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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Microsoft Teams: Teams support of guest users with credentials managed by the host tenant

Support internal guest
users with credentials managed by the resource tenant (formerly known as State
3 and State 4 guests accounts).

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Lists in Microsoft Teams: Comment and @mention people on list items in Teams

The new release will bring the commenting capability available for Lists on the web to Lists within Teams.Users will be able to view, delete, and add comments on a list item inside Teams. Comments will stay with the list item regardless of it opening on SharePoint, Microsoft Lists on the web, or Teams.

This feature will roll out on desktop, web and mobile.

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Basic Authentication – All Protocols

We’re making some changes to improve the security of your tenant.We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants. 

Starting 30 days from today we’re going to turn off Basic Authentication for POP3, IMAP4, Remote PowerShell, Exchange Web Services, Offline Address Book, MAPI, RPC and Exchange ActiveSync protocol in your tenant, and will also disable SMTP AUTH completely. 

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Important information about your Microsoft 365 Office App launcher

To help improve the app exploration and discovery experience for users, beginning mid-November 2021, the Office App Launcher, All Apps (https://office.com/apps), and app search experiences will be updated to only list relevant Dynamics 365 apps, Power Apps apps, and Azure Active Directory integrated apps.

Following this update, the Office App Launcher, All Apps, and app search experiences will only list Dynamics 365 apps, Power Apps apps, and Azure AD integrated apps that meet one of the following criteria:

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Microsoft Information Protection: Configure Teams DLP policies to automatically protect files shared in Teams messages

New and existing Teams DLP policies can be configured to automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/dlp-microsoft-teams?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records Management – Disable unlocking of records

Records Management admins can disable the ability for users to unlock a record tenant wide. Currently, items marked as a record in SharePoint can be “unlocked” for editing by end users.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/get-started-with-records-management?view=o365-worldwide

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Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails available in Brazilian Portuguese

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS now supports playing your emails in Brazilian Portuguese for users in Brazil. This is in addition to our support of English speaking users.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams support of guest users with credentials managed by the host tenant

Support internal guest users with credentials managed by the resource tenant (formerly known as State 3 and State 4 guests accounts).

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Microsoft Viva: Focus time experiences in Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams

Viva Insights will be rolling out a new experience that expands on the focus time feature in Viva Insights enabling Microsoft 365 users to work uninterrupted with Teams notifications silenced. Focus mode will enrich the focus time experience by helping users make progress on important work, with focus music from Headspace. This immersive experience includes a notification, and a new focus mode page in the Viva Insights Teams app. Users will be able to enroll or modify their focus plan settings, or book ad-hoc focus time in the Viva Insights Teams app.

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