Changes and updates made to Office 365 for IT Pros (2025 edition)
This log describes the changes made to the book since its original release. The document is up to date as of the version released on September 1, 2024 (monthly update #111). We release an updated version monthly, usually on the first of the month.
Individual Chapter Changes for Office 365 for IT Pros, 2025 ed.
| Chapter | Change |
| 1 (Overview) | August 2024 (110): minor grammar and style fixes; updated SLA data for Q2 CY24. September 2024 (111): Integrated results from Microsoft’s FY24. Updates to sovereign cloud descriptions. Minor grammar and style fixes. |
| 2 (Managing Identities) | August 2024 (110): Microsoft-managed conditional access policies for management portals; note on synchronization of passwords resetting user risk score; note on types of MFA that are not phish-resistant. September 2024 (111): Updated licensing to cover Entra Suite; removed preview from insider risk conditional access condition; link to FIDO2 provisioning APIs. |
| 3 (Tenant Management) | August 2024 (110): added Copilot settings management in admin center. Updated GA info for new Purview portal. Updated GA date for M365 Backup. September 2024 (111): added msportals.io. Added coverage of enterprise data protection for Copilot. Updated Adoption Score coverage. Minor corrections and grammar fixes. Added detail around commercial data protection for Copilot. Initial version of updates for the new unified Purview portal. |
| 4 (User Management | August 2024 (110): noted notification availability for self-service purchases. Minor style and grammar fixes. Noted change in roles allowed to manage license assignments. September 2024 (111): Add Teams chats and Teams meetings as two types of data to consider when dealing with the deleted accounts of ex-employees. Updated group-based licensing coverage to reflect its new home. Added note on forthcoming, and welcome, support for self-service license purchase controls in Admin center. |
| 5 (Exchange Online) | September 2024 (111): Rewrote section about Get-RecoverableItems. Updated Message Recall with new functionality. |
| 6 (Mail Flow) | August 2024 (110): Additional information about HVE. Section covering inbound DANE over DNSSEC. September 2024 (111): Added info on Bulk Senders Insight tool. Added changes to Report Message add-in. |
| 7 (SharePoint Online) | August 2024(110): New “Everyone except external users” reports are available in the Data Access Governance reports section in the SharePoint Online Admin center. All SharePoint Online sharing links now support expiration dates. September 2024 (111): New OneDrive accounts report to audit accounts that have been in an unlicensed state for more than 90 days. Updated info on Restricted Access Controls (RAC) for SharePoint sites to reflect latest enhancements added: Configure custom “learn more” links, RAC for SharePoint insights through specific PowerShell cmdlets. |
| 8 (Tasks) | August 2024 (110): updated info on task history; added new access URL; fixed description of Planner Premium rollout features; other minor grammar and style fixes. September 2024 (111): added link to Project service description; updated to match Planner Premium features; noted planned release of New Planner client. |
| 9 (Video) | August 2024 (110): Minor grammar and style fixes. September 2024 (111): Added information on information protection support. Noted do-not-download sharing setting. Minor grammar fixes. |
| 10 (Groups) | August 2024 (110): Minor changes. September 2024 (111): Included details of Tim McMichael’s DLConversionV2 tool for migrating on-premises distribution lists. |
| 11 (Teams) | August 2024 (110): Minor changes related to the Connectors retirement. It is now possible to rename the General channel in a team. September 2024 (111): Updated section about explicit consent for recording and transcription. |
| 12 (Managing Teams) | August 2024 (110): Office Connectors for Teams are retired from 15 August 2024. ACM (Application centric management) will replace app permission policies. September 2024 (111): When you create a new team from scratch, you nominate the name of the first channel. It can’t be General. Added section about Advanced Collaboration Analytics. |
| 13 (Managing Calling and Devices) | August 2024 (110): Updates to Teams Resource Accounts & policy-based call recording sections. September 2024 (111): Added section for Teams Android device management AOSP migration (preparation steps). |
| 14 (Clients) | August 2024 (110): Updated New Outlook for its GA date + features. Added OCPS updates for auditing and Teams feedback. Minor style and grammar fixes. September 2024 (111): updated various release dates; update on forced migrations for New Outlook; grammar fixes. |
| 15 (Managing Devices) | August 2024 (110): Updated just-in-time enrollment to reflect support in the Authenticator app. September 2024 (111): Added new multi-administrative approval capability |
| 16 (Compliance) | September 2024 (111): Updated section about the preservation hold library. |
| 17 (eDiscovery) | |
| 18 (DLP) | August 2024 (110): Updated section about Outlook pausing to allow Microsoft content services to evaluate sensitive email content. |
| 19 (Information Protection) | August 2024 (110): Minor tweaks to grammar and wording in several sections. |
| 20 (Reporting and Auditing) | August 2024 (110): Minor changes to script examples. September 2024 (111): Added details of how the compliance portal retrieves audit records. |
| 21 (Power Platform) | August 2024 (110): Details added about updates for Power BI and Power Platform. September 2024 (111): Updated Copilot Studio section with more details and steps to create a Copilot Studio bot using a public website as the knowledge source. |
| PowerShell Book | August 2024 (2.0): Added new details about connecting to the SharePoint Online management module. Rewrote the section about finding managers for user accounts. Many small corrections and updates throughout. September 2024 (3.0): Added details about finding real (human-used) accounts with the Graph SDK. Added details about the Set-MgRequestContext cmdlet. Added section about dealing with Microsoft Lists using Graph SDK cmdlets. Added a bunch of new content covering access to mailbox content. |
| Appendix | August 2024 (110): SLA figures for Q2 CY2024. September 2024 (111): Financial results for Microsoft FY24. |