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 334th 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

October 9, 2023 – October 15, 2023

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Major updates

Loop components in Channels and Loop Embed Mode in Teams

MC681251 | October 13 –

Loop in Channels: Collaborative Loop components that you love from Teams chats are coming to channels! Users can create, share, and edit components to collaborate synchronously and asynchronously on ideas without leaving the context of their conversation. You can now copy and paste Loop components between channels, chats, Outlook emails, and other supported Microsoft 365 apps. No matter where people are collaborating the Loop, the component will always show the latest updates.

You…View more

Pin based verification process for support callers

MC680788 | October 11 –

In 2020, we added a PIN-based verification step to our existing phone-based verification process, to better protect your organization. If you call support, the Microsoft support representative will send a verification code to your registered email or phone in your Admin Center profile. Provide this code to the support representative to grant them access to your organization’s account.

(Updated) ExchangePowerShell: retirement of tenant admin cmdlets to Get, Set, and Remove UserPhotos

MC678855 | October 10 –

Updated October 10, 2023: To ensure organizations have enough time to prepare we have updated the implementation timing below. Thank you for your patience.

We are working to ensure a coherent user profile image experience by retiring legacy profile photo services. This announcement covers the retirement of the ExchangePowerShell UserPhoto cmdlets for tenant admins to Get, Set, and Remove user profile photos:

Additional updates

Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard

MC681250 | October 13 –

The ability to create live Loop components starting with task lists, tables, voting tables, progress trackers & checklists is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117400

Microsoft Purview – General availability of Power Automate integration with records management

MC681242 | October 13 –

To provide greater process flexibility, we have integrated Microsoft Purview Records Management with Power Automate. We provide the actions ‘Apply a retention label on the item’, ‘Relabel an item at the end of retention’, ‘Delete an item at the end of retention’, and ‘Trigger a new instance of the flow if an item can’t be located’ in Microsoft 365 Compliance connector to unlock more scenarios on this integration. Compliance…View more

Viva Engage | User reactions in eDiscovery is GA

MC681241 | October 13 –

We are excited to share that as of October 3rd 2023, user reactions to messages* in Viva Engage will be ingested for eDiscovery. Hence, any content search done on Viva Engage messages will retrieve all user reactions on those messages in eDiscovery. The solution is now GA to all our customers, in our effort to further strengthen the compliance standards of Viva Engage and deepen the trust of our customers in the product.

Bring-Your-Own-Device IT Admin Experience in Teams Pro Management Portal

MC680963 | October 12 –

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) rooms are identified as rooms with no MTR (Microsoft Teams Rooms) but equipped with other peripherals such as camera, microphone.

In Teams Pro Management Portal, IT admins will finally have the capability to manage and track these specific BYOD rooms. They will get a comprehensive overview of their BYOD rooms and devices activities. With this new addition, they will gain valuable insights into how these spaces are being utilized and enabling them…View more

Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile for iOS

MC680962 | October 12 –

Search will now be enabled in the Viva Connections (VC) app in Teams. Along with searching in Teams, VC users will also be able to get intranet search results. This feature will be rolled out in a phased manner starting with iOS in mobile only, followed by Android in mobile and then Tablet. The current update is linked to iOS in mobile and we will send out a notification before other phases as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Viva Connections: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using themes

MC680961 | October 12 –

Soon you’ll be able to further customize the Connections experience by applying the themes available in SharePoint to reflect organizational brand colors across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

If you can edit the Connections experience, you have two ways to use this new feature:

Current process: Editors can change the color theme by using the ‘Change the look’ panel under site settings for their home site. The same color theme will also apply to their Viva Connections…View more

Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile

MC680661 | October 10 – We’re adding the ability to expand and collapse mail folders to Outlook Mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 171602 and 171603

Feature Update: Notifications for @mentions in Mail and Documents in Outlook Mobile

MC680660 | October 10 –

We’re adding @mention notifications to the Outlook Mobile Notifications Pane.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171606 and 171607

Set ‘Out of Office’ from Teams Mobile Application

MC680658 | October 10 –

You can soon set up ‘Out of Office’ from the Teams Mobile Application itself on iOS and Android. Previously desktop or web Teams client was required to perform this action.

Microsoft Viva: Inline on Demand Feedback on Topic Cards Available

MC680657 | October 10 –

Microsoft Viva users can soon provide feedback on AI suggested people and resources on a topic card by simply clicking the “Give Feedback” button to confirm or remove them.

(Updated) Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders

MC549348 | October 10 –

Updated October 10, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this, we are rolling out two features.

The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed…View more

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

MC609877 | October 10 –

Updated September 10, 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) Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts

MC400569 | October 10 –

Updated October 10, 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…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block Meeting Chat Access in External, Non-Trusted Meeting Joins

MC561186 | October 10 –

Updated October 10, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams IT Admins will soon be able to block internal users from accessing chats when these users join meetings organized on external non-trusted tenants, including cross-cloud join. This release of Microsoft Teams’ new meeting chat setting will be rolling out across MS Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide a new way for tenants to manage users’ chat…View more

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

MC642265 | October 10 –

Updated October 10, 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…View more

Saved items availability in New Teams

MC680353 | October 10 –

Currently New Teams does not have a Saved feature. This will continue to exist in Classic Teams. In the coming months we’ll provide users with the option of downloading Classic Teams saved items to a doc with hyperlinks to open them. Additionally, a new and improved Saved feature is planned to come into New Teams next year.

Microsoft Search: Introducing the New Search and Intelligence Homepage

MC680352 | October 10 –

We are excited to announce that we are rolling out a new homepage for the Search & intelligence admin portal, the central place to learn and administer Microsoft Search capabilities for your organization. The new homepage provides you with a single-entry point to access a range of Microsoft Search features and functions, such as Graph connectors, user feedback, Microsoft Search educational content, and more.

Viva Learning Webapp Moving to Learning.Cloud.Microsoft

MC680350 | October 10 –

We are excited to announce that Viva Learning webapp is migrating from https://vivalearning.microsoft.com/ to https://learning.cloud.microsoft/. Viva Learning Webapp will also have self-explanatory and user-friendly links to tabs in Viva Learning.

This migration places the Viva Learning Webapp in the “.microsoft” domain. After rollout, Viva Learning Webapp URLs will automatically redirect to the “learning.cloud.microsoft” domain. Users will be able to access all the…View more

Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

MC680348 | October 10 –

Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create custom backgrounds for their Announcement posts with the generative AI power of Microsoft Designer. This release of Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web for Channels 2.0 in English – US markets only. In line with current announcement behavior, Mobile will only support the consumption of custom backgrounds. Feature is disabled for EDU tenants while the team implements a…View more

Announcing Viva Home: The Home for the Viva Suite on the Web

MC680346 | October 10 –

We are excited to announce the upcoming availability of Viva Home, a single web destination for your employees to access all the Viva apps they are licensed for. With Viva Home, employees can gain quick access to all Viva apps and learn how to incorporate them into their everyday work.

Labeled as “Viva”, this new page will be discoverable in the Apps experience at microsoft365.com/apps, as well as in the Microsoft 365 App Launcher. The new experience provides a…View more

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