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Tired of staring at a blank screen while replying to emails? Outlook on the web with suggested drafts with Copilot (EAP) now offers handy suggestions to kickstart your email drafts. Copilot lends a helping hand by proposing smart and relevant ways to reply to emails. Suggested Drafts with Copilot is currently available only to Microsoft 365 Copilot EAP members.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Matched items in audit logs
With this capability you will get visibility into matched condition and value in Audit Logs as a result of a DLP policy match.
ID: 117488 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Unique join links for external presenters in Webinars
When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links for the webinar. This unique link allows the external presenter to automatically bypass the lobby and join a webinar directly as a presenter role.
ID: 123149 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for SharePoint and OneDrive
With this update, you will be able to turn on OCR for images in SharePoint and OneDrive on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be made available to Microsoft Search and Microsoft Purview.
ID: 124937 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Watermark support for recording playback (Premium)
Watermark support available for One Player when meeting is recorded with Watermark enabled in Teams meeting. Users should be able to record the meeting when watermark is enabled. Once the meeting is concluded, users can conveniently access the recorded content in One Player, both on the web and mobile platforms. The One Player provides a seamless playback experience with each participants seeing their own email address as watermark, allowing users to review the meeting recording.
ID: 137654 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD
Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center.
ID: 138550 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Excel: Office Scripts now available in Government Community Cloud (GCC)
Office Scripts enable users with all levels of Excel experience, from beginners to those with advanced coding expertise, to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks in Excel. Scripts can be created with the Action Recorder or the Code Editor using the Office Scripts API and run in an Excel workbook. Office Scripts will soon become available to GCC users on Windows, Mac, and the web.
ID: 139765 Release: Excel – GCC Tags: September CY2023
SharePoint: Accessibility Improvements to Page Authoring
To support accessibility best practices, we’ve made some improvements to the Page authoring experience. 1 – Added functionality to mark images as decorative. Decorative images will be ignored by assistive technology, including screen readers. This addition has been made to the following: background image of the Title Region, images added inline with the Text Web Part, Image Web Part, Image Gallery, Hero, Call to Action, and Quick Links. 2 – Changed the heading level 1 to be reserved for the page title in the title area. Headings can still be added to a page at levels 2-4 using the web parts. This makes it easier for users of screen readers to understand how your page is structured.
ID: 146063 Release: SharePoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Bring your own content to learning paths in Viva Learning
Bring your own content to learning paths in Viva Learning. This includes both external URLs (YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc) and internal URLs (SharePoint links).
ID: 148468 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [OCR] [ODSP] OCR Support for embedded images on SPOD
Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images. Aim is to Support OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF file – PDF files with both images and searchable text 2. Office files – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX 3. Container files – zip, rar, 7z, etc.
ID: 160010 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Planner: Planner component in Microsoft Loop
Users of Planner and Loop will be able to bring their plans into Loop-enabled apps as a Planner component. Using the power of Loop, you’ll be able to view and edit a plan with Planner’s board view in context with your other work. The component will first be available in the Loop app. Support for other Loop-enabled apps will follow.
ID: 161955 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention -Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of endpoint devices
Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.
ID: 162660 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Outlook on the web – Suggested drafts with Copilot (EAP)
When replying to a message, Copilot can automatically give you suggestions for how to start your draft. Click any suggestion so Copilot can draft a message for you. This feature is applicable only to the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Adoption Program (EAP).
ID: 163425 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Teams Premium
A new report within Microsoft 365 admin center Usage reports for Teams Premium.
ID: 163426 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders
Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages.
ID: 163989 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
SharePoint: Restricted Access Control for SharePoint sites and OneDrive sites
New advanced management capability for SharePoint administrators to restrict access to SharePoint sites and OneDrive using Microsoft 365 groups or Security groups.
ID: 163991 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – File Registration
When a sensitivity label is used to encrypt an Office file, it is automatically registered for tracking, and previously label-protected Office files are registered the next time they are opened in an updated client. This only applies to local files. Compliance administrators can track and revoke access to registered Office files.
ID: 164208 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, PowerPoint, Word, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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 “content contains sensitivity label” 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 with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client.
ID: 164212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration
With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning.
ID: 164739 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange
Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes.
ID: 164864 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”
Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.
ID: 164865 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion
Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to reduce noisy signals. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 164871 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023
Whiteboard: Microsoft Forms Poll Loop component live copy/paste
The ability to copy/paste existing Microsoft Forms Poll Loop components into Whiteboard and vice versa.
ID: 164872 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Whiteboard: @ mentions within comments
The ability to @ mention users within comments on a whiteboard, with the associated in-app indicators to inform users of an @ mention.
ID: 164888 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024
Whiteboard: Email notifications for @ mentions in comments on a whiteboard
The ability for @mentions within comments on a whiteboard to trigger an email notification to the user, with a link back to the @mention.
ID: 164889 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024
Whiteboard: Live text
The ability to see what other users are typing in Whiteboard objects in real-time. i.e. when a user is typing in a sticky note, you will be able to see the text as they type it.
ID: 164891 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements
This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds.
ID: 164896 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Organization-wide template and question customization
Create organization-wide templates and questions for managers and project leads to use.
ID: 164900 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Create a Viva Pulse from scratch
Build your Viva Pulse from scratch by creating your own questions or choosing from the question library.
ID: 164903 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse -Microsoft Teams Chat Notifications and Inline Response
Respond to a Viva Pulse request in Microsoft Teams chat in the flow of work.
ID: 164904 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Customize a Viva Pulse end date
Customize your Viva Pulse end date when sending a pulse.
ID: 164905 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Add a link to internal policies
Add a link to your organizations internal policies to the policy reminder messaging in the pulse customization step.
ID: 164908 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection
With this capability organizations will be able to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units. Eg – German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users.
ID: 165027 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)
This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users.
ID: 165402 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Personalized introductory experience for new users
New users will now get a better first run experience tailored to their role that saves them time in getting started.
ID: 165683 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced progress tracking with ADO Integration
Users can now track progress based on ADO fields such as effort, story points, in addition to the existing item level completion tracking.
ID: 165687 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Access and interact with goal progress directly within Outlook email
Users will now be able to access and interact with goal progress directly within Outlook email, enabling them to stay within the flow of work.
ID: 165688 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Smart Find
Searching for a word or phrase on a webpage has become easier with AI. Even if you misspell a word in your search query, we’ll suggest related matches and words making it effortless to find what you’re looking for. When you search, simply select the suggested link to quickly locate the desired word or phrase. Administrators can control the availability using the RelatedMatchesCloudServiceEnabled policy.
ID: 165696 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: Rule to set content type when a file is added to a library based on its file name
This rule will provide the capability to set a content type to any file that is uploaded to a SharePoint Library using the file name of the file or file extension or file path of the targeted library. A Microsoft Syntex seat license or a Syntex azure subscription needs to be enabled to the tenant to be able to see this rule for users.
ID: 165699 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft 365: The new look of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Web
Excel, PowerPoint, and Word web have a refreshed look that?provides a simpler, more coherent experience that lets you focus more easily on your work.
ID: 87307 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Excel – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection
Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). The RBAC controls will extend to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal for Information Protection and DLP related events.
ID: 93417 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – OCR support in Insider Risk Management
With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The launch dates were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 117606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: See recipient’s auto-reply messages when composing an email
Understand if someone inside your organization to whom you are sending a message has automatic replies turned on.
ID: 118480 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
SharePoint: Page sharing
With this feature, users can now share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like other Microsoft 365 files. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected.
ID: 124822 Release: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
OneDrive: Easily get to files shared by people with the new People view in OneDrive Web
Sometimes it can be hard to remember the name of a file or exactly when it was shared, but you know who shared it with you. Because of this, we’ve created an entirely new way to get back to your shared files both internal and external – organized by the people you work with! This view presents the people you have recently collaborated with, along with all the files that have been shared with you by each person.
ID: 124876 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage digest
This new weekly digest will showcase premium features from Viva Engage alongside content from communities and storylines. Premium customers will see their current storyline and discovery digests evolve into this new email.
ID: 124947 Release: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Use double-key encryption to protect your most sensitive files and emails in Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows
To protect your most sensitive content, users of Microsoft 365 Apps can now use Double Key Encryption (DKE) for files and emails using the built-in labeling client. With DKE, Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure and you hold the other key, ensuring that only you can ever decrypt protected content, under all circumstances. Sensitivity labels configured with DKE in Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal are now available for users in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to publish or consume content protected with DKE.
ID: 124984 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team
Users can now create up to 1000 channels per team, which allow you to have the channels you need organized in one team.
ID: 127496 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Prompt Walkie Talkie first time users to connect to a single channel
Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. We are releasing a new change where new users can now easily determine a channel to connect to start collaborating with colleagues.
ID: 129970 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Meeting Rooms on Windows
Cloud IntelliFrame makes non-AI cameras smarter. With Cloud IntelliFrame, participants in the room appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether working from home or in the office, participants are able to see every facial expression and cue, just as if they were there in person. This feature is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 130219 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows
IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on front-of-room (180-degree view) and center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 133727 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows
To support face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows, the desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels. This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.
ID: 133737 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds)
Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users.
ID: 138577 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2023
OneNote: Stream (on SharePoint) is now supported in OneNote
OneNote will support Stream 2.0 and provide an enhanced unfurl experience, allowing users to insert a linked video and play it directly within OneNote pages. Furthermore, users will have the ability to apply formatting options, such as resizing and changing the shape of the inserted video.
ID: 138601 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast
With “Share an Update”, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.
ID: 148471 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP App groups and granular app restriction policies (U.S. Government clouds)
This feature enables admins to define endpoint data loss prevention policies to lock specific apps for different activities and enables more granular restrictions for individual apps.
ID: 100155 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC 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 Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized network share paths (U.S. Government clouds)
With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
ID: 124829 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips (U.S. Government clouds)
Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips.
ID: 124849 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: August CY2023
Minecraft Education: Trails & Tales Update
This update includes bug fixes to increase reliability of multiplayer connections. We also added fun new mobs and features like camels, bamboo, sniffers, cherry groves, and archeology sites. Create a new world with the redesigned Templates page and write more code with the Agent. Use the Help button to share your feedback with the Minecraft team anytime.
ID: 145122 Release: Minecraft Education – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: Key Document Updates
We will be introducing a feature on the Profile Card as a Highlight that tells users when key collaborators have taken some action on key documents when looking at their profile card. Each collaboration network is a cluster of people, text strings and Microsoft 365 items (key item: documents). The actions that you can see the users in this Collab Network take on these key documents are modify, comment, reply, mention, multiple modifications and shared to you. These updates are only visible to other users within the same Collaboration Network i.e. your close collaborators.
ID: 145799 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
