In Development

Microsoft Teams: Call Merge for GCC

Call Merge gives end users the capability to merge their active unheld 1-1 call into another 1-1 call or another group call. This applies to Teams VOIP calls and PSTN calls.

ID: 51127  Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account

Users in your organization will have the ability to earn Microsoft Rewards points when signed into select Microsoft 365 services (Microsoft Search in Bing) with their organizational (work or school) account.

ID: 70634 Tags: Microsoft Search – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

Azure Active Directory: Location Based Access Control Public Preview

You are now able to create Conditional Access policies to allow/deny access using a new type of Named Location known as GPS. For these policies, the user will need to share their GPS location from the mobile device on which Microsoft Authenticator is installed.

ID: 72205 Tags: Azure Active Directory – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Outlook: Renaming of Notifications pane on web

Outlook on the web will change the Notifications pane title to Activity.

ID: 72213 Tags: Outlook – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC

Microsoft Search: Organization-wide Search via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing. Customizable Bookmarks, Acronyms, and QnA Answers.

ID: 72216 Tags: Microsoft Search – -GCC Release: September CY2021

Outlook: For iOS – More actions available in press and hold menus

This coming Outlook for iOS release will make Book a Workspace available in the New Message and New Event press and hold menus.

ID: 72217 Tags: Outlook – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure sensitivity labels for encrypt-only protection on Outlook messages

In the Microsoft 365 compliance center, you can now create labels that enforce the encrypt-only restriction (available within Office 365 Message Encryption) when applied to Outlook email messages. With encrypt-only, users can send encrypted email to any recipient, whether they are inside or outside the organization, and the protection follows the lifecycle of the email.

ID: 72218 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -DoD, GCC High, GCC 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: 72219 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Ability to test Exact Data Match?

After setting up EDM-based classification, tenant admins will now be able to test EDM sensitive information types (SITs) via the Microsoft 365 compliance center and via PowerShell cmdlet. Classification results returned will include the sensitive type, its count, and confidence.

ID: 72220 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: New named entities SITs and enhanced unified policy authoring templates?

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities, and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as DLP and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US HIPAA and EU GDPR.

ID: 72221 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Continuous compliance assessments?

Automated testing and documentation of scored actions in Compliance Manager with the ability to view or download evidence for an automatically scored action.

ID: 72222 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Out-of-the-box assessments for non-M365 assets?

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

ID: 72223 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: New conditions for auto-labeling in Exchange Online

An auto-labeling policy can now apply a label to Exchange Online email based on sender, recipient, subject, or header matches without requiring a scan for sensitive content.

ID: 72225 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Org wide backgrounds (Preview)

Organization-wide backgrounds will now be available in preview. This feature will require an Advanced Communications license when it becomes generally available.

ID: 80193 Tags: Microsoft Teams – – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Payment instruments are now synced across devices

Beginning with Microsoft Edge v. 92, you have the option to synchronize your payment information across your signed in devices.

ID: 81030 Tags: Microsoft Edge – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Bulk-delete passwords

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 90, you will be able to delete multiple saved passwords in a single action.

ID: 81031 Tags: Microsoft Edge – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Enable Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center for GCC customers

As an admin, the Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center is where you view and manage all Teams apps for your organization. Here, you can see the org-level status and properties of apps, approve or upload new custom apps to your organization’s app store, block or allow apps at the org level, add apps to teams, purchase services for third-party apps, view permissions requested by apps, grant admin consent to apps, and manage org-wide app settings.

ID: 81182 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC Release: April  CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom Backgrounds on mobile devices

Microsoft provided and user uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on iOS.

ID: 82234 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

M365 Admin center: Translator service for the Service Health Dashboard

The new translator toggle in the service health dashboard page translates the content of Incidents and advisories to the language selected by user.

ID: 82267 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – -DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms

Get to results faster with Approvals in Microsoft Teams. Easily create, manage, share, and act on approvals directly from your hub for teamwork.

ID: 82332 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC Release: May CY2021

Rolling Out

OneDrive: 64-bit OneDrive

OneDrive will be available as a 64-bit install for AMD64-based devices.

ID: 70695 Tags: OneDrive – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Word for Windows: Text Predictions

Text Predictions in Word for Windows helps users write more efficiently by predicting text quickly, timely and accurately.

ID: 80179 Tags: Word – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Launched

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Blocking URLs and Files with Tenant Allow/Block List

One of the ways EOP protects customers is by blocking malicious attachments, URLs, and certain senders from reaching end users. We also understand that from time to time, customers may have special needs to block something on their own that our filters might find to be not malicious. In order to provide a way for our customers to do this at time of click and during mail flow, we’re developing a portal to help you self-serve and do it yourself. This portal will give admins the opportunity to explicitly allow or block attachments, URLs, senders and even certain recipients in your Office 365 tenant. The first phase of this rollout enables blocking of URLs and files. We feel that this is most important to our customers to protect them from getting compromised. The next phases of this will include the ability to allow files, URLs, and senders.

ID: 51937 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – -GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Manual sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for GCC and GCC-High

Sensitivity labels, part of the Microsoft Information Protection framework, are used to classify and protect your organization’s data. Applying sensitivity labels is easy — keeping customers productive and protected. You can now apply sensitivity labels to important documents and associate the labels with protection policies within the Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications. The labels can also be associated with actions like encryption and visual marking.

ID: 63662 Tags: Office 365, Microsoft Information Protection – -GCC High, GCC  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live Transcription with speaker attribution

Live transcripts provide another 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: 65967 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Center of room meeting console support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Control in-room meeting devices using a center of room touch control console.

ID: 66352 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Personal mode for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

Teams Rooms experience optimized for use in a personal workspace.

ID: 66358  Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Organizational branding for line-of-business Teams app catalog

IT Admins will be able to customize their Teams line-of-business app catalog using their organization’s branding. This will enhance the user experience for end users and increase organic discovery and use of an organization’s line-of-business apps.

ID: 67111 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

SharePoint: new experience to add content types to lists and libraries

Custom content types that are available to your SharePoint sites can easily be added to lists & libraries that allow multiple content types. In those SharePoint lists & libraries that allow multiple content types, a new ‘Content type’ option will be available in the ‘Add column’ menu.

ID: 67164 Tags: SharePoint – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, GCC Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Double-byte character support

{This feature has been delayed.} Compliance solutions such as Data Loss Prevention, Exact Data Match, and Communication Compliance will benefit from the ability to detect double-byte language characters found in East Asian languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, improving the ability to understand, label, and protect customer data.

ID: 68711  Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Voice-enabled Channels

Collaborative calling enables customers to connect a call queue to a channel in Teams. Users can collaborate and share information in the channel while taking calls in the queue. This feature is ideal for scenarios such an IT help desk or HR hotline. IT admins can quickly connect call queues to specific channels, and team owners can manage the settings.

ID: 68770 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC

Targeted communication allows team members to message everyone in a specific role at the same time by @mentioning the role name in a post. For example, you could send a message to all cashiers in a store or to all nurses in a hospital.

ID: 68841 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Search: Bookmark recommendations in Microsoft Search

Microsoft Search now simplifies the process of creating and curating Bookmarks with Recommended Bookmarks. Bookmark recommendations are generated by reasoning across SharePoint sites in Microsoft 365 to suggest Bookmarks to the Microsoft Search administrator, reducing the need to manually look across sites and information to determine the most valuable resources to curate and promote to users of Microsoft Search.

ID: 68864 Tags: Microsoft Search – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exchange Online service encryption using Microsoft managed keys for government clouds

Service encryption using Microsoft managed keys provides default encryption for all of Exchange Online data-at-rest. With Microsoft managed keys, data-at-rest always stays encrypted by default. Microsoft manages all cryptographic keys including the root keys in this case. Customers still have the choice to bring their own encryption keys by onboarding to Customer Key.

ID: 68871 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Exchange – -DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2020

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

Microsoft Teams: Give feedback improvements

Teams will automatically review the feedback submitted by users and provide help documentation related to the topic if available. Additionally, once enabled by the Teams administrator, users will have the option to share their email address when submitting feedback in Teams to allow Microsoft to follow-up with them.

ID: 68880 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Android: Scan QR code to sign into your work or school account

When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to Google Play store to download Outlook for Android and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.

ID: 69147 Tags: Outlook – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Scan a QR code to sign into your work or school account

When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to the Apple app store to download Outlook for iOS and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.

ID: 69148 Tags: Outlook – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Office apps

Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.

ID: 70542 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Improvements to Alerts and Hunting

We’re releasing a number of updates to alerts and hunting, including: Extending data retention for Threat Explorer and Real-time detections from 7 days to 30 days for trial tenants, after which you will be able to search for data for 30 days. We’re also expanding export limits for email records in Threat Explorer and Real-time detections from 9990 to 200,000. And, we’re introducing Alert ID to hunting experiences: Going forward you will able to filter for exact messages which were associated with an alert. From Alert, you will be able to navigate to a filtered view of Explorer (filtered by Alert ID), to see the relevant messages.

ID: 70544 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Share to Outlook for GCC

Share to Outlook from Microsoft Teams will be released for GCC environment. Share to Outlook enables a Teams conversation to be shared via email.

ID: 70546 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -GCC Release: February CY2021

OneDrive: Android – Bookmarks for PDF viewing

Users of OneDrive for Android will be able to Bookmark, or “Tag”, PDF pages that they want to come back to later.

ID: 70547 Tags: OneDrive – -DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Compliance Manager general availability for DoD

Compliance Manager is the next generation of the existing Compliance Manager and Compliance Score solutions, which have been in commercial public preview since November 2019. With Compliance Manager, you will benefit from intuitive end-to-end compliance management, a vast out-of-the-box assessment template library and built-in automation to scale your compliance across global, industrial, and regional standards.

ID: 70592 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -DoD Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: 64-bit OneDrive (Public Preview)

A preview of 64-bit OneDrive is now available for download. It will only be supported on AMD64-based devices.

ID: 70694 Tags: OneDrive – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom policy packages

New custom policy packages will enable Teams admins to configure their own set of policy packages tailored to users with similar roles in their organization. We are also adding the capability to assign policy packages to a group so you can assign multiple policies to a group of users.

ID: 70776 Tags: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April 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: Forms – -DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Forms Polls in Teams Meetings Improvements

A set of top asks will be addressed with this general release. Polls in Teams Meetings now support guests and an optimized mobile experience.

ID: 79448 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Forms – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Planner: More labels for GCC-High and DoD

Add up to 25 labels to your tasks in Planner

ID: 80456 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Planner – -DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Compliance Center: Processed audit insights in Advanced Audit

{Processed insights for Audit is being evaluated for future consideration and has been indefinitely postponed.} Insights and correlations that signal key patterns to help identify quick answers to typical queries during investigations

ID: 56792 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

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 Information Protection, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Compliance center – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Processed audit insights

{Processed insights for Audit is being evaluated for future consideration and has been indefinitely postponed.} Insights and correlations that signal key patterns to help identify quick answers to typical queries during investigations.

ID: 68708 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – -DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: September 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: Microsoft Teams – -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021