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Keeping your inbox secure just got easier with Microsoft Defender for Office 365’s Post-Delivery Report with ZAP Feature. This new report will increase your ZAP (Zero-Hour Auto Purge) understanding and visibility by providing all ZAP events on your post-delivery report. If the system has detected a change, the report will provide updated data and make it easier to investigate messages. This feature is available for GCC, DoD, and GCC-High tenants.

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Microsoft Viva: Academies in Viva Learning

Academies in Viva Learning provide a guided learning experience to employees to improve their skills.

ID: 95147 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Outlook for the Web: Contact Deduplication

People are at the center of our lives, and we start every digital connection via contacts. Hence, a clean, up-to-date contact list is critical for better collaboration and productivity. We are happy to announce that cleaning up duplicate contacts just got a lot easier with the de-duplication feature in Outlook Web App (OWA).

ID: 98124 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows

IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

ID: 101332 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Mark all as read for activity feed

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read.

ID: 102238 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Switch from Microsoft Autoupdate to EdgeUpdater for macOS

Microsoft Edge for macOS will begin using a new updater called EdgeUpdater. This change only affects Microsoft Edge on macOS. If you use update preferences for Microsoft Autoupdate to prevent browser updates, you will need to transition to the new EdgeUpdater UpdateDefault policy before Microsoft Edge 113 to prevent future automatic updates.

ID: 114512 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user can report from shared/delegate mailbox

End users can report messages from online shared/delegate mailbox using in-built report buttons in Outlook on the Web.

ID: 115507 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups.

ID: 115508 Tags: Exchange, Outlook, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse

Viva Pulse is a feedback tool that empowers managers to get day to day feedback on projects and team dynamics, resulting in quicker action. Using smart templates, research-backed questions, and analytics, Viva Pulse enables teams to use their voice so they can help managers pinpoint what’s working well and which areas to focus on over time.

ID: 117393 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy

Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.

ID: 117489 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation

Feature to allow Viva connections mobile users to browse and reach SharePoint sites by surfacing their hub and site navigation in the VC app.

ID: 117527 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Mobile quick access to Homesite in Viva connections

Feature to improve the discoverability and access of SharePoint (SP) Homesite for customers of SP using Viva connections mobile.

ID: 117528 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Outlook: Video Unfurl and Playback

Video links will be unfurled into a thumbnail for easy and delightful recognition when reading an email that contains a video link. Upon tapping the thumbnail, the video will be opened in an in-app player (OnePlayer) to view the video in the full mobile screen.

ID: 117586 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API

Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 117587 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Outlook: Video Capture and Upload to OneDrive

Users will be able to capture a video from their phone while in the Outlook Mobile app, then seamlessly upload it to their email. Uploading the video will leverage OneDrive for Business, allowing users to benefit from increased storage space and large limits for video size and length.

ID: 117588 Tags: Outlook, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals usage report

Viva Goals usage report about active users and platform distribution of 7/30/90/180 days in Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

ID: 117599 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Alert triage experience (U.S. Government clouds)

This update introduces various improvements to the alert triage experience to accelerate time to action, including the ability to further drill into detected sequences within activity explorer, new alert filtering capabilities, and an enhanced user activity timeline view with a richer alert history. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117601 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Alert triage improvements – user context during alert review

While reviewing an alert, analysts and investigators can quickly reference more user context details, such as the detected event and the activities that generated the alert. These additional details can provide context that may be relevant to determining if an alert should be escalated for further investigation. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117602 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection

Cumulative exfiltration detection helps identify data exfiltration risks when a user’s exfiltration activities across all egress channels over the past 30 days exceed organization or peer group norms. A risk score is assigned if the user’s cumulative exfiltration activity is unusual compared with others within the same organization or with the same role. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117603 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to sequences for unallowed and allowed domains

With this update, sequence detection in Insider Risk Management will recognize both allowed and unallowed domains. Sequences that involve allowed domains will be excluded from being scored, and sequences that involve unallowed domains will receive higher risk scores. With this update, sequence detection in Insider Risk Management will recognize both allowed and unallowed domains. Sequences that involve allowed domains will be excluded from being scored, and sequences that involve unallowed domains will receive higher risk scores.

ID: 117604 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced alert experience

This update introduces enhancements to the alert overview page to provide explanation of why an alert was generated and to improve the ability to review the riskiest user activities in an alert. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117605 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – OCR support in Insider Risk Management

With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117606 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Physical access indicators and connectors

This feature allows admins to define priority physical assets. With priority physical assets enabled and the physical badging data connector configured, Insider Risk Management can correlate signals from an organization’s physical control and access systems with other user activities to help make more informed response decisions for alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117607 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy customization from alert review experience

This feature allows admins to customize an Insider Risk Management policy and adjust policy thresholds from within the alert review experience instead of going through the policy configuration wizard, so customization decisions can be made in the context of alert review activities. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117608 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in activity explorer

During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 117609 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: USB camera support for Teams Rooms on Android

Enables Android-based USB cameras to be used in Microsoft Teams Rooms as additional or primary cameras. IT admins can set the default primary camera using device settings and users can switch between multiple cameras in a meeting. This feature is available for all Teams Rooms licenses.

ID: 121376 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Smart camera controls in Teams Rooms Pro on Android

Smart camera controls allow in-room users to adjust framing of the room camera in a meeting, selecting between a view that automatically centers everyone in the frame or one that zooms in on each person in the room and combines everyone in a single frame. IT Admins can control the default behavior in the device settings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro only.

ID: 121377 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro on Android

Teams Rooms on Android and the Teams Admin Center now fully supports GCC-H customers. This is feature available only with the Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 121548 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content

Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case.

ID: 122287 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings

The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.

ID: 122513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)

As part of Teams Premium, Intelligent Meeting Recap is a comprehensive AI-powered meeting recap experience that helps users catch-up, recall, and follow-up on hour-long meetings in minutes by providing recording and transcription playback with AI assistance. This allows users to browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, action Items, and @mentions.

ID: 122529 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Teams Pages on Outlook for iOS

Teams Personal Tabs added on Teams or Outlook will now appear on iOS. Teams’ apps must be validated to work on the mobile form factor.

ID: 123862 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence-as-a-policy trigger (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can customize data leak policies to be detected when a user performs a sequence. For example, if admins select a sequence (such as download from Microsoft 365 location, obfuscate, exfiltrate, then delete), users who perform the sequence of activities will trigger the policy and the alert will show up in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124772 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Custom background enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows

Admins can upload up to 3 images specifying which goes to the left or right room display and console. Higher resolution images (minimum of 1280×800 on console and 1920×1080 on displays) in PNG, JPG, JPEG, and BMP formats are supported.  This feature available only with the Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 124774 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequences policy configuration enhancements

With this enhancement, admins can now select sequences in data leak and data theft policies without the requirement to select underlying individual indicators. This will allow admins to create more targeted policies with improved alert signals. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124775 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs

Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124777 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User management Start/Stop scoring users (U.S. Government clouds)

The “Start scoring activity for users” feature will move from the Users page to the Policies page. Admins can use “Start scoring activity for users” on the Policies tab to manually add a user (or users) to one or more insider risk policies for a specific amount of time, to start assigning risk scores to their activity without a detected indicator. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124778 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling the User Notifications and Policy Tips on Exchange DLP (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update you will be able to configure policy tips and email notifications in your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for Exchange Online independently for more granular control.

ID: 124780 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Behaviors

A new data type in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced Hunting. Behaviors will optimize the alerts queue by enabling security teams to focus on the most relevant alerts in their environment. They will indicate what took place in a descriptive form, attached to the MITRE tactics and techniques that are common measure most organizations follow and test their coverage against. This new data type which sits between the raw data and alert, will enable your security teams to prioritize critical alerts in your environment without having to compromise contextual information provided in a behavior that may be important to an investigation. The behaviors data will also enrich the context of related incidents and only correlate anomalies when relevant. Within Defender for Cloud Apps, we have identified some detections that are better suited as behaviors, and we are transforming them to the new data type to reflect it that can be retrieved via advanced hunting.

ID: 124789 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect sensitive files that are encrypted, or password protected

With this capability, your DLP policies will be able to detect the presence of, and prevent password protected Microsoft Office, PDF, and archive files on Windows endpoint devices from unauthorized use.

ID: 124790 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Outlook Lite – Vernacular Voice Compose on Android

Available only in India. Users can compose emails in 9 supported languages using their voice. They can also choose to translate it to another language before sending.

ID: 125288 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library

With this update, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the document library (if not already labeled).

ID: 85621 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Graph: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels and event-based retention

The first release of Graph APIs for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management will enable organizations to create and manage retention labels, events, and event types for event-based retention.

ID: 88276 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Graph – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 app: New sensitivity bar in Microsoft 365 apps on Windows for viewing and applying sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview

Sensitivity bar provides a more prominent and contextual user experience for viewing and applying sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Windows.  Preview dates may defer between apps. GA date consistent for all apps.

ID: 88517 Tags: Outlook, Excel, Office app, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results in the ‘All’ vertical

Results from remote repositories indexed with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the ‘All’ vertical in Microsoft Bing (when signed in with a work or school account) alongside information from Microsoft 365 apps and services.

ID: 93336 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Compliant (Protected) meeting

Outlook: Compliant Meetings – Make your meetings secure and compliant by applying sensitivity labels.

ID: 98924 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook:[Android] Ability to add an email as an attachment to another email while composing

Now you can send an email as an attachment to another email.

ID: 100693 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Outlook: [iOS] Text predictions in Quick Reply

Text predictions will be available in the quick reply experience as they have already been in full compose.

ID: 100694 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Send email notifications from your own domain

Notifications that cannot be sent from a user’s email account can now be configured to use your own custom verified domain instead of the Microsoft default domain.

ID: 103628 Tags: Planner, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Project, OneDrive, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review: Export of items pending review using a cmdlet

This change will enable admins to export the list of items pending disposition review or disposed items for a label using a PowerShell cmdlet without the 50,000-item limitation that applies to exporting via the UX.

ID: 106102 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Windows 365: Windows 365 Azure Service Tag for network endpoint access

FQDN tags specifically for Windows 365 will be available to make it easier and simpler to grant access to required service endpoints through an Azure firewall.

ID: 117351 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Send Praise from your Viva Connections Dashboard

Site owners/authors can add the Praise card from Microsoft Insights on the Viva Connections dashboard, allowing employees to send out praises to their colleagues.

ID: 117378 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

This change will modify logging and handling of intra-org messages.

ID: 117487 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing the new post-delivery activities report

The post-delivery activities report will display all the ZAP activities that occurred in your tenant.

ID: 117516 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Busy-on-busy end user setting

Manage how incoming calls are routed when you are busy in an existing call or meeting directly from your Calls settings in the Teams app. Choose from the option to allow calls to come through, play a busy signal, or to redirect the call based on your unanswered call routing preference.

ID: 86991 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Stream Deck to interact with Microsoft Teams within a meeting

Teams users can connect a Stream Deck device to their Teams desktop client and utilize it to mute/unmute themselves, turn on/off their camera or send reactions during a Teams meeting.

ID: 96112 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Whiteboard: Save and share user templates

Users will have the ability to save whiteboards as a template, and will be able to share that template with other individual users.

ID: 98085 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint Syntex: Content Assembly – Choose fields in modern templates to create document library columns

While publishing modern templates, you can now choose fields that you want to map to document library columns. When documents will get generated, the fields chosen to be library columns will get auto filled by the value entered by the users.

ID: 98126 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Insights web app in DoD

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106096 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Insights web app in DoD

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106096 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Digest emails for GCC High

The semi-monthly Digest email, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox, will be available for GCC High. Twice a month, you’ll receive a Digest email that summarizes data about your work patterns and ways to improve them.

ID: 109529 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Digest emails for DoD

The semi-monthly Digest email, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox, will be available for DoD. Twice a month, you’ll receive a Digest email that summarizes data about your work patterns and ways to improve them.

ID: 109530 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC aggregate reports for enterprise

As part of the DMARC standard the owner of the domain can request reports about how receivers viewed their traffic which will help the domain owners adjust their sender authentication configurations so they can get to an actionable DMARC policy.  This feature will be available for all EOP customers.

ID: 109535 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Excel: Blocking XLL add-ins from the internet.

In order to combat the increasing number of malware attacks in recent months, we are implementing measures that will block XLL add-ins coming from the internet.

ID: 115485 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams

Profile cards in Microsoft Teams will now surface insights and information such as birthdays, career changes, or pending meeting invites.

ID: 116006 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Windows 365: Custom Name template for Cloud PCs in Provisioning Policy

An Administrator will have the ability to associate a custom naming template as part of the provisioning policy.

ID: 117371 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Connections for Android tablet

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This release brings the experience of Viva connections to Android tablet, thus extending the set of devices you can access it on.

ID: 117388 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: GCCH support for Connections

Viva connections will be made available for Government Community Cloud High.

ID: 117429 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Invoke Content Camera on Desktop feature

Currently, users must turn on sharing from a content camera in Microsoft Teams via the Share tray on the Teams Meeting stage. Moving forward, users will be able to start and stop sharing content directly from a certified Teams device. This feature enables presenters to share a Whiteboard, document, or video more quickly during a meeting.

ID: 118587 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Reminder Emails for Webinars

Reminder emails are automatically sent one hour ahead of a webinar to all registered attendees.

ID: 122505 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Canceled

Outlook: Frontline worker Audience targeting using Job code, location and department

Capability for frontline worker communicators to identify target audience by using Location, Job Code and Department in Outlook.  This feature has been cancelled and will be removed from the roadmap.

ID: 100969 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023