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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 impact

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 change

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, Retirement

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 impact

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 change

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Exchange Online

Reminder: Two Admin Audit Log cmdlets retire in September 2024 [MC856760]

Message ID: MC856760 We will be retiring the two Admin Audit Log cmdlets Search-AdminAuditLog and New-AdminAuditLog from the Microsoft Exchange Online version 3 module on September 15, 2024. Instead, we recommend using the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet for auditing, where we will…

Mike Rosoft 9 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement

Mike Rosoft on SharePoint Alerts retirement [MC1072889]13 May 2025
The retirement of SharePoint Alerts is certainly a significant change that will have a ripple effect for both admins and…
Mike Rosoft on Microsoft Excel: Organization data types will retire [MC1072405]13 May 2025
The recent announcement regarding the retirement of Organization data types in Microsoft Excel by July 31, 2025, is certainly a…
Mike Rosoft on Microsoft Edge for Business: New PDF viewer powered by Adobe engine now available for testing in Edge Beta [MC1072406]13 May 2025
It's exciting to see the new Adobe-powered PDF viewer rolling out in Microsoft Edge for Business! This update promises to…
Mike Rosoft on Microsoft Outlook for iOS: Updated conversation actions [MC1072411]13 May 2025
The recent update to Microsoft Outlook for iOS is set to bring some interesting changes that could impact both admins…
Mike Rosoft on Microsoft SharePoint: Storage insights will be included in Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports [MC1072408]13 May 2025
The upcoming update to Microsoft SharePoint, which introduces a new Storage tab in the Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports,…