As previously announced in (MC275573 – Aug), the legacy version of the Service Communications API will be retired on December 17th, 2021. The new service communications API in Microsoft Graph replaces the legacy version of the API and provides access to Message center and Service health posts for your tenant.
When this will happen:
This capability enables both users with and without a Visio license to complete simple tasks on Visio files stored in Teams, like commenting, sharing, printing, downloading their Visio diagram as an image or PDF, and more from within Teams.
Planned Maintenance: Microsoft Forms
We have maintenance planned for Microsoft Forms:
Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85685
Microsoft Teams tab actions are moving out of the tab header bar and into the tab dropdown to help declutter the user experience. This impacts all first-party and third-party application tabs in chats, channels and meetings, such as Assignments, Grades, Planner or the Website tab. These tab actions will be found by clicking on the tab name to show a dropdown menu. These actions include:
We are adding support for rich text (bold, italics, underline, etc.) and images in the Planner task notes field.
NOTE: We will update this post once we have Microsoft Graph documentation for the new rich text task notes field available.
,Organizations sometimes need the ability to declare a file as a record after a period of collaboration. This update allows records managers to apply a record label to content but allow collaboration. Users can then toggle a switch when ready to lock the file and prevent edits.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/get-started-with-records-management?view=o365-worldwide
Preview date: January CY2022
There may be times when managers need more formal attestation, such as a signature, before being able to act on an approval request. We will soon allow Teams admins to enable electronic signature support through DocuSign within the Microsoft Teams Approval app (desktop and web).
NOTE: A DocuSign license will be required to leverage this functionality/feature.
Resources in the SharePoint app bar will be expanding to include an entry point to Microsoft 365 Lists.
Final Reminder: As previously announced (MC229143 – December ’20, MC274503 – July and MC288472 – September), to ensure that we meet performance expectations, we are updating the supported versions of Outlook for Windows that can connect to Microsoft 365 services.
Note: Effective November 1, 2021, the following versions of Outlook for Windows (starting with Outlook 2007, in a phased rollout), will not be able to connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services.
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