September 2024 - Page 8 of 9 - Modern Workspace Pro

(Reminder) Microsoft 365 admin center: Admins can no longer receive user passwords in email as of August 30, 2024 [MC884005]

retiring the Send password in email feature from Microsoft 365 admin center starting August 30, 2024. Instead, we recommend using the new Print option in the Microsoft admin center to save the user account details and share them in a secure manner with your users.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024Admin impact, Retirement, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Design ideas in Viva Amplify [MC884007]

Authors editing a section in the Amplify main draft or the Amplify distribution channel for SharePoint will see an icon for Design ideas in the content pane selection. For sections containing the webparts listed later in this message, a red dot will appear in the Design ideas content pane pivot (on the right of the screen) to let you know it has ideas available. Select this pivot to open the Design ideas pane.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.24091.00000 for GBR [MC883637]

Minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dataverse environment hosted in GBR.

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Stay informed1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse templates, Conversations in Pulse reports, eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support [MC883193]

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse templates Conversations in Pulse reports eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support for Viva Pulse

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership [MC883199]

Coming soon in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins will be able to deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed, and team owners can also add frontline workers or remove them from teams.

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Exchange Online Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Outlook: Updated handling of PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels for iOS and Android [MC883195]

When users in Microsoft Outlook for iOS or Android select a PDF file protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels, they will be prompted to open the file in the Microsoft 365 app.

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Entra

Public Preview: Microsoft Entra ID FIDO2 provisioning APIs [MC883192]

Microsoft Entra ID now supports FIDO2 provisioning via API, allowing organizations to pre-provision security keys (passkeys) for users.

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Power Platform

Power Platform – Storage Shared Access Signature security enhancements [MC883157]

General Availability of security enhancements for Storage Shared Access Signature (SAS) for the Microsoft Power Platform. These new security enhancements will be made available on October 1, 2024.

Mike Rosoft 4 September 2024New feature, Stay informedNo Comments

Exchange Online Microsoft 365 apps

New Microsoft Outlook for Windows: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through email [MC882252]

Before this rollout, users are only able to see old Outlook for Windows when they try to share a Word, Excel or PowerPoint fie. After this rollout, when users want to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file that is saved to their device (not stored in a cloud like Microsoft OneDrive), the user can right-click the file name in File Explorer, select Share, and select new Outlook for Windows to email the file.

Mike Rosoft 4 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Exchange Online

Exchange Online: New Groups experience default update in Outlook on the web and new Outlook for windows [MC882271]

Group users won’t have access to the old Groups experience in the left navigation pane below the primary mailbox level after this change. Users can access the new Groups experience by going to the navigation bar on the left margin and selecting the Groups icon below the People icon or by clicking on the Groups button below primary mailbox.

Mike Rosoft 4 September 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments