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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
Office 365: Expanding your organization’s transparency and control over Microsoft 365 cloud connected experiences for Office to additional platforms
In the Office 365 ProPlus 1904 update for Windows, we launched new controls to enable organizations to determine the level of diagnostic and related data that Office sends to Microsoft. Now, we’re updating the Office apps for Mac, iOS, and Android, to honor those controls as well.
ID: 52278 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2019
SharePoint: Drag and drop files to the canvas to upload
Now if you drag and drop files to the canvas, they’ll be uploaded for you.
ID: 53194 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2019
SharePoint: Highlighted content with custom query filtering
Users can now add their own KQL or CAML code with the new advanced query option.
ID: 53229 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2019
Office 365: License activation changes
In August, we will start rolling out changes to Office 365 licensing technology to make it more reliable and resilient. These changes will help simplify activation management and streamline the Office activation experience for users. Users will still sign-in to activate Office on their devices, and if single sign-on is enabled, Office will automatically pick up the credentials and activate Office. As part of your subscription, users can still install and activate Office 365 apps on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five smartphones. Previously, users who reached this limit were prompted to deactivate an existing install before activating Office on a new device. Going forward, Office will automatically sign the user out of the user’s least recently used device when the user exceeds the limit, eliminating unnecessary friction. In August, we’ll start slowly rolling out these changes to commercial customers on Monthly Channel. No additional action is required on your part.
ID: 53698 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2019
Outlook for Windows: Search at the top
Use the Coming Soon preview option to experience Search to the top of your screen, combined with Tell Me What You Want To Do. Suggested emails and files are included once you tap into the Search box to align the experience with Microsoft Search.
ID: 53775 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
MyAnalytics: Dashboard is coming to more Microsoft 365 Government and Office 365 Government suites
The MyAnalytics Dashboard will be made available to everyone using Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Government suites that include Exchange Online, specifically Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E3 and E1.
ID: 54285 Tags: MyAnalytics – GCC Release: December CY2019
Excel: Natural Language Queries in Ideas in Excel for the Web
Ask a question of your data using natural language query in Ideas in Excel for the web. Ideas will populate with formulas, charts, or PivotTables that help you glean insights from your data.
ID: 54632 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2019
Excel: Natural Language Queries in Ideas in Excel on Windows
Ask a question of your data using natural language query in Ideas in Excel for the web. Ideas will populate with formulas, charts, or PivotTables that help you glean insights from your data.
ID: 54633 Tags: Excel – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
Excel: Natural Language Queries in Ideas in Excel for Mac
Ask a question of your data using natural language query in Ideas in Excel for the web. Ideas will populate with formulas, charts, or PivotTables that help you glean insights from your data.
ID: 54634 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2019
Outlook on the Web: changes in Tasks
In the coming weeks, Outlook on the web will update the name of the Tasks module and the Tasks tab in My Day to To Do. The Tasks experience in the new Outlook on the web is already powered by To Do. This update better reflects our commitment to the integration between Office 365 products and gives you one app where you can find all your tasks.
ID: 56509 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
Microsoft Search: People search on attributes
People search on attributes available in Bing makes it easy for people to query someone’s name + title, for example, without having to remember their entire name and correct spelling.
ID: 57067 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
Microsoft Teams: Changes in Incoming IP Video policy (New Audio and Video Policies)
We are updating our meeting policies to allow IT administrators more control over how video is managed in Teams Meetings. Current policy can only be set to prevent outgoing video. We are extending the Allow IP Video policy to prevent both outgoing and incoming video as needed. Tenant administrators can use this policy to manage bandwidth. This item has been updated to reflect changes to the original plan.
ID: 57082 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
SharePoint: Query alterations using SPFx for custom results page
Query alterations using SPFx for custom results page allows for query alterations in Microsoft Search for custom results pages with the SharePoint Framework.
ID: 57135 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
Microsoft Viva: Personal wellbeing insights in Teams
New personal insights to help you reimagine your work day and embrace wellbeing are coming to Microsoft Teams. Users can create mental bookends to productively start and mindfully end the work day with a virtual commute, tap into dedicated moments of mindfulness with Headspace and use emotional check-ins to pause and reflect.
ID: 68748 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021
SharePoint: Scenario-Based Site Templates
Use scenario-based site templates that leverage existing SharePoint capabilities (e.g. pages, lists, libraries, branding) to build your own sites faster and get inspired.
ID: 70574 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2021
SharePoint: New leadership connection site template
The template brings together conversations from Yammer, news, resources, and showcases upcoming events.
ID: 71752 Tags: Yammer, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Group Assignments
With the new group assignment feature you can organize your students into groups so they can work together to create, collaborate and submit the same work – like a Whiteboard file or Word document. Each student in the group gets the credit and recognition for having turned in their work.
ID: 82017 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript for scheduled meetings in GCC
Teams Meetings now have a real-time transcript during their meetings as well as a post-meeting transcript. This will help users in real-time recall what has been spoken during the meeting as well as review the meeting after the fact.
ID: 82836 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Speaker Attribution in Live Transcript in Teams Meetings in GCC Clouds
Teams Meetings in GCC clouds will now have live transcript utterances attributed to the speaker of the utterance.
ID: 83382 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Cortana now available for EDU customers
Cortana voice assistance in the Teams mobile app is now available for EDU customers in en-US to help you streamline communication, collaboration, and class-related tasks in school using spoken natural language. With Cortana voice assistance, you can call someone or perform class-related tasks, you can message someone or send message to your class. Also, you can find and share files, and search or navigate within the Teams mobile app.
ID: 83484 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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 Teams: Windows 10 native notifications
Choose the style of your notifications: built-in Teams or Windows native notifications. The latter brings a suite of benefits, like respecting focus assist mode which enables you to avoid distracting notifications when you need to focus, and integrating with Windows 10 action center to helps you review your notifications in one place.
ID: 85417 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Chat preview notification settings
Users can change settings and manage previews for their chat notification toasts.
ID: 85421 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for GCC
Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).
ID: 86064 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for GCC High
Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).
ID: 86066 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Personalized room planning for Microsoft Teams Rooms
This is being removed from the roadmap as it is a duplicate of 81910. Curated room planning recommendations tailored to customer’s environment and based on historical performance data available as part of the managed service in Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium.
ID: 70764 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Teams and Dynamics 365 business process experience
This item will be replaced in the future with an updated item. Take advantage of Teams capabilities like chatting, sharing documents, and managing meeting and webinar invites without leaving Dynamics 365 workspace. You can also securely access, update, and share Dynamics 365 records from within Microsoft Teams.
ID: 70767 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Forms: Forms response receipt for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD
This feature is postponed due to a redesign and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined.
ID: 70803 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
