Announcing the retirement of ‘Office 365 Security and Compliance Center’ (protection.office.com)

We are announcing the final step in the retirement of ‘Office 365 Security and Compliance Center’ (protection.office.com). This is a continuation of our migration to our new portals: the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, and modern Exchange admin center.

As a reminder, the following transitions have already completed:

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Introducing new licenses for Microsoft Teams Rooms Devices

Updated September 8, 2022: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your feedback.

Starting September 6th, 2022, we are replacing the existing Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard and Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium per-device licenses with:

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Reminder – Enhanced antimalware Engine capabilities for Linux: Validate to ensure continued protection

This message is a continued reminder (previously MC399488 Jully ’22) about the enhanced anti-malware Engine for Linux and macOS that we have been rolling out. A few months back we announced the general availability and gradual roll-out of our enhanced anti-malware engine for Linux and macOS.

The new engine has been deployed across thousands of systems already and has been running successfully! You can verify whether you are running the enhanced engine by checking the engine_version from the output of “mdatp health”. If the engine_version starts with”1.x” you are already on the new version.

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Teams Rooms on Android – App version 1449/1.0.96.2022081601 Available

The following updates have been made for Teams Room on Android: App version – 1449/1.0.96.2022081601

  • Teams crops videos to make them fit your screen better. (Microsoft Teams Rooms are excluded from this cropping by default to give you an uncropped view of meeting rooms. Learn more at Adjust your view in a Teams meeting)
  • Enabling Fit to frame automatically for incoming Videos from other Microsoft Teams Room devices.
  • Improvements and bugfixes for Video related issues
  • Support for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro and Microsoft Teams Room Basic licenses

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Safe Attachments policy: Retire policy action ‘Replace’ for malware detections in attachments (Phase 1)

In Safe Attachments policies, ‘Replace’ is one of the actions that can be applied to messages that are found to contain malware. This action delivers only the message body without any of the original attachments. A replacement text attachment is added to the message to notify that the attachments were removed due to malware detection.

The ‘Replace’ action will be retired and will no longer be available in Safe Attachments policies. This retirement is implemented in two phases. 

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Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks are being upgraded

Non-Native and Hybrid Yammer Networks will be upgraded to Native Mode to allow users, groups, and content to be compatible with and mapped to their counterparts in Azure Active Directory and Microsoft 365. Native Mode also provides other benefits, such as the ability to host Live Events in every Yammer community and simplify file administration through SharePoint. Most critically, Native Mode supports eDiscovery through the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, allowing your organization to collaborate safely and securely within your Yammer network. 90% of Yammer networks are in Native Mode today, including our top 10 largest networks.

When this will happen:

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Scheduler for Microsoft 365 retirement

We will be retiring Scheduler for Microsoft 365 on September 1, 2023. We may bundle some of these features with another offering in the future and will communicate via Message center as we move forward.

Note: If your organization is not using Scheduler for Microsoft 365 you can safely disregard this message.

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Yammer REST API Modification: User Email

We will be modifying the Yammer REST APIs for the email field in the user response. 

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Analyze policy matches over Teams shared channels (GA)

Currently available in public preview, the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal will analyze compliance-related policy matches over Teams shared channels (cross-tenant channels spanning multiple organizations).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93261.

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Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: New out-of-the-box trainable classifiers with auto-labeling support

We’re rolling out several new out-of-the-box pre-trained classifiers for use within Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, and Data Loss Prevention solutions. These classifiers can be used to discover and auto-classify sensitive content across categories such as IP/trade secrets, healthcare, operations, financial information, and HR-related information.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98099.

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