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IMPORTANT - Contracts,
Contract Line Items, and Contract Templates entities are not available in
the Unified Interface
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MC223975 | October 9 - As
announced previously, Contracts, Contract Line Items, and Contract
Template entities are deprecated. These deprecated entities are only
available in the Legacy Web Client and will not be available in the
Unified Interface. This functionality has been replaced by entitlements
How does this affect me? As mentioned, the Legacy Web Client will no
longer be available after Tuesday, December 01, 2020, and customers must
migrate to the Unified Interface by then (see this document). These contract...
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Intune feature update:
Proactive remediations in Endpoint analytics
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MC223966 | October 9 -
Endpoint analytics is part of the Microsoft Productivity Score. These
analytics give you insights for measuring how your organization is
working and the quality of the experience you're delivering to your
users. Endpoint analytics recently became generally available! Proactive
remediations is a feature of Endpoint analytics in the Microsoft Endpoint
Manager admin center that helps you fix common support issues before end
users are impacted by such issues.
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(Updated) Outlook mobile:
S/MIME improvements and delegate permissions
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MC220427 | October 9 - Updated
October 09, 2020: We are pleased to announce that auto sign and auto
encrypt with S/MIME are now available. To ensure the best possible
experience for our users, we have delayed delegate mailbox permissions
for end users. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below For Outlook
mobile clients, Microsoft is adding automatic signing and automatic
message encryption using Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions (S/MIME)
as well as providing end user options to extend delegate...
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(Updated) Admin setting for
PSTN participant phone number masking in Teams meetings
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MC220415 | October 9 - Updated
October 09, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users,
we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change
flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below
With MC209349 (April 2020) and MC217648 (July 2020), we added a level of
privacy for participants who call in to a Teams meeting via audio
conferencing (PSTN) by automatically masking any PSTN participant phone
number to users from outside of your organization who might be...
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PowerPoint for Mac record
slide show updates
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MC223900 | October 9 - We are
bringing a new workflow and tools PowerPoint for Mac that will make it
easy to record a rich slide show session.If your users do not have Macs,
you can safely ignore this message.Key points Microsoft 365Roadmap ID
67104 Timing: mid-November to early December Roll-out: tenant level
Control type: user control Action: review and assess
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ACTION REQUIRED: Changes to
Remote Desktop Protocol access to Tier 1 environments for Dynamics 365
operations apps
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MC223881 | October 8 - Summary
As communicated previously, Microsoft is removing the use of Remote
Desktop Protocol (RDP) to access environments managed by Microsoft. As
RDP access is required for development, going forward customers will be
required to develop using a Cloud Hosted Environment or download a local
“Virtual Hard Disk” (VHD) within Lifecycle Services. Cloud Hosted
Environments will allow customers to manage the compute, size, and cost
of these environments. This infrastructure change will ensure that...
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Organizers can manage meeting
options in the meeting experience
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MC223879 | October 8 - When
meetings have their own window in a desktop Teams app, organizers will be
able to see and change meeting options within the in-meeting experience.
We announced this new meetings experience in May (MC212453).This message
is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67121.When this will happenWe
will roll this out in mid-October.
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We're improving Microsoft
Search with personal query history
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MC223795 | October 8 - As
announced at Ignite, we're adding a new option in Microsoft Search that
allows users to view and manage their personal query history.This message
is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67133.When this will happenWe
will begin rolling out personal query history to Targeted Release
customers in late November 2020.We will begin rolling out to Standard
Release customers in late December and expect to complete the rollout by
late March 2021.
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Set duration on presence
status in Teams
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MC223792 | October 8 - Users
will soon be able to set a duration for their presence status in
Microsoft Teams.This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID
68726.When this will happenWe will begin the rollout at end of October
and expect it to be complete by mid-November.
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Changes coming to Dynamics 365
for Team Members Enterprise Edition
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MC223754 | October 7 - We are
making changes to the Dynamics 365 for Team Members Enterprise Edition
licenses to streamline the experience and continue to support you with
your existing Team Members use cases. As a result, you will see some
updates to the Service Plans in the Admin experience starting November
11, 2020.
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Freehand by Invision available
in the popped out meeting experience
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MC223749 | October 7 - Note:
If your organization is not using Freehand by Invision you can safely
disregard this message.The Freehand by Invision whiteboarding experience
was always supported in the original meeting experience but wasn't
supported in the new, popped-out meeting experience. Today, we are
pleased to announce that users of Teams Meetings will be able to use
Freehand by Invision during the meeting to draw and collaborate with
meeting participants in the popped-out meeting experience.This message
is...
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Dynamics 365 – Service Update
243 for GBR
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MC223708 | October 7 - We have
a minor service update planned for your Microsoft Dynamics 365
organization in the GBR region. Maintenance window start: 24 October
2020, 18:00 UTC Maintenance window end: 25 October 2020, 03:00 UTC
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Enabling static parameters for
the Power Apps web part
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MC223660 | October 7 - With
this change, users with editing privileges on a SharePoint page will be
able to append parameters to the web link of a Power Apps web part. When
this will happen Targeted release: begin early October through
mid-OctoberStandard release: begin mid-October through end of October
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Forms: Specific user sharing
for response collection
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MC223656 | October 7 - With
this update, Microsoft Forms owners will be able to easily collect survey
responses from specific users or security groups.This message is
associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67157.When this will happen
We'll be gradually rolling this out the end of October 2020 The rollout
will be completed by the end of November 2020.
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My Feed web part
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MC223652 | October 7 -
SharePoint pages and site can be more relevant to individual users by
adding the My feed web part. This message is associated with Microsoft
365 Roadmap ID 67148. When this will happen Targeted release: begins
rolling out mid-October Standard release: begins rolling out in
late-October and should be complete in early November 2020
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(Updated) Records Management:
Regulatory record labels
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MC222757 | October 6 - Updated
October 06, 2020: Note: this only applies to customers with these
licenses. If your organization does not have these licenses you can
safely disregard this message.Microsoft 365 E5/A5Microsoft 365 E5/A5
ComplianceMicrosoft 365 Information Protection and GovernanceOffice 365
E5/A5Office 365 Advanced Compliance As announced at Ignite, we're
introducing the public preview of regulatory record labels which further
enhance immutability of labeled items. These new labels prevent
metadata...
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(Update) Teams meetings, end
of meeting notification
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MC222346 | October 6 - Updated
October 02, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users,
we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change
flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below
We will soon be alerting Teams meeting participants when there are five
minutes remaining in a scheduled meeting. This is an informational
notification and will not automatically end the meeting.This message is
associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67122.When this will...
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Toggle available to preview
the new Outlook for Mac
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MC223644 | October 6 - Your
end users will soon be able preview the new Outlook for Mac. ANew
Outlooktoggle provides an option for users to enable it and preview
updates that enhance performance and user experiences across Mail,
Calendar, People, and Search. We announced the toggle in July
(MC219576).Note:If your organization does not use Outlook for Mac you can
safely disregard this message.This message is associated with Microsoft
365 Roadmap ID 27287.When this will happenOutlook for Mac Build 1013 will
be...
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Exchange Online - Voicemail
notifications journaling update
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MC223643 | October 6 - We are
introducing the ability to prevent the journaling of voicemail and call
notifications in Exchange Online for organizations that utilize email
journaling to send emails to a third party archiving solution.When this
will happen We will enable this worldwide in early November.
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(Updated) New Feature:
SharePoint, average time spent per user report
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MC216146 | October 6 - Updated
October 06, 2020: Based on learnings from our early rings, we have made
the decision to make additional changes to the code before we proceed
with the rollout. The roll-out timeline has been updated below. Thank you
for your patience. We are adding a report on the SharePoint site usage
page, Average time spent per user.This message is associated with
Microsoft 365Roadmap ID 57159.When this will happenWe'll be gradually
rolling this out mid-November (previously mid-July).The rollout will...
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(Updated) Information
Governance: Retention for Yammer messages
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MC222893 | October 6 - Updated
October 06, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users,
we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change
flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below
As announced at Ignite, we’re introducing the public preview of retention
policies for Yammer for user and community messages in Yammer. This
message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 63064. When this will
happenWe’ll begin gradually rolling this out at the end of...
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Important Information about
your Field Service and Project Service Automation auto upgrades
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MC223636 | October 6 - Your
environment has currently installed Field Service, Project Service
Automation, or both applications. The Field Service and Project Service
Automation teams are planning to apply updates to your geography, soon.
To get more information on delivery and application changes, please
visit: Field Service: Field Service version history and release schedule
Project Service: Project Service version history and release schedule
Sincerely, Field Service and Project Service Automation teams
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Create choice columns with
formatting in Microsoft Lists
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MC223567 | October 6 - Columns
help your users group, categorize, and track information in a list or
library in SharePoint. With this update, your users will be able to
create choice columns with formatting.This message is associated with
Microsoft Roadmap ID 67097. When this will happen We will begin rolling
this out in mid-October 2020 and expect to complete the rollout the end
of October 2020.
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(Updated) Announcing general
availability of Exact Data Match support for configurable match
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MC222766 | October 5 - Updated
October 05, 2020: We have updated this post so that it displays as
intended. Exact Data Match (EDM) will now support more granular data
configuration and will utilize a new upload agent. This message is
associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65880. When this will happenThe
new upload agent will be available in late October 2020.
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Flow Admin Center unavailable
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MC222178 | October 5 - Our
internal monitoring has detected that you may have recently experienced
failures when attempting to access Flow Admin Center. We have applied
configuration changes to fix this issue. How does this affect me? You may
have experienced failures prior to the changes. If you are still
experiencing failures, please attempt to access the Admin Center through this
link as a temporary workaround. For additional support, please contact
Microsoft Support for assistance and reference ticket 205206374.
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Dynamics 365 - Automatic
transition to Unified Interface is complete
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MC223500 | October 5 -
Congratulations! Your environment has transitioned to Unified Interface.
How did it go? We would appreciate hearing your feedback on the
transition process. Please take a few minutes to complete this survey: https://aka.ms/UITransitionSurvey
Need to backtrack? Found an issue and need move back to the legacy web
client for a limited time to complete further testing and avoid business
disruption? No problem. You have 10 days from your transition date to
make this request. You can make the switch...
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