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Enhanced video editing is coming to SharePoint and OneDrive with the introduction of web based Clipchamp. This innovative tool empowers users to swiftly edit and create videos, incorporating features such as trimming, joining, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording, and more. Elevate the professionalism of your videos with these advanced capabilities.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Viva: Personalized Viva Goals Digest Emails
Viva Goals activity summary digest emails summarize and curate the most relevant content for users across their Viva Goals experience.
ID: 117479 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Topics setup and configuration updates
Viva Topics setup and configuration will be updated to make it streamlined and easier to setup with fewer required steps.
ID: 118773 Release: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
SharePoint: Clipchamp for work
Clipchamp for work accounts enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web only for the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
ID: 124826 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations – single device
Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user’s device before they even realize there’s a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device.
ID: 124890 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Decorate your space in Teams Meetings (Premium)
Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects that enhance and decorate your real-life space. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
ID: 126123 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New chat experience in Microsoft Edge
When opening web links from Microsoft Teams chats in Microsoft Edge, users will see the web links open side-by-side with their Teams chats, with the Teams chats next in the Edge sidebar.
ID: 126334 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Prompt Walkie Talkie first time users to connect to a single channel
Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. We are releasing a new change where new users can now easily determine a channel to connect to start collaborating with colleagues.
ID: 129970 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Shifts: Notifications improvements
Several improvements to notifications for open and assigned shifts, including notifications will be sent to impacted team members only, schedule owners will have more control on who get the notifications, improved information for end user in the notification (such as location and department information), and consistent notifications across all platforms (desktop, web, iOS, Android).
ID: 135383 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Task publishing: Schedule recurring lists in task publishing
The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams is a feature for frontline organizations that have employees distributed across many geographically dispersed locations. The task publishing feature allows an organization to centrally define a set of work, choose the set of frontline locations that should complete that work, create the appropriate tasks for each frontline location, and monitor how that work is going. One of the top feature requests for task publishing has been the ability to create a set of tasks once and set them to automatically repeat at a scheduled cadence. Common examples are daily opening and closing tasks or weekly/monthly site inspections and compliance walks. When this feature is available, you’ll be able to set recurrence on a draft task list, which will allow you to choose the cadence (such as every month on the 15th of the month). You can then publish the list and task publishing will take care of scheduling the publication so that the list publishes automatically at that cadence going forward. We know from a wide range of customer conversations that this will be a big time saver for distributing recurring tasks across frontline organizations.
ID: 135562 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Choose which users to notify when publishing a task list
The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to choose which users to notify when you publish or unpublish a task list. In response to customer requests, you’ll soon have the ability to choose which members of teams receiving the tasks should get a notification in their Teams activity feed: all owners and members, owners only, or no one. Similarly, you will be able to choose who to notify when unpublishing a task list.
ID: 144248 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Hardware backed device attestation
Enhancing Windows compliance policy – device health: adding 5 additional hardware attestation settings specific to Windows 11 – using advanced platform security features like Memory Integrity and Access Protection, Firmware protection, Virtualization-based security, and Early Launch Antimalware protection.
ID: 144586 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance
The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. 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: 145793 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios
Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance?provides the tools to help?organizations detect business conduct and?regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. 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: 146859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage – Answers in Communities
Community admins can turn on Answers functionality for their communities. Premium license holders can then see ‘related questions’ in the question publisher, ask questions using titles and descriptions, and gain badges for answering questions.
ID: 152480 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create Simulations with Attack Simulation Training Graph API
Introducing the Attack Simulation Training Graph APIs for creating and managing phishing simulations and training campaigns with enhanced control and flexibility. Automate and customize attack scenarios based on real events within your organization to effectively identify vulnerabilities and test security measures. Seamlessly integrate with other security tools to streamline analytics and achieve centralized management for enhanced efficiency.
ID: 152722 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect files on remote / mapped network devices
With this capability organizations can leverage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.
ID: 153398 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning
With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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: 156014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Outlook: Upload and share documents on large emails
On Outlook accounts when you try to attach a file to an email that has hit the maximum size limit, or when an attachment will push the email over that limit, you will be prompted to upload the file to OneDrive so that you can still easily share the document.
ID: 156100 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Engage – Storyline per-user control
This feature will allow admins to designate which users in their Viva Engage network have the ability to create new storyline posts. It gives admins another option for how to support storyline in their network in addition to the current choice of enabling or disabling storyline for all users. This feature will not change who can reply or react to the storyline posts from those users who have been given storyline privileges. That is, all users with access to Viva Engage can reply and react to storyline posts.
ID: 159129 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint
Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent 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 PDF).
ID: 160008 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Hero Image for Connections Mobile
Hero image which is currently visible to users on desktop will be available to users on mobile and tablet as well.
ID: 160989 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings on Android and iOS
Choose translated captions for a more inclusive meeting experience. Live translated captions will be part of Teams Premium.
ID: 98513 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export (U.S. Government clouds)
Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators.
ID: 100056 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”
Email notifications will now be sent for all health issues that require an admin to take an action.
ID: 103631 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case migration tool (U.S. Government clouds)
This feature release enables user to move their existing eDiscovery Standard case to eDiscovery Premium’s new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After migration, user has the ability to continue their work in the migrated case following eDiscovery Premium’s workflow pipeline.
ID: 109542 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July CY2023
Whiteboard: Start new whiteboards with templates
This feature will bring templates front and center when creating a new whiteboard. When starting from a blank board, users will be able to choose from a selection of suggested templates or explore templates based on a use case to pre-populate a new whiteboard.
ID: 117401 Release: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized USB devices (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability, you can create groups of USB 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 of USB devices based on serial numbers and allow ‘copy’ of documents to certain groups of USB devices and block ‘copy’ for others.
ID: 124828 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized network share paths (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
ID: 124829 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: August 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 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July 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 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July 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 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: July CY2023
OneDrive: Recommended Files
We’ll be showing a set of files that have been recommended for you in OneDrive Home so you can quickly get back to the content you care about.
ID: 124871 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Results on user reported will factor in grading results
With this change, the results shown on user reports coming to Microsoft will start factoring in grading insights. This will help you triage user report more accurately and quickly.
ID: 124903 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Outlook: SMS on Outlook Lite
Available only in India. Outlook Lite now presents a modern, powerful SMS experience for users who prefer to have all their messaging needs in one compact platform.
ID: 125289 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Minecraft Education: Trails & Tales Update
This update includes bug fixes to increase reliability of multiplayer connections. We also added fun new mobs and features like camels, bamboo, sniffers, cherry groves, and archeology sites. Create a new world with the redesigned Templates page and write more code with the Agent. Use the Help button to share your feedback with the Minecraft team anytime.
ID: 145122 Release: Minecraft Education – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Allow participants to join public webinars with three concurrent devices
Participants attending an external facing webinar can use up to three concurrent devices to join the event using the same registration join link.
ID: 147098 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
SharePoint: Visual Refresh
We are introducing updates to the Microsoft Fluent Visual styling of the SharePoint platform that will improve the experience across the SharePoint Authoring Experience and Microsoft Syntex. Aligning with the latest Microsoft Fluent design system principles includes updated icons with softer edges, a cooler grey palette, and more rounded corners on various UI controls.
ID: 148368 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for DoD
Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
ID: 85437 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Settings insight
Intelligent Recommendations powered by Machine Learning model add insights to baselines giving you confidence in configurations that have been successfully adopted by similar organizations.
ID: 103634 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Curriculum Management in Teams
New capabilities are coming to Teams for EDU that allow educators to create and organize course resources including Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. This will be a one stop shop for content creation and organization for your Class Teams.
ID: 115512 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse
Viva Pulse is a feedback tool that empowers managers to get day to day feedback on projects and team dynamics, resulting in quicker action. Using smart templates, research-backed questions, and analytics, Viva Pulse enables teams to use their voice so they can help managers pinpoint what’s working well and which areas to focus on over time.
ID: 117393 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Flows packaged into custom list templates
Expand your organizational list templates by packaging Power Automate flows into them.
ID: 117436 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license
Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage. With this release, we’re proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users.
ID: 118672 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms Pro Management – Insights Report
The Insights Report is available in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. The report summarizes issues, remediation steps taken, time savings, and proactively alerts IT to issues before they become a problem for users. Previously available only via a managed service, now all Teams Rooms Pro customers can take advantage of this report.
ID: 122571 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Hotline phones
Enables administrators to program Microsoft Teams certified phone devices to directly dial a pre-configured phone number or contact, such as emergency services in a manufacturing plant or help desk in the organization. The hotline can be set up directly through the device settings or the Teams admin center. The device will need to be enabled with a Teams Shared Device License and set to common area phone mode.
ID: 123749 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Personalized activity feed
With this release, Users especially non OKR owners will land on their activity feed page that is prioritized with updates from leaders, people they work with regularly and OKRs that are relevant to help them stay informed on the status, progress, comments/reactions from people of the goals they care about. Users can comment/react to the post in the activity feed.
ID: 124781 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Tag templates and review set tagging usability enhancements
Streamline your review process with our refined tagging experience, designed to simplify your workflow. Leverage the tenant level tagging templates to easily manage your organization’s tagging needs.
ID: 124962 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft 365 App: New sensitivity bar in Microsoft 365 apps on Windows for viewing and applying sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview
Sensitivity bar provides a more prominent and contextual user experience for viewing and applying sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Windows. Preview dates may defer between apps. GA date consistent for all apps.
ID: 139362 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft 365 – DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Scoped Search for Viva Connections in Teams
When searching in the Viva Connections app in Teams using the Teams search bar, users will get results based on the Viva Connections tenant wide search experience.
ID: 148669 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Outlook: Multi Account Search
[This item is postponed indefinitely.] Search now allows results from all mailboxes configured in the app. Searches return in a single search merged results from all their mailboxes on the message list.
ID: 151030 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
