Unofficial Microsoft 365 Changelog

• Microsoft 365 suite

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Search: New Content source filters in All vertical

MC722584 – Updated September 13, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline for Search in Bing, below. Thank you for your patience. If you have multiple content sources set up in Microsoft Search, such as Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Viva Learning, or third-party sources indexed using Microsoft Graph Connectors, users will soon see content source...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting passcodes length for added security – Sep 13, 2024

MC889520 – Given the recent global security threats on online meetings, Microsoft Teams is taking steps to make your meetings more secure. Microsoft is increasing the minimum length of the meeting passcodes from 6 characters to 8 characters. The nature of the passcodes will remain the same, consisting of letters and numbers.  General Availability (Worldwide):...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization – Sep 13, 2024

MC888879 – Updated September 13, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API) does not stop a malicious user from resending a Microsoft Teams message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user feature will allow the admin to...

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• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams apps and Microsoft Copilot extensions: New security and certification information – Sep 13, 2024

MC889528 – By consolidating information from multiple sources in one place, this feature will provide admins responsible for the Microsoft Teams app and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 extension deployment with comprehensive security and certification information for faster assessment of compliance with tenant security standards. The information will include outcomes from specific Microsoft 365 certification...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Embed support for Teams town hall

MC889534 – As a part of Team’s ongoing effort to enable our customers to create, manage, and run large scale events, end users can now embed Teams town hall in sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular website. Embed for town hall introduces embeddable support...

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• Exchange Online
• Microsoft 365 for the web

M365 Changelog: (Updated) User settings usability improved with a new “Account” settings category in Outlook on the web – Aug 20, 2024

MC867665 – Updated September 13, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft has improved the usability of settings by moving various user settings into a new “Account” settings category in Outlook on the web. When this will happen: Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out late September 2024...

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• Microsoft Forms

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Forms | Data sync to Microsoft Excel: Support for migrating from the older solution to the new solution – Aug 8, 2024

MC855685 – Updated September 13, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. As communicated in MC816207 Microsoft Forms now supports live data sync to Microsoft Excel with more functionality (July 2024), Microsoft Forms is introducing a new data sync solution with higher reliability to sync Forms response data to Microsoft Excel...

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• OneDrive for Business

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience – Sep 12, 2024

MC806523 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the images below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is making a change to the shared folder experience in Microsoft OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharer’s OneDrive. In the...

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• Microsoft 365 Apps

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Updating conversation actions on Microsoft Outlook for iOS – Sep 11, 2024

MC805216 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Note: If your organization does not support iOS, you can safely ignore this message. Currently, when viewing a Microsoft Outlook email, users can access the available actions in the top-right corner of the screen. Microsoft is updating...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can choose a breakout room from a list – Sep 11, 2024

MC854652 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon: Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move...

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