Dark mode on OneDrive for web

We are introducing dark mode for OneDrive for web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68868.

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Introducing a registration page for Microsoft Teams meetings

Microsoft Teams meeting organizers will be soon be able to create a custom registration page for any meeting, although the feature is designed for webinars. The feature is available for meeting organizers using Teams desktop applications (Win/Mac) and Teams on the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66586.

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Basic Authentication and Exchange Online – February 2021 Update

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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!

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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