Skype for Business Planned Maintenance
We have maintenance planned for Skype for Business.
- Starting 02/18/2022 6:00 PM UTC
- Ending 02/19/2022 4:30 AM UTC

We have maintenance planned for Skype for Business.

You can personalize a list to suit your needs by customizing the command bar. Like how you can customize form headers and footers, the JSON based feature will allow basic changes to the command bar, including modification of icon or text, hiding existing options or adding new commands.

This new update will enable Teams DLP policies to protect chats in Teams. With this capability, all your existing and new policies will automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85667.

End users can now use “Hey Cortana” to join meetings and other skills if their Teams rooms are configured to use language en-au, en-ca, en-gb, en-in, en-us.
Note: If your organization does not utilize Teams rooms you can safely disregard this message.

The below message applies to tenants with Teams Room Devices. Please disregard if your organization is not utilizing Teams room Devices.
We are making some changes to OOBE (out of the box experience) for Teams Rooms! Cortana Voice Activation will be enabled by default. We are changing the OOBE flow to include a screen to request your Cortana voice activation acknowledgement.

Instead of automatically copying the link with default permissions, we want to give customers the ability to change their link type and permissions prior to generating a sharing link and pasting it into the app of their choice.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88866.

Exchange auto-labeling policies can protect mail in transit by applying sensitivity labels to mail received from inside or outside the organization that are not manually labeled. Currently, encryption can only be applied to unencrypted mail received from inside the organization. We are now adding the capability to configure policies that can apply encryption to mail received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to replace a label even if mail already has a manual label applied, provided the label priority on the mail is lower or same.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85668.

The new Outlook for Mac will automatically shorten links and assign the file name for OneDrive and SharePoint files using the document’s name as URL. With this update you can also see and manage the files’ permissions. Note: Legacy Outlook for Mac won’t receive this update.

Cortana
voice activation will be enabled by default on newly imaged Microsoft Teams
Rooms solutions. If desired, IT Admins can adjust the setting to turn off voice
activation at that time.

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