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 346th 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

January 8, 2024 – January 14, 2024

Major updates

(Updated) Specific People Link Support for Collaborative Notes

MC694130 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes file will now support a Specific people link which offers more controlled access than People in your organization link. This change will automatically align the Collaborative Notes file link…View more

(Updated) Whiteboard: existing Azure board migration to ODB storage

MC677236 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Whiteboard previously stored whiteboard files in Azure storage. In 2022, Whiteboard switched to OneDrive as the storage location for most newly created boards. We are making a client-based migration available for your organization soon.

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Microsoft Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA Retirement note

MC705356 | January 9 –

Microsoft will retire the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA on March 31, 2024.

Note: If your organization does not utilize or intend to utilize the Readiness Toolkit for Office add-ins and VBA, this message may be disregarded without concern.

Additional updates

Updated behavior for browsing large online address books

MC706449 | January 13 –

This post summarizes a change when browsing online address books in Exchange Online. Recently, Microsoft made a change to improve performance and encourage users to use search instead of infinite browsing. This change impacts browsing in any online address list with more than 500 objects and applies to the Default Global Address List, built-in address lists, and custom address lists. The change does not affect browsing Offline Address Books.

Public Preview: Windows Autopatch Reliability Report

MC706447 | January 13 –

The Windows Autopatch Reliability report is a new feature that will be accessible in the Windows Autopatch Reports section of the Microsoft Intune admin center. This new report provides a calculated reliability score across update cycles based on the occurrences of stop code errors detected on managed devices. Scores are determined at both the service and tenant level. Details on modules associated with stop code…View more

Meeting “Recording and Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab

MC704958 | January 13 –

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording and Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording and Transcription” tab.

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(Updated) “Open Microsoft 365” button in Outlook Preview

MC698126 | January 13 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank your for your patience.

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.

(Updated) Immersive spaces available for General Availability

MC700933 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are making building relationships easier by bringing the power of Mesh into the place where people work every day—Microsoft Teams. With just one click, you can now easily transform your virtual meeting into a fun 3D experience with immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams.

(Updated) Announcing External Access Analytics for Microsoft Teams

MC698123 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Audio and video flyout and settings in Teams meetings

MC699715 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Audio and Video flyouts in Teams enable users to efficiently manage their audio and video settings during meetings. These features are easily accessible, allowing users to control their devices and adjust key audio and video features quickly and effortlessly, without needing to navigate through multiple layers of settings.

Users can access this feature in 3…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams – Configure Maintenance window on Teams admin center for Android-based Teams devices

MC695747 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With this feature, Teams device administrators will be able to configure maintenance windows for their Android-based Teams devices. This includes Teams Phones, Displays, Panels, and Teams Rooms on Android. This maintenance window will be used to carry out any automatic operation on the device including automatic updates.

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(Updated) New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms

MC690920 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The new Shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is always extended to the front of the room for others to see. This gives the host of the room the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, giving…View more

(Upated) Tasks in my area or department (a mobile Planner in Teams feature)

MC695495 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work.

The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets so that you can focus on the tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change…View more

(Updated) Promote channel creation

MC697808 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Simplified team creation

MC697434 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) New Microsoft Defender Antivirus services on Windows Devices

MC687846 | January 12 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline and content below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows 10 and Windows 11 will be shipping with a new service:

Microsoft Defender Core service.

(Updated) Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing

MC697433 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the content with additional information.

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…View more

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Connect chat – Extended Directory

MC704952 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external collaborators using their phone numbers. Once created, it will be easier for users in the tenant to:

Search external users by name and establish 1:1…View more

(Updated) Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com

MC635989 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience.

Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies.

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

MC688631 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: 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) Community Campaigns in Viva Engage

MC694119 | January 12 –

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Introducing community campaigns to boost engagement within your community. Now, community admins can easily create campaigns directly within the community. Simply locate the campaign’s right rail, click the plus button, and fill in campaign details like #hashtag, description, and default publisher in the pop-up.

Campaigns start as drafts, allowing admins…View more

Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31, 2024

MC706396 | January 12 –

As communicated in MC686187 (October ’23), after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven’t updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams.

With March 31 being less than three months away, we advise you to update users in your organization to new Teams as quickly as you can.

New Teams now has over 90M monthly active users, and the…View more

Information Protection: Full File Evidence for all workloads in Activity Explorer

MC706182 | January 12 –

This new feature grants the user the capability to view the source link of the file associated with the activity flagged in Activity Explorer.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time zone

MC706177 | January 12 –

Currently the scheduling form in Microsoft Teams does not show the time zone or work hours of the attendees, which can make it difficult for users to find a common time to schedule a meeting. A new feature will address this issue by allowing meeting organizers to see the time zone for all meeting attendees in the scheduling form of the scheduling assistant.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements

MC706174 | January 12 –

Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it’s better grouped.

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Invite people you choose in the Share control in Microsoft 365 apps

MC706173 | January 12 –

We are updating the Send Email experience with a new Invite flow instead of sending sharing links. We have received feedback indicating that customers who use the Send Email flow perceive they may have overshared when they realize after clicking on the “Send” button that the default sharing link was broader than they had initially intended. This change helps to better align with customers’ expectations when sharing files with others, helping them share confidently with specific people in the…View more

Offboarding Script Expiry Modification

MC706170 | January 12 –

To fortify the security measures within your organization, we have adjusted the expiration time for the offboarding script obtained through the portal.

Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translated captions during a town hall

MC705765 | January 10 –

Currently in a town hall, an organizer is unable to select which auto-translated captions they would like their attendees to see. Attendees can select from a pre-selected list of translated languages for their captions. With this new update, organizers can now pick up to 6 translated languages from a list of over 40 languages to be shown to the attendees for captions during a town hall.

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Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop client compliant by updating regularly

MC705764 | January 10 –

Since Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy, the Teams desktop client needs to be up to date. Users who are on old versions of Classic Teams app will receive in-app notifications to encourage them to update to the latest version of Teams. This is to ensure that users have the latest capabilities,…View more

Sensitivity Labels enabled in Teams Mobile Meetings

MC705762 | January 10 –

Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. Users will see any default label if applied by the admin. When clicking on the Sensitivity label field in the meeting creation form, users will also see the list of specific labels allotted to them by the admin and choose the relevant label. According to the settings of the label, the meeting will become labeled and the content will be considered…View more

Admins can select the domain to use for Teams Email Service

MC705761 | January 10 –

Admins will now have the functionality to select the domain to use to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service.

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Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests)

MC705760 | January 10 –

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)

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(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android

MC687848 | January 10 –

Updated January 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes improved view switcher and front of room display controls.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

MC705365 | January 10 –

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

Changes to Dynamic Group Rule Builder for Entra and Intune

MC705357 | January 9 –

To encourage performant dynamic group rules, the dynamic group rule builder UX in both Entra and Intune Admin Centers has been updated. As part of this update, the ‘contains’ and ‘notContains’ operators have been removed from the rule builder, as they are less performant and should only be used when absolutely necessary.

Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

MC705350 | January 9 –

Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location. The operational hierarchy coupled with this metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and others that are forthcoming.

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Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile on Android Auto

MC705349 | January 9 –

Users can now join meetings via the calendar view, easily call speed dial contacts, and get back to recent calls on Teams on Android Auto with Android phones.

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Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced goal sharing experience

MC705348 | January 9 –

Microsoft Viva will offer an enhanced experience to facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goals progress with the introduction of a new share modal in Viva Goals.

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Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale.

MC705347 | January 9 –

Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify schedule owners, and create schedule groups for the Microsoft Teams Shifts app on their frontline teams. This will enable frontline managers to start managing their frontline teams through Shifts with minimal friction.

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(Updated) Preview enterprise secure AI controls in the Microsoft Edge management service

MC694372 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Microsoft Edge management service is a new, dedicated, and simplified management experience for Microsoft Edge in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Controls for enterprise secure Ai in the Edge management service is rolling out now for preview. This new feature allows IT admins to configure all AI-related policies in one single page, enhancing security for their users…View more

(Updated) Prepare for device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID (changes to FIDO2 and Windows Hello for Business)

MC690185 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Beginning mid-February 2024, Microsoft Entra ID will support device-bound passkeys stored on computers and mobile devices as an authentication method in preview, in addition to the existing support for FIDO2 security keys. This enables your users to perform phishing-resistant authentication using…View more

(Updated) Offline mode in OneDrive for Web

MC686277 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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…View more

(Updated) Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels

MC692753 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.

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(Updated) Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

MC674977 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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.

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(Updated) Introducing Left Navigation Customization on Microsoft365.com

MC678068 | January 9 –

Updated January 9, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to announce a new feature that will allow individuals to customize the apps on the left navigation on microsoft365.com. This feature will give individuals more control and flexibility over the apps they use and access frequently.

Take action: January 2024 security update is now available

MC705257 | January 9 –

The January 2024 security update 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

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

MC704957 | January 8 –

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses.

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Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams

MC704955 | January 8 –

You can now get the Calendar Notifications in Teams from the Activity Feed.

You will get calendar notifications in the Activity Feed for the below scenarios:
- Meeting invite (including channel meetings you are explicitly invited to)
- Meeting updates
- Meeting cancellations
- Meeting forwards (as an organizer)
When you get a calendar notification, you will see an unread notification in the Activity Feed pane or at the bell…View more

Data Loss Prevention- simulation mode for DLP policies

MC704951 | January 8 –

Simulation mode in DLP provides DLP admins with an isolated experience to try a DLP policy, assess its impact, and build confidence in the policy efficacy to eventually reduce the time to policy enforcement. Simulation mode is an enhancement to the existing test mode behavior to help Admins evaluate new policies confidently.

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New Policy: Turn Off Teams Meeting Feedback Surveys for Unauthenticated Users

MC703705 | January 8 –

We will be introducing the existing Teams Meetings feedback surveys (such as Net Promoter Score (NPS)) to unauthenticated users that join Teams Meetings. When an unauthenticated user joins a meeting originating from your organization, they may be eligible to receive a prompt to complete a feedback survey on their Microsoft Teams experience. We will be introducing a new Teams Meeting Configuration policy setting that will allow tenant admins to disable all Teams Meeting feedback surveys for…View more

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