MC973515 - Microsoft defender for Office 365: Tool tips and pointers in the Quarantine portal

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Summary

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is introducing tooltips and pointers in the Quarantine portal to assist admins. Rollout completion is mid-December 2024 worldwide, and by late January 2025 for GCC, GCC High, DoD. No admin action is required for this automatic update.

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Microsoft Defender XDR

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Feature update
Admin impact

More information

We are introducing tool tips and pointers in the Quarantine portal to help enlighten admins about the product.

When this will happen:

General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout completed in mid-December 2024.

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

How this will affect your organization:

We are introducing tool tips and guidance in-product to help enlighten admins about the Quarantine feature and to further eliminate the need to raise support requests for such guidance.

This guidance can be accessed by clicking on the Resolution to common issues on the Quarantine portal.



What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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