Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 4, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

In response to the unprecedented situation we are in and knowing that priorities have changed for many of our customers we are suspending until further notice the disabling of Basic Authentication for any protocols that your tenant is using. This was previously communicated in Exchange Online (MC204828 and MC208814). When we resume this program, we will provide a minimum of twelve months’ notice before we block the use of Basic Auth on any protocol being used.

We will continue with our plan to disable Basic Auth for protocols that your tenant is not using. Many customers don’t know that unneeded legacy protocols remain enabled in their tenant. We plan to disable these unused protocols to prevent potential mis-use. We will do this based on examining recorded usage of these protocols by your tenant, and we will send Message Center posts providing 30 days’ notice of any changes to your tenant. This work will begin in a few months.

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Blocking URLs and Files with Tenant Allow/Block List

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 4, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

We understand that, from time to time, you might disagree with an Exchange Online Protection (EOP) filtering verdict. With this update, you will be able to manually override Microsoft 365 filtering verdicts using the Tenant Allow/Block List (TABL) in the Security & Compliance Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 61352.

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Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time detections

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

We are updating Threat Explorer and Real-time detections within Microsoft Defender for Office 365. There are three sets of changes: improving export limits, introducing Alert ID, and improving our trial experiences. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70544.

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Retirement of remediation action “Delete attachement”

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 4, 2021 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

We are retiring the ability to delete attachments as a response action in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Instead admins can continue to take remediation actions on emails, which includes any attachments related to those emails. We apologize for the shorter notice, and we are working to ensure we provide appropriate notice in the future.

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Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available starting February 2021

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

The Insights app in Teams provides personalized insights to improve productivity and wellbeing and data-driven recommendations to help you build better work habits.

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Change coming to your Power Automate Service

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 3, 2021 Microsoft Power Automate 0 Comments

In order to provide effective support to all of our customers, Microsoft must enforce the boundaries of the different support plans that we offer. Starting March 1st 2021, we will allow customers to submit support cases for ‘advisory’ issues according to their support plan. As documented here, only customers with a Professional Direct or Unified support plan (premium support plans) can file an ‘advisory” support ticket.

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Application Access Policy support in EWS in Exchange Online

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 3, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

We are adding Application Access Policy (AAP) support to Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online, as a mechanism to ease transition from EWS to Microsoft Graph.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68901.

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2021 wave 1 early access for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform available now!

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 3, 2021 Microsoft Power Automate 0 Comments

We are excited to announce that early access for the 2021 wave 1 release for Microsoft Dynamics 365 applications and Microsoft Power Platform is available as of February 1, 2021. This is a compilation of new capabilities and features that will be released between April 2021 and September 2021.

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Secure by default is Retiring the Move message to Junk Email folder policy option for high confidence phishing emails

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 2, 2021 Exchange Online 0 Comments

We are retiring the Move message to Junk Email folder policy option for high confidence phishing emails in Exchange Online Protection (EOP) anti-spam policies. Existing policies that rely on the Move message to Junk Email folder option will automatically switch to the Quarantine message option. The Redirect message to email address option is unchanged.

If you are not using the Move message to Junk Email folder option for high confidence phishing emails, there is no impact for your organization.

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Get a Meet now meeting link in Teams

Originally posted by Microsoft Feb 2, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

We’ve made it easier for a user to create meetings and get a meeting link using the Meet now button in the Teams calendar. This feature is available for Teams desktop (Mac and Windows) as well as web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70602

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