#Elements for Partners April 2025

Release Date for the Commercial Environment: April 13, 2025

Release Date for the U.S. Government Environment: April 20, 2025

#General Updates

• The User and device management service is now generally available.

  • User management centralizes tasks such as password reset, enables Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all users to meet security requirements, and facilitates user onboarding with proper permissions for efficient management.

  • Device management streamlines deploying and managing devices and applications, ensuring compliance with company policies, enhancing security through device configuration profiles, and providing a seamless user experience across all managed devices.

• Permission control has been implemented for premium services, allowing you to enforce restrictions and ensure only authorized users have access to certain functionalities.

• Elements has provided convenient back and redirect functions among premium services to help partners manage their customers efficiently.

• Centralized app management allows you to create app profiles for customers directly in Elements. This simplifies the setup process for Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, Policies for Microsoft 365, Insights, and Fly.

• Impersonation name is no longer needed when you create a custom app profile for the Microsoft 365 tenant.

• Public Preview: Administrators can configure workflows to help automate the user management processes for customers' tenants.

#What’s New in Baseline Management?

• A built-in baseline Default Intune Baseline is now available.

• You now have the ability to define drift detected scope: All supported configurations will identify any modifications made to all supported configurations; Only the baseline configurations will exclusively detect changes made to these baseline configurations while ignoring all configurations unique to the tenant.

• Domain mappings are now available, which will be used when comparing configurations between baseline and tenant and deploying configurations to a tenant.

• Baseline management now supports a wider range of configurations and policies.

#What’s New in Workspace Management?

Bulk operation is now available to edit membership for Teams, sites, groups, and OneDrives.

#What’s New in Intune Management?

• Conditional access policies can now be managed within the Intune management module.

• The Intune management module now supports the user activity report.

#What’s New in User Management?

• You can now register an API app per customer and then register an agent to connect to the customer's on-premises Active Directory for user and group management in hybrid tenants.

• User management now supports group management.

• The Overview dashboard is now available, providing a centralized view of tenant users including reports for risk and cost information.

#What’s New in Change Management Communication?

• You can now customize the Teams tab name for campaigns located in Teams.

• You can now upload separate images for light mode and dark mode in campaigns located on SharePoint sites. The displayed image will adjust based on the site's theme settings.