27 Nov November 2020 Newsletter – Week 3
TEAMS
November 12 – Microsoft is updating a meeting participant’s access to meeting chat. These changes will manage a users access to a meeting chat based on how they were invited to the meeting.
November 9 – Updated November 09, 2020: Breakout rooms allow meeting organizers to split main meetings into smaller sessions for focused discussions.
November 13 – Updated November 13, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for users, Microsoft is delaying some deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. Microsoft Teams administrators will soon be able to upload a custom logo image for all tenant meetings; however it will be displayed only in meetings where the organizer has an Advanced Communication license.
November 13 – Microsoft will be reorganizing the account and settings shown in the profile menu, in the application’s title bar, to facilitate account and tenant switching for users who have been invited as a Guest in another organization, or who are using Teams with a work/school and a personal account side-by-side.
Full screen support in new meetings experience
November 13 – As promised in July, Microsoft is bringing Full screen support back in the new meeting experience for Teams desktop applications.
November 12 – Updated November 12, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for users, Microsoft is delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. In June (MC209710) we provided Teams meeting organizers with a participant report that includes join and leave times. Microsoft is making key changes to improve functionality and provide additional participant data in the report.
November 10 – Updated November 10, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for users, Microsoft is delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. Live transcripts in Microsoft Teams meetings will provide another way to both follow and review meeting conversations. Note: Live transcription currently supports only spoken English (English-US).
SHAREPOINT AND ONEDRIVE
November 10 – Updated November 10, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for users, Microsoft is delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below. You will soon be able to create a policy that automatically revokes access for external guests to SharePoint Online (SPO) sites and individual OneDrives after a defined period of time.
DATA PROTECTION
November 14 – Microsoft 365 provides baseline, volume-level encryption through BitLocker. Service Encryption provides an added layer of data-at-rest encryption at the application level. Customer Key allows you to control your organization’s encryption keys. Customer Key support exists today for Exchange Online, Skype for Business, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business workloads in Microsoft’s data centers. Microsoft is extending Customer Key support to additional workloads through a service, Data-at-rest encryption for Microsoft 365.
CYBERSECURITY
November 13 – 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 Microsoft detonates it and know that it is malicious. Microsoft wants to ensure that 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.
November 11 – Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft 365 identifies sensitive information on endpoints and protects it from risky or inappropriate sharing, transfer, or use within applications and services that only exist on the endpoint, or originate from an endpoint, without the need to deploy any additional DLP software. To use this capability, you will need to onboard the endpoint in your environment using your established device management onboarding process.
ATTENTION
Planned Maintenance: Teams and Skype for Business
November 13 – Microsoft has maintenance planned for Teams and Skype for Business: Starting November 20, 2020 01:00 UTC. Ending November 20, 2020 02:00 UTC.
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