Message center announcements
October 30, 2023 – November 5, 2023
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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Upcoming retirement of SharePoint Online Record Center site features
MC686912 | November 3 –
Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Purview Records Management features offer organizations flexibility and a scalable solution to proactively retain or delete content in Microsoft 365.
We have a long-term retirement plan for the older features used for records management in SharePoint Online that are not part of the Microsoft Purview Records Management or Purview Data Lifecycle Management. The… View more
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(Updated) Loop workspaces will start counting towards tenant storage quotas
MC678308 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.
Loop is a new app that enables your teams to think, plan, and create together like never before.
During the Loop app Public Preview, Loop workspaces were not counted towards your tenant’s storage quota. As the Loop app exits Public Preview, workspaces will start counting towards your tenant’s storage… View more
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Migration of Audit permissions from Exchange Admin Center to Purview Compliance portal
MC686594 | November 1 –
To search or export the audit log, administrators or members of investigation teams must be assigned to at least one of the View-Only Audit Logs or Audit Logs roles. These roles can currently be assigned either through the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal or through the Exchange Admin Center. Starting February 2, 2024, Microsoft is simplifying Audit permissions management by ensuring you can manage access to Audit in accordance with your other Purview permissions controls directly from… View more
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Classic Teams Users Will be Automatically Updated to New Teams After March 31, 2024
MC686187 | October 31 –
On October 5, 2023, we announced general availability of the new Microsoft Teams app for Windows and Mac. Read the message center post MC679451 for details.
We mentioned in our GA announcement that classic Teams users will be automatically updated to new Teams in the coming months. Today, we want to inform you… View more
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Microsoft Teams: Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams
MC687207 | November 3 –
The Files app accessed from the left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the new OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams. All existing features of the Files app will also be available via this new OneDrive app experience. For more… View more
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Microsoft Teams: Private Line
MC687206 | November 3 –
We are introducing a new calling feature. With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only.
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Manage Surface Hub 3 devices in Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management portal
MC687205 | November 3 –
Surface Hub 3 is now officially joining the Microsoft Teams Rooms family as an all-in-one Teams Rooms board running Teams Rooms on Windows.
This integration brings a unified experience to all your meeting spaces, allowing your team to seamlessly transition from one room to another. Whether you are using the streamlined, touch-first interface on Surface Hub 3 or the traditional console-based Teams Rooms setup, the experience remains consistent.
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Viva Engage AMA Events Enables Private AMA and Now Allows Multiple Hosts and Organizers
MC677835 | November 3 –
Today Viva Engage AMAs only allow for AMA Events that are public and open to the entire organization, though they might only be promoted to specific groups of people they could be discovered and accessed by anyone in the organization. With this update, AMA Events will now allow you to make your event private and only accessible to a specific list of attendees. Additionally, we will also be releasing a way for you to add up to 10 hosts and organizers to help expand the types of… View more
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Simplified Compose Experience for Teams
MC686919 | November 3 –
Teams Compose is the heart of collaboration, where all Teams messages flow each month. It’s also the gateway to a wealth of features, from Co-Pilot to Files, Loops, Video, and Platform Apps.
While Teams’ capabilities have grown by leaps and bounds, the compose experience has remained largely unchanged. This update addresses usability, scalability, and information density challenges. We’ve simplified the compose experience, enhancing usability for various rich… View more
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Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
MC686916 | November 3 –
Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users:… View more
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Microsoft Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings
MC686914 | November 3 –
This feature enables users to view and edit collaborative meeting notes while watching Teams meeting recordings in Stream. Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned tasks in collaborative meeting notes automatically sync with To Do & Planner.
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Preview the new Teams web client on Edge and Chrome
MC686911 | November 3 –
Today we’re starting to roll out the preview of the new Teams web client to Edge and Chrome browsers. Our new Teams web client is built on the same foundation as our new Teams desktop clients and brings Edge and Chrome web users new speed, performance, and flexibility when using Teams.
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(Updated) Syntex OCR for image-only multi-page PDF and TIFF
MC679314 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have decided to roll back the feature and make additional changes prior to rolling out. Thank you for your feedback and we will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.
With this update, multi-page image-only PDF and TIFF files in the libraries you have configured for Syntex OCR will also have text extracted. This extracted text will be available to Microsoft Purview scenarios and to end user search powered… View more
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety
MC666165 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance will introduce advanced trainable classifiers that leverage large language models to detect workplace safety scenarios.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels
MC649917 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation
MC669740 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
From the sensitivity menu, owners of Office files protected with a sensitivity label can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to view user access attempts and revoke access if needed.
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(Updated) Microsoft 365 admin center: New Premium Teams Usage Report
MC673714 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
A new product usage report will be available within Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports to help Admins understand how Microsoft Teams Premium is being used within their organization by daily active users, features, and by paid and trial license types.
Teams Premium usage reports will include daily active users, and three features in the first release: org-defined backgrounds,… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Landing Experience for Viva Connections Desktop
MC682306 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: Refreshed Viva Connections experience is expected to start releasing by mid-November to our customers. This new experience will show up for different users in a tenant at different times. By Jan 2024, we expect to finish rolling out this feature to all the customers.
As part of this update, the Resources section will be updated, and it will be pulling data from a different source other than global navigation. To prepare for this upcoming release, we suggest… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Require sensitivity label to restrict permissions
MC660616 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. 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) Message List Selection UI updates for Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
MC556159 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
In order to save space on the message list in Outlook, we are making an UI update: From “selection circles on the left side of each row” to “Select mode that you have to get into before checkboxes appear“, using a button in the top-right corner of the Message List. Users may have to acclimate themselves to the new Selection user experience.
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(Updated) Rosters in Microsoft Planner Supporting Container Sensitivity Labels
MC669735 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 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… View more
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(Updated) Org Explorer in Outlook On the Web
MC661824 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Org Explorer helps you visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This experience, available in Outlook for Desktop, is now coming to Outlook on the web. Org Explorer is a part of the People in Viva service plan, which is a part of the Microsoft Viva Suite subscription.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block Meeting Chat Access in External, Non-Trusted Meeting Joins
MC561186 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 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
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(Updated) REMINDER: Upcoming Changes to Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience
MC671812 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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… View more
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(Updated) Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration
MC677516 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience.
The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block List to Support URL Top-Level Domain Blocking
MC675960 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
Soon, you will be able to block URLs based on their top-level domain using block entries in the Tenant Allow Block List. You can create entries in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal or PowerShell, using the format “*.<TLD>/*”, where <TLD> can be any… View more
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(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels.
MC554158 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 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.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker
MC674737 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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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(Updated) Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – New Contextual Conditions in Service- Side Auto-labeling
MC666163 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Purview Information Protection has historically focused on content-based classification. Large advances in this area have occurred over the past few years, including accuracy improvements for sensitive information types and the addition of new classifiers like Exact Data Match, Entity Match, Credential Scan and Trainable… View more
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(Updated) Microsoft Purview – General availability of Power Automate integration with records management
MC681242 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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… View more
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(Updated) Clipchamp Video Editor Launching to Microsoft 365 Commercial Accounts
MC664866 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the content with additional details. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Clipchamp is launching for Microsoft 365 commercial accounts. You are receiving this message because users in your organization have Microsoft 365 licenses which enable access to Microsoft Clipchamp capabilities. This update will not impact any other parts of Microsoft 365 licenses or Microsoft 365 admin center.
Clipchamp runs in the Edge or Chrome browser and is… View more
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(Updated) REMINDER: Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration
MC681885 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature… View more
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(Updated) Changes in Normalization
MC536885 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: Based on customer feedback we will not be moving forward with this change at this time. You can safely disregard this message. Thank you for your feedback.
Stopping normalization on number that starts with plus sign (+)
Normalization in Microsoft Teams was not designed to do normalization when the phone number starts with plus sign (+) as documented, but we’ve never enforced this in the Teams desktop or Web client. We are planning to enforce this in the… View more
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(Updated) Meeting Protection Support and Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android
MC675503 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below as well as the content. Thank you for your patience.
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes the meeting protection support – End-to-end Encryption for meetings and Sensitivity labels.
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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Shared Device License on Mobile App for Android
MC662254 | November 2 –
Updated November 2, 2023: We are glad to announce that support for Teams Shared Device License on Android Mobile is generally available now on Teams mobile version >= 2023143401. Only Calls and Walkie Talkie apps are supported when the Android mobile app is signed into an account with Teams Shared Device license. To access other apps on Teams Android mobile including chats and channels, please assign eligible licenses to the account and remove the Teams Shared Device License.
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Power Platform – Administrator Activity events delivered to Microsoft Purview is now available in Public Preview
MC686858 | November 2 – We are announcing the Public Preview of new Power Platform activity events which will be delivered to M365 Unified Services via a Data Connector through the M365 Management API, making them available to Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, and Microsoft Sentinel. Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, these new activity events will capture Environment Lifecycle Operations and Property Settings actions performed by Administrators of Power Platform across the customer management plane of your… View more
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Simpler and quicker creation of teams and channels
MC686596 | November 1 –
Collaborate more easily by creating teams and channels simpler and faster – a simple by default, power when needed experience!
Currently, our team and channel creation processes have several steps and are focused on letting users create team at the top level, with channel creation as an option for each team.
We are making the team create experience simpler by default, but still giving users the advanced options of creating a team from a template or group and choosing the… View more
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Audit – New Microsoft Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
MC686595 | November 1 –
Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users:… View more
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Horizontal – Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot
MC686593 | November 1 –
Introducing a set of capabilities in general availability in Microsoft Purview to help you strengthen the data security and support compliance management for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The capabilities include:
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185103
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eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager
MC686592 | November 1 –
The Job Report in eDiscovery Premium is now currently available to eDiscovery Administrators. With this update, the report will be accessible by users with eDiscovery Manager (built-in role group) as well. eDiscovery Managers will be able to view the Jobs limit cards on the report as well as the list of jobs in the cases they are a member of.
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New Gallery in Teams Meetings
MC686281 | November 1 –
We are introducing a revamped version of the gallery in Teams meetings and calls. The new gallery will be the default view when users join their meetings, so that they can use it without the need of taking an action.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118467
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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Progress Tracking with Azure DevOps Integration
MC686284 | October 31 –
With the enhanced progress tracking options, Viva Goals users will soon be able to track progress based on Azure DevOps fields such as effort, story points, completed work, remaining work, original estimate as well as custom numeric fields, in addition to the existing item level completion tracking.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 165687
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Stream App in Microsoft Teams will be updated to Stream (on SharePoint)
MC686279 | October 31 –
We are transitioning the Stream experience in the desktop client of Microsoft Teams from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint). Once transitioned the Stream app in Microsoft Teams will display only Stream (on SharePoint) content–it will no longer display Stream (Classic) content. The new Stream (on SharePoint) app in Teams will feature similar content and features as found on the Stream start page.
The Stream app is currently accessible across multiple touchpoints on Teams,… View more
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SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates
MC686278 | October 31 –
We are bringing the goodness of templates to SharePoint document libraries. Creating document libraries will now be a breeze with our ready-made templates with scenario relevant structure, metadata, and content types – all to save you time and maintain broader consistency across your content management organization.
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Offline mode in OneDrive for Web
MC686277 | October 31 –
Soon, on Windows and macOS devices running the OneDrive sync app, we will enable a new feature called “Offline mode” that will allow you to continue working with the OneDrive web app in your browser, OneDrive PWA (Progressive Web App) or Microsoft Teams even when you are offline. This feature will be on by default and will give your users the ability to view, rename, move, copy their files, and create new folders when offline. Users will be able to open their files that are available offline… View more
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Intune support for the Microsoft Loop mobile app
MC686271 | October 31 –
Microsoft Loop is a co-creation app which enables you and your team to bring all the parts of your project together in one place and collaborate across the apps and devices you already use.
We’re excited to share that the Loop mobile app now supports Intune app protection policies. This update applies to both iOS and Android apps.
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Microsoft 365 Icon Update
MC686270 | October 31 –
The Office 365 logo will be replaced throughout Outlook Mobile for Android with the Microsoft 365 logo, as will references to the account type.
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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel
MC686224 | October 31 –
We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
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Windows 11 2023 Update available
MC686193 | October 31 –
Windows 11, version 23H2 – also referred to as the Windows 11 2023 Update – has reached general availability (GA). This is the second feature update for Windows 11, offering the features announced in September as part of continuous innovation plus a scoped set of new enhancements to the Start menu, taskbar, and chat experience, which is now Microsoft Teams… View more
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Microsoft Viva : Connections Boosted News Notifications
MC685938 | October 30 –
Soon, in addition to existing news notifications, user of Viva Connections will also receive notifications for boosted news on the organization’s news site. This will allow communicators to more directly reach end user with important company news and communications.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 174470
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New Feature in Teams Admin Center to Communicate with Third-Party App Publishers via Teams
MC685934 | October 30 –
Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to initiate private groups chats with a limited set of third-party Teams app publishers via a new ‘Click-to-Chat’ (C2C) feature being added to the Teams Admin Center (TAC).
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 182034
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Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for more types of Microsoft Teams control messages
MC685932 | October 30 –
Microsoft Teams control messages are system-generated artifacts that contain information about actions taken in Teams – for example, adding or removing a user from a chat. These messages show up on the Teams client as system messages. More information on these types of messages can be found here.
Currently control messages generated while adding or removing a member to a chat or Team, within Teams chats and Teams Channels (Standard Private, Shared) locations were included in the… View more
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Microsoft Secure Score – New Microsoft Defender for Identity recommendations
MC685930 | October 30 –
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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Microsoft Purview to expand role groups
MC685929 | October 30 –
Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups. Additional roles will be added to Microsoft Purview built-in role groups for Compliance Administrator, Information Protection related role groups, and Privacy Management related role groups.
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October skilling snacks: Bite-sized learning for IT pros
MC685787 | October 30 –
Visit our updated learning series on all things Windows. Every two weeks, we package available resources on a different topic in a way that is easy to consume in under two hours each. This professional development opportunity is appropriate for all skill levels, from entry-level to senior and seasoned. This month, learn about BitLocker management for enterprises and voice access in Windows.
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