Retirement of RBAC Application Impersonation in Exchange Online

We are announcing the retirement of the ApplicationImpersonation Role Based Access Control (RBAC) role in Exchange Online. 

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Planned Maintenance – Windows Autopatch configuration update – March 2024

Planned Maintenance: As part of our routine device management services, we will deploy the next update of the Windows Autopatch baseline (version 2403) to your Microsoft Entra ID organization (tenant). 

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February skilling snacks: Bite-sized learning for IT pros

Visit our updated learning series on all things Windows. Every two weeks, we package available resources on a different topic in a way that is easy to consume in under two hours each. This professional development opportunity is appropriate for all skill levels, from entry-level to senior and seasoned.  

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Updated Alerts and Incidents tab in the Microsoft Defender XDR services Identity page

We are aligning the Alerts and Incidents tab experience in the Microsoft Defender XDR services Identity page with other assets pages in the security.microsoft.com portal. Currently, the Device page and other asset pages use a common template for Alert and Incident, which the User page has now adopted. 

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Planned Maintenance: Windows Autopatch will preset OfficeMgmtCom to false

We have maintenance planned for: Windows Autopatch

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Moving admin center controls for Microsoft Search in Bing and Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Bing, Edge, and Windows

To provide additional flexibility in managing Search for your organization, Microsoft Search in Bing and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Bing, Edge, and Windows will no longer be managed by a single control in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Bing, Edge, and Windows will be managed using a PowerShell script.

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Microsoft Defender XDR: Offboarding scripts now expire in 3 days

To fortify the security measures within your organization, we have adjusted the expiration time for the offboarding script obtained through the Microsoft Defender XDR portal.

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Microsoft 365 admin center: Improved view of service health issue details

We are introducing a new version of the service health issue details screen in Microsoft 365 admin center. This screen appears when you click on an incident or advisory on the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

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Message center experience updates

We are making a few small changes to Message center post flyouts to help improve readability.

  • a high-level summary of the post on top of the flyout
  • a large flyout view with a separate metadata section on the right side

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Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC) will be retired on April 30, 2024

Privileged Access Management (PAM) for Microsoft Graph Data Connect (MGDC) will be retired – all tenants must use the new MGDC onboarding experience after this date. If your tenant is already using the new onboarding experience, you may disregard this message.

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