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Two important topics! Intelligent Meeting Recap is coming to GCC High, and there is an interesting new development to help with data residency. Intelligent Meeting uses AI to provide a quick summary of meetings and identifies discussion points and follow-up actions. It is coming to GCC High next month. Multi-Geo In-Region Routing will enable customers with regional data compliance requirements to control the routing of inbound mail. This means customers with only data residency compliance needs could use Commercial instead of GCC High.

In Development

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

ID: 117531 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story’s narrative

Steer your narrative with Copilot when creating a PowerPoint presentation.

ID: 398967 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Delegate Onboarding

The Delegate Onboarding feature aims to streamline the process of assigning delegate and delegate manager roles within the Viva Engage platform. By allowing users to request delegate permissions from delegators directly, the feature seeks to reduce the cognitive load and time costs associated with the current manual process, ultimately facilitating faster and more efficient delegate assignments.

ID: 406912 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile

With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files.

ID: 407386 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, OneDrive, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse administrators can export Pulse data

Viva Pulse administrators can now search for and export a user’s Pulse report, user level, and tenant-level data to a .xlsx file.

ID: 407636 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Notifications management for administrators to configure where Pulse notifications are delivered

Pulse administrators can configure where Pulse notifications are delivered.

ID: 408163 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Verified Answers

Certain users like experts and admins will be able to mark answers to questions as verified answers to signal a credible and accurate answer. Questions with verified answers will receive its own special verified label and badge at the top of the question and on the verified answer. The goal of verified answers is to help enhance the trust and utility of knowledge in Viva Engage.

ID: 408165 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Questions surfacing in Copilot results

Viva Engage questions from communities, storyline, and Answers will surface in Copilot results.

ID: 408166 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Engage content surfacing in Copilot results

Community discussion posts from Viva Engage will surface in Copilot results.

ID: 408167 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for Android Enterprise Corporate devices

Enrollment time grouping for Android Enterprise Corporate devices ensures targeted apps and policies get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup.

ID: 408535 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Required approval

Coming soon, you’ll be able to require approval at the campaign level for all your Amplify publications. The require approval feature brings compliance, accountability, and workflows to Lightweight Approvals in Amplify. By enabling required approval for a campaign, stakeholders can ensure that all campaign content adheres to organizational standards and receive the necessary approval before publishing, thus minimizing risks and errors. You can require approval at the campaign level so that all Amplify publications within the campaign go through the approval process before the content is published. This is an optional setting that a user can choose to apply to a campaign. By requiring approval, organizations can apply a significant level of quality and security to their content, ensuring every piece of content aligns perfectly with their standards and expectations before it is published.

ID: 409233 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Move menu improvements

Two improvements are coming to the move menu on Outlook for iOS and Android. Users will now be able to expand and collapse folders within the move menu and see folder hierarchy when searching in the move menu.

ID: 409957 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Copilot dashboard access can be granted using Entra groups

In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard access can be granted by Global admins using Microsoft Entra ID (AAD) Groups. This will reduce the manual effort of the admins.

ID: 409961 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Connections News Notifications in Gov Clouds

With this release, existing news notifications in Viva Connections will now be available in GCC, GCCH and DoD. News notifications are delivered via Microsoft Teams in the desktop, mobile, and web environments in the following scenarios: News is published to a SharePoint team or communication site a user follows or by someone a user works closely with. News is boosted. Someone comments on a new News post. Someone “Likes” a News post. Someone is @mentioned in a comment on a news post.

ID: 410198 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot

A new column will be added to the Readiness section of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report showing suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new column is intended to help admins with licensing decisions by quickly identifying users who are in a strong position to get the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot based on their relevant Microsoft 365 app usage.

ID: 410202 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

SharePoint: New Content AI Rules in SharePoint to set sensitivity labels and retention policy

We are pleased to announce the establishment of two new rules for content AI in SharePoint. These rules can be triggered by a change in column data or the addition of a file to a SharePoint library. They will enable users to apply a retention policy and a sensitivity label, as predefined in Purview, to documents that meet the specified conditions.

ID: 410211 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft 365: Multi-Geo In-Region Routing

Multi-Geo In-Region Routing enables customers with regional data compliance requirements to control the routing of inbound mail so that the mail enters Exchange Online in the geo-region hosting a specific user and the mail is fully processed and stored in the user’s region, even if that user is in a different geo-region than the user’s tenant.

ID: 410245 Release: Exchange, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams

If users want to change what appears behind them in their video meeting or call, they can either blur their background, use Teams virtual background templates, or with a Teams Premium license, they can change their Teams meeting background to a branded logo or image specific to their company. With this new feature, now users on the new VDI solution for Teams can also replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the ‘Video effects and Settings’ option.

ID: 410366 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center

Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center.

ID: 410396 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Be notified about new form responses on Lists

Lists forms users can subscribe to be notified of new responses on their forms. By default, this would be toggled off, but a form collaborator can toggle on and receive an email notification for every new response on that form after.

ID: 410768 Release: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Schedule turning on and off responses to forms

List form owners and collaborators can schedule specific dates and times to start and stop accepting responses. The form will be active during the designated period and will automatically stop accepting responses once the scheduled end time is reached.

ID: 410769 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Add attachments to forms

Users will be able to add attachment fields to enhance their list forms. This feature allows users to upload files directly to the form, providing additional context or necessary documentation.

ID: 410770 Release: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Conditional branching in Microsoft Lists forms

Microsoft Lists forms will enable users to create dynamic forms featuring branching and conditional logic. This update allows users to customize their forms to display relevant questions based on conditions applied to previous responses, empowering them to design smarter forms that adapt to their data collection needs.

ID: 410771 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership

With our Deploy Teams at Scale tool on the Teams Admin Center, you can deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed alongside any manual changes made by your team owners.

ID: 410774 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC-H environments

Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters.

ID: 410985 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Forms: New data sync solution replaces old data sync solution for syncing forms responses to Excel

Forms is introducing a new data sync solution with higher reliability to sync forms responses data to Excel. The older version of live data sync will be replaced by the newer solution.

ID: 410988 Release: Forms, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Rolling Out

SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint

Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.  Get assistance drafting your content when creating new pages. Adjust the tone, expand meeting bullets into structured text, or get help making your message more concise. All within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise.

ID: 124840 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page

This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded).

ID: 393934 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel

In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order.

ID: 395931 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window

When meeting window is minimized, participants can enlarge the small view of Teams meeting to a new bigger gallery view, making it easier to multitask on screen and stay aware of meeting events. Users can choose the size of the minimized gallery view window from the following options: one participant visible in the minimized window, 4 participants visible in the minimized window, fully minimized, or fully expanded.

ID: 398449 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap with AI-generated notes and tasks for GCC environments

Enabling AI-generated notes and tasks within the intelligent meeting recap experience for GCC customers, expanding on the features within intelligent recap that are already available to GCC customers today (personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, chapters, and topics).

ID: 399938 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Administrative Units for Teams Administration

We are excited to announce the availability of administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration. AUs are a way to delegate admin roles and delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit. With AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. You can assign the following roles, allowing them to manage only the users, groups & devices within their AU: Teams Administrator Teams Device Administrator Teams Communication Administrator Teams Communication Support Engineer Teams Communication Support Specialist Teams Telephony Administrator

ID: 402186 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts available in Microsoft Outlook

Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the meeting artifacts in the calendar for the new Outlook in Windows and web. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, and any files that were shared. For users with access to intelligent meeting recap, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap in Microsoft Teams, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks directly within Microsoft Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 403099 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Go to folder shortcut in the new Outlook for Windows and web

When focused on the folder pane, users can now press CTRL + Y to quickly navigate to a folder. Simply press the first letter of the folder name to move focus directly to that folder. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 403108 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

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