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On-demand Index Life Cycle Change for SharePoint and OneDrive Search and Application Permission Based Requests [MC903620]

We're making some changes to on-demand indexes used to support SharePoint and OneDrive Search using Application Permissions. On/Starting November 1, 2024, if an on-demand index has not been queried in 100 days, the index will be decommissioned.

Mike Rosoft 3 October 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Insights: Business Leader role removal [MC903633]

Microsoft Viva Insights leader experiences will stop supporting the Business Leader role in January 2025.

Mike Rosoft 3 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 for the web

(Reminder) Delve retires December 16, 2024 [MC902780]

This is a reminder that we are retiring Microsoft Delve on December 16, 2024, as communicated in MC698136 (Updated) Retiring Delve Web (originally published December 2023, updated May 2024).

Mike Rosoft 2 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Exchange Online Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Places will be generally available in Q4 CY24 [MC901823]

Microsoft Places, an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, will be generally available in Q4 CY24. Places reimagines flexible work with AI by intelligently coordinating your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernizing how employees connect, and optimizing space management with occupancy and utilization data.

Mike Rosoft 1 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Word: Researcher feature will retire starting late December 2024 [MC901824]

We will retire the Researcher feature in Microsoft Word starting January 2025. After Researcher retires, Researcher will not appear on the ribbon in Word and Researcher will no longer be supported.

Mike Rosoft 1 October 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 for the web

Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – September 2024 [MC901821]

The cloud.microsoft domain was provisioned in early 2023 to provide a unified, trusted, and dedicated DNS domain space to host Microsoft’s first-party authenticated SaaS products and experiences. This post is to inform admins that the following Microsoft products and scenarios are now available at the cloud.microsoft domain, in parallel with the previous domains.

Mike Rosoft 1 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams admin center: “WatermarkWithDisplayNameAndIP” retires in October 2024 from Teams meeting policy [MC899939]

We will retire the Microsoft PowerShell command value WatermarkWithDisplayNameAndIP for WatermarkForAnonymousUsers for the Microsoft Teams meeting policy on October 27, 2024. We will continue to support the values WatermarkWithDisplayName (the default value) and JoinWithAudioOnly.

Mike Rosoft 28 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft 365 Copilot: Self-service purchase settings in Microsoft 365 admin center (E3, E5) [MC899941]

In MC853238 Microsoft 365 admin center: New self-service purchase and trial settings (August 2024), we communicated the new self-service purchase and trial settings in the Microsoft admin center. In October 2024, self-service purchase settings for Microsoft 365 Copilot will be generally available for global admins or billing admins. If you have an E3 or E5 license, you can set your preferences now for Microsoft 365 Copilot self-service purchases that will go live at a future date. We will update this message when we know that date.

Mike Rosoft 28 September 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft OneNote for Windows 10 retires October 14, 2025 (switch your users) [MC899174]

As we continue to invest in a unified and modern Microsoft OneNote experience, we want to remind you that the OneNote for Windows 10 app will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. After this date, the app will no longer receive support, and the app will become read only.

Mike Rosoft 27 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

OneDrive for Business SharePoint Online

Specifying client ID and secret when creating an Azure ACS principal via AppRegNew.aspx will be removed [MC898388]

When using the AppRegNew.aspx page to create Azure ACS (Access Control Service) principals today, you can generate a new client ID (default flow) and secret, but you can also specify the client ID or secret yourselves. Going forward, the option to specify the client ID and secret yourself will be removed.

Mike Rosoft 26 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement1