Reminder: Private Unlisted Groups Deprecated in Yammer – 1 Day Warning

As part of the Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks being upgraded, Private unlisted (“secret”) groups in Yammer will be retired on December 1, 2022. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message Center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414). You can read more about the retirement of Unlisted groups in this blog post which covers the announcement of three features due for deprecation beginning December 1, 2022.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 30, 2022 Yammer 0 Comments

Reminder: Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

As previously announced in MC447307 (October ’22), the Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant.

Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 29, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Power Platform admin center – Planned maintenance impacting support case creation

We have maintenance planned for the Power Platform admin center.

Maintenance window start: 3 December 2022, 16:00 UTC

Maintenance window end: 4 December 2022, 00:00 UTC

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 29, 2022 Power Apps 0 Comments

Viva Topics: Update to the experience for collecting feedback on AI quality and correctness through the Topic Card

You will soon see an updated experience on the Topic Card to better request feedback from users on the quality of a suggested highlight on SharePoint modern pages, and the quality of a suggested topics and its suggested properties. The questions have not changed, but the experience is more noticeable and has a new option to respond with “Not sure”. You can learn more about Topic curation and feedback here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/topics/topic-experiences-discovery-curation#topic-curation-and-feedback

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98113

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 29, 2022 Viva Topics 0 Comments

Microsoft 365 admin center: New ways to find advanced deployment guides

The Advanced deployment guides & assistance page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website are both getting new looks and additional features. We’re updating the search tools, recommendations, and layout of both locations so it’ll be easier to find guides for the product you’re deploying. Included in the new layout are views that highlight guides for Secure Score, Compliance Score, and Adoption Score improvement. You’ll also see new guides on setup.microsoft.com that are currently available only within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102402

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 25, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Announcing the retirement of ‘Getting Started’ in the Expanded View of the Power BI Service

The Power BI Service’s expanded view gives you the option to view “Getting Started” content at the end of your Home Page. From the “Getting Started” section, you can utilize information on how to get started using Power BI, tips and tricks on how to create/utilize reports and dashboards, etc.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 23, 2022 Power BI 0 Comments

Health dashboard moving to admin center homepage

A new Dashboard page was added to the Health section of the Microsoft 365 admin center in July 2022. Based on feedback from users, it is being moved out of the Health section to become an optional view on the admin center homepage. You can switch from the traditional dashboard view to the health view by clicking the on the top right hand of the homepage.

The original service health page remains in the Health section with no changes.  

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 23, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all Microsoft Authenticator users

Microsoft Authenticator App’s number matching is Generally Available! Microsoft will start enabling this critical security feature for all users of the Microsoft Authenticator app.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 21, 2022 Identity Service 0 Comments

Retiring 3 entry points to access contents from the SharePoint mobile app

We will be retiring 3 entry points to access contents from the SharePoint mobile app; instead, we recommend the utilization of the search bar, save for later, and other avenues in the SharePoint mobile app to access any content. These spaces were just shortcuts to access contents, but the users can still access them in SharePoint just not at these spaces after the retirement.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 21, 2022 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

AntiMalware Default Policy: Common Attachment Filter Settings Updates

We are making some changes to the common attachment filter settings for the Default policy (only) in the Anti-malware policy. The earlier default selection value of the ‘Quarantine the message‘ is now changed to ‘Reject the message with NDR’. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 18, 2022 Exchange Online 0 Comments