Windows 365: Windows 365 availability on GCC

Windows 365 services will be available on US Government Cloud. 

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Change in Activity Log experience for activities older than 30 days

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is making some changes to the Activity Log experience to align with Microsoft 365 Defender for upcoming unified investigation and hunting experiences. Activity log queries will apply to activities logged in the last 30 days.

Note: All activities will continue to be retained for 180 days.

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Reminder: IE11 desktop application retires in 3 months on June 15, 2022 – Set up IE mode today (non-LTSC, non-Server)

As previously announced (MC306663 – Dec), the future of Internet Explorer on Windows is in Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer mode (IE mode) provides legacy browser support within Microsoft Edge. Because of this, the IE11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, on certain versions of Windows 10. This means that the IE11 desktop application will no longer be supported and afterwards will redirect to Microsoft Edge if a user tries to access it.

With 3 months left before retirement, we highly recommend you begin testing your sites in IE mode, followed by disabling the IE11 application completely via policy to ensure readiness.

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Whiteboard: Connected experience controls

Microsoft Whiteboard on Windows, Teams, web, mobile, and Surface Hub applications will support optional connected experiences, with Windows and Surface Hub applications supporting them after upgrade to the new client. The only optional connected experience that will be available initially is the ability for users to provide feedback using Microsoft Feedback portal, with additional features being added in the future. Tenants can opt-out of these experiences within their Office policies, and Individual users will be able to opt-out of these features within the Whiteboard application.
More info: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2189610

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Office app: Notification Center for tablets and iPad

Find all alerts and notifications from the Office app in the Notification Center.

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SharePoint: Site template history

View the history of any site templates applied to your site and related site script actions.

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Introducing Power Platform admin center Home page

We are introducing a new landing page to the Power Platform admin center. Rather than the default environments tab, which displays the list of owned environments, admins will be greeted with the newly introduced Home page.

This new landing page experience for Power Platform admin center is aligned with admin experiences across other Microsoft services.

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Safe Links Global Settings Migrated to Custom Policies

To create a more consistent user experience across all policies in Microsoft Defender for Office portal the following Safe Links policy attributes will be migrated from the Global Settings flyout to the custom policy settings.

Note: Use Safe Links in Office 365 Apps

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Search in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

Teams admin center is rolling out a new preview search experience that enables the administrators to find entities, settings and workflows from a search bar placed at the header of the teams admin center. Administrators will now be able to search for entities like Users, Teams and quickly find them. In addition to this, administrators can search for Settings, Pages and Teams Apps. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83671.

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SharePoint Syntex: Advanced search with custom columns

With this release, end users will be able to add site columns and other queryable columns from the current document library view into the advanced search flyout by clicking “more options”. Managed Metadata fields are not yet supported.

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