Adding additional field to Reported Issues that associates reported issues to active incidents or advisories

We are adding a new column for the ‘Reported issues’ view in the Service Health page. We will be adding an ‘Issues’ column that will link recently reported issues from the Report an Issue feature to an Incident or Advisory if applicable.

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Updated service plan names for data classification analytics

As previously announced in MC224879 (October 2020) and MC231124 (December 2020), Microsoft 365 data classification analytics are enabled in your tenant via the Content Explorer service plan.

We are updating the service plan name. You will soon see two service plans that enable both standard and premium functionality in your tenant: Information Protection and Governance Analytics – Standard and Information Protection and Governance Analytics – Premium.

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Reminder: Disabling TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Microsoft 365

This message post is a reminder of the ongoing progress of retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols in Microsoft 365.

As previously communicated (MC126199 in Dec 2017, MC128929 in Feb 2018, MC186827 in July 2019, and MC218794 in July 2020), we are moving all our online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best in class encryption, and to ensure our services is more secure by default. The changes to enforce TLS1.2+ in our service started on October 15, 2020 and will continue to propagate through all Microsoft 365 environments for the next few months. If you have not taken steps to prepare for this change, your connectivity to Microsoft 365 might be impacted.

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Microsoft Graph Connectors GA roll out to standard release

As previously communicated in MC222601 (September 2020) we are following up with more details on Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search. This release includes several connectors available within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center such as ServiceNow, Enterprise websites, MediaWiki, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and more.

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Dictation in Word and Outlook just got better

This feature update improves upon the user dictation experience in Word (Win32), Outlook (Win32), and Word for Mac with the addition of the Dictation toolbar, voice commands and auto punctuation support.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70596.

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New Communication Compliance features coming to preview

Coming to preview, Communication Compliance will soon be able to leverage optical character recognition to extract and evaluate images in messages. In addition, it will support additional languages for Threat, Profanity, and Harassment classifiers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 70622 and 70623.

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Microsoft Edge Legacy support to end on March 9, 2021

As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application support will end on March 9, 2021. After support ends, Microsoft Edge Legacy will not receive new security updates.

With March 9, 2021 only a month
away, we strongly recommend that you build a transition plan to ensure that you have an up-to-date browser.

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Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time detections

We are updating Threat Explorer and Real-time detections within Microsoft Defender for Office 365. There are three sets of changes: improving export limits, introducing Alert ID, and improving our trial experiences. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70544.

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Retirement of remediation action “Delete attachement”

We are retiring the ability to delete attachments as a response action in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Instead admins can continue to take remediation actions on emails, which includes any attachments related to those emails. We apologize for the shorter notice, and we are working to ensure we provide appropriate notice in the future.

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Retirement of remediation action

We are retiring the ability to delete attachments as a response action in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Instead admins can continue to take remediation actions on emails, which includes any attachments related to those emails. We apologize for the shorter notice, and we are working to ensure we provide appropriate notice in the future.

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