Play of the Week

The Cloud Policy service, which allows administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups, will begin to be released for Microsoft 365 GCC customers in June 2024. Once configured, these policies will be automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Prevent user from sharing content in externally hosted meetings (Premium)

If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person attending the externally hosted meeting can decide in which externally hosted meetings the user can share their content.

ID: 363424 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table, which generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

ID: 371373 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 373605 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 373610 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 373615 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

ID: 373740 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

ID: 374015 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph.

ID: 374020 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph.

ID: 374025 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

ID: 374035 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

ID: 374045 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph.

ID: 374080 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot + Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life

ID: 380428 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

ID: 382107 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 383008 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management.

ID: 384090 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: AIR Initiated Remediation Logging

The AIR attribution update will empower customers with enhanced insights by deciphering between remediations produced by AIR versus truly manual remediations initiated independently by SecOps teams. Presently, all actions produced by AIR and approved by SecOps are logged as manual remediations throughout the portal. With this update, messages that are remediated as a result of approval of an AIR action will be logged as SecOps approved automated actions.

ID: 389376 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint Premium content AI Graph API in Beta (formerly known as Syntex)

We are releasing new Graph APIs for SharePoint Premium content AI capabilities in Beta (formerly known as Syntex models). You will be able to build applications using these new Graph API calls: get a Syntex model by its name, get a Syntex model by its ID, apply a Syntex model to document libraries, un-apply a Syntex model from document libraries, list all the applied document libraries of a Syntex model, create a document processing job, and get a document processing job.

ID: 389855 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat with nudges to insert data sources

Use nudges to ground prompts in data sources to improve prompt responses in Copilot with Graph-grounding chat.

ID: 392005 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Manage spotlight settings in Viva Connections

Elevate your Connections experience with more control over what appears in the spotlight section. Operators will have the ability to pin items, including hyperlinks from any source, onto the spotlight section and select SharePoint sites as additional content sources to dynamically populate the spotlight section.

ID: 392098 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Formula Conditional Formatting

Additional support for complex conditional formats beyond the basic top and bottom or conditional operators. For example, Copilot analyzes two factors when highlighting all rows where the product is bikes and sales is greater than 100.

ID: 392454 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label

Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.

ID: 392457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android

Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license and your room must be configured to enable Direct Guest Join meetings. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below.

ID: 392822 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby

Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.

ID: 392836 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search

Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.

ID: 392842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinar – Disable social share for attendees

Disable the ability for attendees to share the webinar event page to social networking sites for public events post-registration.

ID: 393225 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium)

The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled.

ID: 393229 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – GCC

We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment.

ID: 393333 Release: OneDrive – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business-sensitive data to free public domain emails

In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 393334 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Updating all News Posts to “Made for Email”

Following the positive reception of the “Made for Email” News templates, we are rolling out a change that will make every news post you create “Made for Email” by default. Now, no matter how you create your new News Post, whether it is copying a previous post or using an existing template, you will have access to send that full distribution as an email. With this change, authors will still have access to our full webpart library by selecting “all” webparts in the webpart picker but are defaulted into having additional sending functionality.

ID: 393335 Release: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024

Outlook: Shortcuts to copy and paste emails (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users will be able to copy and paste emails in Outlook using the shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, allowing them to quickly transfer emails to the desired folder, streamlining workflow, and enhancing productivity. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 393337 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft 365 Apps: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC

The Cloud policy service will begin rolling out for Microsoft 365 GCC customers late June 2024. The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

ID: 393925 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers – Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App

Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.

ID: 393931 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page

This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded).

ID: 393934 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Entry point change – apps when reading emails moved to the ribbon

The Apps flyout and entry point for pinned apps will be moved to the Home tab in the Ribbon in the New Outlook and Outlook for Web.

ID: 393936 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced multiple action experience from Threat explorer

SecOps can take multiple actions such as purging emails, submissions, and Tenant-level block actions through a single wizard on the bulk of messages. In addition, Tenant-level block URL and File actions are now available directly from Threat explorer.

ID: 393937 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Policy service audit logs for policy changes

Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.

ID: 394280 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent message translation in chats

When you get a message in a different language, you will see translation suggested to help you understand it better. In the settings, you can select which languages you don’t want to translate, and whether to translate messages automatically.

ID: 99841 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights delegate access for leaders

New delegate access allows leaders to empower other individuals to view insights about their organization. Those with delegated access will be able to easily navigate to the leader’s view of organizational insights.

ID: 164209 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows. This feature was rolled back to address some critical user feedback; we apologize for any inconvenience.

ID: 167892 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps

IT admin has the ability to customize Teams apps to align with the company’s brand and enhance their usefulness for employees. By creating and managing multiple customized app instances, it can improve branding, awareness, and user engagement, overcomes the limitations of a single-instance approach and enables greater adaptability to meet the diverse business needs.

ID: 178355 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Video trim feature

Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) will soon introduce a video trimming feature which will allow users with edit permissions to trim the start, end and any parts in the middle of a video. When you trim a video, Stream won’t change the original video file itself. Instead, it just hides the trimmed parts from your viewers. When you’re done trimming you can toggle to the preview mode to see the trimmed video just like your viewers will see. When a video is trimmed the transcript and chapters will be adjusted automatically to reflect only what is shown in the video. People with edit permission will be able to see full original content and edit or delete those trimmed parts. When available this feature can be accessed by opening a video in the Stream web app and taping the edit button.

ID: 186956 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Citations for Copilot in Teams meetings available on mobile

Now available on mobile, Copilot in Teams responses have a citation number at the end of each Copilot statement that provides detail on the meeting artifact or source that Copilot used to generate the response, like the meeting transcript. Users can select the citation to see which speaker the citation is attributed to, the exact quote from the transcript, as well as the time stamp of the quote in the transcript. Selecting a reference number will open a transcript viewer that displays the source of the response.

ID: 331507 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting

Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the artifacts from the meeting in the meeting chat. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, Collaborative notes, any files that were shared, a link to any Whiteboard that was used, and the meeting details like date and time of the meeting event. For users with access to intelligent recap, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks.

ID: 381121 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections on iOS and Android tablet

This adds a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva Connection users on iOS and Android tablets.

ID: 382643 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Search: Content source filters in Microsoft Search

Users can filter results by content source in the All vertical in Microsoft Search in microsoft365.com, SharePoint Home, and Bing @ Work. This feature will be available for all tenants with multiple sources configured in Microsoft Search (such as Power BI, Viva Learning, and third-party sources indexed via Microsoft Graph Connectors).

ID: 383953 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

SharePoint: Pages – Heading levels for web parts

When authoring pages, this will create the ability to choose heading level for webparts to help define the hierarchy of information on a page.

ID: 387500 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint Premium Content Query – Columns in new libraries are queryable

With this update, columns in newly created libraries by licensed users are all made available to content query. Also, users can trigger an action to make all columns in existing libraries available to content query.

ID: 387773 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Edge: v.124 – Edge Updates experience migrates into Browser Essentials

Notifications on available Edge Updates will come from Browser Essentials instead of the Settings page for better visibility and experience.

ID: 171229 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Admins and delegates in Viva Engage con close conversations on behalf of others

Admins and delegates in Viva Engage con close conversations on behalf of others. Delegates are only allowed to close conversations on behalf of the delegator.

ID: 382930 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – HighCompleteness parameter in Search-UnifiedAuditLog Audit cmdlet

Microsoft is introducing a new query parameter which allows you to switch between performance and completeness of query results based on the scenario requirement. When enabled, the query returns more complete search results but may take significantly longer to run. When disabled, the query runs faster but may have missing search results.

ID: 383741 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant

This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.

ID: 386906 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Edge: v.124 – Updated Edge Profile account re-authentication popup when Browser to Web Single-Sign-On (SSO) fails.

Edge provides a browser to Web single sign-on (SSO) capability that lets a user sign in to their Edge Profile with a web account first and then automatically sign them into Microsoft first party websites. This is done by saving cached credentials. This approach works until there’s an authentication challenge to the cached credentials. A typical scenario is when a user changes their password on a different device. The cached credentials on the current device become outdated and SSO fails. Edge detects this failure and shows a re-authentication popup that prompts the user to update their cached credentials on the current device.

ID: 388366 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024″

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – HighCompleteness parameter in Search – UnifiedAuditLog Audit cmdlet

Microsoft is introducing a new query parameter which allows you to switch between performance and completeness of query results based on the scenario requirement. When enabled, the query returns more complete search results but may take significantly longer to run. When disabled, the query runs faster but may have missing search results.

ID: 388735 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security

With Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security, your security teams gain unprecedented visibility across the security data. Microsoft Purview brings user risk and data risk insights to help the SOC with comprehensive and enriched signals to understand the full attack story and impact of a security incident. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 389143 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Canceled