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Outlook: Outlook on the web Project Moca (preview) for World Wide Multi-Tenant

Project MOCA in Outlook is a new way to organize items such as emails, tasks, links, files in a visual way. Items are synced across Microsoft 365.

ID:67162   Tags: Exchange, Outlook- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)    Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Restricting Sign-In to specific tenants for GCC, GCC-High and DoD

You will now have the ability to restrict sign-in to Teams on managed devices, to ensure that employees cannot access another organization’s tenant from the device/app they are authorized to use for work.

ID:68693    Tags: Microsoft Teams- GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression

AI-based, real-time noise suppression, will be added to Microsoft Teams. This feature will automatically remove unwelcome background noise during your meetings. AI-based noise suppression works by analyzing an individual’s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out the noise and retain only the speech signal.  This is an update to the existing noise suppression. Users will now have have control over how much noise suppression they want. The “High” setting is new and will suppress more background noise.

ID:68694   Tags: Microsoft Teams- DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (standard multi-tenant), GCC, Education    Release: November CY2020

Cortana: Briefing Email support for Spanish

This personalized, actionable briefing email from Cortana, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will support Spanish.

ID:68695   Tags: Cortana, Office 365- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in the Desktop Client for Microsoft Teams

Some messages result in follow-up actions. With the “create a task from a message” feature in Teams, you’ll be able to create a task from a message in group or 1:1 chats or from a channel post or reply. Powered by the new Tasks in Teams experience, this functionality will allow you to choose which individual task list or shared plan you’d like to save the task to. This roadmap item represents the desktop functionality. We will listen to feedback from the desktop experience and will then plan to implement a similar experience for Teams mobile, if feedback indicates that would be valuable.

ID:68696   Tags: Microsoft Teams- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Outlook: Outlook on the web – Favorite people and calendar event browser notifications

You will be able to receive browser notifications for your favorite people and calendar events from Outlook. You can control in Settings if you want to receive browser notifications for your favorite people, for events, or for both.

ID:68698    Tags: Exchange, Outlook- Education, Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Outlook: FindTime – Require Attendee Verification and Locking Poll for Attendees

By enabling these new options, attendees of a poll can be required to authenticate themselves before voting. Attendees can also be prevented from adding, removing, and editing other attendees; and can additionally be prevented from suggesting new time options.

ID:68699    Tags: Outlook- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)    Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for sensitivity labels in Teams and SharePoint sites

With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. This new external sharing control is granular. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ‘confidential’—restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ‘general’—allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in.

ID:68700    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Out of Office

Let others know that you are not available by scheduling your Out of Office in Teams. During this time, your presence status will change to “Out of Office” and your status message will be displayed when someone reaches out to you via chat. Additionally, your Outlook calendar and automatic replies will be updated accordingly.

ID:68701  Tags: Microsoft Teams- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Office app: Changing update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on iOS, Mac and Android

We are changing the update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on iOS, Mac and Android to bring consistency to update channel names across all the platforms Office is available on, and to enable organizations to make better decisions around their servicing strategy. The new update channel names will include Current Channel and Beta Channel. While Insider program remains, we will use Beta Channel and Current Channel (Preview) as the new names for the update channels designed for our early adopter/Insider audience. Only the names of the existing update channels are changing. These update channels still work the same way as they did before.

ID:68703   Tags: Office App- GCC, Education, Worldwide (standard multi-tenant), GCC High, Germany, DoD   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collect and review encrypted content attached to local copy in Exchange

Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and attached as a local copy to an email in Exchange from the Advanced eDiscovery solution.

ID:68704    Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)    Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collect and review encrypted content stored in SharePoint and or OneDrive for Business

Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content that has been encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and stored in SharePoint or OneDrive from the Advanced eDiscovery solution.

ID:68705    Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center (standard multi-tenant)    Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Longer term retention on audit logs

Log retention for up to one year to meet investigation requirements and customize retention policies per an organization’s requirements.

ID:68706  Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- DoD, GCC High, GCC  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Expanded support to search and export items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Recycle Bin in Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery

Traditionally, when a site is on hold, the files in the Recycle Bin would be stored in the Preservation Hold library. In cases when a site is not on hold, there is no way to search or export items in the Recycle Bin. The eDiscovery and SharePoint Online teams are making architectural changes that will make the Recycle Bin (both first-stage and second-stage Recycle Bins) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business searchable and exportable by eDiscovery Managers. That means organizations can search and export items in the Recycle Bin regardless of whether a site is on hold or not.

ID:68707    Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Processed audit insights

Insights and correlations that signal key patterns to help identify quick answers to typical queries during investigations.

ID:68708   Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- DoD, GCC High, GCC  Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics

Data classification capabilities in Microsoft 365 compliance center help you get a holistic understanding of the sensitive data in your digital estate and related user activities. Overview shows you the locations of your digital content and most common sensitive information types and labels present. Content Explorer provides visibility into amount and types of sensitive data, and allows you to filter by label or sensitivity type to get a detailed view of locations where the sensitive data is stored. Activity Explorer shows activities related to your sensitive data and labels, such as label downgrades or external sharing that could expose your content to risk.

ID:68709   Tags: Microsoft Information Protection- GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Records Management – Regulatory Records

Provides customers the ability to declare items in SharePoint Online as regulatory items. These labels are more stringent label vs record labels. Targeted to Financial services or other industries who have WORM compliance requirements. Will update the Cohasset assessment to include SharePoint Online.

ID:68710   Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- DoD, GCC High, GCC   Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Double-byte character support

Compliance solutions such as Data Loss Prevention, Exact Data Match, and Communication Compliance will benefit from the ability to detect double-byte language characters found in East Asian languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, improving the ability to understand, label, and protect customer data.

ID:68711      Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Records Management – Regulatory Records

Provides customers the ability to declare items in SharePoint Online as regulatory items. These labels are more stringent label vs record labels. Targeted to Financial services or other industries who have WORM compliance requirements. Will update the Cohasset assessment to include SharePoint Online.

ID:68712    Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- DoD, GCC High, GCC   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: CJK or Double-byte character support for Advanced eDiscovery

This update adds support for adding CJK or Double-byte characters to Advanced eDiscovery review sets.

ID:68713   Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: November CY2020

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – column settings in Grid view

The capabilities when in Lists “Grid” view (previously Quick Edit) will now allow people to pin a column to the filter’s pane, format the column, show/hide columns, and hide their column(s). You used to have to exit out of Grid edit to accomplish these common tasks.

ID:68714    Tags: SharePoint- DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (standard multi-tenant), Germany, GCC, Education    Release: October CY2020

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Support for thousands separator in Number column

When Lists owners and members leverage the Number column, they can now choose if the comma should appear or not.

ID:68716    Tags: SharePoint- Education, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (standard multi-tenant), GCC High, DoD   Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for Government clouds

Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

ID:68718   Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- DoD, GCC High, GCC     Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Mail forward and mail send events for Government Clouds

The Send event is a mailbox auditing action and is triggered when a user sends, replies to, or forwards an email message. Investigators can use the Send event to identify email sent from a compromised account.

ID:68719    Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center- GCC, GCC High, DoD    Release: December CY2020

Office Apps: Action Center

Conduct quick actions to Office devices such as changing the Office Apps update channel or version.  You can target a single device or a group of devices via Azure AD groups.

ID:68933      Tags: Office App- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)    Release: January CY2021

Yammer: New inclusive reactions for posts

This feature introduces diverse skin tones on reactions to help every user feel sense of representation while interacting on Yammer.

ID:71785    Tags: Yammer- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: IT admins can use MSIX app attach from the Azure portal to reduce image management overhead

MSIX app attach is an application layering solution that allows you to dynamically attach an application (that is an MSIX package) to a user session. Separating out the application from the operating system makes it easier to create a golden virtual machine image, and you get more control with providing the right application for the right user.

ID:71891   Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab page (NTP) integrates productivity with customizable, work relevant feed content.

The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable “My Feed” with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you.

ID:72354     Tags: Microsoft Edge- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant), Germany, GCC    Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.87: Reset your Microsoft Edge sync data in the cloud manually

We are introducing a way to reset your Microsoft Edge sync data from within the product. This ensures that your data is cleared from Microsoft services, as well as resolving certain product issues that previously required a support ticket.

ID:72361     Tags: Microsoft Edge- Worldwide (standard multi-tenant)     Release: October CY2020

Rolling Out

Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online

Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

ID:62587    Tags: Security and Compliance Center, Microsoft Compliance Center- Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Mail forward and mail send events

The Send event is a mailbox auditing action and is triggered when a user sends, replies to, or forwards an email message. Investigators can use the Send event to identify email sent from a compromised account.

ID:62588     Tags: Office 365, Microsoft Compliance Center- Worldwide (Standard multi-tenant)    Release: October CY2020

Launched

SharePoint: Enable modern communication site experience on classic sites

Using PowerShell, admins can now enable the modern communication site experience on any classic team site, including the root site.

ID:46338     Tags: SharePoint- Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard multi-tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD   Release: July CY2020

Canceled

Notifications for shared lists in Microsoft To Do (AAD users)

(This is a duplicate of 67114 and will be removed.) Customers who use list sharing in Microsoft To Do with their AAD account will begin receiving push notifications for activity in shared lists, such as task creation and completion.

ID:56871   Tags: Microsoft To Do- All environments   Release: March CY2021

PowerPoint: Live Captions and Subtitles in PowerPoint for GCC and GCC-High

(This is a duplicate of 66205.) Live Captions and Subtitles enables presenters to turn captions or subtitles on in 60+ languages, while presenting in 10+ spoken languages with PowerPoint for Windows 10, macOS, and Web. Note this release is for our GCC and GCC-High tenants, and does not yet include DoD environments.

ID:66745     Tags: PowerPoint- GCC, DoD, GCC High    Release: October CY2020