Nucleus service plan addition to support Microsoft Lists

You will soon see a new Nucleus (June MC261538) service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 license. The Nucleus service plan enables features associated with Lists sync and offline mode. It can be found in the M365 Admin Center. Lists sync is packaged, installed, and updated through the OneDrive sync app’s existing update mechanism.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

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

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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Introducing background effects on web

Introducing background effects on web. If you want to change what appears behind you in your video meeting or call, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely with any image you want.

Note: Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting.

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Announcing automatic redirection from Office 365 Security and Compliance Center to Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We will soon begin redirecting users from the legacy Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com) to Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com), for all security workflows including: Alerts, Threat Management and Reports.

Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center that are not related to security will not be redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. For compliance solutions redirection to Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, see (March 2021, MC244886).

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Allow Non-Admin User to Install Language Access Packs

This new group policy, AllowNonAdminUserInstallLAPs, setting controls whether users can install language accessory packs for Office even if they don’t have local administrator permissions on their devices. By default, Office users must have local administrator permissions on their devices to install language accessory packs. This policy will be applicable to the following products:

  • Outlook
  • Word
  • Excel
  • PowerPoint
  • OneNote.

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Advanced Hunting: Surfacing more email data from Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We’re happy to share new enhancements to the advanced hunting data for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 in Microsoft 365 Defender. As part of this update, we have added new columns and data points to make your investigation experience better and more relevant. These additions will be rolling out in public preview, and should be available within the EmailEvents, EmailAttachmentInfo, and EmailPostDeliveryEvents tables.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Information Protection: New enhancements to auto-labeling for data at rest in OneDrive and SharePoint Online

Auto-labeling with Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in OneDrive and SharePoint Online helps you to automatically designate Excel, PowerPoint, and Word files as Sensitive based on policies and rules that you can configure.

As part of enhancements to the feature, we are rolling out new capabilities that provide for a faster simulation experience, including faster content sampling and allowing you to deploy policies targeting all OneDrive and SharePoint Online sites within your tenant.

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OneDrive sync client will no longer update or be supported on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13

If your organization is not using macOS you can safely disregard this message.

The OneDrive team is committed to bringing you the best, most secure experience possible across your devices. As such, we are ending support for the OneDrive Desktop application (sync client) on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13 and focusing our resources on new technologies and supported operating systems. Going forward, only the three most recent versions of macOS will be supported. When a new major version of macOS is released, we will support the new version and the previous two versions.

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SharePoint updates to options for disabling subsite creation

This new update will improve the options for subsite creation settings in the SharePoint admin center. Currently, SharePoint admins can control the ability for site owners to create new subsites. This update makes the setting options for new subsite creation easier to understand and prevents users from being able to create subsites using alternate paths when the subsite setting is disabled.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82122.

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Plus addressing to be enabled for all Exchange Online customers

Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature. This was due to preexisting usage of plus signs (+) for email addresses in the service. At the same time, we made plus addressing on by default for new customers.

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