Plan for change Archives - Page 4 of 12

Microsoft Places app ON by default [MC922620]

The Microsoft Places app helps users coordinate their in-office days with colleagues. When work location is shared from OWA or the new Outlook Calendar, users will see others' work locations and can decide the best days to be in the office for in-person collaboration.

Mike Rosoft 31 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive: The Enable OCSI for Tenants group policy is being removed [MC921916]

We're removing the EnableAllOcsiClients OneDrive group policy in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Mike Rosoft 30 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Power Automate Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365 Power Apps

Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API [MC921752]

We will be retiring the Utility.SendEmail API from SharePoint. The SP.Utilities.Utility.SendEmail could be used to send emails from custom applications or processes within SharePoint Online, including Power Automate, and custom workflows.

Mike Rosoft 30 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web

Microsoft PowerPoint: Web viewer add-in retires December 2024 [MC921112]

We will retire the Web Viewer add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint and remove it from Microsoft App Source on December 2, 2024. After this date, the add-in will be unavailable for download or use. Existing files will not be affected, although the add-in's functionality in existing slides will end.

Mike Rosoft 29 October 2024Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 suite

Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – October 2024 [MC921105]

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 29 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 apps

Support for the Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile UWP applications will end on October 14, 2025 [MC921113]

Message ID: MC921113 Support for the Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications will end on October 14, 2025. After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these…

Mike Rosoft 29 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Entra

Microsoft Entra: Enablement of Passkeys in Authenticator for passkey (FIDO2) organizations with no key restrictions [MC920300]

Message ID: MC920300 Beginning mid-January 2025, after the General Availability of passkeys in the Microsoft Authenticator app, organizations with the passkey (FIDO2) authentication methods policy enabled with no key restrictions will be enabled for passkeys in the Microsoft Authenticator app…

Mike Rosoft 28 October 2024Admin impact, Plan for change1

SharePoint Online

Microsoft Purview | Audit: Enable audit log search for content searches that target Microsoft SharePoint Online [MC920299]

Message ID: MC920299 By default, searches conducted from various Microsoft 365 entry points into Microsoft SharePoint Online are not collected in the Microsoft Purview audit log search. You may enable these searches to be collected by following these instructions: Step…

Mike Rosoft 28 October 2024Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins can disable the ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after a meeting [MC920298]

Message ID: MC920298 Coming soon for Microsoft Teams admin center: For the existing Meeting chat control, we will add two new options that allow admins to disable meeting chat before and after a meeting, In-meeting only for everyone and In-meeting…

Mike Rosoft 28 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Copilot Pages coming to Microsoft Copilot [MC920307]

Message ID: MC920307 As communicated in MC862983, Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection is available to users who sign in with an Entra account. Starting early November 2024, Copilot Pages will become available for Microsoft Copilot users when signed in…

Mike Rosoft 28 October 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1