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Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic labeling using trainable classifiers in Office apps for Windows and Web
Within Microsoft Information Protection, you can create sensitivity labels and corresponding automatic or recommended labeling policies in Office apps for Windows and Office Online apps using the following built-in classifiers: Resume, Source code, Threat, Harassment, Profanity.
ID: 82119 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Additional third-party data connectors (17a-4 LLC and CellTrust)
Use data connectors to import and archive third-party data from social media platforms, instant messaging platforms, document collaboration platforms and more, to mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 organization where you can then apply various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions to the imported data. This helps you ensure that your organization’s non-Microsoft data is in compliance with the regulations and standards that affect your organization. This release includes data connectors from 17a-4 LLC and CellTrust.
ID: 82120 Tags: Microsoft Compliance Center – GCC Release: August CY2021
SharePoint: Updates to options for disabling subsite creation
This new update will improve the options for subsite creation settings in the SharePoint admin center.
ID: 82122 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Graph connectors intelligent discovery experiences
The content recommendation experience in Office.com (Recommended, Recent, and Shared) are now surfacing content from select Graph connectors. These connectors include the Microsoft-built File share connector and connectors from a few other software vendors.
ID: 82124 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
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), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management supports native triggers for Azure Active Directory account deletion
Automatically detect user account deletion in Azure Active Directory for your organization to start scoring for risk indicators in the Data theft by departing users policy template.
ID: 82126 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Ability to export Insider Risk Management alerts
Insider risk management alert information is exportable to security information and event management (SIEM) services via the Office 365 Management Activity API schema.
ID: 82127 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams app usage report and Graph API
We are introducing a new Teams app usage report & Graph API to help you track app usage metrics over time.
ID: 82128 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams device usage report and Graph API data source change
We are changing the data source of the Teams device usage report & Graph API to align with the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and including additional data validation to provide you with a better report experience.
ID: 83967 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Teams Q&A
Question & Answer application for Teams webinars & meetings. By adding this application to any Teams Webinars or Meetings, users will be able to create either moderated or unmoderated Q&A experience.
ID: 84027 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from meetings on web
Users in a Teams meeting on web can now share audio while screen sharing.
ID: 84175 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Teams device management in DoD
Tenants in the DoD environment can also manage their Teams devices from the Teams admin center. Admins can now control the entire lifecycle of their Teams devices which include an increasing variety of supported device types – IP Phones, Collaboration bars, Teams displays, Teams Meeting Room devices.
ID: 85264 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Presenter support for GCC-High
Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
ID: 85325 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Presenter support for DoD
Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
ID: 85326 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: November CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams team usage report and Graph API
We are introducing a new Teams team usage report and Graph API to help you track Teams team usage metrics over time.
ID: 85540 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams user activity report and Graph API data source change
Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger We are changing the data source of the Teams user activity report and Graph API to align with the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and including additional data validation to provide you with a better report experience.
ID: 85542 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams user activity per user graph API
We are introducing a new Teams user activity per user Graph API to help you track Teams usage per user over time.
ID: 85543 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams app usage report and Graph API for GCC High and DoD
We are introducing a new Teams app usage report and Graph API to help you track app usage metrics over time.
ID: 85544 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams app usage per app Graph API
We are introducing a new Teams app usage per app Graph API to help you track app usage per app over time.
ID: 85545 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams device usage report and Graph API data source change for GCC High and DoD
We are changing the data source of the Teams device usage report and Graph API to align with the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and including additional data validation to provide you with a better report experience.
ID: 85546 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2021
Microsoft Search: Stemming support for Microsoft Graph Connectors
Stemming support will consider different variants of a Query term’s word root for searches. This feature will extend support to Graph connectors content.
ID: 85548 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Advanced metadata search
Users licensed for Syntex will soon be able to select an icon in the search box that will unlock a metadata-based search experience in Syntex & SharePoint document libraries. In the first release, this search experience will have 5 fixed fields – keyword, people, name, type, and modified.
ID: 85549 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for GCC High
Addition of Advanced Audit events that provide information on when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
ID: 85550 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Introducing background effects on web
When you use Teams on the web, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely with the images provided in your video meeting or call. Note: Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting.
ID: 85738 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Peer5 eCDN support for Teams Live Events
Soon, you will be able to use Peer5 as an eCDN provider for your Teams Live Event network needs.
ID: 85787 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – Improved accessibility and minor updates
Career Coach will receive minor updates to copy and performance. The application will also adhere to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.
ID: 85916 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Team Templates maintenance
Enhancements to Team Templates content with additional apps and channels in the Microsoft-provided predefined team structure.
ID: 85917 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Content from camera
“Content from camera” in Teams enables you to share content from physical artefacts such as whiteboards and documents in a high quality and legible way during meetings. All you need is a laptop or PC with an in-built camera or with an attached USB camera. Educators can also share content directly from a document camera.
ID: 86062 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021
Outlook: Expanded Global Access List (GAL) people suggestions for mail and calendar compose
Outlook will now return results from the complete GAL (Global Access List) when suggesting people for email and calendar compose (Ex: Adding someone to the To line of a new email).
ID: 86095 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Safe Links Protection for Microsoft Teams
The power of Safe Links will now be available to protect users from malicious links sent via Microsoft Teams.
ID: 34298 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2021
OneDrive: Expiring access for external users
Admins and end users can expire shares to external users.
ID: 43797 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Outlook on the Web: Add a personal calendar
Your time includes both personal and work events, so you should be able to see both in one place. Outlook on the web will give you the option to connect a personal calendar (Outlook.com or Google Calendar) to your Office 365 account. With this, you can see both kind of events in one place. Available in Targeted Released. Rolling out to Standard Release in late May.
ID: 54015 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Outlook on the Web: personal calendar affects work availability
Outlook is making it easier for you to manage and protect your time across your work and personal life. As noted in Roadmap Item 54015, Outlook on the web allows you to connect your personal calendar so that you can view both your work and personal calendars in one place. Once you add your personal calendar, you will have the option to make it block time in your work availability. Don’t worry though: when others see your work availability (free/busy), your personal events will only appear as free or busy. Details of personal events, such as title and location, won’t ever be shown regardless of how you share your work calendar. This feature is currently in private preview.
ID: 54970 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Outlook on the Web: Access to TeamSnap accounts in calendar
You will be able to connect your TeamSnap account to Outlook on the web so you can see those events in your Office 365 calendar.
ID: 57277 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
Outlook on the Web: new editor
Outlook will now have new editing capabilities powered by Microsoft 365 to help you deliver your ideas and message better.
ID: 59642 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Microsoft Project: Add Roadmap reports to the Power BI template
You can enable Roadmap reports in the Power BI Template (https://github.com/OfficeDev/Project-Power-BI-Templates) for Project reporting and dashboards.
ID: 60566 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021
Outlook on the Web: redesigned inbox “Storage” view in Settings
We are redesigning the inbox storage view in Settings, so you can easily see which files and folder are consuming your inbox storage space and manage it.
ID: 65472 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for Government clouds
Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
ID: 68718 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Graph: Office 365 Service Communications API availability in Microsoft Graph
The Office 365 Service Communications API will soon be made available through Graph.
ID: 68720 Tags: Microsoft Graph – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365: Apps will require Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime
Microsoft 365 Apps is starting to provide new or improved features that rely on Microsoft Edge WebView2. WebView2 Runtime will be installed starting on March 8, 2021. Only devices that are running Windows and that have Version 2101 or later of Microsoft 365 Apps installed are affected.
ID: 70699 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Prevent Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) attendees from unmuting in meetings
Presenters and Organizers can now prevent (Public Switched Telephone Network) PSTN participants from unmuting. This change also allows PSTN participants to request to speak by raising their hand in a meeting via dial-pad command (press *5).
ID: 80262 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Lock a meeting from additional joins
In the Teams meetings desktop app experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent join attempts. Anyone attempting to join a lock meeting from any device will be informed that the meeting is locked.
ID: 80669 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Related Content for Teams Meetings for mobile
Related Content makes meetings more effective by providing customers with important information from their mailboxes, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint sites. This helps them prepare before their meetings by offering them content they haven’t had a chance to read or may want to revisit. Users can find this content on the Meeting Details page.
ID: 81354 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Forms: Word Cloud data insights for open text question
We are introducing new data insight type–Word Cloud–to the open text question in Forms. When users have collected responses for an open text question, word cloud data insight will be available to help them get a quick view on the top text phrases people answered.
ID: 81840 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
SharePoint: Updates for Microsoft Teams connected team sites
Every Microsoft Teams team is connected to a SharePoint team site. If you create a private channel, it gets a unique team site. You will see specific updates, including updates to site features, site permissions alignment, site classifications and sensitivity labels, and improvements to the user interface.
ID: 81945 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: New Permissions management page
We’re adding a new Permissions page within the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Admins will be able to use this new page to view and assign user roles and create and modify custom role groups – activities currently managed within the legacy Office 365 Security & Compliance Center.
ID: 82005 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: First contact safety tip
First contact safety tips notify recipients the first time they get a message from a sender or if they don’t often get messages from the sender. This capability adds an extra layer of security protection against potential impersonation attacks. Previously the first contact safety tip was available via PowerShell cmdlet, and with this release will now be available for configuration in the anti-phishing policy.
ID: 82052 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling (client-side)
Organizations will be able to configure new or existing client-side Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.
ID: 82071 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Mobile app protection policy
Teams mobile app will start supporting conditional access grant, requiring app protection policy to help protect organizational data on all devices employees use. This change will ensure that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.
ID: 84773 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Top hits in Search Autosuggest
This is being removed from the roadmap as a duplicate of 70563. Top hits is a new section at the top of the autosuggest results in search where users will see the most relevant results across people, chats, files and more. This feature will improve discovery and reduce search times.
ID: 83576 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
