Track and pause firmware auto-updates for Teams devices from Teams admin center

We are introducing enhancements to firmware auto-updates for Android-based Teams devices in Teams admin center.

These enhancements –

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Safe Attachments policy: Retire option ‘Apply the SafeAttachments detection response if scanning cannot complete’

We will be retiring the Safe Attachments option ‘Apply the SafeAttachments detection response if scanning cannot complete (timeout or error)‘ starting early June 2023.

When this will happen:

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Planned Maintenance: Updates to mail encryption from external mail

We have maintenance planned for Exchange:

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: A new default home screen and an enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms on Windows

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.17 update includes new and improved home screen features, including:  

  • New default home screen experience with modern UI update 
  • Enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms Pro users. 

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Microsoft 365 Compliance Center update: eDiscovery PowerShell cmdlet supporting certificate-based authentication (CBA)

This is a follow up to the post MC515529. Basic authentication is no longer supported and has been retired. See Deprecation of Basic Authentication in Exchange Online | Microsoft Learn

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 106112

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Microsoft Stream: Updates to migration tool

The Stream migration tool, which lets you migrate video content from Stream (Classic) to Stream (on SharePoint), will have two new capabilities: 1) partial migration will allow you to migrate specific videos from within a container, and 2) orphan video support will let you migrate videos that have no assigned owner in Stream (Classic).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase (U.S. Government clouds)

The activity explorer’s export limit will increase from 10K to 100K records. This update will benefit organizations that prefer exporting user activity insights to a CSV file, as they now can filter, sort, or pivot a bigger data set more conveniently. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure labels independently on files and emails (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only or both.

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OneDrive: Relocating sync command in OneDrive’s My files view to settings

We are relocating the command for Sync in My Files to the settings gear. All functionality remains the same, but with a new entry point.

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Message List Selection UI updates for Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

In order to save space on the message list in Outlook, we are making an UI update: From “selection circles on the left side of each row” to “Select mode that you have to get into before checkboxes appear“, using a button in the top-right corner of the Message List. Users may have to acclimate themselves to the new Selection user experience.

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