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O365 Weekly Digest - 11/04/2019

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.

Updates:

  • Teams is getting presenter and attendee roles for meetings (Roadmap ID: 51047)
  • OneDrive's request files command is rolling out (Roadmap ID: 27020)
  • SharePoint structural navigation caching will help improve the performance of classic/publishing sites will roll out in Q1 of 2020 to targeted release tenants
  • Teams is gaining support for external users with gmail accounts (Roadmap ID: 57037)
  • Teams Private Channels (Roadmap ID: 50588)
  • O365 Sharing Reports for Site Collection admin

Admin Updates:

Email Text

Nov 02

Dynamics 365 - Released Versions information available
We are pleased to announce a new resource to assist you in reviewing release information. The Released Versions site shows the following information regarding your organizational updates:Current versionScheduled date for updateNext version For each of these you will be able to click into the version and see what is included in the update. If you require additional information on past releases, that is also available on the page. During the month of November, information regarding releases will...

Nov 02

UPDATED - Announcing self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products
Major Update: Announcement started
UPDATE as of October 31, 2019: Over the past week, we’ve been listening to your feedback regarding the rollout of our self-service purchase capabilities for Power Platform products. To those of you who provided your input, thank you! Based on your feedback, we’ve adjusted our approach to better address the needs of both IT admins and end users within organizations. We’re making the following changes to our plan: On November 19th, we will provide IT admins a way to turn off self-service...

Nov 01

New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Native Federation for 1:1 Chats
As previously announcedin MC182673, June 2019,we are making it possible to have richer conversations with people outside your organization withinMicrosoft Teamschat. The rollout has taken longer than expected to ensure and optimal experience for customers.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers inearly November2019.The roll out will be completed worldwide byearly December 2019.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 52394

Nov 01

New Feature: Presenter and attendee roles in Microsoft Teams meetings
Microsoft Teams is introducing presenter and attendee roles ?in meetings.We'll be gradually rolling this out mid-November 2019.The rollout will be complete by the end of November.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 51047.

Nov 01

New Feature: Request Files comman now rolling out
We are introducing a "Request Files" command for folders on the OneDrive for Business web experience.We'll be gradually rolling this out in early November.The roll out is expected to be completed by the end of the year.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 27020.
Oct 31

Updated Feature: Zero-hour auto purge: move malware to Quarantine
We are updating Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP) to move malware messages identified post-delivery to Quarantine. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 55432.We'll be gradually rolling this out in mid November, and the roll out will be completed by the mid-December.

Oct 31

New Feature: Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) is now enabled for Office 365 hosted mailboxes
We are introducing Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) for Office 365 hosted mailboxes. We have begun gradually rolling this out to customers.The rollout will be completed by the end of November.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57057.

Oct 31

Updated Feature: Microsoft Teams self-service access for users in partially synced tenants
We’re updating Microsoft Teams self-service access for users in hybrid (partially-synced) tenants.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late November 2019.The rollout will be completed worldwide by early December 2019.This message is associated with Office 365 Roadmap ID 52416.

Oct 31

Updated Feature: Introducing 'High confidence phishing email' to the spam filter policy
This notification was originally published as MC193076. There was an error and the original post did not reach the full intended audience. We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience.We’re introducing High confidence phishing email to the spam filter policy.We are gradually rolling this out to customers in mid-November 2019.The rollout will be completed by the end of November 2019.

Oct 30

Updated Feature: Structural navigation caching
As communicated in MC194438 we are further optimizing page performance for classic publishing portals that use structural navigation by implementing a new caching model.

Oct 30

Updated Feature: Structural navigation caching
We’re further optimizingpage performance for classic publishing portals that use structural navigation.Rolling into targeted release in Q1 of calendar year 2020Rolling into general availability following targeted release completion

Oct 30

New Feature: Teams will soon allow guest access via Gmail address.
Guest Access in Teams is expanding to natively support Google accounts. We'll be gradually rolling this out to Teams customers in early November.The rollout will be completed worldwide by mid-December.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 57037.

Oct 30

New Feature: DKIM key size increased to support 2048-bit
We’re updating the DKIM key size available to Office 365 customers from the current 1024-bit to support 2048-bit key size. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late-October 2019.The rollout will be completed by the end of October.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 56752.

Oct 30

Updated Feature: Safe Links for Office client - now supporting Office Online
Safe Links in Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection has been protecting your links in Office Apps on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. We are now extending this protection to Office Online. We will begin gradually rolling this out to all Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Plan 1 and Plan 2) and all Microsoft 365 E5 customers in late November.The roll out will be completed by the end of December 2019.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 55394.

Oct 29

New Feature: Group Policy setting shows the Office Insider option to end users
We’re making it easier for you to give selected users in your organization the option to use Office Insider builds on devices running Windows.This feature is enabled in Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office 365 ProPlus. Version 4918.1000.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 56366.

Oct 29

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
Oct 29

Updated Feature: Introducing the Quarantine Administrator Role
This notification was originally published as MC192002. There was an error and the original post did not reach the full intended audience. We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience.We’re introducing the Quarantine Administrator Role Based Access Control (RBAC)Role.We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late October 2019.The roll out will be completed by mid-November 2019.This message is associated with Roadmap ID 55471.

Oct 29

Updated Feature: Enhancements to Office 365 Quarantine Notifications and Alerts
This notification was originally published as MC191185. There was an error and the original post did not reach the full intended audience. We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience.We’re updating Office 365 Quarantine notifications and downloads from email.This started rolling out 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.

Oct 28

Updated Feature: Services & add-ins, Security & privacy, Organization profile combined under single page
We’re updating the new Office 365 admin portal by combining Services & add-ins, Security & privacy, and Organization profile onto a single page.We'll be rolling this out to Targeted Release customers in early November.The rollout will be completed worldwide by the beginning of December.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 56352.

Oct 28

New Feature: Sharing Reports for SharePoint Online
Updated September 24, 2019 - added Additional Information SharePoint Online (SPO) Site Collection Administrators 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 targeted release customers in late September.We’ll be gradually rolling this out to other customers, including GCC and Department of Defense, in early October.The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of...

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