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Microsoft Updates as of March
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https://cxcs.microsoft.net/file/messagecenter/en-us/8a2b2583-193d-4576-8c8f-0cca51e97e36
https://cxcs.microsoft.net/file/messagecenter/en-us/8a2b2583-193d-4576-8c8f-0cca51e97e36
https://cxcs.microsoft.net/file/messagecenter/en-us/17e58a37-125e-4761-98c4-2aa35808ca09
https://cxcs.microsoft.net/file/messagecenter/en-us/17e58a37-125e-4761-98c4-2aa35808ca09
These photos can be added with this text. Updated March 7, 2025: Microsoft is updating its policies regarding the sharing of user location data to enhance privacy, improve data security, and ensure compliance with evolving regulatory standards. To enhance transparency and user control, Teams is introducing a new location consent experience that gives users the choice of when and how Teams can use their location data (specifically SSID & BSSID).Please refer to the public documentation that will be published shortly.This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop (version 24H2 or greater) and Teams for Mac desktop. VDI clients will not be supported at this time.[When this will happen:]
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late March 2025 (previously mid-March) and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously mid-March).General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late March (previously mid-March) and expect to complete by early April 2025 (previously early March).
[How this will affect your organization:]
All new and existing Teams for Work users within your organization will be prompted to specify if they want to keep location detection on for emergency calls only, or if they consent to allowing location access used for IT Admin Insights or troubleshooting ex via tooling such as Call Quality Dashboard (https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/cqd-what-is-call-quality-dashboard)or Network and Locations matching via BSSID (https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/configure-dynamic-emergency-calling) for emergency calling location. Important Note - The new Teams location consent flow does not apply to fully managed devices where users are restricted from user granted location access. You can expect current policies to continue working as expected, and users will not be prompted with any of the new location consent dialogs. The new Teams location consent changes will impact the following Teams features: Emergency Calling Location Based Routing Network and Locations matching via BSSID (https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/configure-dynamic-emergency-calling) Call Quality Dashboard For all new Teams for Work users, they will first be prompted with an operating system level consent dialog, requesting location permission granting. Existing Teams for Work users who had previously accepted or denied operating system level consent for location will not see this dialog a second time. If location access is allowed, dynamic emergency calling policies will work as configured, and users enabled for Location Based Routing will be able to make and receive PSTN calls. If location access is disallowed, several Teams Call Quality Dashboard metrics will be impacted, and Network and Location matching via BSSID from dynamic emergency calling policies will not work. Users can still manually add their physical address for emergency calls via the Teams Calls app if an admin has enabled ExternalLookupMode for their users.Immediately after consenting to allow location access at the operating system level (or for those who had previously consented to location access), both new and existing Teams for Work users will be presented with a new Teams app level location permission dialog.Users must choose between "Allow all," which grants Teams full location access used for emergency calls and for IT Admin insights and troubleshooting, or "Keep emergency only," which restricts location usage to emergency calling purposes. It is important to note only end users who are configured for a dynamic emergency calling policy will see this version of the dialog. Users without ExternalLookUpMode enabled will see a slightly different version of this in-app consent dialog that excludes emergency calling. Users can modify their operating system or app level location detection preferences at any time via Teams settings under Privacy > Location. On fully managed devices, these settings will be ON by default and can only be disabled via the OS level location setting.
[What you need to do to prepare:]
Please educate your users on these selections and what works best for your tenant.
If you regularly use the Call Quality Dashboard or leverage Network and Location matching via BSSID, you may want to recommend that users allow location access for those options, otherwise a user’s location data will no longer flow through to these services. -
2nd one: Updated March 4, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.We are excited to announce that users will soon be redirected to new streamlined and efficient home pages for Microsoft Word for the web, Microsoft Excel for the web, and Microsoft PowerPoint for the web (WXP). The new home pages are available now at:
https://word.cloud.microsoft (https://word.cloud.microsoft)
https://excel.cloud.microsoft (https://excel.cloud.microsoft)
https://powerpoint.cloud.microsoft (https://powerpoint.cloud.microsoft)[When this will happen:]
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in early April 2025 (previously late February) and expect to complete in late April 2025 (previously mid-March).
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late April 2025 (previously mid-March) and expect to complete by mid-May 2025 (previously late April).
[How this will affect your organization]
During the rollout, some users will be taken to the new WXP homepages. The WXP entry points being changed are the Microsoft 365 app launcher, the Microsoft 365 AppBar, and the Microsoft 365 Apps page. The new homepages are offered in 39 languages with additional languages arriving in the coming months. The previous Microsoft 365 launch pages for WXP for the web will continue to be available at the existing URLs until after the rollout is complete. -
fter October 2025, Microsoft 365 subscriptions associated with a Microsoft 365 account (personal, work, or school) will no longer be able to use legacy Microsoft Outlook for Mac. This transition marks a significant step towards a more robust, feature-rich, and secure email experience (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/outlook/keeping-our-outlook-personal-email-users-safe-reinforcing-our-commitment-to-secu/4164184) for all users.
The latest version of Outlook for Mac has been part of the Microsoft 365 suite for the last four years. More than 95% of Microsoft 365 users have already moved from legacy Outlook for Mac to the new version. Learn more about the new features and benefits in our Outlook Blog (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/outlook/blog/outlook) and Release Notes (https://learn.microsoft.com/officeupdates/current-channel). For information on what's next, please follow the Microsoft 365 Roadmap for Outlook for Mac (https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?msockid=165f8b1203726cfe0ed49e3207726225&filters=Outlook%2CMac).[How this will affect your organization:]
You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using legacy Outlook for Mac. We do not have access to the list of users, but we might be able to provide a list of device IDs if your tenant allows legacy Outlook to upload telemetry.
Users will no longer be able to switch back to legacy Outlook for Mac after this change is implemented.
This change affects ONLY Outlook for Mac[What you need to do to prepare:]
This change will happen automatically by the specified date. No admin action is required. Please notify your users about this change and update relevant documentation as appropriate.
Learn more: End of support for legacy Outlook for Mac - Microsoft Support (https://support.microsoft.com/office/end-of-support-for-legacy-outlook-for-mac-7b9cf644-7035-4345-a151-8c1c7a65ac25)
Microsoft Updates as of July
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As we Continually assess to imporve security, we are adding additional attachemnet files types to the list of Blocked Files Types. We will begin rolling out early July and expect to complete by late July. The new blocked file types are rarely used, so most organizations will not be affect by the change. However, if your uses are sending and receiving affected attachements, they will report that they are no longer able to download them.
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list of blocked file types
Outlook Win32: ".cab"
Outlook on Web: "application", "bgi", "img", ".iso", "cab"
New Outlook on Mac, Outlook Android, Outlook iOS: ".appref-ms", ".cdxml", ".mhtml", ".pssc", ".udl", ".wsb", ".cab"
Microsoft Updates as of Augest
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Upcoming, we will be requiring all educators and IT Admins, using version 3.3 or older of the OneNote Class Notebook Add-in (COM add-in) for OneNote Desktop, to update to the current version. The current version of the OneNote Class Notebook Add-in is 3.5.Note: The OneNote Class Notebook Add-in is not being retired, but rather we are requiring that older versions be updated to the newest and modernized version, which is version 3.5 or higher.
This COM Add-in applies to:
OneNote 2013 Desktop
OneNote 2016 Desktop
OneNote 2019 Desktop
OneNote 2021 Desktop
OneNote Desktop for Office 365
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[What you need to do to prepare:
Instead of using old versions of the OneNote Class Notebook Add-in for Desktop (versions 3.3 or older), we recommend deploying and encouraging usage of the latest version 3.5 of the OneNote Class Notebook Add-in for Desktop Learn more:
Visit Class Notebook add-in.
for OneNote instructions to see details on deploying the latest version 3.5 of the OneNote Class Notebook COM add-in If you have educators that have installed their own version, visit Install Class Notebook Add-in for OneNote app for instructions on how to quickly update their old version
Blog: Updating your Class Notebook Addin for OneNote Desktop to the latest version
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Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Updates as of Februray
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As communicated in MC686187 (October ’23), after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven't updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams (
https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoftteams/new-teams-automatic-upgrade-announced).
With March 31 being less than three months away, we advise you to update users in your organization to new Teams as quickly as you can.
New Teams now has over 90M monthly active users, and the figures are increasing by millions daily. It only takes one click to update to new Teams. You can easily pick up and resume exactly where you left off in classic Teams and your chat messages, Teams and channels, and apps will appear in new Teams.
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Participants who join Microsoft Teams meetings as Anonymous users will now be able to turn on and view Live Captions, CART captions and captions in other spoken language in Teams Meetings on desktop.
Microsoft Teams Updates as of March
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Organizers will soon be able to assign the co-organizer meeting role to up to 10 specific people they invite to their meeting. Co-organizers will be granted most of the capabilities of the organizer in the meeting, including being able to access & modify the meeting options for the meeting.Usage of the co-organizer role for a meeting will be optional. If users choose not to use the co-organizer feature, there will be no change
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Participants who join Microsoft Teams meetings as Anonymous users will now be able to turn on and view Live Captions, CART captions and captions in other spoken language in Teams Meetings on desktop.
Microsoft Teams Updates as of November
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This option enables users to stream content from directly from physical artifacts such as whiteboards and documents in a legible way. During a Teams call, users will be able to access the projection options simply by clicking Share Content from camera. Two key projection options: Whiteboard mode: Users can point their laptop webcam to their whiteboard to project it to their audience. If the camera detects a whiteboard in view, it is straightened, zoomed in and the presenter's hand or body does not block the content as she writes on it. Document mode: Users can attach an external USB camera, such as a document camera, mounted over a document, to project to their audience. See example and more details by watching this short video
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To provide a better experience we are delivering a new Teams app specifically for polling capabilities. This new app will be discoverable in Teams meetings/chats as “Polls. See example and more details here
Microsoft Teams Updates as of October
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Microsoft Teams users can now play music to callers on hold whne a call transfer is intitiated. This feature ensures that music can be played to caller on hold when call trasfer is initiated, feature applies to 1-1 VoIP calls, this message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98431
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Office 365 Roadmap
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