As part of Hunting improvements, we are making updates to the Email entity page, and Threat Explorer and Real-Time Detections. These updates should help provide additional data points and context for security analysts. These updates include:
Updates to Email entity Page will include:
We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
Beginning May 23, 2022, Outlook for Android will no longer support Android 7.1 or below. Users will need to upgrade their Android operating system to Android 8.0
Note: If your organization does not utilize Android, you can safely disregard this message.
A new view focused on add-in health is being added to the Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The view will provide information about the reliability and performance of Component Object Model (COM) and Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) add-ins used by Office apps in your organization.
On Feb 18th, Apple will be retiring Python version 2.7 and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint package (MDE) (Mac) will include Python 3.
This feature update to Account switching, will enable users to switch from one account to another through the Profile icon that helps them access the account selection interface.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88930
We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:
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.
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.
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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