Important Microsoft update: Week 45 / 2024

There is a total of 37 important Microsoft updates / notification with a description of 0 new features 💗 and a total of 0 notification which could impact Users 👁‍🗨

“In this week’s Microsoft IT news, we have some exciting updates regarding the latest features. Let’s dive into the top 3 most important news updates: 1. **System generated emails from workflows and alerts will now show SharePoint Online as the sender display name**: Microsoft is aligning system generated emails from SharePoint workflows and alerts to display as “SharePoint Online.” This change aims to enhance best practices for email display names. [Read more](#) 2. **Microsoft Loop: Configure guest sharing for tenants with sensitivity labels**: Admins can now configure guest sharing for Microsoft Loop workspaces, pages, and components for all tenants, including those with sensitivity labels. This feature enhances collaboration capabilities. [Read more](#) 3. **Microsoft Loop: Sensitivity labels at the container level**: Organizations with sensitivity labels enabled can now benefit from new security features in Microsoft Loop, including sensitivity labels at the container level. This enhances data protection within Loop workspaces. [Read more](#) These updates promise to bring significant improvements to Microsoft’s IT ecosystem. Stay tuned for more detailed insights by clicking the provided links.”

Content this week

SharePoint Online System generated emails from workflows and alerts will now show SharePoint Online as the sender display name

Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft Loop: Configure guest sharing for tenants with sensitivity labels

Microsoft 365 Apps Microsoft Loop: Sensitivity labels at the container level

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Copilot 365 in Viva Glint will support the summarization of employee survey comments

Microsoft 365 suite, OneDrive for Business Microsoft OneDrive: We will remove the “EnableHoldTheFile” group policy

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can request delegate access

Microsoft 365 Apps Microsoft Places app ON by default

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Engage: Mute conversations in feeds and digests

Exchange Online, Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web: Changing how to disable/enable

Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft Copilot extending to Teams and Outlook

Microsoft Forms Microsoft Forms: New streamlined and modernized experience

Microsoft Dataverse Microsoft Dataverse – Service Update 9.2.24104.00000 for EUR

Microsoft Power Automate Power Automate – Cloud flows are automatically defined in Dataverse solutions

OneDrive for Business Microsoft OneDrive: The Enable OCSI for Tenants group policy is being removed

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Turning on Data Loss Prevention analytics

Power Platform Power Pages – Use contextual copilot to add a page to your Power Pages site

Dynamics 365 Apps Dynamics 365 Field Service – Summarize work orders with Copilot in Outlook

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional Support for Teams Live Interpretation

Power Platform Microsoft 365 Copilot for Sales – Post meeting AI-generated thank you emails for customer follow up

Microsoft 365 Apps Support for the Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile UWP applications will end on October 14, 2025

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community

Microsoft 365 suite End of Microsoft Places Preview Program

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview |Communication Compliance: Customize policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions

Microsoft Power Automate in Microsoft 365, Power Apps in Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online Retirement of the SharePoint SendEmail API

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Automatic location updates with building details for BYOD rooms and bookable desks

Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft PowerPoint: Web viewer add-in retires December 2024

Microsoft 365 for the web, Microsoft 365 suite Product transitions to the cloud.microsoft domain – October 2024

Microsoft 365 suite, Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies will support “Fingerprint based SIT”

Microsoft Entra Microsoft Entra: Enablement of Passkeys in Authenticator for passkey (FIDO2) organizations with no key restrictions

Microsoft Purview, SharePoint Online Microsoft Purview | Audit: Enable audit log search for content searches that target Microsoft SharePoint Online

Microsoft Viva Microsoft Viva Engage: Top questions in your communities

Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins can disable the ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after a meeting

Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 for the web Categorize single items in conversation view in new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web

Microsoft 365 suite Copilot Pages coming to Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Teams Introducing Meeting Prep for Financial Services (Preview)

Microsoft 365 Apps, Microsoft 365 suite (Update) Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Improved Data Loss Prevention policy tips

Microsoft Purview Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Policy alerts improvements

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