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Want an easier way to search for recent and past Audit jobs? Microsoft’s new Audit feature allows users to search for jobs in a reliable and efficient way. Users can also save the search jobs for later reference.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Users on Virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. Live transcripts provide way to follow along with what has been said and who said it. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.

ID: 87571 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Custom Banner for Emergency Calling

Admins can now inform their users about emergency calling through a customizable disclaimer banner that will appear in the Calls app. Users will be able to acknowledge the message by clicking on the banner.

ID: 93054 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) alert enhancements

We are enhancing the successful ZAP (zero-hour auto purge) alert and introducing a new ZAP failure alert.

ID: 93206 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Outlook: Updated notifications experience in Mobile

We’ve updated notifications to make it easier for you to effectively customize your settings so you can stay on top of the things that matter to you and be able to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

ID: 93219 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Teams admin center- Enhancement to end-user call management

A new update to Teams admin center will extend the ability of an Admin to configure the call management capabilities for end-users. The existing call management capabilities of call delegation and group call pickup are being extended to also include the ability to manage an end-user’s call forwarding and simultaneous ringing settings as well.

ID: 93226 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Add extracted entities to open term set if no match found

Provides option to add entities extracted using a document understanding model to an open term set if no match to an existing term (or synonym) is found.

ID: 93230 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint: Updated site logo management

With this update, we’re simplifying where you go to manage the site logo by centralizing it in the Change the Look header experience.

ID: 93231 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Office 365: New Capabilities in Information Barriers v2 (IB v2)

Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is the new enhanced IB architecture in Substrate which brings a set of new features to customers including flexible people discoverability, increase scalability, and multi-segment support.

ID: 93232 Tags: Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Outlook: Loop components in Mail

Loop components are live, interactive objects that you can embed across Microsoft 365 canvases such as chats and email to provide real-time collaboration. This feature brings support for loop components in the email messages.

ID: 93234 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: New search for Microsoft 365 Audit

This is a new search for Basic Audit and Advanced Audit. 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: 93236 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: new search for Microsoft 365 Audit (U.S. Government clouds)

This is a new search for Basic Audit and Advanced Audit. 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 – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: December CY2022

Rolling Out

OneDrive: Quick Access – pin and reorder shared libraries

Improved ways to manage the list of places you’ve recently accessed or opened a file from. You can pin these places so you can easily and predictably get back to what you’ve been working on.

ID: 82165 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from meetings on web

Users in a Teams meeting on web can now share audio while screen sharing.

ID: 84175 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

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

SharePoint Syntex: Advanced search with custom columns

With this release, end users will be able to add site columns and other queryable columns from the current document library view into the advanced search flyout by clicking “more options”. Managed Metadata fields are not yet supported.

ID: 88961 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Compliance Manager – Alerts and notifications for score changes

This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.

ID: 88964 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Multilingual Dashboard

You can create a Viva Connections Dashboard that can be viewed in multiple languages.

ID: 88980 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Teams device store in Teams admin center

Teams device store provides direct procurement through Teams admin center, where admins can discover, purchase and provision Teams certified devices. The functionality will be available in US and Canada. This will be extended to more customers in the future.

ID: 91090 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Launched

Yammer: Upvote answers to Yammer questions

This feature will allow people upvote answers that they find useful and appropriate. It will be available for questions both in communities and live events.

ID: 65760 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Yammer profile page updates

Revamped profile page with cover photo, followers/following, right rail and joined communities.

ID: 68066 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Investigations triggered by manual actions

In order to provide the most accurate information in the Action center, we’re making a change that creates an investigation when manual actions are taken by admins. As we converge to the security.microsoft.com portal, this will ensure that all actions are shown in the converged action center.

ID: 70555 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Managed Firmware Updates(Additional OEMs)

Support Firmware Updates to cover additional OEMs and device types.

ID: 81908 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Cloud App Security: Cloud Access Security Broker for GCC

The Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) offering for GCC is built on the Microsoft Azure Government Cloud and is designed to inter-operate with the Microsoft 365 GCC environment. Microsoft Cloud App Security is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that secures SaaS and multi-cloud solutions. It provides rich visibility, control over data travel, and sophisticated analytics to identify and combat cyberthreats across all your cloud services.

ID: 82037 Tags: Microsoft Cloud App Security – GCC Release: December CY2021

Whiteboard: Whiteboard on Windows revamped

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. The new Whiteboard app for Windows addresses key customer asks around offering a uniform & seamless experience with Whiteboard on other clients & platforms. It also provides highly requested features such as the ability to add shapes & adopts a user-centric approach by focusing on marquee features such as ability to insert templates, images, sticky notes, text boxes & stickers thus, keeping the interface lean & the user experience simple yet effective.

ID: 82094 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management analytics for Government clouds

The Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution will provide aggregated and anonymized analytics to help identify potential insider risk activity within the organization. This is currently available in public preview.

ID: 82129 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April 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:

OneDrive and SharePoint: Improved Move or Copy user experience

We’re refreshing the Move/Copy user experience in OneDrive and SharePoint to make it easier for you to choose where to move or copy your files and folders.

ID: 85567 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

OneDrive: New Command Bar

With this update you can easily identify the right file and access primary commands. The simplified view allows you to focus on the content and that is visually pleasing.

ID: 85602 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Outlook: Support for “Send As” by default in Groups for Outlook on the web

Now users having “Send As” permission in Groups will see the Group ID getting populated by default in their “From” address while composing or responding to conversations from the corresponding Groups section in mail module.

ID: 85633 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams panels Check in notifications to Microsoft Teams Rooms

For Teams panels deployment with Microsoft Teams Rooms, when this feature is enabled, checking in on Teams panels will send a notification to the Teams Rooms front of room display to inform the people in the room that their meeting room reservation is over and others are waiting for the room outside. This release will support Teams Rooms on Android. Support on Teams Rooms on Windows will be available at a later time.

ID: 86719 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Remote help for Windows

Enable a secure helpdesk to user connection with permission based remote assistance.

ID: 88504 Tags: Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April 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

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Core and Advanced eDiscovery – Enhanced Keyword Query Language (KQL) editor experience (US Government clouds)

The new Keyword Query Language (KQL) editor experiences improves the ability to quickly create an effective query with autofill of common properties and parameters, as well as highlights for potential and breaking errors with recommended mitigations. The KQL editor experience will be available across Core eDiscovery searches and Advanced eDiscovery collections experiences.

ID: 88924 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC 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: Microsoft 365 data loss prevention on-premises scanner (US Government clouds)

Microsoft 365 DLP on-premises scanner relies on a full implementation of the Azure Information Protection (AIP) scanner to monitor, label, and protect sensitive items. It crawls on-premises data-at-rest in file shares and SharePoint document libraries and folders for sensitive items that, if leaked, would pose a risk to your organization, or pose a risk of compliance policy violation. This gives you the visibility and control you need to ensure that sensitive items are used and protected properly, and to help prevent risky behavior that might compromise them. The information about what the users are doing with sensitive items is made visible in Activity explorer and you can enforce protective actions on those items via DLP policies.

ID: 88960 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center, Azure Information Protection – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Dark mode in Yammer

Dark mode can be enabled to view lighter text on a dark background.

ID: 88976 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac (GCC, GCC-H)

Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac will send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer (depending on licensing configuration) for admins to search and review.

ID: 88978 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Communities app in Teams – notification for when you’ve been added to a community

You will receive a notification in Microsoft Teams when someone adds you to a Yammer community.

ID: 88984 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: End-to-end encryption for one-to-one Teams calls for GCCH and DoD

End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. End-to-end encryption would be an optional mode of real-time media collaboration where one-to-one Teams calls between two parties would be end-to-end encrypted.

ID: 89249 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Improvements to the Cloud Site List Management experience

Identify gaps in your enterprise site list by configuring reporting of site feedback. You can view local site list URLs from users and potentially misconfigured neutral site URLs in the Microsoft Edge site lists experience in the M365 Admin Center. Also, you can configure session cookies between Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer for IE Mode in your site lists.

ID: 92987 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Whiteboard: Connected experience controls

Microsoft Whiteboard on Windows, Teams, web, mobile, and Surface Hub applications will support optional connected experiences, with Windows and Surface Hub applications supporting them after upgrade to the new client. The only optional connected experience that will be available initially is the ability for users to provide feedback using Microsoft Feedback portal, with additional features being added in the future. Tenants can opt-out of these experiences within their Office policies, and Individual users will be able to opt-out of these features within the Whiteboard application.

ID: 93184 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Edge v.100: Streamlining Microsoft 365 Application Protocol Activations

Microsoft 365 Application Protocol Activations on trusted Microsoft cloud storage services will now launch certain Microsoft 365 applications directly, including subdomains of sharepoint.com and OneDrive URLs. Group policy is available that can be used to enable the application protocol activation prompts if desired, and to define other applications and services where warnings are enabled or disabled.

ID: 93754 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Location Based Roles Scope

This item has been delayed and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. IT roles based on location scopes such as building, sites, regions, etc.

ID: 81906 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Room Occupancy Reports

This item has been delayed and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. Room occupancy reports that are helpful for resources for back to work in time of COVID.

ID: 81912 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021