Again in April of 2024, Microsoft added a brand new entry on the Microsoft 365 roadmap web site a few unified administration for Microsoft Groups, Outlook and Microsoft 365 (M365). Thus going ahead, any modifications made within the Microsoft 365 admin heart app or the Groups admin heart app would even have affected all three purchasers.

Within the M365 roadmap entry below ID 393931, the corporate defined the brand new unification effort. It wrote:

Microsoft Groups: Microsoft 365 admin facilities – Handle Groups apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App

Directors utilizing the Microsoft 365 admin heart and Groups admin heart who handle Groups apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be capable to apply their modifications throughout all three purchasers (Groups, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Earlier than this replace, modifications made by means of the Built-in Apps part within the Microsoft 365 admin heart would solely have an effect on these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; equally, modifications made within the Groups admin heart would solely have an effect on Groups. With this variation, administration of those apps can be unified throughout Groups, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.

Again then, Microsoft introduced that the final availability rollout would begin in direction of the top of the second half of July 2024.

Nonetheless, Microsoft has now put this “on maintain” in the interim because it has knowledgeable so by way of the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle portal. It has been labelled as a “main change”. The message says:

Unified administration of Groups apps in Groups, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app is on maintain, with additional steerage by late Might 2025. The rollout will streamline app administration throughout platforms, consolidating settings right into a single platform. Assessment app and tenant settings collaboratively and take into account potential impacts of merge guidelines.

Much like different main modifications, Microsoft had devised a two-phase rollout for this unification mission to be able to assist keep away from issues and points with deployment and compatibility. The corporate has offered particulars about their progress. It provides that extra particulars can be offered later this month:

This rollout will occur in two main phases. Unified App Administration can apply solely to tenants which have migrated to app centric administration in Groups admin heart, as communicated in MC688930 (Up to date) Groups admin heart: App centric administration and modifications to app permission insurance policies (November 2023).

Part 1 | Common Availability (Worldwide): We are going to start rolling out late-January 2025 (beforehand mid-December 2024) is now on maintain (beforehand late March 2025), with additional steerage to be offered by late Might 2025 (beforehand late April). This section applies to tenants with no modified settings in both the Microsoft 365 admin heart (Built-in apps) or the Groups admin heart for organization-wide defaults, app deployment, app availability, or block/unblock. No merge guidelines apply to those tenants, however after this section, any app administration setting configured in both admin facilities will apply to all related hosts.

Part 2: We are going to replace this submit with a timeline and extra particulars in Might 2025 (beforehand April 2025). This section is relevant to tenants with app settings which have variations between Microsoft 365 admin heart (Built-in apps) and Groups admin heart.

If in case you have entry to the Microsoft 365 Admin Middle portal, you’ll find the entry right here below ID MC796790.