Now that we have talked about the service
health, let's talk about how you can keep
up to date with Microsoft 365 updates. In
the cloud world, keeping up to date really
becomes part of your job because Microsoft
ships feature updates daily, and unlike
on-premises, we do not control when those
updates hit our tenants. So it's really an
ongoing task. In other words, even if
you're an IT pro and didn't really deal
with change management a lot for on-prem,
it's now part of your job in the cloud
world. So where do we go to stay up to
date? There are really four main places;
the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the Office 365
Message Center, the Microsoft Tech
Community, and lastly, Social Media and
Conferences. Let's take a look at them in
detail. First of all, the Microsoft 365
Roadmap. The Microsoft 365 Roadmap is the
central roadmap for all of the features in
the Microsoft 365 services, and it can be
found on the web at the link in the slides
or simply search for Microsoft 365 Roadmap
on your favorite search engine, and you
will find it. Features on the roadmap go
through several stages so you can really
follow the progression. First of all, they
show as in development, then they go into
rolling out, and finally, into launched
once they're available in each and every
tenant. If you want to make it easier to
follow, you can also subscribe to the RSS
feed of the roadmap and follow it in your
favorite RSS reader. Next up is the Office
365 Message Center. The Office 365 Message
Center can be found in your Microsoft 365
admin portal, and here you can get
messages from Microsoft on upcoming
changes, updates, and so on. Messages come
in different categories such as stay
informed, plan for change, and prevent or
fix issues. It's important to know that
all of the messages you get are really
when stuff is coming to your tenant. So if
a feature is not activated in your tenant,
you might not get a message for it. Also,
something that is super important is that
the ability to view the message center is
not included in the SharePoint
administrator role so you need to have
either the message center reader role, or
the service administrator role in order to view them.