• Topics are terms that individuals can add to their profile through their profile card or Office Delve.
• Users can add topics to their profile to make it easier for people to learn more about them.
• Topics can be skills, projects, and even hobbies.
• When others search for a term that matches a topic on their profile, their name and profile picture may show up in search results across Microsoft apps.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82081
• Timing: We will begin rolling this feature out in early August and expect to complete rollout in mid-October 2021.
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Control type: user control / admin control
• Action: review and assess

How this will affect your organization:

Users in your organization will be able to add topics to their profiles by either updating their information in the profile card in Microsoft 365 apps and services or Office Delve.

• Topics added will be available to view for users under “Ask me about” in the Microsoft 365 profile card and under “Skills and expertise” in Office Delve.

Note: If you have a closed term set up for “Responsibilities”, please see below.

What you need to do to prepare:

If you have a closed term set up for “Responsibilities”, also known as topics, please note that the setting of that term set does not apply to topics shown on profile cards in Microsoft 365 apps and services and is limited to Office Delve. Users will be able to add topics on their profile cards in Microsoft 365 apps and services without restriction even where you have a closed term set up for “Responsibilities”.

To disable topics on profile cards in Microsoft 365 apps and services where you have a closed term set up for “Responsibilities”, please contact Microsoft support at LPCTopicsOptOut with your request and tenant Id. LPCTopicsOptOut

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On August 9, 2021, we’re renaming the Meeting Scenario dimension to Scheduling Source App. This is to better improve the user experience when creating custom queries by ensuring dimension names are easier to understand and will accommodate third-party applications in Microsoft Teams.

Key points

• Timing: Update will happen on August 9, 2021
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Control type: admin control
• Action: review, assess and use the Scheduling Source App dimension on or after August 9, 2021

How this will affect your organization:

You are receiving this message because this change will impact all tenants using Call Quality Dashboard where the Meeting Scenario field is available.

Administrators will need to use theScheduling Source App dimension instead of Meeting Scenario when this change is implemented. Any Custom Call Quality Dashboard reports or CQD Power BI reports that you may have created that use this dimension will need to be updated with the new dimension name on or after August 9, 2021. If this is not done, custom reports using the field will not deliver the expected results until the dimension or filter using it is changed to the new name.

What you need to do to prepare:

Review and assess your custom CQD Power BI reports and when this change takes effect on August 9, 2021, you will need to update/change any custom Call Quality Dashboard or CQD Power BI reports you may have created that use the Meeting Scenario dimension with the new dimension name, Scheduling Source App.

If you have not created any custom reports using the Meeting Scenario dimension, no action is required.

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	Retirement of Discover slab from old Outlook iOS versions
	Act by: August 5
	MC266484 | July 2 – On August 5, 2021, the Recommended slab will be retired from old versions of Outlook iOS. When the change takes effect, the Recommended slab will silently disappear from the search view in Outlook iOS versions older than 4.31.0.Note: If your organization does not use iOS, you can safely ignore this message.
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	New outbound relay pool
	MC266466 | July 2 – We’re making some changes to harden the configuration for relaying or forwarding email through Office 365. Starting July 27, 2021, we are updating special relay pools, a separate IP address pool that is used for relayed or forwarded mails that are sent from domains that are not a part of accepted domains in your tenant. Only messages that are sent from domains that are not accepted domains in your tenant are impacted by this change.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Extending Secure by Default for Exchange Transport Rules (ETRs)
	MC265759 | July 2 – Updated July 02, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft believes it’s critical to keep our customers secure by default. We have determined that legacy overrides tend to be too broad and cause more harm than good. As a security service, we believe it’s imperative that we act on your behalf to prevent your users from being compromised. This means these legacy overrides will no longer be honored for email messages we believe are malicious. We…
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	(Updated) Microsoft Outlook Extension for Edge recommendation
	Act by: July 30
	MC264090 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the content below to provide additional clarity. Thank you for your feedback. This new release will enable some Windows 10 users, who are using Outlook on the web or Outlook for Windows, to see a clickable recommendation to visit the browser extension page for Outlook in Edge where they can choose to install the extension. This notification will be displayed in any Windows browser (i.e., Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) and in Outlook for…
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	(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing Advanced Delivery for Phishing Simulations and SecOps Mailboxes
	Act by: August 24
	MC256473 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are introducing a new capability, Advanced Delivery, for the configuration of third-party phishing simulation campaigns and delivery of messages to security operations (SecOps) mailboxes. Admins will now be able to explicitly configure for the following scenarios and ensure messages configured as part of these scenarios are handled correctly across product experiences:Third-Party Phish simulation…
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	(Updated) Connector results in All tab in SharePoint, Office.com and MSB
	MC253495 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With Graph connectors result clusters, enterprises can search for content from third party connector data sources in their default view, the All tab, in SharePoint, Office.com, and Microsoft Search in Bing. The results shown in a result cluster are grouped together based on the search vertical configuration.
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	(Updated) Teams Guest Access Setting Behavior Update
	Act by: July 31
	MC264095 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the content below to provide clarity. Thank you for your feedback. We’re making some changes to Guest Access in Microsoft Teams settings. Currently, Microsoft Teams prevents guest collaboration in the guest tenant once the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF in the M365 Admin Center.
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	(Updated) Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists
	MC248201 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. 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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	Reminder: Skype for Business Online retires July 31, 2021
	Act by: July 31
	MC266078 | July 1 – Note: If your organization has already transitioned from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, please disregard this message. Originally announced in MC219641 (July ’20), as Microsoft Teams has become the core communications client for Microsoft 365, this is a reminder the Skype for Business Online service will retire July 31, 2021.
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	(Updated) Introducing Designer in Word
	MC223444 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We’re introducing Designer in Word for the web, a feature which offers formatting consistency and style variety for every document.
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Additional updates

	In Development for Microsoft Intune is now available
	MC266488 | July 2 – The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has been updated.
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	Plan for Change: Intune APP/MAM moving to support Android 9 and higher
	MC266487 | July 2 – With the upcoming release of Android 12, Intune app protection policies (APP, also known as MAM) for Android will be moving to support Android 9 (Pie) and higher by October 1st, 2021. This change is to align with Office mobile apps for Android support of the last four major versions of Android.
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	Introducing the modernized SharePoint Store in SharePoint Online
	MC266464 | July 2 – The SharePoint Store has been updated to a new modern experience that includes a streamlined acquisition flow for third-party apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82031
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	Microsoft Teams: Require app protection policy conditional access grant
	MC266463 | July 2 – This release of app protection policy based Conditional Access in Microsoft Teams will help protect your organizational data on devices your employees use by ensuring that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87773
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	(Updated) Teams: Create tasks from Teams chats or channel posts
	MC250796 | July 2 – Updated July 02, 2021: This feature has rolled out to Standard tenants. We are delaying the rollout to GCC tenants and will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience. This new feature will allow users to create Tasks from Teams chats or channel posts and enable them to identify tasks that arise naturally in Teams conversations while ensuring important work isn’t overlooked. This will rollout on Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile. This message is…
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	(Updated) Sharing Links for Microsoft Lists is now available!
	MC256837 | July 2 – Updated July 02, 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) Live Transcription
	MC260564 | July 2 – Updated July 02, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This feature update of Live transcription with speaker attribution in Microsoft Teams meetings is a written record of the conversations available during and after the meeting and will provide another way to both follow and review meeting conversations. This feature release will roll out on Teams desktop.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82029.
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	(Updated) OneDrive sync client update available for Mac
	MC249623 | July 2 – Updated July 02, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are making updates available for the OneDrive sync app on Mac. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70693.
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	SharePoint Syntex site template for model evaluation
	MC266261 | July 1 – You will be able to create a limited preview Syntex content center to evaluate the model training capabilities of this product add-on with your own content. The content center is a site template used for the creation, training, and management of Syntex document understanding models. These models can be trained to classify content and extract information from them. Please note: the models need to be applied to a document library to run against uploaded files. This preview only allows for the…
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	Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on VDI – Citrix Users
	MC266255 | July 1 – Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI.Note: If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.
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	Plan for Change: Basic Mobility and Security ending support for automatic enrollment from Azure AD registration
	MC266239 | July 1 – As mentioned in MC253593, Azure AD’s “MDM user scope” feature, instructs Azure AD to automatically MDM enroll every PC when the user adds their work or school account to Windows (e.g. for SSO to Office apps). This feature, configured on the Microsoft Intune mobility app, works to enroll to Intune or Basic Mobility and Security based on which has been configured as the tenant’s MDM authority, “Intune” or “Office365” respectively. If automatic enrollment is enabled in Azure AD and the tenant was…
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	(Updated) Roaming bandwidth control
	MC258623 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location with higher bandwidth capacity. Initially two…
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	(Updated) Microsoft Stream (built on SharePoint): Updated Web player for video
	MC261352 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The web player for audio & video files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint (including when those files are embedded in Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint web parts) is being updated with a new user look and feel and adheres to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers. Please see Play video & audio files on Microsoft 365 – SharePoint for more details. This message…
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	(Updated) Customize the properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams
	MC257689 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The Microsoft Teams admin will soon be able to customize the following properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams within their tenant: App name App description App icons Accent color This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243
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	(Updated) Rich Yammer link previews in Teams chats
	MC258425 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With this change, when inserting a link of a Yammer conversation in a public community from their canonical (home) network, users with the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams installed will now get a rich preview directly in Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243
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	(Updated) Organizers can lock meetings
	MC251564 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Within the desktop app in-meeting experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent unwanted join attempts.Users attempting to join a locked meeting by any means (e.g. from web, desktop, mobile, PSTN, and devices) will not be able to do so. There will be a message to say that the meeting is locked. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80669
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	(Updated) The new Exchange admin center general availability
	MC252053 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The new Exchange Admin Center (EAC) is a modern and a performant admin portal. This new portal has most of the functionality available in the classic EAC portal along with a lot of new features like tenant-to-tenant migration, automated G-Suite migration, and more. It also features a personalized dashboard with reports and insights that are designed to increase productivity. This message is…
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	(Updated) Outlook on the Web: New calendar board view
	MC248428 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This coming calendar board release will bring a new view to the calendar in Outlook on the web. In addition to the current views, users will soon be able to select a board view which will provide an expanded view where they can manage workloads like calendar, tasks, goals, flagged emails, and files. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70746.
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	(Updated) Office App for Desktop Improvements
	MC252056 | July 1 – Updated July 01, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The new version of the Office App for Windows has improved performance, reliability, and includes the ability to open multiple instances of the app. This update is specifically for the Office app on Windows and does not impact individual applications within the Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc). This update contains an update to the app header, and users can now open more than one app…
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	SharePoint Collapsible Sections
	MC266077 | July 1 – This new feature will allow users to create rich, information-dense SharePoint pages. As part of this release, we will enable the page author to configure sections within the SharePoint page to be able to expand, collapse and set the default page-load state for the section.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67147.
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	Reminder: Microsoft Graph privacy controls to fully replace the classic Office Delve control in July
	Act by: July 1
	MC266073 | July 1 – Starting July 1, 2021: Microsoft Graph will no longer consider the Office Delve privacy settings as part of the Item Insights controls.The transition period for Office Delve and Item Insights privacy settings ends July 1, as stated previously (MC251870 April 2021). After July 1st, Microsoft Graph will no longer consider the Office Delve privacy settings as part of the Item Insights controls. After this change, all experiences in Microsoft 365 that are powered by Item Insights are controllable…
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	(Updated) “Tasks by Planner and To Do” app name to be shortened to “Tasks” within Teams
	MC250528 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: 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. Reminder: Last year we announced the public preview of Tasks in Teams. At the same time, we also announced the planned three-stage naming sequence for how the app name would appear in Teams. This update reflects the final stage where we shorten…
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	(Updated) New Outlook for Mac Preview becomes the default experience in the Preview Channel
	MC255072 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With usage growing daily in our preview experience, we are rolling out Outlook for Mac to Preview Channel as the default experience for any user who has never tried the new experience. The default-on Outlook toggle provides access to enhanced performance and user experience across Mail, Calendar, People, and Search.We announced the toggle in July, 2020 (MC219576).Note: If your organization does not…
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	(Updated) PowerPoint Live in Teams: Slide Translation
	MC245302 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.Note: We will not be moving forward with this feature in the DoD environment at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. This new slide translation feature in Microsoft Teams (desktop) will enable all meeting attendees to translate presentation content, presented via PowerPoint Live in a Teams meeting, into a language of their choice while in private view. This…
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	(Updated) Meeting Reactions in Teams Meetings
	MC230680 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The Meeting Reactions feature allows users to react to participants during a meeting. Reactions will be available on Teams Desktop and Teams Mobile apps.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs65946and 68905.
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	(Updated) Teams desktop app for Mac: Include computer sound in a meeting
	MC235180 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. TheMicrosoft Teams desktop app for MacOSwill soon allow users include their computer’s sound when sharing either their desktop or a window in a meeting.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67168 and 67169.
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	(Updated) Teams: Transfer calls between devices
	MC242825 | June 30 – Updated June 30, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This new Teams release will expand support and allow calling participants to transfer an ongoing VoIP, PSTN or Group call between Teams devices. Users will be able to transfer a call from one device to another or even add a second device to the same call. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 68776.
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	Speed Dial on Mobile devices
	MC265766 | June 30 – Speed Dial is coming to iOS and Android and users can now get into a call with their preferred contacts with greater efficiency than before. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82960.
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	Real-time Telemetry for End User
	MC265449 | June 28 – Call Health Panel now provides Teams end-users functionality that helps identify issues during a Teams meeting or a VOIP call. This empowers end-user with the diagnostics to investigate audio, video, content sharing or network related issues. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70777
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Starting July 27, 2021, we are updating special relay pools, a separate IP address pool that is used for relayed or forwarded mails that are sent from domains that are not a part of accepted domains in your tenant. Only messages that are sent from domains that are not accepted domains in your tenant are impacted by this change.

How this will affect your organization:

When this change is implemented, messages that do not meet the below criteria will route through the Relay Pool and the messages might potentially end up in recipient junk folder.

1. Outbound sender domain is an accepted domain of the tenant.
2. SPF passes when the message comes to M365.
3. DKIM on the sender domain passes when the message comes to M365.

All messages that meet the above criteria will not be relayed through the Relay Pool. For relayed messages, we will skip SRS rewrite.

What you can do to prepare:

When this change takes effect, you can tell a message was sent via the Relay Pool by looking at the outbound server IP (all Relay Pool IPs will be in the 40.95.0.0/16 range), or by looking at the outbound server name (will have “rly” in the name).

For the messages to go through the regular pool you will need to make sure when a message arrives to Microsoft Office 365, SPF or DKIM passes, or sender domain of the outbound message matches an accepted domain of your tenant

For DKIM to work, make sure you enable DKIM for sending domain for example fabrikam.com is part of contoso.com accepted domains, if the sending address is [email protected], the DKIM needs to be enabled for fabrikam.com. you can read on how to enable DKIM here.

To add custom domains follow the steps outlined here.

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Originally announced in MC219641 (July ’20), as Microsoft Teams has become the core communications client for Microsoft 365, this is a reminder the Skype for Business Online service will retire July 31, 2021.

How this will affect your organization

• If your organization has been scheduled for a Microsoft-assisted upgrade from Skype for Business Online to Teams, you will receive corresponding notifications within Message Center containing additional information.
• While your organization will no longer be able to use Skype for Business Online once the service retires, you may continue to use Microsoft Teams as part of an existing licensing agreement.
• Support for the integration of third-party party Audio Conferencing Providers (ACP) into Skype for Business Online will end as Skype for Business Online retires.
• Neither the Skype consumer service nor Skype for Business Server products are affected by the retirement of Skype for Business Online.

What you need to do to prepare

We encourage customers using Skype for Business Online to plan and begin the upgrade to Teams today. To help, Microsoft offers comprehensive transition resources including a proven upgrade framework, guidance for technical and organizational readiness, on-demand upgrade planning workshops, and FastTrack onboarding assistance for eligible subscriptions.

Please click Additional Information to learn more.

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• Allowed sender lists or allowed domain lists (anti-spam policies)
• Outlook Safe Senders
• IP Allow List (connection filtering)

We are now extending Secure by Default to cover high confidence phishing messages for the remaining legacy override type, Exchange mail flow rules (also known as transport rule or ETRs).

Key Points

• Timing: We will begin rolling out Secure by Default for ETRs starting at the beginning of August and complete rollout by early September.
• Action: Review and assess impact.

How this will affect your organization:

After the last phase of Secure by Default is enabled in August for ETRs, Defender for Office 365:

• Will no longer deliver messages with a high confidence phish verdict, regardless of any explicit ETRs.
• Will no longer recommend using ETRs to configure third-party phishing simulations or Security Operations mailbox message delivery.

What you need to do to prepare:

If you are currently using Exchange mail flow rules (also known as transport rules or ETRs) to configure your third-party phishing simulation campaigns or delivery for security operation mailboxes, you should begin to configure these with the new Advanced Delivery policy when the feature is launched in July (Roadmap ID 72207). For more information, please refer to message center post MC256473. Administrators should also use the submission portal to report messages whenever they believe a message has the wrong verdict so that the filter can improve organically.

Learn more:

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365 tech community blog announcing the final phase of Secure by Default rollout: Mastering Configuration Part Two (microsoft.com)
• How we are keeping customers secure: Secure by default in Office 365 – Office 365 | Microsoft Docs
• MS documentation on the new Advanced Delivery Policy: Configure the delivery of third-party phishing simulations to users and unfiltered messages to SecOps mailboxes – Office 365 | Microsoft Docs

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	Microsoft Teams: Profile menu update, relocating profile menu links to a new menu in the title bar
	MC254084 | June 25 – The Me Menu updates were originally announced in MC228368 (Dec ’20). To ensure the feature was ready, the rollout was delayed and we are now ready to proceed.Access to Settings, Zoom Controls, Keyboard Shortcuts, About, and Check for Updates is moving from the Me Menu to a new menu in the title bar. The Me Menu will be focused on account management, where users can switch to another account or tenant through the first level of the Me Menu. The following links will be moved out of the Me Menu…
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	Chat Bubbles
	MC261530 | June 25 – Previously, Teams users needed to manually open a chat window to view the chat screen. Now thanks to this new feature, chats sent during a Teams meeting will surface on the screens of all meeting participants, making the chat more central to the conversation.
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	(Updated) Teams meeting invite recipients limit from Outlook
	MC259845 | June 24 – Updated June 16, 2021: We have updated the message below to clarify this impacts Win32 and Win64 clients. Thank you for your patience. We’re making some changes to limit the number of individual recipients allowed for scheduling a Teams meeting from Outlook (Win32 and Win64 client only at this time). We will apply this limit for meetings created with more than 750 recipients in the invite. This limit does not apply to the content of Distribution Lists and therefore we encourage users to use…
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	(Updated) New file sharing experience in Microsoft Teams
	MC240303 | June 24 – Updated June 24, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are updating the file sharing and access control experience in Microsoft Teams to make it similar to the experience with other Microsoft 365 apps. We had announced this feature last fall but delayed the rollout to ensure the best customer experience. We apologize for any inconvenience that this delay may have caused.
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	Teams Follows Office Preview
	Act by: July 24
	MC264092 | June 23 – We are rolling out a new Teams policy that will allow users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel Preview for the Office 365 Client. IT admins can modify this policy for end users such that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview. This feature will be ON by default for all tenants with users in the Teams Current Channel.
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	Microsoft Outlook Extension for Edge recommendation
	Act by: July 30
	MC264090 | June 23 – This new release will enable some Windows 10 users, who are using Outlook on the web or Outlook for Windows, to see a clickable recommendation to visit the browser extension page for Outlook in Edge where they can choose to install the extension. This notification will be displayed in any Windows browser (i.e., Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) and in Outlook for Windows.Note: If you do not want your users to see the recommendations for the new Microsoft Outlook Extension for…
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	Teams Guest Access Setting Behavior Update
	Act by: July 31
	MC264095 | June 23 – We’re making some changes to Guest Access in Microsoft Teams settings. Currently, Microsoft Teams prevents guest collaboration in the guest tenant once the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF in the M365 Admin Center.Beginning in late July, Microsoft Teams will no longer prevent existing guest collaboration in the guest tenant when the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF.
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	(Updated) OneDrive admin center settings are coming to the SharePoint admin center
	MC240393 | June 22 – Updated June 22, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The OneDrive and SharePoint admin centers are converging into one, providing you with holistic control as we streamline the admin experience. This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65911.
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	(Updated) Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing Advanced Delivery for Phishing Simulations and SecOps Mailboxes
	Act by: July 23
	MC256473 | June 22 – Updated June 22, 2021: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We are introducing a new capability, Advanced Delivery, for the configuration of third-party phishing simulation campaigns and delivery of messages to security operations (SecOps) mailboxes. Admins will now be able to explicitly configure for the following scenarios and ensure messages configured as part of these scenarios are handled correctly across product experiences:Third-Party Phish simulation…
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	Connector results in All tab in SharePoint, Office.com and MSB
	MC253495 | June 21 – With Graph connectors result clusters, enterprises can search for content from third party connector data sources in their default view, the All tab, in SharePoint, Office.com, and Microsoft Search in Bing. The results shown in a result cluster are grouped together based on the search vertical configuration.
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	Quick Create – Easily Create Power BI Reports from Lists
	MC248201 | June 21 – 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

	Lower All Raised Hands
	MC258800 | June 25 – Meeting organizers and presenters can lower all raised hands during a Teams Meeting.Note: Only meeting organizers and presenters can manage raised hands.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82643 and 83487.
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	Teams Attendance Report
	MC260565 | June 25 – This reporting dashboard will appear as a tab in the meeting detail will provide:Attendance information for Teams regular meetings. Registration information for Webinar prior to the meeting and joined registration and attendance data after the meeting. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 66585
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	Microsoft 365 Information Governance
	MC264360 | June 24 – Until this release, attempting to delete a file with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” in SharePoint caused an error blocking the deletion of it.To improve consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, the behavior of any retention label set to “retain items for a specific period” in SharePoint will change to allow users to “delete” the document which will then be preserved in the Preservation Hold Library until the specified period…
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	(Updated) Office 365 Service Communications API availability in Microsoft Graph
	MC257688 | June 24 – Updated June 24, 2021: We have updated post with additional resources. Thank you for your patience. The Office 365 Service Communications API will soon be available via Microsoft Graph in Beta for Public Preview. This API provides access to Message Center and Service Health posts for your tenant. Overview for accessing service health and communications through Microsoft Graph – Microsoft Graph | Microsoft DocsWorking with service communications APIs in Microsoft Graph – Microsoft Graph beta |…
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	(Updated) Announcing PowerPoint modern comments for enterprise general availability
	MC256459 | June 24 – Updated June 24, 2021: 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. The comments feature in PowerPoint will be updated to the new PowerPoint modern comments experience. Modern comments help improve your collaborative experience with features such as resolving comments, anchoring comments to objects and text,…
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	What’s New in the Microsoft Intune Service Update for June 2021
	MC264098 | June 23 – 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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	Sharepoint Email notification settings
	MC264094 | June 23 – We are releasing a new feature to allow users to set their email notification preferences. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81993
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IT admins can modify this policy for end users such that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview.

This feature will be ON by default for all tenants with users in the Teams Current Channel.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 81704.
• Timing: rollout will begin in mid-July and be complete by early August.
  • The end users in your organization who are previewing on Office through Current Channel Preview, will start getting Teams Public Preview features if they are existing Teams users.
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Control type: admin control
• Action: review, assess and disable if desired by July 24th.

How this will affect your organization

Note: This policy will not impact existing Office preview settings. Tenants with users who are currently in Teams Technology Adoption Program (TAP) will remain in TAP and this policy will not have any impact on those user’s preview settings. Additionally, this policy will not have an impact on Targeted Releases.

What you need to do to prepare

This policy can be managed via the Teams Admin Center > Teams > Update Policies. You can also use PowerShell to update this setting (CsTeamsUpdateManagementPolicy).

This follow Office preview setting is enabled by default for all users in your tenant. If you wish to disable this setting, please go to the Teams Admin Center to do so (or use PowerShell).

If you already have users who you have allowed to opt-in/opt-out of Public Preview and wish to maintain that setting in its current form, you will need to go to the Teams Admin Center to switch from the new default, “FollowOfficePreview” to “Enabled” (or use PowerShell).

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Note: If you do not want your users to see the recommendations for the new Microsoft Outlook Extension for Edge, you can opt-out of these for your organization.

Key points

• Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 82036.
• Timing:
  • Targeted release (entire org.) will begin and complete rollout in late July.
  • Standard release will begin and complete rollout in early August.
• Roll-out: tenant level
• Control type: no controls available
• Action: review, assess and take action to manage the recommendation as appropriate for your organization between now and July 30, 2021 if you don’t want the banner to be be visible in your organization.

How this will affect your organization:

Clicking on the mentioned recommendation will take the user to the Microsoft Outlook extension page in the Edge extension store.

• The recommendation will show up as a dismissible header banner, for Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows, and will show at most three per user in each app.
• Future promotions for the extension could be displayed in other locations.

Here are examples of what the banner will look like for Windows 10 users in Outlook on the web and in Outlook for Windows.

Outlook on the web:

Outlook for Windows:

Your users will see recommendations to install the publicly available Microsoft Outlook Extension for Edge. Your users can dismiss the recommendation. They will see the recommendations at most two more times within a 60-day period before it is suppressed permanently.

Users can decide whether to install the Outlook extension.

The extension shows a user’s email, calendar, contacts, and tasks from an icon in Microsoft Edge without requiring that they open another browser tab. The extension is a “mini” version of Outlook on the web which operates as a one-click flyout from the browser header:

What you need to do to prepare:

To opt-out of this recommendation and prevent the banner from appearing in your organization, please perform the below steps by July 30, 2021:

You can configure the “Recommend the Microsoft Outlook Extension” policy using the Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS).

Click here for instructions on how to configure policies with OCPS.

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Beginning in late July, Microsoft Teams will no longer prevent existing guest collaboration in the guest tenant when the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF.

When this will happen

We will begin and complete rolling this out in late July.

How this will affect your organization

Current behavior for guests:

When you turn Teams guest access OFF for your organization, guests can’t access Teams. Guests are removed from all teams they previously had access to. However, guests are not removed from the Microsoft 365 groups that are associated with the teams and guests still have access to other Microsoft 365 group resources such as SharePoint. If you turn Teams guest access ON again, guests in Microsoft 365 groups will be re-added to the associated teams and regain access.

Updated Guest User Behavior:

When your turn OFF Teams Guest Access in your tenant, Microsoft Teams will continue to block guests from accessing Teams. However, these guests will not be removed from the teams. Since guests are not removed, they are still visible to users in teams and channels and can be @mentioned. If you turn Teams guest access ON again, guests in teams will regain access. You may choose to remove guests when you turn guest access off, but if you turn it back on again you’ll need to reinvite them.

When guest access is turned OFF, no new guests can be added to Teams (no change to the behavior). This change does not affect guest permissions outside of Teams (such as access to files in SharePoint).

Note:

• The updated behavior does not remove any previous guest resources access.
• Guests will not be removed from modern groups and will continue to be able to participate in teams, chats and meetings as well as collaborate on resources in the guest tenant.
• Like with any Microsoft 365 workloads, the guest tenant admin would have to remove the guest from the group.

What you need to do to prepare

Please familiarize yourself with the Guest Access feature and how it differs from other external collaboration mechanisms already available within Microsoft Teams. Additionally, you’ll want to understand how changing the Guest Access settings affect the behavior of current and future guests

We will provide further documentation reflecting the details of the above in a Message Center post update.

Learn more:

• Guest access in Microsoft Teams
• Collaborate with guests in a Team

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