In Development

Microsoft Teams: PowerPoint Live Presentations to Teams

PowerPoint Live Presentations can assist users in making their presentations engaging and inclusive. Everyone in the audience can navigate their view of the slides, provide instant feedback in the form of live reactions, and provide comments and rate the presentation at the end. Live Presentations are generally available on PowerPoint for the web. We plan to bring this to Teams further enabling audience engagement right from Teams.

ID: 65947  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Microsoft Information Protection & Governance now supports 7 languages for the Threat, Targeted Harassment and Profanities classifiers

Trainable classifiers in Information Protection & Governance can now detect threat, targeted harassment, and profanities in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

ID: 70798  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Outlook: Introducing suggested replies in Outlook for Windows

When you receive a message in email that can be answered with a short response, Outlook may suggest three responses that you can use to reply with a couple of clicks. This capability already exists in Outlook on the web, and in Outlook iOS and Android.

ID: 70802 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Office App: Office App for Desktop Improvements

Performance and usage updates to the Office App for Desktop.

ID: 70811  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Outlook support for DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel settings

Outlook clients will now support the advanced Azure Information Protection (AIP) settings DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel.

ID: 72172 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Information Protection- Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Microsoft Search in Bing

Display topic cards in search results when Microsoft Search is invoked from a Bing search.

ID: 72180  Tags: Office 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Support for types of topics

Support for categories or types of topics, such as projects, products or organizations.

ID: 72181 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi- Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Improvements for Topic Management

This update will empower Knowledge Managers, providing additional metadata for sorting and filtering through the list of topics, including additional quality and usage columns, and segmentation to help manage topics at scale.

ID: 72182 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Resolve topic name similarities

Allows users to select a topic among several when they share similar or matching names (disambiguation).

ID: 72183 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Yammer – Preview

Display topic highlights and access topic cards in Yammer conversations.

ID: 72184 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Extended language support

Support for topic identification from content authored in additional languages.

ID: 72186 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Graph connected content indexed into topic card – Preview

Preview – Include content from Microsoft Graph Connectors MediaWiki and ServiceNow for topic discovery.

ID: 72187 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Discover experts and answers from Topics

Questions on topics will receive automated answers or get referred to subject matter experts.

ID: 72188 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for DoD

Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in DoD environments. Sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to label important content to associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. With this release, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input.

ID: 72192 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Whiteboard: Now on Android

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. Microsoft Whiteboard allows you to write or draw as smoothly as you would with ink, touch, type or pen, while adding text and sticky notes you can type and annotate on. Introducing Microsoft Whiteboard on Android enhances teamwork by allowing all team members to edit and comment directly on the canvas in real time, no matter where they are.

ID: 72196 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Power BI: New sharing experience

We’re introducing a new sharing capability in Power BI that will allow reports to be shared with people within the organization through shareable links.

ID: 72200  Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Compliance Center: Service optimizations for Audit search

This update provides various service optimizations for Audit search, including speed and workflow improvements. For example, you can track status of the searches.

ID: 72202 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Identity: Alert exclusion in Microsoft 365 security center

One of the most widely used features relating to alerting in Defender for Identity is being able to tune them and make sure you are only alerted on what should be getting your attention. With the exclusion capability landing in Microsoft 365 security center for Defender for Identity, you can tune the alerts and filter the detections based on entities that matter to you. We are also improving the experience in the allow-list functionality, making sure you can allow entities across all detections as opposed to allowing them per detection.

ID: 72203 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance Center: Communication Compliance for DoD

Communication Compliance is an insider risk solution in Microsoft 365 that helps minimize communication risks by helping you detect, capture, and act on inappropriate messages in your organization.

ID: 72204 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Share to Teams from Outlook

Share to Teams from Outlook allows you to send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels. Find the Share to Teams option in the Outlook ribbon or the action menu for an email. Share to Teams supports Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows, and the new Outlook for Mac Preview.

ID: 80721 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer Meeting Role

Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new “Co-organizer” role to people they invite. Co-organizers will have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.

ID: 81391 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Out of Office for GCC-High and DoD

Set up a message to let others know you’re not working or on vacation so you’re not available to reply when they send a chat message. Your out of office status will also sync with Automatic Replies that are found in your Outlook calendar.

ID: 81575 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer Meeting Role for GCC-High and DoD

Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new “Co-organizer” role to people they invite. Co-organizers will have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.

ID: 81676 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021

Rolling Out

SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel

Now it’s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel & chat associated to it – right from within the SharePoint user interface.

ID: 30686 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: June CY2019

Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience

Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation.

ID: 51230 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Excel: Paste Options in Excel for the web

Now get all the Paste Options right where you paste your content.

ID: 51388 Tags: Forms, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Project: Add Roadmap reports to the Power BI template

You can enable Roadmap reports in the Power BI Template (https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Power-BI-Templates) for Project reporting and dashboards.

ID: 60566 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support improved auditability

Customers who have configured Exact Data Match (EDM) will be able to view a complete audit trail of who created or modified and when each EDM component (i.e., Data schema, rule package and hashed/salted data uploaded).

ID: 68876 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows

Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.

ID: 68918 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Office Apps: Microsoft 365 Apps Health General Availability

The Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center monitors reliability and performance metrics and provides custom guidance to help optimize and troubleshoot Microsoft 365 Apps on your client devices.

ID: 68934 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Planner: Recommended Plans

We are introducing a new Recommended section in Planner to help users find plans that are most relevant to them. This section will contain new plans with tasks assigned to the user. It can be seen in the Planner hub and in the left pane between Favorites and Recent.

ID: 70726 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Forms: Forms response receipt – GCC/GCC High/DoD support

A new approach for form responder to get their response receipt in GCC/GCC High/DoD environment.

ID: 70803  Tags: Office 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Forms: Forms Design Page Printing – GCC/GCC High/DoD support

This feature allows form designer to print a blank form/quiz to responder who cannot fill the online form.

ID: 70804 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Outlook for Android: Sync contact subfolders as category labels

Outlook contacts and contact subfolders in Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook on the web will be synced to Outlook for Android. They will be labeled with a contact category based on the name of the original contact subfolder.

ID: 71507 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March 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: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: AI based option suggestion for Teams meeting polls

When user is creating poll for their Teams meeting, Forms intelligence service will suggest some options for their question when applies.

ID: 79495 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Launched

Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhanced management capabilities in Microsoft Defender Antivirus for SMB IT admins

New management capabilities that make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to get visibility into how Defender Antivirus is protecting the Windows 10 devices in their organizations. From the Microsoft 365 admin center, IT admins will be able to view active threats in their environment, understand which users and devices are affected by them, which of these were blocked or quarantined, and where a review is needed. These admins will also have oversight from one place to see which devices are running Microsoft Defender Antivirus, if those are up to date, and where action is needed. The new capabilities apply to all Windows 10 devices that are enrolled in Microsoft Intune with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription plan.

ID: 67118 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search

Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors that enable Microsoft 365 customers to connect Microsoft Search to disparate data sources outside of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search include the following connectors available within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Windows File Share, ServiceNow, Microsoft SQL Server, intranet websites, MediaWiki, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure DevOps, and Azure SQL.

ID: 67139 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft 365 Admin center: Service Health email notifications for specific incidents and advisories

The service health dashboard in Microsoft 365 admin center will soon support the ability to opt into email notifications for a specific incident or advisory.

ID: 68717 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Project: Export Timeline to PDF

Export your timeline to PDF to save or share your schedule with your stakeholders.

ID: 68879 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support notifications for data upload status through alert policies

Exact Data Match (EDM) customers will be able to configure alert policies in the security and compliance center for EDM Upload Agent notifications, enabling admins to receive alerts both via email and through the UI regarding EDM data upload status.

ID: 68882 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Identity: Detection improvement – Netlogon

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when an attacker establishes a vulnerable Netlogon secure channel connection to a domain controller using the Netlogon Remote Protocol, also known as Netlogon Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. Defender for Identity already has a detection for this, but this improvement adds capabilities to determine potential encryption and null source account logic detection to the alert, improving accuracy and potential for false positives.

ID: 68890 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365: License management in the Microsoft 365 Admin app

In the next release of the Admin app, license management will be added, enabling you to manage licenses from your mobile or tablet device. As a part of this feature, you’ll be able to: View all products and licenses for your organization with details such as the number of purchased and available licenses and expiration dates; Buy more or remove licenses based on current usage and needs; Assign or release licenses; and View and download detailed invoices.

ID: 68920 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: OneDrive for Business location picker supports security groups and distribution lists.

Data loss prevention (DLP) for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker, enabling more granular control of DLP policy scope (i.e. to include/exclude particular departments, business units, geo-specific security groups, etc.)

ID: 70708  Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Customer Managed Key (Public Preview)

Customers will be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using their own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security. EDM content that is encrypted using the CMK includes the data file schemas, rule packages, and the salts, which are used in hashing the sensitive data being protected.

ID: 70722 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Policy package assignment to groups

Streamline assignment of policy package with group assignment. Group assignment empowers admins to assign a policy package to a group instead of individual users.

ID: 80241 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Information Protection: Teams DLP for Adaptive Cards

{This item has been indefinitely postponed and will be removed from the roadmap.} Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Teams now extends to adaptive cards generated for Teams by apps and bots. Teams DLP will support scanning and detecting sensitive information in data embedded in Teams messages. Administrators will now be able to apply DLP policies to the adaptive cards generated by apps, as well as the user actions from users on the adaptive cards.

ID: 67093 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recording improvements

{This is a duplicate of 67138 and will be removed.} Stream playback performance and new features are coming to Teams meetings recordings by the end of the year as part of the new Stream experience. As part of this, meeting recordings will be stored in OneDrive, thus unlocking new value for customers including permissions and sharing, retention policies, basic information governance, immediate meeting availability, “go local” tenant support, bring your own key (BYOK) support, multi-geo support, and improved transcript quality and speaker attribution.

ID: 68761 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Safe Links for Teams

Removing as this is a duplicate of 34298.  Safe Links helps protect your business against malicious sites when people click links in Office apps. This will also be available in Microsoft Teams.

ID: 70781 Tags: Forms – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: April CY2021