Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes

We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto allow of third-party phish simulation URLs in email message body

We’re enabling automatic allow of URLs present in the email message body for third-party phishing simulation campaigns. With this update, security admins no longer need to configure simulation URLs to allow in the advanced delivery policy as previously required in order to ensure URLs are not blocked/detonated at time of click. These URLs will now be automatically allowed as part of the advanced delivery email message allow.

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Microsoft Edge: Workspaces

Edge Workspaces provides a way for customers to organize their browsing tasks into dedicated windows. Edge Workspaces lets users share a set of browser tabs so working groups can view the same websites and latest working files in one place and stay on the same page. Each Edge Workspace contains its own sets of tabs and favorites, all created and curated by the user and their collaborators. Edge Workspaces are automatically saved and kept up to date.
More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-workspaces

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Retirement of Dynamic Ordering feature in classic search experiences

We have disabled the Dynamic Ordering feature for classic search experiences in SharePoint.  While the UI for the feature is still present, all configurations associated with this feature are ignored. 

When this will happen:

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AntiMalware: Default Policy (only): Common attachment filter: Configuration Change

We’re making some changes to common attachment filter settings for the Default policy (only) in the Anti-malware policy. The earlier default selection value of the ‘Quarantine the message’ is changed to ‘Reject the message with NDR’. 

In Anti-malware policies, under the protection settings for ‘Enable the common attachment filter’, there are two notification options when an email contains any attachment matching the configured file types. They are:

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Enabling Azure Application Admin role for App Management across Microsoft 365 suite products

Microsoft allows admins to manage third party store apps and Line of Business apps across various M365 suite products from Integrated Apps blade in M365 Admin Center. Currently Integrated Apps access is limited to Global Admins, Global Reader Admins and Exchange Admins. Now, we are also allowing Azure Application Administrators to access Integrated Apps page and manage apps for their organization. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88942

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Microsoft Power Platform and Azure Logic Apps – Disruption for Twitter connector

As previously mentioned in, Twitter made the following announcement.

Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead.

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Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation

We will be releasing a feature update that will allow Viva connections mobile users to browse and reach SharePoint sites by surfacing their hub and site navigation in Viva Connections.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117527

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New Alert for Microsoft 365 Defender Password Spray Detection

Microsoft 365 Defender is introducing a new “Password spray attacks originating from single ISP” alert to detect password spray attacks originating from authentic cloud service providers. E5 P2 licensed customers will be impacted with this roll out.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC Handling

In order to better protect our customers from exact domain spoofing attacks and improve deliverability of email, we are making changes to how we handle DMARC p=reject and p=quarantine.

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