Configuration Change – Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps threat protection policies

We’re making some changes to the default Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps threat protection policies. 

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Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

  • The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It’ll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate – giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.  
  • Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics. 
  • A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
  • Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it. 
  • Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned. 

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Upcoming changes to the Power Apps Maker Portal admin settings

The Power Apps Maker Portal Learn Seach API utilizes a global endpoint, and the user search term is being sent to that endpoint. This could cause issues with European Union Data Boundary (EUDB) compliance as the user search term should stay within the user’s selected data boundary. To be EUDB compliant, we are changing the default tenant admin setting value for PowerPlatform.Search.disableDocsSearch from false to true.

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Multi account support will be available for Microsoft To Do on iOS

You will now be able to use multiple accounts with Microsoft To Do iOS. You will only see data from one account at a time. Easily switch between account from the settings page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98121

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cloud.microsoft domain for new Microsoft 365 apps

Recently Microsoft provisioned the cloud.microsoft domain to provide a trusted, dedicated space to host our authenticated first-party SaaS experiences going forward. From May 2023 onward, all new Microsoft 365 first-party app experiences will launch on cloud.microsoft from the start. Existing Microsoft 365 workloads will also begin to transition to the new domain later this year. There will be further communications leading up to each workload transition.

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Configuration Change: Search-MailboxAuditLog cmdlet, multi-geo scenarios

In multi-geo Exchange environments, when you run Search-MailboxAuditLog cmdlet in a different region from the mailbox that you’re trying to search, you might receive the error, “An error occurred while trying to access the audit log.”

How this will affect your organization:

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes

We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124818

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New functionality coming to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager

We’re introducing new functionality to Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to enable integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Additionally, we’re rolling out connectors for Salesforce and Zoom to enable increased visibility across your data estate.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102404and 124884

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SharePoint Pages: Design Ideas

By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review auto-approval (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can enable automatic approval of items pending disposition if the reviewer doesn’t act within a specified number of days. Items will advance to the next stage of approval or auto-approved for deletion if in the final stage.

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