Reminder: Changes to Windows Boot Manager revocations for Secure Boot effective April 9, 2024

Windows updates released July 11, 2023 and later include security measures which protect against a Secure Boot bypass vulnerability disclosed in CVE-2023-24932. Secure Boot is a Windows security feature designed to protect devices from bootkit malware.

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Retirement of Organization administrator and Team administrator roles in Viva Goals

In an effort to simplify the access and permissions landscape in Viva Goals, we will be retiring the ‘Organization admin’ and ‘Team admin’ roles in Viva Goals.

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Microsoft Outlook mobile for iOS and Android toolbar updates

The Compose toolbar in Microsoft Outlook mobile for iOS and Android will be updated to allow for more user customization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 100696 (iOS) and 100692 (Android).

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Microsoft Viva: Modern All Company for non-native mode networks

Most Microsoft Viva All Company communities in tenants and networks that are not yet in native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern All Company experience. This means that All Company will have all the new community experiences and features. This change will only affect a few Engage networks. Most networks already have the modern All Company experience.

The All Company for non-native mode networks will be automatically migrated to the modern experience. This adds new features to All Company such as community customizations, cover photos, and custom naming. Find out more about the benefits here.

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Modern Translator feature in Microsoft 365 Apps

The Modern Translator feature in Microsoft M365 Apps is making changes that may require users and tenant administrators to take steps to ensure continuity of service. We strongly recommend you ensure your installed versions of any of the below release channels or products, Win32 and Mac (Current Channel, Monthly Enterprise Channel, Semi-Annual Channel, Perpetual Channels, Windows Teams Desktop, Teams Android, Teams iOS, OneNote for Windows 10, or Office Store Translator for Outlook) are updated to minimum versions as detailed here: Modern Translator in Microsoft 365.

Note: This change does not impact Outlook on the Web and Word for the Web.

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Configuration Change – Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps

We’re making some changes to the IP lists that need to be added to the allowed list (whitelist) in your organization.

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of Ability to delete indicator variants

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of Ability to delete indicator variants.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 376697

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Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management: Public preview of progressive alert scoring

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of progressive alert scoring.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 179883

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Windows Office Hours: January 18th, 2024

If you are an IT admin with questions about managing and updating Windows, we want to help. Every third Thursday of the month, we host a live chat-based event on the Tech Community called Windows Office Hours. Members of the Windows, Intune, Windows Autopilot, Windows Autopatch, and Windows 365 engineering teams will be standing by to answer your questions. We also have experts from FastTrack, the Customer Acceleration Team, and Microsoft public sector teams. 

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Invite people you choose in the Share control in Microsoft 365 apps

We are updating the Send Email experience with a new Invite flow instead of sending sharing links. We have received feedback indicating that customers who use the Send Email flow perceive they may have overshared when they realize after clicking on the “Send” button that the default sharing link was broader than they had initially intended. This change helps to better align with customers’ expectations when sharing files with others, helping them share confidently with specific people in the most secure ways.

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