June 19, 2023 - June 25, 2023 Message center announcements

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Message center announcements June 19, 2023 - June 25, 2023   Major updates   (Updated) SharedWith and SharedWithDetails column in OneDrive and SharePoint will no longer be updated MC545906 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your feedback.We will be retiring the SharedWith and SharedWithDetails columns from OneDrive and SharePoint starting in early June. These columns have been hidden by default in OneDrive and SharePoint for several years and were replaced by the Manage Access experience and the "Shared With" section of the Share dialog. View more   (Updated) PDF Tools app retirement MC584834 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below to include an image of the PDF Tools app for reference. Thank you for your feedback.We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by mid-July, 2023. View more   Additional updates   Cross-tenant synchronization is Generally Available MC600740 | June 21 - Cross-tenant synchronization lets you automate creating user accounts across tenants in your organization. Users created by the synchronization process continue to authenticate in the same way they do on their primary tenant and each application can assign conditional access policies as appropriate. So now, users across your organization can access applications such as ServiceNow, Adobe, etc. without integrating them the apps in multiple tenants.Behind the scenes and transparent to the user,... View more   Outlook: Full Settings window will be the primary landing page for the Settings gear icon MC600734 | June 21 - We will be retiring the Quick Settings pane in Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows preview by July 2023. Instead, when a user clicks on the Settings gear (⚙️) icon in the header, they will be directly navigated to the Full Settings window. View more   New Graph APIs for accessing Teams Meeting Recording MC600733 | June 21 - New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to allow apps to access meeting recordings for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s recordings to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access across the entire tenant.This message is specifically associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95787 View more   Microsoft Lists User Experience Update MC600726 | June 21 - This update improves the overall performance of Microsoft Lists and introduces new features, including the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124867 View more   Header search:Now Generally Available in Teams admin center MC600723 | June 21 - We're excited to announce that the Header Search feature in Teams admin center will be Generally available starting from 6/30/2023! This update brings significant enhancements to the search experience, making it simpler than ever to find what you're looking for. View more   Power BI Administrator role will be renamed to Fabric Administrator MC600715 | June 21 - On May 23, 2023, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft Fabric, which provides a Data Factory-powered data integration experience, Synapse-powered data engineering, data warehouse, data science, and real-time analytics experiences and business intelligence (BI) with Power BI—all hosted on a lake-centric SaaS solution. We centralized the tenant and capacity level administration for all these experiences in the Fabric Admin portal (previously known as the Power BI admin portal). View more   Get Ready for Microsoft 365 Copilot MC600245 | June 21 - This post is associated with the previous post announcing Microsoft 365 Copilot – MC528800 (March '23). Whether or not you are participating in the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program, there are a few steps you can start taking today to help your organization get prepared for such experiences in the future. For example, you can learn more about getting your data prepared and how to detect and prevent oversharing. New technical content is available to help you learn more and answer some... View more   How Windows manages time zone changes MC599988 | June 21 - Learn about the complexity of the processes that happen between a government Daylight Saving Time change announcement and the release of a quality fix. ReadHow Windows manages time zone changes for best practices for governments and IT pros to effectively collaborate in keeping the world synced. Specifically, government advance notice time should allow for the internal 8-week fix development period and reasonable time for organizations to update their devices. Organizations, in turn, are... View more   New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon MC598641 | June 20 - We are pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for... View more   (Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Handling Malicious Intra-Organizational Messages MC577356 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: The rollout for handling intra-organizational messages that contain a malicious URL in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is complete. We are updating the handling of intra-organizational messages that contain a malicious URL in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. View more   (Updated) Future of the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows with Outlook MC590123 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.By the end of next year we will be replacing the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows with the new Outlook for Windows. View more   (Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office empowers end users to report suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams MC567478 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.Soon the ability for Microsoft Teams users to report messages within Teams as security risk will be turned on by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, see User reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.NOTE: This only applies to Microsoft for... View more   (Updated) Microsoft EHR Connector: Auto updating public keys for EHR connector enabled virtual visits MC574383 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature update will allow Microsoft Teams EHR Connector to automatically supply Epic EHR systems with customer specific public keys for OAuth2 authentication during EHR Connector meeting launches. This differs from the pre-existing workflow where public keys were manually uploaded into Epic. By automating this process, the feature provides reliability and security improvements by allowing more... View more   (Updated) Modern Commenting Experience Coming to Whiteboard MC477852 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below for accuracy. Thank you for your patience.With comments you can share your thoughts, celebrate with your teammates, or just have a conversation in Microsoft Whiteboard.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 98083 View more   (Updated) Viva Topics app in Teams MC546937 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party "Microsoft-built" app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily 'add' the... View more   (Updated) Signaling Epic when guest drops out from initial lobby. MC550530 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With this update Microsoft EHR connector will be able to track each individual disconnect when a guest leaves the initial lobby after joining a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector virtual visit via Teams. Until now the disconnect signal was not being sent to Epic to show a guest has left the meeting from initial Lobby. This was only happening in v1.1 or v1.2 of the Microsoft Teams EHR Connector. View more   (Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account User tags filtering in the URL protection report MC549533 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are adding a new filter to the URL protection report that will allow security admins to easily filter for Users who are in the Priority Account tag of their organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124852 View more   (Updated) Microsoft Edge management service MC552331 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Edge management service is a single portal for admins to manage the Edge browser. It is a simple and easy-to-manage experience. Admins will be able to configure all Edge browser policies for their organization in a configuration profile and set-up the browser to use these settings. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124856 View more   (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat MC554156 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one... View more   (Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Files app in Teams MC528955 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Securely store, organize, and collaborate on all your files anytime, from anywhere and across all of your devices with the new files app experiencein Teams. The new files app brings a modern experience to all of your content from your chats, channels or meetings including any location from OneDrive or SharePoint. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97677 View more   (Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes MC550035 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124818 View more   (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block Anonymous Users' Meeting Chat Read Access in Addition to Current Write Access MC552789 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Teams IT Admins will soon be able to block anonymous users from accessing the chat in internally hosted meetings by disabling their read access on top of the existing disabled write access. This release of Microsoft Teams updated meeting chat setting will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide an additional way for tenants to manage external users'... View more   (Updated) Announcing the New Look of Office for the Web MC452253 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are excited to announce a new look in Office for the Web. We've changed the visuals to give you a clean modern look to help you focus, but nothing has moved. We will start flighting at this date.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87307 View more   (Updated) Updated companion mode for Android meetings MC567504 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature allows you to add your Android device to an ongoing meeting, making it easy to chat, react, share, and more. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109606 View more   (Updated) Visio Organizational Trial offering MC542827 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Beginning in May, we are enhancing our trial offering for Visio (MC306669, December 2021) by allowing users to sign up for a trial license, or request for a paid license with their AAD account. This update gives admins oversight and control over self-service trials and license requests. It also removes the need for users to input payment information when initiating a Visio trial. Previously,... View more   (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Mark All As Read for Activity Feed MC543386 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102238 View more   (Updated) Answers-focused view in Viva Engage MC565144 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Next month, more enhancements for Answers in Viva will be available for Microsoft Viva customers. A new Answers-focused view will be rolling out for organizations with limited Viva Engage communities to help focus their Viva Engage experience on asking and answers questions.Answers is a conversational experience for asking questions and connecting people to answers that lives within Viva Engage.... View more   (Updated) Universal Print secure release with QR code on the Microsoft 365 mobile app MC574386 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Universal Print simplifies IT management and enhances security by moving your printing to the cloud, eliminating print servers, and removing the need to install and update printer drivers.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93403 View more   (Updated) Microsoft Secure Score is Adding New Improvement Actions MC574388 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. View more   (Updated) Message List Selection UI updates for Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows MC556159 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.In order to save space on the message list in Outlook, we are making an UI update: From "selection circles on the left side of each row" to "Select mode that you have to get into before checkboxes appear", using a button in the top-right corner of the Message List. Users may have to acclimate themselves to the new Selection user experience. In addition, mouse+keyboard multi-selection where users hold... View more   (Updated) Microsoft Stream: Playlist View in SharePoint List Webpart MC564196 | June 20 - Updated June 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users can soon select a playlist to be displayed in the list webpart in the full-blown playlist view along with video playback.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124808 View more   New UI to view OneDrive files excluded from Sync MC597037 | June 20 - Introducing a UI in OneDrive Sync Advanced Setting to allow users to view the admin configuration of files to be excluded (ignored) from Sync.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124868 View more   To view all announcements, sign in to Microsoft 365 message center     Privacy Statement Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, ​Redmond, WA 98052​