28-November-2024 Below you will find a collection of news published yesterday. This news consists of Microsoft’s Roadmap when it is updated it will be below with items. Then there will be a section with the message center, if there is anything new there, this will be automatically included. And it contains a piece from blogs that I follow myself and would like to share with you. If I miss something in the blogs that do have an RSS feed, please let me know.
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The blogs of this day are:
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP statusCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC704035Status:stayInformed | Updated November 26, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: Work hours and location information will be available in the My Day pane in Outlook. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This message applies to new Outlook for Windows desktop and Outlook for the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412618. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early December 2024 (previously mid-November) and expect to complete by mid-January 2025 (previously mid-November). General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 (previously early October) and expect to complete by late January 2025 (previously early December). [How this will affect your organization:] Before this rollout, users can review and update their work hours and location information in Outlook Settings > Calendar > Work hours and location. This settings page will remain in place after the rollout. After this rollout, users will also be able to see and update their work hours and location information in the My Day pane in Outlook. Changes to the My Day pane will sync to any other work hours and location settings made in Outlook. My Day pane with prompt to Set up your work location:
My Day pane with work location information, which can be updated:
This feature is on by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. |
| (Updated) Changes to Administrator Permissions Required to Create and Manage Teams Resource AccountsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC780743Status:planForChange | Updated November 27, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline for this change and provided a link to additional information. Thank you for your patience. This notice is regarding changes coming to the Teams administrator permissions that are used to create Teams Phone Resource Accounts for: Auto Attendants, Call Queues and certified Teams Call Center applications. This change could affect users with “Teams Administrator”, “Teams Communications Administrator” or the “Teams Telephony Administrator” role. Currently, the underlying Team service’s permission is used to create Resource Accounts in M365. After this change, the ability to create Resource Accounts will leverage the Microsoft 365 admin role’s permission to create user accounts instead of the underlying service’s permission. The “Teams Administrator”, “Teams Communications Administrator” and “Teams Telephony Administrator” roles will not have user creation permissions so this change may result in disruption in your organization’s ability to create these Resource Accounts. Organizations that utilize those Teams roles will require Administrators with user creation permission such as Microsoft 365 Global Admin or User Admin to create and manage these Resource Accounts. [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in early December 2024 (previously early October) and expect to complete by late January 2025 (previously late October).
[How this will affect your organization:] You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates that your organization is using Teams Phone and may have Resource Accounts created for the Teams Auto Attendant, Teams Call Queue, or a Certified Teams Call Center application. Administrators who do not have a Microsoft 365 Admin role which contains permissions to create and manage users will no longer be able to create or modify Resource Accounts when this change is implemented. [What you need to do to prepare:] Evaluate if your Teams Voice Administrators who are creating Teams Resource Accounts currently have Microsoft 365 user creation and management permissions. If they do not, make the process changes within your organization for how Resource Accounts will be created and managed after this change.
Upcoming changes for creating and managing Teams Phone resource accounts For more information, please see the “Assign permissions for managing a resource account” in the Manage resource accounts for service numbers – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn document |
| (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Adaptive protection – Enhancements to risk level settingsCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC789307Status:planForChange | Updated November 26, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon: Admins can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is resolved.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388736 [When this will happen:] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in early May 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024. General Availability: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024 (previously mid-November). [How this will affect your organization:] With this new feature, an admin can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is closed. Today, this expiration happens automatically. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. [What you need to do to prepare:] With this update, admins will see a new option in the Risk levels tab for adaptive protection called Risk level expiration options. This setting is enabled by default, and admins can uncheck this box if they would prefer that risk levels do not expire even when a user’s alert is dismissed or their case is closed. Additional Resources: |
| (Updated) Web links in the new Outlook for Windows to open side-by-side with email in Microsoft EdgeCategory:Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC803892Status:planForChange | Updated November 26, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. To help increase productivity while working online, web links from Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts and Microsoft (MSA) accounts in the new Outlook for Windows app will open in Microsoft Edge in a single view showing the opened link side-by-side with the email it came from. We’re adding this to the new Outlook for windows to have a consistent experience across our applications. If you have previously managed this change for the classic Outlook for Windows (MC545904, MC548092, MC541626) or for Teams (MC669480), your configuration will also apply to the new Outlook for Windows. If you wish to maintain this configuration across all three apps, no action is required. Note: This does not change the default browser setting in Windows. [When will this affect your organization:] We will begin rolling out in late July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024 (previously mid-November). [How this will affect your organization:] Web links from emails in the new Outlook for Windows app will open side-by-side with the email in Microsoft Edge so users can easily reference the link and email without switching back and forth between apps. Links will open in Microsoft Edge even if it is not the system default browser in Windows.
[What you need to do to prepare:] To manage this change, you will need to configure the Choose which browser opens web links policy, which is available today, using the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 (formerly the Office Cloud Policy Service) and Administrative Templates for Microsoft 365 Apps.
If your organization uses a Microsoft 365 for business plan, your users will need to manage this change individually through the Outlook settings menu: Settings > General > Files and links > Open hyperlinks from Outlook in. Example of the user notification experience
Read more about how we’re improving the experience between Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Edge with this feature in: Web links from Outlook and Teams open in Microsoft Edge in side-by-side view – Outlook | Microsoft Learn. |
| Microsoft Outlook: Notifications will be batched in the Notifications paneCategory:Exchange Online Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC942814Status:stayInformed | Coming soon to new Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop and Outlook for the web: Notifications will be batched in the Notifications pane. Batches are groups of cards in the user’s Notification pane separated by subject. Items from the same email thread, document, spreadsheet, etc. will be grouped into a batch. This message applies to new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470021. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late November 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] Users can access the Notification pane by selecting the bell icon in the top right corner of Outlook. Batched notifications have a chevron (^) in the top right corner. Users can expand the chevron to see all related messages:
This feature will be available by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. #newoutlookforwindows |
| Microsoft Viva Connections: Default experience for Home site customersCategory:SharePoint OnlineNummer:MC942817Status:planForChange | Coming soon: We will automatically set your Home site as the default experience for Microsoft Viva Connections app in Microsoft Teams. Note: This change will only apply to customers who have not yet set a Viva Connections experience in their tenants. Customers who already have a Viva Connections experience (either standalone or backed by a Home site) will not be affected by this change. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422815. [When will this happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] Before this rollout, end users could access the Homesite through the SharePoint website. With this rollout, end users are now able to also access the Homesite through the Viva Connections app in Teams. This change will be on by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] If you are okay with this change:
If you want to turn off this change, you have two options:
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to update any relevant documentation. |
| Power Platform – Tenant Isolation will be enabled by default across your tenantCategory:Power PlatformNummer:MC942823Status:stayInformed | As part of our Secure by Default initiative, tenant isolation will be enabled by default on your tenant starting March 2025. This change will only affect your tenant if you do not currently have a tenant isolation policy configured. Tenant isolation only applies to Power Platform policies and is separate from guest access policy and Azure tenant restriction features. How does this affect me? The default tenant isolation behavior will block all connection attempts from one tenant to another; inbound (connections to the tenant from external tenants), outbound (connections from the tenant to external tenants), or both (inbound – outbound) will be blocked by Power Platform. Communications within the same tenant will not be affected. What do I need to do to prepare? You can enable a tenant isolation policy prior to enforcement by following the tenant isolation policy guide. Additionally, please ensure you identify scenarios currently using cross-tenant connections or anticipate calls to or from other tenants by establishing an allow list of the relevant tenant IDs by following the recommended guidelines. |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot: An easier way for users to delete Copilot activity history in their Microsoft AccountCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC942826Status:stayInformed | Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: An easier way for user to delete their Copilot account history from all applications. When users select Open Copilot activity history in Teams, they will be taken directly to the Settings & Privacy page in their My Microsoft account. This new entry point applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for iOS/Android. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to access this feature. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] Before this rollout, users must navigate to their My Microsoft account to delete their Copilot interaction history. After this rollout, they can access the My Microsoft account Settings & Privacy page directly from Teams. On the My Microsoft page, they can delete the Copilot activity history for all Microsoft 365 apps with Copilot activity history. In Teams for Windows desktop, users can find Open Copilot activity history under the Privacy > Delete Copilot activity history setting:
In Teams for Android/iOS, users can find Open Copilot activity history under the Copilot setting:
Users will be taken to the Settings & Privacy page in their My Microsoft account:
If users select Delete history, this popup appears:
A tool tip will guide users to these controls in the Welcome message in Copilot for chat, channels, and meetings (desktop tool tip on the left, iOS/Android tooltip on the right):
[What you need to do to prepare:] This change will be available by default to all Teams users with a Copilot license on Windows desktop, Mac desktop, or iOS/Android. Manage Microsoft 365 Copilot settings | Microsoft Learn explains how to disable Copilot at the tenant level if desired. This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. Learn more |
| Microsoft 365 admin center: Business Chat usage in Microsoft 365 Copilot usage reportCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC942832Status:planForChange | The Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will be updated to show total usage of Business Chat and split usage of Business Chat (work) and Business Chat (web). Business Chat (web) usage is currently limited to Microsoft Edge and Microsoft 365 App, but more apps will be added over time. The Business Chat (work) usage in Edge and Microsoft 365 App was already captured in the report as part of the Business Chat (work) metric, but now we are breaking them out in the adoption by app chart. In the user level table, the last activity dates are added for Business Chat (web), Edge, and Microsoft 365 App.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415468. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] This new usage report is designed help admins understand the overall usage of Business Chat, the split usage between Business Chat (web) and Business Chat (work), and the Business Chat usage in apps Edge and Microsoft 365 App. This update is available by default.
[What you need to do to prepare:]
Due to the new release, Business Chat (work) usage in aggregated tenant exports will be moved to a new file. You may need to update the source exported file for it. |
| Promotional access to Agents in SharePointCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC942833Status:planForChange | During a promotional trial period running from January 6, 2025, through June 30, 2025, organizations with 50 or more Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses will automatically receive 10,000 additional queries per month for agents in SharePoint, giving users without Copilot licenses access to create and use agents. We’ve added a new setting that allows admins to disable this trial access using the SharePoint Online Management Shell. View the Trial Agreement details [When this will happen:] The promotion will go into effect January 6, 2025, and remain active until June 30, 2025. At the beginning of December 2024, admins can disable trial access at any point during the promotional period, via the SharePoint Online Management Shell. Tenants that are eligible for the promotion will see a message bar on the Copilot Admin page in the Admin Center. [What you need to prepare:] Starting the beginning of December, Global administrators or SharePoint admins can use the SharePoint Online Management Shell to manage access to the trial for users without Copilot licenses. This can be done by updating to the latest version of the SharePoint Online Management Shell and running the following commands:
Ensure that you have the latest version of SharePoint PowerShell installed to run these cmdlets effectively. [How this will affect your organization:] Once the trial promotion is available, your unlicensed users will be able to view and interact directly with agents in SharePoint. They will receive a notification about their promotional access and be encouraged to start exploring the feature.
Any time these users interact with agents, it will count toward your organization’s monthly trial use of 10,000 queries. Once the maximum number of queries is reached, users will be notified that the service is temporarily unavailable and prompted to try again next month.
Unused queries will not roll over to the following month. If you need more queries, you can get them by adding additional Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. After the trial ends on June 30, 2025, users without an M365 Copilot License will no longer be able to create or use the agents. However, agents created and used during the trial promotion will remain available, and no historical data will be lost. Additional information: |
| Microsoft Intune In Development for November 2024 is now availableCategory:Microsoft IntuneNummer:MC943557Status:stayInformed | The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated. How does this affect me? The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated. You will start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release. What do I need to prepare for this change? You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your users. Additional Information |
| Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to Viva Insights analystsCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC943558Status:planForChange | Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Viva Insights simplifies the query-building process for analysts by recommending templates, metrics, filters, and attributes relevant to their analysis. After this rollout, analysts can view and build their reports more efficiently using Copilot’s assistive features. Licenses required: Viva Insights or Microsoft Viva Suite. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 399924. [When this will happen:] General Availability: We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] This feature is available for analysts in the advanced insights app in Viva Insights. Analysts typically use pre-built templates or queries to investigate and answer specific questions about collaboration, workplace activities, and Copilot adoption and usage in your organization. Copilot in Viva Insights can assist users in choosing relevant template, metrics, filters and attributes for their analysis. For example, if users want to understand more about how employees use Copilot in your organization, they can ask Copilot in natural language, “How does Copilot usage compare across organizations?” In response, Copilot will suggest using the Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption report or a Custom person query. Users can also use Copilot to add or modify metrics, filters, and attributes for a query. Copilot with prompts on the Create analysis page:
Copilot suggests relevant templates and custom queries in response to a user’s request:
Copilot helps build a custom query with relevant metrics, attributes, and filters:
[What you need to do to prepare:] This feature is on by default. If you do not want the users to access Copilot, you can disable this feature from the Microsoft Admin portal. Learn more: Manage Microsoft 365 Copilot settings | Microsoft Learn This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. Learn more: Set up your queries using Copilot | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout) |
| Administrator protection on Windows 11Category:WindowsNummer:MC943561Status:stayInformed | Enhance your organization’s Windows security with Administrator protection through Windows Hello. Available to Windows Insiders first, it will verify your identity before allowing any action that requires administrator privileges. This minimizes the risk of the user making a system-level change by mistake. Additionally, it helps prevent malware from making silent changes to the system without the user knowing. You can configure Administrator protection using Group Policy, through the settings catalog in Microsoft Intune, or with other tools coming soon. Learn more in Administrator protection on Windows 11. When will this happen: Administrator protection is available to Windows Insiders at this point. It’s ready to be enabled via Group Policy and settings catalog in Microsoft Intune. It’s coming soon to other management tools. How this will affect your organization: Administrator protection helps to protect your users while still allowing them to perform necessary functions with just-in-time administrator privileges. The main benefits include enhanced security, granular user control, and malware reduction. What you need to do to prepare: Check if this feature is available to you via the Windows Insider Program. If so, enable Administrator protection using Group Policy, through the settings catalog in Microsoft Intune, or with other tools coming soon. Then restart the devices. Learn more about Administrator protection by reading Additional information. Additional information: |
| Data Privacy: Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor DisclosureCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC943564Status:stayInformed | A Data Privacy message regarding your organization is available within Message Center. The contents of this message can be accessed within Message Center by a Global Administrator or someone designated as a Message Center Privacy Reader. Please sign in to Admin Center to view the details of this message in the M365 Message center. |
| Microsoft Viva Engage: Additional permissions added to the corporate communicator roleCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC943573Status:planForChange | Coming soon to Microsoft Viva: Corporate communicators will be able to perform these following communication management tasks without relying on the IT admin (network admin):
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] This change will be on by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. |
| Microsoft Outlook: Move emails between accounts (new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web)Category:Exchange Online Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC943640Status:planForChange | Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: Users can move emails between their new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web, streamlining organization and productivity. For enterprise users, this feature is controlled by the Set-OWAMailboxPolicy policy managed by admins in Microsoft Exchange PowerShell. By enabling this policy, admins can grant their users the ability to move emails between accounts in a way that aligns with organizational needs and policies. With this rollout, we are introducing a new parameter called -ItemsToOtherAccountsEnabled for the Set-OWAMailboxPolicy policy. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470018. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late February 2025 and expect to complete by early March 2025. General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025. General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] The new parameter If you enable this parameter, users will be able to move emails between accounts in these ways: 1. Dragging and dropping an email from one account to another 2. Using shortcuts:
3. Right-click an email and select Move or Copy from the menu (menu items only available if the policy is enabled) [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. Learn more: Set-OwaMailboxPolicy (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Learn #newoutlookforwindows |
| Reminder: Switch to New Forms Data Syncing Solution by January 13, 2025Category:Microsoft FormsNummer:MC943681Status:planForChange | In MC855685 (August ‘24), Microsoft Forms and Excel provided a new data sync solution which can sync a form’s response data to an Excel workbook, replacing the old data sync solution which will be deprecated by Jan 13th 2025. Note: The new data sync can currently only be triggered in Excel for the web. If users want to receive new Forms response data in the Excel desktop app, open the target file in Excel for the web to sync new responses, and then wait for the file to update in the desktop app. Direct syncing support for the Windows and Mac versions of Excel is in progress and will be released soon. Impact There are {User} users and {Group} groups with a total of {Forms} forms using the old data sync solution in your tenant in the last 3 months (Aug – Oct 2024). Action To continue syncing new responses from their form to their Excel workbook, users will need to update the syncing solution for each affected form. To make sure users have enough time to make the update, we recommend that you reach out to those users and encourage them take the actions described below. Please file a support ticket to Microsoft Forms if you need the impacted user ID list. What do users need to do?
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