Weekly digest: Microsoft service updates

Microsoft
Message center announcements,
August 16-22, 2021
COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
Major updates

office_96x1.png (Updated) Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint
MC274188 | August 19 – Updated August 19, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Additionally, We have updated this post to correct the setting modification capability limitations and will provide an additional update when those limitations are corrected. As part of the evolution of the new Stream (built on SharePoint), we are introducing the meeting recording auto-expiration feature, which will automatically delete Teams recording files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint after a preset period of time. Note:…
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office_96x1.png Updates to spam reporting
MC278894 | August 17 – We’re working on creating consistent reporting experiences for customers, and as a result we’re retiring the standalone spam detections report. A new Spam detections report view will now be available in the Threat Protection Status report.
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office_96x1.png (Updated) Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists
MC248201 | August 17 – Updated August 17, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below for Government organizations. Thank you for your patience. We are excited to announce the arrival of a new guided authoring experience in Lists that will make it easy to quickly create business intelligence reports in Power BI using your list schema and data.
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admin_96x1.png Microsoft 365 apps and services support for IE11 has ended
MC278815 | August 17 – As previously communicated, (MC220490 – August 17th, 2020), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. As of today, August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services from IE11. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to help ensure a smooth end of support, with each app…
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Additional updates

admin_96x1.png Refreshed Microsoft Whiteboard client experience coming soon
MC279627 | August 20 – Microsoft Whiteboard is being updated to provide a new, unified experience across all devices, whether you’re on a large screen or a mobile phone. We’ve already shipped new, highly requested features to our web app, Android app and Teams clients, and there’s more on the way. As part of this new experience, we will also be updating our native applications on Windows 10, Surface Hub and iOS to provide a uniform experience across all devices.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap…
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teams_96x1.png 1:1 VOIP and PSTN call recording and transcription in Calls App V2
MC279469 | August 20 – Microsoft Teams will now release ability to record and transcribe 1:1 VOIP and PSTN calls and show the recording and transcription in Call history in the calls details panel. This is a critical feature specifically for our Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) customers. In absence of chat, PSTN callees do not have a way to view call recordings and transcriptions. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83497
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sharepoint_96x1.png Tenant setting to disable the creation of new SharePoint 2013 workflows
MC279468 | August 20 – SharePoint tenant admins and global admins may disable the creation of new SharePoint 2013 workflows in their tenant by using a new parameter, -StopNew2013Workflows, in the Set-SPOTenant PowerShell command.NOTE: Minimum PowerShell version required to run this command is: 16.0.21513.12000 (Shipped on August 10, 2021).This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82078.
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office_96x1.png Plan for Change: Intune moving to support iOS 13/iPadOS 13 and higher later this year
MC279445 | August 19 – As mentioned in MC262974, later this year we expect iOS 15 to be released by Apple. Microsoft Intune, including the Intune Company Portal and Intune app protection policies (APP, also known as MAM), will require iOS 13/iPadOS 13 and higher shortly after iOS 15’s release.
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office_96x1.png Plan for Change: Intune moving to support macOS 10.15 and later with the release of macOS 12
MC279444 | August 19 – As mentioned in MC262782, with Apple’s expected release of macOS 12 Monterey in the fall of 2021, Microsoft Intune, the Company Portal app and the Intune MDM agent will be moving to support macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and higher shortly after the release.
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sharepoint_96x1.png (Updated) SharePoint Collapsible Sections
MC266077 | August 19 – Updated August 19, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new feature will allow users to create rich, information-dense SharePoint pages. As part of this release, we will enable the page author to configure sections within the SharePoint page to be able to expand, collapse and set the default page-load state for the section.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67147.
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teams_96x1.png (Updated) Admin notifications for Custom app submissions
MC260561 | August 19 – Updated August 19, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. To automate and simplify the approval process for custom apps this feature update will enable admins to receive a notification in a dedicated Teams channel when a developer submits a custom app for IT admin approval.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82512.
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planner_96x1.png Lightweight Plans in Planner
MC279089 | August 18 – With the upcoming “Meetings” solution: New hybrid work innovations in Microsoft Teams Rooms, Fluid, and Microsoft Viva, meeting participants can quickly capture tasks and expect them to automatically sync into the Microsoft 365 Task Ecosystem (Planner, To do/Outlook, and Teams Task app). To enable this, meetings create a plan in Planner for the captured tasks.To support this more ad-hoc form of task tracking, Planner now supports plans that don’t require an M365 Group, which we are calling…
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teams_96x1.png Cortana adds two new skills and Push To Talk is enabled by default
MC279087 | August 18 – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Service Update and New Skills in Cortana. Service Update:A service update will occur on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices during the week of August 23rd, 2021. This service update will facilitate the release of additional features in the future. Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Service Update plus new skills in Cortana. No action is required for this service update, this is informational only. New skills in Cortana:There are two upcoming changes in…
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teams_96x1.png Breakout Rooms Presenter support
MC278893 | August 17 – We are adding the ability for organizer to extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters. This feature will enable meeting organizers to add and remove presenters as Breakout Room managers.By taking control from Breakout rooms management panel, appointed presenters will be allowed to perform Breakout room operations as manager or meeting organizer, as well as joining Rooms as Breakout Room manager.This is rolling out on desktop only.This message is associated with Microsoft 365…
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teams_96x1.png Breakout rooms: Pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment
MC278891 | August 17 – We are adding the ability for meeting organizers to pre-create rooms ahead of a meeting start and perform participant assignment tasks (both auto and manual) in advance.This is rolling out on desktop only.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81390.
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office_96x1.png (Updated) PowerPoint Live: Present to Teams from PowerPoint Web App
MC247656 | August 17 – Updated August 17, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new PowerPoint for the web feature release will provide access to PowerPoint Live in Teams and with just one click, will make it easier for presenters to present their presentations from PowerPoint directly to their remote meeting audience. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80600.
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onedrive_96x1.png Universal Print integration with OneDrive on the web
MC278678 | August 17 – Users will be able to print to their organization’s Universal Print printers from OneDrive on the web without having to first install these printers on their devices. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82099
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office_96x1.png Change to the minimum iOS system requirements for Outlook for iOS and watchOS
MC278676 | August 17 – If your organization does not use iOS or watchOS, you may disregard the below message. We are changing the minimum iOS system requirements for Outlook for iOS and watchOS. Outlook for iOS: Outlook for iOS is supported on the two most recent versions of iOS. With iOS 15 currently in beta, Outlook for iOS is preparing to remove support for iOS 13. Once iOS 15 is released to GA, the system requirements for Outlook for iOS will be updated to reflect support for iOS 15. Microsoft will update the…
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teams_96x1.png Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the FLW onboarding wizard
MC278674 | August 17 – The frontline worker (FLW) onboarding wizard empowers IT admins to pilot and deploy Teams for frontline workers in just a few steps. This wizard allows admins to streamline team creation, license assignment, and policy package assignment from the Microsoft Admin Center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84468
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Microsoft 365 apps and services support for IE11 has ended
MC278815 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
As previously communicated, (MC220490 – August 17th, 2020), Microsoft 365 apps and services have been focusing their efforts on modern browser support over the last year. As of today, August 17, 2021, Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and users may have a degraded experience, or be unable to connect to, those apps and services from IE11. These apps and services will phase out over weeks and months to help ensure a smooth end of support, with each app and service phasing out on independent schedules.

Microsoft 365 applications and services

  • Timing: Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support IE11 as of today, August 17, 2021.
  • Action: To access Microsoft 365 apps and services using a supported platform, open with Microsoft Edge, another supported browser, or use an applicable Win-32 app (if available).

For a full list of Microsoft apps and services that have ended (or will end) support for IE11, please review Microsoft apps and services to end support for Internet Explorer 11.Note: While Microsoft 365 apps and services no longer support IE11, the IE11 desktop application remains a supported browser by Microsoft until June 15, 2022. On June 15, 2022, the IE11 desktop application will be retired and go out of support on certain versions of Windows 10.

Please see our retirement announcement and FAQ page for more details.

How this will affect your organization:

Important: Support is now unavailable for Microsoft 365 apps and services on IE11. Additionally, you should expect no new features and that the daily usage experience for users could get progressively worse over time until the apps and services are disconnected. Banners will be used to communicate and to alert users to upcoming changes in experiences, such as app or service disconnection and/or redirection.

Initial degraded experiences beginning today, August 17, 2021, include:

  • Outlook Web App: Users logging in with AAD accounts will have the full experience but will not receive new features moving forward. Users logging in with Microsoft Accounts (MSA) will be redirected to the Outlook Web App Light experience.

SharePoint’s Open with Explorer and View in File Explorer in IE11 features:

  • These features only exist in IE11 and while some customers may continue to use them, they will remain in maintenance mode and will not receive further development. We recommend transitioning to Microsoft Edge and OneDrive Sync for a better user experience and will soon bring the View in File Explorer feature in the Modern SPO Document Library to Microsoft Edge as well (more details to come). Please read this article for more information.

What you need to do to prepare:

To avoid an unsupported and degraded experience, or one where you are unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services, upgrade to Microsoft Edge as soon as possible. Microsoft 365 apps and services will continue to support Microsoft Edge.

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Weekly digest: Microsoft service updates

Microsoft
Message center announcements,
August 9-15, 2021
COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
Major updates

office_96x1.png Final Reminder: Adjusting Version Retention for Outlook Data Files (PST File Type) on One Drive and SharePoint
MC277809 | August 13 – As communicated in MC256835 (May ’21), starting August 16th 2021 the service will retain 30 days worth of versions for any PST files stored OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online team site document libraries. This change will prevent cases of previous versions of PST files quickly consuming available storage. The change will only impact previous versions of PST files stored in your document library storage.As best practice PST files should not be uploaded on OneDrive for Business and…
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office_96x1.png (Updated) Connector results in All tab in SharePoint, Office.com and MSB
MC253495 | August 12 – Updated August 12, 2021: We are happy to inform you that the Result Clusters feature is now rolled out and is switched on by default. You can manage its visibility with the settings in the All vertical. Thank you for your patience. With Graph connectors result clusters, enterprises can search for content from third party connector data sources in their default view, the All tab, in SharePoint, Office.com, and Microsoft Search in Bing. The results shown in a result cluster are grouped together…
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exchange_96x1.png (Updated) Plus addressing to be enabled for all Exchange Online customers
Act by: January 14
MC276028 | August 12 – Updated August 12, 2021: Based on initial feedback, there are several scenarios where organizations do not wish to have plus addressing enabled. For those organizations, a new setting will be added to disable it before the change takes place in 2022. Thank you for your feedback. Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature. This was due to preexisting usage of plus signs (+) for email addresses in the service. At the same time, we made plus…
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office_96x1.png Retirement: Outlook for iOS and Android to stop syncing with Facebook, Meetup, and Evernote Calendars
MC277124 | August 10 – Beginning September 13th, 2021, Outlook for iOS and Android be no longer sync calendars from Facebook, Meetup, and Evernote.
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teams_96x1.png (Updated) Teams meeting invite recipients limit from Outlook
MC259845 | August 10 – Updated August 10, 2021: We have updated the message below to clarify this impacts Win32 and Win64 clients. Thank you for your patience. We’re making some changes to limit the number of individual recipients allowed for scheduling a Teams meeting from Outlook (Win32 and Win64 client only at this time). We will apply this limit for meetings created with more than 750 recipients in the invite. This limit does not apply to the content of Distribution Lists and therefore we encourage users to use…
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admin_96x1.png (Updated) Feature Update: Modern comments in Word (Mac)
MC240613 | August 10 – Updated August 10, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We’re rolling out a new comments experience in Word with improved keyboard shortcuts as well as improved @mentions and notifications. This experience unifies how comments work across Word, Excel, and PPT.
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admin_96x1.png Announcing automatic redirection from Office 365 Security and Compliance Center to Microsoft 365 Defender portal
MC276896 | August 9 – We will soon begin redirecting users from the legacy Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com) to Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com), for all security workflows including: Alerts, Threat Management and Reports.Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center that are not related to security will not be redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. For compliance solutions redirection to Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, see (March 2021, MC244886).This is…
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Additional updates

office_96x1.png Duplicate logs in Microsoft 365 Audit
MC277815 | August 13 – Known Issue: Duplicate logs in Microsoft 365 Audit Log Search and Office 365 Management Activity APIDue to a configuration issue, customers may see duplicate audit events generated during a time period between 7/28/2021 and 7/29/2021 from the following Microsoft services.
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office_96x1.png Nucleus service plan addition to support Microsoft Lists
MC277196 | August 13 – You will soon see a new Nucleus (June MC261538) service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 license. The Nucleus service plan enables features associated with Lists sync and offline mode. It can be found in the M365 Admin Center. Lists sync is packaged, installed, and updated through the OneDrive sync app’s existing update mechanism.
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teams_96x1.png Spam Notification in Call Toast
MC277640 | August 13 – We are thrilled to bring you Spam Call Notifications. This unique, vanguard feature release will enable calls that are likely Spam calls to be identified in the call toast. This is rolling out to Teams desktop and web.All answered or missed calls that are likely Spam calls will be reflected respectively in the call history screen as well. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85386
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admin_96x1.png Microsoft 365 roadmap site updates
MC277639 | August 13 – We will be making updates to the Microsoft 365 roadmap on how you view, filter, search for, and sort the information.
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office_96x1.png Integration of submission from quarantine with Admin and User Submission
MC277638 | August 13 – Admin/ User Submissions coming from the quarantine portal were slotted into a separate submission channel than the channel that was used for the Admin submission coming from the submission portal and the user submission coming from the outlook report message Add-in.Maintaining two different submission channel increases the time it takes for submissions made to Microsoft to be graded. With this integration, there will be a reduction in the times it take for submission made to Microsoft to be…
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teams_96x1.png (Updated) Paging in Large Gallery
MC263055 | August 12 – Updated August 12, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This feature introduces paging to help you view up to 98 videos by choosing Large Gallery (Teams meetings currently supports up to 49 videos). This is rolling out on Windows, desktop and Mac.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84464.
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teams_96x1.png (Updated) Real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) Streaming Support to Custom Endpoints
MC268726 | August 12 – Updated August 12, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Teams will support the ability for your users to stream their Teams meetings and webinars to large audiences through real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) including endpoints outside your organization.This feature will rollout on desktop and Mac. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83562.
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dynamics_96x1.png Dynamics 365 – Infrastructure maintenance for Microsoft Dynamics 365
MC277502 | August 12 – Planned Maintenance: We have maintenance planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365 environment. During the maintenance window we will be performing updates to our infrastructure. Maintenance window start: 15 September 2021, 02:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 15 September 2021, 11:00 UTC How does this affect me? As part of this planned maintenance, the following feature areas may be affected: Analytics offerings, such as Audience Insights, Sales Insights, Customer Insights and some dataflows will…
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sharepoint_96x1.png SharePoint spaces adds styles for text and annotation icons
MC277466 | August 12 – This new SharePoint spaces feature enables the creation of immersive mixed reality environments that can be authored and published just like SharePoint pages. The new styles feature for text and annotation icons simplifies creation of consistent and great looking content. Text styles make consistent formatting easy to apply with just a click. Annotation icon styles allow customization of icon, size, and visual style for icons used to highlight specific content in the spaces 360° tour web…
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office_96x1.png Improved API support for working with files in the SharePoint recycle bin
MC277465 | August 12 – We’re rolling out some API improvements for working with files in the SharePoint recycle bin. These changes will not impact end-user experiences, but will make the contents of recycled files accessible by APIs with the use of a special request header. These updates will also result in some new change log behavior. Applications that consume operations from the change log may need to be updated to work as intended. More details about these changes can be found on the SharePoint: Developer Blog.
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office_96x1.png Feature Update: Modern comments in Word (Windows)
MC277410 | August 11 – As originally announced in March of 2021, MC240609 introduced the Modern comments feature in Microsoft Word for Windows. This post extends that support content and contains updates to the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re rolling out a new comments experience in Word with improved keyboard shortcuts as well as improved @mentions and notifications. This experience unifies how comments work across Word, Excel, and PPT.
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teams_96x1.png Introducing background effects on web
MC277112 | August 10 – Introducing background effects on web. If you want to change what appears behind you in your video meeting or call, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely with any image you want.Note: Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85738
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office_96x1.png (Updated) Microsoft Stream (built on SharePoint): Updated Web player for video
MC261352 | August 10 – Updated August 10, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The web player for audio & video files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint (including when those files are embedded in Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint web parts) is being updated with a new user look and feel and adheres to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers. Please see Play video & audio files on Microsoft 365 – SharePoint for more details. This message…
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teams_96x1.png (Updated) Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on VDI – Citrix Users
MC266255 | August 10 – Updated August 10, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI.Note: If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.
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office_96x1.png Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels
MC277074 | August 10 – We’ve released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel Monthly Enterprise Channel Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview) Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel
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Final Reminder: Adjusting Version Retention for Outlook Data Files (PST File Type) on One Drive and SharePoint
MC277809 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
As communicated in MC256835 (May ’21), starting August 16th 2021 the service will retain 30 days worth of versions for any PST files stored OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online team site document libraries. This change will prevent cases of previous versions of PST files quickly consuming available storage. The change will only impact previous versions of PST files stored in your document library storage.

As best practice PST files should not be uploaded on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online team site document libraries due to the impact on storage and network bandwidth. When PST files are uploaded on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online team site document libraries, Outlook updates PST files generating multiple versions which leads to storage being quickly consumed by the multiple versions of the PST file.

The SharePoint Online Management Shell cmdlet Set-SPOTenant – DisableOutlookPSTVersionTrimming $true can be used to opt out until August 13th 2021. This will have no effect after the deadline. Opt out only applies to existing document libraries and does not apply to new doclib created after August 13th 2021. New behavior will be automatically enabled if you don’t opt out by deadline.

  • Command: Get-SPOTenant/Set-SPOTenant
  • Parameter: DisableOutlookPSTVersionTrimming
  • Value: True – Opt-out to the versioning change
  • False – default value

This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Feature ID: 72237

How this will affect your organization:

As part of the change, version history for PST files will be retained for up to 30 days. Document libraries will be updated with new PST version retention limits. Once this change is rolled out to your tenant, versions of PST files stored on in your document library that are older than 30 days will be permanently deleted. With these changes the service will always retain a minimum of 30 day worth of PST versions that can be restored from.

What you need to do to prepare:

No action required – Document libraries will be updated with new PST version retention limits. If you wish to opt out of the PST version retention update, you will need to execute the SharePoint Online Management Shell cmdlet provided in this post by August 13th 2021.

To prevent uploading .PST files from the OneDrive sync app, read Block syncing of specific file types and To move .PST files out of OneDrive, read How to remove an Outlook .pst data file from OneDrive.

We always value feedback and questions from our customers. Please feel free to submit either feedback or questions via Message Center.

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Announcing automatic redirection from Office 365 Security and Compliance Center to Microsoft 365 Defender portal
MC276896 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
We will soon begin redirecting users from the legacy Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com) to Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com), for all security workflows including: Alerts, Threat Management and Reports.

Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center that are not related to security will not be redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. For compliance solutions redirection to Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, see (March 2021, MC244886).

This is a continuation of our migration of the security workflows to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, which we started in March 2021.

For customers who have already enabled automatic redirection, as part of the previous communication when announcing the New Home for Microsoft Defender for Office 365, automatic redirection will now include alerts and alert policies redirection, in addition to all previously redirected features. As before, customers will still be able to turn off automatic redirection.

Please refer to the redirection support documentation here for additional details.

Key points

  • Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82107
  • Timing: Rollout will begin in mid-September and is expected to be complete by late October.
  • Roll-out: tenant level
  • Control type: admin control
  • Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization:

Users accessing the security solutions in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com) will be automatically redirected to the appropriate solutions in the Microsoft 365 Defender (security.microsoft.com). This change enables users to view and manage additional Microsoft 365 Defender security solutions in one portal.

What you need to do to prepare:

Redirection is enabled by default, and impacts all users of the tenant.

Global Administrators and Security Administrators can turn off redirection in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal by navigating to Settings > Email & collaboration > Portal redirection and switch the redirection toggle.

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OneDrive sync client will no longer update or be supported on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13
MC276032 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
If your organization is not using macOS you can safely disregard this message.

The OneDrive team is committed to bringing you the best, most secure experience possible across your devices. As such, we are ending support for the OneDrive Desktop application (sync client) on macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13 and focusing our resources on new technologies and supported operating systems. Going forward, only the three most recent versions of macOS will be supported. When a new major version of macOS is released, we will support the new version and the previous two versions.

Note: Both macOS Sierra 10.12 and macOS High Sierra 10.13 have been out of Apple’s mainline support since September 2019 and November 2020, respectively.

Key points:

  • Timing: September 10th, 2021
  • Action: review and update impacted machines as appropriate.

How this affects your organization:

How users will be impacted after this change has rolled out:

  • Existing OneDrive sync client installations on unsupported operating systems will stop updating. These clients will continue to run, but their functionality will no longer be tested. It is not advised to continue to run on these unsupported operating systems.
  • New installations on unsupported operating systems will be blocked.
  • Bugs and issues found on or specific to unsupported operating systems will no longer be investigated or fixed.

What you need to do to prepare:

To ensure a smooth transition we recommend that you upgrade machines accordingly. We recommend you upgrade to macOS Mojave 10.14 or above. For the best user experience and longest support lifecycle, we recommend upgrading to macOS Big Sur 11.0 or above.

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Plus addressing to be enabled for all Exchange Online customers
MC276028 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature. This was due to preexisting usage of plus signs (+) for email addresses in the service. At the same time, we made plus addressing on by default for new customers.

With the successful introduction of the feature, we are now making plus addressing an always-on feature and removing the opt-in setting. Due to legacy mailboxes with email addresses containing plus signs (+), we are announcing a long notice period to allow customers to transition away from these mailboxes or addresses. This includes mailboxes on-premises.

Key Points:

  • Timing: Starting in January 2022, plus addressing will be turned on for all customers and the setting will be removed.
  • Action: Retire any email addresses that contain plus signs (+) for hosted and on-premises mailboxes to avoid email delivery disruptions.

How this will affect your organization:

If you don’t stop using email addresses with plus signs (+), Exchange Online may be unable to deliver emails to them when plus addressing is turned on for the entire service.

What you need to do to prepare:

To fix any potential problems, remove any addresses with plus signs (+) from your organizations’ mailboxes.

If you are not blocked from using plus addressing, you can still enable plus addressing for your organization before January.

Review the following to learn more about plus addressing: Plus Addressing in Exchange Online

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Removing Message Trace in SCC. Move Custom Queries to Message Trace in the new Modern EAC.
MC275807 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
Attention: We will be retiring Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center (SCC) from the Security Portal beginning October 5th, 2021.

  • In place of this feature, we recommend you use the Message Trace in the Exchange Admin Center (EAC), which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.

How this will affect your organization:

You will not be able to use Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center after October 5th, 2021. Message Trace has the options to use default queries, custom queries, and autosaved queries.

  • Custom queries in Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center portal will not be migrated to the new Modern EAC portal. Message Trace custom queries in the Security and Compliance Center are stored differently from custom queries on Message Trace in the new Modern EAC.

Another key difference in Message Trace in the new Modern EAC portal is that your custom queries are stored on a per user basis unlike Message Trace on SCC where custom queries were being stored on a per-tenant basis. Therefore, in the new Modern EAC a user will not be able to see a custom query created by another user. In the SCC, when a user created a custom query, other users were able to see the custom query created due to it being stored at the tenant-level. This is due to privacy and security reasons for EAC.

What you need to do to prepare:

Note: If you have custom queries stored in Message Trace in the Security and Compliance Center that you want to keep, you will need to recreate these queries in Message Trace in the new Modern EAC. If not, they will not be able to be retrieved after Message Trace in the SCC is removed.

For more information, see Message Trace in the new Modern EAC.

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Message Center Major Change Update Notification

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Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint
MC274188 · COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
As part of the evolution of the new Stream (built on SharePoint), we are introducing the meeting recording auto-expiration feature, which will automatically delete Teams recording files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint after a preset period of time.

Key points

How this will affect your organization:

New recordings will automatically expire 60 days after they are recorded if no action is taken. The 60-day default was chosen as, on average across all tenants, most meeting recordings are never watched again after 60 days. However this setting can be modified if a different expiration timeline is desired.

To change the default expiration days at the tenant level, there will be two methods available.

  1. You can use PowerShell to modify “MeetingRecordingExpirationDays.” This can be done at any time, as the setting is present in PowerShell today even though the feature is not yet enabled. An example command is: “Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -MeetingRecordingExpirationDays 50”
  2. As this feature is rolled out, a new setting will be available in the Teams admin center.

Users (except for users with A1 licenses) can also modify the expiration date for any recordings on which they have edit/delete permissions, using the files details pane in OneDrive or SharePoint. A1 users will receive a 30-day expiration default that can be reduced but not increased. To retain recordings for longer than 30 days A1 users will need to download the file to a non-synced folder.

At either the tenant or user level (excluding A1 users as noted above), the expiration timeline can range from one day to several years, or even set to never auto-expire.

Additional clarifications:

  • The expiration setting is not a retention setting. For example, setting a 30-day expiration on a file will trigger an auto-deletion 30 days after the file was created, but it will not prevent a different system or user from deleting that file ahead of that schedule.
  • When a recording is deleted due to the expiration setting, the end user will be notified via email. The SharePoint tenant or site admin, or the end user with edit/delete permissions will be able to retrieve the file from the recycle bin for up to 90 days.
  • Any retention/deletion/legal hold policies you have designated in the Compliance center will override this feature. In other words, if there is a conflict between your designated Compliance policy setting and the expiration setting, the compliance policy timeline always wins.
  • The admin does not have the ability to override end-user modification capabilities.
  • This will not impact any existing meeting recordings created before the feature is deployed. Also, any changes to the default date in the admin console will only apply to newly created meeting recordings after the change is made.
  • The expiration days setting in Teams is controlled only via MeetingRecordingExpirationDays. CallRecordingExpirationDays is currently being ignored.
  • The min number of days that can be set on MeetingRecordingExpirationDays is 1 and the maximum is 99,999 (e.g. 273 years).
  • This feature does not impact meeting recordings stored in Microsoft Stream (classic Stream) but will affect recordings stored in the new Stream (built on OneDrive and SharePoint).
  • This feature is only available for Teams meeting recordings created by the Teams service in OneDrive and SharePoint. It is not available for other file types in OneDrive and SharePoint.

What you need to do to prepare:

If you want the default expiration to be different than 60 days, please modify it via PowerShell or (once available) in the admin center.

If you are going to specify a tenant level expiration standard, inform your user base about the change before we deploy it so that they are aware they will need to take action to retain their new recording files past the specified time period once the feature is enabled.

Learn more about the feature in these FAQs.

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Weekly digest: Microsoft service updates

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Message center announcements,
July 26-August 1, 2021
COMPUTERS N’ STUFF
Major updates

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