Microsoft 365 Announcements

Outlook – retiring support for some events from email

Microsoft will be retiring support for some types of events from their “events from email” feature. How this will affect you: Once this change happens, users will no longer get those events automatically added to their calendars. These events were not enabled by default so this change will only be ...

Microsoft Teams Update Required

In the second half of July, users who are on old versions of Teams (below version numbers containing 1.2.00.XXXX) will receive in-app notifications advising them to update to the latest version. After 28 days of receiving the first notification, these users will see a redirect page which will inform them ...

Retiring Teams support for devices running on Android 4.4

Microsoft will be retiring the Teams support on Android 4.4. Instead they recommend that users upgrade to newer Android builds. The exiting Teams build 1.0.0.2020050801 will continue to work on Android 4.4 for the next 2 months but there won’t be any app updates going forward. Instead of using Android ...

External Email Banner Project

Date: July 9, 2020
To: 
ROSI Users
From: 
Student Information Systems
Re:
External Email Banner Project Dear Colleagues, Since March 2020, Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration and Information Security have been evaluating the introduction of external email notification banners for UTmail+ (Office 365). This banner will help to protect U of T from hackers and phishing attempts, and will also protect our faculty, staff ...

Retirement of the Outlook People Pane (formerly the Outlook Social Connector)

Microsoft will be retiring the People Pane (formerly the Outlook Social Connector) feature from Outlook for Office 365 with minimum version 16.0.12712.10000 beginning in late July. Instead of the People Pane they recommend the utilization of the find related messages feature or the new faster search experience. For meeting items ...