March 2024: Entra consent administration shifts to new Teams controls and the Entra portal as legacy interfaces retire

March’s supplied Entra record consists of Microsoft 365 Message Center notices rather than documentation changes. The main operational theme is consent control migration: Teams and chat resource-specific consent settings are rolling out while legacy Group owner and Chat RSC interfaces retire, and the tenant-wide user-consent setting is leaving the Microsoft 365 admin center for the Entra portal. The other notices cover Entra PIM in public preview in the Power Platform admin center and changed Copilot welcome-email behavior for licenses assigned through PowerShell or the Entra admin center.

• Teams and chat app consent gets new resource-specific controlsMicrosoft Entra ID and Microsoft Teams

  Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Teams are introducing teams- and chat-specific consent settings for Team RSC and Chat RSC. The existing Group owner consent settings and API, along with the existing Chat RSC API, will be retired. The new settings are managed with Microsoft Graph PowerShell cmdlets, and Teams-level administrators can manage them independently. The rollout began taking effect on March 7 and is scheduled to reach all tenants by April 14. The notice describes a staged service change, not a preview or a

• Microsoft 365 admin-center user-consent control retiresMicrosoft Entra ID

  The User consent to Apps setting in the Microsoft 365 admin center will be retired in early April. This changes the administration surface rather than the policy itself: existing settings remain unchanged, but administrators will no longer be able to edit the tenant-wide policy there. The Entra portal is the replacement location, and the notice says no preparation is required.

• Entra PIM is in public preview in the Power Platform admin centerMicrosoft Entra ID and Power Platform admin center

  The March notice announces public preview of Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management in the Power Platform admin center, while noting that the capability was already available there on February 5. It brings Entra PIM’s ability to manage, control, and monitor access into that administrative context. This is a preview announcement, not evidence of general availability or a new March launch.

• Copilot welcome emails extend to licenses assigned outside the Microsoft 365 admin centerMicrosoft Entra ID and Copilot for Microsoft 365

  During a late-March through late-April rollout, end users assigned Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses through PowerShell or the Microsoft Entra admin center will automatically receive a welcome email when direct communications from Microsoft are enabled. Organizations can change communication preferences in the Microsoft 365 admin center, and individuals can change their own through security and privacy settings. This is a change in email behavior, not a reported licensing or provisioning migration.

This period briefing was generated by AI from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.