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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine integration for user and admin submissions
With this change we’re giving admins the ability to allow senders for a specified period of time, right from the quarantine workflow. When releasing emails to end users, admins can now opt to remember this decision by creating an entry in the tenant allow/block list that corresponds to the indicator of compromise aligned with the message in question. Admins can now choose to allow or prevent users from submitting messages to Microsoft for analysis.
ID: 82097 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
OneDrive: Universal Print integration with OneDrive web for work or school
This feature allows users to print directly to their organization’s printers from OneDrive web for work or school.
ID: 82099 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 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 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Project: Allow Microsoft 365 users to provide progress updates on their assigned tasks
Users with Microsoft 365 licenses can mark their Project for the web tasks complete and change the percent complete for their tasks, without a Project license.
ID: 82121 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
SharePoint: Document Library ‘View in File Explorer’ support in Microsoft Edge
With this change, you can enable the View in File Explorer capability on SharePoint Online. For this experience to be visible and work for your users, you will need to enable a Microsoft Edge policy “Configure the View in File Explorer feature for SharePoint pages in Microsoft Edge” and update your SharePoint Online tenant configuration.
ID: 82123 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Parent connection in Teams for Education
With Parent connection in Teams for Education, educators can easily connect and engage with the parents and guardians of their class using Teams chat. All parent and guardian data is provisioned using School Data Sync, saving educators and IT staff valuable time.
ID: 83593 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window support for VDI – Citrix
Multi-Window is available for Citrix. Users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.
ID: 84192 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Scale Teams Live Events to 100k attendees
100k Teams Live Events are now supported when you engage the Microsoft LEAP team for assistance producing & delivering your event.
ID: 85151 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Spam Call Notifications
The spam call notification feature automatically evaluates incoming calls and identifies probable spam calls as “spam likely” in the call toast. Users still have the option to answer or reject the call, and all “spam likely” calls (regardless of whether they were answered or rejected) will also be reflected in the call history list.
ID: 85386 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for GCC-High
Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
ID: 85436 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: January CY2022
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 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Graph: Resource-specific consent (RSC) permission for chat and meetings
Using Resource-specific consent (RSC) you can give an app access to a single chat or meeting. Authorized users in chat and meeting can grant these permissions without admin consent.
ID: 85551 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Stream: Generate captions for a video uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive
Users with edit permissions to a video file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can click a button in the player to generate closed captions in English.
ID: 85552 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Outlook: Updates to support and feedback in-app
New separate voice-driven experiences for submitting customer feedback and requesting customer support.
ID: 85553 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Teams reactions on messages
Addition of new audit activity related to Teams reactions on messages.
ID: 85554 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Exchange and Office 365: Mailbox forwarding to start using Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS)
Messages forwarded using SMTP or mailbox forwarding are currently rewritten to come from the forwarding mailbox. This will be changed to the Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) method to consolidate the rewriting behavior for all forwarded or relayed messages in the Exchange Online. This may result in changes to behavior or disruptions to forwarding. The main change is that forwarded messages will no longer be rewritten went sent to customers’ on-premises servers.
ID: 85555 Tags: Office 365, Exchange – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance tagging improvements
We are making tagging improvements based on feedback to improve investigation and remediation actions in Communication Compliance. We are adding column that will display the current tag applied, and we’ll provide the ability to unresolve a message so it can be triaged again by an investigator.
ID: 85556 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: New conditions for auto-labeling in Exchange Online (Gov clouds)
An auto-labeling policy can now apply a label to Exchange Online email based on sender, recipient, subject, or header matches without requiring a scan for sensitive content.
ID: 85557 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to spam reporting
We’re working on creating consistent reporting experiences for customers, and as a result we’re deprecating the standalone spam detections report. A new Spam detections report view will now be available in the Threat Protection Status report.
ID: 85561 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Localization of end user spam notifications
We’re making it easier to send end user spam notifications to users in multiple languages. Instead of Admins choosing the specific language for quarantine notifications, spam notifications will be sent by default in the language assigned to the user’s mailbox.
ID: 85562 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority account filtering for quarantine
We’re including the priority account tag in the quarantine experience, allowing admins to prioritize their focus on the organization’s most targeted and most visible users.
ID: 85563 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organization scenarios for Exchange Online Monitoring
Exchange Online Monitoring in Microsoft 365 admin center’s Service Health Dashboard is updated with two new scenarios for organization level monitoring: App connectivity, and Open Outlook on the web.
ID: 85564 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention (DLP) integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)
Extend data loss prevention (DLP) policies to non-Microsoft cloud apps to monitor and detect when sensitive items are used and shared via non-Microsoft cloud apps.
ID: 85565 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window support for VDI – VMware
Multi-Window is available for VMware. Users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.
ID: 85691 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Enhanced simulations and location support for auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business
Auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has been updated with improved performance and ability to configure more locations. The configuration limit of 10 locations in a policy has been removed. Any new simulation will run more efficiently, with results greatly sped up from days to hours.
ID: 82060 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.94: New policy to stop implicit sign in
This new policy allows system administrators to disable implicit sign-in on Microsoft Edge browsers, starting with version 94.
ID: 82863 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Dual-tone multi-frequency support for VDI (Citrix only)
Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on Citrix dial an outside number via dialer. Call is connected but DTMF is not sent. For example, if user is trying to use Teams to join a Teams meeting by dialing the PSTN number, the conference ID cannot be entered.
ID: 83014 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.93: IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support “nomerge” behavior
Starting in Edge 93, IE mode on Microsoft Edge will support nomerge. For an end-user, when a new browser window is launched from an IE mode application, it will be in a separate session, similar to the nomerge behavior in IE11. You will need to adjust your site list to configure sites that need to prevent session sharing as “nomerge”. Behind the scenes, for each window of Microsoft Edge, the first time an IE mode tab is visited within that window, if it is one of the designated “nomerge” sites, that window is locked into a different “nomerge” IE session from all other Microsoft Edge windows at least until the last IE mode tab is closed in that window. This follows previous behavior where users could launch IE with nomerge and could also launch Microsoft Edge without nomerge via other mechanisms.
ID: 83731 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Simplified class team navigation for Teams for Education
Access Assignments, Grades, Class Notebook and Insights more easily from your main class team navigation.
ID: 84886 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.93: Initial Preferences in Microsoft Edge
Deploying Microsoft Edge to your enterprise will become easier starting in version 93, with the addition of Initial Preferences.
ID: 85320 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Labels Classification Driven Policies with Office 365 Groups
We are developing consistent Office 365 Groups classification to make it easier to protect sensitive data. Tenant administrators can now better govern groups created in their respective tenants by enforcing policies on those groups using classification labels in a streamlined and proactive manner.
ID: 50293 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: April CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Inline Message Translation in channels for iOS
Inline message translation in Channels lets users translate Channel posts and replies into their preferred language. To translate a message, press-and-hold the channel post or reply and then select “Translate”. The post/reply will be translated to your UI language by default. If you want to change the translation language, go to Settings General Translation.
ID: 63219 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Portal Launch Scheduler in SharePoint PowerShell
The Portal Launch wizard available via SharePoint PowerShell is designed to configure the deployment waves when launching a new site. It also provides an automatic redirect for users dependent on which redirect option is selected.
ID: 66162 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Attendee Dashboard
Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the Attendance Dashboard.
ID: 66585 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Project: Assign tasks to non-group members
Assign tasks to anyone to add them to your group.
ID: 67150 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Portal launch scheduler UX
The Portal Launch Scheduler is designed to help you follow a wave / phased roll-out approach by managing the redirects for the new portal. During each of the waves, you can gather user feedback and monitor performance during each wave of deployment. This has the advantage of slowly introducing the portal, giving you the option to pause and resolve issues before proceeding with the next wave, and ultimately ensuring a positive experience for your users.
ID: 70799 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Graph: Connector results on All vertical
Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors and search and indexing APIs that enable Microsoft 365 customers to connect Microsoft Search to data sources outside of Microsoft 365. With this feature, users can explore results from Microsoft Graph connectors in the All vertical. With this feature, users can explore results from Microsoft Graph connectors in the All tab in the end-points mentioned here.
ID: 72198 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Swap root site from SharePoint admin center for customers with 10k+ seats
Customer tenants with more than 10K seats or more can now swap their SharePoint root site from within the SharePoint admin center user interface.
ID: 72224 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, Germany, GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: Payment instruments are now synced across devices
Beginning with Microsoft Edge v. 92, you have the option to synchronize your payment information across your signed in devices.
ID: 81030 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Cloud App Security: App governance add-on to Microsoft Cloud App Security
App governance add-on feature to Microsoft Cloud App Security is a security and policy management capability that customers can use to monitor and govern app behaviors and quickly identify, alert, and protect from risky behaviors with data, users, and apps. App governance is designed for OAuth-enabled apps that access Microsoft 365 data via Microsoft Graph API.
ID: 82026 Tags: Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility
New policy cloning feature helps you easily create similar policies for different audiences but with the same conditions for instance. The new policy consumption visibility will help you manage policies within your tenant.
ID: 82059 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (preview)
Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Azure Information Protection (AIP), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.
ID: 82086 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Outlook: Suggested Reply Language Support Added
Outlook on the web and Outlook for iOS and Android are extending support for suggested replies. New languages include Korean, Russian, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew.
ID: 82090 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
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, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Guest Access in DoD
Teams now supports Guest Access between tenants inside the DoD Cloud.
ID: 82742 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Inline Message Translation in channels for Android
Inline message translation in Channels lets users translate Channel posts and replies into their preferred language. To translate a message, press-and-hold the channel post or reply and then select “Translate”. The post/reply will be translated to your UI language by default. If you want to change the translation language, go to Settings General Translation.
ID: 83399 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) solution overview page
The DLP solution overview page will appear in the Microsoft 365 compliance center and house policy recommendation widgets and other actions and guidance related to your available DLP solutions.
ID: 83704 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: Users can easily get to Internet Explorer mode on Microsoft Edge
Starting with Microsoft Edge version 92, users can reload a site in Internet Explorer mode on Microsoft Edge instead of relying on the standalone IE 11 application while waiting for a site to be configured in the Enterprise Mode Site List. Users will be prompted to add the site to their local site list such that navigating to the same page in Microsoft Edge will automatically render in IE mode for the next 30 days. You can use the InternetExplorerIntegrationReloadInIEModeAllowed policy to configure this experience and allow access to the IE mode entry points as well as the ability to add sites to the local site list. You can use the InternetExplorerIntegrationLocalSiteListExpirationDays policy to adjust the number of days to keep sites on the local site list.
ID: 83730 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management: Intelligent detections – Domain settings
Intelligent detection domain settings help you define risk levels for activities to specific domains. By specifying domains in these settings, you can increase or decrease the risk scoring for activity that takes place with these domains.
ID: 83958 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: MHTML files will default to opening in Internet Explorer mode
Starting in Microsoft Edge version 92, MHTML file types will automatically open in Internet Explorer mode on Microsoft Edge instead of the Internet Explorer (IE11) application. This is most commonly observed while trying to view Outlook emails in a browser. This change will occur only if IE11 is the default handler for this file type.
ID: 84190 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Timer, Room Retention, and Participant Reassignment for GCC-High
Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting. Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions. With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.
ID: 85009 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: Default for auto play will be set to Limited
To help you maintain your focus online, we have changed the default for auto playing media to Limit from Allow, beginning with Microsoft Edge version 92.
ID: 85322 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Network device discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
This is a duplicate of 82001 which launched in June 2021. This will be removed from the roadmap in the near future. Network device discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enables organizations to discover and secure network devices. Once discovered Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management capabilities will be able to provide security recommendations for network devices. This feature is currently available in preview.
ID: 72209 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
