Update for Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery legal holds, and Information Governance and Records Management re

We are enhancing Core eDiscovery, Advanced eDiscovery legal holds, Information Governance and Records Management retention policies by:

  • Improving scalability and performance to reduce the number of hold distribution errors and to support growing number of tenants onboarding to service. 
  • Locking a pending hold or pending policy from updates (e.g. cancelling, deleting, editing), resulting in more reliable and predictable service.

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Microsoft Teams: PowerShell support for team templates

Admins will be able to use PowerShell to obtain a list of team templates available in the tenant, to view details of team templates, and to create/edit/delete team templates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70698.

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Licensing updates for Compliance Manager premium assessments

As previously mentioned via in-product messaging and in our service description, we are updating licensing requirements for Compliance Manager premium assessments. This will impact your continued use of premium assessment templates.

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Microsoft Teams: manage template access using template policies

With this update, you can create policies to manage templates that your end users can access when they create a new team while they are using either Teams desktop (Windows/Mac) or Teams on the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70701.

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First delete dialog alert for OneDrive files

With this update, we show your end users a warning message the first time that they delete file(s) from the OneDrive sync client (Windows and Mac). The warning advises that their file will be deleted from OneDrive everywhere and teaches the user about the OneDrive recycle bin where they can restore their file if necessary.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70702.

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Microsoft Forms – Increased form limits

Microsoft Forms currently limits forms/quizzes to 200 per user/group and provides a bonus 200 specific for polls. We are increasing these limits to 400 forms/quizzes per user/group; the bonus poll quota will also increase to 400.

When this will happen

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Changes to Search in Microsoft Stream (Classic)

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates that (a) one or more users in your organization are using Microsoft Stream and (b) your videos are stored in Microsoft’s North Europe data center.

Starting March 1, 2021, and on an ongoing basis, your users may not be able to view, search, or edit automatically-generated transcripts for videos that have not been viewed in the prior six (6) months or that have not been edited or uploaded by users in the prior six (6) months.

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Announcing OneDrive for Business location picker support for security groups and distribution lists

Data loss prevention (DLP) for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker.

This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70708

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New Video only Meeting stage experience

We strive to ensure that we are providing notification of changes proactively and we apologize that we did not make our commitment with this change.

A recent change has enabled a new Video only Meeting stage. With this new meeting layout experience, video-only participants will fill the meeting layout even if they aren’t dominant speakers.

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Reminder: Microsoft 365 apps and services ending support on IE11 after August 17, 2021

As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft 365 apps and services will be focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the coming year. As a result, Microsoft 365 apps and services will no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) after August 17, 2021; after this date, Microsoft 365 apps and services will be unable to connect, or have a degraded feature experience, when accessed on IE11.

For a full list of Microsoft apps with intentions to end support on IE11, please see this Docs page.

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