2019 CW 45 Microsoft 365 Message Center changes

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Changes

MC Action Required By changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194794	New Feature: Private Channels	2019-11-30T08;00;00Z		N/A

MC End Time changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194795	Updated Feature: Information Governance and Records Management available in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center	2019-11-15T08;00;00Z	2019-12-20T08;00;00Z	N/A
MC186561	New Feature: Save for later on Files	2019-10-31T07;00;00Z	2020-04-30T07;00;00Z	N/A

MC How Affect changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194603	New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Native Federation for 1:1 Chats	Teams users can now message Teams users from different organizations and enjoy the richer Teams messaging experience using stickers, @ mentions, and images. The external access policy applies only to Teams chat.	Teams users can now message Teams users from different organizations and enjoy the richer Teams messaging experience using stickers, @ mentions, and images. The external access policy applies only to Teams chat.	N/A
MC186561	New Feature: Save for later on Files	Save for later allows users to keep documents that are interesting to them in an easily accessible list across Office 365. The Save for later command is accessible on files within Personal and Shared Libraries. Documents Saved for later are accessible from the Saved tab in OneDrive on Web. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early August. The roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of September.	Save for later allows users to keep documents that are interesting to them in an easily accessible list across Office 365. The Save for later command is accessible on files within Personal and Shared Libraries. Documents Saved for later are accessible from the Saved tab in OneDrive on Web. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in January, 2020 (previously early August). The roll out will be completed by the end of March 2020 (previously September).	N/A

MC IsMajorChange changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194821	Updated feature: Introducing Safe Documents for Office 365 ProPlus	False	True	N/A
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview	False	True	N/A
MC195023	New Feature: Welcome a new colleague into Teams	False	True	N/A

MC Messages changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194603	New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Native Federation for 1:1 Chats	As previously announced in MC182673, June 2019, we are making it possible to have richer conversations with people outside your organization within Microsoft Teams chat. The rollout has taken longer than expected to ensure and optimal experience for customers. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early November 2019. The roll out will be completed worldwide by early December 2019. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=featureid=52394 52394	As previously announced in MC182673, June 2019, we are making it possible to have richer conversations with people outside your organization within Microsoft Teams chat. The rollout has taken longer than expected to ensure an optimal experience for customers. We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers in early November 2019. The roll out will be completed in early December 2019. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=featureid=52394 52394	N/A
MC186561	New Feature: Save for later on Files	Save for later on Files is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This enhancement is related to https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=searchterms=49095 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49095.	Updated November 5, 2019 - In order to provide an optimal experience we are delaying the roll out of this feature until January, 2020. We apologize for any inconvenience. Save for later on Files is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. This enhancement is related to https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=searchterms=49095 Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 49095.	N/A
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview	We?re releasing both a public and private Fluid Framework Preview, a new technology for building shared, interactive experiences on the web for Microsoft 365. We will be gradually rolling this out in early December. This preview experience is accessible in English (US) environments only.	We?re releasing both a public and private Fluid Framework Preview, a new technology for building shared, interactive experiences on the web for Microsoft 365. We will be gradually rolling this out in early December. This preview experience is accessible in English (US) environments only. This enhancement is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=featureid=56781;56781.	N/A

MC prepare changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview	The preview is rolling out by default. There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. You can?manage access to?the preview?in your tenant by configuring its service principle in your https://portal.azure.com/ Azure Portal or the https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/azure/active-directory/install-adv2?view=azureadps-2.0#installing-the-azure-ad-module AAD PowerShell Module V2 using app-id ?660d4be7-2665-497f-9611-a42c2668dbce?. Note; Documents created in the preview experience are stored in user-selected SharePoint libraries and OneDrive for Business folders, maintaining the same data residency as Office documents. Please be aware that for the duration of the preview, we do not recommend using Fluid Framework for critical work. Please refer to the preview terms in https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/product-licensing/products Microsoft Online Service Terms.	The preview is rolling out by default. There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. You can manage access to the preview in your tenant by configuring its service principle in your https://portal.azure.com/ Azure Portal or the https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/azure/active-directory/install-adv2?view=azureadps-2.0#installing-the-azure-ad-module AAD PowerShell Module V2 using app-id ?660d4be7-2665-497f-9611-a42c2668dbce?. Note; Documents created in the preview experience are stored in user-selected SharePoint libraries and OneDrive for Business folders, maintaining the same data residency as Office documents. Please be aware that for the duration of the preview, we do not recommend using Fluid Framework for critical work. Please refer to the preview terms in https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/product-licensing/products Microsoft Online Service Terms.	N/A
MC194794	New Feature: Private Channels	You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training; notifying your help desk; and updating your user level policy around Private Channel creation. You can enable private channels for your organization at your own pace via the policy managed through the https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/ Teams Admin Center or via PowerShell (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/skype/new-csteamschannelspolicy New-CsTeamsChannelsPolicy). https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/teams-policies Learn how to manage teams policies in Microsoft 365 https:/review.docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/private-channels?branch=v-lanac-privatechannels-working Private channels in Microsoft Teams	You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training; notifying your help desk; and updating your user level policy around Private Channel creation. You can enable private channels for your organization at your own pace via the policy managed through the https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/ Teams Admin Center or via PowerShell (https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/module/skype/new-csteamschannelspolicy New-CsTeamsChannelsPolicy). https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/teams-policies Learn how to manage teams policies in Microsoft 365 https://docs.microsoft.com/MicrosoftTeams/private-channels Private channels in Microsoft Teams	N/A
MC194603	New Feature: Microsoft Teams - Native Federation for 1:1 Chats	The native experience will be offered for chats where the sender and the receiver users have an upgrade mode policy set to TeamsOnly. By default, external access is turned on in Teams. If you add blocked domains, all other domains will be allowed; if you add allowed domains, all other domains will be blocked. Set up external access in the Teams admin center (Org-wide settings ; External access). If you want external users to also have access to teams and channels, consider using guest access instead of external access. https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/communicate-with-users-from-other-organizations#compare-external-and-guest-access target=_blank style=background-color; inherit;;Compare external and guest accesshttps://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/communicate-with-users-from-other-organizations#compare-external-and-guest-access https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/manage-external-access target=_blank style=background-color; inherit;;Manage external access in Microsoft Teamshttps://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/manage-external-access https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/native-chat-for-external-users Native chat experience for external (federated) users in Microsoft Teams	The native experience will be offered for chats where the sending and the receiving users have an upgrade mode policy set to TeamsOnly. By default, external access is turned on in Teams. If you add blocked domains, all other domains will be allowed; if you add allowed domains, all other domains will be blocked. Set up external access in the Teams admin center; Org-wide settings ; External access. If you want external users to also have access to teams and channels, consider using guest access instead of external access. https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/communicate-with-users-from-other-organizations#compare-external-and-guest-access target=_blank style=background-color; inherit;;Compare external and guest accesshttps://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/communicate-with-users-from-other-organizations#compare-external-and-guest-access https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/manage-external-access target=_blank style=background-color; inherit;;Manage external access in Microsoft Teamshttps://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/manage-external-access https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/native-chat-for-external-users Native chat experience for external (federated) users in Microsoft Teams	N/A
MC186561	New Feature: Save for later on Files	You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training and notifying your help desk. Please click Additional information to learn more.	You don't need to do anything, but you may consider updating your user training and notifying your help desk. Please click Additional information to learn more.	N/A
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview	The preview is rolling out by default. There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. You can manage access to the preview in your tenant by configuring its service principle in your https://portal.azure.com/ Azure Portal or the https://docs.microsoft.com/powershell/azure/active-directory/install-adv2?view=azureadps-2.0#installing-the-azure-ad-module AAD PowerShell Module V2 using app-id ?660d4be7-2665-497f-9611-a42c2668dbce?. Note; Documents created in the preview experience are stored in user-selected SharePoint libraries and OneDrive for Business folders, maintaining the same data residency as Office documents. Please be aware that for the duration of the preview, we do not recommend using Fluid Framework for critical work. Please refer to the preview terms in https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/product-licensing/products Microsoft Online Service Terms.	The preview is rolling out by default. There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change. You can manage access to the preview in your tenant by referrring to; https://aka.ms/FluidPreviewKB;Microsoft Fluid Framework preview ? access management Note; Documents created in the preview experience are stored in user-selected SharePoint libraries and OneDrive for Business folders, maintaining the same data residency as Office documents. Please be aware that for the duration of the preview, we do not recommend using Fluid Framework for critical work. Please refer to the preview terms in https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/product-licensing/products Microsoft Online Service Terms.	N/A

MC Title changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194601	New Feature: Request Files command now rolling out	New Feature; Request Files comman now rolling out	New Feature; Request Files command now rolling out	N/A

MC to RM link changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC194839	Updated Feature: Teams Meeting Policies Update - Allow IP Video and Allow IP Audio		57082	N/A
MC194804	New Feature: Intelligent classification for Information Governance		48505	N/A
MC194795	Updated Feature: Information Governance and Records Management available in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center		55706	N/A
MC194794	New Feature: Private Channels		50588	N/A
MC194790	New Feature: SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business record versioning using Retention Labels		50794	N/A
MC194788	New feature: audience targeting in SharePoint Online organizational news		30695	N/A
MC194911	New Feature: File Hover Card - Conversations		56183	N/A
MC195023	New Feature: Welcome a new colleague into Teams		57455	N/A
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview		56781	N/A
MC195304	New Feature: Microsoft To Do - Notifications for shared lists		56872	N/A
MC195303	New Feature: File Hover Card - People who viewed		56515	N/A

CW45 New Office 365 Message Center items

MC ID	MC Title	MC Category	MC Workload	MC Major Change	MC Action required by
MC194824	New Feature: Microsoft 365 Communication Compliance	Stay Informed	Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business	False	N/A
MC194823	New feature: Favorites added to role management in Microsoft 365 admin center	Stay Informed	Office 365 Portal	False	N/A
MC194821	Updated feature: Introducing Safe Documents for Office 365 ProPlus	Stay Informed	Office 365 Portal	True	N/A
MC194816	Fluid Framework Preview	Plan For Change		True	N/A
MC194804	New Feature: Intelligent classification for Information Governance	Stay Informed	Exchange Online, Office 365 Portal, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC194800	Configuration Change: OneNote 2016	Plan For Change	Office Subscription	False	N/A
MC194795	Updated Feature: Information Governance and Records Management available in Microsoft 365 Compliance Center	Stay Informed	Office 365 Portal	False	N/A
MC194790	New Feature: SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business record versioning using Retention Labels	Stay Informed	OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC194788	New feature: audience targeting in SharePoint Online organizational news	Stay Informed	SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC194769	New Feature: Expand/Collapse button in lists	Stay Informed	SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC194839	Updated Feature: Teams Meeting Policies Update - Allow IP Video and Allow IP Audio	Stay Informed	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC194834	New Feature: Outlook for iOS launches Play My Emails	Stay Informed	Exchange Online, Office Subscription	False	N/A
MC194860	Plan for Change: New Reporting Framework Coming to Intune	Plan For Change	Microsoft Intune	False	N/A
MC194911	New Feature: File Hover Card - Conversations	Stay Informed	OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC195023	New Feature: Welcome a new colleague into Teams	Plan For Change	Microsoft Teams	True	N/A
MC194985	New Feature: SharePoint and OneDrive support for sensitivity labels (preview)	Stay Informed	SharePoint Online	False	N/A
MC194969	Take Action: Use Microsoft Edge for your Protected Intune Browser Experience	Plan For Change	Microsoft Intune	False	N/A
MC195304	New Feature: Microsoft To Do - Notifications for shared lists	Plan For Change		True	N/A
MC195303	New Feature: File Hover Card - People who viewed	Stay Informed	OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online	False	N/A

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