Outlook for the web – End user Reporting integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Exchange Online Protection)

New built-in report buttons will be added to Outlook on the web (OWA) starting the end of November 2022. Admins can control the appearance and behavior of these buttons that allow users to report emails as phishing/ junk / not junk from the User Reported setting page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com). Admins can also customize where messages get reported to (custom mailbox, Microsoft, or both) and what the user sees when they report a message from these buttons. 

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Updating OneDrive for Business end users ability to create service requests directly

The ability of OneDrive users to contact Microsoft directly in the form of support requests will be retired before the end of the calendar year 2022.

Only an administrator will be able to open a support request with Microsoft.

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Microsoft Purview eDiscovery (Premium): List, collection, and jobs usability enhancements

We’re introducing several usability improvements on list pages, collection details, and job-related detail within the eDiscovery (Premium) service in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100707.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Retirement of Reports page

We will be retiring the Reports landing page from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal by the end of December 2022.  

How this will affect your organization:

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Microsoft 365 Support Integration with ServiceNow Virtual Agent

The Microsoft 365 support integration app for ServiceNow can now work with ServiceNow Virtual Agent. This will bring Microsoft self-help services to end-users requesting support through the ServiceNow Virtual Agent chat experience.

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Retirement of Distribution List(DL) to Unified Group(UG) in EAC and PowerShell

We will be retiring the ability to convert a Distribution List (DL) to a Unified Group (UG) from Exchange Admin center (EAC) and PowerShell.

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Update to Defender for Cloud Apps IP Addresses

Defender for Cloud Apps is updating its IP addresses related to ‘App connectors’ and ‘Third-party DLP integration’.

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Automatic migration of legacy Office 365 Message Encryption to Microsoft Purview Message Encryption

Microsoft Purview Message Encryption will replace and retire the legacy Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) in the Exchange admin center. If you don’t do anything, Microsoft will process all mail flow rules that currently applies OME protection to Microsoft Purview Message Encryption protection. With this change, recipients will receive a much more customizable notification mail. 

Starting April 1, 2023, admins will no longer be able to make configuration changes to apply or remove Office 365 Message Encryption protection in mail flow rules. Deployment will begin to automatically apply Microsoft Purview Message encryption in mail flow rules. The deployment will be completed by July 1, 2023. 

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 to stop honoring ReportJunkEmailEnabled in OwaMailboxPolicy

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Exchange Online Protection) will stop honoring ReportJunkEmailEnabled property in OwaMailboxPolicy. Instead, we recommend the utilization of User reported settings page in Microsoft Defender portal, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Planner’s task assignment e-mail notification design update

Microsoft Planner sends out an email notification to users when a new task is assigned to them. We are releasing few changes to the email template to improve the visual design and make the task deep links more relevant to the user.

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