Anti-malware policy : Common attachment filter : Additional file types block by default

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 20, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

The ‘Common attachment filter’ option in the ‘Anti-malware’ policy helps the Administrator configure the file types (based on file extension) which need to be blocked in the emails. This block action is applied anytime the file type of any attachment in the email matches this configurated file type list.

The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are selected, to be blocked, by default. Administrator can make changes to this selection by selecting more file types or making changes to existing file types. If the Administrator chooses to extend this behavior to more file types, then this is possible using PowerShell option.

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Join meetings anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds)

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 20, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Today, if you want to join a meeting hosted in a different cloud to one of your tenant, you are directed to use the Teams web experience. We are improving the experience to allow users to join meetings across clouds from their desktop app anonymously.

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Reply to specific chat message in Teams Desktop

Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 20, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

With this update, Microsoft Teams Desktop users will receive the long awaited ability to reply to specific messages in chat from the message actions menu. This will help bring more context into conversations. This feature has already been available on the iOS and Android apps.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81113.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Service Health and Message center Communications

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 19, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

To provide greater clarity in Service health and Message center, we are consolidating communications for Microsoft 365 Defender services under the service listing ‘Microsoft 365 Defender’. Once this change is in place, the service listing for ‘Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’ will be removed, and future communications related to the service will appear under ‘Microsoft 365 Defender’.

When this will happen:

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Lightweight Plans in Planner

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 19, 2021 Planner 0 Comments

With the upcoming “Meetings” solution: New hybrid work innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Fluid, and Microsoft Viva, meeting participants can quickly capture tasks and expect them to automatically sync into the Microsoft 365 Task Ecosystem (Planner, To do/Outlook, and Teams Task app). To enable this, meetings create a plan in Planner for the captured tasks.

To support this more ad-hoc form of task tracking, Planner now supports plans that don’t require an M365 Group, which we are calling “Lightweight plans”. Instead of using Groups, access to these plans is determined by a simple list of members stored in Planner that can contain any user with a valid AAD ID in that tenant (more details below).

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Cortana adds two new skills and Push To Talk is enabled by default

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 19, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Service Update and New Skills in Cortana.

Service Update:

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Updates to spam reporting

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 18, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

We’re working on creating consistent reporting experiences for customers, and as a result we’re retiring the standalone spam detections report. A new Spam detections report view will now be available in the Threat Protection Status report.

Key points

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Breakout Rooms Presenter support

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 18, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

We are adding the ability for organizer to extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters. This feature will enable meeting organizers to add and remove presenters as Breakout Room managers.

By taking control from Breakout rooms management panel, appointed presenters will be allowed to perform Breakout room operations as manager or meeting organizer, as well as joining Rooms as Breakout Room manager.

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Breakout rooms: Pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 18, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

We are adding the ability for meeting organizers to pre-create rooms ahead of a meeting start and perform participant assignment tasks (both auto and manual) in advance.

This is rolling out on desktop only.

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Microsoft 365 apps and services support for IE11 has ended

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 18, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

As previously communicated, (MC220490 – August 17th, 2020), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. As of today, August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services from IE11. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to help ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules.

Microsoft 365 applications and services

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Joao Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.