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Microsoft Teams will soon allow customers to give and take control to create seamless interactivity between virtualized desktop environments and physical desktop devices. The feature, which will be available in commercial GCC and GCC high, will be released by March 2022.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Shared templates between Teams and SharePoint

Team templates and SharePoint templates are now shared for specific use cases.

ID: 84724 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for VMware on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

User on VMware will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87558 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Azure Window Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

User on Azure Window Desktop will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87559 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

User on Citrix will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87560 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Check out for Microsoft Teams panels

From a Microsoft Teams panel, users can “check out” of a room with the touch of a button, ending the room reservation and returning the room back to the room inventory.

ID: 88047 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Extend Room reservations for Microsoft Teams panels

From a Microsoft Teams panel, users can extend their existing meeting room reservation. The reservation can only be extended if the room is available during that time.

ID: 88643 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2022

Outlook: Contact lists

The new Outlook for Mac is adding support for Contact lists (aka Personal Distribution Lists).

ID: 88829 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold reports (US Government clouds)

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

ID: 88831 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release:

Microsoft Viva: Briefing Email support for Japanese and Simplified Chinese

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

ID: 88832 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Advanced Deployment Guides with Self-Service Automation focusing on Compliance Administration

Updated step by step advanced setup wizards and automation to help tenant admins deploy services.

ID: 88833 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Yammer: Support for EU members to be invited to External Networks hosted in the US

Members from Yammer Networks hosted in the EU can be invited to and participate in Yammer External Networks hosted in the US.

ID: 88837 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

SharePoint: Section Templates for SharePoint Pages

When you add a new section to a page, you can select a blank template with popular image and text combinations for a quick start.

ID: 88838 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Shared focus plan in Viva Insights

The shared focus plan enables managers and team leads to foster mutual productivity norms and drive a positive team culture by inviting teams to book focus time for uninterrupted work.

ID: 88839 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

OneDrive and SharePoint: Edit High Value Control (HVC) – High Efficiency Image Format (HEIC) File Support

Users can edit (Crop or rotate, adjust, filter and markup) the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIC) files through the Edit HVC. After editing the image, if the user wishes to save the changes, the file would be copied as a new jpg file.

ID: 88841 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Manager insights in Microsoft Viva Insights app, Outlook and Office.com for GCC

To empower managers to foster productivity and wellbeing for teams – large or small – new insights and tools are being introduced in the “My team” tab of the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams for GCC, as well as in manager cards in the daily briefing and monthly digest emails from Microsoft Viva. These will help managers explore and improve their personal habits and team culture. Further, a new Viva Insights team home page will be discoverable at Office.com.

ID: 88843 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Approvals PCF controls for Power Apps

Developers are able to plug in Approvals PCF controls when creating a new Power App.

ID: 89105 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pinned apps for frontline workers

We are providing a tailored experience for frontline workers in Teams! With this feature users with an F license will get frontline worker apps such as Tasks, Shifts, Walkie Talkie and Approvals pinned out of the box. Organizations can further configure the apps pinned, but this feature provides a foundation for a Teams environment purpose-built for frontline workers.

ID: 89924 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Project: Project for the web and Roadmap capabilities for GCC

Project for the web app and Roadmap capabilities are coming soon.

ID: 56256 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Transcription for 1:1 Calls

Transcription captures the text version of your Call and saves it for later use. This can be enabled via the control bar within the Call window.

ID: 68774 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: January CY2022

SharePoint: Improvements to the authoring experience in SharePoint Pages

We’re making changes to the editing experience for SharePoint pages. This change will make it easier for users to understand where they are in a page by adding labels to each content area. These changes also reduce clutter by consolidating web part editing actions into a single toolbar and placing authors into focus mode by default to remove visual distractions while editing.

ID: 82177 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2021

SharePoint: Improvements to the Text Web Part toolbar for SharePoint Pages and News

Authors of SharePoint Pages and News will be able to access all simple text editing tools from the Text toolbar.

ID: 82180 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription In Call App V2

1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription will now show in the Calls App, in the “call details” panel.  This feature permits users to view call recordings and transcriptions for both PSTN and VoIP calls.  Users have the option to delete call recordings, removing them from the call history in “call details” panel. If there are multiple recordings of a call, each call recording will appear in a list in call history, in the “call details” panel.

ID: 83497 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management integration with Teams and Power Automate

Insider Risk Management integration with Microsoft Teams allows for richer collaboration across an organization. Additionally, integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Insider Risk Management cases and users. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 83960 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release:

Microsoft Teams: Introducing background effects on web

When you use Teams on the web, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely with the images provided in your video meeting or call. Note: Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting.

ID: 85738 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Queue view for virtual visits scheduled in the Microsoft Bookings app

Real time updates to meeting state in a queue view for virtual visits scheduled in the Microsoft Bookings app.

ID: 86718 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams for Education Career Coach – Admin feature enabling

IT admin will have controls in Teams Admin Center for enabling new Career Coach features for their school.

ID: 87995 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams for Education Career Coach – Connection messages

Students can now select a message to include with their LinkedIn connection invitation to school alumni.

ID: 87996 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account setting

A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.

ID: 88430 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: January CY2022

OneDrive: Limit OneDrive access and sharing to specified users

Ability to allow only specified users access to OneDrive in your tenant.

ID: 88514 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

SharePoint: MSFT Editor Spellcheck and Grammar in SharePoint Pages

We are adding the Microsoft Editor service to SharePoint Pages and News and enabling their spellcheck and grammar capabilities. This will allow proofreading to take place in SharePoint without relying on the Editor browser extension. This feature changes the suggestions colors to monochrome when they’re shown on a themed background to increase visibility.

ID: 88534 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Content type to advanced metadata search

Use content type classification to find files using advanced metadata search.

ID: 88714 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: AIP client and scanner data available in Audit and Activity explorer for Government customers

Azure Information Protection (AIP) customers can now access data in Microsoft 365 compliance center Audit logs and Activity explorer, in addition to the AIP Analytics portal. This means that all data logged via AIP client and AIP scanner can be witnessed along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.

ID: 89777 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Azure Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2021

Launched

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD, Germany Release: December CY2021

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD, Germany Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Preview of IT admin-led migration from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to the new Microsoft Stream

Early preview and ability to migrate videos from Microsoft Stream (Classic) to the new Microsoft Stream, specifying the target location for the video: the team, site, community, or user file store.

ID: 68928 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Yammer: Nested Replies in Yammer

Yammer conversations will soon have nested replies. This threading makes it easier for users to read and engage with conversations that have many comments by organizing replies together in a way that maintains context. This feature also includes improvements to: deleting comments, allowing users to deep link to specific replies, and improved community feed ordering.

ID: 70809 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: New named entities SITs and enhanced unified policy authoring templates (Public Preview)

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities, and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as DLP and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US HIPAA and EU GDPR.

ID: 72194 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Outlook: For iOS – More actions available in press and hold menus

This coming Outlook for iOS release will make Book a Workspace available in the New Message and New Event press and hold menus.

ID: 72217 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Word: Dictation in Word for the Web now available for GCC and GCC-High Tenants

Dictation is now available for those in government GCC and GCC-High Tenants.

ID: 79599 Tags: Word – GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Navigate PDF documents using page thumbnails

You will now be able to navigate through your PDF document using thumbnails representing the pages. These thumbnails will appear in the pane on the left side of the PDF reader.

ID: 81032 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v. 94: Microsoft Edge moving to a 4-week cadence for updates in Beta and Stable channels

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, we will adopt a new, 4-week release cycle for major versions.

ID: 81426 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New Extended stable option being offered.

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, we are offering a new Extended Stable option to our managed Enterprise customers. The Extended Stable option will stay on even numbered revisions and update every 8 weeks. There will be a biweekly security update.

ID: 81427 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Forms: Improved Forms mobile experience for Form Creation or Analysis

Form designers who create forms and analyze results from Mobile will now have a much more mobile friendly experience that is optimized for their device, making Forms even easier to use.  This will be available to New forms and Existing forms in the browser and a few weeks later in the Office Mobile app.

ID: 81843 Tags: Forms – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva and Outlook: Briefing email support for Italian and Portuguese

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

ID: 81999 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Triage and investigation improvements

Enhancements including historical insight for Exchange Online, ingest triggering events into Activity explorer. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 82142 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Policy customization enhancements

Ability to fine-tune policies to trigger on precise exfiltration events. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 82143 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Exfiltration signals from macOS

Endpoint exfiltration signals for Office, PDF, and CSV files from macOS endpoints. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. This is available as an opt-in preview.

ID: 82152 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to the Mailflow Status Report

We’re introducing a new look for the mailflow status report, as we update existing reports to the latest and greatest. You can expect all of the same great information in an easier to use layout.

ID: 82173 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Built-in filters in Activity explorer

We are releasing built-in filters for use within Activity explorer to allow easy access to the most used filters.

ID: 82184 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Edge v.92: Automatic HTTPS

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 92, users will have the option to upgrade navigations from HTTP to HTTPS on domains likely to support this more secure protocol. This support can also be configured to attempt delivery over HTTPS for all domains. More secure connections help protect customers from man-in-the-middle attacks.

ID: 82862 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New policy to stop implicit sign in

This new policy allows system administrators to disable implicit sign-in on Microsoft Edge browsers, starting with version 94.

ID: 82863 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New policy to stop implicit sign in

This new policy allows system administrators to disable implicit sign-in on Microsoft Edge browsers, starting with version 94.

ID: 82863 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Protocol launch support for PWA

Developers can create a more engaging native-like experience if we allow Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to be registered as handlers for URL protocols.

ID: 82864 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.93: IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support “nomerge” behavior

Starting in Edge 93, IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support nomerge. For an end-user, when a new browser window is launched from an IE mode application, it will be in a separate session, similar to the nomerge behavior in IE11. You will need to adjust your site list to configure sites that need to prevent session sharing as “nomerge”. Behind the scenes, for each window of Microsoft Edge, the first time an IE mode tab is visited within that window, if it is one of the designated “nomerge” sites, that window is locked into a different “nomerge” IE session from all other Microsoft Edge windows at least until the last IE mode tab is closed in that window. This follows previous behavior where users could launch IE with nomerge and could also launch Microsoft Edge without nomerge via other mechanisms.

ID: 83731 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: Publish and update extensions to the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store using API’s

Once available, you can integrate these API’s directly into your continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline, and publish extension package updates to the Microsoft Edge Add-on store without using the partner center.

ID: 84182 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams device management for Surface Hubs

Administrations will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.

ID: 84536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams meetings roster update for Teams Rooms on Windows

The updated meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) more closely aligns with the experience available through the Teams desktop app, and includes capabilities like participant grouping, sort roster by raised hand, integrated user search. As well as with ability to ask others to join meeting from invited list or from chat.

ID: 84578 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)

Microsoft Edge will begin supporting an even safer browsing mode that uses hardware-dependent control flow for browser processes on supported hardware (Intel 11th Gen. or AMD Zen 3). You can disable CET by manipulating Image File Execution Options (IFEO) using group policy.

ID: 84891 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Yammer: Community Header in Yammer Embed Feed

Previously, embedded community feeds did not surface the community name, description, or ability to join. In an effort to give users more context and ability to engage deeper with the feeds, we are adding the community name, description, and ability to join/leave at the top of the community feeds by default. When clicked, the community name will take users to the community page in Yammer.

ID: 84955 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: Free form highlighting on PDFs

Starting in Microsoft Edge version 95, the PDF viewing and markup experience will be improved with the addition of freeform highlighters. This will allow you to highlight sections on PDFs that you may not have access to comment on as well as scanned documents.

ID: 85318 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: Notification from web apps show as coming from the Progressive Web Apps (PWA)

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, notifications from progressive web applications PWAs will no longer show as coming from Microsoft Edge, but rather will display the name of the web app instead.

ID: 85319 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.93: Initial Preferences in Microsoft Edge

Deploying Microsoft Edge to your enterprise will become easier starting in version 93, with the addition of Initial Preferences.

ID: 85320 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: Improved handoff between IE mode and the modern browser

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 95, the transition between the modern browser experience and the IE mode experience will improve. Referrer headers, post data, forms data and request methods will now be forwarded properly across the two experiences.

ID: 85321 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.97: Launch PWA instead of browser with URL links

Starting in Microsoft Edge version 97, you can opt into launching the browser in a PWA rather than the full native browser.

ID: 85327 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organization scenarios for Exchange Online Monitoring

Exchange Online Monitoring in Microsoft 365 admin center’s Service Health Dashboard is updated with two new scenarios for organization level monitoring: App connectivity, and Open Outlook on the web.

ID: 85564 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Guided onboarding experience: recommended actions

Recommended actions that an admin should take for a complete onboarding experience. In-product guided walkthrough on how to complete onboarding actions such as selecting indictors, setting up a policy, and how to investigate an alert. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 85576 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance tagging improvements (Government clouds)

We are making tagging improvements based on feedback to improve investigation and remediation actions in Communication Compliance. We are adding column that will display the current tag applied, and we’ll provide the ability to unresolve a message so it can be triaged again by an investigator.

ID: 85586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: December CY2021

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – sorting and filtering

Add support for sorting and filtering the list of devices in the Sync admin reports.

ID: 85595 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – DLP policy recommendation

We are surfacing Communication Compliance policy recommendations within the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) workflow, with the ability to apply DLP policy insights to your insider risk practice to better identify user behavior and intent. Customers will now be directed to configure a relevant policy in Communication Compliance at the end of the DLP policy configuration flow.

ID: 85651 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

SharePoint: New vertical site templates – Nonprofit, Retail and Healthcare

New vertical site templates coming to SharePoint including nonprofit volunteer center, retail management, store collaboration and healthcare hospital collaboration.

ID: 85659 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic view on single and dual displays for Teams Rooms on Windows

Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side or to view content or people only.

ID: 85811 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Room video fits to frame for Teams Rooms on Windows

Conference room video fits to frame by default and provide a full view of the room on Teams desktop app. Users can choose to fill frame for room video as needed.

ID: 85813 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Support for large meeting controls for Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability for a Teams Room on Windows to join a large meeting as a presenter or attendee. Based on the role assumed by the Teams Room, appropriate meeting controls are made available to presenters for meeting moderation and for attendees.

ID: 85814 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Lock meeting support for Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability to lock a meeting, preventing additional participants from joining. Users attempting to join a locked meeting will be informed that the meeting is locked.

ID: 85815 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live reactions for Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability to view live reactions sent by participants in a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Room users can also send reaction from center of the room console.

ID: 85817 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Pin multiple video streams in Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability to pin multiple video streams (up to 9 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. User can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

ID: 85819 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Presenter mode support in Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability for presenter mode views to appear on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Presenter mode is a feature in PowerPoint Live that helps you customize how your video feed and content appear to the meeting audience.

ID: 85820 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Spotlight multiple video streams for Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability to Spotlight multiple video streams (up to 7 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. Users can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

ID: 85822 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This release will include features such as the dashboard authoring capability, setting a home site via the SharePoint admin center, dashboard and feed web parts for your home site and the Viva Connections app in Teams.

ID: 86542 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: Update saved passwords with 1 click

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, you can easily update your saved passwords with a single click.

ID: 86804 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New accessibility settings page

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 94, we have brought accessibility-related settings together on a single page. You can find the new edge://settings/accessibility page under the main settings list. Here you can find settings to make the web page bigger, show a high visibility outline around the area of focus and other settings that can help improve your web browsing experience. We’ll continue to add new settings here in future versions of Microsoft Edge.

ID: 86805 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: View in File Explorer support for SharePoint Online libraries in Microsoft Edge

Starting in Microsoft Edge version 95, you can enable the View in File Explorer capability on SharePoint Online. For this experience to be visible and work for your users, you will need to enable the Microsoft Edge policy “Configure the View in File Explorer feature for SharePoint pages in Microsoft Edge” and update your SharePoint Online tenant configuration.

ID: 86806 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.93: Policies to bypass ClickOnce and DirectInvoke prompts

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 93, we have updated our policies to enable bypassing ClickOnce and DirectInvoke confirmation before opening specified file types from specified domains. To bypass prompts, you will need to: Enable AutoOpenFileTypes policy and list the specific file types that ClickOnce and DirectInvoke should be disabled for and Enable the AutoOpenAllowedForURLs policy and set the list of specific domains that should bypass prompting.

ID: 86908 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.95: File:// type links will be opened from the browser

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 95, a new policy will be added that allows opening file:// links from the browser.

ID: 86910 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Edge: Cloud Site List Management for IE mode

Microsoft Edge with IE mode creates a seamless single browser experience for enterprise environments with a mix of legacy and modern applications. Cloud Site List Management enables you to manage your site lists for IE mode in the cloud without needing on-premises infrastructure to host your organization’s site list. You can access this through the Microsoft Edge Site Lists experience in the M365 Admin Center. You can create, import, edit and export your site lists as well as publish site lists to the cloud. Multiple site lists can be published to the cloud and group policy can be used to assign different groups of devices to use different lists.

ID: 88257 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (DoD)

Power BI will send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Azure Information Protection (AIP), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.

ID: 88530 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: December CY2021

Canceled

Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on External Networks for the EU

This item is cancelled and replaced by the roadmap 88837. With this release, guests from Yammer networks associated located in the  European Union, can be invited to Yammer External Networks hosted by a Yammer network located in the United States.

ID: 76676 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)

This is cancelled as a duplicate of 84891. Microsoft Edge will begin supporting an even safer browsing mode that uses hardware-dependent control flow for browser processes on supported hardware (Intel 11th Gen. or AMD Zen 3). You can disable CET by manipulating Image File Execution Options (IFEO) using group policy.

ID: 84183 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in Microsoft Teams for GCC

Quickly create tasks right from any Microsoft Teams chat or channel conversation without having to switch apps or windows. Select More options on a Teams message to choose ‘Create task’ and track in the Tasks app in Teams.  This item is cancelled as it is a duplicate of 68696.

ID: 85257 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Planner, Microsoft To Do – GCC Release: January CY2022