Updates to Yammer User Management

Microsoft is making some changes to User Management for Yammer Networks in Native Mode. We’re changing the location where you should add, remove, or bulk update users in your Yammer Network to better reflect what is available to the rest of the Microsoft 365 Suite. Moving forward, all user management activities will happen directly in the AAD User Management Portal.

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Updates coming to SharePoint Site usage report

We are making some updates to the SharePoint usage report within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

  • In phase one, we are adding eight new metrics to the SharePoint usage report.
  • In phase two, we are incorporating two of these new metrics – anonymous link count and company link count – into the definitions for active sites and active files. Thus the number of active sites and active files recorded in the usage report may change. We will also backfill the report with 180 days of data.

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Microsoft have renamed 10 Azure Active Directory roles

In July 2020 and August 2020, (MC218295) Microsoft advised you that would be renaming 10 Azure Active Directory (AD) built-in roles names to make them consistent with those that appear in Microsoft 365 admin center, the Azure AD portal, and Microsoft Graph. After a delay, we are pleased to announce that the rollout is complete.

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Microsoft Teams Revised In-meeting Share Experience

Microsoft Teams desktop users on Windows and Mac will soon have a revised share experience while in meetings.

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Reminder: Configuration Change in Guest access for Microsoft TeamsAction required by 8 Feb 2021

As originally communicated in MC228482 (December ’20), we’re making some changes to the default setting for Guests in Microsoft Teams

Beginning on February 8th, 2021, we are turning on Guest access in Microsoft Teams by default for any customers who have not configured this setting.  This will bring Teams Guest capability into alignment with the rest of the suite, where the setting is already on by default.

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Updated subject lines for email communications from Message center

As part of the renewal of email notifications from Message center, subject lines for “Message Center Major Change Update Notification” and “Message Center Data Privacy Message Notification” will be updated.

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Reminder: Configuration Change in Guest access for Microsoft Teams

As originally communicated in MC228482 (December ’20), we’re making some changes to the default setting for Guests in Microsoft Teams

Beginning on February 8th, 2021, we are turning on Guest access in Microsoft Teams by default for any customers who have not configured this setting.  This will bring Teams Guest capability into alignment with the rest of the suite, where the setting is already on by default.

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Microsoft Teams connector apps webhook URL security improvement

Connectors support in Microsoft Teams is transitioning to a new webhook URL format to enhance security. In the future, connector webhook URLs will contain the name of the tenant in them.

Old URLs continue to work for now, but users will be prompted to re-create connectors.

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Microsoft Secure Score and Microsoft Teams integration

We are adding our first security recommendation for Microsoft Teams.

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Meetings-related metric updates in user activity report for better insights clarity

We’re updating user activity report metrics in Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center.

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