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  View a summary of the updates.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Message center announcements November 21, 2022 - November 27, 2022 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V.   Updates        (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatically end stale Teams meetings MC399073 | November 24 - Updated November 23, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We will deliver a new Message center post once we re-start the rollout. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Teams is enabled with a new feature that will allow meetings to automatically end if they're identified as stale. If a user is the sole participant in a meeting 10 minutes after the scheduled meeting end time ha

  View the description of the update.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all Microsoft Authenticator users MC468492 · HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V. Microsoft Authenticator App’s number matching is Generally Available! Microsoft will start enabling this critical security feature for all users of the Microsoft Authenticator app. When this will happen: Beginning February 27, 2023 How this affects your organization: To prevent accidental approvals, admins can require users to enter a number displayed on the sign-in screen when approving an MFA request in the Microsoft Authenticator app. This feature is critical to protecting against MFA fatigue attacks which are on the rise. Another way to reduce accidental

  View a summary of the updates.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Message center announcements November 14, 2022 - November 20, 2022 HCS COMPANY MICROSOFT SERVICES B.V.   Major updates        (Updated) Basic Authentication retirement in Microsoft 365 Apps MC454810 | November 16 - Updated November 16, 2022: We have updated this message with additional information for clarity. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access resources. Continued use of Basic