Tenant Allow/Block List will allow related URLs

Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan. 

Email messages can be blocked because of a bad URL where the URL is a matched based on a sub path or portion of the URL contained in the message. In the case of a legitimate email getting blocked, this was difficult to correct through a submission. We have updated the way that we handle allowed URLs such that the partial matching behavior is included without the need to include wild cards or making multiple URL submissions.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 27, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Easier to filter and sort messages reported by users

Applicable to Tenants with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Plan 1 or Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 Defender plan.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 27, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for legacy Microsoft Teams call data records

Microsoft Teams call data records (CDRs) are system-generated artifacts that contain information about meetings – for example, who joined and when they joined.

Currently, retention policies for Teams (user chats, standard channels, shared channels, and private channel user messages) only apply to CDRs that were generated after September 21st, 2022. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Teams Personal Tabs in Outlook for Android

Teams Personal Tabs will now appear on Outlook for Android. This will complete the changes announced in Oct 2022 in the Outlook Blog

Teams apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor. After the user or admin installs the app on Teams or Outlook, the personal tab will now appear automatically in Outlook for Android. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 24, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 admin center: Bring your own domain to use for Microsoft 365 product emails

Email notifications from products within Microsoft 365 are sent out to users in various ways. In many cases the emails are sent out from the user but there are system emails, like alerts, batched, or digest emails. These are sent from various product-specific no-reply email addresses, like no-reply@sharepointonline.com, no-reply@planner.com, no-reply@project.com.

Opting into this change means that administrators can select a verified domain to use for these emails. All products and features mentioned in the supported products link provided below can utilize this feature across Microsoft 365 and the support article will be updated as products onboard to utilize the setting. Emails will be routed to your Exchange Online instance within your tenant and the emails will then be sent out to your users from your tenant.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 22, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Data export features available within the Viva Engage Admin Center

Next month, the same tenant and user data export experiences currently available in the Yammer admin center will also be available within the Viva Engage admin center for Microsoft Viva customers. Global admins, Engage admins (Yammer administrators AAD) and Yammer Network admins can export data from within the Viva Engage admin center in addition to the Yammer admin center.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Bookings end point URL for customers will change

The self-schedule URL for the Microsoft Bookings Calendar, which is the customer facing URL for your Bookings Calendar to create/update/cancel appointments will be changed.  

Existing URL format:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Retention policy support for Microsoft Teams control messages

Microsoft Teams control messages are system-generated artifacts that contain information about actions taken in Teams – for example, adding or removing a user from a chat. These messages show up on the Teams client as system messages. Ex. User A added User B to the chat and shared all chat history. More information on these types of messages can be found here.

Until now, control messages were not included in the supported types of messages for retention policies for Teams (user chats, standard channels, shared channels, and private channel user messages).

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 17, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Migrate your Outlook COM/VSTO add-ins to web add-ins model supported in the new Outlook for Windows

We recently announced the expansion of new Outlook for Windows to Current Channel users in April 2023, with the goal of providing a unified, modern and robust Outlook experience across desktop and web.

One of the top feedback items we hear today is that Outlook works differently on different platforms, making it hard for tenants to manage, and for users to seamlessly use it across endpoints. With the new Outlook for Windows, our goal is to bring rapid access to new features through a shared codebase and ensure platform consistency and robustness.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 16, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Modern Authentication Settings Update

Over the past few months, we have turned off Basic Auth for specific protocols in Exchange Online. We are now making changes to the Admin Center to remove some redundant controls.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Mar 15, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments