Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to post-delivery detections and investigations

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is introducing new alert policies related to post-delivery detections as well as enhancements to the Automated Investigation & Response (AIR) playbooks associated with them.

In addition, we are modifying the severity classification for six default alert policies to better align the alerts with their impact on your organization.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Forwarding report to be retired in June

We will retire the Forwarding report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Forwarding report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Safe attachment file types report to be retired in June

We will retire the Safe attachment file types report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021. We are also retiring the PowerShell cmdlets associated with the Safe attachment file types report:Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionTrafficReportand Get-MailDetailMalwareReport.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Safe attachment file types report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Safe attachment message disposition to be retired in June

We will retire the Safe attachment message disposition report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Safe attachment message disposition report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Malware detected in email to be retired in June

We will retire the Malware detected in email report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning June 14, 2021.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using the Malware detected in email report.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Spam detection report to be retired in July

We will retire the Spam detection report from Microsoft Defender for Office 365 beginning July 30, 2021. We are also retiring the PowerShell cmdlet associated with the Spam detection report, Get-MailDetailSpamReport.

Before we fully initiate the retirement of the standalone Spam detection report, we will include spam catches in the Threat protection status report; today it includes only phish and malware catches.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels

We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel
  • Monthly Enterprise Channel
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
  • Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

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“Tasks by Planner and To Do” app name to be shortened to “Tasks” within Teams

Reminder: Last year we announced the public preview of Tasks in Teams. At the same time, we also announced the planned three-stage naming sequence for how the app name would appear in Teams.

This update reflects the final stage where we shorten Tasks by Planner and To Do to simply Tasks for simplicity, brevity and to better reflect the app combining the To Do and Planner experiences. You’ll still be able to find the app by searching Planner or To Do and this will not impact the functionality of the app.

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Outlook mobile clients will soon provide access to delegate mailboxes

Your end users will soon be able to add and remove delegates from within Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android. Delegates will be able to access those mailboxes on their mobile app as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67273 and 67274.

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Microsoft Information Governance: update to retention and label policies for Microsoft 365 Groups

Compliance administrators will soon be able to create and update existing retention policies and label policies so that they affect either a Microsoft 365 group mailbox or the associated SharePoint site.

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