Microsoft 365 Announcements

Final Reminder: U of T 30-day Microsoft Teams Chat Retention Protocol coming September 30 

Date: September 23, 2024
To: EITU, MTRC, InfoTech, AMS, Broader Channels
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: Final Reminder: U of T 30-day Microsoft Teams Chat Retention Protocol coming September 30  Dear colleagues,   Following on the Sep 12, 2024 reminder memo on Teams Chat Retention, the University of Toronto ...

ActiveX will be disabled by default in Microsoft Office Apps

Date: September 23, 2024
To:  InfoTech Listserv
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: ActiveX will be disabled by default in Microsoft Office Apps Dear colleagues, Microsoft Is disabling default ActiveX Controls in Microsoft 365 apps from April 2025 and Office 2024 (from October 2024) to improve security. The default configuration setting ...

VBS deprecation 

Date: September 23, 2024
To:  InfoTech Listserv
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re: VBS deprecation  Dear colleagues, According to official announcements from Microsoft, the Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) is being deprecated. VBScript is a coding language that has been widely used by developers to add dynamic interactivity and functionality to ...

Important Update for Microsoft Forms Users | Microsoft Forms – Data sync to Excel

Microsoft Forms now supports a new, more reliable data sync to Microsoft Excel for the web. The old data sync will be replaced on October 20, 2024.  What You Need to Do: 
    • Open your Forms. 
    • Click the “Update Sync” If there ...

Reminder: U of T 30-day Microsoft Teams Chat Retention Protocol coming September 30, 2024

Date: September 12, 2024
To: ACE-IT, EITU, MTRC, InfoTech, Broader Channels
From: Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration
Re:  Reminder: U of T 30-day Microsoft Teams Chat Retention Protocol coming September 30  Dear colleagues,  Following on the Aug 12, 2024 reminder memo on Teams Chat Retention, the University of Toronto will ...