Admin enhancements for the new Yammer

Yammer admins can enable the new Yammer experience for all users while being provided an opt-out option solely for admins. Admins will have the ability to toggle the classic Yammer experience if they need to validate user feedback or access features only available in classic Yammer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88885

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Admin notifications for Custom app submissions

We ask that you pardon our delay of this earlier planned feature release.  As previously messaged (MC260561 – June 2021), this feature update makes it so that when a developer submits a custom app through the Teams App Submission API for IT admin approval, you will receive a notification in a dedicated Teams channel. You’ll then be able to review and take the necessary steps to publish the app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 82512.

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Yammer Communities Expiry Autorenewal

We apologize for not communicating about this release in a timely manner and any inconvenience it may have caused. With this feature update, Yammer activity is included in activity-based automatic renewal of Microsoft 365 Groups. When a user has viewed a post within a Yammer community or within an interactive email in Outlook, the community will automatically renew group expiration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82186

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Upcoming beta API retirement for Microsoft Secure Score

Today, we are announcing the retirement of the beta API: https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/reports/getTenantSecureScores. Moving forward, we ask that you use the now generally available API for Microsoft Secure Score which is where we will continue to invest our resources.

If you are not using the API, you can safely disregard this message.

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Microsoft Office default change – Blocking VBA macros in files from the internet

VBA macros are a common way for malicious actors to gain access to deploy malware and ransomware. To help improve security, we are changing the behavior of Office applications to now block macros in files from the internet. Learn more in this blog post.

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Configuration Change – Defender for Cloud Apps: Threat protection built in discovery anomaly detection

Defender for Cloud Apps is reassessing our built-in threat protection policies. On March 27, two of these policies (Cloud Discovery anomaly detection and Data exfiltration to an app that is not sanctioned) will be turned off by default for all tenants.

Note: After March 27, if you wish to not follow the recommended default setting, you will still be able to turn these policies on from the policies section in the portal, as well as continue reviewing the relevant data in the Discovery section.

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Permanent Redirection of Office 365 Security

We are announcing that we will be completing the final step in the transition from the legacy Security & Compliance Center (SCC) portal to three new portals.  Due to the broad reception and adoption from you, our customers, to the new portals, we feel confident to complete the journey and make Microsoft 365 Defender portal, Microsoft Compliance center and the Modern Exchange Admin portal – the homes for Office 365 Security and Compliance management.

Office 365 Security

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Teams app setup policy group assignment

App setup policies allow apps to be pre-installed and pinned to the app bar by the admin. App setup policies can now specifically be assigned to groups.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88304.

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Updating default tenant-level tag management settings

We’re updating the default tag management settings based on customer feedback. The new defaults eliminate the need for team members to ask owners to create or edit tags on their behalf.

The Teams Admin Center default for who can manage tags will be updated from “Team owners” to “Team owners and members.” Tenant Admins still can override the default and limit Tag Create/Edit to Team Owners only. This simplifies the Tags permissions model and makes it consistent with other Teams concepts like Channels. If you have already made any changes to any option in the Tagging settings, your settings will not be updated and this change will not affect your tenant.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to URL Protection Report

We are enhancing the URL protection report by including new click actions to the reporting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88880.

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