Play of the Week

Microsoft Outlook for Windows will now support S/MIME Sensitivity Label. This new update will allow admins to define the labels with a S/MIME sign and encryption and will automatically be added to emails or files.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s

The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manager Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals.

ID: 94653 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live

Allow meeting attendees to privately magnify the slide and allow presenters to magnify the slide for all meeting attendees.

ID: 96758 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls

Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.

ID: 98054 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office apps can now audit protection properties applied to a document through sensitivity labels

Added the missing audit fields related to the protection status of a document and how the protection was changed due to a specific event. That would include the following fields: protectionEventType, documentEncrypted, documentEncryptedBefore, protectionType, protectionTypeBefore, protectionTemplateId, protectionTemplateIdBefore, protectionOwner and protectionOwnerBefore.

ID: 98135 Tags: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint – General Availability Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

ID: 99706 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Preview, Targeted Release, General Availability Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export

Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators.

ID: 100055 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Preview, General Availability Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export (U.S. Government clouds)

Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators.

ID: 100056 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – General Availability, Preview Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Review – Query builder enhancements

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality including NOT/OR conditions, grouping, and alignment between Collections and Review query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

ID: 100057 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Preview, General Availability Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Review – Query builder enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality including NOT/OR conditions, grouping, and alignment between Collections and Review query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

ID: 100058 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – General Availability, Preview Release: February CY2023

Outlook: S/MIME sensitivity label support natively on Outlook for Windows

Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Admins can define the label to have S/MIME sign, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly.

ID: 100062 Tags: Outlook – General Availability, Current Channel, Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Topics action cards in Viva Connections

Starting in November 2022, Viva Topics will have two different action cards that can be used on the Viva Connections Dashboard. One is a discover card that can be used to explore topics and knowledge areas across the company for people who could be interested in learning more or contributing to a topic. Topics and knowledge areas are dynamically displayed in the card based on your interests, current projects, and expertise.

ID: 100253 Tags: Microsoft Viva – General Availability Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Teams Channels

Earlier this year, we rolled out new Viva Topics integrations with Microsoft Teams. To widen the reach of Topics into the areas team members work, Viva Topics will expand from chats in Teams to channels in Teams, allowing users to mention topics and see topic cards within a given channel. This addition to the Teams integration will make the Topics experience more intuitive and approachable, allowing you to interact with topics in the spaces you are used to collaborating with team members.

ID: 100254 Tags: Microsoft Viva – General Availability, Preview Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Outlook: Support pop-up messages in Outlook that warn, justify, or block emails being sent with sensitivity labels

Outlook desktop native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block email being sent. Admin could use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to define the oversharing pop-up DLP rules(Roadmap 100157) to group of users. If users has the configured DLP rule trigger when they click send, a warn/justify/block pop up message will show up to make sure customer could comply admin’s security double check requirements. As the first stage, Outlook desktop will only support these Pop-up message for DLP rule regarding sending emails to external with specific email and attachment labels. More DLP condition support will come later.

ID: 100255 Tags: Outlook – Preview, Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel, Current Channel, General Availability Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label

Outlook desktop will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admin could configure this either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy(Roadmap: 100158). Customer will see automatically or recommendations that email gets the higher label from attachments’ label.

ID: 100490 Tags: Outlook – General Availability, Current Channel, Preview Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New role for review set tag management

We are introducing a new role called “Manage review set tags” which will allow the user to have granular permission on creating/editing/deleting of review set tags in eDiscovery (Premium) cases.

ID: 100498 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – General Availability Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails

Communication Compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 100513 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – General Availability, Preview Release: March CY2023

Rolling Out

OneDrive: Known Folder Move for macOS

You’ll be able to roll out Known Folder Move (KFM) for your macOS users and redirect their Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders to OneDrive.

ID: 82032 Tags: OneDrive – Preview Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Quiet time settings in Teams and Outlook

To help create better boundaries and protect your personal time, later this year Viva Insights will offer the ability to configure quiet time to silence mobile notifications from Outlook and Teams outside your working hours as well as provide personalized insights on how well you are disconnecting. You will also be able to set quiet time directly from Teams and Outlook mobile.

ID: 85627 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Outlook: Simplified and Classic Ribbons

Outlook on the Web will be adding support for two new ribbon types. Simplified and classic. These ribbons are modeled after classic Outlook for Windows simplified and classic ribbons, to provide a more familiar experience across apps.

ID: 88101 Tags: Outlook – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | DLP incident management in Microsoft Defender portal

This feature provides a singular view for incident management across solutions by making the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention incidents available in the unified incidents queue in the Microsoft Defender portal. In addition, customers can also leverage the M365 Defender connector in Microsoft Sentinel to import all DLP incidents into Sentinel to extend correlation, detection, and investigation across additional Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources and extend automated orchestration flows using Sentinels native SOAR capabilities.

ID: 93322 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – General Availability, Preview Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center | Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery (Premium) – Release of Graph APIs (U.S. Government clouds)

Script common eDiscovery actions using the Microsoft Graph REST APIs. APIs include, but are not limited to: Case, Custodian, Search, Review Set, and Export management. The graph APIs will first be released to the Microsoft Graph beta endpoints, and then ultimately to production in the More Information link below. APIs will show up in preview as they are completed and available in production after most common scenarios are completed.

ID: 93348 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Stream: IT admin-led migration tool to move videos from Microsoft Stream (classic) to new Stream (on SharePoint)

The Stream migration tool helps admins migrate video and audio files and related metadata from Stream (classic) to new Stream (on SharePoint). With this tool admins can select some, or all, video and audio files in Stream (classic) and then move them to SharePoint folders, SharePoint site collections, or specific OneDrive folders. We expect the migration tool to start rolling out under public preview in late August’22 and to GA in February’23.

ID: 93361 Tags: Microsoft Stream – General Availability, Preview Release: February CY2023

SharePoint: Admin center- updates for site creation settings

With this update you will have more control over whether users can create sites in your organization.

ID: 93427 Tags: SharePoint – General Availability, Targeted Release (Entire Organization) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Connectors in GCC

Teams Connectors, which support webhook integrations, will be made available in GCC.

ID: 96290 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Video clip

Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short, lightweight video message in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.

ID: 97158 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft OneDrive: Granular controls for Request Files Links & Anyone Links

These policy changes will make it possible for customers to enable the Request Files scenario on OneDrives without also enabling file & folder Anyone links.

ID: 98097 Tags: OneDrive – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Outlook on the web: Update to the location of message compose options

Outlook on the web will update the location of some of the compose options for a message, including the “Send”, “Discard”, and formatting options. This brings the experience in web closer to the classic and new Outlook for Windows.

ID: 98114 Tags: Exchange – Targeted Release, General Availability Release: September CY2022

SharePoint: People Web Part Medium Card

New medium card allows authors to input a short description accompanying a person’s photo.

ID: 98127 Tags: SharePoint – General Availability, Targeted Release Release: September CY2022

SharePoint: Site sharing e-mails will now send from the sharing user’s mailbox

Today, the site sharing e-mails come from no-reply@sharepointonline.com. To improve delivery success, we will start sending these mails from the user’s exchange mailbox, as we do for other sharing e-mails.

ID: 98197 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: People targeting Graph API

This allows organizations to publish content to multiple teams. Today, the hierarchy is used for task publishing to distribute task lists across multiple teams based on team attributes. Today, customers must use a preview version of PowerShell since we do not have Graph APIs to upload their hierarchy. Having Graph APIs for this hierarchy would Give customers capabilities to work with their hierarchies through Graph for both querying the hierarchy and for end-to-end workflows Remove the barrier of downloading the preview cmdlets from PowerShell once we eventually get the APIs out and release new cmdlets.

ID: 99191 Tags: Microsoft Teams – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint): Upload and manage files in the Stream web app

This feature will allow you to upload a new a video directly from the Stream Web app. Additionally, if you have permissions, you can move the video file to a new location or make a copy.

ID: 100061 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Targeted Release, General Availability Release: October CY2022

Launched

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 connected templates

We are combining the best of Microsoft Teams templates with SharePoint site templates – into the same flow of creation. When we create a new team using a default template – for example the “Manage a Project” template, the project management channels and apps, and the connected SharePoint template gets applied automatically. Critically, the pages, lists, and Power Platform integrations are pinned as tabs in Teams automatically, and best of all these pages and lists are fully editable right in Teams.

ID: 82158 Tags: SharePoint – General Availability Release: September CY2022

SharePoint: Updated SharePoint app bar and start page sites for GCC High and DoD

The My sites panel in the SharePoint app bar will now include sites that users frequently access and follow. Additionally, the SharePoint start page, (the landing page when you select SharePoint tile in the Office 365 app launcher), will also show sites that users frequently access, recent sites and news. This change will populate sites content for these experiences in GCC High and DoD environments.

ID: 93181 Tags: SharePoint – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Audit (Standard and Premium) – New search (US Government clouds)

This is a new search for Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium). This new search offers increased reliability and efficiency for search jobs. It also allows for search jobs to be completed in the background and saved for later reference.

ID: 93237 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Jobs limit update (U.S. Government clouds)

The eDiscovery (Standard and Premium) jobs limit will be updated to provide users with better clarity on operational limit across the tenant. With simplified fewer jobs related limit, users will have better flexibility in managing these limits and how they are shared among different job types across the eDiscovery workflow.

ID: 93365 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Edit the transcript text directly in the UI in Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows you to edit the transcript text of a Stream (on SharePoint) video directly in the transcript pane. The feature also works with any videos stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business that contain transcripts. To edit a transcript, you must have edit permission to the video. Transcript editing helps you improve the quality of your transcript by quickly correcting minor mistakes such as misinterpreted acronyms, names, or incorrect punctuation.  Changes in the transcript are also reflected in the closed captions.

ID: 93441 Tags: Microsoft Stream – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support 10 primary (searchable or indexed) fields

Organizations will be able to configure Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to include up to 10 primary fields (current limit is 5), providing customers more flexibility in configuring EDM.

ID: 98094 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Visio: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) shapes in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 2]

Create BPMN-compliant processes with BPMN 2.0 shapes in Visio for the web. This feature will be available for users with a Visio Plan 2 license.

ID: 98115 Tags: Visio – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Viva: Learning integration with Viva Connections

As a part of this feature, Viva Learning assignments will now be available in Viva Connections app in Teams.

ID: 98148 Tags: Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Viva: Learning – new Admin IA

We are introducing an improved Admin experience for Admins within Viva Learning app so that they can have all Viva Learning specific app controls at a single place.

ID: 98149 Tags: Microsoft Viva – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – List usability enhancements

Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).

ID: 98190 Tags: – General Availability Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) List usability enhancements (U.S government clouds)

Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).

ID: 98192 Tags: – General Availability Release: October CY2022

Canceled