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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 apps Microsoft 365 for the web

Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – August 2024 [MC878423]

A full list of product experiences already being delivered on this domain can be found here: Unified cloud.microsoft domain for Microsoft 365 apps - Microsoft 365 Enterprise | Microsoft Learn.

Mike Rosoft 30 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Viva

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