Updates to the Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) alerts

We will be updating the current zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) alerts and introduce a new ZAP alert that will notify you if a message has not been removed by ZAP.

Updates to the ZAP alerts will include:

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OneNote: Math Ink Recognizer Service

Math Ink Recognizer Service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It converts handwritten ink in your notes to math equations for solving math problems.

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OneNote: Math Solver Service

The Math Solver service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It helps students learn how to solve their handwritten math problems.

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Data Management Report

We will be retiring the Data management report beginning mid-May. Instead, we recommend the utilization of Data at-rest Scan progress, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

If your organization is not using this Data Management Report feature, you can safely disregard this message.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New default (URL click) alert policy

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 offers many default alert policies.  One of the current default alert policy, A potentially malicious URL click was detected, generates alerts when users click URLs (which are potentially malicious) in email messages. Currently, there are two scenarios that generate this alert.

  1. The URL verdict changes to bad after the user has already clicked it.
  2. A user clicks through (overrides the warning page) for a known, bad URL.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email and collaboration reports : Mail latency report

We’re updating the chart view, list view and filter options to clarify email delivery latency and latency due to detonation of the attachments / URLs (for those items that are subject to Safe Attachments and Safe Links policies).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93213

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Microsoft and Office 365 users to edit assigned tasks in Project for the web project plans

When Microsoft 365 and Office 365 E3 and E5 users are assigned tasks from a project plan built in Project for the web, they can update the progress and mark their tasks’ percent complete without a Project license. This editing capability will be rolling out in May 2022 to tenants with Project Plan 1, Project Plan 3, and Project Plan 5 subscriptions

Key points

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New and Enhanced Evaluation experience

We are making changes to the Evaluation mode capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. With this change, all Exchange Online Protection and Defender for Office 365 customers can evaluate Defender for Office 365 policies such as Safe Links, Safe Attachments and Anti-phishing in monitor or audit mode. Integration with the trials experience ensures eligible customers get a taste of our advanced SecOps functionality for 90 days. You can review advanced threats history within Threat Protection Status report, easily filter out evaluation messages within Threat Explorer, analyze the details within email entity page and more.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email

We’re updating the chart view, list view and filter options to clarify email delivery latency and latency due to detonation of the attachments / URLs (for those items that are subject to Safe Attachments and Safe Links policies).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93213

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