Conditional Access Improvements for the Microsoft Lists App for Android

We recently announced the launch of the Microsoft Lists app for Android. The app was launched with App Protection Policy (APP, also known as MAM) and its support for the Require app protection policy grant control. We are happy to share that Microsoft Lists will now also supports the Conditional Access (CA) grant control, Require approved client app, like other Microsoft 365 apps, such as SharePoint.

Note: The app is currently available to members of organizations that have an Office 365 or Microsoft 365 commercial subscription that includes SharePoint. You will need to sign in with your OrgID (Azure Active Directory credentials). 

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Microsoft Bookings Mobile Apps will not be available on Google Play store and Apple App Store from December 1, 2022

Microsoft Bookings is part of Microsoft 365 suite of products. It is currently available on the Web, as a Teams App and also as Mobile Apps on Google Play store and Apple App store. We will be retiring the Mobile Apps for Android and IOS on December 1, 2022 and we will be investing our resources on improving the mobile web experience of Bookings. 

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Maintain label when creating PDF files from VBA in Office apps (preview)

As recently announced, Microsoft Office is shipping a new feature that enables PDFs created from Office using Export to PDF to inherit the source document’s labels or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF. With this rollout, we are introducing a temporary mitigation to allow you time to update your add-ins. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93406.

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Dynamics 365 Unified Interface – Grid columns shrink when selecting a row

On Monday, September 19, 2022, we received user reports that, following a recent service update, grids column width decreases when selecting a record.

Our investigation identified that the impact for this issue began Monday, September 19, 2022, 2:20 AM (1:20 AM UTC) , and determined that it was caused by an upgrade to a third-party component used by grids. This component has a different behavior for column sizing, causing your grid to not fill the available space on your page.

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Microsoft Viva: New Admin tab interface in Viva Learning

Viva Learning is an enterprise learning and training experience that acts as a one-step solution for all the learning needs of your organization. If your enterprise is already using Viva Learning, admins will notice a change in the appearance of the Admin tab in Viva Learning.

This new capability allows the Admin tab to act as a toolbox for admins to manage the learning requirements for their organization. The new Admin tab, which will have a Feature set capability, will be released on September 16, 2022. New admin capabilities for Viva Learning will continue being released going forward.

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Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Retirement of classic case format

We’re retiring the “classic” case format option from the eDiscovery (Premium) case creation page starting November 1, 2022. Instead we recommend the utilization of the eDiscovery (Premium) “new” case format, which features improved performance and additional capabilities, and where we will continue to invest our development resources.  

How this will affect your organization:

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Major Update to Stream Mobile App

We plan to release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android. The rebuilt app will give your users seamless access to Stream (Classic) and Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app also includes a design refresh, a personalized home feed, and a rich video viewing experience.

If your users currently have the Stream mobile app installed on phones or tablets and they have automatic updates turned on, then they will automatically receive the app update when it becomes available to them. Users who have the Stream mobile app who have automatic updates turned off will receive the updated version when they explicitly update the app from the respective app/play store.

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Restricted access to Microsoft Teams data via Exchange Web Services

Microsoft will start restricting access via Exchange Web Services (EWS) to Teams message data starting on January 31st, 2023. Fully supported access to Teams message data is available through the Microsoft Graph Teams Export API. Teams Export APIs allow you to export 1:1, group chat, meeting chats, and channel messages from Microsoft Teams.

Note: If your organization has not developed an application leveraging EWS you can safely disregard this message.

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Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement actions for impersonation protection and SharePoint Online

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of your organization’s security posture.

This update will include these new recommendations as Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions:

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View the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results

When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

The feature will be rolling out for Teams Desktop and Web clients and is applicable to message results on the SERP page and the contextual search surfaces.

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