The place in the Microsoft 365 admin center, under Health, where Microsoft posts news of coming changes, new features, retirements and scheduled maintenance. Problems happening now are reported in Service health instead.
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In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains Message center in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Terms in this definition
- Microsoft 365 admin center
Microsoft's main portal for running an organisation's Microsoft 365 services, found at admin.microsoft.com. Admins use it for users, groups, licences, billing, domains and roles, to check service health and Message center, and to configure Copilot and agents, with shortcuts to the more specialised portals.
- WHERE
Limits a SELECT, UPDATE or DELETE to just the rows meeting a condition. Omit it, and the statement hits every row.
- Document Intelligence add-on capabilities
Extra Document Intelligence options switched on with the features query parameter: barcodes, formulas, keyValuePairs, languages, ocrHighResolution, queryFields and styleFont.
- Azure Service Health
Dashboard tailored to your subscriptions that reports Azure platform outages, scheduled maintenance and health advisories affecting them.
Related terms
- Service health
Shows, per service, any active incidents and advisories in the Microsoft 365 admin center, plus an Issue history tab going back 7 or 30 days. Future changes appear in Message center, not here.
- Tenant status
A single place in the Intune admin center for checking connector health, tenant information, message center posts and service health.