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Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for DoD
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86088 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC High
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86087 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86086 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly for GCC
A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby.
ID: 86069 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for DoD
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: 86067 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD 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: 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 Information Protection: Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites for GCC -High and DoD
Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label.
ID: 85979 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Starting recording will also start live transcription.
If both recording and policy settings are enabled, turning on recording will also start live transcription.
ID: 85837 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Up to 25K members per team in DoD
You can now add up to 25,000 members per team in DoD.
ID: 85338 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Up to 25K members per team in GCCH
You can now add up to 25,000 members per team in GCCH.
ID: 85339 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Presenter support for Dod
Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
ID: 85326 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Teams: RTMP-In for Teams Live Events
Produce your Teams Live Events using an external encoder and leverage RTMP-in to broadcast to your Teams Live Event Attendees.
ID: 84960 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the FLW onboarding wizard
The frontline worker (FLW) onboarding wizard empowers IT admins to pilot and deploy Teams for frontline workers in just a few steps. This wizard allows admins to streamline team creation, license assignment, and policy package assignment in a few simple steps.
ID: 84468 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Project: Critical Path
Highlight the tasks that affect your project’s finish date on the Timeline view in Project for the web.
ID: 82118 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites
Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label.
ID: 82115 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email summary panel
We’re making it easier for security teams to see the full picture of emails. We launched a single, integrated view with the email entity page, and now we’re making it easier to see this information in multiple experiences. This feature release targets more consistency, and easier navigation, saving time and effort for the customers.
ID: 82101 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – 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 365 admin center: Reports in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center – user information pseudonymized by default
User level information contained in Microsoft 365 reports in the Admin center will be pseudonymized by default. Global administrators can revert this change for their tenant, which will be an audited event. When user identification is enabled, administrative roles and the report reader role will be able to see identifiable user level information. Global reader and Usage Summary Reports Reader roles will not have access to identifiable user information, regardless of the setting chosen.
ID: 81959 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Visio: Visio web app in Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 for commercial users now includes core functionalities of Visio – a Visio web app that allows anyone to create, edit, and share professional diagrams and integrates with a variety of Microsoft solutions, including Microsoft Teams for a collaborative diagramming experience.
ID: 72235 Tags: Visio – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Mobile app protection policy
Teams mobile app will start supporting conditional access grant, requiring app protection policy to help protect organizational data on all devices employees use. This change will ensure that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.
ID: 84773 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Word: Editor will be available in Word for Mac
You can now review your writing and put your best step forward with Editor in Word for Mac.
ID: 83788 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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 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: Speed Dial for mobile
Speed dial is coming to mobile devices. This feature makes your most used calling contacts easy to access with one tap dialing.
ID: 82960 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Investigation updates for improved email threats and actions
We have new updates and improvements to the Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) playbooks to better capture the state of the emails and entities that are being investigated. This results in more accurate threat data and actions – which are better for security operations workflows.
ID: 82056 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, Germany Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: New experience to add an app
You can extend the working experience with out-of-the-box SharePoint Framework web parts and extensions in SharePoint Online as normally but using a brand-new modernized store.
ID: 82031 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Email notification settings
With this feature, users can unsubscribe or re-subscribe to their favorite SharePoint email notifications. Their preference will be respected for these email notifications.
ID: 81993 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, Germany, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Content type synchronization enhancements
Changes to the way content type publishing works in SharePoint, moving from a “push everywhere” model to a “pull as needed” model to help improve reliability and performance of the service.
ID: 70795 Tags: SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Defender for Office 365: Updates to Management Activity API
We are introducing additional data within Email detection details like Authentication information, Override details, Additional Actions, Phish confidence level and other details for efficient investigation.
ID: 70744 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Search: Actionable items in search
A new action menu with search results will allow an item not only to be opened in the web experience, but directly opened in the client application, downloaded, shared or copy the link to the item.
ID: 70700 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
OneDrive: Updates to the sync app on Mac available in .pkg format
Updates to the sync app on Mac will be available in the .pkg format which allows for faster updates and better security.
ID: 70693 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Search: Search across images in Microsoft Search
Image search in Microsoft provides a new search vertical to provide better search capabilities for images in your organization.
ID: 68780 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Transfer Calls between desktop and mobile
Transfer calls between desktop and mobile allows a user to move their call between devices.
ID: 68776 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July 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
Word: Dark Mode
Dark Mode in Word will provide a modern look for documents while giving users the ability to reduce eye strain and accommodate light sensitivity from long hours at a computer screen.
ID: 65136 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Paging on Video Gallery
When you choose Large Gallery, and there are more than 49 videos or in Gallery with more than 9 videos, navigation controls and now appear below the Large Gallery and Video Gallery. You can use these controls to view more video participants.
ID: 84464 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Office apps
Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.
ID: 83703 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 Admin center: Monitoring Preview
Service health dashboard in M365 Admin center is getting updated to provide a coherent experience that provides visibility on issues that affects customers across any Microsoft 365 workload and provides necessary categorization on issue is owned by Microsoft or needs action from customer. Further it provides signals for scenarios that helps customers to infer the extent of impact for posted communications. We have Exchange monitoring experience in limited preview and the plan is to expand this to more services in future.
ID: 83674 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Breakout Rooms for DoD
Meeting hosts can create breakout rooms to be used by meeting participants for smaller group discussion. They can assign participants to a room and call them back to the larger group when the breakout is complete.
ID: 83563 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: EDU tailored deployment plan in Teams Advisor
EDU IT Administrators can use a tailored plan to deploy Teams to their organization.
ID: 83509 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams classes LTI application for educational learning managements systems (LMS)
Microsoft Teams classes LTI app helps educators and students easily navigate between their Learning Management Systems and Teams. Users can access their class teams associated with their course directly from within their LMS. The LTI app will be available to Canvas users in July 2021 and will be available to Blackboard Learn users in August 2021.
ID: 83071 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Immersive reader support for Mobile
Immersive Reader, which uses proven customization techniques to support reading across ages and abilities, is coming to Teams iOS and Android apps. You can now hear posts and chat messages read aloud using Immersive Reader on the Teams mobile apps. This functionality was previously available only on the web and desktop apps.
ID: 82937 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Identity: New guide to configure security for internal organization identities and devices
Microsoft Defender for Identity provides a central location where admins can identify, detect, and investigate on-premises identity-based threats. In this step-by-step guide you’ll verify that you’ve satisfied all environment prerequisites, create a Defender for Identity instance, connect to Active Directory, and install your sensor. When you’re done, your users’ identities will be monitored, and immediate action can be taken against any malicious activity that attempts to compromise your organization’s on-premises identities.
ID: 82058 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity, Azure Active Directory, Windows – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Search: Sync your non-Azure Active Directory users and groups to support search permissions
Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search now supports syncing of non-Azure Active Directory users/groups from your external data source with your Azure Active Directory users/groups so that your end users can see search results permissioned to them.
ID: 82051 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Search, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Project: Rollups and Dropdowns in Custom Fields
Rollup your numerical custom field values in your summary tasks & add custom fields with dropdown options in Project for the web.
ID: 82027 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
PowerApps and Power Automate: Power Platform admin center cross-tenant analytics
Admins can view out-of-box reports covering app usage, maker activity, and inventory of canvas and model driven apps at tenant and environment level.
ID: 82010 Tags: PowerApps, Power Automate – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) data surfaced in Activity Explorer
DLP-related data sets which currently flow into Microsoft 365 Audit logs will now also surface within Activity Explorer under an activity called ‘DLP rule matched’.
ID: 82008 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Search: Search box changes for guest users in OneDrive, SharePoint, and Lists.
The search box for guest users will move to the top of the screen across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Lists apps, similar to how it appears for regular users.
ID: 81983 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Project: Book resources to manage resource availability
Avoid over-scheduling resources by using bookings to ensure a resource’s time is effectively allocated within their availability.
ID: 81978 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Customize your organization’s apps store in Teams for government clouds
Now you can customize your organization’s apps store in Teams with your company branding by adding your logo, custom backgrounds, and custom text colors to make it more inviting to end users.
ID: 81119 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Admins can install Apps in Meetings
We will enable IT admins to select Teams apps that can be installed in meetings for their organization.
ID: 81086 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Forms: Auditing events in Gov environments
This update will enable Auditing for Forms events in Government environments.
ID: 80674 Tags: Forms – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Org wide backgrounds (Preview)
Organization-wide backgrounds will now be available in preview. This feature will require an Advanced Communications license when it becomes generally available.
ID: 80193 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021
Forms: New Forms Start Page in GCC, GCC-High and DoD
This update replaces the existing Forms Portal page with a new Forms Start page on Office.com (Office.com – Forms). Users who access forms via Office.com will get this experience first, then users accessing forms via the Forms website will get the experience soon after.
ID: 80044 Tags: Forms – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: July CY2021
Outlook for iOS: Conversational AI with Cortana
Ask Cortana to provide assistant to schedule meetings, compose short email messages, and find files, emails, and people that are relevant to you, all using your voice and natural language.
ID: 79865 Tags: Cortana, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: New conditions for auto-labeling in Exchange Online
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: 72225 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
SharePoint: Audience Targeting capability for Events Web Part
We are adding the ability to target specific audiences per event within the Events Web Part. With it, you target specific events to different audiences, helping you provide more personalized experiences on SharePoint pages.
ID: 70815 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, Germany, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Threat detection & Security update management for Microsoft Teams Rooms
Room threat protection (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and orchestrated securty updates to heal vulnerabilities on Microsoft Teams Rooms. This is available as part of the managed services in Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium.
ID: 70765 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent detection and remediation for Microsoft Teams Rooms
AI based remediation of Microsoft Teams Rooms device health issues, made available as part of the managed service in Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium.
ID: 70763 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) data surfaced in Activity Explorer
DLP-related data sets which currently flow into Microsoft 365 Audit logs will now also surface within Activity Explorer under an activity called ‘DLP rule matched’.
ID: 70730 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Project: API Support for extensibility
API support to create, update and delete Projects, Tasks, Task Dependencies, Resource Assignments, Team Members and Project Buckets.
ID: 70618 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Office Apps: Security Update Report
Keeping devices secure, compliant and up to date is a key to a environment secure. To help with that, you can access a new Security compliance report showing you the state of Office devices in your enterprise in relation to the uptake of the latest security patches available.
ID: 68931 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Office Apps: Device Inventory
The Office Apps Device Inventory is the place to get detailed information on devices using Office apps in your organization.
ID: 68930 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live reactions in Teams Meetings for GCC – High
React during a meeting using emojis that will appear to all participants.
ID: 68905 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Identity: Detection improvement – Suspicious additions to sensitive groups
New logs are being added to the detection logic for what is “normal” in a particular environment. This will remove an initial dependency on establishing a baseline so that detection is available to use immediately for known sensitive groups. In other words, this eliminates the need for a learning period to conclude before you can take advantage of this alert that may indicate signs of an attack, or potential insider threat.
ID: 68891 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the “Create a Microsoft Team from SharePoint” experience
Enhance existing Microsoft 365 Groups with Teams functionality, directly from SharePoint team sites.
ID: 68861 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly
A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby.
ID: 68730 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams
Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via macOS native notifications.
ID: 66743 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Detonation details
We’re working to reveal more of the details that led to a malicious verdict when URLs or files are detonated in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. In addition to the detonation chain (the series of detonations that were necessary to reach a verdict for this entity), we’ll also share a detonation summary, with details such as detonation time range, verdict of the file or URL, related entities (other entities called or used during the detonation), screenshots, and more.
ID: 64570 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
OneDrive: Updates to recipient experience for “specific people” links
We are updating the recipient experience for “specific people” links to make it more streamlined for people in your organization. When users in your organization receive a “specific people” link to files or folders on OneDrive or SharePoint they will no longer see a page telling them to click “Next” to sign in.
ID: 63220 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
SharePoint: Schedule SharePoint pages & news posts
You will be able to schedule a page or news post to be published at a specific date and time in the future.
ID: 62892 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: July CY2020
SharePoint: Easy page and news publishing experience from sitepages library
We are adding the ability to easily publish and republish a page or news post from the sitepages library in a site via the command bar or the file card experience.
ID: 61191 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
OneDrive: Reply to an Office comment from Outlook using actionable messages
With this update you will be able to save time and collaborate faster with comment and context previews in @mention and comment emails. This implies, when using Outlook, you’ll be able to reply to the comments without even needing to leave Outlook.
ID: 60807 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
SharePoint: Stock Images
Free to use stock images will be available in the SharePoint image file picker.
ID: 59834 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: June CY2020
SharePoint: Saved for later web part
New web part to display a user’s saved for later items. Can be added to any page or news post in SharePoint.
ID: 57810 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: June CY2020
SharePoint Admin: Increased site collection limit: 2,000,000 site collections per tenant
You know that thing we said about increased limits over time that match Microsoft 365 customer usage…? Well, here’s another. We know you may bring a lot of sites as you transition from on-premises, and then IT-managed self-service roll out in the cloud – this equates to a lot of sites to support everything from collaborative team sites, cross-company portals and document centers across disciplines. So, today, we announced support of a single tenant having up to 2,000,000 site collections across their Office 365 tenant. That’s up from the previous limit of 500,000.
ID: 57316 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
SharePoint admin: Improved edit panel to manage site settings
We are releasing a new panel experience which will make it easier to view and manage more site properties, like how you would edit from within the site itself – through an edit pane that overlays the page you are working from. Select a site you wish to manage, and in the edit pane you will see several panels. The General panel displays a lot of the main site characteristics – and this is where you can rename the site name and URL. The Activity panel showcases site usage for file and people insights. The Permissions panel enables management of site admins, owners, members and visitors. The Policies panel provides visibility and access to manage site policies like external sharing, sensitivity labels and more. And finally, the Hub panel lets you know if the site is a hub site or associated to one.
ID: 57314 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
Office 365: Introducing Safe Documents
Safe Documents is now available in public preview, rolled out by Feb 28th. Instead of prompting users to exit Protected View, Safe Documents automatically checks untrusted Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files against Office ATP and Windows Defender Antivirus before allowing the files to open. This feature brings the power of the Intelligent Security Graph to the desktop, enabling users to focus on their work rather than balancing security against productivity. More info is available here: https://aka.ms/announcement/SecureProductivity
ID: 56993 Tags: Office 365 – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
Exchange Online: Improvements to Accelerate Replication of Changes to Azure Active Directory
We’re updating Exchange Online to accelerate replication of changes to Azure Active Directory. With this change, modifications to Exchange properties will be written immediately to AAD reducing the replication time.
ID: 55023 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2019
OneDrive: Update to email notifications for shared content
Standardizing the email template to reflect consistency across products along with adding file previewer thumbnails and activity details.
ID: 53036 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
OneDrive: Updates to @mentions email notifications
Whenever someone @mentions you in an Office file you receive an email notifying you about the same. With this update you will be able to read through the comments you have been @mentioned in , directly in the email notification.
ID: 51538 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2020
Exchange: Enabling Modern Auth for Managed Tenants
We’re constantly improving the security of Office 365 products and services. Modern Authentication is one of the best ways of ensuring that your clients can take advantage of authentication features like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and third-party SAML identity providers. All new Office 365 tenants created on or after August 1, 2017 have Modern Authentication enabled by default in Exchange Online for all clients. We’re making a change so that Modern Authentication will be enabled for the Windows Outlook client and Skype for Business client in all managed (non-federated) tenants that were created before to August 1, 2017. Those tenants already have Modern Authentication enabled for Outlook mobile, Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the Web, so there are no changes to any of those clients.
ID: 50005 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2020
SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel
Now it’s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel & chat associated to it – right from within the SharePoint user interface.
ID: 30686 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
OneDrive: Open in Review mode in Word online
End users can now choose to share Word documents with the new Open in Review mode option. When enabled, recipients can only open the Word file in the Word web app with the “Reviewing” mode enabled. While in Reviewing mode, users can suggest changes (using the track changes feature) and make comments but they may not make untracked changes.
ID: 27017 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: June CY2020
Yammer: Establish Official Communities
Updated community settings on web for communities and All Company community.
ID: 72062 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September 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
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
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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
