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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

Modern Workspace Pro 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.

Modern Workspace Pro 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.

Modern Workspace Pro 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.

Modern Workspace Pro 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.

Modern Workspace Pro 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…

Modern Workspace Pro 9 August 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement

AI Music Generator on (Updated) Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention/legal holds on OneDrive and SharePoint [MC1115304]7 August 2025
This update raises interesting questions about balancing compliance and operational flexibility. I’m curious how Microsoft plans to audit or track…
AI Music Generator on GCP Release Notes: August 04, 20256 August 2025
The ability to apply secure tags organization-wide is a huge win for consistent firewall policy enforcement. Glad to see this…
Audio to Text on GCP Release Notes: August 02, 20256 August 2025
Great to see the continued rollout of Google SecOps SOAR updates—version 6.3.55 landing across all regions is a solid step…
kawaii coloring on GCP Release Notes: July 28, 20254 August 2025
The cross-region BigQuery materialized views are a game-changer—cut our nightly pipeline costs by 40%. Critical catch: Schema auto-detection still fails…
kawaii coloring on Important Update: Teams Meeting Join URL Validation [MC1120871]4 August 2025
This validation change is overdue—we’ve seen a 300% spike in phishing via fake ‘rescheduled meeting’ links. For hybrid teams, ensure…