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O365 Weekly Digest - 01/07/2019

Every week I'll be posting a quick summary of O365 updates included in the admin weekly digest email that you can sign up for via the admin Message Center: https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/MessageCenter -these emails include items posted to the message center over the last week and come out every Monday.

To be honest I wish the first one of these that I did was more exciting but here we are. The most exciting one for this week is arguable that mail reads will now be enabled by default in the Exchange Online mailbox auditing. I've guess I'll always have a sweet spot for audit tools after the "Magic Unicorn Tool" was exposed then killed off in the summer of 2018 but it's good to see Microsoft working on tools to help admins track and surface user activities. (Roadmap ID 32224)

Moving to the desktop, in mid-January 64-bit office will be set as the default for Office ProPlus and Office 2019 installations. If you're a Mac user, OneDrive Files On-Demand is now rolling out for you as an update to OneDrive Sync (Roadmap ID 44736). The last update, Skype for Business will be going through a planned maintenance over the coming weekend.

Email text: 

Jan 05
Planned maintenance: Skype for Business
We have maintenance planned for Skype for Business. Starting: January 13, 2019 at 21:00:00 UTC Ending: January 14, 2019 at 02:00:00 UTC More ...

Jan 04
Updated feature: Exchange Online mailbox audit to add mail reads by default
  Act By: Feb 01
To ensure that you have access to critical audit data to investigate security incidents in your organization, we’re making some updates to Exchange mailbox auditing. After this change takes place, Exchange Online will audit mail reads/accesses by default for owners, admins and delegates under the MailItemsAccessed action. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 32224. More ...

Jan 03
We’re making some changes to default installation settings
Office ProPlus and Office 2019 will now be installed with 64-bit as the default setting. Previously, the default setting was 32-bit at installation. This change will begin rolling out in mid-January, 2019. More ...

Jan 02
New feature: OneDrive Files On-Demand for Mac is now available
New feature: OneDrive Files On-Demand for Mac is now available. This update will be rolling out to production OneDrive sync client users starting in January. Or you can access the new update ahead of the roll out via this link OneDrive package installer This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 44736. More ...
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