M365 Changelog: Retirement of health status feature in the Office cloud policy service

MC335282 – Upcoming, Microsoft will be retiring the health status feature in the Office cloud policy service.

Note: If you don’t use the Office cloud policy service in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, you can disregard this message.

Key points

• Timing: Beginning in mid-March and completed by late March, the health status feature in the Office cloud policy service will be disabled.
• Action: review and assess
• Roll-out: tenant level

How this affects your organization:

When retired, administrators will no longer see the health status column on the policy configurations table. When it is removed, the health status feature in the Office cloud policy service will be retired and will no longer be available to any tenants.

In the future (no known date at this time), Microsoft plan to provide advanced health reporting and compliance monitoring features for the Office cloud policy service. Microsoft will provide more information in another message center post when those features are available.

Additional information