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Microsoft Teams Transcription feature will now allow admins the option to automatically record meetings.

In Development

SharePoint: Migrate SharePoint Server 2019 to SharePoint in Microsoft 365

Migrate classic content as well as modern content from SharePoint Server 2019 to SharePoint in Microsoft 365, now supported in SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT).

ID: 93408 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Detect sensitive files that are encrypted, or password protected

With this capability, your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies will be able to detect the presence of, and prevent password protected Microsoft Office, PDF, and archive files on Windows endpoint devices from unauthorized use.

ID: 93416 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Recurring time booking for breaks, message catch up, and learning in Viva Insights

Users with a Viva Insights subscription will see invitations to enroll into plans to automatically book recurring time for learning, breaks, and message catch up in briefing email and Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 93424 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Decoupling the User Notifications and Policy Tips on Exchange DLP

With this update you will be able to configure policy tips and email notifications in your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies for Exchange Online independently for more granular control.

ID: 93429 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Time trends for Productivity Score people experiences

Time Trends in Productivity Score helps IT admins understand historical information about people experiences in their environment. Time trends extends organizational trend data from 28 days up to 180 days across Content collaboration, Meetings, Teamwork, Mobility, and Communication insight categories within people experiences. Productivity Score and people experiences must be enabled by a Global Administrator within the Microsoft 365 admin center to access this feature.

ID: 93430 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to the common attachment filter in the anti-malware policy

We are enhancing the common attachments filter (Anti-malware policy) to expand list of available file types and also manage custom file types in the portal.

ID: 93431 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Alert policies

We are enhancing the existing Microsoft Defender for Office 365 alert policy (A potentially malicious URL click was detected).

ID: 93432 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, DoD Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Anti-malware policy notifications

The anti-malware policy can be configured with recipient and sender notifications when a message is quarantined. We are redesigning this notifications option and delivery.

ID: 93433 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Home page for Teams for Education class teams

Home page provides a central destination for the latest announcements, resources, upcoming assignments, class files, and meetings for a class team.

ID: 93479 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Share content experience improvement on Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows is updating the user interface to share HDMI and content camera in the meeting. The new experience provides a better task completion and provides experience clarity for in room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.

ID: 95255 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: End to end encryption for one-to-one calls in Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows can be configured to encrypt all person-to-person (P2P) calls. The callee must also have encryption setting turned on. When in an encrypted call, both caller and callee can verify encryption key to make sure the call is end to end encrypted and secure.

ID: 95256 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Join Teams meeting by meeting ID and passcode from Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows users can join Teams meetings using a meeting ID and passcode. This significantly improves meeting join experience for meetings across tenants or where room was not invited to the meeting.

ID: 95262 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Parent App

With Parent Connection, educators can see the roster of the parents and guardians for their students (info provided by School Data Sync) and initiate a Teams chat with them by a single click. So now, instead of the twice-yearly parent-teacher conference or sporadic email, educators and guardians can provide more iterative updates back and forth through Teams chat to help manage and track their student’s progress.

ID: 96942 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Video clip

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

ID: 97158 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: View meeting transcripts on Microsoft Teams for Mobile and iOS

You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after the meetings on Microsoft Teams for iOS and Android.

ID: 97693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Transcription will be turned on together with Recording if the “Record automatically” meeting option is on

If meeting organizer set the “Record automatically” meeting option to on for a meeting, Transcription will be turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts, if transcription is allowed by admins. This will make recording playback experience accessible.

ID: 97842 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Home page customization for Teams admin center

IT admins can drag and drop widgets to customize their Home page in Teams admin center.

ID: 85703 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pop out shared content into a separate window

Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window.

ID: 86948 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Record a new video on the Stream Start page in Office

Users can create a new video directly from the Stream Start page on Office.com by recording their webcam or screen. The new video is uploaded to OneDrive and ready to share.

ID: 88522 Tags: Microsoft Stream, OneDrive, Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Forms: Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms survey

This feature allows you convert you existing surveys or quizzes into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started. After import, you can still edit as needed before collecting responses.

ID: 93411 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge

This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions; and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.

ID: 93415 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Launched

Outlook: Outlook Lite for Android

An Android app that brings the main benefits of Outlook in a smaller app size with fast performance for lightweight devices on any network.

ID: 93383 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Audit search enhancements

This item is removed from the roadmap as a duplicate of 93236. This update provides various service optimizations for Audit search, including speed and workflow improvements. For example, you can track status of the searches.

ID: 72202 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Manage What Attendees See

A new release date for this feature is under discussion. We will communicate the new timeline when it is available. Attendees will only see shared content and presenters that you bring on screen.

ID: 86818 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Access: Inconsistent Database Error Fix

This item has been cancelled and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. This feature encapsulates several components of helping to solve a challenging, ongoing issue of inconsistent database states reported by our customers.

ID: 89136 Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Azure Active Directory: Multiple Password less Phone sign-in Accounts for iOS Devices

This roadmap item has been cancelled and may be revisited in the future. Users can enable password less phone sign-in accounts for their iOS devices. Previously there was a limit of one password less phone sign-in account per device, but we have removed that limitation.

ID: 93272 Tags: Azure Active Directory, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022