Mike Rosoft

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft PowerPoint: QuickStarter feature retires starting October 2024 [MC884762]

Starting October 8, 2024, and ending December 31, 2024, we will retire the Microsoft PowerPoint QuickStarter feature from Microsoft Office version 2409 for Windows and Microsoft Office version 2410 for Mac. The feature will be unavailable going forward in Office. QuickStarter was never available in PowerPoint for the web.

Mike Rosoft 7 September 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

ActiveX will be disabled by default in Microsoft Office 2024 [MC884011]

Starting in new Office 2024, the default configuration setting for ActiveX objects will change from Prompt me before enabling all controls with minimal restrictions to Disable all controls without notification. This change applies to the Win32 desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement1

Exchange Online

Exchange Properties Limits addition [MC884017]

We're making some changes to allowed size and count of values for various Exchange properties, here are the definition of the limits: Max length: Size of each value Max Count: Total count of values

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change3

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft 365 admin center will support continuous access evaluation (CAE) [MC884015]

We will enable continuous access evaluation (CAE) of tokens in the Microsoft 365 admin center in September 2024. This feature will proactively terminate active user or admin sessions, or require reauthentication, and enforce tenant policy changes in near real time instead of waiting for an access token to expire.

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

Microsoft 365 suite

(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