This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82062

When this will happen:

Rollout will begin in early November, and complete by late November.

How this will affect your organization:

This update changes the behavior of deleted files that are set to be retained, and that have multiple versions of the file. They will be retained in the Preservation Hold Library as a single file with all versions as part of its version history just like they exist before being deleted. Previously, each version was retained individually as a separate file.

This change affects your ability to search those versions in eDiscovery. It provides consistency for eDiscovery searches regardless of whether the file has been deleted or not, searching only the last version of it by default rather than getting multiple matches for versions in between them.

If you have query-based holds configured in eDiscovery, there will be a change to how retained files are searched and retained as outlined above. For more information on query-based holds, please visit: Create eDiscovery holds in a Core eDiscovery case – Microsoft 365 Compliance | Microsoft Docs

Note: These changes do not impact the retention or deletion of your content or cause any changes to your retention labels or policies, all versions are still being kept, just as part of the version history of the file.

What you need to do to prepare:

No action is needed to enable this change; however you may want to communicate this change to your users or team responsible for eDiscovery, Information Governance and Records Management at your organization.

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Starting November 1, 2021, the following versions of Outlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will not be able to connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services.

Key Points:

• Major: Retirement
• Timing: Beginning November 1, 2021 and will be complete by mid-May 2022.
• Action: Ensure Outlook for Windows client are updated accordingly

How this will affect your organization:

Versions that are newer than minimum version requirements listed above, but are not the currently supported version, may experience connectivity issues.

To see a list of the currently supported versions, visit Update history for Microsoft 365 Apps (listed by date) (for Microsoft 365 Apps) or Latest updates for versions of Office that use Windows Installer (MSI) (see “Latest Public Update” for Office 2013 and 2016).

Supported versions of Outlook for Windows in Office and Microsoft 365 will continue to connect to Microsoft 365 services as expected.

What you need to do to prepare:

We recommend that all users upgrade to the supported versions of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps.

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Two changes are planned:

• Power BI will be automatically installed for users in your organization when they use the Power BI service in a web browser and have a Microsoft Teams license.
• Power BI app for Teams will become available to government customers.

These change will affect the Power BI app in Microsoft Teams (web, desktop).

When this will happen:

We expect this rollout to begin in early November and expect the rollout to be fully completed by late December.

How this affects your organization:

When Power BI app for Microsoft Teams is installed, users get better experiences without leaving Teams, like:

• Activity feed notifications for sharing and request access, help them work faster and be more responsive without leaving where they collaborate
• Links sent in chat turn into preview cards making collaboration richer, helping users find reports more quickly
• Items open in Teams, so users don’t have to switch apps just to see what data was shared to them

The new automatic installation makes it much easier for organizations who use Power BI and Microsoft Teams to deploy the fully integrated experiences for their users.

The automatic installation will occur for a user under the following conditions:

• The Power BI app for Microsoft Teams is set to allowed in the Microsoft Teams admin portal
• The Power BI tenant setting Install Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatically is enabled
• The user has a Microsoft Teams license
• The user uses the Power BI service in a web browser

Initially, auto-install applies to new users the first time they visit Power BI service in a web browser. In the future, this will expand so that auto-install occurs for all active users of the Power BI service who meet the criteria.

When auto-install occurs, the user will receive a notification in the Power BI service notification pane.

Users in government clouds will be able to use the Power BI app for Teams experiences.

NOTE: Messaging extension support for government clouds will not be included in the initial release.

What you need to do to prepare:

An action is only required if you want to opt out of automatic installation.

• To opt out, navigate to the Power BI admin portal tenant settings. Set the Install Power BI app for Microsoft Teams automatically setting to Disabled or customize it to apply to appropriate subset of users.
• To opt out of Power BI app for Teams in the Government Community Cloud navigate to the Teams admin center. Select the Power BI app and set it to not allowed. Note: the Power BI app will not be available in Teams admin center until it has rolled-out.

Please click Additional Information to learn more.

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	Exchange Online and Basic Auth – September 2021 Update
	Act by: October 22
	MC286990 | September 23 – We’re making some changes to improve the security of your tenant. We announced in 2019 we would be retiring Basic Authentication for legacy protocols, and in early 2021 we announced we would begin to retire Basic Authentication for protocols not being used in tenants, but not disable Basic Authentication for any in-use protocols until further notice. Today, we are announcing that we are restarting the program to end the use of Basic Auth in Exchange Online. Beginning October 1, 2022, we will…
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	(Updated) Important updates are available for Microsoft To Do apps
	Act by: October 31
	MC280287 | September 23 – Updated September 23, 2021: Reminder to update Microsoft To Do apps (Android, iOS, Windows and Mac) and Outlook apps(Android and iOS) to the latest available version before October 31, 2021If your organization does not use Microsoft To Do, you can disregard this message.We are moving Microsoft To Do’s backend to a more efficient service. For the best experience across all of your devices, you need to update to the latest version. Make sure your mobile and desktop To Do apps are version 2.49 or…
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	Retiring the advanced hunting table named ‘DeviceTvmSoftwareInventoryVulnerabilities’
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	Hardware Support for AJA and Blackmagic Devices
	MC287353 | September 25 – The ability for Teams clients to stream content from a client to the local network via Network Device Interface (NDI) is being expanded to enable streaming content to select attached hardware devices. Users with the ability to turn on NDI will also be able to push content to attached hardware devices from AJA or Blackmagic Designs. This will enable users to push content from Teams out via attached SDI or HDMI devices.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82812 & 83486
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	Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) support for Advanced Delivery
	MC286993 | September 23 – We’re adding support for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) domain entry to the Advanced Delivery policy. This enhancement enables security administrators to use DKIM domains in addition or instead of P1 sending domains to configure their third-party phishing simulations.This option adds flexibility as well as another secure method for third-party phishing simulation vendors that utilize large number of P1 sending domains in their phishing simulation campaigns. Vendors can instead sign all their…
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	Microsoft Teams Room on Windows – In meeting experience update
	MC286991 | September 23 – We will be updating the Teams meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) to closely align with the current experience available on the Teams desktop application. This will provide new capabilities such as, participant grouping for instructed meetings, sorting roster by raised hand, an integrated user search and the ability to ask others to join meetings from an invite or from chat. In addition to this, we will be making the roster position on the console better align with that of the…
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	(Updated) SharePoint channel sites – Temporary permissions editing
	MC282480 | September 23 – Updated September 23, 2021: In two weeks, the window for editing channel site permissions from SharePoint will close. Once this window closes on October 7th 2021, all channel site level permissions will need to be managed from within Microsoft Teams. We recently provided guidance (June – MC261534) “SharePoint: Updates for Microsoft Teams connected team sites” about how to edit permissions for SharePoint team sites that are connected to a channel in Microsoft Teams. In the post, we specified…
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	(Updated) End-to-end encryption for Teams calling
	MC259495 | September 23 – Updated September 23, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. Teams will support an option to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for ad hoc 1:1 Teams VoIP calls. To support customer security and compliance requirements, IT will have full control of who can use E2EE in the organization. This…
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	Restarting a Teams Live Event
	MC286781 | September 23 – For some Teams Live Events, you may want to restart the event after it has already started, or after you have ended it. Until now, this capability was not available. However, soon you will be able to restart a Teams Live Event if it is accidently ended it or if there is a connection issue during the event. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82953
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	Content from camera now launched in Teams
	MC286780 | September 23 – As hybrid workplaces become more common, we’re excited to let you know that content from camera will soon be available in Microsoft Teams. This option enables users to stream content from directly from physical artefacts such as whiteboards and documents in a legible way. During a Teams call, users will be able to access the projection options simply by clickingShare > Content from camera. Two key projection options:Whiteboard mode: Users can point their laptop webcam to their whiteboard to…
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	Image Utility Edit Control
	MC286779 | September 23 – A set of utility tools to quickly fix and format an image on OneDrive for Business will soon be available. Capabilities will include; rotate, crop (freeform crop and fixed aspect ratio crop), and flip (horizontally and vertically). The update will also include a set of commonly used adjustments to adjust the quality of the photograph to change the look. This feature will be available as sliders for users to increase/decrease the intensity of each adjustment. Adjustments are additive to each…
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	Operator Connect for Microsoft Teams moving to general availability
	MC286563 | September 22 – In addition for Calling Plans and Direct Routing, Microsoft is introducing Operator Connect as third option for integrating PSTN calling capabilities in Teams.We did work closely with key operator partners worldwide for integrating our infrastructure to make it simple to integrate operator services in Teams, with close to none configurations required.Operator Connect enables Teams administrators to select the operator of their choice and then enable them for number provisioning in their tenant,…
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	1:1 Calling in Safari
	MC286561 | September 22 – This feature update will bring 1 to 1 calling from Teams to Safari. Users will be able to initiate a 1:1 call with another Teams user while using Teams on Safari.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87312.
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	(Updated) 1:1 VOIP and PSTN call recording and transcription in Calls App V2
	MC279469 | September 21 – Updated September 21, 2021: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your feedback. 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…
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	SPO View in File Explorer available in Microsoft Edge
	MC286342 | September 20 – We recommend using the OneDrive sync app to sync SharePoint files with your computer, rather than using View in File Explorer. Sync with OneDrive Files On-Demand helps you work with all your cloud files in File Explorer without having to download all the files and use storage space on your device. In some special cases, we understand that some customers may still have a need to use View in File Explorer to access modern document libraries. Currently, The View in File Explorer option is only…
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	Yammer Topics APIs changes with Viva Topics
	MC286339 | September 20 – 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 message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 72184
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	Send Feedback on Image Tags
	MC286337 | September 20 – 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 68902.
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Today, we are announcing that we are restarting the program to end the use of Basic Auth in Exchange Online. Beginning October 1, 2022, we will begin to disable Basic Auth in all tenants, regardless of usage.

We previously communicated this change via several Message Center posts: MC191153 (Sept. ‘19), MC204828 (Feb. ‘20), MC208814 (April ‘20) and MC237741 (Feb. ‘21) and you can always read the latest information about our plans to turn off Basic Authentication here.

Beginning early 2022, as we roll out the changes necessary to support this effort, we are also going to begin disabling Basic Auth for some customers on a short-term and temporary basis.

We will randomly select tenants and disable Basic Auth for all protocols for a period of 12-48 hours. After this time, these protocols will be re-enabled, if the tenant admin has not already re-enabled them using our self-service tools.

During this time all clients and apps that use Basic Auth in that tenant will be affected, and they will be unable to connect. Any client or app using Modern Auth will not be affected. Users can use alternate clients (for example, Outlook on the Web instead of an older Outlook client that does not support Modern Auth) while they upgrade or reconfigure their client apps.

How this will affect your organization:

If you receive a Message Center post between now and October 2022, informing you that we are going to disable Basic Auth for a protocol due to non-usage, or you get one saying we know you are using Basic Auth, but we intend to proactively disable it for a short period of time, and you don’t want us to disable specific protocols, you can use the new self-service feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center to opt-out and request that we leave specific protocols enabled until October 2022. We added this feature to help minimize disruptions as you transition away from using Basic Auth.

We will disable Basic Authentication beginning October 2022, and once that happens, users in your tenant will be unable to access their Exchange Online mailbox using Basic Authentication.

Read more here.

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The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are selected, to be blocked, by default. Administrator can make changes to this selection by selecting more file types or making changes to existing file types. If the Administrator chooses to extend this behavior to more file types, then this is possible using PowerShell option.

As part of this enhancement to the feature, we are adding three additional file types to the default selection list. The newly added file types are ‘.iso’, ‘.cab’ and ‘.jnlp’.

Key points

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85611

Timing: We expect this feature to begin rolling out in early October and expect the rollout to be completed by late October.

Roll-out: tenant level

Action: Review and assess.

How this will affect your organization:

Once these enhancements are rolled out, any email received by / sent from the users of your organization will be quarantined if any of the attached files matches with the newly added three file types.

What you need to do to prepare:

If your organization would like to have the emails with these file types blocked, then there is no action. However, if your organization needs require that these files be allowed, then the Administrator needs to edit the Anti-Malware policies and de-select these newly added file types.

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	Anti-malware policy : Common attachment filter : Additional file types block by default
	MC285906 | September 18 – The ‘Common attachment filter’ option in the ‘Anti-malware’ policy helps the Administrator configure the file types (based on file extension) which need to be blocked in the emails. This block action is applied anytime the file type of any attachment in the email matches this configurated file type list. The current pre-configured list has 96 file types. Of these 96 file types, 10 files types are selected by default in the block list. When a new policy is created, these 10 file types are…
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	Join meetings anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds)
	MC285905 | September 18 – 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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Additional updates

	AIP client and scanner audit logs in Microsoft 365 Audit and Activity explorer
	MC285911 | September 18 – Previously announced in public preview (MC243213), Azure Information Protection (AIP) administrators will soon be able to access data in Microsoft 365 compliance center Audit logs and Activity explorer, in addition to the AIP Analytics (Preview) portal. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70600.
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	Reply to specific chat message in Teams Desktop
	MC285886 | September 18 – With this update, Microsoft Teams Desktop users will receive the long awaited ability to reply to specific messages in chat from the message actions menu. This will help bring more context into conversations. This feature has already been available on the iOS and Android apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81113.
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	OneDrive: New Command Bar
	MC285602 | September 17 – 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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	New SharePoint hub to hub associations
	MC285601 | September 17 – This release will add the ability to associate a SharePoint hub site to another hub site to expand search results across multiple hubs in your organization. This will enable users to discover relevant content when searching on any sites related to the associated hubs. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85613
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	(Updated) Breakout rooms: Pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment
	MC278891 | September 16 – Updated September 16, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. 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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	Breakout Rooms Presenter support
	MC278893 | September 16 – Updated September 16, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. 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…
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	Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels
	MC285145 | September 15 – 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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	Microsoft Bookings – SMS notifications for booking appointments
	MC285054 | September 15 – With this rollout, we are enabling SMS notifications to be sent to the person booked for an appointment scheduled through the Bookings web app or Bookings app in Teams or via the self-serve booking page. Additionally, the SMS will include the Teams meeting link for virtual booking appointments. See here for all licenses for Bookings availability. A valid US and Canada phone number is required to send SMS texts to attendees. Note: We will be providing unlimited SMS notifications through a…
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	Co-authoring on Microsoft Information Protection encrypted documents in Office Desktop is Generally Available
	MC285023 | September 14 – Co-authoring on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents encrypted with Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels on Windows and Mac is now generally available. This feature is already available on Office on the web This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82112.
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	Restrict Yammer Community Posting
	MC285022 | September 14 – This feature allows network admins to manage the conversations that take place in key communities in their network through an admin setting to restrict posting. Once this setting is enabled, only community admins will have the ability to start a thread in the community while members can only reply and react to conversations.Note: This feature will be default off when released.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87114
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	SharePoint Navigation Switcher
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	(Updated) New people-centric search features coming to Microsoft Search
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	(Updated) Real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) Streaming Support to Custom Endpoints
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	Microsoft 365 Records Management–Announcing public preview of adaptive policy scopes for retention and label policies
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Key points:

• Timing: Beginning October 12, 2021 this change will roll out as an update.
• Action: Inform users of the retirement and direct them to utilize Power BI Desktop as an alternative.

How this will affect your organization:

Once users have taken the update they will no longer be able to create or open Power View reports from Excel.

What you need to do to prepare:

Instead of using Power View, we recommend using other ways to do analysis and visualizations within Excel (For example, PivotTables, PivotCharts, and so on). For more information, see BI capabilities in Excel and Office 365, or you can use Power BI Desktop (a free download). Existing Power View reports can be opened in Power BI, and new reports can be created in Power BI from Excel data.

Please click Additional Information to learn more.

Additional Information
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	Excel Power View Retirement
	MC284624 | September 12 – Silverlight, a component used in Power View, will no longer be supported beginning on October 12th. In response, we will be starting the process to retire Power View from Microsoft 365. As an alternative to Power View, we recommend using Power BI Desktop, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources.
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	(Updated) Teams Follows Office Preview
	Act by: July 24
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	Microsoft Forms new App “Polls” in Teams
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	Classic Exchange Admin Center (EAC) Retirement Announcement
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	Yammer Public Links API Changes
	Act by: November 30
	MC283912 | September 9 – We’re making some changes to public OGOs (Open Graph Objects).On December 1, 2021, all public Open Graph Objects (OGOs) will be associated with only the message it is attached to. These links, and the messages associated with them, are only visible to users who have access to the conversations the Open Graph Objects were a part of.Previously, there was only one OGO in each Yammer Network per absolute URL. Now there will be multiple OGOs that exist because this new change will create one OGO per…
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	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Enable Teams users to purchase app subscriptions through the Teams app store
	MC282989 | September 7 – Updated September 07, 2021: We have updated the message to provide additional clarity. Thank you for your feedback.At Build 2021 we announced the ability for Teams users to purchase third-party app subscriptions directly from the Teams app store. From within the store, users can view subscription plans offered and go through the checkout process to pay with a credit card.Note: if a tenant admin has disabled their users ability to discover and install third-party applications (all or partial)…
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	(Updated) We’re updating the Hybrid federated search
	Act by: October 1
	MC270671 | September 7 – Updated September 07, 2021: We have updated the content below to provided additional clarity. Thank you for your patience. We are making changes to Hybrid federated search, also called Inbound Hybrid Search, where users search from the SharePoint Online in the Microsoft 365 Search Center to display hybrid results from SharePoint Server. In modernizing search in Microsoft 365, we are updating the infrastructure used by SharePoint Server’s Hybrid federated search. As part of the process,…
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	Microsoft Teams Public Preview indicator “P” on avatar
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	Chat Delete Capabilities within Supervised Chats
	MC284358 | September 10 – Earlier this year, through the Supervised Chat feature, we provided the capability to block restricted users from starting new chats unless an appropriate supervisor is present.We are continuing to iterate on this experience and soon we will provide another tool for supervisors to be able to delete any inappropriate chat within those supervised environments.The ability to delete chats will ONLY be available for users assigned the “Full permissions” role within the Chat permissions role policy…
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	(Updated) Sharing Links for Microsoft Lists is now available!
	MC256837 | September 10 – Updated September 10, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This release will allow users to now share Microsoft Lists using the same sharing links that they have been using for files and folders. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81965
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	(Updated) Microsoft 365 roadmap site updates
	MC277639 | September 10 – Updated September 10, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. 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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	Viva Connections (Public preview) is rolling out
	MC284081 | September 9 – Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your gateway to a modern employee experience. The Viva connections app incorporates a customizable dashboard, the feed, and relevant resources all in one experience in the Microsoft Teams mobile app. This Public preview release includes the ability to: Set a SharePoint home site from the SharePoint admin center Create, author, and manage a dashboard from the home site Use Video news links to communicate announcements Use the new Dashboard and Feed…
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	Office add-in dialog API hardening update
	Act by: September 14
	MC283865 | September 8 – We recently made some changes to harden the security of the Office Add-in dialog API, which impacts cross-domain communication. Normally we do not do Message center communications on these monthly changes, but in the case we want to make sure the potential for impact is understood.Note:If your organization is not using Office Add-ins you can safely disregard this message.This change only impacts Office Add-ins and does not affect COM/VSTO add-ins.
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	Direct app purchases and invoice billing support in Teams Admin Center
	MC283612 | September 8 – Teams Admins will soon be able to purchase third-party app subscriptions worldwide directly in Teams Admin Center through the “Plans and pricing” feature. Payment methods include invoice billing and credit card purchases. Private plans will be available for purchase with privately-negotiated rates between ISVs and your organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83144
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	Support experience update in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
	MC283609 | September 8 – We are introducing an improved support experience in the Microsoft Endpoint Manager admin center which integrates the simplicity of in-console search and virtual assistant functionality to address more complex issues. This provides a seamless experience to guide you to Microsoft Intune issue-specific troubleshooting insights and web-based solutions, helping you get resolution faster.
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	Microsoft Forms: New Mobile Friendly Experience for Form Creation/Analysis
	MC283607 | September 8 – Form designers who create forms and analyze results from Mobile will now have a much more mobile friendly experience that is optimized for their device, making Forms even easier to use. This will be available to New forms and Existing forms in the browser first and then a few weeks later in the Office Mobile app.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81843.
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	Microsoft 365 Information Governance – Announcing general availability of retention policies for Teams private channels
	MC283589 | September 8 – We are excited to announce that retention policies for Teams private channels messages are now generally available. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82100 and 70582.
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	New Feature: Improvements to the Text web part for SharePoint pages and news
	MC283569 | September 7 – We’re adding the ability to paste inline images into the Text web part so that images can be closer to text and so that text can wrap around images. We’re also addressing feedback to reduce line spacing in text. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85584.
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On December 1, 2021, all public Open Graph Objects (OGOs) will be associated with only the message it is attached to. These links, and the messages associated with them, are only visible to users who have access to the conversations the Open Graph Objects were a part of.

Previously, there was only one OGO in each Yammer Network per absolute URL. Now there will be multiple OGOs that exist because this new change will create one OGO per message the URL is attached to.

Note: If you have not developed custom integration with Yammer or use 3rd party software which includes specific API calls, you can safely ignore this message.

Key points

• Timing: December 1, 2021
• Control type: admin control
• Action: review and assess

How will this affect your organization?

On December 1, 2021, the following API calls will be affected by this change:

1. GET api/v1/open_graph_objects?url=https://
   • If you are using GET api/v1/open_graph_objects?url=https:// – then currently this returns one single OGO id. Once this change is released it will return a list of OGO ids as now each time a link or URL is added to a message it generates a new OGO id.
2. GET /messages/open_group_objects/:id.json
   • If you are using GET /messages/open_group_objects/:id.json – then after the change you can use any of the OGO ids associated with a URL and this API will return a feed of messages that the user has access to relating to that link.
3. POST /message.json
   • If you are using POST /message.json – and the og_url is a SharePoint URL, you will need to call this API using an AAD token. Instructions to obtain an AAD token can be found here. Additionally, if using a SharePoint URL do not pass a thumbnail image URL to og_image as Yammer fetches the thumbnail associated with the SharePoint URL.

What do you need to do to prepare?

If your organization is using any of the APIs listed above, ensure that you plan for this change so it does not break any custom experiences you have leveraging these Yammer APIs. Also, contact the developers of any 3rd party software that you use to make sure that they are prepared for the coming changes to these Yammer APIs.

Additional information:

• /open_graph_objects · Yammer Developer Site
• /messages/open_graph_objects/:id.json · Yammer Developer Site
• /messages.json · Yammer Developer Site

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