2019 CW 35 Microsoft 365 Message Center changes

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Changes

MC Category changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188695	New Feature: Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms	Stay Informed	Plan For Change	09/23/2019

MC End Time changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC187953	Reminder: Support for version 8.1.1 and higher of Intune App SDK for iOS	2019-09-15T07;00;00Z	2019-11-29T07;00;00Z	N/A
MC186323	Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	2019-09-27T07;00;00Z	2019-10-31T07;00;00Z	N/A

MC How Affect changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188875	Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile	? Currently, if a Yammer user has a corresponding Office identity, their profile information is synced from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) upon their first sign-in on Yammer or if their ADD profile changes. However, Yammer allows users to modify profile information. This can result in situations where information is out of date or scenarios where a user can change their name and photo and then impersonate someone in Yammer. Going forward; If a Yammer user does not have a corresponding Office identity, they will not be affected by this feature. For Yammer users who do have a corresponding Office identity, we will perform a sync so that Yammer and Office profiles match. Going forward, Yammer users will need to contact their IT administrator, as with other Office 365 apps, in order to change their profile information. ?Any Yammer profile fields that cannot be synced with an Office profile, such as a link to a Facebook profile, will be removed during the sync process. ? We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late September. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October. ?	Currently, if a Yammer user has a corresponding Office identity, their profile information is synced from Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) upon their first sign-in on Yammer or if their ADD profile changes. However, Yammer allows users to modify profile information. This can result in situations where information is out of date or scenarios where a user can change their name and photo and then impersonate someone in Yammer. Going forward; If a Yammer user does not have a corresponding Office identity, they will not be affected by this feature. For Yammer users who do have a corresponding Office identity, we will perform a sync so that Yammer and Office profiles match. Going forward, Yammer users will need to contact their IT administrator, as with other Office 365 apps, in order to change their profile information. Any Yammer profile fields that cannot be synced with an Office profile, such as a link to a Facebook profile, will be removed during the sync process. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in late September. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of October.	01/10/2020
MC186323	Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	ATP Safe Links for Teams checks that the links people click on in Teams are safe. At the point that a user clicks on a link we will check to make sure the link is safe. If the link is flagged as malicious, we will take the user to a block page. All links throughout Teams including in chats, channels, and tabs are protected. If you are a tenant that has an Microsoft/Office 365 E5 or ATP P1/P2 license you can set up a policy to enable ATP Safe Links. We'll be gradually rolling this out to licensed customers in early August, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of August.	ATP Safe Links for Teams checks that the links people click on in Teams are safe. At the point that a user clicks on a link we will check to make sure the link is safe. If the link is flagged as malicious, we will take the user to a block page. All links throughout Teams including in chats, channels, and tabs are protected. If you are a tenant that has an Microsoft/Office 365 E5 or ATP P1/P2 license you can set up a policy to enable ATP Safe Links. We'll be gradually rolling this out to licensed customers in early August, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of September/b; (previously August).	N/A

MC IsMajorChange changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188875	Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile	False	True	01/10/2020
MC188851	New Feature: Microsoft Whiteboard Web GA	False	True	N/A
MC188695	New Feature: Automatic Phishing Detection in Microsoft Forms for enterprise in-org forms	False	True	09/23/2019
MC188516	Updated Feature: OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	False	True	N/A
MC189055	Office 365 Video self-service migration to Microsoft Stream	False	True	N/A
MC189160	Licensing updates for Microsoft Flow & PowerApps in Microsoft 365	False	True	12/31/2019
MC189278	New Feature: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow availability for GCC High	False	True	N/A
MC189272	Microsoft Planner for all Microsoft 365 Government F1 offerings, including GCC, GCC High, and DoD	False	True	N/A
MC189263	Office 365 connector to Facebook to be retired	False	True	09/04/2019

MC Messages changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188687	Updated: New feature: Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center	We will soon be rolling out the ability to use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=54434 Roadmap ID 54434.	Update August 26, 2019; This update does not apply to customers in GCC High or DOD. We apologize for any confusion. We will soon be rolling out the ability to use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=54434 Roadmap ID 54434.	N/A
MC186323	Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=featureid=34298 34298 ATP for Microsoft Teams will bring premium ATP security value into Microsoft Teams clients. This covers all production clients released today; Desktop, Mobile (iOS), Mobile (Android), and Web.	Updated August 29, 2019; Updated the roll-out timeline to end of September. Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=featureid=34298 34298 ATP for Microsoft Teams will bring premium ATP security value into Microsoft Teams clients. This covers all production clients released today; Desktop, Mobile (iOS), Mobile (Android), and Web.	N/A
MC188516	Updated - Feature Update: OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	To make it easier for your users to take advantage of the rich cloud collaboration capabilities in Office 365, we?ve simplified the first save experience and made it easier for users to save to OneDrive and SharePoint. Once it?s in the cloud, users can easily rename/move files between folders from right within the apps. This was first announced in MC172548 (January 2019) for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users on the Monthly Channel. Now, the new save experience will be coming to Semi-Annual Channel users. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID; https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=filters=searchterms=45063 45063	Updated August 29, 2019; Providing information on how Admin and Users can control the experience. To make it easier for your users to take advantage of the rich cloud collaboration capabilities in Office 365, we?ve simplified the first save experience and made it easier for users to save to OneDrive and SharePoint. Once it?s in the cloud, users can easily rename/move files between folders from right within the apps. This was first announced in MC172548 (January 2019) for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users on the Monthly Channel. Now, the new save experience will be coming to Semi-Annual Channel users. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID; https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=filters=searchterms=45063 45063	N/A

MC prepare changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188687	Updated: New feature: Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center	There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.	There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change.	N/A
MC188875	Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile	? Ensure your users? profiles are up to date in Office. If your users have a Yammer profile photo or other Yammer-specific profile information they would like to keep, please ask them to copy the information elsewhere. Please see https://support.office.com/article/video-update-your-profile-0ddb9ebf-2850-4533-b07f-cba2c90acbc1 Update your Office 365 profile to learn more.	Ensure your users? profiles are up to date in Office. If your users have a Yammer profile photo or other Yammer-specific profile information they would like to keep, please ask them to copy the information elsewhere. Please see https://support.office.com/article/video-update-your-profile-0ddb9ebf-2850-4533-b07f-cba2c90acbc1 Update your Office 365 profile to learn more.	01/10/2020
MC188516	Updated - Feature Update: OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	If your organization already uses OneDrive and your users already use the OneDrive sync clients, you don?t need to do anything to prepare for this change. You may consider informing your users about this change in user experience, updating any internal help content, and notifying your help desk. If your organization does not use OneDrive, we recommend starting to plan an adoption campaign to take advantage of the cloud, allowing users to securely access their files anywhere and seamlessly work with others, including in real-time. You should deploy the OneDrive sync client, so your users can see all their files in one place and store all their files in the cloud through Windows Explorer. Adoption resources are available at https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/resources/onedrive-adoption/ OneDrive Adoption Resources. Please see Additional Information for more information about this change.	If your organization already uses OneDrive and your users already use the OneDrive sync clients, you don?t need to do anything to prepare for this change. You may consider informing your users about this change in user experience, updating any internal help content, and notifying your help desk. You can control the save dialog experience via Group Policy or a registry key. For details see; 'https://support.office.com/article/what-administrators-need-to-know-about-the-new-save-experience-in-office-c1f1a8a7-967b-45b3-a9df-910fbf93311f';What Administrators need to know about the new Save experience in OfficeUsers can control the new save experience by; Users can change the default location by right clicking any of the locations shown in the list and selecting ?Set as default location?. Users can set a default local location in File | Options | Save by checking the box to Save to Computer by default and then specifying a Default local file location in the appropriate field. Users can disable the new save experience by enabling the ?Don?t show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts? option in File | Options | Save. If your organization does not use OneDrive, we recommend starting to plan an adoption campaign to take advantage of the cloud, allowing users to securely access their files anywhere and seamlessly work with others, including in real-time. You should deploy the OneDrive sync client, so your users can see all their files in one place and store all their files in the cloud through Windows Explorer. Adoption resources are available at https://resources.techcommunity.microsoft.com/resources/onedrive-adoption/ OneDrive Adoption Resources. Please see Additional Information for more information about this change.	N/A

MC Title changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188687	Updated: New feature: Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center	New feature; Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center	Updated; New feature; Use templates to create users in the Microsoft 365 admin center	N/A
MC186323	Updated - New Feature: Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	New Feature; Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	Updated - New Feature; Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) Safe Links in Teams	N/A
MC188516	Updated - Feature Update: OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	Updated Feature; OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	Updated - Feature Update; OneDrive will become the default save location in the upcoming Semi-Annual release of Office	N/A

MC to RM link changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC188851	New Feature: Microsoft Whiteboard Web GA		54596	N/A
MC188875	Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile		53554	01/10/2020
MC189072	Updated Feature: Ability to select a Product or Service when creating a service request in the new M365 Admin Center		54599	N/A
MC189044	New Feature: Outlook mobile is starting to roll out Dark Mode		45779,50479	N/A
MC189163	New Feature: Cloud Voicemail enhancements		54235	N/A
MC189279	New Feature: Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream		54528	N/A
MC189278	New Feature: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow availability for GCC High		33770	N/A
MC189277	New Feature: Priority field for Planner tasks		54786	N/A
MC189276	New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Meet Now		54028	N/A
MC189272	Microsoft Planner for all Microsoft 365 Government F1 offerings, including GCC, GCC High, and DoD		54747	N/A

CW35 New Office 365 Message Center items

MC ID	MC Title	MC Category	MC Workload	MC Major Change	MC Action required by
MC188851	New Feature: Microsoft Whiteboard Web GA	Stay Informed		True	N/A
MC188875	Updated Feature: Yammer uses your Office profile	Stay Informed	Yammer Enterprise	True	01/10/2020
MC189072	Updated Feature: Ability to select a Product or Service when creating a service request in the new M365 Admin Center	Stay Informed	Office 365 Portal	False	N/A
MC189044	New Feature: Outlook mobile is starting to roll out Dark Mode	Stay Informed	Exchange Online, Office Subscription	False	N/A
MC189000	Move from Fabric JS to Fabric React or Fabric Core	Stay Informed	Office Subscription, SharePoint Online	True	N/A
MC189163	New Feature: Cloud Voicemail enhancements	Stay Informed	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC189160	Licensing updates for Microsoft Flow & PowerApps in Microsoft 365	Plan For Change		True	12/31/2019
MC189141	Planned Maintenance: Yammer	Stay Informed	Yammer Enterprise, Yammer.com	False	N/A
MC189279	Updated - New Feature: Teams meeting recording tab in Microsoft Stream	Stay Informed	Office 365 Portal	False	N/A
MC189277	New Feature: Priority field for Planner tasks	Stay Informed	Planner	False	N/A
MC189276	New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Meet Now	Stay Informed	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC189270	Report message pipeline for GCC	Prevent or Fix Issues	Exchange Online, Exchange Online Protection	True	N/A
MC189263	Office 365 connector to Facebook to be retired	Plan For Change		True	09/04/2019

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