OneDrive: Sync client support for ARM on Windows (Preview)

A preview of OneDrive sync for ARM on Windows is coming to devices in the Current Channel (Preview).

  • Following the preview release to Current Channel (Preview), it will release GA.

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Yammer: Communities Expiry Autorenewal

Yammer activity is now included in activity-based automatic renewal of Microsoft 365 Groups. When a user has viewed a post within a Yammer community, the community will automatically renew group expiration.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/enterprise-users/groups-lifecycle

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time Detections

We are working towards updating the user experience for Threat Explorer and Real-time detections. As part of this update, we will introduce enhancements like All Email view by Default for Explorer, toggling between chart or grid view, single click data export and more. There is no change in functionality when it comes to core experiences like filtering, export, and this is an update to the user experience.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/threat-explorer?view=o365-worldwide

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OneDrive and Microsoft Stream: Sharing Links that block download for most video and audio files is now available

Users can now choose to share most video and audio files with a sharing link that will prevent recipients from being able to download the file. Recipients can still view the file via the web player experiences.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/video-formats-you-can-play-on-the-onedrive-website-07c008b2-70e4-4ced-8a9b-f25bed77196a#:~:text=You%20can%20play%20most%20audio,directly%20from%20the%20OneDrive%20website.

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Microsoft Teams: New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account setting

A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.

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Yammer: New Administrator Role in Azure Active Directory (AAD)

,A new role is being added to Azure Active Directory titled, “Yammer Administrator”. Users who are assigned the Yammer Administrator role will be allowed to manage all aspects of the Yammer service.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/roles/permissions-reference
Preview date: June CY2022

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Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring

We’re making changes to the editing experience for SharePoint pages to make it easier for users to understand where they are by adding labels, reducing clutter by consolidating actions into a single web part toolbar, and putting authors into focus mode by default to remove visual distractions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82177.

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Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Viva Service health communications

In September 2021 we announced that My Analytics and Workplace Analytics services are becoming part of the Microsoft Viva brand, via MC282545. As part of our continued effort to streamline our Service health communications, service incidents and advisories will be published under the ‘Microsoft Viva’ service listing. Additionally, the ‘Microsoft Workplace Analytics’ service listing will be removed, and all future incidents and advisories will be communicated under ‘Microsoft Viva’.

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Service health dashboard surfacing issues that require action

There are times when issues may arise in your environment that require an admin to take action. These types of issues are not caused from the Microsoft services being unhealthy but something specific to your organization. 

When this will happen:

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