To enhance data integrity and improve the overall reliability of the service, we are retiring support for external XSLT file references for the DataFormWebParts and its sub-classes (e.g. XsltListFormWebPart, XsltListViewWebPart).
This retirement affects only classic SharePoint pages.
We are enhancing Core eDiscovery, Advanced eDiscovery legal holds, Information Governance and Records Management retention policies by:
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
On March 7th, 2021 we will conduct a change in our backend networking infrastructure. This change will result in changes to public IPs of Defender for Endpoint Command and control communication.
Threat Explorer (P2) and Real-time detections (P1) are powerful near real-time tools to help Security Operations teams investigate and respond to threats. Today we provide existing pivots for Detection Technology with User impersonation or Domain impersonation which show all Phish emails caught by our impersonation detection. We are adding new pivots called Impersonated user and Impersonated domain within Threat Explorer to enable Security Operations teams to explicitly hunt for specific protected users or domains within their organization that are targets of impersonation attacks. This additional information related to Impersonated domain(s) and Impersonated user(s) will also be shown in existing Impersonation insight pages and our new Email Entity page.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70613
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.
We are adding a new column for the ‘Reported issues’ view in the Service Health page. We will be adding an ‘Issues’ column that will link recently reported issues from the Report an Issue feature to an Incident or Advisory if applicable.
When this will happen
This message post is a reminder of the ongoing progress of retiring TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 protocols in Microsoft 365.
As previously communicated (MC126199 in Dec 2017, MC128929 in Feb 2018, MC186827 in July 2019, and MC218794 in July 2020), we are moving all our online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ to provide best in class encryption, and to ensure our services is more secure by default. The changes to enforce TLS1.2+ in our service started on October 15, 2020 and will continue to propagate through all Microsoft 365 environments for the next few months. If you have not taken steps to prepare for this change, your connectivity to Microsoft 365 might be impacted.
We will be retiring the features Firstline worker and Firstline manager policy packages. Instead we recommend the utilization of Frontline worker or Frontline Manager policy packages, which is where we will continue to invest.
As part of our rebranding efforts we will be retiring the Firstline worker and Firstline manager policy packages and introduce the Frontline worker and Frontline manager policy packages. The policy settings will remain the same in the new packages.
We are updating the way we enforce our receiving limits in Exchange. Starting in April 2021, we will be more strictly enforcing limits across all mailboxes to protect the health of our systems and ensure optimal mail flow performance for all customers.
Mailboxes that receive high message volume in a short time can cause mail flow delays, both for individual recipients and across your organization.
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