Adding new status to Microsoft 365 Defender incidents API

This update will bring a new status name to incidents in addition to the current “active”, “resolved” and “redirected”. The new status name will be “In progress”. This status will also be available in Microsoft 365 Defender incidents API, under the field name “status”.

Updated attributes for the field “status” in Microsoft 365 Defender incidents API:

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Microsoft Information Protection: Public preview of new roles and role groups for granular permissions management

We’re releasing new roles and role groups to allow granular permissions to manage Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) within the Microsoft 365 compliance center. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88531.

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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint brand name update

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint brand name update is coming on macOS.

NOTE: This message applies only to organizations with macOS devices in their environments.

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EOP: Anti-Malware policy – Quarantine notifications for recipient

We will be retiring the recipient and sender notification configuration in the UI from anti-malware policies starting in March 2022. Instead, we recommend using quarantine policies, which allow administrators to configure and deliver notifications to recipients.

Key points:

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Manage Surface Hub devices from Teams admin center

If your organization uses Teams devices for collaboration, now you will also be able to manage Surface Hub devices with Teams from the Teams admin center.

This feature is currently going to be in Preview. We’ll be bringing the full-feature set soon after this release.

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User experience update for Explorer and Real-Time Detections: Default All Email view and more updates

We are updating the user experience for Explorer and Real time detections, to improve the hunting experience and workflows, as well as align with modern accessibility standards . These are experience updates and do not involve major functional changes for core experiences like filtering, export and saving queries.

NOTE: For a short while, as we roll out updates, you will be able to toggle between the old experience and new experience. Note that toggling would impact only your session and does not impact anybody else within your tenant.

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Updated SLAs for Microsoft Teams Calling Plans, Phone System, and Audio Conferencing

We’ve recently updated the service level agreements (SLAs) from 99.9 to 99.99% for the following Microsoft Teams Phone services:

  • Calling Plans
  • Phone System
  • Audio Conferencing

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Important Information about upcoming changes to Microsoft Power Apps trial license renewals

Users that launch a Power Apps app without sufficient entitlement to run the app are prompted to start a trial. Currently, when these trials expire, users are prompted to extend their trial without any limitation to the number of times the trial may be extended. Beginning mid-January 2022, users will be limited to three (3) Power Apps trial periods.

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Support for viewing and managing application users in legacy web client is deprecated

Beginning February 2022, the list of “Application Users” will no longer be available under Advanced Settings in the Dynamics 365 legacy web client. This change will occur as part of a service update during your regional maintenance window.

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Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates

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

When this will happen:

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