Unofficial Microsoft 365 Changelog

• Exchange Online

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting

MC690173 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback. Microsoft will stop honoring the mail flow rule which helps you track end user reporting. To improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives)...

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• Microsoft Power Automate

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Power Automate – Information about new Power Platform URLs used by Power Automate

MC684204 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the date below. Thank you for your patience. Starting February 29, 2024, Microsoft Power Automate will start to rely on a new cloud service dependency called Power Platform API. The Power Automate experiences will leverage this new API internally, as will more Power Platform experiences over time....

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• Microsoft Stream
• Yammer

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com

MC635989 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience. Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies. This message is associated...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams – Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker

MC674737 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Users can soon find all of their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker in Microsoft Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023 When this will happen: Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

MC705350 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location....

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale

MC705347 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify schedule owners, and create schedule groups for...

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• Exchange Online

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365 enable admins to provide intent while submitting

MC696850 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This applies to customers with Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office plan 1 or plan 2 service plans. Soon, admins can provide intent when submitting messages (email and Microsoft Teams), email attachments, or URLs to Microsoft. Admins can...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Changes to the Website tab in the new Teams client

MC708500 – Starting April 2024, Microsoft Teams will be retiring the ability to load websites inside the new Teams client when using the Website tab. These website links will open in a new browser tab instead. This is to better align with emerging best practices in web security and privacy while also improving the reliability...

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• Microsoft 365 Apps

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Office documents have a new default theme

MC666615 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. A new default document theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights. This change...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams Voice isolation

MC690921 – Updated January 30, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With “Voice isolation”, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this...

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