Passwordless phone sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator experience changing

We are modifying the experience in the Microsoft Authenticator app when approving passwordless phone sign-in requests.

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Azure Cloud shell in Teams Admin Center

This new feature will enable you to open Azure Cloud Shell inline and run PowerShell scripts from within Teams admin center. The Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing admin center resources.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82708.

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Exchange online auto-expanding archive–Automatic archive of mailbox items in Purges,Versions and Discovery Holds folders

We are rolling out an update which will automatically move any mailbox items preserved in the “Purges”, “Versions”, and “Discovery Holds” folders in the primary mailbox to the archive mailbox daily. Customers will no longer be required to create separate policies for archiving email content in the “Recoverable Items” folders mentioned. Once this change finishes rolling out, the existing archiving policies created by customers for these folders will be ignored. This change does not impact the “Deletions” folder which is also part of the “Recoverable items” folder. 

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Reminder: Update to Microsoft 365 and Outlook for Windows connectivity

30-day/Final Reminder (MC229143 – DEC ’20 and MC274503 – July ’21): To ensure that we meet performance expectations, we areupdating the supported versions of Outlook for Windows that can connect toMicrosoft 365 services.

Starting November 1, 2021, the following versions ofOutlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will not be ableto connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services.

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CART Caption support in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Users will now be able to view real-time captions coming from a CART (Communication Access Real-Time Translation) provider within the Microsoft Teams meeting window. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their CART captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70588

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Configuration Change: Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatic installation and availability for government customers

Users will soon find it easier to find and share reports in Teams and they’ll be able to receive notifications when content is shared to them. Messaging extension will support search, link unfurling, and inserting cards into messages.

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Upcoming Changes to Auto-Expanding Archive

Internet Explorer 11 desktop application

  • Timing: The IE11 desktop application will be retired on June 15, 2022
    • Windows 10 LTSC and Server not affected. For a full list of what is in scope for retirement, see the FAQ.
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Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams moving to general availability

In addition for Calling Plans and Direct Routing, Microsoft is introducing Operator Connect as third option for integrating PSTN calling capabilities in Teams.

We did work closely with key operator partners worldwide for integrating our infrastructure to make it simple to integrate operator services in Teams, with close to none configurations required.

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Send Feedback on Image Tags

Users will now be able to provide feedback on tags associated with an image by using the “Give feedback” option within the details pane of the document library.

Using the feedback policy settings, tenant admins will be able to control how much feedback the users can choose to share with Microsoft.

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Anti-malware policy : Common attachment filter : Additional file types block by default

The ‘Common attachment filter’ option in the ‘Anti-malware’ policy helps the Administrator configure the file types (based on file extension) which need to be blocked in the emails. This block action is applied anytime the file type of any attachment in the email matches this configurated file type list.

The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are selected, to be blocked, by default. Administrator can make changes to this selection by selecting more file types or making changes to existing file types. If the Administrator chooses to extend this behavior to more file types, then this is possible using PowerShell option.

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