| Text predictions in Outlook for Android |
| MC237968 | February 5 - Text predictions help Microsoft 365 users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition. This feature is available for Outlook on the web (MC225214, October 2020), Outlook for iOS (MC229558, December 2020), and for Outlook for Windows (MC229381, December 2020). We are now extending support for text predictions to Outlook for Android for customers in the United States and Canada. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67028 |
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| (Updated) Teams meeting participant report updates |
| MC221432 | February 5 - Updated February 05, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In June (MC209710) we provided Teams meeting organizers with a participant report that includes join and leave times. We are making key changes to improve functionality and provide additional participant data in the report.This feature is associated with Microsoft 365Roadmap ID 66459. |
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| Microsoft Information Protection adding support for double-byte character set languages |
| MC237825 | February 5 - Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) will soon be able to detect double-byte language characters found in East Asian languages. Initial languages supported are Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, and Korean. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68711. |
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| (Updated) Dark mode on OneDrive for web |
| MC229081 | February 4 - Updated February 04, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are introducing dark mode for OneDrive for web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68868. |
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| (Updated) Introducing text predictions in Outlook for Windows |
| MC229381 | February 4 - Updated February 04, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Text predictions help Microsoft 365 users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition. This feature is available for Outlook on the web (MC225214, October 2020).We are now extending support for text predictions to Outlook for Windows.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60340. |
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| Introducing a registration page for Microsoft Teams meetings |
| MC237807 | February 4 - Microsoft Teams meeting organizers will be soon be able to create a custom registration page for any meeting, although the feature is designed for webinars. The feature is available for meeting organizers using Teams desktop applications (Win/Mac) and Teams on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66586. |
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| Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update |
| MC237741 | February 4 - In response to the unprecedented situation we are in and knowing that priorities have changed for many of our customers we are suspending until further notice the disabling of Basic Authentication for any protocols that your tenant is using. This was previously communicated in Exchange Online (MC204828 and MC208814). When we resume this program, we will provide a minimum of twelve months’ notice before we block the use of Basic Auth on any protocol being used.We will continue with our plan to... |
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| Blocking URLs and Files with Tenant Allow/Block List |
| MC237645 | February 3 - We understand that, from time to time, you might disagree with an Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filtering verdict. With this update, you will be able to manually overrideMicrosoft 365 filtering verdicts using the Tenant Allow/Block List (TABL) in the Security & Compliance Center.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 61352. |
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| Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time detections |
| MC237348 | February 3 - We are updating Threat Explorer and Real-time detections within Microsoft Defender for Office 365. There are three sets of changes: improving export limits, introducing Alert ID, and improving our trial experiences. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70544. |
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| Reminder: Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available starting February 2021 |
| Act by: March 8 |
| MC237630 | February 3 - The Insights app in Teams provides personalized insights to improve productivity and wellbeing and data-driven recommendations to help you build better work habits. |
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| Retirement of remediation action "Delete attachement" |
| Act by: February 15 |
| MC237388 | February 3 - We are retiring the ability to delete attachments as a response action in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Instead admins can continue to take remediation actions on emails, which includes any attachments related to those emails. We apologize for the shorter notice, and we are working to ensure we provide appropriate notice in the future. |
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| Compliance recording availability in Microsoft Teams |
| MC237545 | February 3 - You will soon see a new service plan, Compliance Recordings, available as part of your Microsoft 365 E3, E5, A3, and A5; Office 365 E3, E5, and A5; or Business Premium license. |
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| Important Information about your Field Service and Project Service Automation auto upgrades |
| MC237543 | February 3 - You are receiving this message because your environment has Dynamics 365 Field Service and/or Dynamics 365 Project Service Automation installed. Due to an unforeseen delay, the originally scheduled update for your environment(s) last weekend for Field Service and Project Service Automation did not occur. This update has been rescheduled for dark hours this coming weekend. For details on the content of Field Service and Project Service Automation releases and a snapshot of the normal release... |
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| Dynamics 365 – Service Update 21021 for EUR |
| MC237527 | February 3 - We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 28 February 2021, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 01 March 2021, 03:00 UTC How does this affect me? As part of this service update, the following feature areas may be affected: The version number for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization will update to version 9.2.21021.00101 or higher after the background database operations complete. Although there is no... |
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| Conversational AI coming to Outlook for iOS with Cortana |
| MC237346 | February 2 - Outlook for iOS (iPhone and iPad) will soon support Cortana, your personal productivity assistant that offers AI-powered experiences to save time and focus attention. Outlook for iOS will also feature updates event and new message buttons. This update is only for English-speaking customers in the United States using a work (not education) account. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 79865. |
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| Application Access Policy support in EWS in Exchange Online |
| MC237454 | February 2 - We are adding Application Access Policy (AAP) support to Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, as a mechanism to ease transition from EWS to Microsoft Graph.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68901. |
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| Change coming to your Power Automate Service |
| MC237447 | February 2 - In order to provide effective support to all of our customers, Microsoft must enforce the boundaries of the different support plans that we offer. Starting March 1st 2021, we will allow customers to submit support cases for ‘advisory’ issues according to their support plan. As documented here, only customers with a Professional Direct or Unified support plan (premium support plans) can file an ‘advisory” support ticket. Previously, we have not differentiated between technical and advisory... |
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| 2021 wave 1 early access for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform available now! |
| MC237441 | February 2 - We are excited to announce that early access for the 2021 wave 1 release for Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications and Microsoft Power Platform is available as of February 1, 2021. This is a compilation of new capabilities and features that will be released between April 2021 and September 2021. |
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| Secure by default is Retiring the Move message to Junk Email folder policy option for high confidence phishing emails |
| MC237394 | February 2 - We are retiring the Move message to Junk Email folder policy option for high confidence phishing emails in Exchange Online Protection (EOP) anti-spam policies. Existing policies that rely on the Move message to Junk Email folder option will automatically switch to the Quarantine message option. The Redirect message to email address option is unchanged.If you are not using the Move message to Junk Email folder option for high confidence phishing emails, there is no impact for your organization. |
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| Get a Meet now meeting link in Teams |
| MC237392 | February 2 - We've made it easier for a user to create meetings and get a meeting link using the Meet now button in the Teams calendar. This feature is available for Teams desktop (Mac and Windows) as well as web.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70602 |
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| Microsoft Office app is now optimized for iPad |
| MC237384 | February 2 - If your organization is not using iPads you can safely disregard.With this release, we are bringing the Microsoft Office app to the iPad, combining the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know, plus additional tools to keep you more productive than ever. Optimized for iPadOS, users can now also use keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to create and collaborate on documents, sign PDFs, jot down notes, or create using your camera, and more from within the Office app. On iPhone and iPad, Microsoft... |
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| OneDrive/SharePoint Send link to Outlook sharing option is being retired |
| MC237377 | February 2 - Previously we had rolled out this change and disabled the ability to share a link directly in Outlook. We have restored the functionality to ensure customers have time to educate and prepare their users as appropriate. We will be moving forward with this change as outlined below. We apologize for any inconvenience.Users will soon be unable to share a link directly via Outlook with the sharing option in OneDrive and SharePoint. Customers still have the ability to copy a link to their clipboard;... |
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| Retiring and updating columns in the advanced hunting EmailEvents and EmailAttachmentInfo tables |
| Act by: March 1 |
| MC237350 | February 1 - We’ve streamlined our threat detection information better, replacing four separate columns for malware and phishing verdict information with three new columns that can accommodate spam and other threat types. This change widens our ability to give you more information about the type of email threat beyond malware and phishing. |
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| Service reminder: Skype for Business Online retires in 6 months |
| Act by: July 31 |
| MC237349 | February 1 - Originally announced in MC219641 (July '20), as Microsoft Teams has become the core communications client for Microsoft 365, this is a reminder the Skype for Business Online service will retire July 31, 2021. At that point, access to the service will end.Please note:Neither the Skype consumer service nor Skype for Business Server products are affected by the retirement of the Skype for Business Online service. Current Skype for Business Online customers will experience no change in service up... |
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