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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal Endpoint DLP network location feature will allow users to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Users can block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal WiFi only.
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Viva Learning employee learning API: Content sync
Content Sync API, which enables learning content hosted on learning systems to show up across the Viva Learning user experience.
ID: 91125 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.
ID: 95680 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New ‘notes’ tab when creating a standard channel
When creating a new standard channel, a new Notes tab will be automatically created. Each Teams team will have a dedicated OneNote workbook and each channel will have its own section, making it easier on the workgroup to add their notes.
ID: 101962 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Auto-categorization coming to meeting category insights in Viva Insights
Users with a Viva Insights license will be able to see what kind of meetings are taking up their time, automatically categorized by Viva Insights based on meeting size, cadence, and people in the meetings. Categories include long and large, recurring, and 1:1 meetings.
ID: 117396 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals in Live People Cards
Increase transparency by viewing a user’s OKRs from Viva Goals within a Live People Card in Outlook.
ID: 117453 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Zapier data integration
The Viva Goals integration with Zapier allows users to automate their key results with progress from over 5000+ apps in the Zapier marketplace.
ID: 117459 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Workplace integration
Users can receive OKRs updates and check-in reminders within Workplace.
ID: 117461 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Granularity in Viva Goals Permissions- New Tenant IT Admin role
Introducing an additional admin role with the Tenant level IT Admin who has the ability to administer Viva Goals, enable integrations, etc.
ID: 117469 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Adding Viva Goals team members through AAD Groups
With this capability, team admins can add members to teams by selecting AAD Groups (SG, DLs, etc.); This will enable roll outs and deployment across all teams as well as multiple group support at an organizational level.
ID: 117470 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals extension in Azure DevOps
The Viva Goals extension in ADO enables users to view alignment details within ADO Work Items. When a work item is connected to a project in Viva Goals, they can view end alignment in the Goals tab. Users can also perform check-ins, create projects, and more without leaving ADO.
ID: 117474 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Custom Views
User can now filter and save custom views to quickly access views that are most relevant.
ID: 117478 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals OKR views in Sharepoint
Embed OKR lists as URL or HTML i-frame in your organization’s announcement pages on SharePoint.
ID: 117484 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Incident management in Microsoft Defender portal (U.S. Government clouds)
This feature provides a singular view for incident management by making the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention incident management experience available in the Microsoft Defender portal. Customers can import all DLP incidents into Microsoft Sentinel to extend correlation, detection and investigation across additional Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources, and extend automated orchestration flows using Sentinel’s native SOAR capabilities.
ID: 117575 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Allow meeting apps to show an indicator on their icon to signal new activity
This feature enables meeting applications to display an indicator on their icon, encouraging users to participate in new in-app activities during a meeting. The application has the option to show the indicator to selected attendees or to all participants.
ID: 122539 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Spatial Audio
Spatial Audio brings next-generation experiences to Teams Rooms on Windows that have Teams-certified stereo speakers with right and left capabilities. This intelligent audio technology delivers a more natural and inclusive experience for in-room participants making it feel like remote people are in the room with them.
ID: 122554 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Block anonymous users’ meeting chat read access in addition to current write access
This feature enables IT admins to block anonymous users from accessing the chat in internally hosted meetings by disabling the read access on top of the existing disabled write access.
ID: 123974 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Ability to block meeting chat access in external, non-trusted meeting joins.
Public Description: This feature enables IT Admin to block regulated, internal users to access chat when these users attend meetings organized by external non-trusted tenants.
ID: 123975 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Outlook: Loop Components Read Support in Mail on Mobile
Loop components are live, interactive, collaborative objects that you can embed in Teams chats and now also in Outlook emails. When you send a Loop component, everyone in the email can view it inline, see changes instantly, and easily make edits. That means you can collaborate right inside an Outlook email message. Outlook mobile users will see the active Loop component — where changes made to the component across supported apps sync instantly — and then be able to tap on the component to edit it in the Microsoft 365 mobile app or if you are in Android in the Loop mobile app.
ID: 124259 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft defender for Office 365: Bulk complaint level (BCL) filtering in Threat protection status report
We are adding a new filter to the Threat protection status report that will allow security admins to easily filter for bulk related email catches at their different complaint level in the organization. With this capability, security admins can take confident bulk email management steps for users in their organization that is backed by the data in the Threat protection status report.
ID: 124784 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
OneDrive: PDF Annotation and Fillable Form Fields
Using the Edit action in Microsoft OneDrive for the Web, you can 1) annotate PDFs with hand-drawn ink and 2) fill in PDF form fields, 3) save these edited PDF files to your OneDrive account.
ID: 124802 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: Prebuilt model for contracts
Analyze and extract information from contracts using a prebuilt model.
ID: 124814 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Label footers enhancement for emails (U.S. Government clouds)
When labels are configured to add footers, currently the footers accumulate at the very bottom of long email chains. This enhancement now adds footers at the bottom of the most recent reply instead of at the bottom of the whole email thread. Note that this feature supports emails formatted as HTML or PlainText. Support for Rich Text email formats is legacy and will not be improved in Outlook. For emails formatted as Rich Text, label footers will continue to accumulate at the bottom of email threads as before.
ID: 124817 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes
We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy.
ID: 124818 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Forms: Allow respondents edit their responses
Allow Forms respondents to edit their own responses. The Forms creator can change the settings to allow or prohibit these edits.
ID: 124819 Tags: Forms – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto allow of third-party phish simulation URLs in email message body
We’re enabling automatic allow of URLs present in the email message body for third-party phishing simulation campaigns. With this update, security admins no longer need to configure simulation URLs to allow in the advanced delivery policy as previously required in order to ensure URLs are not blocked/detonated at time of click. These URLs will now be automatically allowed as part of the advanced delivery email message allow.
ID: 124820 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Contextual summary support in service-side auto-labeling (U.S. Government clouds)
Contextual summary will be supported in simulation mode for service-side auto-labeling. When reviewing matched items in the Contextual Summary tab, you’ll now be able to easily review what sensitive information type was found as a match in the document.
ID: 124821 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized printer groups (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability, you can create groups of printer devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups and allow the “Print” activity to certain groups of printers and block “Print” for others.
ID: 124830 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Network location as a condition in DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability you will be able to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal WiFi but not on Corporate WiFi on VPN.
ID: 124831 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Sanctioned and unsanctioned site groups for different sensitive files (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability you will be able to create groups of service domains and manage restrictions for the groups within the DLP policy. As an example, you will be able to allow ‘upload’ of sensitive data only to corporate SharePoint sites and block elsewhere.
ID: 124832 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Workspaces
Edge Workspaces provides a way for customers to organize their browsing tasks into dedicated windows. Edge Workspaces lets users share a set of browser tabs so working groups can view the same websites and latest working files in one place and stay on the same page. Each Edge Workspace contains its own sets of tabs and favorites, all created and curated by the user and their collaborators. Edge Workspaces are automatically saved and kept up to date.
ID: 124844 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay
You can now easily call your speed dial contacts and get back to your recent calls on Teams on Apple CarPlay with your iPhone.
ID: 125556 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Message List Selection updates
In order to save space on the message list in Outlook, we are making a UI update: From “selection circles on the left side of each row” to a “Select mode that you have to get into before checkboxes appear”. This affects users who don’t have “Sender Images” enabled in the Message List. If you have “Sender Images” turned on, hovering over the images will still show the checkboxes, even if you did not get yourself into “Select Mode”. To review if you have “Send image” enabled, go to Settings/Mail/Layout and scroll to “Sender image”.
ID: 125905 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Outlook: for Android – Folder suggestion when moving emails
Effortlessly move emails to folders using Outlook folder suggestions!
ID: 126518 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Display connected topics on people profile cards
Profile cards displayed through Outlook will display Topics associated to an individual.
ID: 88697 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Within 4 hours option for notifications
We are adding a new Within 4 hours option to end user notifications, allowing users to be able to rely on prompt notification about quarantined items when appropriate. With this feature users can be rest assured that they will be updated frequently once new items lands on their quarantine folder.
ID: 93304 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Simplified app update experience
Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels and meetings.
ID: 95676 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Easier to sort and filter messages reported by users
It will be easier to sort and filter messages by end users on User reported under Submissions.
ID: 100159 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Geo filtering for Teams apps
ISV’s can now target applications to select geographies (countries/regions) via partner center. Thus, users will only see apps relevant for them given their country and region.
ID: 100974 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Windows 11 update readiness reports
App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.
ID: 103639 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management
Allows administrators to elevate end-user permissions to perform approved administrative actions only when needed on their desktop computers.
ID: 109491 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts
Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 109534 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Outlook: Mandatory labeling pre-compose for mobile
We have listened customer feedback on Outlook mobile need meet the mission of “On the Go”, and for organizations have mandatory labeling enabled without default labeling, and would like to have the label selection first before going to compose the email. Then when the users click “Send”, the email could just be sent without any forgotten labeling pop ups. Outlook mobile will introduce a new MDM setting to allow admins to enable this louder mandatory configuration for Outlook mobile clients (iOS and Android) specifically. We will enable Android first in early Q1 of 2023, and iOS will release in Q2 of 2023.
ID: 109544 Tags: Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2023
Minecraft Education: License Management Moving to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center
The Microsoft Store for Education is retiring in the first quarter of 2023. In March 2023, license purchase and assignment for Minecraft Education subscriptions will be moved to the Microsoft 365 admin center.
ID: 109556 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions
With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is.
ID: 113412 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Green screen in Teams meetings
Green screen improves the sharpness and definition of the virtual background effect around your face, head, ears, and hair. It also allows you to show a prop or other object in your hand to be more visible to other participants in a call. The virtual background with a green screen provides the best virtual background effect, consuming fewer system resources, allowing your Teams to run smoother.
ID: 117941 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Support Breakout Rooms on VDI
Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.
ID: 119698 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Upload files to your approval request via Power Automate portal
Files that are uploaded within the Power Automate portal will now show within the view details window of an Approval request within Teams.
ID: 89106 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office apps can now audit protection properties applied to a document through sensitivity labels
Added the missing audit fields related to the protection status of a document and how the protection was changed due to a specific event. That would include the following fields: protectionEventType, documentEncrypted, documentEncryptedBefore, protectionType, protectionTypeBefore, protectionTemplateId, protectionTemplateIdBefore, protectionOwner and protectionOwnerBefore.
ID: 98135 Tags: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023
Yammer: Improvements to @mentioning behavior
Yammer will soon have an improved @mentioning behavior available. Users will be able to @mention someone just using their first name/last name/or any other permutation.
ID: 108071 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023
Microsoft 365 Defender: Secure Score for Government Clouds
Microsoft Secure Score will be available for GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD for assessments on the following Microsoft products: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identify, Defender for Cloud Apps and 3rd party applications (through Defender for Cloud Apps). GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD customers will be able to assess their security posture with Secure Score.
ID: 109579 Tags: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: April CY2023
Outlook: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME
Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Customer admins could use set-label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly.
ID: 109582 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Enhanced Viva Goals Azure DevOps data integration
This enhanced version of the Viva Goals ADO data integration enables users to directly link work items to projects and Key Results and eliminates the dependency on shared queries.
ID: 117473 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Update Readiness Reports
[This is cancelled as a duplicate of 103639] App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.
ID: 103614 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
