The settings that allow users to create groups in the Azure portal have been improved

The Azure Active Directory settings that control how users can create security and Microsoft 365 groups have been updated.

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New people-centric search features coming to Microsoft Search

This new feature, People-centric search is rolling out to Microsoft Search. This update will allow people in your organization to find content through people, and understand people through their content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68783.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Reports in the Admin Center – user information pseudonymized by default

We’re making some changes to Microsoft 365 Reports in the admin center. Reports found in the ‎Microsoft 365‎ admin center provide information about your organization’s usage data. By default, reports currently display information with identifiable names for users, groups, and sites. beginning next month, user information will now be hidden by default for all reports as part of our ongoing commitment to help companies support their local Privacy laws.

NOTE: This change is specific to administrative and report reader roles.

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Delayed – Changes to the way EOP moves email to Junk folder

Attention: The rollout for the below changes, which were communicated earlier (March MC248005), has been delayed. The new timeline is late September through late October 2021.

Updated April 29, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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Dynamics 365 and Power Platform 2021 release wave 2 early access available now!

We are excited to announce that early access for the 2021 wave 2 release for Dynamics 365 and industry clouds and Microsoft Power Platform is available as of August 2, 2021.

This is a compilation of new capabilities and features that will be released between October 2021 and March 2022.

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Ability to swap content and gallery is coming back

This feature update will allow you, when in a Teams meeting and someone shares content, to now click on participant videos in gallery view to swap the content with gallery, effectively bringing videos to the center and content to the side or top.

Note: Unlike earlier, when Large Gallery was disabled when content was shared, you can now launch Large Gallery when somebody is sharing screen or other content.

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Data Subject Request tool renaming and relocation to eDiscovery

Beginning on September 2, 2021, we are changing the name of the Data subject request tool to User data search and moving the tool under the eDiscovery drop down in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center.

How this will affect your organization:

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Ability to assign roles to Azure AD groups is now generally available!

Note: If you do not have the Azure Active Directory (AAD) Premium P1 or the Azure Active Directory (AAD) Premium P2 license, you can safely ignore this message.

Ability to assign roles to Azure Active Directory groups is now generally available. Assigning roles to groups can simplify the management of role assignments in Azure Active Directory in two ways:

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Plan for Change: Endpoint Security configuration report moving to Device configuration report

With Intune’s August (2108) service release, we are making reporting improvements which includes moving the Endpoint Security configuration report to be combined with the Device configuration report. This will allow you to view all policies applied to devices in one report and see the distinction of profile types in the new “Policy type” column.

How this will affect your organization:

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Reminder: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity

3-month Reminder (First published December MC229143): To ensure that we meet performance expectations, we areupdating the supported versions of Outlook for Windows that can connect toMicrosoft 365 services.

Effective November 1, 2021, the following versions ofOutlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will not be ableto connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services.

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