Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report (U.S. government clouds)

eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded.

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Basic Authentication retirement in Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access resources. Continued use of Basic Authentication is a big security concern, so we have decided to deprecate it from all tenants.

We will retire this feature in Office Apps version 2209+. Instead, we recommend moving to a more secure authentication method, preferably Modern Authentication, and enabling multi-factor authentication based on OAuth2.0 token-based auth.

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IT Admin Policy Change for the New Webinars Experience on Teams

We are excited to announce the upcoming launch of the new webinar experience. This experience is an intuitive end-to-end webinar solution addressing key feedback received since the initial webinar launch last year and is built to scale for advanced webinars in the future. The new webinar will be found by clicking the New Meeting dropdown in the calendar app and selecting Webinar.

With the launch of the new webinar experience, we are introducing a new policy called Teams Event Policy to TAP IT Admins and TAP customers. This policy (Settings: AllowWebinars and EventAccessType) will control the new webinar experience, and the current webinar experience will be controlled by the existing Teams Meeting Policy (Settings: AllowMeetingRegistration and WhoCanRegister). As we make this transition from the current and existing webinar experience to a new one, we are giving you the option to either use the new, current/existing, or no webinar experience. When we launch the new webinar experience, this experience will by default be ON (AllowWebinars: ON).

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Advanced Virtual Appointments in Teams Premium

Advanced Virtual Appointments in Teams Premium provides an end-to-end solution designed to help you drive better customer experiences and operational excellence for business-to-customer engagements.

You can read details about the Advanced Virtual Appointments in Microsoft Teams features here.

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Popular Around Me view in OneDrive Web for Business under Shared will be permanently disabled.

We will be retiring the Popular Around Me view from in OneDrive Web under Shared.

When this will happen:

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SharePoint and OneDrive deploying hard block for IE11 in January 2023

As communicated in MC278815 (August ’21) Microsoft 365 apps and services ended providing support for Internet Explorer 11 in August, 2021.

Beginning mid-January, 2023, access to SharePoint Online and OneDrive from Internet Explorer 11 will be hard blocked for all users. Users should access these services through a modern browser, and we recommend Microsoft Edge as a faster, more innovative browser than IE11.

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Attention required: New Power Platform URLs used by Power Apps and Power Platform admin center

Microsoft Power Platform will begin relying on a new cloud service dependency called Power Platform API. This is updated in our documentation available at Power Platform URLs and IP address ranges.

The Power Apps End-user and Maker experiences, as well as Power Platform admin center experiences, will leverage this new API internally, as will more Power Platform experiences over time.

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[Update] jQuery 2.1.1 retirement in Microsoft Power Apps service

As part of a recent service update designed to improve security within Microsoft Power Apps, we recently upgraded jQuery from 2.1.1 to version 3.6.0, which made jquery-2.1.1.min.js unavailable within your environment. We have restored jquery-2.1.1.min.js for use in your environment on Friday, October 21, 2022, and have temporarily postponed its retirement until October 2023.

How does this affect me?

We have detected that your environment is utilizing our jQuery static resource endpoint. This update should unblock scripts and files that utilized hardcoded links to the previous jQuery version and were affected by this recent change.

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Multiple Yammer Networks Within Single Tenant No Longer Supported (1:Many Mode)

Yammer is committed to strengthening the alignment of Yammer to Microsoft 365. This means we will no longer support tenants having more than one non-external Yammer network. This change will ensure Yammer networks have the same organizational boundaries as their corresponding Microsoft 365 tenants.

Why is this happening now?

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Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk email (preview)

Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers reduce noise and false positives. The setting can be configured at the per-policy level.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100513.

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