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Microsoft Azure Purview has over a dozen of new updates that will protect your organization assets , simplifies data governance and overall improve the workflow.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic caller ID for call queue agents

Call queue agents can now place calls from the Calls app using a call queue phone number as their caller ID. This ensures the call is properly identified by the recipient and that the call back number is the call queue number rather than the agent’s personal line.

ID: 86992 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2022

OneDrive: Sync app- Automatic Account Configuration

The OneDrive sync app will automatically sign in if there are existing credentials available to Microsoft applications (Teams, Office, Edge, Windows).

ID: 93242 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with Personal Insights for GCC

The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in GCC and will show you personalized recommendations that help you do your best work.

ID: 93244 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Prioritize policy matches using Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis (U.S. Government clouds)

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services sentiment analysis, messages will be flagged as positive, negative, or neutral sentiment, helping policy investigators prioritize riskier messages to address first. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93246 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022

Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to Finnish language

Outlook on the web and Outlook iOS/Android is extending support for the suggested replies feature to include the following language Finnish.

ID: 93247 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC updates

Additional features including search suggestions updates, Calendar, Files, and Acronyms Answers, and Search Usage Analytics. Microsoft Graph connectors are coming soon.

ID: 93248 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCCH

Organization-wide Search with search suggestions via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing; People Answer and Customizable Bookmarks and Q&A Answers. Search Usage Analytics coming soon. Microsoft Graph connectors not included in this release.

ID: 93249 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC High Release: July CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Leavers classifier

The leavers classifier detects messages that explicitly express intent to leave the organization, which is an early signal that may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93251 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Sexual harassment classifier

The sexual harassment classifier detects explicit instances of sexual harassment as may be outlined in your organization’s policies and code of conduct, such as sexual advances, sexual comments and sexual favors. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93252 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Corporate sabotage classifier

The sabotage classifier detects messages that explicitly mention acts to deliberately destroy, damage, or destruct corporate assets or property. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93253 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Gifts and entertainment classifier

The gifts and entertainment classifier detects messages that contain language around exchanging of gifts or entertainment in return for service, which may violate corporate policy. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93254 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Money laundering classifier

The money laundering classifier detects signs of money laundering or engagement in acts design to conceal or disguise the origin or destination of proceeds. This classifier expands Communication Compliance’s scope of intelligently detected patterns to regulated customers such as banking or financial services who have specific regulatory compliance obligations to detect for money laundering in their organization. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93255 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Stock manipulation classifier

The stock manipulation classifier detects signs of stock manipulation, such as recommendations to buy, sell, or hold stocks in order to manipulate the stock price. This classifier expands Communication Compliance’s scope of intelligently detected patterns to regulated customers such as banking or financial services who have specific regulatory compliance obligations to detect for stock manipulation in their organization. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93256 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Unauthorized disclosure classifier

The unauthorized disclosure classifier detects sharing of information containing content that is explicitly designated as confidential or internal to certain roles or individuals in an organization. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93257 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Workplace collusion classifier

The workplace collusion classifier detects signs of employee collusion, such as price fixing, sharing of trade secrets, or coordinating buying strategies. This classifier expands Communication Compliance’s scope of intelligently detected patterns to regulated customers such as banking, healthcare, or energy who have specific regulatory compliance obligations to detect for collusion in their organization. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93258 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Integration with Communication Compliance

Enrich Insider Risk Management signals by integrating a Communication Compliance triggering event during policy configuration. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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: 93259 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope

Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93260 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Analyze policy matches over Teams shared channels

Communication Compliance is integrated with Teams shared channels (cross-tenant channels), with the ability to detect policy matches, such as sharing of adult content, that are sent to or received from users outside the host team or tenancy. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93261 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Office app: Read Aloud works during screen lock on iOS devices

Now you can listen to your documents on mobile when screen is locked.

ID: 93737 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Additional language support for Suggested Replies for mobile

Suggested replies now supported in: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Korean, Czech, Danish, Turkish, Polish.

ID: 94017 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual appointment SMS notifications for customers in the United Kingdom

SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for virtual appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.

ID: 94116 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams app in Microsoft store

Microsoft Teams app for work, school and life will soon be available to download from Microsoft store. This app will support work, school and consumer accounts on Windows 10 and Work or school accounts on Windows 11.

ID: 94577 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Investigations triggered by manual actions

In order to provide the most accurate information in the Action center, we’re making a change that creates an investigation when manual actions are taken by admins. As we converge to the security.microsoft.com portal, this will ensure that all actions are shown in the converged action center. This Roadmap Item has been updated to align with new and updated timeline.

ID: 70555 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Topics available in GCC

Availability for Viva Topics in GCC.

ID: 72185 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: April CY2022

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: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Improved Meeting support in Firefox browser

Full audio and screensharing support for meetings in Firefox browser.

ID: 83838 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: User request flows for blocked apps

Enable users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.

ID: 84469 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Up to 25K members per team in DoD

You can now add up to 25,000 members per team in DoD.

ID: 85338 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous meeting join across clouds

Join meetings in other clouds anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds).  We will be enabling this in three phases. First, Commercial and GCC customers will be able to join meetings in GCC-High and DOD clouds. Next, we will enable GCC-High customers to join Commercial, GCC and DOD meetings. Then, we will enable DOD customers to join Commercial, GCC, and GCC-High meetings. Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled.

ID: 86311 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for iOS

Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.

ID: 86957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Differentiated protection for Priority accounts

We are introducing differentiated protection for Priority accounts, which will provide users tagged as Priority accounts with a higher level of protection. As part of this release, we are introducing a Context filter within Threat Explorer and the Threat Protection Status report through which you can search for emails where Priority account protection is involved. In addition, the Threat Detection Details tab on the Email Entity page will be updated to show the threats, corresponding detection details, and whether these detections were identified as part of Priority account protection.

ID: 88873 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to URL Protection Report

We’re making some updates to the URL protection report to make the report easier to use and give admins more insight. The action view will be updated to include four new action types, including Admin allowed, Admin block, pending scan, and Admin blocked with clickthrough. We’re also consolidating the application view to classify all Office apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Visio) as Office rather than individual products.

ID: 88880 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

OneDrive and SharePoint: Access your Teams standard and private channel files

When you navigate to a site in SharePoint or OneDrive, you’ll be able to access the files stored in the Teams standard and private channels associated with that site.

ID: 88911 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Forms: Portal Page Experience Improvement

Microsoft Forms will not only surface it portal page on office hub, but we will also reroute partial traffic to forms.office.com and forms.microsoft.com. Then user will be able to find Collection on the portal page with some other minor improvements.

ID: 88945 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Roaming bandwidth control for GCC-High and DoD

Admins will now be able to set a bandwidth control policy to disable video calls when users are working in bandwidth constrained areas – this protects the reliability of the connection, automatically just based on where the users are located.  Once users return to a location with better bandwidth, their video calling is restored. Initially two settings from the Teams Meeting Policy will be included – AllowIPVideo, and MediaBitRateKb.

ID: 89064 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies in chats

Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message. Suggested replies presents users with up to three recommended responses to choose from.

ID: 92674 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: New default settings when opening Office files For Government clouds

Users can set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams.  The desktop setting can be selected, if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.

ID: 92946 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Mail latency report

we are making some enhancements to the existing Mail latency report in Defender for Office 365. The chart and filter options will be updated for more clarity.

ID: 93213 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists unscheduled items pane on calendar view

You can review all the items not yet appearing in the Calendar view due to missing dates. These items will appear on the Unscheduled tab within the events pane to the right of the Calendar view.

ID: 93223 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Follow Office preview policy on Mac

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public.  The existing follow Office preview policy allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview Channel of Teams if they are in the Office Current Channel (Preview) on Windows. We are now expanding the “follow Office preview” policy to Mac users who are in the Office Current Channel (Preview).

ID: 93536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Attendance Dashboard in GCC

Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the Attendance Dashboard.

ID: 87061 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collections and processing enhancement

We’re enhancing the Advanced eDiscovery Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content.

ID: 88881 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) for macOS

Currently available in public preview, Endpoint DLP for macOS extends the activity monitoring and protection capabilities of DLP to sensitive items that are on macOS devices. Once the Mac devices are onboarded into device management, the information about what users are doing with sensitive items is made visible in activity explorer and you can enforce protective actions on those items via DLP policies.

ID: 88927 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection

Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match and named entities, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage.

ID: 88935 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Refinement rules for document understanding extractor models

New refinement option to edit model extracted values before saving to the library column.

ID: 88952 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Contextual policy conditions

Support to identify when a file is sensitive based upon the file type or extension. Extend your Endpoint DLP policy controls to detect and protect even more content types such as CAD drawing files, video and audio files, and custom file types used in your specific industry.

ID: 88981 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Archived file support

Support the scanning for sensitive content in ZIP and ARJ archive files.

ID: 88982 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint data loss prevention – Classification globalization support (CCJK)

Microsoft Endpoint DLP will support content authored using double-byte character sets (including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese) in service workloads.

ID: 93179 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – 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

Canceled