Improvements to Service Health Dashboard and Incident Communications

We are updating the Service Health dashboard to make it quicker and easier to find out about active issues of the services

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Microsoft Graph connectors for on-prem data sources now generally available

This is an update to our previous communication in MC248003. Graph connectors for three on-premises data sources (Windows file share, Oracle DB, Enterprise websites) are released to all the tenants in general availability. You can now create connections to these data sources in Standard Release.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67139

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Microsoft Graph privacy controls to fully replace the classic Office Delve control in May

In August 2020, we announced that Microsoft Graph privacy controls (MC219941) would be available in the fourth quarter. These Microsoft Graph privacy controls allow administrators to more granularly configure the visibility of Graph-derived insights which includes documents and sites across Microsoft 365 apps and services. We also announced a six-month transition period before the new controls would replace classic Office Delve controls. 

The transition and end-of-support for the classic Office Delve control and its respective settings will occur in mid-May 2021. We are also introducing controls that allow people in your organization to customize insights that are available to them and to their colleagues.  

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Productivity Score: Note about changes to Content collaboration

Microsoft Productivity Score: Changes to Content collaboration

We will be changing the collaborators metric in the Content collaboration category within the People experiences area in Microsoft Productivity Score.

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Impact on preview connections created on Microsoft built Graph connectors

We communicated the preview availability of three, Microsoft built, on-prem Graph connectors (Windows file share, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Enterprise websites) in MC248003 (March ’21). We are pleased to share these connectors will be moving to GA in late April.

Note: if you are not using the on-prem Graph connectors outlined above, you can safely disregard this message.

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Changes in email alert notifications

We’re enhancing MDE alert notifications functionality. 

When will this happen:

May 15, 2021

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Adding translator service to Service Health Dashboard

This new translator toggle feature on the Service Health Dashboard (SHD) page will use Microsoft’s translation service to automatically translate the content of Incidents and advisories to the language selected by user.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82267.

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New policy settings available to control the feedback users can send to Microsoft

Users have the ability to send feedback to Microsoft from within Microsoft 365 products if you have not disabled this feature for your organization. We are introducing policies to help you more easily manage in-product feedback and surveys for your organization. User feedback goes directly to our engineers and helps us shape the future of Microsoft products and services for all our users.

The feedback we collect from your users will soon be available for you to review in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Keeping the feedback experiences enabled will let you see what your users are saying about the products they are using.

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Microsoft Edge to replace Microsoft Edge Legacy with the April Windows 10 Update

As announced in MC237900 (February 2021), we are replacing the out-of-support Microsoft Edge Legacy application with the new Microsoft Edge as part of the April Windows 10 cumulative monthly security update, also known as the Update Tuesday (or “B”) release.

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Announcing Outlook support for DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel settings

Outlook clients that use built-in labeling will now support the PowerShell label policy advanced settings DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72172.

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