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 343th 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.

View a summary of the updates.

Message center announcements

December 11, 2023 – December 17, 2023

Major updates

Feature retirement – Evaluation Lab retirement

MC698829 | December 16 –

As we continue to evaluate the value of the features and services to provide, we have made the decision to retire the Defender Evaluation Lab.

(Updated) Web links from Microsoft Teams chats to open in Microsoft Edge; Teams chat will open side-by-side with link

MC669480 | December 14 –

Update for December 14, 2023: The Microsoft Teams change will now be completed by the end of January instead of early December as previously communicated. Additionally, an issue was discovered with managing this change using GPO and Intune, with a fix planned to deploy with the change by the end of January. To manage this change prior to the fix deploying, please use the View more

Retiring Delve Web

MC698136 | December 14 –

We will be retiring Delve on December 16th, 2024. Most of the features and value offered by Delve today are already available and improved in other experiences in Microsoft 365. The main one being Profile Cards in Microsoft 365. Here is a list of features offered in Delve and the experiences we recommend using instead:

Delve Home – discover relevant documents recommended on Office.com, in Office apps and in Profile Cards.
Delve Profile – view profile data in the Profile…View more

Threat Protection report page retirement

MC698130 | December 14 –

We will be retiring the Threat Protection report page – https://dev.security.microsoft.com/mde-reports/threatProtection (accessed through Reports > Endpoints > Threat protection). Instead, we recommend the utilization of Advanced hunting queries and Alert queue filter in Defender XDR, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

Update Microsoft Teams client applications to most up-to-date version by March 2024

MC698127 | December 14 –

Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy and requires users to stay on the most up-to-date version of the client application. Automatic updates ensure that users have the latest capabilities, performance and security enhancements, and service reliability.

Microsoft is constantly investing into innovations and improvements for more effective, reliable, and secure communication…View more

WDAC Advanced Hunting Retired ActionTypes and Fields

MC697431 | December 12 –

Microsoft will be renaming the PolicyNameBuffer and PolicyIdBuffer fields in MDE Advanced Hunting WDAC events. These fields will be renamed to PolicyName and PolicyID, respectively. We will continue to improve the experience and richness of WDAC event data in Advanced Hunting.

Additionally, we will be retiring the following WDAC action types from Advanced…View more

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps network requirements update

MC697429 | December 12 –

We’re updating IPs for portal access and SIEM agent connections.

(Updated) Action Required – Changes to Get & Transform Data (aka Power Query) features in Excel

MC696575 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your feedback.

We will be making changes to Get & Transform Data (aka Power Query) features in Excel.

Note: If you don’t use Power Query, you may dismiss this message.

(Updated) Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting

MC690173 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.

Microsoft will stop honoring the mail flow rule which helps you track end user reporting. To improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives) more quickly and efficiently, we moved the submission service ahead of the exchange transport rule agent. Now the mail flow rules (or exchange transport rules) which…View more

Additional updates

Teams Live Event capacity limit extension

MC698896 | December 16 –

Microsoft had previously instituted temporary capacity increases for Teams live events that were set to expire on December 31, 2023. This included increasing the Live Event capacity from 10,000 attendees to up to 20,000 attendees, increasing the concurrency limit from 15 to 50 simultaneous events, and increasing the Live Event duration from 4 hours to 16 hours. To ensure administrators have adequate time to train their user base, we are extending the timeline for these capacity limit…View more

Teams Live Events support in New Teams

MC698876 | December 16 –

As communicated in MC686187, after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven’t updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams. New Teams will support Teams Live Events until its scheduled…View more

Copilot (formerly Bing Chat Enterprise) service plan name change

MC698827 | December 16 –

In late January 2024, we are updating the name of the service plan used to manage commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot to increase clarity:

Current name: Copilot
New name: Commercial data protection for Microsoft Copilot

Viva Engage Network Analytics

MC698826 | December 16 –

Network analytics is coming to Viva Engage! In mid-January, admins and corporate communicators will be able to monitor organization-wide engagement via the network analytics dashboard. Additionally, a new control will be available on your Viva Engage admin dashboard in the Analytics and AI section that will enable you to activate summarization and theme extraction for your network with Microsoft Responsible AI protections, to assist users as they access network-wide data about…View more

(Updated) Yammer Rebranding to Viva Engage Domain Migration Update

MC679739 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: The email sender domain will not start in January 2024 as previously announced. We will send a new notice via message center with 30-days notice before we start changing the email sender domain later in 2024.

If you took action to change or update your email configuration based on the previous communication then that should remain largely valid. We encourage you to review changes when any updated notice is received.

As previously communicated in…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels

MC649917 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 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

(Updated) Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

MC680348 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager

MC686592 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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.

This message is…View more

Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your iOS or Android device for offline usage

MC696167 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended.

With the new sync window, users can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments they want to download to their iOS or Android device so they can always access them even while offline.

Note: The emails/attachments will be stored internally as a cache since every time a user changes their sync window (decrease) we do a clean-up of all saved data. They cannot choose the location…View more

(Updated) Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

MC692016 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184504

(Updated) Add Individual File Shortcuts in OneDrive Web

MC684224 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

You can create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive’s and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved and renamed without impacting the source content and will show up in OneDrive Android, iOS & sync client endpoints.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

(Updated) Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention

MC689490 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re rolling out a new feature to enable customers with Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) and the 10-Year Retention Add-on to create additional customized retention policies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 144251

(Updated) IntelliFrame experiences on new Teams app and Recognition expansion

MC695502 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

This is a two-part update, with:

IntelliFrame experiences availability on new Teams app for Desktop,
Expanding recognition support to cover scenarios such as meeting invite forwarding and Teams meeting nudge among others (Please See below for details)
- IntelliFrame experiences from Edge cameras like Yealink Smartvision 60 are currently…View more

(Updated) Stream video recordings in Outlook

MC690606 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re introducing the ability to record and insert Stream video recordings in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185369

(Updated) Stream videos can now be watched inline in Outlook

MC692026 | December 15 –

Updated December 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re introducing the ability to watch Stream videos inline in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185389

Power Platform Connectors – Allow list new Azure Logic Apps IPs

MC698452 | December 14 – Upcoming mandatory infrastructure updates will require new IP endpoints to be allow-listed for all Azure service regions starting in March of 2024.What action do I need to take?Please refer to this documentation and allow-list the endpoints based on your hosted region in your network firewall settings.If you have already allowlisted these endpoints, no further action is needed.Why is this action needed?If…View more

New Power Platform endpoint used by Power Apps

MC698439 | December 14 – Beginning February 2024, Microsoft Power Apps is introducing a new endpoint for the Power Platform API as a service dependency change in all clouds: *.content.powerplatform.com. The Power Apps end-user experiences will leverage this new endpoint. This change has been reflected in the documentation Power Platform URLs and IP address ranges.What action do I need to take?If you employ in-house firewall rules to restrict network traffic to…View more

Rename Topic Center site address from SharePoint Admin Center

MC698424 | December 14 –

You can now rename the Topic Center site address from SharePoint Admin Center. You will use the same flow that you do now for changing the site address. You can also use the PowerShell, Start-SPOSiteRename to make the change. Previously, the site address update could only be completed by making a request to Microsoft Support.

Microsoft Syntex: document translation

MC698423 | December 14 –

We are providing a new service that lets you easily create a translated copy of a selected file or a set of files in a SharePoint document library. You can translate a file while preserving the original format and structure of the file. This feature supports a large number of languages and file types either manually or automatically by creating a rule.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Microsoft 365 Icon Update in Outlook for iOS

MC698422 | December 14 –

The Office 365 logo will be replaced throughout Outlook Mobile for iOS with the Microsoft 365 logo, as will references to the account type.

New cmdlet for Content Explorer

MC698421 | December 14 –

The current Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drilling down to specific location. The new feature coming to General Availability will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within the Security and Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on Content Explorer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

Upcoming changes to Windows Single Sign-On

MC698261 | December 14 –

Prepare for changes if you manage Windows 10 or Windows 11 devices in the European Economic Area (EEA). In January 2024, users will start seeing a new SSO notice allowing them to choose how to sign in to apps. The notice will be fully rolled out by March 2024 to both consumers and IT users. This solution helps comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Find details about what you and your users can expect at View more

Windows Office Hours: December 21st, 2023

MC698260 | December 14 –

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector…View more

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Update of blocked transport rule count volume in Mailflow status report

MC698146 | December 14 –

We are updating the aggregate count volume of blocked transport rule emails in Mailflow status report.

(Updated) Advanced customization & preview for end-user email notification in Microsoft Purview DLP

MC683658 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are making enhancements to the Microsoft Purview DLP end-user email notification capability for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange.

Attach matching email: Admins now can decide whether the matching email messages should be included or excluded in the end-user notification emails.
Enhanced Token Support: With one click, Admins can now leverage…View more

(Updated) REMINDER: Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration

MC681885 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users

MC689496 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

When using external access for Teams, users receiving a meeting chat invitation from an unmanaged Teams user will be prompted with the option to acknowledge or leave the meeting chat.

(Updated) Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – support for two new predicates

MC687844 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With this new feature for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP), we’re introducing support for two new conditions that you can use in your policies for endpoint devices.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181623

(Updated) Microsoft Stream: Add a hyperlink or text callout to a video at specific times

MC688631 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Make your video interactive and more engaging by adding annotations that can include hyperlinks and text. Call out important moments or share documents and other links to additional resources. You can add text and links anywhere in the video timeline to help guide your viewers to the right information. Viewers can use video timeline markers to navigate interactive…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Share an Update (Broadcast) Feature for Viva Goals

MC664865 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With the new “Share an Update” feature, users can share updates about their goals and dashboards with their teams or selected audience directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

(Updated) Send Viva Goals email notifications from your own domain

MC696864 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Email notifications from within Microsoft 365 are sent to users in various ways. Today, Viva Goals sends email notifications such as digest emails and sharing notifications from msft-viva-noreply@microsoft.com. Over the coming months, changes are coming for email senders. When users share goals from Viva Goals, these emails will be sent from the user. Emails such as digest emails that…View more

(Updated) New designs for post types in Viva Engage

MC696569 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Starting in December 2023, Viva Engage customers will see a refreshed design for question, praise, and poll post types.

The new design for post types in Viva Engage simplifies the user experience, putting more emphasis on content. The streamlined approach will be available in all endpoints—web, SharePoint, mobile apps, interactive…View more

(Updated) Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

MC687791 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create custom backgrounds for their Announcement posts with the generative AI power of Microsoft Designer. As part of the advanced Teams Premium capabilities, users will have access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, which they can use for their backgrounds. This release of Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts will be…View more

(Updated) General Availability of Viva Topics for Yammer

MC494737 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.

We are announcing the General Availability of Viva Topics for our Yammer customers.

The General Availability of Viva Topics for Yammer experiences enables us to leverage a more robust and secure infrastructure for Topics. It also enables organizations to use these Topics outside of Yammer (for…View more

(Updated) Simplified Compose Experience for Teams

MC686919 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarification. Thank you for your patience.

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 Copilot 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,…View more

(Updated) Local Contacts Search

MC666613 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

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

MC680963 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Out-of-box Controlled-content meeting template

MC678852 | December 14 –

Updated December 13, 2023: We have updated the content with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

We are launching an out-of-the box template for meetings with external participants. The controlled content access template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat across meeting lifecycle/in-meeting, and who can record.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365…View more

Microsoft Stream: View and Edit mode toggle

MC698135 | December 14 –

You will be able to toggle between View and Edit modes when viewing a Stream video. In View mode users can only view the video. In Edit mode users with edit permission can edit the video metadata such as title, description, chapters, and transcript. The default mode will be View. The View/Edit mode toggle is designed to prevent accidental edits to video metadata.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat”

MC698134 | December 14 –

“Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives the meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu options or keyboard shortcuts, or forward or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for…View more

Azure Protected Voicemails on Teams Mobile App

MC698132 | December 14 –

Teams mobile users will now have a link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams mobile App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186553

Control your activity notifications from the activity card

MC698129 | December 14 –

Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186571

“Open Microsoft 365” button in Outlook Preview

MC698126 | December 14 –

Currently, there is there no support available for iOS users looking to edit PDF files on the previewer in Outlook mobile. We are rolling out a new “Open Microsoft 365” button that helps users open/edit PDF files received on Outlook through the Microsoft 365 for mobile app.

Agenda View Refresh in Teams Mobile

MC698125 | December 14 –

Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98328

Microsoft Teams: Discover Feed in Channels

MC698124 | December 14 –

We are bringing users a personalized channel feed from people and topics users care about. Instead of going through each channel listed to catch up on what’s happening in the org, users can come to Discover Feed in Teams to catch up quickly on relevant channel conversations.

Users can see why a specific channel post is being shown in their feed and they can also customize their feed preferences by selecting “Do not show post from X person/channel”. Users…View more

Announcing External Access Analytics for Microsoft Teams

MC698123 | December 14 –

We are excited to announce that we are rolling out a new report in the Teams Admin Center that will provide basic analytics for external access. This report will allow admins to view information about external access.

The external access analytics report will be available soon in the Teams Admin Center under Analytics & reports > Usage reports. We hope that this report will provide admins with more visibility and control over external access in their tenant and enable them to…View more

Promote channel creation

MC697808 | December 13 –

Today, our experience focusses on letting users create team at the top level, with channel creation as a per team level option. Looking at the user behavior here, users end up creating more teams, where it could have been channels within teams, leading to team proliferation and difficulty in managing teams. To address this, we are looking to promote channel creation.

For users to collaborate effectively, they need to set-up the right collaboration space. Channels being the main hub…View more

New experiences for video and images in Viva Engage are coming to you in 2024!

MC697807 | December 13 –

As a Viva Engage customer you will enjoy the new video and image experiences as soon as they reach general availability early in 2024—no action needed.

Viva Insights Feature Admin Controls: Reflection

MC697806 | December 13 –

We have added new capabilities for admins in Viva Insights: Admins can disable the Reflection feature for their tenant, individual users, or AAD groups and M365 Groups.

Expanded reactions in Viva Engage

MC697805 | December 13 –

Viva Engage reactions help users participate in conversations. Reactions remain one of the most-used engagement features across customer networks. We’re offering a wider set of reactions in the product, like other M365 apps, to help everyone express themselves.

The new set adds 24 new icons to the existing six for a total of 30 reactions in Viva Engage. The current six reactions (like, love, laugh, celebrate, thank, sad) will see new additions, including icons to show laughter,…View more

Adding new consolidated infra IPs to the portal access and SIEM agent connection sections

MC697804 | December 13 –

New IPs have been added to the portal access and SIEM agent connection sections in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps network requirements.

New products supported by Auto-Claim Policy

MC697803 | December 13 –

Automating license assignments at a product level has never been easier. With an auto-claim policy in place, users can automatically claim a license for a product the first time that they sign into an app that requires a license. By using auto-claim policies, admins manage the products for which users can automatically claim licenses. You can also control which products those licenses come from.

We’re adding auto-claim policy support for Microsoft Project and PowerAutomate.

Admin Center notifications when users start trials

MC697802 | December 13 –

We are introducing the ability for admins to get oversight to users who initiate and deploy self-service trials. These are trials for Microsoft 365 products or features available with your Microsoft 365 subscription with no requirement to input payment information.

Going forward, if any End-User trial has been started for a product, you will receive an Admin Center notification that will quickly guide you to the “Your Products” page for your management.

Modern Translator feature in Outlook Microsoft 365

MC697801 | December 13 –

The Modern Translator feature in Microsoft Outlook (Windows Desktop) is making changes that may require users and tenant administrators to take steps to ensure continuity of service. You may need to either install the latest version the Current Channel or Monthly Enterprise Channell along with security patches for the July 2023, January 2023, and July 2023 Semi Annual Channels and 2107 Perpetual Volume Licensing Channel, which became available on December 12, 2023.

Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

MC697780 | December 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

Take action: December 2023 security update is now available

MC697655 | December 12 –

The December 2023 security update release is now available for Windows 11 and all supported versions of Windows 10. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily accessible from the Windows 11 and View more

Simplified team creation

MC697434 | December 12 –

Today, users go through multiple steps, selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.

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

Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing

MC697433 | December 12 –

Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort.

New Feature: Alerts for Windows Autopatch policy conflicts Public Preview announcement

MC697414 | December 12 –

IT admins will be able to see, review and act on Intune policy conflicts that impact the Windows Autopatch service. When the Windows Autopatch service detects a policy or policies in the tenant that conflict with a setting or settings in another Intune device policy, Tenant admins must review conflicting policies, impacted settings and manually resolve the conflict/s so the Autopatch service can be restored to all service-managed devices.

Force redirection from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Microsoft Defender XDR public preview announcement

MC697411 | December 12 –

As part of our transition to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal, all users from customers who have opted into the public preview who are accessing the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will be automatically rerouted to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal.

(Updated) Control Inbox and Calendar Sharing Options in Outlook on the Web and in the New Outlook for Windows

MC684892 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your feedback.

Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows provides users with the ability to share mail and calendar with other users at different permission levels.

Starting in November 2023, tenant admins will be able to turn off the ability for users to share inbox and calendar folders by utilizing the new Office Cloud Policy Service “Turn off…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker

MC674737 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 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

(Updated) Outlook: Update to Play My Emails

MC692461 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Play My Emails is a feature in Outlook Mobile that allows users to listen to new messages in their Focused Inbox and changes to their day hands-free through a voice-driven experience.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Voice isolation

MC690921 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With “Voice isolation”, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advance noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Archive channels

MC696576 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

For a paused or completed project where owners want to preserve channel content, but no longer want to keep the channel active, they can archive channels now!

Archiving channels will be available for Teams users. You, as a channel owner or administrator can archive a channel you own. By archiving the channel, it will not be available in your and channel…View more

(Updated) The Room Remote feature for desktop

MC499441 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client.

This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor.

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(Updated) Power Automate app changing name to “Workflows” within Microsoft Teams

MC671824 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls

MC688109 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Scheduling, setting up, and managing an event is not a simple task. Which is why we allow co-organizer to be added to the event so they can work alongside or on behalf of the organizer. So far co-organizers were able to set up event theming, manage registration, meeting options, view reports and more but were not able to edit event details like title, date/time, description, event group;…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows- All-in-one experience

MC679733 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With update 4.19 coming in November, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 170740

(Updated) One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows

MC679731 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With Teams Rooms on Windows update 4.19 coming in November, we are introducing a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter a one-time passcode (OTP) to automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to…View more

(Updated) Workflows within Microsoft Teams chats menu

MC683929 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for chats.

To make sure Microsoft Teams provides the best workflow experience for our users we are making it easier to configure workflows for chats. From the list of chats users will be able to go into the overflow menu for a specific chat (…) and select…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts

MC683659 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are thrilled to announce exciting product enhancements on frontline managers-controlled privacy settings for frontline workers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 152119

(Updated) Outlook Web: Ability to Hide Favorites From Folder List

MC676546 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Hide Favorites feature in Outlook for the web allows users to personalize their folder pane by hiding the Favorites section.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167071

Microsoft Purview Records Management: Update to auto-labeling policies based on sensitive information in the content

MC564192 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 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…View more

(Updated) Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices

MC665936 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarification. Thank you for your patience.

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….View more

(Updated) Access Microsoft Lists, PowerBI, Loop and Whiteboard Content in OneDrive Web

MC683663 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

You will be able to easily find your Microsoft Lists, Loops, Power BI dashboards and Whiteboard content within OneDrive Web. This content will be available in the Recent, Shared with You and Favorites list within OneDrive.

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App name change for Microsoft Project for the web, Project Teams tab, and Project Power app to “Planner (Project)”

MC690608 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have made the decision not to proceed with this change at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

We are updating the app names for Project for the web, Project Teams tab, and Project Power app to “Planner (Project)” – all existing functionality across these apps will remain the same.

(Updated) Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings

MC690924 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In parallel to legacy Wiki-based Meeting Notes in channel meetings, 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 (Agenda), what you discussed/decided (Notes) and what you need to follow up on (Follow-up Tasks) in channel meetings. These…View more

(Updated) Stream App in Microsoft Teams will be updated to Stream (on SharePoint)

MC686279 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence.

MC675959 | December 11 –

Updated November 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID View more

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

MC681242 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 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…View more

(Updated) End-to-end encrypted Meetings – 200 participants (Premium)

MC679525 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for patience.

For meetings that require heightened confidentiality, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is an extra layer of security that encrypts data at its origin and decrypts it at its destination. Only audio, video, and video-based screen sharing is end-to-end encrypted. Apps, avatars, reactions, chat, and Q&A are not end-to-end encrypted.

We had launched…View more

(Updated) See your Recent Microsoft Planner plans and Microsoft To Do Lists on Microsoft 365 Homepage

MC664477 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 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.

This message is associated with Microsoft…View more

Simpler and quicker creation of teams and channels

MC686596 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of recommended actions for finetuning policies

MC692019 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out the public preview of recommended actions for finetuning policies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 186580

(Updated) Meeting Protection Support for Teams Rooms on Android

MC675503 | December 11 –

Updated December 11, 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.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161423

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