Productivity Score: Note about changes to Content collaboration

Microsoft Productivity Score: Changes to Content collaboration

We will be changing the collaborators metric in the Content collaboration category within the People experiences area in Microsoft Productivity Score.

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Enable Intune app protection policies (APP) for Microsoft Lists on iOS

The Microsoft Lists iOS app is now configurable as a first party app in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center. This allows app to be targeted to ensure that the data accessed is protected by app protection policies. The app now also supports conditional access deployment through Azure admin portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70752

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New PowerShell to enable or disable the link to return to classic SharePoint

On modern SharePoint list and library pages, there’s a link in the lower left of the page that says “Return to classic SharePoint.”  This link reverts the current list or library back to classic mode.  On the classic page, there’s a corresponding link that says, “Exit classic experience.”  Tenant administrators can now control whether these links appear.  By default, these links are shown on all list and library pages to all users. 

To remove the links, run the following PowerShell cmdlet:

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Organizers can lock meetings

Within the desktop app in-meeting experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent unwanted join attempts.

Users attempting to join a locked meeting by any means (e.g. from web, desktop, mobile, PSTN, and devices) will not be able to do so. There will be a message to say that the meeting is locked.

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Teams meetings to support view-only attendees

We originally communicated this in MC240169 (Feb ’21). Currently, Teams meetings are limited to 300 users. If someone tries to join a meeting after it reaches capacity, they are unable to do so. With this update, meeting organizers who are assigned an appropriate license will be able to host a Teams meeting that has overflow capacity.

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Microsoft Teams: webinars plus new meeting registration options

We are excited to announce the forthcoming availability of Teams webinar capabilities, beginning rollout at the end of April 2021, completing in May 2021.

Associated features that apply to webinars and meetings, include:

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New conditions available for auto-labeling in Exchange Online

This update introduces new conditions for auto-labeling in Exchange Online. A policy can now apply a label to mail based on sender, recipient, subject, or header matches without requiring you to scan for sensitive content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72225.

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Impact on preview connections created on Microsoft built Graph connectors

We communicated the preview availability of three, Microsoft built, on-prem Graph connectors (Windows file share, MSSQL, Oracle DB, Enterprise websites) in MC248003 (March ’21). We are pleased to share these connectors will be moving to GA in late April.

Note: if you are not using the on-prem Graph connectors outlined above, you can safely disregard this message.

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Changes in email alert notifications

We’re enhancing MDE alert notifications functionality. 

When will this happen:

May 15, 2021

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Quarantine portal deep link in end user spam notification

We are adding a deep-link in the end user spam notification to the quarantine console present in the security and compliance center.

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