Basic Authentication retirement in Microsoft 365 Apps

Microsoft 365 Apps are disabling server sign-in prompts using Basic authentication in Office Apps. We are making this change because basic authentication is a legacy authentication method that sends a username and password with each request. As a result, an attacker can access these credentials and use them to access resources. Continued use of Basic Authentication is a big security concern, so we have decided to deprecate it from all tenants.

We will retire this feature in Office Apps version 2209+. Instead, we recommend moving to a more secure authentication method, preferably Modern Authentication, and enabling multi-factor authentication based on OAuth2.0 token-based auth.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 2, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Attention required: New Power Platform URLs used by Power Apps and Power Platform admin center

Microsoft Power Platform will begin relying on a new cloud service dependency called Power Platform API. This is updated in our documentation available at Power Platform URLs and IP address ranges.

The Power Apps End-user and Maker experiences, as well as Power Platform admin center experiences, will leverage this new API internally, as will more Power Platform experiences over time.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 2, 2022 Power Apps 0 Comments

[Update] jQuery 2.1.1 retirement in Microsoft Power Apps service

As part of a recent service update designed to improve security within Microsoft Power Apps, we recently upgraded jQuery from 2.1.1 to version 3.6.0, which made jquery-2.1.1.min.js unavailable within your environment. We have restored jquery-2.1.1.min.js for use in your environment on Friday, October 21, 2022, and have temporarily postponed its retirement until October 2023.

How does this affect me?

We have detected that your environment is utilizing our jQuery static resource endpoint. This update should unblock scripts and files that utilized hardcoded links to the previous jQuery version and were affected by this recent change.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 2, 2022 Power Apps 0 Comments

Multiple Yammer Networks Within Single Tenant No Longer Supported (1:Many Mode)

Yammer is committed to strengthening the alignment of Yammer to Microsoft 365. This means we will no longer support tenants having more than one non-external Yammer network. This change will ensure Yammer networks have the same organizational boundaries as their corresponding Microsoft 365 tenants.

Why is this happening now?

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 2, 2022 Yammer 0 Comments

IE11 desktop app will be permanently disabled as part of the February 2023 Windows security update (“B”) release

As previously announced, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop app has been retired as of June 15, 2022. IE11 retirement is occurring through two phases:

1. A redirection phase, currently in progress with devices progressively redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge
2. An upcoming Windows Update phase that includes IE11 being permanently disabled. The Windows security update (“B”) release that will permanently disable IE11 is scheduled to be available for roll out on February 14, 2023.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Outlook for Windows: Cloud Signatures Coming Soon

Upgrades to how your email signatures are managed will be launching soon. These enhancements change where the signature data is stored from per-device to per-account. This means the same set of signatures will be available on any Windows (Microsoft 365) or Web version of Outlook, and you will no longer need to reconfigure your signatures when getting a new device.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 60371

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 28, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Change in Item Insights behaviour in Delve and the Microsoft Graph Trending API

We’re making some changes to the user experience in Delve and how it relates to the Item Insights toggle.

Until now, users (or groups of users) who have had item insights turned off have not themselves been able to use collaborative experiences like Delve. As an example, when a user who has disabled item insights opens the Delve home page, it has shown an empty page. This will change on December 1, 2022. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 27, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Announcing retirement of the legacy mail flow rules UX in the classic Exchange admin center

The retirement process of the mail flow rules user experience in the classic Exchange admin center begins at the end of November. The legacy UX is no longer the default page in the new EAC and is available only in the classic EAC and only until it is retired. This is part of our ongoing transition to move away from the classic EAC for mail flow management, and it is a continuation of our migration to the new EAC (admin.exchange.microsoft.com).

The new mail flow rules UX is now the default experience in the new EAC. Please begin to familiarize yourself with the new experience. Although the UX has been modernized, you will find that most of the workflows have remained the same to ensure a smooth transition.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 25, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

As previously announced in MC415083 (August ’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.

When will this happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 20, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Alert/sms retirement update

We are retiring the ability to trigger Alerts/SMS content messages through the Defender for Cloud Apps portal. Instead, we recommend the utilization of Microsoft Power Automate, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Oct 19, 2022 Uncategorized 0 Comments