Microsoft Information Protection: New enhancements to auto-labeling for data at rest in OneDrive and SharePoint Online

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Auto-labeling with Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in OneDrive and SharePoint Online helps you to automatically designate Excel, PowerPoint, and Word files as Sensitive based on policies and rules that you can configure.

As part of enhancements to the feature, we are rolling out new capabilities that provide for a faster simulation experience, including faster content sampling and allowing you to deploy policies targeting all OneDrive and SharePoint Online sites within your tenant.

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OneDrive sync client will no longer update or be supported on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 OneDrive for Business 0 Comments

If your organization is not using macOS you can safely disregard this message.

The OneDrive team is committed to bringing you the best, most secure experience possible across your devices. As such, we are ending support for the OneDrive Desktop application (sync client) on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13 and focusing our resources on new technologies and supported operating systems. Going forward, only the three most recent versions of macOS will be supported. When a new major version of macOS is released, we will support the new version and the previous two versions.

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SharePoint updates to options for disabling subsite creation

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

This new update will improve the options for subsite creation settings in the SharePoint admin center. Currently, SharePoint admins can control the ability for site owners to create new subsites. This update makes the setting options for new subsite creation easier to understand and prevents users from being able to create subsites using alternate paths when the subsite setting is disabled.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82122.

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Plus addressing to be enabled for all Exchange Online customers

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature. This was due to preexisting usage of plus signs (+) for email addresses in the service. At the same time, we made plus addressing on by default for new customers.

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Nested Replies and Related Features

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 Yammer 0 Comments

This new update makes Yammer conversations a whole lot better by providing several new features you are able to experience in Yammer starting now! See below for what’s available to users. This will rollout on desktop, web mobile, and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70809.

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Viva Connections (Private preview) app visible in Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 9, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

In preparation for broader customer availability, the Viva connections (Private preview) app will now be visible in the Teams admin center and the Teams app store. At this point, the app cannot be installed or used. We will update you when the app is ready for use.

When this will happen

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Removing Message Trace in SCC. Move Custom Queries to Message Trace in the new Modern EAC

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 6, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Attention: We will be retiring Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center (SCC) from the Security Portal beginning October 5th, 2021.

  • In place of this feature, we recommend you use the Message Trace in the Exchange Admin Center (EAC), which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Service Health

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 5, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

The service communications API in Microsoft Graph is now available! Following the preview announcement (MC257688 in May 2021), this API provides access to Message center and Service health posts for your tenant, and replaces the previous Service Communications API.

With the new API now broadly available, we will be retiring the legacy version of the Service Communications API beginning December 17th, 2021. 

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SharePoint: Title Region Gradient

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 5, 2021 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

This new feature will allow SharePoint page authors to remove the background gradient on title region images.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82091

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

Originally posted by Microsoft Aug 5, 2021 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Joao Ferreira

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