Microsoft Bookings Mobile Apps will not be available on Google Play store and Apple App Store from December 1, 2022

Microsoft Bookings is part of Microsoft 365 suite of products. It is currently available on the Web, as a Teams App and also as Mobile Apps on Google Play store and Apple App store. We will be retiring the Mobile Apps for Android and IOS on December 1, 2022 and we will be investing our resources on improving the mobile web experience of Bookings. 

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Maintain label when creating PDF files from VBA in Office apps (preview)

As recently announced, Microsoft Office is shipping a new feature that enables PDFs created from Office using Export to PDF to inherit the source document’s labels or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF. With this rollout, we are introducing a temporary mitigation to allow you time to update your add-ins. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93406.

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Microsoft Bookings – Old Web Version Will Be Retired on November 14

Microsoft Bookings is part of the Microsoft 365 Suite of products and is available through most commercial SKUs. It is available on the Web. The new version of Bookings was launched last year and is the default experience for all new users. This version introduces many new features. Currently, users have the option to switch back to the old version.

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Exchange Online Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval Coming Soon

A common request from Exchange Online admins is for the ability to customize the message expiration timeout interval for messages sent by users in their organization. When a message in Exchange Online can’t be delivered or sent due to a temporary error, the message is queued for subsequent retries until either the message is delivered or sent, or until the message expires after the message expiration timeout interval has passed. In Exchange Online the service-wide default setting is 24 hours. With this update, we’ll now give admins the ability to customize the message expiration timeout interval for their organization from 12 hours to 24 hours.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93315

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams

End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New cmdlet for exporting Activity explorer logs (GA)

Currently available in public preview (MC400567), we’re introducing a new cmdlet option in Security & Compliance PowerShell to enable export of all Activity explorer log data.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93281.

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New access point for Microsoft Intune Help and support

This week, Intune’s Help and support resource has a new access point in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center to make it easier to troubleshoot or create a support case. Now, you are able to access support and perform topic-specific searches in context via the ? icon near your profile picture rather than being directed away from the current screen.

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Outlook: Policy to Enable/Disable the new Outlook for Windows for an entire organization

The new Outlook for Windows desktop client is available to customers in the Office Insiders Beta Channel. We will continue to roll out the option to try this preview client to Office Insiders in Current Channel (Preview) starting in early October to provide the best emailing experience for your employees. If you do not want your employees previewing this new client yet, we are also releasing a policy to disable access to the client for any of your organizations.

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Microsoft Viva: Present Topic answers in Context Region from Search

Moving Topics answer from mainline to Context Region to build up the search pattern to find knowledge entities in right panel.

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Microsoft Viva: Topics in Outlook Desktop

Learn more about topics being discussed in your organization without leaving Outlook Desktop. With this feature, Viva Topics can detect that a topic is mentioned in the email that is currently in focus in read mode. In this case, Viva Topics will prompt the user to open the Viva Insights panel where they can see a list of all topics referenced in the email along with a view of the topic descriptions and the people/resources associated with the topics.

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