meeting experiences including:
· Improved view switcher and front of room display controls
· Meeting protection support – End-to-end Encryption for meetings and Sensitivity labels
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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: General availability of static alert and case IDs
MC675502 | September 16 –
Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124777, 139455
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Teams Panels Recognized and Visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal
MC675500 | September 16 –
We are pleased to announce that Teams Panels will soon appear and be supported in the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Panels will start to appear under the Rooms and Inventory pages. The device health signals and management functionality will be similar to what is offered on Teams Rooms on Android devices.
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Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time Telemetry Retention Up To Seven Days
MC675498 | September 16 – The Real-Time Analytics feature in the Teams admin center (TAC) allows IT admins to view their users’ meetings and identify issues related to audio, video, content sharing, and network connectivity. As an admin, you can use this information to investigate and address any problems with the meeting experience while the meeting is ongoing.
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(Updated) See your Recent Microsoft Planner plans and Microsoft To Do Lists on Microsoft 365 Homepage
MC664477 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Currently, you cannot see your recently accessed Planner plans or Microsoft To Do lists in your Microsoft 365 homepage. With this update, you will be able to see and access all your recent plans and lists alongside your Microsoft Project for the web projects, Word documents, PowerPoint decks, and more on office.com.
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(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Share an Update (Broadcast) Feature for Viva Goals
MC664865 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With the new “Share an Update” feature, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 148471
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(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels.
MC554158 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 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
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(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations
MC579612 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 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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(Updated) Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings
MC611685 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We are postponing the rollout of this feature at this time, and it will only be available in the new Teams experience. We apologize for any inconvenience.
We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar,…
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(Updated) Viva Insights Updated Homepage for Organizational Leaders
MC672159 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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 <a…
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(Updated) Join third-party meetings from Teams
MC661228 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
When a third-party meeting is created from Outlook or OWA, participants of the meeting will now be able to Join the meeting directly from Microsoft Teams. The participants will see “Join” button on the Teams calendar events card and in the meeting details page. On clicking the Join button, the link will route the users to the browser or the third-party application to join…
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(Updated) Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team
MC661224 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Channel meeting invitations will now allow channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 142405
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(Updated) Viva Pulse Admin Experience: Add a Link to Internal Policies
MC669478 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The Viva Pulse Admin experience will soon have a new admin capability called, ‘Add a link to internal policies’. Currently in the customization set up, survey authors will see a general disclaimer message saying, “Important. Your organization may have policies governing appropriate survey questions for employees. Please ensure you have consulted any such…
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Require sensitivity label to restrict permissions
MC660616 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.
Users with access to Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) are redirected from old protection mechanisms towards the modern sensitivity labeling experience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109532
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(Updated) Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms
MC642265 | September 15 –
Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience
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…
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Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events
MC675281 | September 14 –
Organizers can set up events and effortlessly add external presenters, who will receive exclusive Teams join links. These links enable external presenters to directly enter the event, eliminating the need for organizers to manually admit them from the event lobby or modify their event role during the session. This creates a hassle-free event experience for organizers and presenters!
External Presenters are considered people outside of your organization, including guests…
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Releasing the Planner Loop component
MC675280 | September 14 –
With the Planner component, teams that are using the Loop app to collect project info can include plans from Microsoft Planner. When a Planner component is created in the Loop app, everyone can stay in sync, working in a shared space that can also include lists, tables, notes and more.
The component will first be available in the Loop app. Other Loop enabled apps will be supported later, for example, Outlook and Teams.
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Yammer Enterprise rebrand on Service health and Message center
MC675278 | September 14 –
As part of the Yammer to Viva Engage transition announced in May 2023, we are updating the Service Health Dashboard (SHD) and Message center to align with the new taxonomy. At the end of September, the service titled “Yammer Enterprise” will be consolidated under the node “Microsoft Viva”, and subsequent messages will be titled “Microsoft Viva Engage” if the service is impacted.
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Teams Network Assessment Tool Urgent Update Required
MC675276 | September 14 –
Note: If your organization is not using the Teams Network Assessment Tool you can safely disregard this message.
An update has been released for the Teams Network Assessment Tool on September 7th, 2023 (Version 1.5.0.0).
This update is required in order for the tool to continue working with full functionality. Older versions of the tool previous to version 1.4.0.1 will stop working on October 2nd, 2023.
The following functionality will continue to work after…
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Power Platform – Announcing General Availability of Access Check to view all users who have access to a record
MC675134 | September 14 – We are preparing an update that will allow record owners to view all users who have access to their record(s). This update is expected to be released by the end of September.
What actions do I need to take to prepare?
This feature will be enabled by default in your environment after the release of the update by the following two settings that will be introduced. You can reset these settings to better fit your business needs:
1. IsAccessCheckerAllUsersEnabled: This allows…
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Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score Group Level Aggregates – Attribute Configuration
MC675146 | September 13 –
You can soon select which of the available Azure Active Directory attributes to display when using Group Level Aggregates within the Microsoft 365 Adoption Score. This option lets you control which attributes e.g. Company, Department, Country – City appear in the Adoption Score category-level filter.
This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 170780
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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of sequence detection for obfuscation involving excluded event
MC675145 | September 13 –
Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out sequence detection for obfuscation involving excluded events.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124970
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Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events on Android
MC675144 | September 13 –
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for Android to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules, such as encryption, as defined by tenant admins. This feature will also include support for other admin defined event label settings such as auto-label policies, do not forward, and cross-tenant events.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID <a…
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Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events on iOS
MC675143 | September 13 –
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for iOS to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules, such as encryption, as defined by tenant admins. This feature will also include support for other admin defined event label settings such as auto-label policies, do not forward, and cross-tenant events.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID <a…
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Follow up to MC666629: Suppressing Authenticator Notifications from Risky Sources
MC675138 | September 13 –
This is a follow up to MC666629 (August ’23) which was incorrectly removed from the Message center. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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…
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Power Platform – Customer-Managed Key (CMK) service updates new feature announcements
MC675107 | September 13 – We are announcing Customer-Managed Key (CMK) service updates for Power Platform. CMK provides the ability for your organization to manage your encryption keys in your Azure key vault and allows you to use separate encryption keys for different Dataverse environments. New features will be available on Friday, September 8, 2023.
Generally available:
· Encrypt your environment with key from Azure Key vault with private link
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Power Platform – Public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor Interface is now available
MC675105 | September 13 – We are pleased to announce that the public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor User Interface is now available for Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) admins.
How will this affect me?
The new Modern Hierarchy Security Editor User Interface is the UI that the admins use to manage the Hierarchy Security models within their organizations. It is only available to Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) administrators and can be accessed from PPAC. In addition, it is an…
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Collaborative notes on Teams mobile
MC674980 | September 12 –
Users can now view, edit, and create collaborative notes including agenda, notes, and follow-up tasks on Teams for iOS and Android, similarly with what users can do on Teams for desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 128652
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Teams Calendar: Near real-time sync calendar sync with Outlook Calendar
MC674979 | September 12 –
With this update, any Calendar updates you make in outlook will be available in near-real time on Teams Calendar (Desktop/Web). This keeps your calendar across Outlook and Teams always in sync with each other.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138248
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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of cumulative exfiltration tuning
MC674978 | September 12 –
Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out cumulative exfiltration tuning.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124971
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Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”
MC674977 | September 12 –
Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 153651
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(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Verified Topics Badges
MC673980 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With this update, editors can mark published topics as Verified in Microsoft Viva and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are Verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors. Assigned editors will be…
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(Updated) Outlook on the web: Pre-Reporting and Post-Reporting Popups Integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
MC668798 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The popups end-users see before and after reporting a message as phishing, junk, and not junk in Outlook on the web can soon be customized and localized in up to seven selected languages out of the full list of languages that…
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(Updated) Microsoft Syntex Taxonomy Tagger
MC666614 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: This feature will not be available for GCC organizations at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and will communicate new timelines for GCC via Message center, when appropriate.
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…
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Microsoft Purview Records Management: Update to auto-labeling policies based on sensitive information in the content
MC564192 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change. Thank you for your patience.
We are enhancing our Records Management auto-labeling policies for content that contains sensitive information, to allow administrators to scope these policies to include or exclude specific mailboxes as well as utilize adaptive policy scopes. This change will remove the current restriction of having to include all mailboxes (including Exchange & Microsoft 365 groups) in the scope…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Attach Cloud Files in Chat and Channel from Teams Mobile
MC579610 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are introducing the capability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel for iOS and Android. Additionally, users will be able to view Recent files and attach the most used files upfront from the Recent section.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs <a…
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings
MC523053 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 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) Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores
MC561700 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 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…
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(Updated) Visual Update for Microsoft 365 apps
MC638127 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 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.
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(Updated) Teams New Service Plan: Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams
MC661823 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be available in expanded preview for all users of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.
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(Updated) Suggested Files in 1:1 Chats
MC513664 | September 12 –
Updated September 12, 2023: We apologize for the delay on providing an update for this release. We have updated the rollout timeline below for Standard release. Additionally, we won’t be moving forward with rolling this out to Government organizations at this time. Thank you for your patience.
As an extension of Suggested Replies in 1:1 chats, you can now easily save time when you need to send a file in a chat by tapping on a “Share file” suggestion.
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels
MC674942 | September 12 –
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
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Public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor Interface is now available
MC674928 | September 12 – We are pleased to announce that the public preview of the Modern Hierarchy Security Editor User Interface is now available for Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) admins.
How will this affect me?
The new Modern Hierarchy Security Editor User Interface is the UI that the admins use to manage the Hierarchy Security models within their organizations. It is only available to Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC) administrators and can be accessed from PPAC. In addition, it is an…
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Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker
MC674737 | September 11 –
Users can soon find all of their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker in Microsoft Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023
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Microsoft Viva: Hero Image for Viva Connections Mobile
MC674735 | September 11 –
The Hero image (also known as the banner image) which is currently visible to users on Viva Connections desktop will soon be available to users on Viva Connections mobile and tablet.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 160989
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Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers
MC674732 | September 11 –
The keyword highlight for Trainable Classifiers aims to enable highlighting the top 10 unique keywords/phrases contributing to the classification of the selected document.
The feature is being enabled through:
1. Content Explorer:
Viewing the classified document through Content explorer will highlight the keywords that match the Trainable classifier detected.
2. Test Trainable classifier:
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Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals
MC674730 | September 11 –
Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals
We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:
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Default admin password for Android devices in Teams admin center
MC674690 | September 11 –
We are introducing a change in the way default admin passwords are managed in the configuration profiles for Android based Teams devices in Teams admin center.
Starting mid-September, 2023, we will no longer display the value of the default admin password set in the configuration profiles. This change is designed to further enhance the device security.
Note: If your organization does not utilize Android based Teams devices you can safely disregard this…
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