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Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location

Set your work location for the day in Microsoft Teams so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration. When this will happen: Targeted Release and Preview: Microsoft has begun rollout and expect to complete rollout by late May. Standard Release: Microsoft expect to complete rollout by early August. How this …

Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps

Starting in September 2023, Microsoft will begin including new Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently, users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in classic Teams or having administrators …

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

Microsoft will be updating the way intra-organizational SCL ratings are assigned for intra-organizational messages. When this will happen: Changes to logging intra-organizational messages will begin rolling out in early April and is expected to be complete by late June. How this will affect your organization: All intra-organizational messages are currently marked with SCL -1 (bypass …

Mitigate risks with application block in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management [Public Preview]

Remediating vulnerabilities in organizations takes time so it’s essential to have effective risk management strategies in place. We know that addressing software vulnerabilities can be challenging due to a variety of factors. To help with risk mitigation, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) users can leverage the application block feature to take immediate action to block …

Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all users

When this will happen: Beginning May 8, 2023 How this affects your organization: To prevent accidental approvals, admins can require users to enter a number displayed on the sign-in screen when approving an MFA request in the Microsoft Authenticator app. This feature is critical to protecting against MFA fatigue attacks which are on the rise. …

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy tips revamp for Outlook for Windows

When this will happen: Rollout to Current Channel (preview) will begin in mid-March (previously early March) and is expected to be complete by early April (previously mid-March). Rollout to Current Channel will begin in early May (previously early April) and is expected to be complete by mid-May (previously late April). How this will affect your …

Announcing device isolation support for Linux [Public Preview]

Overview Some attack scenarios may require you to isolate a device from the network. This action can help prevent the attacker from controlling the compromised device and performing further activities such as data exfiltration and lateral movement. Just like in Windows devices, this device isolation feature disconnects the compromised device from the network while retaining connectivity to the …

Defender for Endpoint and disconnected environments. Which proxy configuration wins?

This article is a follow-up to a previous one discussing conflicting proxy configurations and how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint behaves in these situations. The first article can be found in here. As outlined in the documentation, Defender for Endpoint supports three different types of proxy configurations: However, when these configurations are mixed, it can cause confusion …

Customize login pages in Attack Simulation Training

Attack Simulation Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It is available with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2 plan. As per the previous experience, users were directed to the Microsoft curated credential harvest login …

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 232-239

Intune – Migrating between Mobile Threat Defense solutions

Intune can integrate data from Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and other non-Microsoft MTD partners as an information source for unenrolled devices using Intune app protection policies (APP). Admins can use this information to help protect corporate data within an Intune protected app and issue a block or selective wipe through APP conditional launch settings …

Intune – New device control capabilities to manage removable storage media access

Intune is excited to announce new device control capabilities that allows greater flexibility for enhanced endpoint security. This feature allows IT admins to manage access and use of removable storage devices, such as USB and solid-state drives, on Intune-managed devices. Admins will be able to configure the allow, block, or auditing permissions to read, write, …

Cross-tenant User Data Migration [General Availability]

Historically, admins that needed to move mailboxes between Microsoft 365 tenants were required to export or offboard the mailbox to on-premises and then import or onboard the mailbox to a new tenant. Today, Microsoft is thrilled to announce that cross-tenant user data migration is now generally available. Specifically, the cross-tenant mailbox migration and cross-tenant OneDrive migration features previously in …

Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust [General Availability]

Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability of hybrid cloud Kerberos trust, a new Windows Hello for Business deployment model that enables a passwordless sign-in experience. Why passwordless and Windows Hello for Business? Windows Hello for Business is a modern, strong, two-factor authentication method that is a more secure alternative to passwords and has …

Update to Quarantine retention period for Malware detections

Given feedback from customer on the need for an additional time to triage the emails or files that were quarantined as result of potential malware, Microsoft is increasing the retention period from 15 days to 30 days. When this will happen Standard Release: will begin rolling this out by end of July and expect to …

AAD Security Reader Role in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Alignment with Microsoft 365 Defender

Currently the AAD “Security Reader” role can manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps alerts, however, it can only view alerts from all other security workloads. The AAD “Security Reader” role update will now be aligned with AAD role definition to provide clarity and prevent confusion of the same role use. When this will happen: As …

Maintain protection when creating PDFs [Preview]

Please review the blog post: Apply sensitivity labels to PDFs created with Office apps for additional details. Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft is introducing the ability to maintain label and protection for PDF files created from Microsoft Office apps. When this will happen: Public preview: rollout will begin in late June and is expected to …

Upcoming behavior change to the “DoNotRewrite” List

With the deployment of the Tenant Allow/Block List, as being the single source of truth for Tenant Allows, other mechanisms for Tenant Allows are being removed. This will give SecOps teams one place to manage all Tenant Allows. Today, “DoNotRewrite” list is used to Skip wrapping URLs Detonation(SONAR) Verdicts. The intended purpose of “DoNotRewrite” is …

Change to soft-deleted period for inactive mailboxes

When all holds and retention policies are removed from an inactive mailbox, it becomes soft-deleted and remains in Exchange for a period of time to allow for recovery before permanent deletion. Based on customer feedback, and to maintain consistency with other solutions, Microsoft will be changing this period to 30 days (from current 183 days). …

[MDO] Password protected download of quarantined messages

With this change Microsoft is giving the ability to password protects items they download from quarantine. Microsoft wants users to be confident that the items they are downloading to their systems will not execute involuntarily without their consent, and this capability will allow them to safely transport the items to external analysis tools. When this …

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Thibault CHÂTIRON

Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location

Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

Mitigate risks with application block in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management [Public Preview]

Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all users

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy tips revamp for Outlook for Windows

Announcing device isolation support for Linux [Public Preview]

Defender for Endpoint and disconnected environments. Which proxy configuration wins?

Customize login pages in Attack Simulation Training

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 232-239

Intune – Migrating between Mobile Threat Defense solutions

Intune – New device control capabilities to manage removable storage media access

Cross-tenant User Data Migration [General Availability]

Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust [General Availability]

Update to Quarantine retention period for Malware detections

AAD Security Reader Role in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Alignment with Microsoft 365 Defender

Maintain protection when creating PDFs [Preview]

Upcoming behavior change to the “DoNotRewrite” List

Change to soft-deleted period for inactive mailboxes

[MDO] Password protected download of quarantined messages

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