Two types of retention labels are in use: Microsoft 365 retention labels and MRM retention tags. Clients hide the difference, but the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK cmdlets can only process Microsoft 365 retention labels for files stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. EWS can manage MRM retention tags, but it’s on a fast path to retirement in 2026…

On December 12, Microsoft said that they want to make the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet use high completeness for all its searches. If implemented, the result will be a disaster because many of the current uses of the cmdlet to retrieve audit log data will be rendered impracticable because of the slowness and unreliability of high completeness searches. Microsoft just doesn’t seem to understand how its software is used in production.

In January 2025, Microsoft will introduce resizable Teams windows for the Windows and Mac desktop clients. This is a fundamental change to the client experience that will affect how end users interact with Teams. In a nutshell, users can resize panes like the chat list or meeting stage to a minimum of 360 pixels, which isn’t a lot. On the other hand, you can zoom a Teams window to 400%, which is definitely a lot.

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Microsoft originally were going to license the Outlook Org Explorer to E3 and E5 users. Then they had the clever plan to license the feature through Viva. The gloss has gone off that idea and now Microsoft says that all commercial Microsoft 365 users will be able to use the Org Explorer starting in early 2025. In other news, you’ve been given 15 months’ notice about Outlook toggling.