[Updated] Important information about Microsoft Power Automate emails

This retirement will not affect Exchange Online and Exchange on-premises. Customers using basic authentication to connect to Exchange on-premises/Exchange Online can continue to use basic authentication without any changes to Exchange.

There is a separate effort to retire Outlook connecting to Exchange Online using Basic Authentication. Please see Exchange Online – September 2022 Update.

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Reminder: Basic Authentication deprecation in Office Apps

This is a reminder that Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps (originally communicated in MC454810, November ’22). We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access resources. Continued use of Basic Authentication is a big security concern, so we have decided to deprecate it from all tenants.

We will retire this feature in Office Apps version 2301+. Instead, we recommend moving to a more secure authentication method, preferably Modern Authentication, and enabling multi-factor authentication based on OAuth2.0 token-based auth.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: List page usability enhancements

Get a detailed view of all the jobs, collections and exports associated with a review set. Group and filter by columns such as date range to quickly take action on the review set of your interest.

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OneDrive: Updated Files On-Demand Settings on Windows

We are updating the OneDrive sync app settings for Files On-Demand for users who have the feature enabled.

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Outlook: iOS Navigation changes

Outlook for iOS is making it easier to find your contacts, files, and more. A new, customizable navigation bar at the bottom of Outlook is your destination for Mail, Calendar, Feed, Contacts and Files, in whatever order works best for you. The Floating Action Button also gets an update to make creating new items even easier.

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Microsoft Viva: Power BI and Viva Goals integration

Automatically update Viva Goals (Key Results, Projects) with data from Power BI Report.

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Microsoft Teams: New Class & Lecture Meeting Templates

Class and Lecture Meeting Templates help Educators easily set-up highly secure meetings for their classes and lectures!

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Outlook: Bookable time

From Outlook, create bookable time that can be shared with people to book a time with you. This complements the work of Bookings with me.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case migration tool (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature release enables user to move their existing eDiscovery Standard case to eDiscovery Premium’s new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After migration, user has the ability to continue their work in the migrated case following eDiscovery Premium’s workflow pipeline.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser

With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.

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