Update: Suggested Replies – Outlook for Office

Update: Outlook on the web will soon be rolling out suggested replies to customers in Outlook for Office.

Note: Due to some issues that presented themselves prior to rollout, we paused our planned release until now. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

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

  • Current Channel

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API connectors IP addresses update

We’re making some changes to our third-party API connectors configuration.

Note: If you are not using API connectors with Defender for Cloud Apps you can safely disregard this message.

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Allow users who aren’t admins to install language accessory packs

By default, users must have local administrator permissions on their devices to install language accessory packs for Office. A policy setting is now available that you can enable to allow users to install language accessory packs, even if they don’t have local administrator permissions. This policy setting is named “Allow users who aren’t admins to install language accessory packs” and is available in Group Policy and in the Office cloud policy service.

This policy setting applies to the following products:

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Announcing PowerPoint modern comments for enterprise general availability

This release (currently in preview) will update the comments feature in PowerPoint to the new PowerPoint modern comments experience. Modern comments help improve users collaborative experience with features such as resolving comments, anchoring comments to objects and text, and improved @mentions.

Key points:

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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 is retiring Security Policy Advisor in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center

We will be retiring Security Policy Advisor beginning on November 8, 2021. We recommend using the Office cloud policy service, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

When this will happen:

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

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

  • Current Channel

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Create and manage verticals in Microsoft Search

We’re making changes to Microsoft Search. This update will allow Microsoft Search administrators to create and modify out-of-the-box and custom search verticals in Microsoft Search.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85657.

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New Experience updates and Microsoft 365 app access

We are bringing back the Coming Soon option to preview the new location for the Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and other modules in Outlook for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68205.

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