To provide IT admins the ability to self-serve device reregistration without the requirement of opening a service request with the Windows Autopatch support team, Windows Autopatch has made generally available on July 31, 2023, the restore device feature within its end-user experience in the Microsoft Intune admin portal.
How will this affect your organization:
As mentioned in MC579608, later this year, we expect macOS 14 Sonoma to be released by Apple. Microsoft Intune, the Company Portal app and the Intune MDM agent will be moving to support macOS 12 (Monterey) and later. Since the Company Portal app for iOS and macOS are a unified app, this change will occur shortly after the release of iOS/iPadOS 17. This does not affect existing, enrolled devices.
How this will affect your organization:
We are preparing an update that will allow record owners to view all users who have access to their record(s). This update is expected to be released by the end of September.
Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals
We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:
We are introducing a change in the way default admin passwords are managed in the configuration profiles for Android based Teams devices in Teams admin center.
Starting mid-September, 2023, we will no longer display the value of the default admin password set in the configuration profiles. This change is designed to further enhance the device security.
The Activity-Based Authentication Timeout for Outlook on the web will be replaced by Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365.
When this will happen:
Eligible Viva Engage (Yammer) networks are being automatically upgraded to native mode. If you have already received an approved exemption, that exemption is still valid for the approved date. No further exemptions are being granted.
Due to the high volume of migrations, the completion time for some automatic and self-service migrations may be longer than expected. Once notified about automatic migration, no action is required.
Exchange online protection (EOP)/ Defender for Office 365 (MDO) customers who want to send phishing simulation emails, need to configure advance delivery policy for optimal behavior. This policy will ensure that emails that match your conditions are delivered unfiltered to the Inbox and that safe links time of click protection and post-delivery actions are disabled. Previously, EOP supported this scenario for some phishing simulation vendors by honoring admin configured Exchange transport rules stamping SCL -1 or the header (X-MS-ExchangeOrganizationPhishTraining). But this was a temporary solution and will be discontinued soon. We advise all customers who use phishing simulation products to configure advance delivery policy for a smooth product experience.
How this will affect your organization:
New improvements are coming to Microsoft 365 Apps admin center’s servicing profile and inventory to reduce admin burden and help build confidence to move to Monthly Updates. This will include changes to some of your Settings, and retirement of some device selection criteria. Below is an overview of changes and potential actions you can do to prepare for change.
We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.
When this will happen:
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