Changes and updates made to Office 365 for IT Pros (2021 edition)
Original release: July 1, 2020. Current book dated: June 1, 2021
This log describes the changes made to the book since its original release. The document is up to date as of the version released on June 1, 2021. We try and release an updated version monthly, usually on the first of the month unless something like a major conference disrupts our ability to produce an update.
Changes per Chapter
This table serves as a rough approximation of where the book’s content has changed. The number of individual changes or additions of new text within a chapter might be far higher. The chapter numbers are bolded.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 10 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| 11 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 5 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | |||||
| 8 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 1 |
Chapter Update Counts:
- August 2020: 18 chapters.
- September 2020: 17 chapters.
- October 2020: 21 chapters.
- November 2020: 22 chapters.
- December 2020: 23 chapters.
- January 2021: 21 chapters.
- February 2021: 22 chapters.
- March 2021: 23 chapters.
- April 2021: 24 chapters.
- May 2021: 20 chapters.
- June 2021: 19 chapters.
We have released eleven updates for the 2021 edition since its publication: 1 August, 1 September, 1 October, 1 November, 1 December, 1 January, 1 February, 1 March, 1 April, 1 May, 1 June. You can find update information on the inside cover of the book. We last updated the companion book on 1 February 2020.
We can only ask Amazon to update monthly and even so, sometimes they do not agree that we make enough changes to justify them sending a notification to customers that they can download the updated file.
Individual Chapter Changes for Office 365 for IT Pros, 2021 ed.
| Date | Chapter | Change |
| June | 1 | Microsoft’s EU Data Boundary initiative announced. |
| June | 2 | Removed some obsolete material. Added cross-reference to Customer Key coverage in chapter 4. |
| June | 3 | Added new conditional access options. Updated continuous access evaluation |
| June | 4 | Removed some obsolete material; updated network connectivity monitoring section to reflect its global release. |
| June | 5 | Rewrote section about deleting an account through the Microsoft 365 admin center. The Set-User cmdlet can no longer update the work and mobile telephone numbers for Azure AD accounts. Several typos fixed. |
| June | 6 | Included notes that the organization’s outbound spam filter can block email forwarding and that a transport rule can block forwarding done by Power Automate. |
| June | 7 | Updates to reply-all storm protection defaults and anti-phishing policy limits |
| June | 8 | Multiple changes across the chapter including a section about how to control the SharePoint app bar. |
| June | 9 | Removed some obsolete material. |
| June | 10 | Made several changes and corrections because of the technical review for the 2022 edition. |
| June | 11 | Updates to Share to Outlook section. Teams now supports federated (external access) for group chats. You can no longer use the Available presence status when setting a presence duration. The settings available in the Teams desktop and browser clients have been reorganized. |
| June | 12 | Ability to customize apps has been introduced in the Teams admin center. All Teams accounts are now covered by retention policies. |
| June | 13 | Fixed script bug. |
| June | 15 | Updated description of organizational tasks. Updated timeline for Planner to create compliance records for tasks (now substantially delayed). |
| June | 17 | Made some minor corrections. |
| June | 18 | Removed some obsolete material (including information about managing Skype for Business Online clients). |
| June | 19 | Corrected statement about retention label audit events logged for labels inherited from default label for an SPO site. Multi-stage disposition reviews are now available. New UI for creating a retention policy. |
| June | 20 | New content search GUI. Clarifications about content search limits. |
| June | 24 | Updates to audit events captured when Office apps apply sensitivity labels. The Get-FileSensitivityLabelInfo cmdlet is available to check if a document has s sensitivity label. |
| May | 1 | Updated references to Delve and Stream to reflect current capabilities. SLA figure for Q1 2021 included in Table 1-9. New figures for Office 365 usage released in Microsoft FY21 Q3 results. |
| May | 2 | Added note about Microsoft SSPA certification; various text fixes. |
| May | 3 | Minor changes and clarifications. |
| May | 4 | Added section about the auto-claim license policy. Updated Figure 4-13 to reflect the revised layout of the Service Health Dashboard. Added section about Microsoft Graph privacy controls over insights. Updated release dates for several slipped features. Added Power BI + Power Automate as self-service purchase options. |
| May | 5 | Rewrote section about blocking access to a user account. Added information about calendar meeting shortening settings and how to enable sending messages using secondary SMTP proxies. |
| May | 6 | Additional details provided about mail contact objects. Refreshed section about distribution lists. |
| May | 7 | Removal of references to several deprecated reports. |
| May | 8 | Added more information about Viva Topics and made several corrections and amplifications elsewhere in the chapter. |
| May | 10 | Added section explaining how to add a photo for a guest account in another tenant. Added extra detail about how the automatic expiration policy works for Groups. |
| May | 11 | Outlook’s Share to Teams feature received a refresh to make it faster. Teams webinars (meetings) are now available. Teams Live Events support anonymous presenters. Message translation is now available in the Teams mobile clients. The Teams mobile clients can now choose custom background images for meetings and personal calls. |
| May | 12 | Teams compliance records now capture code snippets. |
| May | 14 | Added note about how to mask the numbers of dial-in participants to a Teams meeting. |
| May | 15 | Added some details about relationship between Planner and Project. Microsoft has paused plans to introduce group-less plans (rosters). |
| May | 17 | Minor text changes, including EOL for Android 5.0 support in Intune as |
| May | 18 | Updated description of Apps Admin Center; added note about rollback for Monthly Enterprise Channel devices; various text corrections and fixes. |
| May | 19 | You can now use PowerShell to specify that a retention policy should cover either the mailbox or team site belonging to Microsoft 365 groups. |
| May | 20 | Added note about importing data from outside Microsoft 365 for use in Advanced eDiscovery cases. |
| May | 21 | Updated web links for audit event schema. New figures for 21-3 and 21-4 because GUI has changed for audit log search. Mail flow insights generate alert policies, like the one used to highlight expiring domains. Anonymized report data in the Microsoft 365 admin center now includes Teams. |
| May | 22 | The set of conditions, exceptions, and actions for processing email in unified DLP policies is now equivalent to Exchange transport rule-based policies. |
| May | 24 | Outlook clients support some advanced settings for sensitivity labels without needing the unified labeling client. Updated note on Edge support for protected PDFs. |
| Apr | 1 | Microsoft has added Teams as a workload with multi-geo capabilities. |
| Apr | 2 | Added note about shared responsibility for cloud services; mentioned HAFNIUM and on-prem vulnerabilities; added intro section for T2T migrations. |
| Apr | 3 | Temporary access pass content; selective password hash synchronization; conditional access user actions update; Azure AD Connect V2 endpoint update |
| Apr | 4 | Added note about using typed variables with PowerShell cmdlets. Introduced billing notifications and conglomerate branding. |
| Apr | 5 | Added section about reporting managers and their direct reports. |
| Apr | 6 | Add note about blocking BCC delivery to distribution lists. |
| Apr | 7 | Added new external email tagging feature discussion |
| Apr | 8 | Several updates to reflect the current status of features. Added section about Viva Topics. |
| Apr | 9 | Yammer communities support Azure B2B collaboration (guests). |
| Apr | 10 | The preview version of the Azure AD PowerShell module allows the resending of invitations to change the email address used by a guest account to sign in. Updates section about blocking guest access for individual groups. |
| Apr | 11 | Support for Teams view-only meetings. Meeting reactions are available. Dynamic view for meetings is available. Removed section on the transition from Kaizala to Teams because Microsoft hasn’t said anything about it since June 2019. We therefore assume that Microsoft is letting Kaizala die slowly. Safari 14 supports video feed in Teams meetings and calls. Automatic transcription is now available for the Teams desktop client (US English only). |
| Apr | 12 | Several adjustments to text because transcripts are available for Teams meetings. |
| Apr | 13 | Version 2 of the Teams PowerShell module is available, removing the need to run the New-CsOnlineSession cmdlet to connect to the management endpoint. The Get-Team cmdlet gets a useful performance boost in the V2 module. |
| Apr | 14 | Added information about Operator Connect. Removed section about Teams Advanced Communication license as Microsoft is revising its plans. Added section about Teams panels. |
| Apr | 15 | Planner roster containers are on the way. |
| Apr | 16 | Automatic transcripts are now available for Teams meetings. |
| Apr | 17 | Minor text changes, including link to Company Portal setup instructions for macOS. |
| Apr | 18 | Added Authenticator code matching; noted pending retirement of Delve Mobile app; mentioned new signin method for OWA. |
| Apr | 19 | Added clarification about retention policy processing |
| Apr | 20 | Emphasize that the time required to run content searches is influenced by the number of mailboxes included in the search. From April 16, 2021, users will need Office 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 compliance licenses to create new Advanced eDiscovery cases. |
| Apr | 21 | Microsoft’s threat, profanity, and harassment classifiers are now available in seven languages other than English. |
| Apr | 22 | Microsoft is introducing a new Teams DLP recommendation which leads to the creation of a Teams DLP policy to protect common financial and PII data. |
| Apr | 23 | Section on Power Automate Desktop inserted. |
| Apr | 24 | The Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise (desktop) support co-authoring for protected documents. Deprecation of the classic AIP portal and labels (31 March). GA for external sharing capability controls in sensitivity labels. |
| Mar | 1 | SLA for Q4 CY2020 is available (99.97%). |
| Mar | 2 | Minor text cleanup. |
| Mar | 3 | Microsoft will require tenants to run a recent version of Azure AD Connect. |
| Mar | 4 | Application access policies now cover impersonation scenarios for EWS programs. Rewrote some paragraphs in the Graph Explorer section. Cleaned up discussion of Power Automate admin center. Introduced Exchange Online health monitoring feature. |
| Mar | 5 | Microsoft has paused their program to remove support for basic authentication for several Exchange Online connectivity protocols. |
| Mar | 7 | Updates for UI changes and to be more consistent and accurate in text descriptions. Add discussion about allow/block list. |
| Mar | 8 | New retain file sharing option when files move to a new site or OneDrive. Updates for the Microsoft 365 PnP project. |
| Mar | 9 | Included new script to print off group membership. |
| Mar | 10 | Minor updates and clarifications. |
| Mar | 11 | Added details about how features are enabled in the Teams client. New Allow cloud recording for calls option available for meeting policies to control the ability to record 1:1 calls. |
| Mar | 12 | Changes to Teams meeting policy to support 1:1 call control. Note that the Bulletins and Milestones sample apps are available to demonstrate integration between Power Platform and Teams. Template policies are now available to control the set of templates available to users when creating new teams. |
| Mar | 13 | Note that the New-Team and Set-Team cmdlets do not support the assignment of sensitivity labels. Included new script (downloadable) for reporting membership of a Microsoft 365 group. |
| Mar | 14 | Satin is now the codec for Teams 1:1 calls. |
| Mar | 15 | Planner now supports 25 labels instead of six. |
| Mar | 16 | Adjustment to July 7, 2021 for the date for the switchover from Stream to OneDrive storage for Teams meeting recordings. |
| Mar | 17 | Minor text cleanup; added info on new Intune reports. |
| Mar | 18 | Introduced Office LTSC. Added detail on M365 Apps Health service center. |
| Mar | 19 | Preservation lock for retention policies can now be enabled using the GUI (Compliance Center). |
| Mar | 20 | Content search previews can now decrypt and display protected messages. |
| Mar | 21 | Added note about how to discover new audit events. |
| Mar | 22 | Update some details in the description of how to create a new sensitive information type for use with DLP policies. |
| Mar | 23 | Microsoft is renaming the terms used to describe different types of flows. |
| Mar | 24 | Include note about how to audit who updates sensitivity label policies. Be more specific about the support for sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions. |
| Feb | 1 | Added section about Office 365’s links with Azure. Added data from Microsoft FY21 Q2 results. |
| Feb | 2 | Minor cleanup and typo fixes. |
| Feb | 3 | Azure AD now has 425 million monthly active users. |
| Feb | 4 | Added sections about Microsoft 365 priority accounts and using the Service Communications API to retrieve incident data. Rewrote an example of how to report assignment of a specific license to users. Introduced informed network routing. Minor cleanup and typo fixes. |
| Feb | 5 | Scripts using Send-MailMessage to send email via Exchange Online need to use TLS 1.2. Revised section about folder level permissions to include new ability to rebuild delegate access for a folder. |
| Feb | 6 | Added another example of a complex custom filter for a dynamic distribution list and updated the text for the topic. |
| Feb | 7 | Minor changes made as we continue to restructure this content to improve clarity and flow. |
| Feb | 8 | Upload limit for OneDrive sync client is now 250 GB. Added section about Microsoft Search reports. “At a glance” info now included in sharing links for Word documents. |
| Feb | 10 | Azure AD access review for guests in all teams and groups is available in preview. |
| Feb | 11 | Teams doesn’t display files attached to Outlook meeting requests. The channel calendar app is now available. Teams meeting add-in for Outlook for Windows now has a Meet Now button. The Meeting recap UI change is available for private meetings in the calendar app. Add some new data about the size of the Teams user base. |
| Feb | 12 | Added section about Teams app templates. |
| Feb | 13 | A new format for URLs used for the incoming webhook connector is being rolled out. Existing URLs need to be updated by April 11, 2021. |
| Feb | 14 | Added text about network validation. Included link to MTR security article. Restructured network planning section. |
| Feb | 16 | Confirmed dates for movement of recordings for new Teams meetings to OneDrive and SharePoint. |
| Feb | 15 | Planner can copy tasks to plans in other groups. Background images are now available for plans. Microsoft has reorganized the plan settings screen to make it more logical. |
| Feb | 17 | End of life for IE 11 support in Intune announced. |
| Feb | 18 | Updated guidance around macOS Office app version support. |
| Feb | 19 | Trainable classifiers are now GA. The Activity Explorer now incorporates sensitivity labels applied by all Office (online, desktop, and mobile) apps. Clarify when preservation hold library is created. |
| Feb | 21 | Moved some examples of accessing audit records from inline text to scripts downloadable from our GitHub repository. Validated and corrected some minor issues found in the scripts due to changes in audit record format. Added a better example of paging records from the unified audit log. |
| Feb | 22 | You can now use distribution lists or security groups in DLP policies for Teams to define the set of accounts to be monitored. Rewrote section about creating a custom sensitive information type due to new UI and setup. |
| Feb | 23 | Added section covering the creation of flows using Visio diagrams. |
| Feb | 24 | Microsoft methods to support decryption of protected content for a cloud exit only support Microsoft encryption technology (obvious but needed to be said). Audit records now generated for application of sensitivity labels by Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise. |
| Jan | 1 | SharePoint Online now has 200 million monthly active users. |
| Jan | 2 | Added short section on DR and BC planning for the cloud. |
| Jan | 3 | Minor updates to clarify licensing requirements for several features. |
| Jan | 4 | Skype for Business connector is retiring on 15 Feb 2021. Skype admin center deprecated. Added initial coverage of data-at-rest encryption and Customer Key. Updated section on Productivity Score. |
| Jan | 5 | Added section about updating user photos for mailboxes (and by extension, to other Office 365 apps). A new option allows Outlook desktop to create Teams online meetings by default. |
| Jan | 7 | Many small updates to sections. The most important change is that Exchange Online supports only TLS 1.2 connections from January 11, 2021. |
| Jan | 8 | External sharing capability for a site can be set via a sensitivity label. Microsoft search can recommend bookmarks for publication. New section about sharing for Microsoft Lists. |
| Jan | 9 | Yammer support for guest user access is in preview. |
| Jan | 10 | Dynamic Azure AD groups are limited to 5,000 per tenant. |
| Jan | 11 | Rewrote section on Meet Now after Microsoft released this capability for mobile clients. Added information about how to edit the deeplink used for Live events. Description added of pre-release channels for Teams. Meeting polls are available for personal Teams meetings. Microsoft has released a public gallery for Teams background images. Teams channel calendar app will roll out in January 2021. |
| Jan | 12 | Teams can now be archived through the Teams admin center. Rewrote opening section about creating Teams. Microsoft is tweaking the set of MAPI properties captured in Teams compliance records. |
| Jan | 13 | Made the point that Set-UserPhoto can update a picture for a team (Set-TeamPicture can too, but its use is limited to team owners). Updated description about the Teams PowerShell module. The Skype for Business Online connector is retired effective 15 February 2021. Rewrote section about using the Graph to process Groups and Teams data. |
| Jan | 14 | Updates on collaboration bar and collaborative calling. |
| Jan | 15 | Planner will generate compliance records for task creation and edits from January 2021. |
| Jan | 16 | Quota assigned to Stream classic is not transferred to SharePoint Online when the transition to the new Stream happens. |
| Jan | 17 | Minor typo fixes |
| Jan | 18 | Added mention of Teams Public Preview program and channels; minor corrections. |
| Jan | 19 | Minor corrections to Records management section. |
| Jan | 20 | Added note about including variations of personal identifiers as conditions for content searches. Advanced eDiscovery exports can decrypt protected documents stored in SharePoint and OneDrive. |
| Jan | 22 | New country-specific sensitive data types introduced for DLP policies. |
| Jan | 24 | The container management settings for sensitivity labels can now control external sharing capabilities for SharePoint Online sites. Microsoft has fixed the bug which caused documents with sensitivity labels to become inaccessible when moved or copied between sites. |
| Dec | 1 | SLA data for Q3 2020 (99.97%). |
| Dec | 2 | Fixed typos; clarified process of moving into GCC/GCC High tenants. |
| Dec | 3 | Microsoft strongly recommends use of app-based verification for MFA. Security defaults adds four new roles for mandatory MFA. |
| Dec | 4 | Updated V2 EXO cmdlet coverage; added forewarning of new stripped-down small-tenant admin center; added coverage of the new Productivity Score data set. |
| Dec | 5 | Added detail about what to do when the Recoverable Items folders approaches its quota limit. |
| Dec | 6 | Rewrote section about dynamic distribution lists. |
| Dec | 7 | Many changes and updates, including Advanced Threat Protection is now Microsoft Defender for Office 365, new blocks on automatic mail forwarding, and new blocks on high-confidence phish messages. |
| Dec | 8 | General refresh. OneDrive For Business Admin features to be integrated in the SharePoint Admin Center. Added available Microsoft Lists controls to disable personal lists creation and specific list templates. |
| Dec | 9 | Teams button is now available in the Outlook Groups toolbar and is exposed when a team-enabled group is accessed. Replaced Figure 9-10. |
| Dec | 10 | Rewrote section about dynamic Microsoft 365 Groups. |
| Dec | 11 | Together mode in Teams meetings now supports a set of backgrounds provided by Microsoft. Rewrote section about roles in meetings. Teams personal now supports desktop (Windows) and browser clients. Switching to public preview is now available for desktop and browser clients. |
| Dec | 12 | Rewrote section covering disabling chat. |
| Dec | 13 | Fixed bug in script for synchronizing security group membership with a Microsoft 365 Group. |
| Dec | 14 | Minor updates. |
| Dec | 15 | Minor updates including noting that a task can have a maximum of 20 checklist items. |
| Dec | 17 | Added info on Intune reports; clarified macOS/iOS support timelines. |
| Dec | 18 | Added coverage of M365 App Admin Center; updated recommended best practice for Office app channel balance. |
| Dec | 19 | Expanded section about retention labels marked as records to include regulatory records. |
| Dec | 20 | Export of attachments for protected email found by searches now decrypt attachments (MC225739). Edge now needs to be configured to allow ClickOnce to download and run the eDiscovery Export tool. |
| Dec | 21 | The ApplyRecord audit action is available for mailboxes to track marking items as regulatory records (with retention labels). |
| Dec | 22 | Clarify how the order of DLP policies and rules within policies affect the evaluation of potential violations. Sensitivity labels can now be specified as a condition for checking in DLP policies. Endpoint DLP policies are now generally available (require Microsoft 365 E5 licenses – not Office 365). |
| Dec | 23 | Microsoft Power Platform CoE Starter Kit is available. |
| Dec | 24 | Updated notes for EnablePDFEncryption setting. Rewrote introduction to section about sensitivity labels. Office desktop apps will generate audit records when sensitivity labels are applied to documents. |
| Nov | 1 | Included SLA result for Q2 2020. Included Microsoft FY21 Q1 results. |
| Nov | 2 | Added section on GCC and country clouds; added mention of adoption.microsoft.com site. |
| Nov | 3 | Azure AD now has nearly 400 million daily active users. Adjusted text for CA policy for Outlook mobile. |
| Nov | 4 | Rewrote section in discussion about the need for Office 365 backup. More changes to reflect new security and compliance centers. Cross-reference to discussion of new Advanced Audit license in Chapter 21. |
| Nov | 5 | Emphasize that mailboxes forwarding email must remain licensed to work. |
| Nov | 8 | SharePoint spaces is now GA. Extra search vertical added (Power BI) for Microsoft Search. SharePoint Syntex is available. |
| Nov | 9 | Clarify that guests are automatically added to group subscriber lists. Replaced Figure 9-8. |
| Nov | 10 | Updated sections about Dynamic Groups and Group expiration policy. |
| Nov | 11 | Users can now set their Teams status to be offline. The Teams desktop client now has some basic support for offline working. A native ARM client is now available for ARM on Windows devices. Teams meeting recordings can now be stored in OneDrive for Business. A duration setting is now available for user presence. |
| Nov | 12 | Teams admin center (Manage apps) now supports the ability to assign permissions, including resource specific consent, for third-party and LOB apps. Several changes following the change in storage location for Teams compliance records. |
| Nov | 13 | Example script updated after Microsoft changed the storage location for Teams compliance records. |
| Nov | 14 | Updated information about Teams Displays and Collaboration bars. Add information about location-based routing for direct routing. |
| Nov | 15 | The Tasks in Teams app has reached general availability. Updated text to make it clear which plans are shown in the app. Replaced Figure 15-17. |
| Nov | 16 | Tenants can now store Teams meeting recordings in OneDrive for Business. |
| Nov | 17 | Updates to iOS/macOS/Android channel names. Updated description of OneDrive sync client updates. Fixed a few typos and broken links. |
| Nov | 18 | Added guidance on OS support timelines for Windows & macOS. Added coverage of help and troubleshooting toolset in Intune. |
| Nov | 19 | New UI introduced (simplified and better) for creating retention labels. Screen shots updated and text refreshed. |
| Nov | 20 | Added information about unindexed items found by content searches. |
| Nov | 21 | Three new crucial audit events are available to help investigators track what happens inside compromised accounts. |
| Nov | 22 | Microsoft has made a playbook available to help tenants move from Exchange DLP policies to Microsoft 365 DLP policies. Therefore, we moved the information about Exchange DLP policies to Chapter 8 of the companion volume. |
| Nov | 23 | CDS storage of 1 GB is provided to Office 365 tenants. Additional storage can be purchased. |
| Nov | 24 | Double key encryption is now generally available. End-user training material for sensitivity label is available from Microsoft. Scoping for sensitivity labels is now generally available, which necessitated a major rewrite of that section. |
| Oct | 2 | Added notes on Teams SBA and Project Nucleus. Updated dates for TLS 1.2 decommissioning. Various text updates. |
| Oct | 3 | Minor updates, including public preview of Continual Access Evaluation. |
| Oct | 4 | Version 2.0.3 of the Exchange Online Management module supports simultaneous connections to the Exchange Online and the Security and Compliance endpoints. More on the security/compliance center split. Mention of Linux support for EXO V2. Introduced modern EAC. Added coverage of new network connectivity health checks; miscellaneous text updates. |
| Oct | 5 | Added section about plus addressing support for Exchange Online. |
| Oct | 6 | Section on dynamic distribution lists rewritten. |
| Oct | 7 | Rewrites of many sections as this chapter is restructured and refreshed. |
| Oct | 8 | Added section about SharePoint weekly mail digest and other tweaks across the chapter. |
| Oct | 9 | Outlook desktop is changing the way it displays unread counts for Groups. |
| Oct | 10 | Rationalization and rewriting of some sections about adding guests to groups. |
| Oct | 11 | Safari 13 supports incoming video for Teams meetings. Customized badges are supported for the Praise app. Link to new feature by platform page included. Section added about Teams breakout rooms. |
| Oct | 12 | Added extra content about how sensitivity labels can restrict guests being added to team membership. |
| Oct | 13 | Note about the better performance of the Where method for arrays. |
| Oct | 14 | Sections added about Teams Survivable Branch Appliances and 3pip Phones. |
| Oct | 15 | Planner has some limited offline capability. |
| Oct | 16 | Stream 2.0 moves video storage to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Recordings of Teams meetings can move to the new platform in October. Added notes about replacing a video in Stream. |
| Oct | 17 | Silverlight Intune is EOL! Updated MEM/Intune naming usage to reflect MS guidance. Renamed M365 MDM to Basic Mobility and Security. Noted upcoming EOL for Android Device Admin. |
| Oct | 18 | A few minor updates to cover changes announced at Ignite. |
| Oct | 19 | Information barrier policies now GA for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites. |
| Oct | 21 | New trainable classifiers and roles available for communications compliance policies. Update for the sample PowerShell script to report workload data via the Graph is available. New layout for standard workload usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center (Figure 21-18). Added section explaining how to search the audit log for actions performed against objects (documents, users, and groups). |
| Oct | 22 | An action in a DLP policy can now block access to SPO and ODFB content for those with Anyone links. |
| Oct | 24 | The advent of scoping for sensitivity labels means that the sections describing how to plan for and create and edit sensitivity labels were rewritten. |
| Sept | 1 | Added link to Microsoft’s per-country list of where Office 365 customer data is stored. |
| Sept | 3 | Minor changes to wording in several places. |
| Sept | 4 | Refreshed Graph Explorer control to reflect the fact that Microsoft is pushing out some tenant admin controls that can only be set through the Graph. Internet Explorer 11 will not be supported after August 17, 2021. Added mention of new support PIN verification process. Added Visio and Project to list of self-service license purchase SKUs. Incident notification in Outlook |
| Sept | 5 | OWA now includes a warning when mailbox quota exceeds 90% of allocation. |
| Sept | 7 | Updated PowerShell examples for quarantine access. General restructuring of some sections covering Message Hygiene. |
| Sept | 8 | Discover view is being retired in ODFB. Microsoft Lists a new App in Microsoft 365 to access and create new enhanced SharePoint lists is rolled out. |
| Sept | 9 | Preview now available to assign Azure AD roles to (new) groups. |
| Sept | 11 | New guidance for deploying Teams on Windows Virtual desktop and VDI environments. Whiteboard app for Teams now supports sticky notes and text boxes. Added more detail about Teams meeting settings. Teams now remembers the background effect chosen by users and persists it for every video meeting until a new effect is chosen. Teams won’t support IE11 after November 30, 2020. The Graph presence subscription API is now used to detect calendar changes and calculate user presence. |
| Sept | 12 | Microsoft 365 communication compliance policies which process Teams messages can now block messages which violate policy. |
| Sept | 14 | Added info about connecting analog devices to direct routing; how to bypass enterprise voice and dial-in conferencing during migrations; and info about the CallRecord API. |
| Sept | 15 | Clarification about Planner service location. |
| Sept | 16 | Clarification about the video view captured in Teams meeting recordings. |
| Sept | 17 | Added mention of end of support for iOS 11. |
| Sept | 18 | Updated deathwatch dates for Internet Explorer 11. Added info on per-user storage restriction in OneDrive. |
| Sept | 19 | Added definition of trainable classifier and other minor changes. |
| Sept | 21 | Emphasize that Planner does not generate audit records. Sway no longer generates audit events. Rewrite section about alert policies. |
| Sept | 24 | Power BI now supports sensitivity label inheritance for Excel worksheets generated through the PivotTable connection and Analyze with Excel features. |
| August | 1 | Updates for Microsoft FY20 Q4 results. |
| August | 2 | Several refinements for information about planning for cloud migrations. |
| August | 3 | Minor changes. |
| August | 4 | Update to Power Apps admin center URL; added self-service purchase approval flow warning; intro to Exchange PowerShell v2 cert-based authentication; updated coverage of the improved Secure Score experience; various text updates and fixes. |
| August | 5 | Preview of Exchange Online Management PowerShell module supports unattended script execution. Note about importing on-premises archives larger than 100 GB to Exchange Online. Microsoft has reduced the number of events created from email to just travel and parcel delivery. Changes to discussion about inactive mailboxes and how to preserve data for ex-employees. |
| August | 7 | Beginning of an end-to-end review by new author taking over chapter to refine, clarify, and improve flow of text. |
| August | 8 | Added section about Content Type Gallery. Fixed some typos. |
| August | 9 | Change in OWA create new Microsoft 365 dialog meant changes to several screen shots and accompanying text. |
| August | 10 | Moved script for updating group display names in line with naming policy to GitHub after updating it to deal with both prefixes and suffixes. |
| August | 11 | Clarifications about different forms of Teams meetings. Note added about Teams memory usage on Windows. |
| August | 12 | Added discussion about the ramifications of disabling the Chat app in Teams. Updated section about bulk policy assignment for Teams. Storage of Teams compliance records is not charged against user mailbox quotas. Added note about resource-specific consent for Teams apps. Removed text about discovery of private teams (Microsoft is reconsidering how to engineer the functionality). |
| August | 13 | Rewrote script for archiving a group to make it handle multiple groups. The Teams preview and production PowerShell modules are now both in the PowerShell gallery. |
| August | 14 | Added details about Teams advanced communications licenses, and updates for auto attendants and call queues. |
| August | 15 | Planner doesn’t have a recycle bin (emphasized). Noted that the Planner browser client is updated regularly, and users are prompted to refresh to load the changed code. New Tasks in Teams app released. |
| August | 16 | Changes for A1 users about what happens when they record a Teams meeting. |
| August | 17 | Short introduction to Desktop Analytics; coverage of new Intune pivot in Microsoft 365 admin center. |
| August | 21 | Communication compliance policies now cover Teams messages sent by users with on-premises mailboxes. |
| August | 22 | Included example of using a SharePoint Online managed property as a condition in a DLP policy. |
| August | 23 | Rewrote section about Power Platform management. |
| August | 24 | Chromium-based Edge browser can open protected PDFs. Sensitivity labels can control sharing capability for SharePoint Online sites. |