New products supported by Auto-Claim Policy

Automating license assignments at a product level has never been easier. With an auto-claim policy in place, users can automatically claim a license for a product the first time that they sign into an app that requires a license. By using auto-claim policies, admins manage the products for which users can automatically claim licenses. You can also control which products those licenses come from.

We’re adding auto-claim policy support for Microsoft Project and PowerAutomate.

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Adding new consolidated infra IPs to the portal access and SIEM agent connection sections

New IPs have been added to the portal access and SIEM agent connection sections in the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps network requirements.

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Admin Center notifications when users start trials

We are introducing the ability for admins to get oversight to users who initiate and deploy self-service trials. These are trials for Microsoft 365 products or features available with your Microsoft 365 subscription with no requirement to input payment information.

Going forward, if any End-User trial has been started for a product, you will receive an Admin Center notification that will quickly guide you to the “Your Products” page for your management.

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Modern Translator feature in Outlook Microsoft 365

The Modern Translator feature in Microsoft Outlook (Windows Desktop) is making changes that may require users and tenant administrators to take steps to ensure continuity of service. You may need to either install the latest version the Current Channel or Monthly Enterprise Channell along with security patches for the July 2023, January 2023, and July 2023 Semi Annual Channels and 2107 Perpetual Volume Licensing Channel, which became available on December 12, 2023. 

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Take action: December 2023 security update is now available

The December 2023 security update release is now available for Windows 11 and all supported versions of Windows 10. We recommend that you install these updates promptly. For more information about the contents of this update, see the release notes, which are easily accessible from the Windows 11 and Windows 10 update history pages. To learn more about the different types of monthly quality updates, see Windows monthly updates explained. To be informed about the latest updates and releases, follow us on X @WindowsUpdate.
  

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow

Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplified team creation

Today, users go through multiple steps, selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 163364

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Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing

Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort.

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WDAC Advanced Hunting Retired ActionTypes and Fields

Microsoft will be renaming the PolicyNameBuffer and PolicyIdBuffer fields in MDE Advanced Hunting WDAC events. These fields will be renamed to PolicyName and PolicyID, respectively. We will continue to improve the experience and richness of WDAC event data in Advanced Hunting. 

Additionally, we will be retiring the following WDAC action types from Advanced Hunting: 

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