‘Test-Message’ cmdlet is being temporarily disabled

We’ve determined that we need to make additional updates to the recently launched ‘Test-Message’ cmdlet and will disabling the feature whilst those updates are completed.

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Dynamics 365 and Industry Solutions and Power Platform 2022 release wave 1 plans available now!

2022 release wave 1 plansDynamics 365 and Industry Solutions

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Microsoft Graph connector for Jira and Confluence cloud standard release announcement

Microsoft is releasing two new Graph connectors for Atlassian Confluence and Jira.

With the Microsoft Graph connector for Confluence cloud, you would be able to index and search for Confluence pages and blogs from any of Microsoft Search endpoints like Bing, SharePoint, Office.com etc. Similarly, with the Graph connector for Jira cloud, you will be able to index and search for Jira issues and tickets.

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Cortana Voice Activation enabled by default in Teams Rooms

The below message applies to tenants with Teams Room Devices. Please disregard if your organization is not utilizing Teams room Devices.

We are making some changes to OOBE (out of the box experience) for Teams Rooms! Cortana Voice Activation will be enabled by default. We are changing the OOBE flow to include a screen to request your Cortana voice activation acknowledgement.

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Exchange Transport Rule Report moving to the new Exchange Admin Center (EAC) from the Security and Compliance Center

We will be retiring the Exchange Transport Rule (ETR) report from the Security and Compliance Center (SCC).

  • The report will no longer be available in the security reporting dashboard, beginning early March 2022.

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Migration and retirement of Encryption report in Office 365 Security

As previously messaged (MC276896 – Aug 2021), we have finished migrating the encryption reports from the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center to the Microsoft 365 Compliance Center.  As part of the migration, we will be retiring the Top 5 recipient domains encryption reports.

Note: Other encryption reports are unaffected. 

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Introducing monthly active users for the Microsoft 365 service change

Message center posts will include monthly active users (based off the past 28 days) specific to the Microsoft 365 service change being communicated.

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 eg: 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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Announcing graph support for Get Team Template List and Get Team Template Details

This new release will bring Graph support to Get Template List and Get Template Details. Team templates enable users to quickly create the right collaboration structure for their business needs. With Graph API support for Team Templates, we will be empowering our developer community to build their custom create team solutions on top of our existing APIs.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70793.

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Microsoft Defender for Identity – End of support for Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor on Windows Server 2008 R2

We are making changes to the minimum operating system requirements for the Defender for Identity sensor and announcing end of support for Microsoft Defender for Identity sensor on Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers.

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Exchange Data Loss Prevention – Update to sender address location

We’re making some changes to how sender address based conditions are evaluated by Exchange Data Loss Prevention in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

When will this happen:

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