#Microsoft365 | Message center announcements | March 29-April 4, 2021

Message center announcements, March 29-April 4, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Teams: Join a meeting with digital meeting ID MC248395 | April 2 - This release of Microsoft Teams Meeting ID will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide an additional way for users to join a Microsoft Teams meeting by entering a digital ID. View more Spoof intelligence management enhancements for policy, insights and report MC248392 | April 2 - The Spoof intelligence experience will introduce enhancements so that Security Administrators can gain better management of spoofing activity within their tenant. These feature updates will provide a clearer and easier way for Security Administrators to configure domain spoofing for both Cross-Org (External) and Intra-Org (Internal) email messages using a new “Tenant allow/block list policy” designed for Spoofing activity. Furthermore, users will be able to review insights provided by spoof... View more (Updated) Announcing Tenant-level Organizational Theme Capabilities for Global Admins MC243041 | April 2 - Updated April 02, 2021: We have updated the post for clarity. Additionally, we have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Organizational Theme provides you the ability to define multiple themes within your organization, from the Microsoft 365 global admin center, using Microsoft 365 Groups. Each theme can be further customized by specifying mobile-specific and alternate dark mode logo experiences. View more (Updated) Teams live event producers will see a separate window experience for managing events MC248212 | April 2 - Updated April 02, 2021: We have updated this message for accuracy. Thank you for your patience. Currently, a Microsoft Teams live event producer manages the a live event within the primary Teams window. With this update, producers will manage a live event in a separate Teams window. View more Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists MC248201 | April 1 - We are excited to announce the arrival of a new guided authoring experience in Lists that will make it easy to quickly create business intelligence reports in Power BI using your list schema and data. View more (Updated) New meeting options for managing large Teams meetings in Outlook for Windows MC231140 | April 1 - Updated April 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. When organizing Teams meetings in Outlook for Windows for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists, Teams users will soon see a prompt to set meeting options. View more Changes to the way Exchange Online Protection (EOP) moves email to Junk folder MC248005 | April 1 - Note:This change will only effect Exchange Online Protection (EOP) customers with Exchange online mailboxes. EOP standalone customers with hybrid environments will have no impact.Today EOP depends on the junk email rule to move spam/phish messages to a user's Junk folder based on the spam confidence level set by EOP. Going forward EOP will use it's own mailflow delivery agent to move malicious emails to the Junk folder depending on the policy set by security admins in Antispam policy. EOP will... View more (Updated) Improving the Message center user experience MC226990 | March 31 - Updated March 31, 2021: We have completed the roll out for Worldwide tenants and expect to complete rolling out for Governments tenants by mid April. Thank you for your patience. Note: The Category column can be enabled in the view by selecting it from the Choose columns drop down. We are making it easier to discover relevant Message center posts and are providing an improved Message center reading experience.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67102.When this will happenWe... View more Teams for your personal life banners MC247825 | March 30 - To inform users about the new productivity features and the ability to sign in with different accounts, we will show a banner in the activity feed for Teams mobile app users. View more Update to role-based permissions for Activity explorer Act by: April 30 MC247660 | March 30 - We are updating the permissions requirements for Activity explorer within the Microsoft 365 compliance center to ensure that only explicitly assigned role groups and specific roles have access to data sets in Activity explorer. View more Zip file partial downloads no longer available MC247658 | March 30 - Starting May 2021, it will no longer be possible to download individual files or subsets of files within .zip file previews in OneDrive and SharePoint on the web . Instead we recommend downloading the entire .zip file, extracting its contents and using the files needed. In the past, we have received customer feedback that at times when a user selects a subset of files to download from within a .zip file, the files are not downloaded successfully. As we focus our investments on downloading... View more Updating Teams live event 'Never record' recording policy MC246706 | March 29 - Updated March 29, 2021: We have updated the title to reflect the correct policy. We apologize for any confusion. We are changing the behavior of the 'Never record' recording policy for Microsoft Teams live events. View more Additional updates Outlook on the Web: New calendar board view MC248428 | April 3 - This coming calendar board release will bring a new view to the calendar in Outlook on the web. In addition to the current views, users will soon be able to select a board view which will provide an expanded view where they can manage workloads like calendar, tasks, goals, flagged emails, and files. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70746. View more New DLP solution overview page in M365 compliance center MC248396 | April 2 - You will soon see a new Overview page for the Data loss prevention (DLP) solution in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70814 View more SharePoint Auto News Digest updates MC248207 | April 1 - You may already know about and use the SharePoint automatic news digest, which is sent to users with news that is relevant to them. We are adding new features to enhance the experience:The ability to brand your digest with your organization’s theme colors and logo Intelligent ranking so that users see the news most relevant to themEnhanced design for easier consumption of newsUpcoming Feature: This update to the news digest will also reflect organization boosted news when is available in your... View more (Updated) Improvements in managing attendee audio in Microsoft Teams Meetings MC246704 | April 1 - Updated April 01, 2021: We have updated the message with additional details for clarity. Thank you for your feedback. Teams meeting organizers and presenters who use the attendee audio management feature will have greater flexibility to determine when attendees can use their microphone. These updates apply to Teams desktop apps, Teams mobile apps, and Teams on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80261. View more Deprecated Web client settings update MC248117 | April 1 - We announced in previous releases that some environment settings will soon be deprecated for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform online services. These features will be officially removed from the user interface by the end of May 2021. How does this affect me? Once the below features are removed, they will not be available in Advanced settings in the Web client or in the Environment settings in the Power Platform admin center. Please note: Some deprecated features have a replacement... View more Customize apps in Microsoft Teams MC248007 | April 1 - A new Microsoft Teams app customization feature gives you the ability to re-brand some Teams apps.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70769 View more Microsoft Teams: Windows 10 native notifications in Teams MC248006 | April 1 - With this update, your users will be able to choose their preferred means of Teams notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in notification system or via their native OS notification system. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 66742. View more Yammer: Essential Announcements MC248004 | April 1 - Having received customer feedback about not knowing how many members actually receive Yammer community announcements, we're excited that this new Essential Announcements feature will allow Yammer community admins to achieve a guaranteed distribution of important community announcements via email for all community members. This will rollout to Yammer web and desktop. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70741. View more Microsoft built on-prem Graph connectors are now in public preview MC248003 | April 1 - Graph connectors for four highly popular data sources (Windows file share, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Enterprise websites) are released to all the tenants under Targeted release. You can now create connections to these data sources and get the benefit of many intelligent experiences of Microsoft search. View more (Updated) Introducing a registration page for Microsoft Teams meetings MC237807 | March 31 - Updated March 31, 2021: We have identified that this message was sent to the incorrect audience. We will be sending out a new notice, to the correct audience, via Message center in the near future. We apologize for any confusion. 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.... View more (Updated) Focus mode for modern SharePoint pages MC244912 | March 31 - Updated March 31, 2021: We have updated Roadmap ID to point to the correct item. Thank you for your feedback. We're excited to share that this coming release will enable SharePoint page authors and viewers to focus on a greater amount of page content by hiding the site header, site navigation, and global navigation bar with one click. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70800. View more Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel MC247926 | March 31 - We've released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel View more Dynamics 365 – Service Update 21035 for EUR MC247859 | March 31 - We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 environment in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 25 April 2021, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 26 April 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 environment will update to version 9.2.21035.00101 or higher after the background database operations complete. Although there is no expected... View more New PowerPoint Live Presentation option with desktop and window sharing MC247826 | March 30 - When making a Live Presentation, presenters will soon be able to add a video feed to the presentation. This feature is available for presenters using the Microsoft Teams desktop app for both Windows and Mac. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66587. View more Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard is now generally available MC247824 | March 30 - The Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard is now generally available. This dashboard allows admins to monitor reliability and performance metrics; and provides custom guidance to help optimize and troubleshoot Microsoft 365 Apps on your client devices. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68934 View more (Updated) New Teams meeting lobby setting - only invited users join directly MC233466 | March 30 - Updated March 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Teams meeting organizers can have greater control over their meetings by enabling a new lobby setting where only Calendar meeting invited users will be able to join directly.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68730. View more (Updated) PowerPoint Live in Teams: Slide Translation MC245302 | March 30 - Updated March 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new slide translation feature in Microsoft Teams (desktop) will enable all meeting attendees to translate presentation content, presented via PowerPoint Live in a Teams meeting, into a language of their choice while in private view. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80601. View more (Updated) New design for Yammer Discovery and Digest emails MC242577 | March 30 - Updated March 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This feature update will bring a new design and content enhancements to the Discovery and Digest emails in Yammer. Additionally, these enhancements will create better alignment with the new Yammer that's now available.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66695. View more New breakout room functionality coming to Microsoft Teams MC247659 | March 30 - We announced breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams last fall (MC224343). We are adding persistent breakout rooms; theability to reassign participants when rooms are open; and the ability for organizers to set timers for breakout sessions.This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81372. View more PowerPoint Live: Present to Teams from PowerPoint Web App MC247656 | March 30 - This new PowerPoint for the web feature release will provide access to PowerPoint Live in Teams and with just one click, will make it easier for presenters to present their presentations from PowerPoint directly to their remote meeting audience. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80600. View more Microsoft Teams: Related Content for Teams Meetings (iOS and Android) MC247654 | March 30 - We are extending access to Related content for teams meetings to Microsoft Teams mobile (iOS and Android). This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81354. View more To view all announcements, sign in to Microsoft 365 admin center Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA 98052 USA