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Microsoft Teams: Related content during meeting scheduling on mobile
Related Content makes meetings more effective by providing customers with important information from their mailboxes, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint sites. Related content during scheduling will help meeting organizers schedule more effective meetings by attaching relevant files to the meeting.
ID: 81800 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Priority Accounts Exchange Online Monitoring
Exchange Online Monitoring in Microsoft 365 admin center’s Service Health Dashboard is updated with Priority Account Monitoring in addition to organization level monitoring.
ID: 82009 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: New experience to add an app
You can extend the working experience with out-of-the-box SharePoint Framework web parts and extensions in SharePoint Online as normally but using a brand-new modernized store.
ID: 82031 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Additional third-party data connectors (Veritas)
Use data connectors to import and archive third-party data from social media platforms, instant messaging platforms, document collaboration platforms and more, to mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 organization where you can then apply various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions to the imported data. This helps you ensure that your organization’s non-Microsoft data is in compliance with the regulations and standards that affect your organization. There are more additional connectors to come from Veritas (formerly Globanet).
ID: 82038 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Select sensitivity label to exclude sites from topic discovery
Use Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels to control which sites should not be included in topic discovery.
ID: 82048 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Yammer, Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Stream for Business: Yammer Encoded Events powered by Microsoft Teams
Today in Yammer the video stream and production in a Live Event is powered by Stream. With this feature, all Live Events (production and the video stream itself, within Yammer) will be powered by Microsoft Teams.
ID: 82054 Tags: Microsoft Stream, Yammer, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Viewing the transcript for a Microsoft Teams meeting recording
For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint that were recorded with Teams Live Transcript, you’ll now be able to view the transcript from that meeting directly in the transcript pane next to the video player.
ID: 82057 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility
New policy cloning feature helps you easily create similar policies for different audiences but with the same conditions for instance. The new policy consumption visibility will help you manage policies within your tenant.
ID: 82059 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Enhanced simulations and location support for auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has been updated with improved performance and ability to configure more locations. The configuration limit of 10 locations in a policy has been removed. Any new simulation will run more efficiently, with results greatly sped up from days to hours.
ID: 82060 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Bookings: Microsoft Bookings for Frontline Workers
Microsoft Bookings will be available for frontline workers with F1 and F3 licenses.
ID: 82061 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Information Governance: Optimized behavior of deleted files with multiple versions in SharePoint
SharePoint Online items with multiple versions and a retention label now move to the Preservation Hold Library as a single file containing all versions when deleted.
ID: 82062 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Information Governance: Retention label deletion behavior change in SharePoint
Improved consistency of user experience between OneDrive and SharePoint, allowing users to “delete” files labeled with a retention label configured to “retain items for a specific period” as this operation is no longer blocked with an error message. When deleted, these files will still be preserved for compliance purposes by moving a copy of them to the “Preservation Hold Library” of the site where they can be accessed by eDiscovery and other compliance solutions.
ID: 82063 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Collect related layouts in a single form processing model
We’re updating our experience to support collections (a named group of documents sharing a similar layout – a new feature in preview allowing one to compose several models into a single one) and extractable table item data.
ID: 82064 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Tenant-wide model publishing and discovery
We’re now enabling models to be published more broadly – to a site or whole tenant. This makes them available for viewing and selection directly from the document library. You’ll also be able to evaluate several models against your content to aid in selecting the most appropriate one.
ID: 82065 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
SharePoint: Microsoft List creation from Office.com
Now you will be able to create a Microsoft Lists list directly from Office.com. Click the ‘Create new’ ‘plus sign’ button and select “List.” You’ll see the same create list experience as you see from the Lists home page, in SharePoint and when using the Lists app in Teams.
ID: 82068 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Show and remove active filters in Microsoft Lists
As you apply and adjust filters to narrow or expand what appears in the current view, you’ll now see which filters have been applied and you can remove them without going back into the column filter pane – you will now do this at the top-left portion of the list.
ID: 82069 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Drag and drop row reorder in Microsoft Lists
You will now be able to reorder rows in Microsoft Lists. Just click the row you want to move, and then drag it to where you’d like it to appear in your list grid view.
ID: 82070 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling (client-side)
Organizations will be able to configure new or existing client-side Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.
ID: 82071 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling (client-side)
Organizations will be able to configure new or existing client-side Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.
ID: 82072 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Search: Back to school with Microsoft Search in Bing
New back to school features in Microsoft Search in Bing for EDU add capabilities to help students and educators discover classes, assignments, and more. Powered by Microsoft Search and integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search in Bing EDU features are designed to help students and educators make the most of their time.
ID: 82073 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Outlook: Play Conversation with Cortana in Outlook for iOS
Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS now supports playing single conversations. Simply scroll through your inbox, open a message, and select Play Conversation from the More (…) menu at the top of your screen. Cortana will read the conversation and then give you options to reply, archive, and delete.
ID: 82074 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies in chats
Suggested replies presents users with up to three recommended responses to choose from in the context of a chat. This functionality will be enabled by default for teachers and faculty, and completely disabled for all students.
ID: 82877 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home
This feature enables users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
ID: 82956 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Word: Editor will be available in Word for Mac
You can now review your writing and put your best step forward with Editor in Word for Mac.
ID: 83788 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for Teams Live Events in GCC-H and DoD
Teams Live Events held in GCC-H and DoD government clouds will have Live Captions available.
ID: 84486 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Graph: Office 365 Service Communications API availability in Microsoft Graph
The Office 365 Service Communications API will soon be made available through Graph.
ID: 68720 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Access files offline on mobile
The Teams mobile app now allows you to access files even when you are offline or in bad network conditions. Simply select the files you need access to, and Teams will keep a downloaded version to use in your mobile app. You will find all your files that are available offline in the files section of the app.
ID: 68750 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
SharePoint admin center – Migration Manager: Box migrations
With our recent Mover acquisition, we are excited to expand our capabilities to allow moving content from third-party cloud storage providers starting with Box.com. When you’re ready to move your content, click on the Migrate tab in the SharePoint admin center to start scan discovery, assessment, and migrate. You’ll get detailed reports and the rest in a seamless transition of files and folders to Microsoft 365.
ID: 68816 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: End user Real-time telemetry for meetings
End-User Real-time telemetry for meetings.
ID: 70777 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021
Office App: Office App for Desktop Improvements
The new version of the Office App for Windows has improved performance, reliability, and includes the ability to open multiple instances of the app. This update is specifically for the Office app on Windows and does not impact individual applications within the Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.). This update contains an update to the app header, and users can now open more than one app window at a time. Performance updates include efficiency improvements, like faster app loading time. This update should not impact the end user experience.
ID: 70811 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2021
SharePoint: Swap root site from SharePoint admin center for customers with 10k+ seats
Customer tenants with more than 10K seats or more can now swap their SharePoint root site from within the SharePoint admin center user interface.
ID: 72224 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High, Germany Release: June CY2021
OneDrive: Android – Night time reading mode for PDF viewing
Users of OneDrive for Android will be able to change the appearance of PDFs in three main color modes which are day mode, night mode and sepia to enhance viewing.
ID: 72230 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC High, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Availability of Praise for GCC
GCC support for Praise.
ID: 80913 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Tasks and Task publishing for GCC
GCC support for Tasks and Task Publishing.
ID: 80914 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Offline access for files
Users can now access previously opened files even when there is no internet connectivity.
ID: 81563 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Present slides from PowerPoint app for Mac
Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams.
ID: 82712 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
PowerPoint: PowerPoint modern comments for enterprise
The new modern comments experience for PowerPoint is now available through your enterprise account. Modern comments greatly improves your comments experience with features such as resolving comments, anchoring comments to objects and text, improved @mentions, and more.
ID: 82731 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Large gallery layout update on Teams mobile
To provide a better experience for our Large Gallery for meetings on Teams mobile, we are introducing a mobile-optimized layout that let you swipe through all the participants in a meeting.
ID: 82959 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Sharing device audio on iOS and Android
Include device audio when sharing on iPhones/iPads and Android devices.
ID: 83353 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021
Yammer: New Conversation Insights
See which conversations perform best. Monitor engagement, measure reach, & amplify conversations.
ID: 65516 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts
Adding the ability to collapse pinned posts in Yammer. Users can expand the conversations at any time. When viewing a pinned post in a community, the conversation will be collapsed after the newest activity on it has been seen. Users can expand the conversations at any time. When viewing a pinned post in an event page, the conversation will be collapsed by default to all for new comments in the event feed to be displayed.
ID: 66151 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Yammer: New design for Yammer Discovery and Digest emails
We’re updating the design and making content enhancements to the Discovery and Digest emails in Yammer to align with the new Yammer that is now available.
ID: 66695 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Outlook: Outlook on the web – Message Reminders
Message Reminders help you remember to reply to messages by bringing them to the top of the Inbox.
ID: 67154 Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Policy health check and ability to pause policy
Provide guidance during Communication Compliance policy creation on the settings used and the potential volume of items that will be captured. Pausing a policy will enable an administrator to manually suspend evaluations of communications.
ID: 68687 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Exchange: Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection
This update will give admins the ability to customize the various thresholds and the reply block duration for their organization in regards to a reply-all storm. Additionally, we will provide insights and reports in the modern Exchange admin center for detected reply-all storms and, information about the blocked replies.
ID: 68840 Tags: Exchange – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for GCC and GCC-High
Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling, based on content inspection, is natively built into Office apps within Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications on Windows (in the Office 365 subscription version of the Office apps) and Office Online.
ID: 68848 Tags: Office 365, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High Release: February CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance Teams conversation context
Provide the ability to retrieve additional conversation context for Microsoft Teams messages that has matched a Communication Compliance policy. This feature will help an investigator make a more informed decision of remediation actions to take next.
ID: 68872 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Mandatory Labeling in Office apps
Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now respect the Admin policy setting to require users to apply a label to documents and emails on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android (for the Office 365 subscription version of the apps).
ID: 68873 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Multi-stage disposition review
This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.
ID: 70579 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events
You may allow an anonymous user who does not have and MSA or AAD identity to be a presenter in your live event.
ID: 70599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics for GCC-High and DoD
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: 70666 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Lists: List Setting to disable/enable commenting
New list-level settings to disable/enable commenting.
ID: 70706 Tags: SharePoint – Germany, GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent speaker for Microsoft Teams Rooms
Teams intelligent speaker for Microsoft Teams Room can identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a meeting room. With these new speakers, attendees can use the transcript to follow along or capture action items.
ID: 70762 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Mandatory labeling in Office apps for gov clouds
Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now respect the Admin policy setting to require users to apply a label to documents and emails on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android (for the Office 365 subscription version of the apps).
ID: 70789 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Forms: Shorten URL when sending Forms to collect responses
In Microsoft Forms, you can now choose to use a shorter URL in some scenarios directly, enabling the responders easier to type and access the link for specific situations.
ID: 75243 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Spotlighting multiple Users at the same time in a meeting
Organizers and presenters can now spotlight up to 7 participants simultaneously during meetings.
ID: 80425 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Forms: Correct Answer choice feature added to Microsoft Forms Poll in Teams Meetings
This feature introduces the concept of a Correct Answer choice to Polls within Teams meetings. Correct answer choices can be selected on multiple choice questions only. Correct answer can be a single option, or multiple if “multiple answers” is enabled. Correct answer choice will be shown after voting in the Results card. This feature exists for: Teams Meeting polls (that pop up as a window on the screen) and Polls used within Teams Chat both inside and outside of meetings. It also will be displayed if you open these polls on your Forms site (read only mode).
ID: 80519 Tags: Forms, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Outlook: Floor Plans for workspace booking in mobile devices
Add floor plans to your reserved workspaces so users can easily see where a workspace is located. To add floor plans, in the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to Answers, and then select Floor plans.
ID: 81950 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
OneDrive and SharePoint for Business: Immersive Reader support in OneDrive and SharePoint
Users can now open Word files directly into Immersive Reader from inside OneDrive and SharePoint.
ID: 81954 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
SharePoint and OneDrive for Business: Share dialog : adding Link settings to the quick permissions
We are making link settings more discoverable by adding it to the quick permissions inside the OneDrive Share Dialog.
ID: 81958 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling
Organizations will be able to configure new or existing Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.
ID: 81968 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance Sensitive information types per location report
Review and export the sensitive information types detected in all your Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft communication channels currently scoped into your Communication Compliance policies.
ID: 81970 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Forms: Shorten URL in response link
Enable Forms Short URL in Gov and DoD environment.
ID: 81984 Tags: Forms – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Endpoint discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enables organizations to discover and secure unmanaged endpoints. Once discovered integrated workflows can be used to secure the devices using Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management, threat detection and automated incident responses capabilities.
ID: 82001 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center and Microsoft Teams for Business: Compliance capabilities for card content generated through apps in Teams messages
We are extending Microsoft 365 compliance capabilities to content generated through Teams apps.
ID: 82992 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management data appears in Activity Explorer
Activity explorer provides risk investigators and analysts with a comprehensive tool that surfaces detailed information about alerts to enhance the alert triage experience.
ID: 83952 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Ability to ignore email signature or disclaimer
Provide the ability within Communication Compliance to define text that should be ignored during policy evaluation to avoid false positives.
ID: 68133 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management hand-off
Introducing a new remediation action in Communication Compliance that will enable a user to be added to an existing Insider risk management policy for further evaluation.
ID: 68686 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account
Users in your organization will have the ability to earn Microsoft Rewards points when signed into select Microsoft 365 services (Microsoft Search in Bing) with their organizational (work or school) account. This item is being postponed and will be added back to the roadmap when appropriate.
ID: 70634 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: Support for Microsoft Endpoint DLP on MacOS
We are continuing to evaluate Microsoft Endpoint DLP on Mac. We will update this item when we have more information to share.
ID: 82860 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
