Retirement of Legacy Microsoft Defender Online Alerts

Based on customer feedback and tendency to surface false positives in investigations, Microsoft 365 Defender is retiring a number of default alert policies. These legacy alerts are past their intended usage.

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New Teams Powered Encoder events

Create highly-polished events, featuring live streams, screen overlays, and more. The new RTMP-In encoder for Teams Live Events will also allow your Teams Live Events to have all the features and external encoder support that Microsoft Stream offered for Teams Live Events. In addition, we will support public events, in addition to organization-wide events 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84960

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Important information about your Microsoft Power Apps service

As part of a service update designed to improve security within Microsoft Power Apps, we will upgrade jQuery from 2.1.1 to version 3.6.0 next week.

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Viva Insights will stop processing Window 10 or 11 Activity history

Viva Insights will stop processing Windows 10 or 11 application activity history data to compute personal insights such as time spent in documents even if both users and organization’s IT administrator opt users in.

Viva Insights will continue to process data from these sources to offer data-driven, privacy-protected personal insights:

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OneDrive: Folder Backup for macOS

Folder Backup enables an admin and/or end-user to redirect the local macOS Desktop and Documents folder to OneDrive.  This allows the end user to keep using those folders to save their content while delivering the protection and access anywhere promise that OneDrive offers.  The feature and relative list entries are very similar to the Folder Backup experience that has been on Windows for a while.

Note: If your organization does not use macOS you can safely disregard this message.

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Important information about your Microsoft Dynamic 365 service

This message is to inform you that the Microsoft Dynamic 365 service is updating how User Management background jobs created within your environment will be processed.

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Retiring Turn On File Synchronization Via SOAP Over HTTP

We are removing the “Turn on file synchronization via SOAP Over HTTP” policy from Group Policy. This policy allows IT admins to turn file synchronization via SOAP over HTTP on or off for Office.

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Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 – General Availability

The Emissions Impact Dashboard (EID) for Microsoft 365 is a Power BI application that quantifies carbon emissions associated with your organization’s usage of Microsoft 365 applications like Exchange, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams. Power BI Pro users will now be able to install the generally available version of EID for Microsoft 365.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82196

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Announcing Microsoft Teams Premium

Today, we are excited to announce Microsoft Teams Premium. Built on the familiar, all-in-one collaboration experience of Microsoft Teams, this new offering makes every meeting from 1:1s to large meetings, to virtual appointments to webinars more personalized, intelligent, and secure. Unlike the disconnected experience and costs of multiple point products or add-ons, with Teams Premium you get advanced meeting solutions you need for just one low price.

As part of the Teams Premium announcement, these existing features will move to Teams Premium when it becomes available in February.

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Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Performance improvement for Microsoft Teams DLP policies

We’re rolling out an update for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to improve the performance of DLP policies to block sensitive information from being shared via Teams chat and channel messages. 

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