Graph Connector Content Results Experience Switches to Results Inline in All Vertical

You will soon see Graph Connector results merged inline in the All vertical on SharePoint (organization level) and Office.com. This means that your users will experience Graph Connector results seamlessly integrated with Microsoft content instead of the current result cluster experience which is bound to a fixed place in the middle of the page and has a maximum of two results from a single custom vertical.

With inline Connector results, your users can see as many relevant Connector results as retrieved and ranked for each individual query and determined by underlying AI-based search and ranking system. Users can also use the pagination elements at the bottom of the search result page to browse through results that can include connected content or use the Last Modified- and File Type-filters to refine their search for connected content.

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SharedWith and SharedWithDetails column in OneDrive and SharePoint will no longer be updated

We will be retiring the SharedWith and SharedWithDetails columns from OneDrive and SharePoint starting in early June. For customers who are looking to understand who has access to content, we recommend utilizing features like the Microsoft 365 Audit Logs and the Manage Access experience.

When this will happen:

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Reminder: Uploading content to Stream (Classic) to be blocked

On May 15, 2023 Stream (Classic) users will be blocked from uploading content to Stream (Classic) unless admins take action to delay this change. See below for steps to delay the change.

As announced in January, Stream (Classic) will be retired on Feb 15, 2024 for all customers, except GCC customers. The successor service Stream (on SharePoint) is currently available for all customers to begin using.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto Allow of Third-Party Phish Simulation URLs in Email Message Body

We’re enabling automatic allow of URLs present in the email message body for third-party phishing simulation campaigns. With this update, security admins no longer need to configure the “Simulation URLs to allow” field in the advanced delivery policy as previously required to ensure URLs are not blocked at time of click. These URLs will now be automatically allowed as part of the phishing simulation allow on the email message (based on configured sending domain and sending IP in the advanced delivery policy)

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124820

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Power Apps pending license requests

Power Apps now allows users you submit license requests! Please be sure to check out the pending license requests in your organization.

When this will happen:

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Pride Themes in New Mac Outlook

We’ve created colorful themes inspired by the flags of the LGBTQI+ communities to help you show your Pride in the New Mac Outlook. When you’re using the Pride theme, you’ll see rainbow accent colors applied in the app.

You can celebrate Pride by choosing one of five different themes inspired by the Pride, Lesbian, Bisexual, Non-binary, and Transgender flags. (The Outlook themes will be available on a year-round basis, not just during the month of June.) 

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review auto-approval

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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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review auto-approval

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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Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading pane background image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will now have the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected. This feature will be turned off by default for commercial customers.
A user will be able to turn on a background image by going to Settings General Appearance from Outlook.

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Planner: Plan sharing with file container

A new authorization model is implemented for Planner plans,?which will be a ‘shared container-based’ authorization model, where OneDrive and SharePoint Online files can be linked to plans to provide users with access to the plan if they have access to the shared container. This means that file-based authorization for plans will provide streamlined access to roster-backed plans that are connected to one or more SharePoint Online/OneDrive files.

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