We are excited to introduce Microsoft Forms’ live presentation capabilities, offering a new way to share your forms or quizzes in any online or in-person event.
Embed the live present capability to Forms PowerPoint Add-on, with just a QR scan or short URL, audiences can participate in live surveys and view real-time responses, Presenters can stay in the presentation flow without opening another browser and jumping across screens.
We have made some recent changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in December 2022 that we would be retiring Remote Power Shell (RPS) protocol for Exchange Online. In April 2023 we disabled RPS for all new tenants and in May 2023, we disabled RPS for passive tenants. We have now started disabling RPS for active tenants from June 2023.
Today we have turned off RPS protocol in your tenant.
We will be retiring the “Tasks that seems important” section from the Task suggestions feature in Microsoft To Do.
When this will happen:
Today, Tuesday, July 11th, 2023, we announced that Azure Active Directory will be rebranded as ‘Microsoft Entra ID’. Historically this service has been represented under the service name ‘Identity Service’, within Service health and Message center experience. To align on the changes included in today’s announcement, ‘Identity Service’ will be rebranded to ‘Microsoft Entra’ and represent Service health and change communications for that family of products.
When this will happen:
Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals
We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:
Microsoft Entra ID is the new name for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD).
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When default labeling of files is enabled in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows, a default sensitivity label is applied to any unlabeled document when it is saved. To improve user confidence that default labeling is functioning, the sensitivity bar will now indicate that a label will be applied on next save when the user opens a new or previously unlabeled file.
When this will happen:
We are making changes to the product listing when creating a new support request in the Help + support page within the Power Platform admin center. Starting on April 7, 2023, this update will begin rolling out per our normal deployment schedule.
On August 1, 2023August 1, 2023, we will roll out minor changes to several of the Power Platform SKU names to better clarify the capabilities included in each SKU:
As mentioned in previous message center posts (MC516263, February ’23), Microsoft is retiring Stream (Classic). Some of the retirement dates for Stream (Classic) have been extended. The new retirement date is April 15, 2024. Certain parts of the service will retire sooner unless you take action, so make sure you review the retirement timeline, prepare your users for this change, and start migrating. The successor service Stream (on SharePoint) is currently available for all customers to begin using. Encourage your users to upload and manage videos in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Viva Engage directly.
See the full retirement timeline for more details: Migration & retirement timeline.
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