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Do you want to decrease your note-taking time? Microsoft OneNote Dictate feature will allow you to speak your text and commands instead of typing them out.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Improved Meeting support in Firefox browser

Full audio and screensharing support for meetings in Firefox browser.

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

OneNote: Dictate your notes in OneNote

Dictation with commanding available in both OneNote Web and Windows. You can use speech to text instead of typing and various commands, such as delete, to edit your notes.

ID: 88993 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Modern meeting experience on the web

The modern meeting and calling experience will be available for Teams on the web in Chrome and Edge browsers – including improved pre-join, dynamic view, and the updated control bar.

ID: 92928 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint data loss prevention – App groups and granular app restriction policies

This feature enables admins to define endpoint DLP policies to lock specific apps for different activities and enables more granular restrictions for individual apps.

ID: 93180 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Mobile companion app

Incident notifications, report incident.

ID: 93200 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Bulk suppression of rooms enrolled in Managed Services

Workflow to turn off all signals for rooms and specify when the signals need to be turned back on.

ID: 93201 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Pin external links to Topics

Users will be able to add external links to the “pinned files and pages” section of the topic pages instead of only Microsoft resources. These external links will be viewable and clickable from topic pages, cards, and answers.

ID: 93204 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Windows 365: Ability to target Conditional Access (CA) policies to a single application that applies to both the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop apps

Currently, Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop share a common framework for identity access by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and security controls with CA policies. You can target CA policies to the Windows 365 app and this applies only to windows365.microsoft.com web client. To apply CA policies to the full Windows client and non-windows clients, you must assign CA policies to both the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop apps.

ID: 93216 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

SharePoint: Automatically build visualization of list data with Power BI

Enables list users to easily visualize their list data in a Power BI report. The initial report is auto generated. Users can also save that report so that future visitors to the list can view the report.

ID: 93221 Tags: Power BI, SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD 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 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Stream: View and edit video or audio title and description

This feature enables users with edit permissions to add and edit a title or description on their video or audio file. Viewers will be able to see this information along with non-editable fields like upload date, owner name, filename, and area path.

ID: 93224 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Change video/audio custom thumbnail

This feature enables users with edit permissions to change the default thumbnail on their video or audio by uploading an image or selecting a frame from the video. This custom thumbnail will be used throughout Microsoft 365.

ID: 93225 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Streamlining Microsoft 365 Application Protocol Activations

Microsoft 365 Application Protocol Activations on trusted Microsoft cloud storage services will now launch certain Microsoft 365 applications directly, including subdomains of sharepoint.com and OneDrive URLs. Group policy is available that can be used to enable the application protocol activation prompts if desired, and to define other applications and services where warnings are enabled or disabled.

ID: 93754 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Excel: Run team-owned scripts in Excel for the web

Office Scripts is an automation feature-set in Excel for the web. With this new feature, users will be able to save their scripts to a SharePoint site so that their team members can more easily collaborate, view, and run team-owned scripts on their Excel workbooks.

ID: 93767 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Delete Call History

This feature will allow call history users to hide call history records from their call history view.

ID: 94200 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Rolling Out

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 365 Compliance center: Data purge capabilities for Microsoft Teams content

Extend data purge functionality to Microsoft Teams content to facilitate purge of sensitive or misplaced data.

ID: 82125 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Security- Data access governance

Expanding our insights story to help you easily see what matters most in your organization. With our new Data Access Governance insights, you can monitor sharing activity to detect oversharing. You can review and monitor sites based on the type of sharing. You can quickly see essential information about the sites like sensitivity, level of access from unmanaged devices or if the site can be shared externally.

ID: 82164 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

OneDrive: Organize -add to OneDrive shortcuts

Now you can organize your ‘Add to OneDrive’ folder shortcuts the way you want by moving them into any private folder you create in your OneDrive.

ID: 82166 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March 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: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Auto-Expiration of Meeting Recordings stored on OneDrive and SharePoint

Newly created Teams meeting recordings in OneDrive and SharePoint will be automatically deleted by the service based on a default Teams policy setting. Teams Admins will be able to modify the default meeting recording expiration time via a setting in the Teams Admin Portal or by modifying policy attributes using Powershell scripts. Newly created meeting recordings in OneDrive & SharePoint will be automatically deleted after this point unless the meeting owner extends the expiration.  Meeting owners will be notified about expired recordings and may extend the expiration date in OneDrive/SharePoint. Compliance policies will override the expiration setting.  This item was incorrectly marked rolling-out and is now corrected.

ID: 84580 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

OneDrive: New information architecture on iOS

To make it easier to discover options, OneDrive on iOS has a new information architecture (IA) using the bottom sheet to show all commanding options.

ID: 85571 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Automated webinar invite

When webinars are setup and scheduled, the webinar invite is now automatically added to the attendee’s calendar.

ID: 85737 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams

Customer Lockbox ensures that Microsoft cannot access your content to perform a service operation without your explicit approval. Customer Lockbox brings you into the approval workflow for requests to access your content. Customer Lockbox is already available for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. This update brings the capability to Microsoft Teams as well.

ID: 86190 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Domain Customization for Webinar Communications

Showcase your organization’s brand in webinar communications. When webinar emails are sent to attendees, both the sender name and email domain will now reflect the tenant name, making it easier for attendees to recognize.

ID: 86896 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Topic discovery analytics

Transparency through analytics on topic discovery for organizations (Stage 1) to support ROI and understanding of progress of topic discovery.

ID: 88696 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Forms: Direct share forms to people in your organization and get email notification

Enable customers to share a form directly to people in their organization and receive form status by periodic email notification.

ID: 88886 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Create and manage Power Apps from Microsoft Lists within Microsoft Teams

Build low-code, mobile-friendly apps from Lists directly inside of Teams via a new integration with Power Apps. A published app can be added as a tab in a Teams channel and shared with the rest of your team, while maintaining its connection to the list as a source of data.

ID: 88894 Tags: SharePoint, PowerApps – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Briefing email support for 16 additional languages

The daily Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks, and protect time for independent work. With this update, the Briefing email will be available in the following additional languages: Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Korean, Chinese Traditional, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Thai, Hebrew, Czech, Arabic, and Hungarian.

ID: 88958 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Office app: Activity Center for tablets and iPad

Find all alerts and notifications from the Office app in the Activity Center.

ID: 88959 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Dark mode in Yammer

Dark mode can be enabled to view lighter text on a dark background.

ID: 88976 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Outlook: Room Finder during meeting bookings for Android

Need to book a space? Outlook Mobile is here to make your transition to hybrid work easier. Search and book conference rooms when you need to collaborate with colleagues or book a workspace when you need some focus time.

ID: 90740 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Outlook: Room Finder during Meeting Bookings for iOS

Need to book a space? Outlook Mobile is here to make your transition to hybrid work easier. Search and book conference rooms when you need to collaborate with colleagues or book a workspace when you need some focus time.

ID: 90741 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Large Gallery for Teams on VDI in Government Clouds

By default, Teams Meetings supports up to 9 videos in Gallery. Now, using Large Gallery, users can view up to 49 videos at once in meetings on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

ID: 93000 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode for Teams on VDI in Government Clouds

Together Mode lets you see all your colleagues against a shared background, making you feel like you are all ‘together’ in a virtual online room. Now available in meetings on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

ID: 93001 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Large Gallery for web for GCC-High and DoD

By default, Teams Meetings supports up to 9 videos in Gallery. Now, using Large Gallery, users can view up to 49 videos at once in meetings.

ID: 93012 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode for web for GCC-High and DoD

Together Mode lets you see all your colleagues against a shared background, making you feel like you are all ‘together’ in a virtual online room.

ID: 93015 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Inspiration Library in Microsoft Viva Insights

Inspiration library is a new feature available in preview through the Viva Insights app in Teams. The Inspiration library turns insights into action with access to curated content and best practices from top sources like Harvard Business Review and Thrive.

ID: 93214 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Launched

Exchange: Cross-tenant mailbox migration now available (Public Preview)

This feature is for customers with multiple tenants. It allows customers to perform self-service tenant-to-tenant mailbox migrations using the New-MigrationBatch PowerShell cmdlet or the Exchange admin center.

ID: 67128 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Compliance center: Information governance – Retention policies for Yammer

This update enables organizations to apply retention policies on Yammer messages.

ID: 82055 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Identity: Native “response” actions

From this release SecOps will have the ability to directly lock the Active Directory account, or to prompt for the password to be reset, meaning more direct action can be taken when a user is compromised. Up until now, when a user is confirmed as compromised in Microsoft Defender for Identity, it’s the Azure Active Directory account that is effected via a conditional access rule.

ID: 82077 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Forms Integration with Microsoft Bookings

Associate Forms templates to Booking services to send forms for data intake from attendees prior to joining a Booking appointment.

ID: 87607 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: local document understanding model creation

Allows for the creation of local Syntex models in Team and Communication sites.

ID: 88519 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Outlook: Viva topics in Outlook

Viva topics can identify key words in email messages you receive from your business associates with internal topics and create a curated summary including a description, people associated with the topic, and related files. It also allows the sender of an email to manually tag words as topics to provide more richness in your communications.

ID: 88533 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Topics integration to Outlook Web (Preview)

Display suggested and directly referenced topics from inbound emails in a pulldown pane and attach topics when composing messages using hashtag.

ID: 88693 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Visits usage report in Teams Admin Center

The Virtual Visits usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center gives you an overview of Teams Virtual Visits activity in your organization for Global Admins and Teams Admin. Customer can view detailed activity for virtual appointments scheduled through the Bookings app and the Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Records (EHR) connector.

ID: 88792 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Yammer: Bookmarks in Yammer

Bookmark threads in Yammer to easily find and read them later.

ID: 88953 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Bookings: Microsoft Bookings for E1 and Business Basic

Bookings will be available for E1 and Business Basic licenses.

ID: 88989 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Message extension entry point for Workflows in Teams

Chat/Channel/Teams based workflows are a powerful tool for collaboration and efficiency. With message extension based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the message extension menu.

ID: 92454 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Canceled