Summary Microsoft is retiring Teams Live Events; organizations must stop scheduling new Live Events and move to Teams events. Affects organizations using Teams Live Events, event organizers, producers, and admins who manage events and integrations. Integrations or automation that rely on Live Events or the Graph API isBroadcast property may break and need code or …
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Summary SSPR will require users to have explicitly registered authentication methods for password reset verification; directory attributes (mobilePhone, businessPhone, otherMails) will no longer be accepted unless registered. This affects all users (including admins) in tenants with SSPR enabled across Public cloud and US Government clouds (GCC, GCC High, DoD). Admins must review registration coverage, ensure …
Summary Microsoft 365 Copilot will support real-time desktop screen and mobile camera sharing during Copilot voice sessions; vision is enabled by default and processes only content shared during the active session. Admins can disable screen and camera sharing in the Microsoft 365 admin center (Copilot > Settings > Copilot Actions > Screen and camera sharing); …
Summary Conditional Access policies scoped to “Register security information” will now be enforced when users set up Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) or register macOS Platform SSO credentials. Users who do not meet the targeted Conditional Access grant requirements (MFA, authentication strength, trusted location, FIDO2 key, etc.) will be blocked from completing WHfB or macOS …
Summary Microsoft Teams will enforce Information Barriers (IB) between users in the same tenant even when they participate in external group chats, calls, or meetings; this enforcement is enabled by default for tenants that have IB configured. Applies to Teams chat, group chat, meetings, and calls across desktop, web, and mobile clients; existing IB policies …
Summary Microsoft 365 Copilot will support real-time desktop screen and mobile camera sharing during Copilot voice sessions; vision is enabled by default and processes only content shared during the active session. Admins can disable screen and camera sharing in the Microsoft 365 admin center (Copilot > Settings > Copilot Actions > Screen and camera sharing); …
Summary SSPR will require users to have explicitly registered authentication methods for password reset verification; directory attributes (mobilePhone, businessPhone, otherMails) will no longer be accepted unless registered. This affects all users (including admins) in tenants with SSPR enabled across Public cloud and US Government clouds (GCC, GCC High, DoD). Admins must review registration coverage, ensure …
Summary Microsoft is retiring Teams Live Events; organizations must stop scheduling new Live Events and move to Teams events. Affects organizations using Teams Live Events, event organizers, producers, and admins who manage events and integrations. Integrations or automation that rely on Live Events or the Graph API isBroadcast property may break and need code or …
Summary Get-MailDetailTransportRuleReport and Get-MailTrafficPolicyReport will only return transport rule data when the caller explicitly includes -EventType TransportRuleHits or -EventType TransportRuleActionHits. Affected parties: Exchange Online administrators, messaging/security/compliance teams, and any automation, scheduled jobs, or reports that rely on these two cmdlets. Action required: review and update all PowerShell scripts and automation that call these cmdlets to …
Summary Visio desktop’s built-in export to Power Automate (BPMN export) is being retired; the Export button/pane and Show Flow Markup will be removed from the Visio UI. Affected users: anyone who uses Visio desktop to export BPMN diagrams as Power Automate cloud flows; existing flows exported from Visio will continue to run and Visio diagrams/templates …
Summary A Data Privacy notice (Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor Disclosure) is available in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. The full disclosure can only be viewed by a Global Administrator or someone assigned the Message Center Privacy Reader role; sign in to the Admin Center > Message center to read it. Applies broadly to the Microsoft …
Summary Microsoft is retiring the Microsoft 365 Usage Analytics Power BI template app; new downloads will be blocked and existing installations will stop receiving data and refreshes at end of support. Affected: admins and analysts who use the template app for Microsoft 365 usage, adoption, or activity reporting; organizations that rely on dashboards built from …
Summary Free upgrade path for eligible K‑12 devices from Windows 11 Home to Windows 11 Pro Education; admin initiation is required (run Clipupgrade.exe) and a restart completes the upgrade. Applies only to K‑12 Education tenants with a verified Academic Entra domain; admins must sign in with a school IT administrator account to validate eligibility. Upgraded …
Summary Microsoft is changing Dataverse ingress IPs which will consolidate and narrow the service tag IP ranges used by Dataverse infrastructure. This impacts outbound connections to Dataverse (including Dataverse TDS) if your network/firewall or web proxy allow-lists specific IP addresses instead of the PowerPlatformInfra regional service tags. Admins must review Power Platform URLs and IP …
Summary Microsoft published updated mitigation guidance and a Microsoft-provided script for CVE-2026-45585 (Windows BitLocker security feature bypass) that replaces previously documented manual mitigation steps. The mitigation applies to BitLocker on Windows 11 (24H2, 25H2, 26H1) and Windows Server 2025 — review inventory for these OS versions and BitLocker usage. Administrators should review the Microsoft Security …
Summary Teams Phone devices in India using Operator Connect will have PSTN calling blocked if an emergency location is not configured. Affected devices include IP phones running Teams app version 1449/1.0.94.2026088402 and later; admins must configure emergency address/location and Location-Based Routing (LBR) mappings to restore calling. Outbound PSTN calls will be blocked; inbound calls may …
Summary Creation of classic style agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio app for Teams will be retired. The Microsoft Copilot Studio web app will become the primary tool for creating and managing classic style agents. Users will be redirected to the web app if they attempt to create agents in Teams after retirement. Existing agents will …
Summary SharePoint agents experience simplification, allowing site owners better control over agent visibility through new Site AI settings. Approved agents will no longer be accessed via the Agent Picker, requiring site owners to display them directly on site pages for easier access. Existing sites’ default agents will automatically transition to the current main agent, while …
Summary A digital certificate for Microsoft 365 apps on Mac and iOS will be replaced to ensure uninterrupted app functionality. Devices running unsupported app versions may enter read-only mode after the certificate expiration, limiting users to viewing and printing documents only. Full functionality requires updates to specific operating systems and app versions for Mac and …
Summary Transition from instance-level reporting to aggregated reporting in Endpoint Privilege Management within Microsoft Intune. Elevation report and Managed elevations report will be discontinued in the Intune admin center. Users should utilize aggregated reporting experiences, which summarize elevation activity by application, publisher, or user. Most detailed views will be available at the day level rather …
Summary SharePoint Online will update user storage quota enforcement to align with license entitlements, addressing incorrect application during quota refreshes. Users exceeding their OneDrive for Business storage quota will enter a read-only state, restricting write access until storage is within limits. Admins should review OneDrive storage usage to identify affected users and take corrective actions, …
Summary The Security Score (Preview) feature will be retired from the Security > Overview page in the Power Platform admin center. The security score and its qualitative ratings (Low, Medium, High) will no longer be available. Recommendations generated from the security score will not be displayed. The Security > Overview page will still be accessible …
Summary Users must have the Data Classification List Viewer role to access classified data in Content Explorer and Data Explorer. The role requirement will be consistently enforced across both tools. Admins should assign appropriate roles to users to ensure access. No new permissions are introduced with this update. This change will impact both users and …
Summary Microsoft Teams will no longer support updates on macOS 13 (Ventura) to ensure security and performance. Users will receive in-app upgrade notifications and will face a blocking screen preventing usage if they remain on macOS 13. Organizations must upgrade to a supported macOS version or use Teams via a supported web browser to continue …
Summary Introduction of a new Copilot chat pane in OneNote Mobile for users with Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) licenses. The new Summary feature enables users to generate concise summaries and ask questions about their notes. Available for users accessing OneNote on iPhone; existing Copilot controls and policies apply. No admin action required prior to rollout, …
Summary New features include enhanced protection against phishing and malware, URL time-of-click protection, and additional email storage in Exchange Online. Microsoft Defender features will apply built-in protection policies by default; they cannot be disabled but can be overridden. Intune features will not be configured by default and are available for customization. Increased security telemetry and …
Summary Microsoft will begin blocking EWS requests to Exchange Online, impacting all tenants worldwide. Organizations must migrate or sunset EWS applications to Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, or Copilot Declarative Agents to maintain functionality. Affected applications in your tenant include several Entra Application IDs and Apple Mail for Mac. It’s important to review the application portfolio, …
Summary Microsoft Teams Direct Routing will switch to certificates from a new Certificate Authority during a validation test. Organizations using Teams Direct Routing with SBCs for TLS connections may experience connection failures if SBCs do not trust the new Root CAs. This may impact PSTN calling for affected tenants. Administrators should ensure SBCs trust the …
Summary Microsoft is implementing throttling for outbound email from onmicrosoft.com addresses to enhance email reliability and reduce misuse. Organizations exceeding 100 outbound messages to external recipients within a 24-hour period will experience throttling. Use of verified custom domains for external communication is encouraged, with no changes for emails sent from these domains. Admins should review …
Summary Microsoft is upgrading the backend service for Teams meeting templates to enhance security and reliability. Supported versions of Microsoft Teams and Outlook clients are required to use meeting templates without issues. Meeting templates functionality remains unchanged for users on supported versions. Users on outdated versions may face problems accessing or applying meeting templates. No …
You might already be aware that we made REST-based Exchange Online PowerShell v3 module generally available in September 2022. We will now be retiring RPS protocol from the beginning of June 2023. Instead, we recommend the utilization of the v3 module, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. When this will …
Based on customer feedback we’re taking some time to improve the content of the Briefing emails from Microsoft Viva to be more personalized for each recipient. We will pause sending these emails in early 2023 and will share an updated Briefing email roadmap later in 2023. When this will happen The pausing of the email …
Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. If admins define the label to have S/MIME sign, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100062. Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose …
Updated on 2022-11-30 Healthcare data breaches are getting out of hand, impacting millions of individuals every so often. One such breach at a pediatric health IT software company impacted over two million patients and their sensitive information. In another vein, a China-linked threat actor was found using USB devices for nefarious purposes. We also have …
The Power BI Service’s expanded view gives you the option to view “Getting Started” content at the end of your Home Page. From the “Getting Started” section, you can utilize information on how to get started using Power BI, tips and tricks on how to create/utilize reports and dashboards, etc. Support for the “Getting Started” …
Updated on 2022-10-31 This Halloween, let’s once more visit the ghost of threat actors present. BlackByte claimed to have attacked a metal solution provider and is demanding $600,000 to delete the stolen data. It seems that data breaches are piling up high on the land down under. An airline suffered a breach that impacted only …
As previously announced, the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) desktop app has been retired as of June 15, 2022. IE11 retirement is occurring through two phases: (1) a redirection phase, currently in progress with devices progressively redirected from IE11 to Microsoft Edge, and (2) an upcoming Windows Update phase that includes IE11 being permanently disabled. This …
We’re introducing new application permissions capabilities for the Microsoft Planner APIs. This includes two sets of enhancements that will make it easier to work with tasks in your organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101153. The new application permissions capabilities for the Microsoft Planner APIs include two sets of enhancements that …
Updated November 4, 2022: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Creation of Contact groups are now available in the right rail pane of the Calls App. Users can now create new groups, and edit the membership of existing groups via the Calls app. This message is associated with Microsoft …
Tutorial Easy way to send emails using Microsoft Graph API (Office 365) with PowerShell explains how you can deal with Microsoft’s disabling of basic auth with the help of Mailozaurr. Explains, “The only difference between using Standard SMTP and SMTP with Basic auth is renaming Send-MailMessage to Send-EmailMessage, adding a Graph switch, and changing SMTP …
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As recently announced, Microsoft Office is shipping a new feature that enables PDFs created from Office using Export to PDF to inherit the source document’s labels or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF. With this rollout, we are introducing a temporary mitigation to allow …