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cloudscout.one what's next CW 19 This is the complete report of all items with the 'check before' dates for the current month and upcoming two months, regardless if the Items have changed. This is not intended for consumer use. Please respect the work cloudscout.one put into this and don't publish this and respect the copyright. Thank you. What's next to do Major Items Updated Feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication MC178555 administrator roles check before: 05/05/2019 Updated feature: Authentication administrator and Privileged Status: authentication administrator rolesWe are updating permissions for the Created: 04/29/2019 Authentication administrator and Privileged authentication administrator Product: Azure Active Directory roles in Azure Active Directory. These roles will be given permission to reset passwords for users. We will deploy the change to these roles in Platform: Online, World tenant mid-May 2019. Scope: Administration, Security Recommendations Check your security and privileges assignments and the corresponding concepts if you are impacted by this change. Description Microsoft adds privileges to admin roles. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on. Docu to check Working instructions More Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/directory-assign-admin- roles MS Preperations You should review the list of users who are assigned to these roles. If any of these users should not have permission to reset passwords for other users, you should remove them from the role.Please see the Additional Information for more information on roles and permissions. MS How does it affect When the roles are updated, existing and new users assigned to these roles will have permission to me reset user passwords. Privileged authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for all users; authentication administrators will be able to reset passwords for users in the same set of roles they can currently act on. Microsoft Intune In Development for May is now available MC178596 check before: 05/06/2019 The “In development for Microsoft Intune” page in our documentation has Status: been updated for May 2019. Created: 04/29/2019 Product: Intune Platform: mobile, Online, World tenant Scope: Administration, MDM Recommendations As the Intune team stopped publishing their items in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap the responsible Team for Intune is obliged to check upcoming changes in the Intune blog. see the link in the "Additional Info" section additional Info URL https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/in-development More Info URL https://aka.ms/Intune_InDevelopment MS Preperations You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your end user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your end users.Click Additional Information for the link to the In development page. MS How does it affect The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to me assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated for May. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release. New Feature: Time Clock in Shifts MC178678 check before: 05/07/2019 Time Clock in Shifts is a new Office 365 feature. We'll begin rolling this Status: Rolling out feature out soon.This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap Created: 04/30/2019 ID 50835 Product: Teams, Teams Shifts Platform: Online, Windows Desktop, World tenant Scope: Compliance, User Compliance This might be a case to check with the workers council. Recommendations Give notice to the responsible team for workers time recording of the new feature. Check for detailed configuration options as soon as the function is visible on your tenant. Links 50835 Config Options The new Time Clock feature comes with an opt-in function. More details are not available. Opportunities The Time Clock feature in Teams Shifts might help is some very limited scenarios, because acquiring workers time is in the most cases covered by a 3rd party system, which is already highly integrated into an existing ERP system. Maybe this feature can be an option for future use or future sites, where you might save the hardware equipment to aquire the time Description This change adds a time clock with geofencing to record worked time. Linked RM Item Title: Time clock in Shifts Details Description: Enable your Firstline Workforce to clock in and out of their shifts and breaks from their mobile device. Additionally, you can set up Time clock using a geofenced location and collect GPS data to validate that someone has clocked in/out at the appropriate worksite. More Info URL https://support.office.com/teams MS Preperations There is nothing you need to do to prepare for this change but may want to update your training and documentation as appropriate.Please see Additional Information for end-user documentation which will be available in the Teams Helps center. MS How does it affect This feature is available to be enabled on Teams Web/Desktop and will be opt-in.We'll be gradually me rolling this out to customers in early May, and the roll out will be completed worldwide by the end of May.This change does not affect Office 365 subscriptions in GCC. Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MC178681 check before: 05/07/2019 The new Outlook on the web, currently opt-in, does not support the Share Status: availability feature. Created: 05/01/2019 Product: FindTime, Outlook Platform: mobile, Online Scope: UI, User Recommendations Give notice to the key users and help desk, if your users are allowed to toggle the new Outlook on the web experience already. additional Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s=calendar-1492711395&f=how-do-i-send-my- availability-to-someone-via-email-1556034333&p=all Description This change only applies to the new Outlook on the web experience. Microsoft adds a new toggle to opt-in or out the availability sharing capability even in the old Outlook on the web environment. Users can share their availability in different ways. One is using the Outlook mobile app (see additional info) or using FindTime. This doesn't mean sharing the user's calendar, but communicating user-selected time slots as available. More Info URL https://acompli.helpshift.com/a/outlook-mobile/?s MS Feature Name Outlook on the web (opt-in) - Share availability from email compose MS Preperations If users would like to continue to use the Share availability feature direct them to not opt-in to the new Outlook on the web. If they have already opted-in to the new Outlook on the web they can opt- out, via the toggle, and retain full use of the Share availability feature.We would also suggest the following options to share availability:Use the Outlook mobile app to send availability Use the FindTime add-in to share availabilityWe will send additional communication around the transition to the new Outlook on the web in the future.Please click Additional Information to learn more about how to share availability in Outlook mobile MS How does it affect Users who opt-in to the new Outlook on the web will not be able to use the Share availability me feature. New Feature: Manage discovery of private teams in Microsoft Teams MC178666 check before: 05/07/2019 Admins and team owners can control whether private teams can be Status: In development discovered by Microsoft Teams users in your organization. When a private Created: 04/30/2019 team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in Product: Teams suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for users to search for and find the private teams that they Platform: Online, World tenant want to join. Users can request to join a private team which a team owner Scope: Administration, Compliance, can then approve or deny. User We’re introducing a new per team setting that determines whether a team shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. Team owners can set the discovery setting for a private team in the team settings and through create team dialog during creation and admins can do so by using PowerShell. As an admin, you can also control which users in your organization are allowed to discover private teams (for which team discovery setting is enabled) by assigning user level policies. For a given team to be discoverable for a given user, that team’s setting would need to be set to be discoverable and discovery would need to be enabled for the user through policy. All existing teams created prior to roll out will remain non-discoverable unless the setting is explicitly changed by team owners or admins after the roll out. Team owners will get an option to review the discoverability setting for the teams they own and, if needed, update it Any team created after the roll out will have the team discovery setting set as discoverable by default. When a team owner creates a private team, they can change this setting. By default, user policy AllowPrivateTeamDiscovery will be set to true for all users in an organization. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 44370. This feature is scheduled to roll out in early June, 2019. Compliance Making private teams not findable might enable more usage scenarios for Teams with high confidentiality requirements.