Plan for change Archives - Page 11 of 12

Microsoft classic Viva Engage: Inline PDF viewing in external networks and non-connected communities retires Sept 30 [MC876292]

Starting September 30, 2024, classic Microsoft Viva Engage users in external networks and communities not connected to Microsoft 365 groups will need to download PDFs attached to Viva Engage threads to view them.

Mike Rosoft 29 August 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Exchange Online Microsoft 365 for the web

Microsoft Outlook for the web: Third-party cookie block causes users to sign in again on Chrome and Edge [MC871011]

Microsoft Outlook for the web is undergoing an authentication platform migration to a public client authentication model using MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library). The change to client-side authentication will be subject to Google's third-party cookie block that may be active in Chrome and Edge.

Mike Rosoft 23 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

[Reminder] Microsoft Team: Review and update Tenant Federation setting to block external access with trial-only tenants [MC870997]

Teams PowerShell now supports the new Tenant Federation setting -ExternalAccessWithTrialTenants with the values Allowed or Blocked. When set to Blocked, all external access with users from Teams subscriptions that contain only trial licenses will be blocked.

Mike Rosoft 23 August 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Exchange Online Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web

New Microsoft Outlook: New Get diagnostics feature for users to submit logs to Microsoft Support during an interaction [MC869930]

Users will find the Get diagnostics feature in the Help tab of the Ribbon if you have enabled it.

Mike Rosoft 22 August 2024New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 apps

URLs for deployment configurations will be retired [MC867651]

f you use the deployment configuration service from the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center (config.office.com) to create deployment configurations for Microsoft 365 apps, get ready for a change.

Mike Rosoft 20 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Engage: Private unlisted groups in external networks will retire and be deleted in January 2025 [MC867664]

To enhance the security and compliance of Viva Engage, we will be retiring all private unlisted groups (also known as "Secret Groups") on January 13, 2025. These groups and all associated data will be deleted on February 10, 2025

Mike Rosoft 20 August 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 suite

Backfilling Microsoft Graph Connector Entitlement to 50M items [MC865187]

We want to inform you that certain Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions will soon feature a new service plan called Graph Connectors Search with Index.

Mike Rosoft 18 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for changeNo Comments

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Word: Certain Dynamic Data Exchange features will be removed in April 2025 [MC863140]

You may be affected by this change if you currently depend on the HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Security\AllowDDE registry key being set to a value other than 0. If you do not have that key set or if it is currently set to 0, this change will have no effect.

Mike Rosoft 15 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, RetirementNo Comments

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft Copilot to update to enterprise data protection [MC862983]

Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection and redirect users to a new simplified, ad-free user interface designed for work and education when they are signed in with an Entra account.

Mike Rosoft 15 August 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Entra

Take action: Enable multifactor authentication for your tenant before October 15, 2024 [MC862873]

Starting on or after October 15, 2024, to further increase security, Microsoft will require admins to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) when signing into the Microsoft Azure portal, Microsoft Entra admin center, and Microsoft Intune admin center.

Mike Rosoft 15 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for changeNo Comments