Play of the Week

Microsoft Purview Information Protection is getting ready to roll out a new feature that will allow co-authors to edit labeled and protected documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, frictionless and auto-save.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Interactive Large Gallery

View up to 49 video participants at once, interact with them via actions like pin and spotlight, and observe their meeting activity like raise hand and reactions.

ID: 86435 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – New Credentials SITs (U.S. Government clouds)

The addition of new Credentials Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection.

ID: 93265 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Experience insights for Microsoft 365 admins

The Experience insights in the Microsoft 365 admin center offers admins consistent data across usage, feedback, Net Promoter Score, and Help articles consumption. Admins can use such data to increase user satisfaction by launching relevant trainings and awareness campaigns in the organization. This experience would be particularly valuable to those roles in the IT organization who are responsible for understanding and improving the user experience for Microsoft 365.

ID: 93395 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enforce authentication to pass on AntiSpam allowed domains & senders for Spoof protection

Currently, EOP and MDO tenant administrators can specify domains and senders to be allowed using Anti-Spam policy. However, these domains and senders can be easily spoofed by attackers. We are making changes to improve the security of sender and domain allows defined in the Antispam policy and within user allow lists so that they require the domain or sender to pass authentication in order for the allow to be honored. The change only impacts messages that are considered to be internal, that is, the sender or domain is defined as an accepted domain in your organization. All other messages are handled as they are today.

ID: 93436 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Edit the transcript text directly in the UI in Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows you to edit the transcript text of a Stream (on SharePoint) video directly in the transcript pane. The feature also works with any videos stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business that contain transcripts. To edit a transcript, you must have edit permission to the video. Transcript editing helps you improve the quality of your transcript by quickly correcting minor mistakes such as misinterpreted acronyms, names, or incorrect punctuation.  Changes in the transcript are also reflected in the closed captions.

ID: 93441 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at scale for frontline workers

Deploying Teams at Scale enables your admins to deploy up to 500 teams and add 25 users per team using one Teams PowerShell command and 2 csv files. This allows admins to meet their organization’s scale needs and significantly reduces deployment time. Admins can also use this solution to add and remove members from existing teams at scale.

ID: 96352 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: View attendance report on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS

You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS.

ID: 97466 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information protection: Co-authoring on encrypted documents on Mobile

Multiple authors can edit labeled and protected documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, frictionless, and with auto-save, as if they were regular documents.

ID: 98089 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Viva: App type support in the Store for Viva Connections

Improved filters and badges in the SharePoint Store to support Viva Connections ACEs. Users can easily identify and find adaptive cards that work in Viva Connections Dashboard.

ID: 98090 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): eDiscovery guest reviewer

This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery (Premium) review sets within a case. This feature empowers eDiscovery (Premium) admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk.

ID: 98093 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support 10 primary (searchable or indexed) fields

Organizations will be able to configure Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to include up to 10 primary fields (current limit is 5), providing customers more flexibility in configuring EDM.

ID: 98094 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022

Rolling Out

Excel: Track tasks with @mentions

Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your workbook.

ID: 49291 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Excel: Hyperlinks in Modern Comments

Add hyperlinks to your Modern Comments in Excel.

ID: 61165 Tags: Excel – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking and presentation skills in both real-time as well as post-meeting in a summary.

ID: 88253 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections and processing enhancement (US Government clouds)

Enhancements to the eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content.

ID: 88923 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022

SharePoint: Automatically build visualization of list data with Power BI

Enables list users to easily visualize their list data in a Power BI report. The initial report is auto generated. Users can also save that report so that future visitors to the list can view the report.

ID: 93221 Tags: Power BI, SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022

OneNote: Math Ink Recognizer Service

Math Ink Recognizer Service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It converts handwritten ink in your notes to math equations for solving math problems.

ID: 93227 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

OneNote: Math Solver Service

The Math Solver service is a part of the Math Assistant feature. It helps students learn how to solve their handwritten math problems.

ID: 93228 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Stream web app

The Stream web app improves how you view and publish video and audio files that are uploaded to Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, and SharePoint. The app and player experience works seamlessly with Office.com and brings key features of Stream (classic) into SharePoint. You can easily prepare your video for publishing with a title and description right under the video, set the custom thumbnail, add chapters, generate a transcript, share videos, and even share your video at a specific time code. Office.com and Share links to video and audio files across Microsoft 365 will get this updated experience automatically replacing the previous player page.

ID: 93294 Tags: Microsoft Stream – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Support for Graph Connectors content

Microsoft 365 admins can now connect third-party applications into their environments via Graph Connectors. With this update this content will now be available for eDiscovery workflows including collections, review, and export.

ID: 93414 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October 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: Mute/ unmute status icon for Teams Rooms on Windows

To ensure users in the room are aware of the mute state of the room, a mute icon is added to the room video on the front of room display.

ID: 95257 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High 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: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile

Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that are not in your language.

ID: 96481 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022

Launched

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention – Customizable DLP policy violation justification (U.S. Government clouds)

You can customize and replace the out-of-the-box justifications with your organization’s own text to better define the type and scope override.

ID: 93376 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Paging on Video Gallery for Web

This roadmap is cancelled. Please refer to the roadmap 86480 for this feature on the platforms -Web and desktop. When you are in gallery view, and there are more videos than what can be shown at once on the meeting stage (the maximum number can vary depending on your device configuration and internet bandwidth), navigation controls and will appear below the Video Gallery to see additional videos of the attendees. You can use these controls to view more video participants.

ID: 84629 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022