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Mar 28

New Feature: Exchange Monitoring Public Preview Administrators who have access to Service health in the Microsoft 365 Admin center will soon be able to see Exchange monitoring under the Service health tab.We will begin rolling out this in public preview the first week of April 2020.The rollout will be complete by the end of April.This message is associated with Microsoft365Roadmap ID 62555. More ... MC207943 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 28

New Feature: Change in header behavior for modern SharePoint sites and hub sites We are changing how modern SharePoint site and hub site navigation headers function when a user scrolls up and down a page in a browser.We'll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in early April and Standard Release customers in mid-April.The rollout will be completed by late April.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 62754. More ... MC207968 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

Microsoft Teams - Increasing team membership limit to 10K   Major Update: Announcement started We will soon be increasing Microsoft Teams team membership limit to 10 thousand members.We will begin enabling this for all tenants at the end of April and will be complete at the end of May.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 62549 More ... MC207957 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

Kaizala endpoint URL changing for the Kaizala API   Major Update: Announcement started   Act By: Apr 30 We're making some changes to the Kaizala API configuration and updating the Kaizala endpoint-URL to https://api.kaiza.la.If your organization is not using the Kaizala API you can safely disregard this message. More ... MC207938 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

Limiting the Kaizala API usage to only org-mapped groups   Major Update: Announcement started   Act By: Apr 30 We're making some changes to the Kaizala API and limiting the Kaizala API usage to only org-mapped groups, We will be making this change at the end of April.If your organization is not using the Kaizala API you can safely disregard this message. More ... MC207939 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

New Feature: New Authentication method for OneDrive on MacOS OneDrive on MacOS is incorporating new methods for authentication.We'll be gradually rolling this out to new OneDrive on MacOS customers in mid-April 2020.The rollout will be completed in mid-May.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 16636, 59235. More ... MC207944 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

Update March 26: Awareness of Microsoft 365 temporary feature adjustments   Major Update: Announcement started As a part of our commitment to customers and Microsoft cloud services continuity during these unprecedented times, we're making temporary adjustments to select capabilities within Microsoft 365.Last week, we shared details about adjustments in Microsoft Teams, such as how often we check for presence, the interval in which we show when the other party is typing, and reduced video resolution.Here are a few updates. The changes previously announced are down below for reference. OneNote: OneNote in... More ... MC207439 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 27

Co-editor chat access directly from Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents has been retired   Major Update: Announcement started Updated March 26, 2020: Several days ago we announced that the ability to initiate a Chat directly with a co-editor of a Word, Excel or PowerPoint document would be retired over several weeks beginning mid-April (across web, Windows and Mac versions of Office). However due to continued issues with the feature, we made the decision to pull the retirement date in, rather than continuing to enable the current experience. Moving forward, to communicate with others working in Office documents, we... More ... MC207547 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 26

Dynamics 365 – Update to regional deployments for Station 4 We are extending the deployment window in your station by an additional day. More ... MC207888 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 26

Microsoft 365 preparedness for COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and guidance regarding best practices for Microsoft Teams   Major Update: Announcement started Microsoft takes a broad approach to service continuity, including potential effects of an outbreak such as COVID-19. While there is currently no foreseen impact to Microsoft’s operation of our services, we wanted to provide some detail regarding our preparedness should the situation change. Recognizing customers will have plans in place for enabling remote work in a situation like this, we are providing guidance regarding best practices under the “Actions you can take” section that will help... More ... MC205458 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 26

Dynamics 365 - Customer Service Hub deployment As a part of April 2020 Customer Service Hub deployment, your organization will receive two new solution packages automatically which will allow you to enable data analytical and insight capability. For more information on the schedule click here. More ... MC207874 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 26

Updated Feature: Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates   Major Update: Announcement started We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.We'll be rolling this out to customers beginning April 21, 2020.The roll-out will be completed by the end of April 24, 2020. More ... MC207565 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 26

Updated Feature: Update available for Office 365 ProPlus on the Monthly Channel We've released an update to the Office 365 ProPlus Monthly Channel.We'll be gradually rolling out this update of Office 365 ProPlus to users on the Monthly Channel beginning March 25th 2020. More ... MC207861 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 25

Updated feature: Structural navigation caching We’re continuing to optimize page performance for publishing-enabled SharePoint sites that use structural navigation with a caching model as outlined in MC194438 (October 2019).We'll gradually begin rolling this out to customers in late March 2020.The rollout will be complete in late April 2020. More ... MC207740 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 25

Dynamics 365 – Enable automatic updates for Field Service and Project Service Automation In order to help ensure all customers receive the benefits of our continued investments into Field Service and Project Service Automation, like the Dynamics platform, we have begun to push automatic updates: - For Field Service, customers on 8.8.6 and higher have begun to receive automatic updates. - For Project Service Automation, customers on 3.10.2 and higher have begun to receive these auto-updates, as well. More ... MC207659 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 25

Dynamics 365 – Service Update 159 for EUR We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 organization in the EUR region. Maintenance window start: 19 April 2020, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 20 April 2020, 03:00 UTC More ... MC207611 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 24

Updated Feature: Syncing files that are used by your local computer We’re updating the behavior of how we sync machine specific files which are created by the operating system and that are used by File Explorer on Windows and Finder on MacOS.We'll be gradually rolling this out in late March 2020.The roll-out will be completed by the end of April. More ... MC207566 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 24

New Feature: Multi-Window Chat for Microsoft Teams Updated March 23, 2020: The initial roll-out will be for Windows clients only. We will provide support for Mac and Linux clients in the coming weeks. Multi-Window Chat is a new Microsoft Teams feature which enables users to multitask more efficiently by popping out their chat conversations into separate windows.We'll begin roll-out to all customers starting in early April and expect to complete the roll-out by the end of May.This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57292. More ... MC207218 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 24

New Feature: Poll added to Outlook Updated March 24, 2020: To ensure the proper experience we are adjusting the roll-out plan and will only be deploying to Outlook on the web (desktop) at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we move forward with other platforms. We apologize for any inconvenience.Your end users will no longer need to download the Quick Poll add-in from the store and manually install it in Outlook to create a poll after we pre-install the Poll add-in. The rollout for Outlook on the web (desktop)... More ... MC205124 Like | Dislike

 

Mar 24

Updated Schedule - Dynamics 365 - 2020 Release Wave 1   Major Update: Announcement started As organizations respond to the ongoing, unprecedented situation and grapple with disruptions across their workforce due to the evolving global health crisis, we want to share the steps we’re taking to help ensure our customers’ business continuity with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform. We are rescheduling the automatic enablement of the 2020 release wave 1 update for your organizations until the below date. Please visit our blog for details surrounding this change. More ... MC207448 Like | Dislike

 

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