2025 CW 01 Microsoft 365 Message Center changes

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Changes

MC End Time changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC910981	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	01/10/2025 09:00:00	2025-03-03T09:00:00Z	N/A
MC941863	(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	02/03/2025 09:00:00	2025-03-10T09:00:00Z	N/A

MC How Affect changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC940078	Upcoming changes to Defender for Identity activities and alerts in Defender for Cloud Apps experiences	You are receiving this message because the following changes may affect your organization: Active directory activities coming from Defender for Identity will no longer be available in Defender for Cloud Apps activity logs. Consequently, Defender for Cloud Apps activity policies will cease from triggering based on Active Directory data. All Active Directory activities data remains available through Advanced Hunting, in the following tables: IdentityLogonEvents IdentityDirectoryEvents IdentityQueryEvents To learn more about Advanced Hunting and the Data Schema, visit Proactively hunt for threats with advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender and Understand the advanced hunting schema. New Active Directory activities, as well as Defender for Identity's alerts data, will no longer be available through Defender for Cloud Apps Activities API, Alerts API, or dedicated SIEM agents. All activities and alerts data remains available through Defender XDR Streaming API and Event Hubs. Learn more about Streaming API. For more information about how to integrate your SIEM tools with Microsoft Defender XDR, visit Ingesting streaming event data via Event Hubs. The Identities page under 'Assets' in the XDR portal will be updated to better support the new experiences. The page will be divided into two distinct tabs: First-party identities and Third-party accounts. To learn more about Defender for Identity's experiences in the XDR portal, visit Microsoft Defender for Identity in the Microsoft Defender portal.	You are receiving this message because the following changes may affect your organization: Active directory activities coming from Defender for Identity will no longer be available in Defender for Cloud Apps activity logs. Consequently, Defender for Cloud Apps activity policies will cease from triggering based on Active Directory data. All Active Directory activities data remains available through Advanced Hunting, in the following tables: IdentityLogonEvents IdentityDirectoryEvents IdentityQueryEvents To learn more about Advanced Hunting and the Data Schema, visit Proactively hunt for threats with advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender and Understand the advanced hunting schema. New Active Directory activities, as well as Defender for Identity's alerts data, will no longer be available through Defender for Cloud Apps Activities API, Alerts API, or dedicated SIEM agents. All activities and alerts data remains available through Defender XDR Streaming API and Event Hubs. Learn more about Streaming API. For more information about how to integrate your SIEM tools with Microsoft Defender XDR, visit Ingesting streaming event data via Event Hubs. The Identities page under 'Assets' in the XDR portal will be updated to better support the new experiences. The page will be divided into two distinct tabs: First-party identities and Third-party accounts. In the User page, "View related activity" action will no longer be available. To learn more about Defender for Identity's experiences in the XDR portal, visit Microsoft Defender for Identity in the Microsoft Defender portal.	N/A

MC Messages changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC867664	Microsoft Viva Engage: Private unlisted groups in external networks will retire and be deleted in January 2025	To enhance the security and compliance of Viva Engage, we will be retiring all private unlisted groups (also known as "Secret Groups") on January 13, 2025. These groups and all associated data will be deleted on February 10, 2025.	Updated December 30, 2024: This is a friendly reminder. To enhance the security and compliance of Viva Engage, we will be retiring all private unlisted groups (also known as "Secret Groups") on January 13, 2025. These groups and all associated data will be deleted on February 10, 2025.	01/13/2025
MC910981	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: When users or admins configure Microsoft Edge as the browser to open web links in Teams, then links in Teams chat will be open in Edge, and Edge launches in the profile that matches the authenticated profile. Users will benefit from a seamless browsing experience that integrates their identity and user data across Microsoft apps.& This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 414521. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.	Updated December 30, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: When users or admins configure Microsoft Edge as the browser to open web links in Teams, then links in Teams chat will be open in Edge, and Edge launches in the profile that matches the authenticated profile. Users will benefit from a seamless browsing experience that integrates their identity and user data across Microsoft apps.& This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 414521. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025 (previously late November).	N/A
MC940078	Upcoming changes to Defender for Identity activities and alerts in Defender for Cloud Apps experiences	As part of the convergence of both Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps into Microsoft Defender XDR services, we are continuing to move away from legacy experiences and enhancing the unified experiences. Therefore, we will gradually retire Defender for Identity's Active Directory and alerts data from Defender for Cloud Apps dedicated experiences. All data, as well as all functionality of the affected experiences, remain available through Microsoft Defender XDR unified experiences, where we will continue to invest our development resources. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): This retirement will begin rolling out in late January 2025 and is expected to complete in early March 2025.	Updated December 31, 2024: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience. As part of the convergence of both Microsoft Defender for Identity and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps into Microsoft Defender XDR services, we are continuing to move away from legacy experiences and enhancing the unified experiences. Therefore, we will gradually retire Defender for Identity's Active Directory and alerts data from Defender for Cloud Apps dedicated experiences. All data, as well as all functionality of the affected experiences, remain available through Microsoft Defender XDR unified experiences, where we will continue to invest our development resources. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): This retirement will begin rolling out in late January 2025 and is expected to complete in early March 2025.	N/A
MC941863	(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	We're updating the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. As part of this change, we will gradually retire the MDE recommendation on SCID-2020, Turn on all system-level Exploit protection settings. We are working to refine the recommendation, ensuring it aligns more accurately with recommended policies and enhances the overall security value. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by early January 2025.	Updated December 31, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. We're updating the Microsoft Secure Score improvement action of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. As part of this change, we will gradually retire the MDE recommendation on SCID-2020, Turn on all system-level Exploit protection settings. We are working to refine the recommendation, ensuring it aligns more accurately with recommended policies and enhances the overall security value. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by early February 2025 (previously early January).	N/A

MC MessageTagNames changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC867664	Microsoft Viva Engage: Private unlisted groups in external networks will retire and be deleted in January 2025	User impact, Retirement	Updated message, User impact, Retirement	01/13/2025
MC910981	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	New feature, User impact, Admin impact	Updated message, New feature, User impact, Admin impact	N/A
MC940078	Upcoming changes to Defender for Identity activities and alerts in Defender for Cloud Apps experiences	Admin impact, Retirement	Updated message, Admin impact, Retirement	N/A
MC941863	(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	Admin impact	Updated message, Admin impact	N/A

MC Title changes

MC ID	MC Title	Old Value	New Value	MC Action required by
MC910981	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open	N/A
MC941863	(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	(Updated) Microsoft Secure Score: Changing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint recommendation	N/A

CW01 New Office 365 Message Center items

MC ID	MC Title	MC Category	MC Workload	MC Major Change	MC Action required by
MC968899	Power Automate – Run two desktop flows in parallel on the same machine	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC968699	Power Automate – Process simulations for the Power Automate Process Mining desktop app	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC969523	Power Automate – Use Copilot to analyze automation activity	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC969477	Power Automate – Streamline workflow creation with the next best action	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC969397	Power Automate - Use Copilot to ask Power Automate product questions	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC969385	Power Automate – Use Copilot to analyze work queue data	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC969381	Power Automate - Use Copilot to analyze desktop flow runs	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC970214	Power Automate – Transform scripting using AI driven natural language	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC970172	Power Apps – Advanced Settings redirection to the Power Platform Environment Settings app	Stay Informed	Power Apps	False	N/A
MC970128	Power Automate – Connect your own virtual network with hosted machine group	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC970118	Power Automate – Updated Browse Connectors/Actions pane in Cloud flows	Stay Informed	Microsoft Power Automate	False	N/A
MC971037	Exposure Management Recommendations Retirement	Plan For Change	Microsoft Defender XDR	True	N/A
MC971033	Microsoft Teams: SMS for calling plans	Stay Informed	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC971032	Microsoft Teams: New recording policies for town halls and webinars	Plan For Change	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC971031	Microsoft Teams: New transcription policies for town halls and webinars	Plan For Change	Microsoft Teams	False	N/A
MC971030	Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community	Stay Informed	Microsoft Viva	False	N/A

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