The “Investigation priority score increase” policy in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will be retired between June and July 2024 due to high false positives and limited value. Administrators should use the Advanced Hunting query as an alternative.
All users must update to the specified minimum Company Portal app version for their platform by July 10, 2024, to maintain access. Automatic updates will handle this for most users; others must update manually. Classic Conditional Access policies need migration. Users should be notified to prepare.
Microsoft OneDrive introduces a feature for annotating PDFs with text boxes, rolling out mid-May to early June 2024. Users can edit PDFs in OneDrive and SharePoint by opening the file and using the ‘Edit’ and ‘Add Text’ commands. No admin action is required for this update.
,Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.
We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment.
The Apps flyout and entry point for pinned apps will be moved to the Home tab in the Ribbon in the New Outlook and Outlook for Web.
This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded).
Microsoft Teams for Web is now available for Firefox, Safari, and Linux users. It supports the latest three versions of Firefox and the latest two versions of Safari. Users can switch back to classic Teams for Web until mid-May 2024. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft Teams is introducing a tenant-wide policy to control permissions for downloading meeting transcripts, with IT admins able to exempt certain security group members. The rollout begins mid-May 2024 for Targeted Release and extends to General Availability in various stages through August 2024. Default transcript permissions will also be updated post-rollout.
Global and Engage admins can manage Microsoft Viva Engage without a dedicated service plan after a change in May 2024. Other admin roles still require a “Viva Engage Core” plan. Admins should adjust licenses accordingly and update documentation. Rollout is automatic.
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