Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Safe attachment message disposition to be retired in June

We will retire the Safe attachment message disposition report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Safe attachment message disposition report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Malware detected in email to be retired in June

We will retire the Malware detected in email report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Malware detected in email report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Spam detection report to be retired in July

We will retire the Spam detection report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning July 30, 2021. We are also retiring the PowerShell cmdlet associated with the Spam detection report, Get-MailDetailSpamReport.

Before we fully initiate the retirement of the standalone Spam detection report, we will include spam catches in the Threat protection status report; today it includes only phish and malware catches.

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Microsoft Information Governance: update to retention and label policies for Microsoft 365 Groups

Compliance administrators will soon be able to create and update existing retention policies and label policies so that they affect either a Microsoft 365 group mailbox or the associated SharePoint site.

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Organization logos in Outlook for iOS and Android

This new Outlook for iOS and Android update will display your organization’s logo, that is defined within Azure Active Directory, in the left-hand navigation area and while composing messages and calendar events. This feature will help users differentiate their work accounts from their personal accounts in the app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72214.

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New options for attachments in Outlook on the web

This new Outlook on the web feature will bring users an updated experience when receiving email attachments. We are updating the look and contents of the attachments, and consolidating all options under a single menu (similar to Outlook for Mac and Outlook for Windows).

Additionally, users in tenants with OneDrive enabled will see new options in this menu and in the attachment previewer for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. This will provide the ability to directly begin editing Office attachments in the corresponding browser or desktop app.

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Outlook on the Web: New calendar board view

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.

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Spoof intelligence management enhancements for policy, insights and report

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 intelligence system and take actions. Additionally, an enhanced Spoof detections report (also known as Spoof Mail Report) will show details about authentication results such as SPF, DKIM, DMARC, so users can assess configurations within their tenant and adopt industry email standards as applicable. This Spoof Mail Report will provide a historical view of up to last 90 days of spoofing activity using the report.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70590

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Changes to the way EOP moves email to Junk folder

Note: This change will only effect 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 continue to honor the user safe sender/block sender preferences set in outlook just as the junk email rule does today.

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Outlook for iOS and Android – Sync additional contact folders as category labels

As we announced in December 2019 (MC232127), users who have set up additional contact folders in Outlook on the web, or in Outlook for Windows or Mac, see those folders as a new category in Outlook mobile (iOS and Android). The category label corresponds to the folder name in Outlook on the web or Outlook for Windows or Mac.

The rollout has been delayed to ensure a quality experience for our customers; we apologize for any inconvenience. In addition, we would like to provide updated information about this feature. 

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