This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 93239

When this will happen:

Targeted Release (select users and entire org): will begin rolling out in early June and expect to complete rollout mid-June.

Standard: will begin rolling this out in mid-June and expect to complete rollout late-June.

How this will affect your organization:

Users will be able to access their personal booking page from the Outlook web calendar or through https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/.

All users with the following subscriptions will have access to Bookings in Outlook by default:

• Office 365: A3, A5, E1, E3, E5, F1, F3
• Microsoft 365: A3, A5, E1, E3, E5, F1, F3, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium

What you need to do to prepare:

Bookings in Outlook will be enabled by default for users that meet the licensing requirements. To disable access to creating a personal booking page for your organization or select users, follow these instructions.

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Timeline and Scope

As we communicated last year in blog posts and MC286990, we will start to turn off Basic Authentication in our worldwide multi-tenant service on October 1, 2022. To clarify, we will start on October 1; this is not the date we turn it off for everyone. We will randomly select tenants, send 7-day warning Message Center posts (and post Service Health Dashboard notices), then we will turn off Basic Auth in the tenant. We expect to complete this by the end of this year. You should therefore be ready by October 1.

We’re turning off Basic Auth for the following protocols: MAPI, RPC, Offline Address Book (OAB), Exchange Web Services (EWS), POP, IMAP, Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) and Remote PowerShell.

We are not turning off SMTP AUTH. We have turned off SMTP AUTH for millions of tenants not using it, but if SMTP AUTH is enabled in your tenant, it’s because we see usage and so we won’t touch it. We do recommend you disable it at the tenant level and re-enable it only for those user accounts that still need it.

Exceptions and Per-Tenant Timing

There is no way to request an exception after October. Tenant selection is random, and we cannot put your tenant to the back of the queue to give you more time or change your settings on any specific date. If you want Basic Auth to be disabled at a time of your choosing (either now, or as soon as you are ready), use Authentication Policies.

What should I do to prepare for this change?

Any client (user app, script, integration, etc.) using Basic Auth for one of the affected protocols will be unable to connect. The app will receive an HTTP 401 error: bad username or password.

Any app using Modern Auth for these same protocols will be unaffected.

To read more on what can be done to switch apps from Basic to Modern auth please view our main documentation page and our latest blog.

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Today, “DoNotRewrite” list is used to Skip

• wrapping URLs
• Detonation(SONAR)
• Verdicts.

The intended purpose of “DoNotRewrite” is to give tenants the ability to skip the wrapping of URLs. With the deployment of the Tenant Allow Block List, it is expected that all tenant allows (ex Detonation(SONAR) and Verdicts) shall be managed there.

When this will happen:

We will begin rolling this out in early June and expect to complete early July.

How this will affect your organization:

With this change, the Do Not Rewrite List behavior will be changed back to its intended purpose to skip the wrapping of URLs: Learn More

What you need to do to prepare

Review your “DoNotRewrite” URLs list(s) and ensure you have not added entries to it for uses other than to skip wrapping of URLs.

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When this will happen:

• Early June: Organizations will no longer have the ability to add to the URL/Domain entries to the Safe Links Block List in the Global Settings flyout and we will attempt to migrate all the entries in an organization’s Safe Links Block List to TABL on their behalf
• Mid-June through November: Organizations will have the ability review entries that were not able to be migrated and resolve the issue(s)
• December: The Safe Links Block List will be retired

How this will affect your organization:

Organizations who are utilizing the Safe Links Block List will need to review the list to ensure all entries were migrated successfully. Any entries that are unable to be migrated will be marked as such and organizations will have the ability to resolve that entry, at which point migration will run again.

Organizations will use the Tenant Allow Block List to manage URL/Domain blocks moving forward.

What you need to do to prepare:

In June an update to this Message center post will be sent notifying organizations that the first migration has been completed and they will need to review their Safe Links Block Lists for potential actions.

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When this will happen:

We will begin rolling this out in late May and expect to complete late July

How this impacts your organization:

After this change administrators may no longer be able to see subsequent CN value change in Exchange on-premises to be reflected in the object’s Name property in Exchange Online.

The updated naming logic would take effect only during new user creation. Existing users won’t get impacted in any way.

Please note that since we will start using EDOID as Name in Exchange Online, we shall stop allowing changes in CN to reflect in Name property in Exchange Online for all users (both new and existing).

What you can do to prepare:

We recommend that Administrators evaluate any scripts or other automation that may rely on the Name property and update them accordingly.

For additional details please refer Change in naming convention of user’s Name parameter.

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Key points

• Timing: Rollout will begin in late May and is expected to be completed by early June.
• Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization:

As a result of this change, if you didn’t have enough licenses (300) to get the seeded allocation (1M credits), you will now have AI Builder credits being made available – based on your number of Syntex licenses – to train and use form processing models.

Note: Unless form processing is disabled, there is no other change.

What you need to do to prepare:

The revised credit allocation will be made automatically based on your Syntex license count.

You can confirm this in:

• Syntex admin settings
• Power Platform admin center

If you have form processing disabled, you will need to enable for your tenant – or select sites – to use these credits for training and running form processing models.

Learn more:

• Licensing for SharePoint Syntex

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	(Updated) Exchange Transport Rule Report moving to the new EAC from the Security and Compliance Center
	Act by: March 31
	MC316157 | April 22 – Updated April 22, 2022: We have updated the timing for GCC-High to reflect that we won’t proceeding with this change at this time. We will communicate to GCC-High organizations via Message center when we are ready to proceed.We will be retiring the Exchange Transport Rule (ETR) report from the Security and Compliance Center (SCC). The report will no longer be available in the security reporting dashboard, beginning early March 2022.Instead, we recommend the utilization of the replacement for…
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	(Updated) Pairing naming convention between Teams channels and corresponding SharePoint folders
	MC306666 | April 22 – Updated April 22, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We apologize for not sending an earlier update regarding our delayed rollout. We delayed the feature release to ensure the best possible experience for our users, and it is now ready. As previously mentioned (MC280294 – August), this new release will update the channel rename experience in Teams to simultaneously rename the corresponding folder in SharePoint sites whenever a channel in Teams is…
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	(Updated) Change to mailbox forwarding behavior coming to Exchange Online
	MC289686 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.We’re making some changes to which forwarded messages are rewritten with SRS.Starting in early November, we will be further consolidating our rewriting for messages that are automatically forwarded outside of Exchange Online. Not all forwarded messages are rewritten using SRS…
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	NPS Sentiment Insights available to empower IT Admins to help end users
	MC363214 | April 22 – NPS survey insights is an AI-driven dashboard available in Microsoft 365 Admin Center (Health -> Product feedback -> NPS survey insights tab). This feature has been helping Admins like you to obtain actionable insights derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.Based on your feedback, we are introducing a new feature that identifies the sentiment for each NPS verbatim feedback, so that you can learn what your users are feeling regarding Microsoft 365 products.This…
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	Sensitivity Label as a condition support for PDF on Exchange Online
	MC363212 | April 22 – We will be extending the ability to use sensitivity labels as a condition in Data Loss Protection (DLP) rules (for Exchange Online (EXO) location) to PDF attachments in Exchange emails. This feature will allow you to protect labelled PDF files through DLP policies using the condition “content contains sensitivity label” in the DLP rule.
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	(Updated) Yammer Topics APIs changes with Viva Topics
	MC286339 | April 22 – Updated April 22, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below as well as updated the content for clarity. Thank you for your patience.NOTE: If your organization is not using the Yammer API, you may disregard the below message. Yammer is integrating with and adopting Viva Topics to make community-sourced knowledge easily accessible across an organization and support a consistent experience in Microsoft 365. This is a preview release of this feature. This message is associated with Microsoft…
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	Anonymous user support for Live Captions in Microsoft Teams
	MC362756 | April 21 – Participants who join Microsoft Teams meetings as Anonymous users will now be able to turn on and view Live Captions, CART captions and captions in other spoken language in Teams Meetings on desktop.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93049
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	(Updated) Private drafts for SharePoint pages and news
	MC291100 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made the decision to make additional changes before we proceed with the rollout. We will deliver a new Message center post once we re-start the rollout. Thank you for your patience.This new feature will provide users the ability to create private drafts for pages and news posts. A private draft will be visible to only the page author, the people the author chooses to share it with, and site admins. Users will be able to…
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	(Updated) People-centric search in Microsoft Search
	MC320462 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This new feature, People-centric search (MC275345 – August) will soon roll out to Microsoft Search. This update will allow people in your organization to find content through people and understand people through their content.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68783.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to URL Protection Report
	MC318994 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are enhancing the URL protection report by including new click actions to the reporting. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88880.
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	(Updated) OneDrive iOS: New information architecture
	MC357317 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature has started rolling out and we ask you to pardon that we did not provide adequate advance notice as is our customer commitment to you. This release adds a new bottom sheet menu to OneDrive for iOS to make options like share, annotations, delete, and bookmark easier to find.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85571
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	(Updated) Conversation search in Office.com and SharePoint
	MC299210 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: Based on early learning we are postponing this feature for SharePoint and will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. We have updated the rollout timeline below for Office.com. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Search is adding the capability to find relevant Microsoft Teams, and Outlook conversations when searching in SharePoint and Office.com. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68779.
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	(Updated) Updated feedback experience in Message center posts
	MC324461 | April 21 – Updated April 21, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are updating the feedback experience in Message center posts so that admins can easily give more granular feedback on the posts.
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	Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel
	MC362290 | April 20 – We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps: Current Channel
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	OneDrive sync app will automatically configure accounts
	MC362284 | April 20 – This release will enable the OneDrive sync app to sign into an account even quicker. Users will experience an improved single sign-on experience by automatically being able to see their OneDrive files within their file browser upon sign in or OneDrive app update.On Windows, users who are signed into the device with an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account will see their OneDrive folder start syncing without entering their account credentials. On macOS, users who are signed into another Microsoft…
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	Unlimited audio upload minutes for web transcription on Microsoft Word
	MC362278 | April 20 – Now your organization can transcribe unlimited minutes of uploaded audio using Word for the web transcription. Previously, the limit was 300 minutes per month per user. There’s been no change for live recordings; you can still transcribe unlimited minutes of live recordings.If your organization doesn’t use Word for the web transcription, you can disregard this message.
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	Section Templates now available in SharePoint Pages
	MC361749 | April 20 – Section Templates curated for beautiful image and text combinations can now be added in the plus menu.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88838
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	(Updated) Loop components in Outlook Mail Preview
	MC360766 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the content with additional details. Loop components are live, interactive, collaborative objects that you can embed in team chats and now also on emails. When you send a Loop component, everyone in the email can edit it inline—and see changes instantly. That means you can collaborate right inside an email message. To give it a try, compose a new email or reply to an existing one and insert a Loop component via the toolbar or copy and paste components…
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	Announcing Microsoft Purview: Your home for Microsoft 365 compliance solutions
	MC361277 | April 19 – Microsoft 365 compliance solutions will be consolidated under the Microsoft Purview brand name. This change will bring together Microsoft 365 compliance solutions and Azure Purview into a single portfolio and will align the naming of various solutions for consistency with other offerings.
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	(Updated) Announcing graph support for Get Team Template List
	MC311845 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We will not be moving forward with Get Template Details at this time and will communicate via Message center when it will be available. We have updated the content below to reflect this change as well as updated the rollout timeline. Thank you for your patience.This new release will bring Graph support toGet Template List. Team templates enable users to quickly create the right collaboration…
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	(Updated) Announcing continuous compliance assessments in the Microsoft 365 compliance center
	MC296437 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re enhancing Compliance Manager’s automated testing and evidence generation functionality and enabling additional improvement actions and solutions for automated testing. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72222.
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	(Updated) Activity Center for iPads, Tablets
	MC344037 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Office app on mobile is launching Activity Center on iPads and tablets to enable users to stay on top of all their required activity and notifications. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88959.
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	(Updated) Preview – Enabling customization capabilities for SSPR, footer hyperlinks and favicon in Company Branding.
	MC339117 | April 19 – Updated April 19, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re updating the Company Branding component of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) sign-in page to enable customization capabilities for Self Service Password Reset (SSPR), footer hyperlinks and favicon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88928.
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	(Updated) Export feature in Teams Admin Center
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	Microsoft Lists for Android
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Note: If you don’t have Office 2013 deployed in your environment, you can safely disregard this message.

When this will happen:

Office 2013 will reach the End of Support on April 11, 2023.

How this will affect your organization:

After Office 2013 reaches the end of support, Microsoft won’t provide any new security updates, and the continued use of Office 2013 after April 2023 may increase your organization’s exposure to security risks or impact your ability to meet compliance obligations.

Also, if you connect to Microsoft 365 with an Office 2013 client, you might experience performance or reliability issues. Since October 2020, Office 2013 is not a supported client to connect to Microsoft 365 services. These are the client versions of Office that are currently supported for connecting to Microsoft 365 (and Office 365) services (learn more):

• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Office LTSC 2021
• Office 2019
• Office 2016

What you need to do to prepare:

Please start upgrading to Microsoft 365 Apps, which is designed to receive regular updates, and will help you stay current by getting security updates and our latest features.

Alternatively, if your organization requires a static, unchanging product, consider moving to Office LTSC 2021. When evaluating your options, keep in mind the end of support dates for Office clients connecting to Microsoft 365 services (learn more).

Here are some resources to help you plan your upgrade:

• For an overview of how to move from Office 2013 to Microsoft 365 Apps, see Office 2013 upgrade guidance.
• For help from Microsoft resources to move to Microsoft 365 Apps and cloud-based services, see Microsoft FastTrack.

Thanks for being a Microsoft customer!

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	(Updated) Teams Meeting Recordings Auto-Expiration in OneDrive and SharePoint
	Act by: March 25
	MC274188 | April 6 – Updated April 06, 2022: We have begun rolling this out and will be monitoring customer reported issues to ensure a smooth deployment. To ensure the best experience we have postponed the start of final stage of this change until late March. The final stage is the part of the feature that actually stamps the expiration date on the file and physically deletes the file based on that stamped expiration date.For any tenant that does not have a custom policy in place already, we are updating the…
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	(Updated) OAuth interface for Office 365 Reporting web service
	MC318316 | April 5 – Updated April 05, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below and provided additional details for clarity. Thank you for your patience.Currently, users accessing Reporting Web service use “Basic Authentication” and must provide their credentials. With this feature update, Microsoft will improve the security of your tenant by replacing “Basic Authentication” access in favor of the recommended OAuth user interface which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.
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Additional updates

	SharePoint: Updates to channel site layouts and parent site settings
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	Service health dashboard refresh and ability to show multiple services being impacted by a single issue
	MC355213 | April 9 – When there is a broadly impacting issue that affects multiple services across the M365 services, Microsoft will create a single incident that will properly reflect the overall status of the different services if affects. In the message details of this incident, we will call out specific services impacted. With this change we will also be giving a refreshed user experience to the service health dashboard.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88666.
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	Microsoft 365 admin center: Prepare your users for Internet Explorer retirement with “Reload in IE mode” instructions
	Act by: June 15
	MC337246 | April 7 – Updated April 07, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With the upcoming Internet Explorer 11 desktop application retirement (June 15th), for certain versions of Windows 10, we recommend that you move users to Microsoft Edge and explain how to access legacy websites by reloading those sites in Internet Explorer (IE) mode.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88905.
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	Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows store application 4.12 update
	MC354488 | April 7 – The below message is for organizations using Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows. If you are not using Teams Rooms for Windows, you can disregard this message.Teams Rooms on Windows is releasing Teams room Windows store application version 4.12 that includes improvements to existing functionality and additional controls for the device administrators to control application and device behavior: IT admins can enroll a Teams rooms device to receive public preview features through XML setting. Once…
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	Teams admin center: Update to call management settings
	MC354160 | April 6 – A new update to Teams admin center will extend the ability of an Admin to configure the call management capabilities for end-users. The existing call management capabilities of call delegation and group call pickup are being extended to also include the ability to manage an end-user’s call forwarding and simultaneous ringing settings as well.
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	Microsoft Lists Calendar: Unscheduled Pane
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	Microsoft Stream: View and edit video/audio file information
	MC353485 | April 5 – We will be updating 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) with two new features called About and Custom Thumbnail.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93224 and 93225
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	Announcing Microsoft Endpoint Manager remote help
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	OneDrive and SharePoint: Access your Teams standard and private channel files
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	Microsoft and Office 365 users to edit assigned tasks in Project for the web project plans
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	Soft focus and Adjust brightness in Teams video meetings
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	Improved Meeting Support in Firefox Browser
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Key points:

• Timing: June 30, 2022
• Action: review and have upgraded users take action as appropriate

How this affects your organization:

Any users in your organization that were upgraded from Skype for Business (either online or on-premises), may need to take one or both of the following actions:

Actions Required:

1. If these upgraded users had contacts in Skype for Business Online and have not yet logged into Teams since being upgraded, they must log into Teams at least once before June 30, 2022, to ensure any contacts from Skype for Business are migrated to Teams.
2. If these upgraded TeamsOnly users still have Skype for Business Online meetings that they organized before they were upgraded to TeamsOnly, then before June 30, 2022, these users must either reschedule their remaining Skype for Business Online meetings as Teams meeting, or an administrator in their organization must convert these meetings to Teams meetings using the Meeting Migration Service. After Microsoft removes the Skype for Business Online infrastructure for a given TeamsOnly user, any remaining Skype for Business Online meetings organized by that user will no longer exist and hence will not function.

For additional information, please refer to the following documentation:

• Skype for Business Online retirement

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