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Microsoft Teams’ new update aims to provide all users with a user-friendly and efficient mobile meeting joining experience. Users can now seamlessly optimize their meeting settings, have a smoother session entry, and offer a straightforward transition between different accounts. Be on the lookout for these key improvements in October 2023.

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Microsoft Teams: Single Watermark for Teams Meetings (Premium)

Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees.

ID: 98414 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Workflows App

All workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions.

ID: 131294 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature)

In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.

ID: 135561 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Shifts notification deep link improvements

Frontline workers and managers will be able to take appropriate actions when they receive notifications on key activities. For example, when a manager receives a notification for requests, clicking on notification will take them directly to the request approval page. When frontline workers gets notified of new shift schedule, the message will take them directly to the schedule view.

ID: 138476 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Mobile

We are improving the meeting join experience on mobile by 1) streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization, 2) users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting, and 3) simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.

ID: 146741 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Bring your own content using external URLs from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections

Users can add content using external links from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections.

ID: 148467 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Remove Teams call and meetings details from mobile device call logs

Teams users can now choose if they want to keep or remove their Teams call and meetings history details from their iOS device call log. Users will have the option to determine their preference in the Call settings in the Teams app.

ID: 152469 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Full document fingerprinting

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.

ID: 153080 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023

Planner: Rosters supporting container sensitivity labels

Organization admins will now be able to apply container labels to rosters in Microsoft Planner. This is enabled directly in Planner and by using Microsoft Graph APIs. Rosters are created automatically for task lists in Microsoft Loop. Tenant admins can make container labels for these rosters mandatory and set a default label, or not make them mandatory. The roster and the Planner plan contained by the Roster then follow container policy settings. For Graph API requests, if labels are mandatory as per tenant settings, roster creation fails if a label is not provided at the time of request.

ID: 155837 Release: Planner – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Drafts & Scheduled posts supporting POBO (post on behalf of)

Users and their delegates can now save their posts as drafts to be accessed later, and even schedule them to be posted at a later date and time.

ID: 155843 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme

A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.

ID: 161740 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Translation

A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand.

ID: 161828 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance: Enhanced Policy Conditions

Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

ID: 161829 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: model processing status column

When a model is applied to a document library, a new processing status field is added to inform users if a file has been enqueued and whether it has completed or failed to be processed.

ID: 161919 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations

With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

ID: 161943 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

ID: 162292 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Advanced classification scanning and protection for Endpoints running on Mac OS

With this capability, admins can now extend Advanced classification support to Mac Endpoints as well. Advance Classification scanning and protection allows the more advanced Microsoft Purview cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them and return the results to the local machines. This means admins can take advantage of classification techniques like fingerprinting, exact data match classification and named entities in their DLP policies. Currently available in GA for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we’re introducing the ability to extend Advance Classification support to Mac endpoint devices for Government Clouds.

ID: 162667 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage refresh for organizational leaders

Leaders will see a refreshed homepage with content tailored to them. This will include more emphasis on leader specific metrics, actions, and articles. Additionally, leaders can now access filters on the homepage to toggle between teams, time periods, and benchmarks.

ID: 163971 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks

Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports.

ID: 163981 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Viva Glint admin role in Microsoft 365 admin center

Glint admin role in MAC.

ID: 163984 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Collaborative notes in Teams meeting recordings

This feature enables users to view and edit collaborative meeting notes while watching Teams meeting recordings in Stream. Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned tasks in collaborative meeting notes automatically sync with To Do & Planner.

ID: 164191 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Automap shared mailboxes

Automapping occurs by default when a user has been granted full access privileges to a shared mailbox in Microsoft Exchange Online. The new Outlook for Windows will automatically mount the mailbox as a resource under the account that has been granted full access.

ID: 164199 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Named entities sensitive information types (SITs) and policy authoring templates

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

ID: 82116 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of devices

Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.

ID: 109584 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Verified Topic badges

Users can now mark published topics as verified and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors.

ID: 118239 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents.

The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.

ID: 124683 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Search: Answer Analytics

Microsoft Search Answer Analytics provides insights into how editorial content like Bookmarks, Acronyms and Q&A are performing within the organization.

ID: 124910 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium for GCC-H and DoD

Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure, with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, live translated captions, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and advanced Virtual Appointment experiences.

ID: 132632 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Find Related Search (Sender & Conversation)

Find related search allows users to search for similar emails based on one selected from the message list. Right clicking an email and selecting “Find related” offers users the chance to search for “Messages in this conversation” and “Messages from sender”.

ID: 141712 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label”

Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported. This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label is applied using AIP labelling client.

ID: 145116 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and Document Libraries

Adding files and folders to Favorites is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you get to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Microsoft 365 apps by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience. This release will include support for favoriting additional file types and folders from OneDrive web and Document Libraries.

ID: 152744 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium): Export Teams messages as individual messages

Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium).

ID: 161535 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

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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

Outlook: 1000+ Search Results

[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] Allow users to return over 1000 results on a single search.

ID: 151032 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024