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Microsoft Teams Live Caption feature will allow participants to select the language they prefer for live captions during meetings. Look out for this feature coming out this September 2022.

In Development

Microsoft Viva: Briefing Email Favorite and Snooze Preferences

Personalize your daily briefing emails via ‘favorite’ and ‘snooze.’ Favorited contents will be prioritized, and Snoozed contents will be deprioritized in your future briefing emails.

ID: 93392 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email Response actions through Microsoft graph API

We are introducing email response actions API. Email purge actions like soft delete, hard delete, move to junk etc can be triggered through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 93434 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft 356 Admin Center: Viva admin center in MAC

The Viva collections experience, within the setup tab in Microsoft admin center, now has a brand-new look, with new functionality where Admins can configure licenses, roles, and individual module pages.

ID: 93435 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings

Users will now be able to choose the live captions in the language they prefer, with the help of Microsoft Cognitive Service Speech Translation Capabilities. This will help users fully participate in meetings where the spoken language may not be their most comfortable language to use.

ID: 94843 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Leave a meeting on all my devices

When a Teams user has joined a meeting using multiple personal devices they can encounter friction when leaving the meeting, including forgetting to leave the meeting on one of their many devices. This functionality allows Teams users to leave a meeting from all their devices with a single tap.

ID: 97397 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: August CY2022

Whiteboard: URL support

URLs inserted into Whiteboard will become clickable links.

ID: 98080 Tags: Whiteboard – Release: September CY2022

Whiteboard: Follow

Users will have the ability to invite users on a whiteboard during a Teams meeting to follow their viewpoint as they navigate and interact with the canvas.

ID: 98081 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Whiteboard: Timer

Adding a timer to Whiteboard to help enable users to run timed activities, such as a timed brainstorm.

ID: 98082 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: December CY2022

Whiteboard: Commenting

The ability to add comments on a whiteboard to aid in discussion with board participants. This will include a comments pane to see all comments on a given whiteboard.

ID: 98083 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Whiteboard: Embedded Online Video

Users can insert a video URL and have the video appear directly on the canvas.

ID: 98084 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release:

Microsoft Stream: Automatic chapters for Teams meeting recordings from PowerPoint Live sharing

?Microsoft Stream: Automatic chapters for Teams meeting recordings from PowerPoint Live sharing ?With this feature, chapters will automatically be created for your Teams meeting recording when you share your slides during the meeting with PowerPoint Live. This will help meeting recording viewers easily find the right part of the meeting to watch based on when slides are presented.

ID: 98088 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention: Contextual evidence match for Endpoint DLP

With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices.

ID: 98095 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft OneDrive: Granular controls for Request Files Links & Anyone Links

These policy changes will make it possible for customers to enable the Request Files scenario on OneDrives without also enabling file & folder Anyone links.

ID: 98097 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: New built-in trainable classifiers with auto-labeling support

Utilize several new built-in, ready-to-use trainable classifiers to discover and auto-classify sensitive content across categories such as product development files, personal financial information, and standard operating procedures. These classifiers are pre-trained using diverse and large numbers of real-world samples to provide broad coverage of multiple common business functions (such as finance, legal, human resources, mergers and acquisitions, or marketing communications), as well as more granular documents and specific forms.

ID: 98099 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Music on hold for call transfer

Music can be played to callers on hold when a call transfer is initiated.

ID: 98431 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release:

Rolling Out

Word: Easily switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing a document in Word for Windows and Word for Mac

You can now switch between editing, reviewing, and viewing documents in Word based on the job that you are working on. (e.g., Viewing allows you to read the document without making accidental changes. Reviewing allows you to leave behind suggestions via tracked changes or comments).

ID: 62720 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts

Enables you to import indicators from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint related to unapproved or malicious software installation or bypassing security controls. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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: 83965 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release:

Microsoft To Do: iOS and Android apps available for GCC moderate users

GCC customers will be able to sign into the Microsoft To Do iOS and Android apps using their GCC accounts.

ID: 85590 Tags: Microsoft To Do – GCC Release:

Outlook for Windows: New location for key Outlook modules and integration with other Microsoft 365 apps – now default experience

The main modules in Outlook such as email, calendar, tasks, and people are moving to the left of the folder pane. We are also adding a way for users to quickly access To Do, Yammer Communities, and Bookings directly inside Outlook. You can customize by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps.

ID: 88848 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match updated UI wizard

An updated Exact Data Match (EDM) UI wizard will supplement the current wizard in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, offering both an improved manual configuration as well as a new guided experience.

ID: 88895 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Classic EAC features migrating to Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Information governance features currently available in the Classic Exchange admin center (Classic EAC) – including Retention policies, Retention tags, and Journal rules – are moving to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and will be available as part of the Data Lifecycle Management solution.

ID: 93284 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release:

Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone for GCC-High and DOD

Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.

ID: 94390 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release:

Outlook: Friendlier link names will now work for files added to messages through the “attach” icon

Links to files attached to a message from cloud locations connected to Outlook on the Web will be displayed as a link in the body of the message instead of cloud attachments. The link will have the name of the file.

ID: 95478 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile

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

ID: 96545 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release:

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 Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release:

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