from 11/13/2023 to 11/19/2023
14 Office 365 Message Center Items were changed and 27 Office 365 Message Center Items were added
Please note: Only common Message Center messages are in this list you should always check your Message Center for additional messages
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Changes
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| MC ID | MC Title | Old Value | New Value | MC Action required by |
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| MC432475 | (Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage | 12/04/2023 09:00:00 | 2024-01-08T09:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC470137 | (Updated) Email notifications for "Issues in your environment that require action" | 12/11/2023 09:00:00 | 2024-03-25T09:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC579612 | (Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations | 12/04/2023 08:00:00 | 2024-01-15T08:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC602596 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update | 12/25/2023 08:00:00 | 2024-04-29T09:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC661825 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars | 12/04/2023 08:00:00 | 2024-01-01T08:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC677515 | (Updated) Viva Pulse – Teams Chat Notifications | 12/04/2023 09:00:00 | 2024-01-15T09:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC680661 | (Updated) Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | 11/30/2023 09:00:00 | 2024-01-01T09:00:00Z | N/A |
| MC681885 | (Updated) REMINDER: Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration | 12/18/2023 09:00:00 | 2024-01-15T09:00:00Z | N/A |
MC How Affect changes
| MC ID | MC Title | Old Value | New Value | MC Action required by |
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| MC683659 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | Manager-Controlled Privacy Settings for Frontline workers
Frontline managers now have the power to manage shift information visibility for their employees through the newly available privacy controls in Shifts settings. Here's what this feature includes: Limited Past Views: Managers can restrict how far back frontline workers can view their co-workers' schedules, ensuring historical data privacy. Generic Time Off View: Frontline workers can see their co-workers' time off in a generic way, without viewing the specific reasons and notes. Limited Shift Details: Managers can limit the level of detail frontline workers can access about their co-workers' schedules, excluding sensitive information like Shift notes and break durations. |
Frontline managers now have the power to manage shift information visibility for their employees through the newly available privacy controls in Shifts settings.
Here's what this feature includes: Generic Time Off View: Frontline workers can see their co-workers' time off in a generic way, without viewing the specific reasons and notes. Limited Shift Details: Managers can limit the level of detail frontline workers can access about their co-workers' schedules, excluding sensitive information like Shift notes, activities and break durations. |
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MC Messages changes
| MC ID | MC Title | Old Value | New Value | MC Action required by |
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| MC432475 | (Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage | Updated September 27, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late June 2023 (previously late April) and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously late May). Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July 2023 (previously mid-July) and expect to complete by late October 2023 (previously early September). |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late June 2023 (previously late April) and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously late May). Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July 2023 (previously mid-July) and expect to complete by late November 2023 (previously late October). |
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| MC470137 | (Updated) Email notifications for "Issues in your environment that require action" | Updated August 22, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In December 2021, a new section was added to the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, featuring "Issues in your environment that require action." These types of issues are not caused by Microsoft services being unhealthy, but by something specific to your organization that require an admin to take action. To ensure that these notifications successfully reach you, an email will now be sent automatically each time a new issue is posted. If you do not want to receive these email notifications, you can adjust your email preferences by clicking the "Customize" button on the service health page. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103631 Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early August (previously early July) and expect to complete by early November 2023 (previously early September). |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In December 2021, a new section was added to the service health page in the Microsoft 365 admin center, featuring "Issues in your environment that require action." These types of issues are not caused by Microsoft services being unhealthy, but by something specific to your organization that require an admin to take action. To ensure that these notifications successfully reach you, an email will now be sent automatically each time a new issue is posted. If you do not want to receive these email notifications, you can adjust your email preferences by clicking the "Customize" button on the service health page. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103631 Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early August (previously early July) and expect to complete by mid-February 2023 (previously early November). |
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| MC579612 | (Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations | Updated September 15, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard. This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 92502 [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in early August 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late October 2023 (previously late September). |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard. This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 92502 [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in early August 2023 and expect to complete rollout by early December 2023 (previously late October 2023). |
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| MC602596 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update | Updated October 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With this update, Teams Panels will support reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones. All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in the top left of the home screen. Panels users can either schedule a new meeting with the room pre-populated for them or easily see the room’s availability for their meetings and book the room with one click. |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. With this update, Teams Panels will support reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones. All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in the top left of the home screen. Panels users can either schedule a new meeting with the room pre-populated for them or easily see the room’s availability for their meetings and book the room with one click. |
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| MC661825 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars | Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Organizers can soon publish the recording of their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event page. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123052 [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in late September 2023 (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously late September). |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Organizers can soon publish the recording of their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event page. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123052 [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in late September 2023 (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late November 2023 (previously late October). |
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| MC677515 | (Updated) Viva Pulse – Teams Chat Notifications | Updated October 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In addition to the currently enabled email notifications, Viva Pulse will begin to send notifications through Teams Chat. Users will only receive Teams Chat notifications if they have the Viva Pulse Teams app installed. As the admin, you can either 1) install the Viva Pulse Teams app on users in your tenant through a Teams app setup policy or 2) please encourage users to visit the Teams app store to download the Viva Pulse Teams app to ensure users can receive the Teams Chat notifications. Through the Viva Pulse chatbot, Teams Chat notifications will be sent for the following scenarios: These changes will begin to roll out by mid-October 2023 and complete roll out by the early November 2023 (previously late October). |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In addition to the currently enabled email notifications, Viva Pulse will begin to send notifications through Teams Chat. Users will only receive Teams Chat notifications if they have the Viva Pulse Teams app installed. As the admin, you can either 1) install the Viva Pulse Teams app on users in your tenant through a Teams app setup policy or 2) please encourage users to visit the Teams app store to download the Viva Pulse Teams app to ensure users can receive the Teams Chat notifications. Through the Viva Pulse chatbot, Teams Chat notifications will be sent for the following scenarios: These changes will begin to roll out by mid-October 2023 and complete roll out by the early December 2023 (previously early November 2023). |
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| MC677516 | (Updated) Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration | Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience. The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature access management, admins can configure access at the tenant level, group level (using AAD groups or M365 Groups), or at the user level, for maximum flexibility. [When this will happen:] |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience. The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature access management, admins can configure access at the tenant level, group level (using AAD groups or M365 Groups), or at the user level, for maximum flexibility. [When this will happen:] |
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| MC680661 | (Updated) Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | We're adding the ability to expand and collapse mail folders to Outlook Mobile.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 171602 and 171603 We will begin rolling out in early October 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late October 2023. |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We're adding the ability to expand and collapse mail folders to Outlook Mobile. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 171602 and 171603 We will begin rolling out in early October 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late November 2023 (previously late October). |
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| MC681250 | (Updated) Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard | The ability to create live Loop components starting with task lists, tables, voting tables, progress trackers & checklists is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117400 [When this will happen:] Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late October 2023 and expect to complete by early November 2023. |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The ability to create live Loop components starting with task lists, tables, voting tables, progress trackers & checklists is coming soon to Whiteboard for the web, Whiteboard app in Teams, and Whiteboard for Windows. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117400 [When this will happen:] Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late October 2023 and expect to complete by early December 2023 (previously early November). |
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| MC681885 | (Updated) REMINDER: Viva Pulse Customization Control Migration | Updated November 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature access management, admins can configure access at the tenant level, group level (using AAD groups or M365 Groups), or at the user level, for maximum flexibility. [When this will happen:] |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The customization control in the Viva Pulse Admin Experience will soon be managed through centralized feature access management in Viva through PowerShell. This customization control provides admins the ability to turn on or off customization capabilities for survey authors to add their own questions to existing stock templates or edit existing stock questions. With centralized feature access management, admins can configure access at the tenant level, group level (using AAD groups or M365 Groups), or at the user level, for maximum flexibility. [When this will happen:] |
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| MC682305 | (Updated) Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback | Microsoft Whiteboard now automatically utilizes Specific People Share Links (PSL) for participants of a Teams meeting when a whiteboard is shared and the tenant has Company-wide Share Links disabled (CSL). [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in mid-October and complete rolling out in late October 2023. |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Whiteboard now automatically utilizes Specific People Share Links (PSL) for participants of a Teams meeting when a whiteboard is shared and the tenant has Company-wide Share Links disabled (CSL). [When this will happen:] We will begin rolling out in mid-October and complete rolling out in late November 2023 (previously late October). |
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| MC683659 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | We are thrilled to announce exciting product enhancements on frontline managers-controlled privacy settings for frontline workers. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 152119 [When this will happen:] We will roll out in November 2023. |
Updated November 16, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. We are thrilled to announce exciting product enhancements on frontline managers-controlled privacy settings for frontline workers. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 152119 [When this will happen:] We will roll out in November 2023. |
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| MC689500 | (Updated) OneDrive Open in App availablility | In the same way that you can open a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file in their respective desktop apps, you can now open any file in its desktop app, edit it, and the changes will sync to OneDrive. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124813 [When this will happen:] |
Updated November 17, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. In the same way that you can open a Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file in their respective desktop apps, you can now open any file in its desktop app, edit it, and the changes will sync to OneDrive. From OneDrive’s My Files or Sharepoint’s Documents, users can now select Open In App to open a file in its native app. Note: this feature is powered by OneDrive’s Sync Client – it requires having it installed on the user’s machine. In case it’s not running it will start it. [When this will happen:] |
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| MC690173 | Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting | Microsoft will be retiring the mail flow rule which help you track end user reporting from November middle. This change is being made to improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives) more quickly and efficiently. [When this will happen:] We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers starting late December 2023 and the roll out will be completed by late January 2024. |
Microsoft will be retiring the mail flow rule which help you track end user reporting. This change is being made to improve the availability and reduce the latency of the submission service so that you can respond to threats (false negatives) more quickly and efficiently. [When this will happen:] We'll be gradually rolling this out to customers starting late December 2023 and the roll out will be completed by late January 2024. |
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MC MessageTagNames changes
| MC ID | MC Title | Old Value | New Value | MC Action required by |
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| MC680661 | (Updated) Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | New feature, User impact, Admin impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact, Admin impact | N/A |
| MC681250 | (Updated) Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard | New feature, User impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact | N/A |
| MC682305 | (Updated) Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback | New feature, User impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact | N/A |
| MC683659 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | New feature, Admin impact | Updated message, New feature, Admin impact | N/A |
| MC689500 | (Updated) OneDrive Open in App availablility | New feature, User impact | Updated message, New feature, User impact | N/A |
MC Title changes
| MC ID | MC Title | Old Value | New Value | MC Action required by |
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| MC680661 | (Updated) Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | (Updated) Expand and Collapse Folders in Outlook Mobile | N/A |
| MC681250 | (Updated) Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard | Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard | (Updated) Create new Loop Components in Microsoft Whiteboard | N/A |
| MC682305 | (Updated) Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback | Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback | (Updated) Whiteboard: "Specific people” Share Link Fallback | N/A |
| MC683659 | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts | N/A |
| MC689500 | (Updated) OneDrive Open in App availablility | OneDrive Open in App availablility | (Updated) OneDrive Open in App availablility | N/A |
CW47 New Office 365 Message Center items
| MC ID | MC Title | MC Category | MC Workload | MC Major Change | MC Action required by |
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| MC689501 | Together mode and content share layout improvement | Plan For Change | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC689500 | (Updated) OneDrive Open in App availablility | Stay Informed | OneDrive for Business | False | N/A |
| MC689496 | Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat invitations from unmanaged users | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC689738 | Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for all channels | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 apps | False | N/A |
| MC690185 | Prepare for device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID (changes to FIDO2 and Windows Hello for Business) | Stay Informed | Microsoft Entra | False | N/A |
| MC690184 | Microsoft 365 Archive: Public Preview | Stay Informed | SharePoint Online, Microsoft Syntex | False | N/A |
| MC690182 | Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft Viva | False | N/A |
| MC690180 | Additional Teams Meeting Templates Added to Outlook Teams Add-In | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690179 | Folder Recursive Search | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft 365 for the web, Microsoft 365 apps | False | N/A |
| MC690173 | Microsoft to stop honoring mail flow rules tracking user reporting | Plan For Change | Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 Defender | True | N/A |
| MC690172 | Updating Admin settings for paused Microsoft Viva Briefing emails | Stay Informed | Microsoft Viva | False | N/A |
| MC689933 | Bing Chat Enterprise renamed Copilot; General Availability on December 1 | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft 365 apps | False | N/A |
| MC689928 | Power Virtual Agents, now part of Microsoft Copilot Studio | Stay Informed | Power Apps, Microsoft Power Automate | False | N/A |
| MC690612 | Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690608 | App name change for Microsoft Project for the web, Project Teams tab, and Project Power app to “Planner (Project)” | Stay Informed | Project for the web | False | N/A |
| MC690607 | App name change for the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams to Microsoft Planner | Stay Informed | Planner, Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690606 | Stream video recordings in Outlook | Stay Informed | Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 for the web, Microsoft 365 apps | False | N/A |
| MC690604 | Observer role is being retired in Viva Goals | Plan For Change | Microsoft Viva | True | N/A |
| MC690603 | Microsoft Defender: User experience update to evidence | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 Defender | False | N/A |
| MC690602 | Data loss prevention - Updated admin experience for all DLP settings | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 suite | False | N/A |
| MC690598 | Announcing the general availability of new Teams on web for Edge and Chrome | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690596 | Data Loss Prevention- simulation mode for DLP policies | Stay Informed | Microsoft 365 suite | False | N/A |
| MC690925 | SharePoint eSignature electronic signature service | Stay Informed | SharePoint Online | False | N/A |
| MC690924 | Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690922 | Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience. | Stay Informed | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690921 | Microsoft Teams Voice isolation | Plan For Change | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
| MC690920 | New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms | Plan For Change | Microsoft Teams | False | N/A |
