Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow

Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplified team creation

Today, users go through multiple steps, selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 163364

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Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing

Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort.

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WDAC Advanced Hunting Retired ActionTypes and Fields

Microsoft will be renaming the PolicyNameBuffer and PolicyIdBuffer fields in MDE Advanced Hunting WDAC events. These fields will be renamed to PolicyName and PolicyID, respectively. We will continue to improve the experience and richness of WDAC event data in Advanced Hunting. 

Additionally, we will be retiring the following WDAC action types from Advanced Hunting: 

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps network requirements update

We’re updating IPs for portal access and SIEM agent connections.

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Force redirection from Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps to Microsoft Defender XDR public preview announcement

As part of our transition to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal, all users from customers who have opted into the public preview who are accessing the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps will be automatically rerouted to the Microsoft Defender XDR portal.  

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New Feature: Alerts for Windows Autopatch policy conflicts Public Preview announcement

IT admins will be able to see, review and act on Intune policy conflicts that impact the Windows Autopatch service. When the Windows Autopatch service detects a policy or policies in the tenant that conflict with a setting or settings in another Intune device policy, Tenant admins must review conflicting policies, impacted settings and manually resolve the conflict/s so the Autopatch service can be restored to all service-managed devices.

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Microsoft Teams: Discover feed for channels

Users can access a personalized feed based on important updates in the channels they are a part of.

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Microsoft Teams: Live meeting status

Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the
participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.

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Immersive Spaces for Teams Service Plan Update

You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Immersive spaces in Teams.

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