Skip to main content
🦉
Message CenterMicrosoft 365 Updates
HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio
🦉
M365 Message Centerby Cengiz YILMAZ

Track the latest updates, features, and announcements for Microsoft 365 services. Comprehensive archive of service updates and important changes.

Quick Links

HomePermissionsTenant FinderPortfolio

Connect

© 2026 M365 Message Center. Created with ❤️ by Cengiz YILMAZ

Data sourced from Microsoft 365 Message Center • Not affiliated with Microsoft

  1. Home
  2. /
  3. MC837081

Microsoft 365 admin center: Admins can no longer receive user passwords in email as of August 30, 2024

Plan for Change
Major Change

Message ID

MC837081
View in Admin Center

Services

Microsoft 365 suite

Summary

Starting August 30, 2024, the 'Send password in email' feature will be retired from the Microsoft 365 admin center. Admins should use the 'Print' option to securely share user account details. No action is required from admins for this change.

Details

We will be retiring the Send password in email feature from Microsoft 365 admin center starting August 30, 2024. Instead, we recommend using the new Print option in the Microsoft admin center to save the user account details and share them in a secure manner with your users.

Admins will no longer be able to receive usernames and passwords in email after this change is implemented.

This change will happen automatically by the specified date. No admin action is required.

Learn more: Reset passwords - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn

Timeline

📅
Published
Jul 26, 2024
Message published to Message Center
✏️
Updated
Jul 29, 2024
Message content updated
🏁
End Date
Aug 9, 2024
Message timeline ends

Tags

#User impact#Admin impact#Retirement

Category

📋Plan for Change

Related Messages

Similar updates

MC853228●

Copilot in the Microsoft Edge mobile application is being retired for Entra ID users

Aug 6, 2024
MC823307●

Configuration Change - Microsoft Edge Supported Hardware Requirements

Jul 19, 2024
MC1182696●

Microsoft Defender: Application Guard for Office is being removed

Nov 4, 2025
MC1158908●

(Update)Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction

Sep 24, 2025
MC1155427●

Legacy TLS cipher suites will be deprecated in M365 services on October 20, 2025

Sep 18, 2025