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| Use Teams licenses to control access to Microsoft Teams | | Act by: December 3 | | MC226038 | November 7 - We're making some changes to how you enable Microsoft Teams for individual users within your tenant. We're removing the Microsoft Teams enablement setting from within the Microsoft 365 admin center and will rely solely on Microsoft Teams license allocation to decide if a user has access to Microsoft Teams.Key points:Timing: Beginning December 03, 2020Control: License allocationAction: Review and assess | | View more | 
| Installations of Microsoft 365 Apps on preview channels will be moved to match your existing channel selection | | MC225981 | November 7 - You previously used the Microsoft 365 admin center to change the frequency of feature updates for Office apps in your organization. Depending on your selection in the Release preferences page, your existing installations may have been inadvertently receiving the preview builds of Office. For example, receiving Current Channel (Preview) instead of Current Channel.In order to guarantee a consistent experience for our customers, we have made a change so that your selection on the Release... | | View more |
| New feature: Adding personal accounts in Teams coming soon on desktop | | Act by: November 19 | | MC226037 | November 6 - We are pleased to announce that we are extending the support for adding personal accounts that already exists in Teams Mobile applications to the Teams desktop apps (Windows and Mac OS). | | View more |
| Announcing Forms polls in Microsoft Teams meetings | | Act by: November 19 | | MC225995 | November 6 - By integrating Teams and the Forms app, we are creating a new way for meeting presenters to poll attendees. Adding a Forms poll in Teams Meetings uses the customized meetings experiences outlined in MC224434 (October 2020). | | View more | 
| (Updated) List creation from templates Visual refresh in SharePoint sites | | MC222600 | November 6 - Updated November 06, 2020: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We appreciate your patience. List creation from SharePoint sites will get a visual refresh and users will get the additional capability to create lists from eight built-in templates. These updates are already part of the Microsoft Lists app and Lists in Teams rollouts – we are bringing the same goodness to SharePoint sites too. Key points:Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 67137Timing: Targeted release: Gradually rolling out end of... | | View more |
| (Updated) My Apps ends support for Internet Explorer | | MC223753 | November 6 - Updated November 06, 2020: Thank you for your feedback. To ensure appropriate time for customers to prepare we are moving out the date for this retirement. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. In order to provide the best experience for our customers, we will be focusing our efforts on modern browser support over the coming year. As a result, we will end support of Internet Explorer for My Apps, My Account, My Access, and My Groups beginning August 17, 2021.Instead we recommend the utilization... | | View more | 
| (Updated) Push notifications for work accounts in Microsoft To Do | | MC222629 | November 4 - Updated November 04, 2020: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Microsoft To Do will soon support push notifications for shared list activities on work accounts. If you do nothing, when this feature rolls out, users in your organization will receive push notifications in the Windows, Android, and iOS versions of To Do for shared list activities such as task added, task completed, and task updated.Key points Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67114 Timing: Administration control available on... | | View more |
| (Updated) Updated sender display name for Message center email communication | | MC222233 | November 3 - Updated November 3, 2020: We are pleased to announce that this has completed rolling out. The Admin center Message center team is updating the display name of the sender for Message center emails. This change is related to MC219415 (July 2020).Key points New sender display name: Microsoft 365 Message CenterOld sender display name: 365 Service AlertTiming: mid-October Rollout: tenant level Action: review and assess | | View more |
| Reminder: Microsoft Teams web app to no longer support IE 11 after November 30, 2020 | | Act by: November 30 | | MC225570 | November 2 - As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services will be focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the coming year. As a result, the Microsoft Teams web app will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11) after November 30, 2020. After November 30, 2020, users will be unable to access the Teams web app from IE 11 and be notified to use the desktop app or access the web app from Microsoft Edge.Please note that the IE 11 changes are specific to the Teams... | | View more | 
| Skype for Business admin center retirement | | Act by: December 1 | | MC225373 | November 2 - We will be retiring the Skype for Business admin center starting on December 1st, 2020.Instead, we recommend the utilization of Teams admin center, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.Key Points:Major: RetirementTiming: December 01, 2020Action: Transition to the Teams admin centerHow this will affect your organization:Administrators will no longer be able to access the Skype for Business admin center when this change is implemented. Links to the Skype for... | | View more |
| Announcing general availability of Microsoft 365 Endpoint DLP | | MC226057 | November 7 - Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 identifies sensitive information on endpoints and protects it from risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use within applications and services that only exist on the endpoint, or originate from an endpoint, without the need to deploy any additional DLP software. To use this capability, you will need onboard the endpoint in your environment using your established device management onboarding process. This message is associated with... | | View more |
| New: Microsoft Lists undo and redo commands | | MC226055 | November 7 - With the release of undo and redo capabilities, users who edit their lists when in grid view will be able to retract any unwanted changes or bring back previously entered information. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68810 | | View more |
| Microsoft 365 admin center: Simplified admin experience | | MC226054 | November 7 - We are developing a new landing experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center that provides a simplified admin experience for managing users, Teams, and billing along with recommended top actions for your organization. This experience is designed specifically for very small organizations (those with 10 or fewer users). | | View more | 
| Yammer embed widgets will be upgraded to the new Yammer | | MC226053 | November 7 - The Yammer Embed feed, which is currently part of classic Yammer, is being upgraded to the new Yammer. Use an Embed to display a single My feed, Group feed, Topic feed, User feed, or Open Graph object feed on a web page. Key points Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66150 Timing: early December through late March Roll-out: tenant level Control type: admin control Action: review and assess | | View more | 
| OneDrive: Bookmark for OneDrive for iOS | | MC226028 | November 6 - We are adding a bookmark that makes it easier for users of OneDrive for iOS to return to a specific page in a PDF document.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68842. | | View more |
| (Updated) Announcing general availability of Exact Data Match support for configurable match | | MC222766 | November 6 - Updated November 06, 2020: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience. Exact Data Match (EDM) will now support more granular data configuration and will utilize a new upload agent. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65880. When this will happenThe new upload agent will be available in late November (previously October). | | View more |
| (Updated) Admin setting for PSTN participant phone number masking in Teams meetings | | MC220415 | November 6 - Updated November 06, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. With MC209349 (April 2020) and MC217648 (July 2020), we added a level of privacy for participants who call in to a Teams meeting via audio conferencing (PSTN) by automatically masking any PSTN participant phone number to users from outside of your organization who might... | | View more |
| (Updated) Teams Meeting support for 20,000 attendees | | MC221223 | November 6 - Updated November 06, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. Teams will soon support up to 20,000 meeting attendees as view-only participants for tenants with the Advanced Communications add-on.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65952. | | View more | 
| 1 Month to go! Make the transition to Unified Interface now | | MC225862 | November 4 - On September 10, 2019, we announced the deprecation of the legacy web client and process dialogs. With less than 1 month to go, customers should make the move as soon as possible to Unified Interface. As a reminder, the deadline to transition to Unified interface is December 1, 2020. Microsoft will continue to provide support, security, and other critical updates to the legacy web client until December 4, 2020. Further details on this date can be found on the blog post from James Phillips. How... | | View more |
| Dynamics 365 – Service Update 255 for EUR | | MC225802 | November 4 - We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 06 December 2020, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 07 December 2020, 03:00 UTC | | View more |
| (Update) Teams meetings, end of meeting notification | | MC222346 | November 3 - Updated November 03, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below We will soon be alerting Teams meeting participants when there are five minutes remaining in a scheduled meeting. This is an informational notification and will not automatically end the meeting.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67122.When this will... | | View more |
| Extending the temporary limit increase for live events | | MC225752 | November 3 - We are extending the temporary limit increase for live events in Teams, Stream and Yammer. | | View more |
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