Update to the Microsoft Cloud Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Cloud Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jun 15, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Mover retirement of specific cloud migration scenarios

We will soon be retiring the legacy Mover tool’s ability to migrate from Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and Egnyte. Instead, we recommend using Migration Manager, where we will continue to invest our development resources.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 26, 2022 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

Skype for Business Planned Maintenance

We have maintenance planned for Skype for Business.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 24, 2022 Skype for Business 0 Comments

Microsoft Secure Score is adding new improvement actions for Salesforce and ServiceNow

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a broader coverage of security posture. This update will include new controls for Salesforce and ServiceNow posture as a Microsoft Secure Score improvement action. We will continue to add suggested security improvement actions on an ongoing basis.

Please be advised that these new improvements actions will require a Salesforce/ServiceNow configured connector via Defender for Cloud Apps. For more information, please see: Connect Salesforce to Defender for Cloud Apps | Microsoft Docs or Connect ServiceNow to Defender for Cloud Apps | Microsoft Docs.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 20, 2022 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

Exchange Online-Updates to the file type list in the common attachment filter

In anti-malware policies, you can select specific file types to identify as malware using the common attachment filter. Any email message with attachments of these specific file types will be handled per the policy settings. You can configure this specific list of file types by selecting them from the pre-defined list in the policy properties in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal or by manually adding your own (custom) file types using the power shell Set-MalwareFilterPolicy cmdlet in Exchange Online PowerShell.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 16, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

SharePoint Integration in Viva Learning

Viva Learning is changing how it handles permissions settings for any SharePoint-hosted content your organization has added to Viva Learning. Beginning June 16th, Viva Learning will only support Microsoft 365 Groups permissions for the content added through the SharePoint integration. Viva Learning will no longer honor user, or SharePoint based permissions. This means, you will need to configure users’ access to your organization’s SharePoint-hosted Viva Learning content through Microsoft 365 Groups. Instructions are provided at the links below.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 12, 2022 SharePoint Online 0 Comments

Reminder: IE11 desktop application retires in 1 month on June 15, 2022 – Set up IE mode today (non-LTSC, non-Server)

As previously announced, the future of Internet Explorer on Windows is in Microsoft Edge. Internet Explorer mode (IE mode) provides legacy browser support within Microsoft Edge. Because of this, the IE11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022, on certain versions of Windows 10. This means that the IE11 desktop application will no longer be supported and will be progressively redirected to Microsoft Edge over the following months, and ultimately disabled via Windows Update, to help ensure a smooth retirement.

You can control IE retirement in your environment with 1 month left—the best way to prepare for IE redirection and disablement after June 15th is to proactively retire IE in your organization before June 15th. Prepare your organization with these steps.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 11, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Message center posts will include monthly active users specific to the Power BI, Automate, and PowerApps service updates

Message center posts will include monthly active users (based off the past 30 days) related to change announcements for Power BI, Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365 and Power Apps in Microsoft 365. This experience was enabled for other Microsoft 365 services in January (MC315739). We are now expanding to additional services.

This will help change coordinators and IT admins make a decision on which change they should address first vs deprioritize, based on the potential number of end users who could be impacted by a change. For example, If the change is about a service which has -0- active users for your organization, you should be able to deprioritize the change.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 10, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Update Microsoft Defender for Endpoint macOS Security Agent

This update will improve the Malware protection capabilities of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) on macOS devices and form a major component of your next-generation protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Note: if your organization is not using macOS you can safely disregard this message.

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 6, 2022 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – May 2022 Update

In about 150 days from today, we’re going to start to turn off Basic Auth for specific protocols in Exchange Online for those customers still using it.

Timeline and Scope

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Originally posted by Microsoft May 5, 2022 Exchange Online 0 Comments