Microsoft Office 365 News 02-11-2021: Microsoft Teams Introduces Custom Meeting Registration Pages

In Microsoft Office 365 news this week, the supplier is giving organizers the ability to create custom meeting registration pages in Microsoft Teams. Additionally, Teams is introducing an Insights app to promote productivity and good habits. Read on for more Office 365 updates and announcements.

New Features

• • Microsoft Teams Insights app
    • What’s happening: Starting in February 2021, Microsoft is introducing an Insights app to Teams. This new application is meant to drive productivity and encourage the formation of better professional habits.

• • Customized Microsoft Teams meeting registration pages
    • What’s happening: Meeting organizers will soon have the option to craft customized registration pages in Microsoft Teams. This feature will be accessible via the Teams desktop app and Teams on the web.

• • Outlook for Android text predictions
    • What’s happening: Microsoft is extending support for text predictions to Outlook for Android to increase efficiency for end users in Canada and the U.S. This feature is already available for Outlook for iOS, Outlook for Windows, and Outlook on the web.

• • Support for double-byte character set languages in Microsoft Information Protection (MIP)
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced that MIP will soon have the ability to detect double-byte language characters. The initial supported languages are Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified).

• • Manual override for Microsoft 365 filtering verdicts
    • What’s happening: Through the usage of the Tenant Allow/Block List in the Security & Compliance Center, you can now manually override Exchange Online Protection filtering verdicts.

• • Cortana for Outlook for iOS
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced that Outlook for iOS is adding support for the personal assistant Cortana. This applies to English-speaking customers in the U.S. with work accounts.

• • Exchange Web Services (EWS) Application Access Policy (AAP) support
    • What’s happening: To allow for a smooth transition from EWS to Microsoft Graph, Microsoft has announced plans to add support for AAP to EWS in Exchange Online.

Updated Features

• • Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Real-time detections and Threat Explorer enhancements
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced updates to Real-time detections and Threat Explorer. These improvements include enhanced trial experiences and export limits as well as the implementation of Alert ID.

• • Microsoft Office app optimized for iPad
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced the release of the Microsoft Office app for iPads. This optimized app combines the Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps with other tools and features to promote productivity.

• • Advanced hunting EmailEvents and EmailAttachmentInfo table updates
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has replaced four columns containing malware and phishing verdict data with three new columns that can provide more information about email threat types beyond phishing and malware.

Announcements

• • Suspension of Basic Authentication disablement in Exchange Online
    • What’s happening: Due to the current ongoing crisis, Microsoft has indefinitely suspended the disablement of Basic Authentication for protocols your tenant currently utilizes.

• • Additional info about end of support for Microsoft Edge Legacy
    • What’s happening: In August 2020, Microsoft announced plans to end support for the Microsoft Edge Legacy desktop app on March 9, 2021. The supplier has released additional information specifying that when end users apply April’s Windows 10 Update Tuesday release (available starting April 13, 2021), it will remove Microsoft Edge Legacy and replace it with the new Microsoft Edge. To keep utilizing your current kiosk scenarios, you should implement the new Edge and set up kiosk mode before applying April’s Windows 10 Update Tuesday release.

• • Advanced eDiscovery Relevance Module retirement
    • What’s happening: Microsoft plans to retire the Advanced eDiscovery Relevance Module effective March 2021.

• • Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Top Senders and recipient report retirement
    • What’s happening: Effective March 6, 2021, Microsoft will retire the Top Senders and recipient report in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. The supplier advises referring to the Threat protection status report instead.

• • “In development for Microsoft Intune” page updated
    • What’s happening: The supplier has updated the “In development for Microsoft Intune” page.

• • Retirement of “Delete attachment” remediation option in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced the retirement of the “delete attachments” capability. Admins will still have the option to exercise remediation actions concerning emails, including any attachments those messages have.

• • Retirement of Move message to Junk Email folder policy
    • What’s happening: Microsoft has announced plans to retire this policy option for high confidence phishing emails in anti-spam policies in Exchange Online Protection (EOP). Any policies that rely on the Move message to Junk Email folder policy will automatically depend on the Quarantine message option instead.

• • Retirement of Send link to Outlook sharing feature in OneDrive and SharePoint
    • What’s happening: Microsoft plans to retire the ability to use the sharing option in OneDrive and SharePoint to share links directly in Outlook. End users will still be able to copy links to the clipboard to share them.

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