O365 Weekly Updates - September Edition

Typically, 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. However I was out for much of September I have combined all of these updates into a single post this month and will get back to weekly posts starting next week.

SharePoint and OneDrive Updates:

• OneDrive will become the default save location for files in the Semi-Annual release of Office. 
• Sharing settings and access requests can now be managed in the Site Permission panel
• New Sharing reports for SharePoint Online (Roadmap ID: 27034)
• Use Flow to approve Hub-site Joins (Roadmap ID: 30552)
• File Sharing reports for OneDrive (Roadmap ID: 56194)
• SharePoint Site retention policies and retention labels are getting updates

Teams Updates:

• New tab in Steam for Teams Meeting recordings (Roadmap ID: 54528)
• Meet Now capabilities are rolling out for Teams (Roadmap ID: 54028)
• Voicemail enhancements including call answer rules, greeting language, out of office greetings and more. (Roadmap ID: 54235)
• ATP Safe Links in Teams (Roadmap ID: 34298)
• Secondary Ringer is coming ot Teams calls (Roadmap ID: 51089)
• Private Channels are now rolling out in Teams (Roadmap ID: 50588)
• Hold Music for external phone calls (Roadmap ID: 50796)
• Pinned Channels is coming to Teams (Roadmap ID: 55369)
• Phone systems to display Caller ID for external and internal calls (Roadmap ID: 53937)
• Managers can now allow delegate to change delegators' settings (Roadmap ID: 55716)

General Updates:

• O365 connector for Facebook is being retired due to limited usage
• Planner is getting a Priority field (Roadmap ID: 54786)
• Automatic Phishing Detections is coming to Microsoft Forms (Roadmap ID: 54433)
• Outlook Mobile is rolling out a Dark Mode (Roadmap IDs: 45779 50479)
• Native Sensitively Labeling is coming to the Windows Office Apps (Roadmap IDs: 44920 44922 53147)
• Manual Sensitivity labeling for email via Outlook on the web (Roadmap IDs: 49441 44921)
• Updating the blocked file types in Outlook on the Web (Roadmap ID: 55100)
• Outlook on the web is getting Meeting Insights (Roadmap ID: 46196)

Admin Updates:

• PowerApps and Flow new licensing are effective October 1st
• Intune Service Update for September: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/whats-new
• Microsoft is no updating Fabric JS and instead has been working on Office React, if you have an application in Fabric JS it is suggested to update this to Fabric React or Fabric Core
• You can now specify a Product or Service when opening a service request (Roadmap ID: 54599)
• You can now create users off a template in the M365 Admin Center (Roadmap ID: 54434)
• Site Swap allows you to move a Modern Team or Communication to be your Root Site Collection (Roadmap ID: 51259)
• New Privacy Ready role to support Data Privacy communications in the message center. 
• Upload Center is being replaced by the in-app files needing attention UI
• Dynamics 365 has released a timeline to switch everyone over to the Unified Interface
• ATP's Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) is now in GA (Roadmap ID: 49537)
• Improvements made in Exchange Online to replicate changes in AAD (Roadmap ID: 55023)
• Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) will now move post-delivery identified phishing and spam messages to quarantine. (Roadmap ID: 55432)
• Updates to Quarantine Notifications and Alerts (Roadmap ID: 55102)
• Basic Auth Retirement for EWS, EAS, IMAP, POP and RPS access to Exchange Online 
• Teams is getting PSTN usage reports and the ability to block users from making PSTN calls
• Office 2013 Client connectivity services will not be supported after October 13, 2020
• Additional control over M365 connected experiences (Roadmap IDs: 49779 52278)
• Microsoft Security center and compliance centers are rolling out to all tenants (Roadmap ID: 55706)
• O365 Communication API is GA (Roadmap ID: 55207)
• Updates to O365 Quarantine Notifications, alerts, and downloads (Roadmap ID: 55102)
• Skype for business external access is being retired from the admin center at the end of October
• New AAD global ready role (Roadmap ID: 55096)

You can check out the full list of update below

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September 2^nd Digest

Aug 31

Office 365 connector to Facebook to be retired Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Sep 04 Office 365 connector to Facebook will be retired as of September 4, 2019.NOTE: Our telemetry indicates limited use of the connector to Facebook. If your organization is not utilizing the connector to Facebook then you may disregard this message.

Aug 31

Report message pipeline for GCC Major Update: Announcement started In order to meet additional GCC cloud audit requirements we are temporarily pausing the report message pipeline feature. We apologize for the inconvenience and will inform you, via Message Center, of availability in the future.

Aug 30

New Feature: Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream We have begun rolling out a Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54528

Aug 30

New Feature: Priority field for Planner tasks We will soon begin rolling out a Priority field for Planner tasks in Microsoft O365.This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54786.

Aug 30

New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Meet Now Microsoft Teams - Meet Now is a new Office 365 feature that we will begin rolling out in mid-September. Office 365 subscriptions in GCC will see this change in mid-October. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54028

Aug 30

Licensing updates for Microsoft Flow & PowerApps in Microsoft 365 Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Dec 31 Effective October 1, 2019, changes will be made to PowerApps and Flow licenses, including those available as part of Office 365 subscriptions and the general purpose PowerApps and Flow plans. The changes are as follows: The SQL, Azure and Dynamics 365 connectors listed below will be reclassified from Standard to Premium. A standalone PowerApps or Flow plan license is required to access all Premium connectors. Azure Application Insights Azure Automation Azure Blob Storage Azure Container Azure...

Aug 29

New Feature: Cloud Voicemail enhancements We will soon begin rolling out enhancements to Cloud Voicemail. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54235

Aug 29

Updated - Feature Update: OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office Major Update: Announcement started Updated August 29, 2019: Providing information on how Admin and Users can control the experience. To make it easier for your users to take advantage of the rich cloud collaboration capabilities in Office 365, we’ve simplified the first save experience and made it easier for users to save to OneDrive and SharePoint. Once it’s in the cloud, users can easily rename/move files between folders from right within the apps. This was first announced in MC172548 (January 2019) for Word, Excel, and...

Aug 29

New Feature: Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Sep 23 We will soon begin rolling out Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54433This feature is not available to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.

Aug 29

Planned Maintenance: Yammer Planned Maintenance: Yammer We have maintenance planned for Yammer: Starting September 7, 2019 at 2:00:00 AM UTC. Ending September 7, 2019 at 4:00:00 AM UTC.\

Aug 29

Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams Updated August 29, 2019: Updated the roll-out timeline to end of September. Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 34298ATP for Microsoft Teams will bring premium ATP security value into Microsoft Teams clients. This covers all production clients released today: Desktop, Mobile (iOS), Mobile (Android), and Web.

Aug 29

Move from Fabric JS to Fabric React or Fabric Core Major Update: Announcement started Do you have any internal line-of-business apps or add-ins that your developers have made to look like Office? If so, they may be using a library called Fabric JS. We want to inform you that we will no longer be making updates to the Office UI Fabric JS, beginning October 1, 2019.Over the past few years, the team behind Office UI Fabric has been working hard on Office UI Fabric React. It is a robust framework for building experiences that fit seamlessly into a broad range of Microsoft products.... More ... MC189000 Like | Dislike

Aug 28

Updated Feature: Ability to select a Product or Service when creating a service request in the new M365 Admin Center We’re updating the service request creation experience in the new M365 Admin portal to enable customers to choose an affected product or service when creating a service request This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54599.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.

Aug 28

New Feature: Outlook mobile is starting to roll out Dark Mode Effective August 28, Microsoft is starting to roll out support for Dark Mode in Outlook for iOS and Android. This feature is related to Microsoft 365Roadmap ID 45779Roadmap ID 50479

Aug 27

Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Sep 26 We’re updating how Yammer uses Office profiles. User profiles in Yammer will now use the Office profile rather than the standalone Yammer profile. We'll begin rolling out this feature in late September. This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 53554. More ... MC188875 Like | Dislike

Aug 26

Reminder: Support for version 8.1.1 and higher of Intune App SDK for iOS We shared in MC181538 that starting in September 2019, Intune will move to support iOS apps with Intune App SDK 8.1.1 and higher. Apps built with SDK versions less than 8.1.1 will no longer be supported. This change will go into effect with Apple’s release of iOS 13 which is expected to come around September and also been announced in MC181399. More ... MC187953 Like | Dislike

Aug 26

Updated: New feature: Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center Update August 26, 2019: This update does not apply to customers in GCC High or DOD. We apologize for any confusion. We will soon be rolling out the ability to use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54434.

September 9^th Digest

Sep 07

Updated Feature: Site owners can now manage sharing and access request settings from the Site permissions panel We’re updating the way that SharePoint Online (SPO) site owners can manage sharing and access request settings. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in mid-September. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of September. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54983

Sep 06

Updated Feature: Site Swap We’re updating SharePoint Online Site Swap. We’ll are now rolling this out to Office 365 organizations up to ~10,000 or fewer licenses. For Office 365 organizations with more than ~10,000 licenses, we will make another announcement in the future. This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 51259 and previous Message Center Post MC187289.

Sep 05

Feature Update: Support for Data Privacy communications in Message center Act By: Jul 26 Message center is being updated to support the communication of messages related to the privacy or security of the Microsoft 365 service to a restricted set of recipients. Once implemented, only the Global Admin and newly added Message center Privacy Reader role will have access to these messages. The new Privacy Reader role is available now. Starting July 26th, privacy/security communications in Message center will only be available to the Global administrator or individuals assigned to the...

Sep 04

New Feature: Teams Secondary Ringer We will soon begin rolling out a Secondary Ringer option in Microsoft Teams. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 51089.

Sep 04

Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams Updated August 29, 2019: Updated the roll-out timeline to end of September. Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 34298ATP for Microsoft Teams will bring premium ATP security value into Microsoft Teams clients. This covers all production clients released today: Desktop, Mobile (iOS), Mobile (Android), and Web.

Sep 04

New Feature: Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Sep 23 Update September 4, 2019: Added additional details regarding Admin controls. We will soon begin rolling out Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54433This feature is not available to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.

Sep 03

Microsoft Intune In Development for September is now available The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has been updated for September 2019.

Sep 03

Updated - New Feature: Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream Updated September 3, 2019: This message does not apply to customers who are part of GCC-High or DOD. We apologize for the inconvenience. We have begun rolling out a Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54528

September 16^th Digest

Sep 12

Updated - New Feature: Teams - Private Channels Act By: Aug 23 Updated September 12, 2019 To ensure an optimal experience we have updated the roll-out timeline. Teams - Private Channels is a new Office 365 feature that we'll begin rolling out soon. This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 50588.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC

Sep 12

Action Requested: Evaluate and update any Conditional Access policies in preparation for iPadOS launch (Intune) Act By: Sep 30 Apple recently announced that it will release iPadOS (new OS for iPad) on Sept 30th 2019. We have discovered a breaking change from Apple with iPadOS, which could impact Microsoft Azure AD and Intune customers that use Conditional Access policies in their organization. Refer to the support article, linked in additional information, to help you understand the breaking change from Apple, evaluate the impact to your organization, and provide recommendation from Microsoft.

Sep 11

Configuration Change for Whiteboard Act By: Oct 10 If you do not use Whiteboard on Surface Hub you can disregard this notice. As communicated in MC188851 (August, 2019) easy share for Whiteboard on Surface Hub would be enabled by default when it rolls out. There was a configuration issue with this feature that has now been resolved.

Sep 11

Upload Center is being replaced by the in-app Files Needing Attention experience We will be retiring the Upload Center from Office beginning mid-October 2019.

Sep 10

Dynamics 365 - Announcing a timeline to switch to the Unified Interface This is an important communication about the future supported user interface for Dynamics 365 Sales, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, Dynamics 365 Field Service, Dynamics 365 Project Service, and Dynamics 365 Marketing customers. The Microsoft Dynamics 365 legacy web client will be deprecated. Customers must have transitioned to Unified Interface before October 1, 2020. Microsoft will continue to provide support, security updates, and other critical updates to the Dynamics 365 legacy web client...

Sep 09

New Feature: Office apps for Windows introduces native sensitivity labeling Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word will support Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labeling and protection as part of the Office 365 Monthly Channel and Targeted update for Windows apps that is rolling out in September. This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. This change is related to Microsoft 365 roadmap items: 44920, 44922 and 53147.

Sep 09

Feature Update: General Availability for Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) with Office 365 We are pleased to announce the General Availability of Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) with Office 365 in Advanced Threat Protection. We announced public preview for this feature in April 2019 as part of MC176803.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 49537.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers starting in early September, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of September. These capabilities are available as part of the following...

Sep 09

Updated Feature: Exchange Online Improvements to Accelerate Replication of Changes to Azure Active Directory We’re updating Exchange Online to accelerate replication of changes to Azure Active Directory. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October. The roll out will be completed worldwide by February 2020.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55023. MC190021 Like | Dislike

September 23^rd Digest

Sep 21

Updated Feature: Zero-hour auto purge: move phish and spam to Quarantine We are updating Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) to move post-delivery identified phish and spam messages to Quarantine to better align the ZAP action to the mail flow action defined in the Anti-spam policy. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October. The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of November. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55432.

Sep 21

Updated Feature: Enhancements to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts We’re updating Office 365 Quarantine notifications and downloads from email. We’ll begin rolling this feature out worldwide in mid-October 2019.The roll out will be completed by the end of October 2019.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 55102. More ... MC191185 Like | Dislike

Sep 20

New Feature: Voicemail settings in Teams desktop Client End users with voicemail enabled will be able see and update voicemail settings in the Teams client. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late September. The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of September. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 54235.

Sep 20

New Feature: Music on hold for PSTN calls We'll soon begin rolling out Music on hold in Microsoft Phone System for external telephone calls. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early October. The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of October. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 50796. It is an update to MC179476 from May 10, 2019. In order to ensure a good experience, we have adjusted the rollout timeframe.

Sep 20

New Feature: New Teams reports, PSTN blocked users and PSTN usage We will soon be rolling out reports that show PSTN usage as well as users who are blocked from making PSTN calls. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers September27, 2019.The roll out will be complete worldwide by October 11, 2019.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC.

Sep 20

Basic Authentication Retirement for legacy protocols in Exchange Online Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 31 Beginning October 13, 2020, we will retire Basic Authentication for EWS, EAS, IMAP, POP and RPS to access Exchange Online. Note: this change does not impact SMTP AUTH. There are several actions that you and/or your users can take to avoid service disruptions on client applications, and we describe them below. If no action is taken, client applications using Basic Authentication for EWS will be retired on October 13, 2020. Any application using OAuth 2.0 to connect to these protocols, will...

Sep 19

New Feature: Outlook on the web: Manual sensitivity labeling for email We’re introducing the ability to manually apply sensitivity labeling for email messages in Outlook on the web. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in late September 2019.The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49441and Roadmap ID 44921.

Sep 19

New Feature: Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online SharePoint Online (SPO) site owners can see all the items in their site that have been shared with any user via the new Office 365 Sharing Reports for SPO feature. We'll be gradually rolling this out to production customers in late September. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to other environments in early October. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of November. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 27034 More ... MC190852 Like | Dislike

Sep 18

Office 2013 Client Connectivity to Office 365 Services Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 13 As previously announced via blog and MC175274 (March, 2019), Office 2013 clients’ connections to commercial Office 365 services will not be supported after October 13, 2020. After this date, ongoing investments in the Office 365 cloud services – including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business – will proceed based on post-Office 2013 requirements. We recommend that organizations with Office 2013 clients consider migrating to Office 365 ProPlus. Support for Office 2016 and...

Sep 18

New Feature: Use Flow to approve hub-site joins We’re introducing Use Flow in Office 365 to approve hub site joins in SharePoint Online. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to targeted release customers the first of October. The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of November 2019.This update does not apply to Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 30552.

Sep 17

New Feature: Additional expansion of control over connected experiences in Office Microsoft protects and respects the privacy of your Office data, whether that data is an email, a Word document, or similar user content. This protection of your Office data extends to the rich productivity and collaboration experiences enabled by connecting apps to Microsoft’s cloud. As announced in MC176396 (March 2019) and MC186221 (July 2019), updates to Office apps for iOS are rolling out in mid-October.T his message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49779 and Roadmap ID 52278.

Sep 17

New Feature: Pinned Channels in Teams Pinned Channels is a new Microsoft Teams feature. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55369We'll be gradually rolling this out in September, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. More ... MC190856 Like | Dislike

Sep 17

Configuration Change for Whiteboard Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Oct 10 If you do not use Whiteboard on Surface Hub you can disregard this notice. As communicated in MC188851 (August, 2019) easy share for Whiteboard on Surface Hub would be enabled by default when it rolls out. There was a configuration issue with this feature that has now been resolved.

Sep 17

Upload Center is being replaced by the in-app Files Needing Attention experience Major Update: Announcement started We will be retiring the Upload Center from Office beginning mid-October 2019.

September 30^th Digest

Sep 27

New Feature: Sharing Reports for OneDrive Act By: Oct 01 Sharing Reports for OneDrive is a new Office 365 feature. We’ll gradually begin rolling this out to targeted release customers in early October. We’ll gradually begin rolling this out to all customers, including GCC and Department of Defense, in late October. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of November. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 56194.

Sep 27

New Feature: Phone system to display Caller ID for internal and external calls (reverse lookup) The Microsoft Phone System in Office 365 will soon display caller ID for incoming PSTN callers as well as for phone numbers in Azure Active Directory (AAD) . We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers the end of September. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 53937.

Sep 27

Updated Feature: Blocked file types in Outlook on the web Act By: Oct 18 We will be adding some additional file extensions to the BockedFileTypes list. The BlockedFileTypes parameter specifies a list of attachment file types (file extensions) that can't be saved locally or viewed from Outlook on the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55100.This change will roll out in November. More ... MC191778 Like | Dislike

Sep 27

Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft 365 compliance center will soon be available Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft 365 compliance center will soon be available to all customers. These centers are currently only available to Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 tenants. We’ll begin gradually rolling out this feature in November 2019.The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of December. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55706. More ... MC191769 Like | Dislike

Sep 27

New Feature: Delegates can change delegators' settings Managers will be able to grant delegates the ability to modify call settings and add/remove other delegates. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers the end of September. The roll out will be completed worldwide by mid-October 2019.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55716.

Sep 27

Updated feature: Outlook on the web - Meeting Insights We introduced meeting insights in Outlook on the web to a limited number of customers in the spring. We’ll begin gradually rolling out this feature to Targeted Release customers in late September. The roll out will be complete worldwide by the end of December. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 46196.

Sep 26

Updated Feature: SharePoint sites selection Retention Policies and Retention Labels We’re updating the Retention Policies and Retention Labels SharePoint sites selection experience. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to customers starting on September 27, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October.

Sep 25

Upgrade your macOS to access new Office 365 for Mac updates Major Update: Announcement started Act By: Nov 12 If your organization is not using macOS then you can disregard this message. As of the Office 365 for Mac November 2019 update, macOS 10.13.6 or later is required to receive updates to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote. If you continue with an older version of macOS, your Office apps will still work but you will no longer receive any updates including security updates. To provide you with the best experience, Office for Mac supports Apple’s three most recent versions of macOS. With the...

Sep 25

New Feature: Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online Updated September 24, 2019 - added Additional Information SharePoint Online (SPO) site owners can see all the items in their site that have been shared with any user via the new Office 365 Sharing Reports for SPO feature. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to production customers in late September. We’ll be gradually rolling this out to other environments in early October. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of November. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...

Sep 24

Office 365 Communications API available for GA We are pleased to announce the General Availability of the Office 365 Service Communications API. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55207.

Sep 24

Updated Feature: Enhancements to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts Major Update: Announcement started We’re updating Office 365 Quarantine notifications and downloads from email. We'll begin rolling this feature out worldwide in mid-October 2019.The roll out will be completed by the end of October 2019.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 55102.

Sep 24

New Feature: Global reader built-in role for read-only administrative access across Microsoft 365 We are introducing a new Azure Active Directory (AD) role called global reader. We'll be gradually rolling this out to production and GCC beginning on September 24.We'll be gradually rolling this out to remaining worldwide tenants at the beginning of October. The roll out will be complete worldwide in October. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55096.

Sep 23

Skype for Business external access setting retired from Microsoft 365 Admin center Major Update: Announcement started We will be retiring the Skype for Business external access setting from Microsoft 365 Admin center beginning in late October.

Sep 23

Action Requested: Evaluate and update any Conditional Access policies in preparation for iPadOS launch (Intune) Act By: Sep 24 Apple recently announced that it will release iPadOS (new OS for iPad) on Sept 24th 2019. We have discovered a breaking change from Apple with iPadOS, which could impact Microsoft Azure AD and Intune customers that use Conditional Access policies in their organization. Refer to the support article, linked in additional information, to help you understand the breaking change from Apple, evaluate the impact to your organization, and provide recommendation from Microsoft.