Category: Microsoft 365 suite

Office 2013 end of support: Reduce your exposure to security risks by moving to a newer version of Office

After five years of Mainstream Support, and five years of Extended Support, Office 2013 will reach the End of Extended Support on April 11, 2023. Per the Fixed Lifecycle Policy, after this date security updates for Office 2013 will no longer be available. We recommend you upgrade to Microsoft 365 Apps, which includes the Office apps you are familiar with (such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).

Note: If you don’t have Office 2013 deployed in your environment, you can safely disregard this message.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Apr 13, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Service health dashboard refresh and ability to show multiple services being impacted by a single issue

When there is a broadly impacting issue that affects multiple services across the M365 services, Microsoft will create a single incident that will properly reflect the overall status of the different services if affects. In the message details of this incident, we will call out specific services impacted. With this change we will also be giving a refreshed user experience to the service health dashboard. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88666.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Apr 11, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Microsoft Information Protection: Updates to Sensitive Information Types (SITs) definitions

In our continued efforts to improve the accuracy of out-of-the-box sensitive information types (SITs), we will be updating the definition of five existing SITs for better accuracy and to stay updated with the latest definition published by relevant authorities.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Apr 11, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Connect Microsoft Teams Shifts with Blue Yonder Workforce Management

The Microsoft Teams Shifts connector for Blue Yonder Workforce Management is a first-party offering that’s hosted and managed by Microsoft. The Shifts connector allows for two-way replication of schedule and shift related data between Microsoft Teams and Blue Yonder Workforce Management (WFM).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89109.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 31, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Connected experience controls for Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is now integrated with the Microsoft Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS) . OCPS allows you to control policies that apply to Office products.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93184.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 30, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Retiring Hold statistics in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery

We’ll be retiring the Hold statistics functionality from Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery, due to variability in the consistency of items count and size estimated from the statistics. This variability creates significant challenges for organizations who depend on consistent and repeatable results for eDiscovery legal hold workflows. Instead, we recommend the utilization of search and collection workflows within eDiscovery to get statistics on items on hold, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 29, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Microsoft Information Protection: Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts

We’re introducing a compliant feedback mechanism to enable admins to report false positives for sensitive information types (SITs) and trainable classifiers detected and reported in Content explorer and DLP Alerts (non-legacy alerts). This Feedback Loop will improve the overall accuracy of SITs and trainable classifiers as it enables Microsoft to make systematic improvements in the product to reduce future false positives.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93210.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 29, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collections and processing enhancements (GA)

Currently available in public preview (as announced in MC334208), this new feature will enhance the Advanced eDiscovery Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88881

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 29, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Increased Scale and Throughput for Graph Connectors

Microsoft Graph connectors enable your organization to index third-party content in Microsoft Search. The existing connection limit is 700,000. Microsoft is releasing an update to improve scale and throughput for Graph Connectors. The update will allow you to index up to 5M items in a single connection. This platform upgrade will also enable you to index content at a higher throughput of twenty-five documents per second. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 24, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Information barriers – Announcing GA of management experience in Microsoft 365 compliance center

You will soon see an updated user experience for the Information barriers solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center. This update enables admins to configure and manage information barrier policies within the familiar compliance center interface and includes new landing pages for Segments and Policies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93193.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 21, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

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