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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal has made significant strides with its latest Data Loss Prevention feature, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) support for endpoints. The OCR feature allows users to detect and protect sensitive content in images and apply Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to prevent the exfiltration of your organization’s sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. Also, Purview has taken information protection to the next level with their extended sensitivity labels in DLP to protect meeting invites, appointments, and Teams online meetings. Be on the lookout for these helpful features rolling out this summer.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoint calling via CVI partners

Users can make one-to-one calls between Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows and VTC endpoints enabling ad-hoc video calls across services.? The Teams Rooms platform enables Cloud Video Interop (CVI) partners to offer this feature for Teams Rooms Pro licensed customers. Please check with your CVI partner for availability.

ID: 95263 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint

With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent the exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image only).

ID: 106092 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Dashboard for Chat

This feature will update the existing chat details page to provide more information to users and help them easily find content shared in the chat.

ID: 114938 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration

We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.

ID: 117424 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints

Extend protection to cold/unclassified files on endpoint devices by just-in-time protection at the time of egress.

ID: 117493 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Extend sensitivity labels to meetings (U.S. Government clouds)

Extend sensitivity labels to Outlook appointments, invites, and Teams online meetings.

ID: 117507 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Graph: Data Connect – Hybrid Workplace Analytics Template

Leverage Microsoft 365 data from Microsoft Graph Data Connect to obtain actionable information about the collaboration between people of the organization. Today’s challenges of a work environment that has shifted to embrace hybrid modalities often focus on designing the workplace for people success and wellbeing, as well as measuring the effectiveness of changes. By obtaining insights on how employees engage with hybrid work, managers can take action to identify and reduce employee churn, focus on inclusiveness, and optimize workplace setups for efficiency and employee satisfaction.

ID: 117590 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Teams Security

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will provide protection and enhanced security operations (SecOps) experience for Microsoft Teams. These protection capabilities will include automatic remediation of malicious entities and support for end user reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams specific attack insights will be included in the unified investigation and response experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps experience.

ID: 117595 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Call Health Panel for VDI

The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view you will get data on your network, audio, screen sharing, and outgoing video quality. These real-time metrics are updated every 15 seconds and are best used to troubleshoot issues that last for at least that long. To view your stats during a call or meeting, select More actions icon at the top of the call window, and then select Call health near the top of the menu.

ID: 117858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Easier Teams Meeting join for Cloud Video Interop (CVI) users

Cloud Video Interop (CVI) licensed users can join Teams meetings as a guest without CVI coordinates. The Teams platform enables all four certified CVI partners to offer customers the ability to quickly join a Teams meeting without requiring the CVI coordinates in the meeting invite.

ID: 120855 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Content camera for Teams Rooms on Android

Content cameras can present analog whiteboard content digitally and appear in the Share menu in the meeting. Available with Teams Rooms Standard, Premium, and Pro licenses.

ID: 121375 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Default meeting layout controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

IT admins can choose the default meeting layout selecting Content only and Content+Gallery when content sharing begins. Standard, Premium, and Pro customers can also choose Front Row as the default layout.

ID: 121663 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web, support for search folders

Search Folders are virtual folders that provide a view of all email items that match specific search criteria. For example, the Unread Mail Search Folder enables you to view all unread messages in one folder, even though the messages might be saved in different folders across your mailbox.
ID: 122152 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email and associated entities hunting capabilities available through Microsoft Graph Security API

We are introducing email and associated entities hunting capabilities to the Microsoft Graph Security API. Email meta data like email properties (subject, sender, domain etc ), MDO detections, and related entities can now be hunt via the API.

ID: 122276 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: App search improvement in Teams store

Improvements to search in Teams app store allows users to find the right apps and workflows quickly.

ID: 122521 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New capability for users to share apps directly to chats or channels

This new feature will allow people to share apps from Teams app details page directly to chats or channels.

ID: 122536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Give Feedback for GCC

Users in GCC can give feedback via the Help icon in Teams regarding their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences future features and product updates. From the help icon, click on give feedback to provide verbatims on your product experience.

ID: 123972 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion

Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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: 124779 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2024

Universal Print: Integration with macOS

The native integration of Universal Print with macOS will empower macOS users to print from any app, just like Windows users can today. Whether people are on Windows or macOS, they have a seamless, no learning curve print-experience. Organizations benefit from the simplicity of a single print-solution for all users.

ID: 124785 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Pronouns available on the profile card

Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.

ID: 86382 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Automatic lowering of a user’s Raised Hand after speaking

To reduce the number of stale raised hands in meetings, we will now suggest users to lower their raised hand after we detect they spoke in the meeting. They will be able to choose to keep their hand raised. If the user doesn’t take any action on the suggestion notification, we’ll automatically lower their hand. This should ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters.

ID: 90022 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: View switcher improvement for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows’ view switcher now has an updated interface where you can easily control views in a meeting. Customize your view such as turning on and off meeting chat or choosing what to see on the front row’s left and right panels. IT admins can configure default number of panels and default component on panel(s).

ID: 98422 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

ID: 99706 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with personal insights for GCC-H

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

ID: 101521 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with personal insights for DoD

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

ID: 101522 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in GCC-H

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106095 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Insights web app in DoD

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106096 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings

Teams now supports an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

ID: 107781 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips in government cloud

Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.

ID: 114155 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Improvements to the Image web part

Improvements to the Image web part include one consolidated toolbar for better navigation, and added capabilities to text overlay, such as text size and styling, text box color and opacity, and image overlay color and transparency.

ID: 117376 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Improvements to the Page authoring experience

We’re reducing clutter and creating an efficient canvas by moving the “add section” action to be inline and visible on hover, as well as surfacing the layout options in the web part toolbars.

ID: 117377 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Autosuggest location for Emergency location

Easily set your emergency location on Teams with location recommendations.

ID: 94692 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Export Microsoft Lists as a dataset for Power BI Data Hub

Today, you can visualize a list as a report in Power BI, from within the list itself. Soon, it will be possible to export a dataset from Microsoft Lists for use in Power BI Data Hub. Once your list is in Power BI Data Hub, you can take advantage of its rich data visualization features to create powerful, custom reports based on your list data.

ID: 117379 Tags: SharePoint, Power BI – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Review recent SharePoint site actions in admin center

Review the most recent site changes you made from the SharePoint admin center in the last 30 days.

ID: 117553 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Canceled

Outlook: Frontline worker Audience targeting using Job code, location and department

Capability for frontline worker communicators to identify target audience by using Location, Job Code and Department in Outlook.  This feature has been cancelled and will be removed from the roadmap.

ID: 100969 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023