Attention: We will be retiring Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center (SCC) from the Security Portal beginning October 5th, 2021.
The service communications API in Microsoft Graph is now available! Following the preview announcement (MC257688 in May 2021), this API provides access to Message center and Service health posts for your tenant, and replaces the previous Service Communications API.
With the new API now broadly available, we will be retiring the legacy version of the Service Communications API beginning December 17th, 2021.
We’re making some changes to Microsoft 365 Reports in the admin center. Reports found in the Microsoft 365 admin center provide information about your organization’s usage data. By default, reports currently display information with identifiable names for users, groups, and sites. beginning next month, user information will now be hidden by default for all reports as part of our ongoing commitment to help companies support their local Privacy laws.
NOTE: This change is specific to administrative and report reader roles.
Attention: The rollout for the below changes, which were communicated earlier (March MC248005), has been delayed. The new timeline is late September through late October 2021.
Updated April 29, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Beginning on September 2, 2021, we are changing the name of the Data subject request tool to User data search and moving the tool under the eDiscovery drop down in the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center.
How this will affect your organization:
With Intune’s August (2108) service release, we are making reporting improvements which includes moving the Endpoint Security configuration report to be combined with the Device configuration report. This will allow you to view all policies applied to devices in one report and see the distinction of profile types in the new “Policy type” column.
How this will affect your organization:
Admins may receive a link to download attachments in a message tagged as Data Privacy on Message Center (Some messages with the Data Privacy tag may not include a link to attachments). The link will download a single attachment file, or multiple files within a single zip file should multiple attachments be included in the message. The attachments will include additional information about the message and admins are encouraged to refer to attachments to gain additional insight into the described scenario. The attachments will not include any sensitive data but may be used to communicate additional information about an event impacting sensitive data. For example, attachments may include a script that admins can leverage to determine which users were affected by a given event, or files containing translatable data. Access to the download link will be governed by admin roles for Message Center and will be accessible to admins with Global Admin and Privacy Reader role only.
When this will happen:
We are updating our receiving limits in Exchange to help prevent attacks on your mail flow experience. Earlier this year in (February MC239262) we announced a stricter enforcement of our mailbox receiving limits. Taking your feedback into consideration, we are releasing an additional limit to block single-sender mail storms and deter DoS attacks.
Our mailbox receiving limits, as previously stated, apply to the messages received by a Microsoft Office 365 mailbox. If volume exceeds 3,600 messages in a given 60-minute window, the mailbox will no longer accept messages from the Internet, from other tenants, or from on-premises senders.
As mentioned in MC259655, with the Microsoft Intune August (2108) service release, we will be removing the Threat agent status report from the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center (Devices > Monitor > Threat agent status).
How this will affect your organization:
Beginning July 22, 2021 there will be a new process to interact with the PSTN service desk for your requests for phone number porting and phone number ordering support. You will now be able to open tickets, view tickets, and track communication in the brand new Phone Number Service Center portal that will be integrated with the Teams Admin Center!
Note: This transition has already been announced via outgoing emails on existing requests, and new requests submitted via email will receive a response pointing the requestor at the new process.
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