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Microsoft Teams: Embed support for Teams town hall [MC889534]

As a part of Team’s ongoing effort to enable our customers to create, manage, and run large scale events, end users can now embed Teams town hall in sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular website.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio setting for meeting participants using language interpretation [MC889529]

In Microsoft Teams, meeting participants who use language interpretation will be able to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio after they select the language to listen to in the meeting.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting passcodes length for added security [MC889520]

Given the recent global security threats on online meetings, Microsoft Teams is taking steps to make your meetings more secure. We are increasing the minimum length of the meeting passcodes from 6 characters to 8 characters. The nature of the passcodes will remain the same, consisting of letters and numbers.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Feature update, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams apps and Microsoft Copilot extensions: New security and certification information [MC889528]

By consolidating information from multiple sources in one place, this feature will provide admins responsible for the Microsoft Teams app and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 extension deployment with comprehensive security and certification information for faster assessment of compliance with tenant security standards.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Exchange Online

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List will support IPv6 allow and block entries [MC889519]

Soon, it will be possible to create IPv6 allow and block entries in the Tenant Allow/Block Lists.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed1

Microsoft Dataverse

Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.24092.00000 for GBR [MC889232]

We have a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dataverse environment hosted in GBR. This service update will occur within your region's scheduled maintenance timeline, on the scheduled date listed for Microsoft Dataverse.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Stay informed1

SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online: Enhancements to Text web part [MC888883]

We've added new capabilities to the Text web part in Microsoft SharePoint Online, which include: Ability to set custom font colors. New paragraph style option to select normal text with or without spacing between paragraphs. Option to add/remove spacing before/after paragraphs and headings. Ability to set custom line spacing. New quote style options. Ability to highlight the number of columns and rows to insert in a new table.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

OneDrive for Business

Microsoft OneDrive: New prompt to confirm deletion of shared items and updated prompt for local mass item deletions [MC888872]

Coming soon for Microsoft OneDrive Sync: When users are about to delete shared items, a new prompt will ask users to confirm the deletion. When users are about to mass delete local items, an updated prompt will ask users to confirm the deletion. This message applies to OneDrive on Windows desktop.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact2

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization [MC888879]

The availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API) does not stop a malicious user from resending a Microsoft Teams message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user feature will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this possible, we will use a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation identity credentials to block the malicious user from the entire organization.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed1

Azure Information Protection

Service health and Message center: Azure Information Protection consolidation [MC888878]

To simplify our communications for ‘Azure Information Protection’ events in Service health and Message center, we’re consolidating communications under the existing ‘Microsoft Purview’ service listing. Once the change is in place, you’ll see ‘Azure Information Protection’ events communicated under ‘Microsoft Purview’.

Mike Rosoft 13 September 2024Admin impact, Stay informed1