Updates to Microsoft Defender for Office events in Office 365 Management API

We have been working to meet the extensibility requirements of our customers who are using our detection information within custom tools. As part of this effort, we are enhancing the information around email detections within the Office 365 Management API.

When this will happen

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Request/Release workflow for quarantined messages

With this new quarantine policy, tenant admins will be able to configure end user access to messages quarantined by the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) anti-spam, Microsoft defender for office 365 (MDO) anti-phishing, anti-malware and Microsoft defender for office 365 (MDO) safe attachment policies. End users will also now have a process to request message release.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 62449 and 62450

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Customization of quarantine notification

We are making it possible for you to customize quarantine notifications with your organization logo, custom display name, and a custom disclaimer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 64781

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Close Threat protection status report URL updates

We’ve detected a problem that allows Admins to access the previous version of the Threat protection status report due to the previous version of the URL still being accessible in the production environment.

Key points:

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Exchange Online – Tag for external email messages received

In this release, Exchange Online will enable admins to protect their organization against spam and phishing threats from external senders. This feature is available in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook for Mac, and Outlook mobile (iOS and Android).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70595.

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Hunting for Impersonated domains and users

Threat Explorer (P2) and Real-time detections (P1) are powerful near real-time tools to help Security Operations teams investigate and respond to threats. Today we provide existing pivots for Detection Technology with User impersonation or Domain impersonation which show all Phish emails caught by our impersonation detection. We are adding new pivots called Impersonated user and Impersonated domain within Threat Explorer to enable Security Operations teams to explicitly hunt for specific protected users or domains within their organization that are targets of impersonation attacks. This additional information related to Impersonated domain(s) and Impersonated user(s) will also be shown in existing Impersonation insight pages and our new Email Entity page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70613

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Outlook on the web: update in how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do

We are adding an app bar to Outlook on the web which changes how users access Mail, Calendar, People, and To Do functions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70628.

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Outlook: iOS and Android Extension of suggested replies worldwide

Outlook on iOS and Android is rolling out suggested replies to customers worldwide in the following languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Enforcing mailbox receiving limits

We are updating the way we enforce our receiving limits in Exchange. Starting in April 2021, we will be more strictly enforcing limits across all mailboxes to protect the health of our systems and ensure optimal mail flow performance for all customers.

Mailboxes that receive high message volume in a short time can cause mail flow delays, both for individual recipients and across your organization.

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Outlook – Reactions and new notification experience

Reactions to email messages is coming to Outlook on the web, Outlook for iOS, and Outlook for Android. With this release, Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android will also add an in-app notification experience where users can view reactions from others, similar to what’s seen in Outlook on the web today.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 69095, 69097, and 70615

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