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Microsoft Purview: Message Encryption portal transitioning to the “.microsoft” domain by the end of 2024 [MC887373]

The Microsoft Purview Message Encryption portal provides access to encrypted messages sent from your organization's users to external recipients.

Mike Rosoft 11 September 2024Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Image viewing improvements in chat [MC886600]

When there are multiple images within a chat, users will now be able to view and cycle through the images. The images are deep linked to take the user to the specific time in the chat the image was provided.

Mike Rosoft 10 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impactNo Comments

Exchange Online

Reject multiple From addresses (P2 From headers) without a Sender header [MC886603]

Starting October 15th, we're going to start gradually dropping messages that have multiple From addresses (also known as P2 From headers) without a Sender header from being sent via Exchange Online.

Mike Rosoft 10 September 2024Admin impact, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Copilot for Microsoft 365 available for self-service purchase [MC886385]

Self Service purchases are a great way for IT to accelerate and streamline productivity tools for their organization by providing a way for end users to purchase products with their own payment instrument, allowing end users to bring their own products to their company to help enhance their productivity with AI.

Mike Rosoft 9 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 apps Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft PowerPoint: QuickStarter feature retires starting October 2024 [MC884762]

Starting October 8, 2024, and ending December 31, 2024, we will retire the Microsoft PowerPoint QuickStarter feature from Microsoft Office version 2409 for Windows and Microsoft Office version 2410 for Mac. The feature will be unavailable going forward in Office. QuickStarter was never available in PowerPoint for the web.

Mike Rosoft 7 September 2024Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Microsoft 365 admin center will support continuous access evaluation (CAE) [MC884015]

We will enable continuous access evaluation (CAE) of tokens in the Microsoft 365 admin center in September 2024. This feature will proactively terminate active user or admin sessions, or require reauthentication, and enforce tenant policy changes in near real time instead of waiting for an access token to expire.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva: Design ideas in Viva Amplify [MC884007]

Authors editing a section in the Amplify main draft or the Amplify distribution channel for SharePoint will see an icon for Design ideas in the content pane selection. For sections containing the webparts listed later in this message, a red dot will appear in the Design ideas content pane pivot (on the right of the screen) to let you know it has ideas available. Select this pivot to open the Design ideas pane.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

(Reminder) Microsoft 365 admin center: Admins can no longer receive user passwords in email as of August 30, 2024 [MC884005]

retiring the Send password in email feature from Microsoft 365 admin center starting August 30, 2024. Instead, we recommend using the new Print option in the Microsoft admin center to save the user account details and share them in a secure manner with your users.

Mike Rosoft 6 September 2024Admin impact, Retirement, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Viva

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse templates, Conversations in Pulse reports, eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support [MC883193]

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse templates Conversations in Pulse reports eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support for Viva Pulse

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership [MC883199]

Coming soon in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins will be able to deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed, and team owners can also add frontline workers or remove them from teams.

Mike Rosoft 5 September 2024Admin impact, New feature, Stay informed, User impact1