December 2020 Newsletter – Week 4

December 2020 Newsletter – Week 4

Updated December 17, 2020: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below.

Microsoft is changing the storage for new Teams meeting recordings to be stored on, and served from, OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) – instead of Microsoft Stream (Classic). Customers are able to opt in, opt out, or take no action with regard to these changes.

This change will apply to customers who either opt in or take no action following this announcement.

Updated December 16, 2020: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline for this release and add additional details for clarity.

Microsoft is making some changes to how tenant (Anti-spam/Hosted Content Filter policy) and user (Safe sender) allows work when it comes to high confidence phish. A message is marked with the high confidence phish verdict when detonated and know that it is malicious. Microsoft wants to ensure that our customers are protected and therefore block those messages from getting to the inboxes of end-users. This is normally the case, but tenant and user overrides can stop this from happening. Microsoft has decided to no longer honor Allowed senders or domains when the messages are considered as high confidence phish.

Microsoft is simplifying the calling experience in the Teams desktop app (Windows and Mac) by providing a streamlined view that combines contacts, voicemail, and calling history.

The Insights app in Teams provides personalized insights to improve productivity and wellbeing and data-driven recommendations to help you build better work habits.

As communicated in MC220490 (August ’20), Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop application support will end on March 9, 2021. After support ends, Microsoft Edge Legacy will not receive new security updates.

With March 9, 2021 only three months away, we strongly recommend that you build a transition plan to ensure that you have an up-to-date browser.

The presenter, in control, can now see a presenter view during Teams Presentation Sharing in a meeting.

Text predictions help Microsoft 365 users write more efficiently by using intelligent technology to suggest text during composition. This feature is available for Outlook on the web (October 2020).

Microsoft is now extending support for text predictions to Outlook for Windows.

Microsoft is making some changes to how to handle Microsoft Forms phishing activity alerts.

The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has been updated.

The Meeting Reactions feature allows users to react to participants during a meeting. Reactions will be available on Teams Desktop and Teams Mobile apps.

Microsoft Teams will soon support multiple numbers for a given user when dialing from the chat header.

Updated December 17, 2020: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below.

Microsoft is pleased to increase the limit for org-wide teams in Microsoft Teams from 5,000 to 10,000 members.

Note: org-wide teams aren’t yet available for Teams for Education.

Updated December 17, 2020: Microsoft has updated the post to reflect that these extensions will be in effect until June 30, 2021.

Microsoft is extending the temporary limit increase for live events in Teams, Stream and Yammer.

Updated December 17, 2020: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline for this release.

Microsoft Teams will soon support multiple numbers for a given user when dialing from the chat header.

In PowerPoint there is a feature that allows users to insert Forms. Under the “Insert” menu in the ribbon user can click on “Forms” to bring up a task pane that publishes their Forms that they can then insert. Microsoft has known of an issue that blocks customers from using this functionality if the IT admins block access for their tenants to Office store. Based on your feedback in UserVoice Microsoft is now allowing IT admins to centrally deploy the add-in to their tenants so users can use Forms in PowerPoint.

Microsoft recently announced that Common Data Service has been renamed to Microsoft Dataverse. With this change, the Common Data Service User security role is now called Basic User.

Microsoft will no longer support TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 from Exchange Online mail flow endpoints beginning January 11th 2021. As those versions of TLS are already retired (most recently communicated in MC218794, July ’20), Exchange Online customers and their partners should already be using TLS1.2 to protect SMTP connections between their email servers or devices and Exchange Online.

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