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Microsoft Teams: Presenter mode: Controls to move and resize presenter video

Presenter mode video controls enable presenters to move and resize presenter video feed and automatically adjusts content size accordingly. This can be applied to all modes on Desktop or Window sharing including standout, side-by-side, and reporter.

ID: 88566 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: In Insider Risk Management – Enhanced support for domains

Insider Risk Management now support enhanced classification of unallowed, allowed, and third-party domains leveraging wildcards. This helps improve classification of detections. 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 help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88997 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Native triggers (New signals, indicator selection, customization, Activity explorer)

You can choose to assign selected indicators as triggering events for a policy. This flexibility and customization helps scope the policy to only the activities covered by the indicators. You can also customize thresholds for each triggering event. 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 help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 89001 Tags: – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Triage and investigation improvements

Enhancements including historical insights for Exchange Online, and ingestion of 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 help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 89002 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Blue Yonder connector for Shifts

Connect the Blue Yonder Workforce Management system to Shifts and empower your frontline workers to manage schedules more effectively in one place, while staying compliant with business and labor rules. The connector can be configured using the Microsoft Admin Center and PowerShell commandlets.

ID: 89109 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Exchange Contacts available in Calling pickers

Exchange contacts with associated phone numbers will be available as part of the drop down selection in all Calling people pickers, such as the Dialer or call transfer, for customers that have PSTN enabled.

ID: 93050 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Day Zero insights – Recommended policy actions

Communication Compliance Recommended policy actions helps organizations discover trends that they may not be aware of, like harassment, threats or sharing of sensitive information. Insights for sensitive information types are surfaced automatically through the existing Compliance center data classification service while insights for machine learning classifiers require an organization to have already configured a policy in Communication Compliance. Insights for both sensitive information types and machine learning classifiers are designed to help organizations holistically set up parameters for internal governance by identifying potential areas of risk and determining the type and scope of communication policies to be configured. Recommended policy actions displays the aggregate number of matches per classification type, with none of the insights containing any personally identifiable information. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93195 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance -Message details report

This new Communication Compliance report provides a comprehensive summary of all activities and actions that have occurred against a policy, such as date sent, date flagged, reviewed by, message reconciliation, etc. By providing visibility into policy review activity, this feature can help organizations fulfill regulatory compliance obligations and better track the status and progress for unresolved policy violations. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93197 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Viewing Teams meeting recording transcripts for DoD

For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint that were recorded with Teams Live Transcript, you’ll be able to view the transcript from that meeting directly in the transcript pane next to the video player.

ID: 93202 Tags: Microsoft Stream – DoD Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Surface learning content across the Microsoft 365 suite

Users will be able to discover Viva learning content, right in SharePoint, Office.com and Bing. This feature is an integration between Viva Learning and Microsoft Search.

ID: 93205 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Apply default label policies to existing documents being edited (Excel on PC/Mac)

Users with default labeling policies will support applying that default to any supported document they edit. Previously this only applied to new documents. This update applies to Excel on PC and Mac.

ID: 93209 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: SIT Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts

Admins can provide feedback for sensitive information type (SIT) False Positives via Content explorer and DLP Alerts. This feedback can be provided in a compliant manner and users can see a summary view of the feedback in the SIT overview page. The feedback will be used to make systematic fixes to SITs for improved accuracy.

ID: 93210 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Alert policies

we are enhancing the existing Microsoft Defender for Office 365 alert policy (A potentially malicious URL click was detected).

ID: 93211 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Anti-malware policy notifications

The anti-malware policy can be configured with recipient and sender notifications when a message is quarantined. We are redesigning this notifications option and delivery.

ID: 93212 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Mail latency report

we are making some enhancements to the existing Mail latency report in Defender for Office 365. The chart and filter options will be updated for more clarity.

ID: 93213 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Inspiration Library in Microsoft Viva Insights

Inspiration library is a new feature available in preview through the Viva Insights app in Teams. The Inspiration library turns insights into action with access to curated content and best practices from top sources like Harvard Business Review and Thrive.

ID: 93214 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: RTMP Streaming Support for GCC-High and DoD

Enables support for your users to stream their Teams meetings to large audiences through Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), including endpoints outside your organization.

ID: 93635 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Restore “Present” button on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

The “Present” button moves back to the Teams Rooms console home screen and will be named Share. Cortana push-to-talk button is moved to the bottom of the home screen, allowing users to continue using Cortana seamlessly while presenting HDMI content from Teams Rooms device console. The Cortana design change is available in Teams Rooms with the Cortana voice assistance policy enabled.

ID: 93985 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Automatically build visualization of library metadata with Power BI

Enables customers to visualize the metadata in a document library in a Power BI report. They can also save that report so that future visitors to the document library can view it.

ID: 94090 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Answer Meeting Nudges with Video for iOS

This feature brings the ability for iOS devices to automatically answer incoming meeting nudges with their video on. The feature availability is controlled through AutoAnswerwithVideo.

ID: 82325 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Search in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

Admins can search for users, teams, pages and settings using a common search box in Teams admin center.

ID: 83671 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams device usage report and Graph API data source change

We are changing the data source of the Teams device usage report & Graph API to align with the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and including additional data validation to provide you with a better report experience.

ID: 83967 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for DoD

Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

ID: 85437 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams user activity report and Graph API data source change

We are changing the data source of the Teams user activity report and Graph API to align with the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and including additional data validation to provide you with a better report experience.

ID: 85542 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365

Teams users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call. Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled.

ID: 85693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Export Teams list from Teams Admin Center

Administrators can export Teams list as a csv file from Teams admin center.

ID: 85704 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous meeting join across clouds

Join meetings in other clouds anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds).  We will be enabling this in three phases. First, Commercial and GCC customers will be able to join meetings in GCC-High and DOD clouds. Next, we will enable GCC-High customers to join Commercial, GCC and DOD meetings. Then, we will enable DOD customers to join Commercial, GCC, and GCC-High meetings.

ID: 86311 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Forms Integration with Microsoft Bookings

Associate Forms templates to Booking services to send forms for data intake from attendees prior to joining a Booking appointment.

ID: 87607 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Forms: Increasing the response quota for Forms

The number of responses allowed per form or quiz is being increased to five million. The form owner will be able to export the results into a *.csv file for analysis.

ID: 87750 Tags: Forms – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Casting from Teams desktop client to Microsoft Teams Rooms

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room and display content from the Teams desktop client (Windows and Mac). Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored locally on their computer or accessible via Office 365.

ID: 88027 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Apply default label policies to existing documents being edited (WXP on Web; Word and PowerPoint on PC/Mac)

Users with default labeling policies will now support applying that default to any supported document they edit. Previously this only applied to new documents. This update applies to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (WXP) on the Web, and Word and PowerPoint on PC and Mac. The preview is available in Current Channel-Preview.

ID: 88515 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Visits usage report in Teams Admin Center

The Virtual Visits usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center gives you an overview of Teams Virtual Visits activity in your organization for Global Admins and Teams Admin. Customer can view detailed activity for virtual appointments scheduled through the Bookings app and the Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Records (EHR) connector.

ID: 88792 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Admin enhancements for the new Yammer

Yammer admins can enable the new Yammer for all users while being provided an opt-out option solely for admins. Admins will have the ability to toggle the classic Yammer experience if they need to validate user feedback or access features only available in classic Yammer.

ID: 88885 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Enable Content types from modern library views

If you have SharePoint site collection administrator access, you can enable management of content types directly in your library from modern SharePoint and Syntex libraries and lists.

ID: 88948 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Out-of-the-box assessments for non-Microsoft 365 assets (US Government clouds)

Introducing pre-configured templates that extend Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets.

ID: 88969 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

OneDrive: Large folder delete in OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web

Users will be able to delete large folders (10k items) on OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web.

ID: 88979 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Chat filter for non-meeting chats

There will be a new chat filter within the Chat app which filters out meeting chats and chats with bots. It filters in one on one and group chats.

ID: 89436 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Roaming bandwidth control

Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location with higher bandwidth capacity.  Initially two settings from the Teams Meeting Policy will be included – AllowIPVideo, andMediaBitRateKb.

ID: 81350 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Activity explorer user experience improvements

We’re improving the user experience of the Activity explorer in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. New functionality includes a refresh button to allow refreshing the data without reloading the page, and a new option for “Sensitive info type” added to the list of customizable columns.

ID: 88933 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Top news card on Viva Connections Dashboard

Set up Top news card in Viva Connections Dashboard to surface boosted news from SharePoint. News that has been boosted will prominently display in the Top news card.

ID: 88955 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on iOS in GCC

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

ID: 91561 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for Anonymous (Guest) Users

Anonymous (Guest) Users are now able to view Live Captions in Teams Meetings on desktop.

ID: 93049 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Office app: Updates to Office.com and Office app for Windows in GCC

We’re rolling out updates to Office.com and the Office app for Windows to help make it easier to get to the content you care about, take action on documents, and find the apps and tools you need.

ID: 93864 Tags: Office app – GCC Release: March CY2022

Canceled

Yammer: Send live event calendar invites

This item has been delayed and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. Send a calendar event to all community members without leaving the event page in Yammer.

ID: 66498 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022