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Microsoft’s Information Protection Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enhances online protection and data loss prevention by scanning text from images. OCR will flag or extract data from images to prevent sensitive data from being leaked in Exchange Online or Teams. This preview will be available in June 2022.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone

Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.

ID: 83658 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Optical character recognition (OCR) in in Exchange online and Teams DLP

Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared in Exchange Online (EXO), and Teams Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies.

ID: 88860 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies on mobile for Government Clouds

Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.

ID: 89137 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – Student activity insights

Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view insights for aggregated student activity insights in Career Coach. Insights include student skills, career interests, and progress on career-related activities in Career Coach. Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled.

ID: 89921 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Mandatory Comments for Approvals App in Teams

Teams Admins and Approval Template creators can enable mandatory comments for when an approver responds to a request.

ID: 92911 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Data Export within Approvals App

Through the approvals app you can now export your approval data within a selected time period.

ID: 92925 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Calendar Show As in meetings

Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.

ID: 93145 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure display colors for sensitivity labels

This feature will simplify the policy management experience by enabling administrators to set a label color in the Microsoft 365 compliance center for their sensitivity labels. Once applied, labels will display this coloring within first-party and third-party applications that support reading the color property, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win32 native apps), or Power BI to name a few.

ID: 93217 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Content Assembly – Placeholders for cell values in a table

You can create placeholders for cell values inside a table in any word document, while creating a Modern Template.

ID: 93220 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Content Assembly – create pdf documents from modern templates

With this feature we will support pdf as document output format from modern templates in addition to the already supported docx format.

ID: 93222 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

OneNote: Math Ink Recognizer Service

Math Ink Recognizer Service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It converts handwritten ink in your notes to math equations for solving math problems.

ID: 93227 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

OneNote: Math Solver Service

The Math Solver service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It helps students learn how to solve their handwritten math problems.

ID: 93228 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Outlook: Personal bookings for web

Eliminate the back-and-forth scheduling with your personal bookings page.

ID: 93239 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

SharePoint: Updates to channel site to display site permissions

Every team in Microsoft Teams is connected to a team site in SharePoint. This is also true for private channels in Teams. Each private and shared channels is connected to its own unique team site. This update includes the display of the site permissions panel and updates to the site sharing options for channel sites.

ID: 93240 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey insights

NPS survey insights is an AI driven dashboard that helps to obtain actionable insights derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.

ID: 93241 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft 365: Account switching for Microsoft 365 web apps

Users can sign into multiple work and personal accounts on Microsoft 365 web apps in the same browser. This also allows them to seamlessly switch between the accounts without having to sign out and sign back in again.

ID: 70801 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Text prediction for Teams mobile

When you compose or reply to a message in Teams, Editor Text Predictions anticipates your writing and suggests a suitable word or phrase inline. This saves time and helps you reduce typos.

ID: 81573 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Embedded CART captioning support for Teams meetings for GCC-High and DOD

Teams meetings now support integration with real-time captioning providers and CART writers (Communication Access Real-Time Transcription) so that users who utilize CART captions can view the captions in the same window as their meeting.

ID: 83614 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Comment on a video or audio file in SharePoint and OneDrive

This feature builds on top of the already existing comments found in OneDrive and SharePoint Online but presents these comments with a new Office look and feel within the player. This feature allows users with view permissions to leave a comment, which is a default change in behavior in terms of permissions for video and audio files.

ID: 88521 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

OneDrive: Easily navigate to all your Teams files from OneDrive

In OneDrive, we are adding a “Your Teams” section to the “More Places” page to allow you to easily find and work with all your files in Teams.

ID: 88912 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Use taxonomy term set or term as input source in placeholders for modern templates

You can associate pre-defined term sets or terms as an input source to the placeholders you create in modern templates. When users fill the placeholder for creating a document from the template, you can only choose values from the configured term set for that placeholder.

ID: 88938 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: LinkedIn Integration in Teams

Users will be able to see LinkedIn profiles of their colleagues in 1:1 chat. The LinkedIn profile is available via the LinkedIn tab in the 1:1 chat panel.

ID: 89132 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Project: Guest users in Project for the web

Add guest users to your projects to allow them to view project information.

ID: 91686 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Yammer: Introducing Editing attachments on Yammer

With this feature, attachments on posts can be modified or removed after being posted. This applies to all types of attachments such as images, links and GIFs and will allow authors to correct any mistakes made with the original attachments without having to delete the thread and start over as is done today.

ID: 93627 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Launched

Office 365: Microsoft 365 Groups ownership governance experience

Microsoft 365 Groups ownership governance in the Microsoft 365 admin center is designed to help manage the problem of ownerless Microsoft 365 Groups by providing a view showing the number of owners for each group, along with a way to assign group owners and to send an email asking group members to take ownership. We are also adding a filter that enables you to see all groups with zero owners.

ID: 67160 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Connect

With Microsoft Teams Connect we are making it easier to collaborate with anyone outside your organization. You can use Team’s full suite of collaboration capabilities with external partners in other Azure AD orgs the same way you use them with colleagues from your organization.  Shared channels enables people from different orgs to work together as one team in a shared space for a more structured, deeper and longer-term collaboration.

ID: 70766 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly for GCC

A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby. Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled.

ID: 86069 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC 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

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Branded Lobby for desktop

This feature has been delayed to an unforeseeable date in the future. We will communicate when this feature is coming available. Admins will now be able to add a custom logo to the Teams experience, for display in the lobby and meeting pre-join experience. The logo will be displayed for meetings where the organizer has the Advanced Comms SKU.

ID: 79957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022