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M365 Apps Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview) deprecation starting on July 2025
Hello Everyone, https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-is-changing-how-it-releases-microsoft-365-app-updates/#:~:text=Starting%20July%202025%2C%20Microsoft%20will%20deprecate%20the%20Semi-Annual,being%20slashed%20from%2014%20months%20down%20to%208. We recently learned that the SAEC (Preview) will be deprecated starting July 8 2025. Since we have a uat group deployed on this update channel, we'll have to migrate them asap according to Microsoft recommendation. We have 2 questions: 1 - Is July 8 2025 date confirmed? 2 - If someone is in the same case, which update channel would you recommend for uat groups: back to the Semi-Annual standard channel or the Monthly Enterprise Channel? Dis some of you experience an important gap in terms of stability for critical business users?SharePoint Online Dumps OTP Authentication for Sharing Links
After July 1, 2025, any sharing links generated with one-time passcodes (OTP) will stop working. Only links based on Entra ID B2B Collaboration will work. Users who lose access to content shared from SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business will have to contact the original sharer to ask them to generate a new sharing link. Sounds like a recipe for confusion, which is what might happen. https://office365itpros.com/2025/06/10/entra-id-b2b-collaboration-spo/Microsoft Loop to Support External Access
The Loop app is a powerful collaborative platform that has been handicapped up to now with a restriction on its External Sharing capabilities. That restriction is being lifted in a two-phase process starting in April 2024. Tenants without sensitivity labels will get the capability first followed by those that use sensitivity labels. https://office365itpros.com/2024/03/15/loop-app-external-sharing/
Outlook Online Sort By Categories
Hi, I'd like to put in for a feature request for Outlook Online, which I'm sure has come up before but I cant seem to find a similar request anywhere. Some of my team members use the premium desktop version of Outlook. They work mainly from a shared email account and arrange their emails by category. I've been trying to get team members to use the online version, but many outright refuse to use it because there is no sort by categories filter. When can we expect to see this filter implemented in the online version of outlook, considering categories is implemented in the online version already. Desktop App: Online equivalent: Thanks.When the Invoke-MgGraphRequest Cmdlet Needs Help to Fetch Responses
Sometimes it’s hard to get a response back from running a Graph API request with the Invoke-MgGraphRequest cmdlet. Graph Explorer helps. So does reading Microsoft’s documentation for the cmdlet. In the end, everything works out and we can discover some valuable information that comes back in a response header. In this case, the response header helps us discover if a purge job works. All of this might sound quirky, but it could make a difference to your PowerShell scripts. https://office365itpros.com/2025/06/12/invoke-mggraphrequest-responses/
How to make Outlook reminder window pops up on top of other windows?
I remember Outlook's reminder window used to pop up on top of other windows when there's an upcoming meeting. But these days that window pops up, but buried under other windows. It still makes a chime but I often mute my speaker, also the Outlook icon at the taskbar has a small red dot to indicate something new, but it's so tiny that I often didn't notice. This made me often joined my Teams call late. How do I make it pops up on top of other windows like it used to? My Outlook version is 2306 Build 16.0.16529.20100, running on Windows 11. Thanks.
How to create a shared company calendar for time off and holidays?
I'M LOST I have spent DAYS trying to figure out some way to provide a shared company calendar with Holidays, PTO Schedules, On-Call Schedules, etc. We just want one place to see what's going on this week, who's available, and do we have a day off this week. BASIC information. After spending more than 3 days on this, I feel more lost than I did when I started. I could create a SharePoint Calendar. This calendar doesn't sync with Outlook for Mac or Apple Calendars and, most importantly, reoccurring events don't show up on a SharePoint Events web part. I could manually create reoccurring events but I rather not. Regardless, the functionality is incredibly limited. I could create a new M365 user. This would let me see these calendar in Apple Calendars and give myself or another admin access to update events. But this calendar can't be integrated in SharePoint or Teams so it's basically invisible. I could create a Channel Calendar in Teams but that's certainly not appropriate. I could create a new Group with a Calendar. Although, we already have a org-Wide Team and it doesn't actually do anything - can't email orgteam@company.com and it doesn't come with an Outlook calendar. I don't think I should have to add someone to a group for them to see a calendar I want public to the entire company. This might be the best compromise but that's besides the point. The POINT is, WHY in the world isn't this a built-in feature that's turned on the moment a company creates a M365 tenant? WHY do I need to spend days figuring out that all the archaic tutorials from 2017 don't even work in 2021? WHY can't MICROSOFT make calendars easy? I mean, I'd settle for difficult - it's better than impossible. And, not for nothing, I look like a complete idiot (I very well may be!) when my boss asks me to do something that should take 2 minutes and I have absolutely nothing to show 3 days later. Q: What is your business doing to let you know you have Memorial day off? How are you able to see if someone has the week off for vacation? Are you using a M365 product or something else?How to know if a tenant name is available or taken
If you need to know if a tenant name is available or taken in Office 365, I recommend to follow you one of the following approaches: First one is by using the following web page: http://o365.rocks/. There you will be able to do a quick check for the availability of a tenant name in Office 365. The other approach is just to use the PowerShell script you can find here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-check-office-365-tenant-name-availability-aaron-dinnage Screenshots and original post here: https://jcgonzalezmartin.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/office-365-how-to-know-if-a-tenant-name-is-available-or-taken/
