Update to Defender for Cloud Apps IP Addresses

Defender for Cloud Apps is updating its IP addresses related to ‘App connectors’ and ‘Third-party DLP integration’.

When this will happen:

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Reminder: IE11 desktop app will be permanently disabled in 2 months in February 2023 Windows security update “B” release

As previously announced, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop app has been retired as of June 15, 2022. IE11 retirement is occurring through two phases:

  1. a redirection phase, currently in progress with devices progressively redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge and
  2. an upcoming Windows Update phase that includes IE11 being permanently disabled. The Windows security update (“B”) release that will permanently disable IE11 is scheduled to be available for roll out on February 14, 2023.

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Microsoft Entra admin center unites Azure AD with family of identity and access products

Microsoft Entra admin center gives customers an entire toolset to secure access for everyone and everything in multicloud and multiplatform environments. The entire Microsoft Entra product family is available at this new admin center, including Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Microsoft Entra Permissions Management, formerly known as CloudKnox.

Starting this month, waves of customers will begin to be automatically directed to entra.microsoft.com from Microsoft 365 in place of the Azure AD admin center (aad.portal.azure.com).

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Maintain label when creating PDF files from VBA in Office apps (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC441065), Microsoft Office is shipping a new feature that enables PDFs created from Office using Export to PDF to inherit the source document’s labels or encryption.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93406.

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Basic auth retirement for Office 365 Reporting Web Service

We originally communicated this change in MC318316 (January 2022). We have updated the timeline for this change and are now ready to proceed.

Currently, users accessing Reporting Web service use “Basic Authentication” and must provide their credentials. With this feature update, Microsoft will improve the security of your tenant by replacing “Basic Authentication” access in favor of the recommended OAuth user interface which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC348214), 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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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): General availability of data purge capabilities for Microsoft Teams content

Currently available in public preview (MC343797, MC375741), this new feature extends data purge functionality to Microsoft Teams content to facilitate the purge of sensitive or misplaced data.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: New ways to find advanced deployment guides

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website are both getting new looks and additional features. We’re updating the search tools, recommendations, and layout of both locations so it’ll be easier to find guides for the product you’re deploying. Included in the new layout are views that highlight guides for Secure Score, Compliance Score, and Adoption Score improvement. You’ll also see new guides on setup.microsoft.com that are currently available only within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102402

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links

Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links (U.S. Government clouds)

Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message.

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