Remediate malicious email delivered in Office 365

We are updating the remediation capability in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to improve customer experience and efficiency.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70554.

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Up Exchange Online support for Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD RMS) retiring

We are retiring Active Directory Rights Management Service (AD
RMS) support in Exchange Online as of February 28, 2021. Moving forward, we
recommend the utilization of Azure Rights Management Service (Azure RMS).

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Public preview simplified mobile app sign in

Microsoft is simplifying how your users can sign in to mobile apps by allowing users to use a QR code to log in (instead of typing in their username and password). This experience will first be offered within Outlook on the web as a public preview.

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Reminder: Azure SSL/TLS certificate changes

What is changing?

We originally communicated last November (MC226863) that on 02 Nov 2020, DigiCert replaced the certificate of the Intermediate Certificate Authority (ICA) “DigiCert SHA2 Secure Server CA”, which issues SSL/TLS certificates used by Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) services in the Public Cloud.

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Down M365 Compliance Center Information Governance solution update

We are clarifying how users access label policies and retention policies in Microsoft 365 compliance center.

When this will happen

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Up Introducing Override Alerts

We’re introducing override alerts for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 and Plan 2. These new system alert policies will enable security admins to receive alerts if a message with a high confidence phish or malware verdict is delivered to a mailbox due to one of the following overrides:

  • Phish delivered due to an IP allow policy
  • Phish delivered due to an ETR override.
  • Phish delivered because a user’s Junk Mail Folder is disabled.
  • Phish not zapped because ZAP is disabled.
  • Malware not zapped because ZAP is disabled.

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Microsoft Secure Score API update reflects recommendations in Microsoft 365 security center

Microsoft Secure Score recommendations delivered via API will look and be weighted the same as the recommendations you currently see in the Microsoft 365 security center.

Key points

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Large gallery view and Together Mode for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers

This new Teams feature allows users to change layout to Together mode or Largegallery during a meeting conducted in Edge or Chrome browsers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70573

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

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

  • Current Channel

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Updates coming to Power Apps Data Loss Prevention

Starting 4 February 2021, Power Apps will proceed with enforcing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies when apps are launched. This enforcement is in addition to the DLP enforcement that occurs when connections are added to apps in Power Apps Studio. This enforcement change was previously communicated in Message Center (MC208818) and turned on and then turned off as unexpected behavior was observed. The unexpected behavior has since been resolved.

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