Today, Entra ID (Azure AD) Multifactor Authentication supports delivering one-time passcodes (OTPs) via text message. These texts get sent to the default messaging app on a user’s phone depending on the phone’s operating system. To help deliver OTPs to users on their preferred messaging platform, Entra ID will roll out delivery to WhatsApp in select regions.
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A new admin setting will appear soon in the Power BI admin portal for Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration. The new setting is titled “Users can view Power BI files saved in OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview) – UPDATE“. This setting will be ON by default starting in early October unless you take action before September 29th, 2023. The setting will have the exact same functionality as the current setting for “Users can view Power BI items saved in OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview)“.
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The User data search case tool is retiring, and its functionality is merging with eDiscovery Standard as of August 30th, 2023. The previous cases created will be available in the eDiscovery Standard solution going forward.
We recently made Microsoft Authenticator Lite (for Outlook) Generally Available. Until now, a prerequisite to using this feature was to have Microsoft Authenticator enabled in the modern Authentication methods policy. We’re now also making it available as a part of the “Notifications through mobile app” method in the legacy, per-user MFA policy.
Note: We strongly recommend migrating your authentication methods to the Authentication methods policy. The ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy, per-user MFA policy will be retired September 30th, 2024.
If your organization is not using the Twitter web part or has disabled it via PowerShell (Use the Twitter web part) in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 this notification may be safely disregarded.
Due to a change in Twitter’s terms of use for third-party access, the Twitter web part in SharePoint in Microsoft 365 will no longer be supported and will be removed from the web part toolbox, as well as from any Microsoft-produced site templates.
Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams is now generally available for all users of Microsoft Defender for Collaboration.
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We have updated the experience to resolve Office document conflicts in the OneDrive sync app.
Previously, clicking the “Resolve” action on a conflict would require the user to choose between opening the file in the Office desktop app to merge changes or keeping both versions of the file (forking the document and appending the computer’s name to the forked file). After this change, the user can only open the document with a conflict in Office to merge the changes. The option to fork the document will be removed.
This is an enhancement to the security measures for administrative governance that modifies the default procedures for application registration and permission updates. Following the implementation of this change, site owners will be unable to register applications or update permissions unless authorized explicitly by the tenant administrator.
Upon attempting to register an application, a notification will be displayed stating “Your SharePoint admin doesn’t allow site owners to create an Azure Access Control (ACS) principal. Please contact your SharePoint administrator.”
Microsoft Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) uses activity from your users to install and surface apps that admins have already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable AAA to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams. Specifically, when a user signs into specific SaaS apps using Azure AD (e.g. in web browser), the app will be installed for that user on Teams.
This feature is Generally Available as OFF by default and can be turned ON by admins in Teams Admin Center.
We are currently working to improve user experience by providing a coherent profile photo experience across Microsoft 365. This primarily impacts those users of SharePoint online (SPO) who neither have an exchange license or are using Delve for uploading images. This may also impact a small number of SPO admin who upload the user profile image on behalf of the end users.
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