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Message center announcements, November 8-14, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Feature "Related content" is retiring from Classic Yammer Act by: December 20 MC298024 | November 13 - At this time, we recommend using the new Yammer experience and capabilities that are available for our current Yammer App users as we will be retiring the feature Related contentfrom Classic Yammer after December 20, 2021. View more (Updated) TLS1.2 enforcement for Direct Routing SIP interface Act by: January 3 MC297438 | November 12 - Updated November 12, 2021: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.We're making some changes to Direct Routing SIP interface.On January 3rd 2022, to provide the best-in-class encryption to our customers, we will begin retiring Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 and 1.1 and begin obligatingTLS1.2 usage for the Direct Routing SIP interface.The move to TLS 1.2 is to ensure that our service is secure

Aligning OneDrive sync on Windows support with Windows OS lifecycle policy MC296615 · HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Beginning January 1, 2022, we will be aligning the OneDrive Desktop application (sync app) support lifecycle with the Windows support lifecycle. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be supported until January 10, 2023. Windows 8 reached end of support on January 12, 2016. If you are not using the OneDrive sync app on any of these operating systems, you can safely ignore this message. Key points: Timing: We will begin rollout on January 1, 2022 and expect to complete by mid-January. Action: review and update impacted machines as appropriate. How this affects your organization: If you are running the OneDrive sync app on: Windows 8.1, you will no longer receive feature updates but will receive security fixes until January 10, 2023. Windows 7 and participate in the Extended Security Update (ESU) program, you will continue to receive critical and important security updates

Message center announcements, November 1-7, 2021 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Major updates Aligning OneDrive sync on Windows support with Windows OS lifecycle policy Act by: December 31 MC296615 | November 5 - Beginning January 1, 2022, we will be aligning the OneDrive Desktop application (sync app) support lifecycle with the Windows support lifecycle. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 will be supported until January 10, 2023.Windows 8 reached end of support on January 12, 2016.If you are not using the OneDrive sync app on any of these operating systems, you can safely ignore this message. View more (Updated) Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatic installation and availability for government customers MC288054 | November 4 - Updated November 04, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users will soon find it easier to find and share reports in Teams and they’ll be able to receive notifications when content is shared to them. Messaging extensi