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New sign-in experience for Office 365, what's it about?
Here is the announcement - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/08/02/the-new-azure-ad-signin-experience-is-now-in-public-preview/:
"You might have noticed that we’ve been rolling out the new design on Microsoft accounts over the last few weeks. Now, it’s Azure AD’s turn. Starting today, you’ll see a banner on the Azure AD sign-in page giving users the option to opt-in to see the new experience."
There is a call to action, to test custom branding, check any automation is unaffected and to update documentation and training materials! As for timescales -
"We know that this will be a disruptive change for some of you, but we believe that this sets us up for an exciting future of innovation in the sign-in space. To give you time to prepare for the change, we’ll leave the new experience as an opt-in public preview for the next few weeks. We plan to switch over to the new UI by default during the last week of September."
The wrong place for such announcements, and came after the feature started showing up in tenants :-/
Cian Allner wrote:Here is the announcement - The new Azure AD Signin Experience is now in Public Preview:
And yet here we are. Frustrating."We know that this will be a disruptive change for some of you...."
Great to see we are not alone. He is my deleted comment from the blogpost on
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/08/02/the-new-azure-ad-signin-experience-is-now-in-public-preview/I still waiting for Premier Support to assist. I think that will be interesting.
I absolutely agree Paul. See my earlier comment for context.
I don't get why lessons haven't been learnt. Incidents like this set us all back and our confidence in how this is meant to work. The fact this hasn't reached the Message center yet I find somewhat egregious. How many customers are going discover this only when they get reports from their users or after it's mandatory otherwise?
This didn't have to be a disruptive change at all, if there was enough time given to prepare customers for this new experience. Incidentally, it's strange the announcement points to the old, read-only Azure AD forum, minor point I know.
I thought there was meant to be an internal customer advocate role in the change management process. They would stand up for customers as these changes are going through and intervene when required!
For the people that have mentioned issues with smart links, can you give an example of the link used? Mine seem to work fine, but perhaps I'm missing something.
