Microsoft Power Automate – Information about new Power Platform URLs used by Power Automate

Starting Wednesday, November 22, 2023, Microsoft Power Automate will start to rely on a new cloud service dependency called Power Platform API. The Power Automate experiences will leverage this new API internally, as will more Power Platform experiences over time.

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Azure Active Directory: Auto-rollout of Conditional Access policies

Starting in November 2023, Microsoft will begin automatically protecting customers with Microsoft managed Conditional Access policies. These are policies that Microsoft creates and enables in customer tenants. The following policies will be rolled out to all eligible tenants:

1. MFA for admin portals: This policy covers privileged admin roles and requires MFA when an admin signs into a Microsoft admin portal.

2. MFA for per-user MFA users: This policy covers users with per-user MFA and requires MFA for all cloud apps.

3. MFA for high-risk sign-ins: This policy covers all users and requires MFA and reauthentication for high-risk sign-ins.

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Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD

Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store
including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations – like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove,
share or “get more apps”.

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Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

We’re developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly.

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SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables

Accessibility improvements to tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers.

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Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App

Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.

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Workflows within Microsoft Teams chats menu

Microsoft Teams will be bringing workflows powered by Power Automate into the overflow menu for chats.

To make sure Microsoft Teams provides the best workflow experience for our users we are making it easier to configure workflows for chats. From the list of chats users will be able to go into the overflow menu for a specific chat (…) and select “Workflows”. Here they will see a list of workflow templates specific to chats within Teams. Users can then configure these templates to their needs and deploy them to the chat. 

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Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging

Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message on meeting right pane for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167211

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Priority Account Chat Controls General Availability

As part of the Teams Premium package, we are introducing a new management capability: Priority Account Chat Controls that empower users with decision making controls for unwanted internal communications via policies setting. Users are notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 144367

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14-Day Reminder of Private Unlisted Group Removal

Pursuant to MC673984 and MC673984, all private unlisted groups (also known as “Secret Groups”) will be retired on 11/11/2023. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). Subsequent announcements drove awareness of private unlisted (“secret”) groups being made inaccessible on September 1, 2023 (MC673984).

This is the 14-day reminder that private unlisted groups in Yammer will be permanently deleted and deprecated on November 11, 2023.

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