Key points

• Timing: Retirement will begin in late April and is expected to be completed by early May
• Action: Review your eDiscovery legal hold process
• Roll-out: tenant level

How this will affect your organization:

Your organization’s eDiscovery administrators and eDiscovery managers will no longer have access to view Hold statistics in

• Core eDiscovery > Case > Hold > Hold policy > Hold statistics
• Advanced eDiscovery > Case> Hold > Hold policy > Hold statistics

What you need to do to prepare:Review and consider updating your eDiscovery legal hold process.

• Instead of hold statistics, refer to “Status” field from hold details to validate that the data locations were successfully placed on hold.
  • If you see status “On (Success)”, it means the hold has been placed on the data locations.
• Instead of using hold statistics, we recommend using existing search and collection workflows within eDiscovery.
  • If you are using Core eDiscovery, create a search with the location and the query from your hold policy.
  • If you are using Advanced eDiscovery, create a collection with the locations and the query from your hold policy. Add the collection to a review set to get a detailed view of items on hold.

Learn more:

• Create eDiscovery holds in a Core eDiscovery case
• Search for content in a core eDiscovery case
• Manage holds in Advanced eDiscovery
• Create a draft collection
• Collection statistics and reports

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Starting May 2nd, the maximum supported TTL value for MX records will be 6 hours (21,600 seconds) or less for MX records corresponding to domains using Office 365 for email hosting.

• Exchange Online recommends setting the TTL values to 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but will support values up to 6 hours (21,600 seconds).

This will help your organization fully benefit from the high availability of Exchange Online by ensuring that email for your organization is sent to the optimal endpoint in the Exchange Online infrastructure, and it requires some actions on your part.

Note: TTLs are measured in seconds and are used to set the length of time a DNS record is cached by a DNS server or client. The greater the TTL value, the longer the record is cached. When a TTL is too long, it can lead to ‘stale’ records or stale information in the DNS server’s cache. This happens when a DNS record is changed, but the unchanged version of the record is still cached in another DNS server. If the unchanged version of the record is used, it can result in traffic being sent to the wrong destination.

How this will affect your organization:

For all MX records corresponding to domains that use Office 365 for email hosting (e.g. vanity domains, accepted domains), you need to ensure that the MX record TTL value is configured for a maximum of 6 hours (21,600 seconds) or less. Performing this action before May 2nd will ensure that organizations, that send email to you, have significantly less issues with stale records and will connect to the best endpoint for reaching your organization.

What you need to do to prepare:

If you host your own DNS records:

1. Engage the team managing your DNS Records
2. For each Record with Type ‘MX’ that is used for routing mail traffic to Exchange Online
   • Ensure the record is pointing to your organization’s Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) for Exchange Online in the mail.protection.outlook.com domain. For example, for the vanity domain contoso.com, the MX record should be: contoso-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
   • Check if the TTL value is 21,600 or less – if it isn’t, update the TTL to 21,600 or less. We recommend 3,600 for the best experience.

If you use a DNS record provider (ex. GoDaddy):

1. Go to the registrar where you have purchased your domain. (You may need to contact the technical support of the registrar where you have purchased your domain for assistance in changing the MX Record.)
2. For each Record with Type ‘MX’ that is used for routing mail traffic to Exchange Online:
   • Ensure the record is pointing to your organization’s FQDN for Exchange Online in the mail.protection.outlook.com domain. For example, for the vanity domain contoso.com, the MX record should be: contoso-com.mail.protection.outlook.com.
   • Check if the TTL value is 21,600 or less, if it isn’t, update the TTL to 21,600 or less. We recommend 3,600 for the best experience.

Learn more:

• Add DNS records to connect your domain
• Mail flow best practices for Exchange Online, Microsoft 365, and Office 365 (overview)
• ATTR35 response code when mail is sent to EOP/EXO

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	MX Record TTL Support Policy
	Act by: May 2
	MC346908 | March 25 – We’re announcing a support policy update to the Time To Live (TTL) value for MX records pointing to Exchange Online and Exchange Online Protection.Starting May 2nd, the maximum supported TTL value for MX records will be 6 hours (21,600 seconds) or less for MX records corresponding to domains using Office 365 for email hosting. Exchange Online recommends setting the TTL values to 1 hour (3,600 seconds) but will support values up to 6 hours (21,600 seconds). This will help your organization fully…
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	(Updated) Join meetings anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds)
	MC285905 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 2022: To ensure an optimal experience we have decided to make some changes prior to rolling out this feature. The rollout timeline has been updated below. Thank you for your patience.Today, if you want to join a meeting hosted in a different cloud to one of your tenant, you are directed to use the Teams web experience. We are improving the experience to allow users to join meetings across clouds from their desktop app anonymously.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Teams now follow Microsoft Office 365 preview users (Mac)
	MC343440 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.As previously messaged (MC264092), we rolled out a new Teams policy that allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel (Preview) for the Office 365 Client on Windows.We are now expanding the policy roll out to Mac users who are also in Office Current Channel (Preview).IT admins can modify this policy for end users so that if Office is getting…
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	Retirement of Yammer IP Range
	MC346256 | March 24 – Upcoming, we will be retiring the ability to specify an IP Range from where users can access Yammer. Instead, we recommend the utilization of Azure Conditional Access Policies, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.Note: You are receiving this message because IP Range was available with Yammer, and you might be using this feature.
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	Retirement announcement for AIP Audit Logs pipeline forwarding audit logs to Azure Log Analytics workspaces
	MC344413 | March 23 – Upcoming, we will no longer be onboarding new Log Analytics workspaces to store Azure Information Protection (AIP) audit logs.Note: Customers who have previously configured Log Analytics to store AIP audit logs will continue to receive forwarded audit logs into their workspaces until the data pipeline is fully retired.
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	Configuration change to support moving users from IE11 to Microsoft Edge
	MC345825 | March 22 – No sooner than 30 days from today, we plan to enable a configuration change for your organization to help move users from the legacy Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser to the faster, more secure, and modern Microsoft Edge browser. This configuration change creates a better user experience by redirecting users from IE11 to Microsoft Edge. Many websites no longer support the IE11 browser, resulting in degraded or broken experiences when users visit them. This trend will only accelerate once the…
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	(Updated) LinkedIn Integration coming to Teams
	MC335277 | March 22 – Updated March 22, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.For those tenants that have LinkedIn integration available to their members, we are expanding its availability to Teams as a panel in one on one conversations. This is the first part of a series of updates which will also bring LinkedIn to the contact card in the coming months. Initially this is limited to contacts within the tenant, but as the contact card updates are released, then this will be…
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	(Updated) Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists
	MC248201 | March 22 – Updated March 22, 2022: 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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Additional updates

	Adding a restore option to the Manage Tags Tab
	MC346913 | March 25 – In the near future, we will be adding a restore option on the Manage Tags tab (Manage Team > Manage Tags). This update will make it so that when tags are deleted, they will be kept in a deleted section in the Tags tab and can be restored for up to 30 days from the date of deletion.Note: This is similar to the lifecycle management for Teams Channels.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88318.
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	Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams
	MC346909 | March 25 – Customer Lockbox is available today for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. With this update, we are enabling Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams as well. Note: If you are already using Customer Lockbox today, no extra steps are needed to take advantage of this update.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86190.We will begin rolling this out in late March and expect to complete rollout late April.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Teams tab actions are moving
	MC295024 | March 25 – Updated March 25, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Microsoft Teams tab actions are moving out of the tab header bar and into the tab dropdown to help declutter the user experience. This impacts all first-party and third-party application tabs in chats, channels and meetings, such as Assignments, Grades, Planner or the Website tab. These tab actions will be found by clicking on the tab name to show a dropdown menu. These actions include: Reload tab Go…
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	(Updated) Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring
	MC299404 | March 25 – Updated March 25, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re making changes to the editing experience for SharePoint pages to make it easier for users to understand where they are by adding labels, reducing clutter by consolidating actions into a single web part toolbar, and putting authors into focus mode by default to remove visual distractions. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82177.
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	Introducing Power Platform admin center Home page
	MC342090 | March 25 – We are introducing a new landing page to the Power Platform admin center. Rather than the default environments tab, which displays the list of owned environments, admins will be greeted with the newly introduced Home page. This new landing page experience for Power Platform admin center is aligned with admin experiences across other Microsoft services. We will begin rolling out this new experience on a regional basis beginning on March 17, 2022, and we expect it to be available for all…
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	What’s new in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for March 2022
	MC346620 | March 24 – Your Microsoft Intune account has been updated to the latest service build. How does this affect me? You will see the service release number updated in the Tenant Status blade of the Intune console soon. We’ve introduced some changes that we’re excited for you to try out. What do I need to do to prepare for this change? Click additional information below to learn more about what’s new in this service release. We’ll continue to update the What’s new page with any features that are released…
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	(Updated) Yammer Topics APIs changes with Viva Topics
	MC286339 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 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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	(Updated) Announcing public preview and GA of Tenant-level analytics for Power Automate (cloud flows)
	MC326911 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 2022: We have updated the timeline below to include details for General Availability. Thank you for your patience.Power Platform admins require intelligent tooling to monitor the distribution of cloud flow events by environment and keep track of key consumption metrics. With this public preview, admins can use out-of-box solutions to monitor usage, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) operations, and track inventory of cloud flows used to automate procedures across the…
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	(Updated) OneDrive: Easily navigate to all your Teams files
	MC336857 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional details.In OneDrive, we are adding a “Your Teams” section to the “More Places” page to allow you to easily find and work with all your files in Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88912.
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	(Updated) Update: Suggested Replies – Outlook for Office
	MC301300 | March 24 – Updated March 24, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Update: Outlook on the web will soon be rolling out suggested replies to customers in Outlook for Office.Note: Due to some issues that presented themselves prior to rollout, we paused our planned release until now. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70802.
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	Important information about your Microsoft 365 Office App launcher and All Apps experiences
	MC346294 | March 24 – To help improve the app exploration and discovery experience for users, beginning in April 2022, the Office App Launcher, All Apps (http://office.com/apps), and app search experiences will be updated to only list relevant Dynamics 365 apps, Power Apps apps, and Azure Active Directory integrated apps. Microsoft 365 applications listed in these experiences will not be affected. Following this update, Dynamics 365 apps, Power Apps apps, and Azure AD integrated apps need to meet one of the…
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	Plan for Change: Assigned column will be removed from App configuration policies list
	MC346263 | March 24 – Planned for the upcoming April (2204) service release, we are making a user interface (UI) change to improve reporting performance by removing the “Assigned” column from the App configuration policies list in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. This information currently displays whether the app configuration policy is assigned (yes or no). The same information can be found within a specific profile’s properties.
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	Create DocuSign requests using the compose extension
	MC346255 | March 24 – DocuSign users will now be able to create a request within a Chat or a Channel using the compose extension.An adaptive card will display the request details once the request has been created and will be updated with the progress of the request at it is signed by the recipients. Notifications will be displayed to recipients & creators when a DocuSign request is created, signed/declined, cancelled, deleted or completed enabling users to know what’s happening with a request when it happens.
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	Immersive Reader for Outlook Desktop
	MC346254 | March 24 – Immersive Reader in Outlook Desktop includes all capabilities available in Immersive Reader Microsoft Word. It allows you to adjust the text of an email to read in the way that works best for you. Use Read Aloud to hear emails read to you as each word is highlighted, or modify spacing, color and more for a comfortable and easy to process email experience.
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	Increased Scale and Throughput for Graph Connectors
	MC346253 | March 24 – Microsoft Graph connectors enable your organization to index third-party content in Microsoft Search. The existing connection limit is 700,000. Microsoft is releasing an update to improve scale and throughput for Graph Connectors. The update will allow you to index up to 5M items in a single connection. This platform upgrade will also enable you to index content at a higher throughput of twenty-five documents per second.
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	Power Platform admin center – Enhanced user information management experience
	MC346241 | March 23 – The Power Platform admin center (PPAC) will receive an updated user information management experience and additional capabilities for admins. When will this happen? We will begin rolling out this new experience on March 22, 2022 and expect it to be completed by March 31, 2022. How does this affect me? We have added filters to the users list page that gives you capabilities to view all users, disabled users, disabled users who are consuming licenses and more. This updated experience aligns with…
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	MailTips will recommend addressing accessibility issues before sending email messages
	MC345824 | March 22 – The accessibility MailTip will soon appear when users compose an email with a potential accessibility issues. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93191
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	(Updated) Pin a chat message
	MC317764 | March 22 – Updated March 22, 2022: We have updated content below for clarity. Thank you for your patience.This new feature will enable users to pin a specific message and provide chat members with quick access to critical content whenever it’s needed. We originally announced this feature in MC272167 (July ’21) and apologize for not communicating sooner about the change in schedule.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 82584.
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	(Updated) New Experience updates and Microsoft 365 app access
	MC294739 | March 22 – Updated March 22, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are bringing back the Coming Soon option to preview the new location for the Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, and other modules in Outlook for Windows. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68205.
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	Introducing Real-time Call Analytics (RTA) for “Meet Now” (Ad Hoc meeting)
	MC345524 | March 21 – When we shipped in September 2021, Real-time Call Analytics (RTA) was only available for “scheduled” meetings. We are happy to announce that the RTA Dashboard will also show “Meet Now” data. “Meet Now” is a Microsoft Teams feature which allow a user to start an impromptu meeting in fast and easy manner. In addition, Teams’ user can just click on the “Meet Now” button (which generates the meeting URL) to invite people who don’t have the Microsoft Teams app.
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The feedback we collect from your users is available for you to review in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Keeping the feedback experiences enabled will let you see what your users are saying about the products they are using.

When this will happen:

We will begin rolling this out in mid-April and expect to complete rollout late April.

How this will affect your organization:

We are adding this policy as default on.

• Allow users to access the Feedback portal

What you need to do to prepare:

If you would like to change the default, configure policies at https://config.office.com after logging in as a Global admin. Search for Feedback portal and configure for Azure Active Directory (AAD) groups as you see fit.

Learn more:

• Overview of the Office cloud policy service
• Learn about Microsoft feedback for your organization
• Manage Microsoft feedback for your organization

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	Retirement announcement for AIP Audit Logs pipeline forwarding audit logs to Azure Log Analytics workspaces
	MC344413 | March 18 – Upcoming, we will no longer be onboarding new Log Analytics workspaces to store Azure Information Protection (AIP) audit logs.Note: Customers who have previously configured Log Analytics to store AIP audit logs will continue to receive forwarded audit logs into their workspaces until the data pipeline is fully retired.
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	(Updated) Every Meeting Online (EMO) by Default – Support for third-party online meeting providers
	MC340779 | March 18 – Updated March 18, 2022: We have updated the content below for clarity.Upcoming, we will be improving the Make every meeting online (EMO) feature in Outlook by turning it on by default and including partner online meeting providers. If your users do not have Microsoft Teams or Skype enabled, once this feature rolls out, all meetings created in Outlook will include an online meeting link using the preferred partner online meeting add-in, provided it’s deployed and available to your users. Note:…
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	New policy settings available for Microsoft Feedback Portal
	MC344040 | March 17 – We are introducing a new policy for admins to be able to manage user access to the Feedback portal (announced in MC289676). The Feedback portal allows your users to submit community feedback and interact with (upvote, comment) feedback submitted by other users. It also allows for users to track and follow-up on feedback they submit to Microsoft.The feedback we collect from your users is available for you to review in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Keeping the feedback experiences enabled will…
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	Office TLS Certificate Changes
	Act by: June 30
	MC343794 | March 16 – Microsoft 365 is updating services powering messaging, meetings, telephony, voice, and video to use TLS certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs) due to pending expiration of the Root CA.
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	Plus addressing: New disable setting and on by default
	Act by: April 17
	MC343788 | March 16 – Plus addressing support in Exchange Online was released in September 2020 as an opt-in feature due to its incompatibility with some preexisting addresses used by customers. New customers had the feature enabled by default and last year we announced that we would be moving ahead with the plan to turn the feature on for all customers.That Message center post (MC276028 August ’21) generated a fair amount of feedback from customers who do not intend to allow their users to utilize plus addresses….
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	Microsoft Teams now follow Microsoft Office 365 preview users (Mac)
	MC343440 | March 16 – As previously messaged (MC264092), we rolled out a new Teams policy that allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel (Preview) for the Office 365 Client on Windows.We are now expanding the policy roll out to Mac users who are also in Office Current Channel (Preview).IT admins can modify this policy for end users so that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview. Note: This…
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	Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentReport and Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentDetail to be retired
	MC343433 | March 16 – We will be retiring the Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentReport and Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentDetail cmdlet from Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Instead, we recommend the utilization of the Get-ContentMalwareMdoAggregateReport | Get-ContentMalwareMdoDetailReport cmdlet, which is where we will continue to invest.Note: if your organization is not using the Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentReport and Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentDetail cmdlet you can safely disregard this…
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	Retirement of (Azure AD) Graph and license assignment operations and updates to license management APIs and PowerShell
	Act by: August 26
	MC281145 | March 15 – Updated March 15, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your feedback.We will not retire the Azure AD Graph API on June 30, 2022. Listening closely to your feedback about the challenges of migrating such a critical dependency, we’re delaying the retirement date through at least the end of this year. We’ll provide a retirement update mid-calendar year with information on additional tools to assist with your migration. For more information, see Migrate…
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	(Updated) Message Center Email Notification Changes
	Act by: April 1
	MC329435 | March 14 – Updated March 14, 2022: We have updated this post as a reminder to take action as appropriate.Beginning in early April 2022, admins within your tenant will no longer receive the Message center weekly digest and major update email notifications by default. Any existing admins who have customized their Message center email preferences will continue to receive these emails, based on their customized preferences, and this update will have no impact. This change will also not affect the opt-in state…
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Additional updates

	Retirement announcement for Network Discovery service feature (part of AIP Scanner)
	MC344412 | March 18 – We are announcing that the AIP Network Discovery service (preview) will be retired on September 30th, 2022.Starting today, March 18th, 2022, Network scan jobs (Preview) and Repositories (Preview) pages are retired and set to read-only for any customers who have not yet configured the Network Discovery service.Note: Customers who already have network scan jobs configured will continue to have write access to the Network scan jobs (Preview) and Repositories (Preview) pages and all configurations…
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	Identity Service: Upcoming feature to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects
	MC344406 | March 18 – Microsoft Graph API will soon start supporting the ability to recover accidentally deleted service principal objects. The application object already supports this ability. The update will make the recovery story better for managing the life cycle of applications in your tenant.
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	(Updated) Create and manage Power Apps from Microsoft Lists within Microsoft Teams
	MC340285 | March 18 – Updated March 18, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below and provided a link to Additional Information. Thank you for your patience.Build low-code, mobile-friendly apps from Microsoft Lists directly inside of Microsoft Teams via a new integration with Power Apps. A published app can be added as a tab in a Teams channel and shared with the rest of your team, while maintaining its data connection to the list. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88894.
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	(Updated) Teams Desktop Client Cross Cloud Anonymous Meeting Join
	MC335634 | March 18 – Updated March 18, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature update to Cross Cloud Anonymous (CCA) Meeting Join in Microsoft Teams will allow users to join meetings as unauthenticated (anonymous) users.This release expands the current unauthenticated (anonymous) meeting experience available for different tenants within a single cloud to all remaining Microsoft clouds (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DOD).Note: This new functionality will only affect…
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	Activity Center for iPads, Tablets
	MC344037 | March 17 – 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) Dark mode in New Yammer
	MC340780 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional information.Based on user feedback, we are enabling Dark mode. Once rolled out to Yammer network, users would be able to switch to view lighter text on a dark background at any moment in the settings menu. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88976
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	(Updated) Teams apps designed for Outlook and Office.com available for users in Outlook and Office.com
	MC334280 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional details.To get more done without constantly changing apps, we’re making new Teams apps also available for users in Outlook and Office.com. Users in Targeted Release will be able to acquire and use these apps in Teams, Outlook, or Office.com.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88942 and 88909
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	(Updated) Update to the Copy Link command in OneDrive/SharePoint Web
	MC316434 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Instead of automatically copying the link with default permissions, we want to give customers the ability to change their link type and permissions prior to generating a sharing link and pasting it into the app of their choice.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88866.
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	(Updated) Manage apps using the new Apps site (SharePoint Online)
	MC329484 | March 17 – Updated March 017, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.The new Apps site (previously known as the App Catalog) will help you as a SharePoint or global admin to quickly get started distributing custom apps or acquiring independent software vendor (ISV) apps in your tenant to extend functionalities of SharePoint, Teams, and Viva Connections. You can use the new Apps site to store and distribute solutions in a streamlined and modernized experience. This…
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	(Updated) Image Tags in SharePoint
	MC272451 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Currently, when images are uploaded to SharePoint, a column named Tags is automatically created and includes descriptive labels to help with search. With the new update, we will migrate tags from the previous text-based and read only Tags column and implement a new editable Image Tags column. End-users will be able to manually add or remove tags from this column. The tags will also appear in the…
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	(Updated) Send Feedback on Image Tags
	MC286337 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Users will now be able to provide feedback on tags associated with an image by using the “Give feedback” option within the details pane of the document library. Using the feedback policy settings, tenant admins will be able to control how much feedback the users can choose to share with Microsoft. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88708.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Stream: Comment on a video or audio file in SharePoint and OneDrive
	MC317765 | March 17 – Updated March 17, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.This feature allows you to have threaded conversations on a video or audio filed saved in OneDrive for Business or SharePoint Online through a cohesive and familiar commenting experienced like the one used in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88521.
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	Pin shared libraries to Quick Access
	MC343795 | March 16 – We’re adding the capability to pin shared libraries to the Quick Access section in OneDrive Web to easily find and access the places where you regularly work. We’re also surfacing a list of your recently used shared libraries in the “More Places” page within OneDrive to help you find the places that you’ve recently opened files from. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82165
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	Share computer audio on web
	MC343789 | March 16 – Users who share screen in Teams calling and meetings on web (Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome) will soon have the option to share their computer audio along with sharing their screen. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84175.
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	Announcing Public Preview of Idle Session Timeout for Microsoft 365 Web Apps
	MC343441 | March 16 – Today’s release of Idle session timeout will allow IT admins to configure a tenant-wide timeout policy to automatically sign out users after a period of inactivity on Microsoft 365 web apps. This will help protect sensitive company data from unauthorized access while providing peace of mind for end users while working on unmanaged and/or shared devices. This feature is an improvement over, and will eventually replace, current app-specific idle timeout settings in Outlook Web App (OWA) and…
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	Editing Attachments on Yammer Threads
	MC343435 | March 16 – With this feature, users will now be able to remove and modify attachments on Yammer threads. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93627
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	Teams user/device usage report and Graph API data source change
	MC343434 | March 16 – We are making an improvement to the underlying data source that powers the Teams User usage report and Teams Device usage report in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. We are also synchronizing this data source change to the similar reports that show up in Teams Admin Center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85542 and 83967.
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	Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls
	MC343429 | March 16 – Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls will play music to callers while on hold, ensuring that the caller knows that the call is still active. Feature will apply to 1:1 call hold and consult then transfer holdfor VOIP callsBlind transfer is not in scope.
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	SharePoint app bar – Temporary window to disable is extended
	MC343428 | March 16 – The SharePoint app bar is designed to improve the global wayfinding experience while dynamically displaying personalized content. The app bar makes important content and resources more accessible no matter where you are in SharePoint.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70576
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	(Updated) OneDrive: New Command Bar
	MC285602 | March 15 – Updated March 15, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.With this update users will be able to easily identify the right file and access primary commands. The new simplified view will permit users to focus on the content while at the same time being visually pleasing.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85602.
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	(Updated) OneDrive and SharePoint: Improved Move/Copy user experience
	MC288642 | March 15 – Updated March 15, 2022: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We’re refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to move and copy your files and folders.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85567
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	Reminder: IE11 desktop application retires in 3 months on June 15, 2022 – Set up IE mode today (non-LTSC, non-Server)
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Key points:

• Timing: June 30, 2022
• Action: Update custom applications that rely on certificate pinning to mitigate interruption in service

How this affects your organization:

The new Root CA “DigiCert Global Root G2” is widely trusted by operating systems including Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS and by browsers such as Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

Note: We expect that most Microsoft 365 customers will not be impacted.

However, if you have a custom application, your application may be impacted if it explicitly specifies a list of acceptable CAs. This practice is known as “certificate pinning”. Customers who do not have the new Root CAs in their list of acceptable CAs will receive certificate validation errors, which may impact the availability or function of your application.

• Affected products include:
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Skype
  • Skype for Business Online
  • GroupMe
  • Kaizala
  • Azure Communication Services
• Affected endpoints include (but are not limited to):
  • *.teams.microsoft.com
  • *.skype.com
  • *.skypeforbusiness.com
  • *.groupme.com
  • *.communication.azure.com
  • *.operatorconnect.microsoft.com
• Additionally, Teams and Skype for Business Online endpoints in US Government national cloud instances of Microsoft 365 will make the same change, affecting endpoints such as:
  • *.gcc.teams.microsoft.com
  • *.dod.teams.microsoft.us
  • *.gov.teams.microsoft.us
  • *.online.dod.skypeforbusiness.us
  • *.online.gov.skypeforbusiness.us
  • *.um-dod.office365.us
  • *.um.office365.us

Services began transitioning to the new Root CAs beginning in January 2022 and will continue through October 2022.

What you can do to prepare:

For more details on how to determine if you are affected by this change as well as the details of the new Root CAs, please refer to the technical guidance at Office TLS Certificate Changes.

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Note: if your organization is not using the Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentReport and Get-AdvancedThreatProtectionDocumentDetail cmdlet you can safely disregard this message.

Key points

• Timing: retirement will begin in early May and is expected to complete by mid-May
• Action: review and transition to the Get-ContentMalwareMdoAggregateReport | Get-ContentMalwareMdoDetailReport cmdlet as appropriate
• Roll-out: tenant level

How this will affect your organization:

The UI for the new report:

What you need to do to prepare:

You might want to notify your users about this change and update your training and documentation as appropriate.

Learn more:

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Note: This applies to Microsoft 365 accounts and Office Add-ins only.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 88527
• Timing: We will begin rolling this out in early April and expect to complete rollout mid-June.
• Action: If you don’t want all the meetings in your organization to be online by default and you haven’t previously disabled this setting for your organization, you’ll need to disable this feature (can be turned off at any time) using the Set-OrganizationConfig PowerShell cmdlet.
  • There is currently an issue where the results of Get-OrganizationConfig do not display the correct value. We’re working on addressing this, but it will not be fixed before this update is released.
• Roll-out: user level roll-out v tenant level

How will this affect my organization?

If your users have one of the following partner online meeting add-ins installed, Outlook will automatically set it as the default provider. Please note that other online meeting providers are currently not supported for this feature.

• Zoom for Outlook
• Cisco WebEx Scheduler
• BlueJeans Meetings
• GoToMeeting for Outlook
• Google Meet Add-in
• JioMeet for Outlook

Users and organizations who have previously disabled the Add online meeting to all meetings option—either from an Outlook client or from PowerShell—will be unaffected. Their meetings will continue to be offline by default.

Users and organizations who have kept the Add online meeting to all meetings setting enabled and use Teams or Skype will also be unaffected. Their meetings will continue to have an online meeting link using Teams or Skype.

This affects only users who don’t have Teams or Skype and haven’t disabled the EMO setting. When users create a new meeting, they’ll see a partner online meeting link added, provided it’s supported.

• If only one online meeting add-in is installed on the user’s mailbox, that add-in will be set as the default.
• If more than one online meeting add-in is installed, priority is given to the one installed by the organization’s admin.
• If the user has multiple add-ins installed by the admin or has installed multiple add-ins themself, then no provider will be set automatically, and meetings will not be online by default. These users can turn on the setting themselves and choose their preferred online meeting provider.

Only meetings with at least one attendee, other than the organizer, and meetings with a duration of less than 24 hours will be online automatically.

What do I need to do to prepare?

If you want all the meetings in your organization to be online by default, there is nothing you need to do. You might want to notify your users about this new capability and update your training and documentation as appropriate.

• If you don’t want all the meetings in your organization to be online by default and you haven’t previously disabled this setting for your organization, you’ll need to disable this feature using the Set-OrganizationConfig PowerShell cmdlet.
  • (Can be turned off at any time)

Learn more:

• For more information about this feature, see Make every meeting online support article.
• To control user access to the Office store or restrict the add-ins allow-list, see Manage add-ins in the admin center.

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When this will happen:

We will begin rolling this out in early April and expect to complete by mid-April.

How this will affect your organization:

Today, the membership list for a Dynamic Distribution Group is calculated every time a message is sent to the group, based on filters and conditions that you have defined for that group. Since these filters can be highly complex, it can take a long time to calculate the recipient list, leading to delayed mail and in extreme cases, reliability issues. In addition to this, as DDGs are resolved only upon being sent, the actual recipient list is unknown to the sender, which can present potential compliance issues for our customers.

New changes:

• Instead of calculating group membership in real time, we will be storing the membership list for each Dynamic Distribution Group. This membership list will then get updated periodically once every 24 hours.
  • Note: When you create a new Dynamic Distribution Group or modify the filters of a group, it may take up to 2 hours until your group is ready to be used for the first time after creating or modifying the group filters.

Benefits:

• With this update, you will be certain of the recipient list of a Dynamic Distribution Group prior to a message being sent, which will help address any potential compliance concerns. You will have the capability to view Dynamic Distribution Group members via the Get-DynamicDistributionGroupMember cmdlet. For more information, please visit Get-DynamicDistributionGroupMember. In addition, by storing the calculated list of members on the Dynamic Distribution Group object, we will deliver messages more quickly and our service will have improved reliability.

What you need to do to prepare:

You don’t need to do anything since the functionality of Dynamic Distribution Groups remains the same. However, you may consider updating your user training, and notifying your helpdesk as there are behavioral changes involved. Since the membership list is no longer calculated each time, a message is sent, the recipient list may not always be up to date as it gets refreshed every 24 hours.

• For detailed information please refer to: Modern Dynamic Distribution Groups
• For support, please email [email protected].

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