Play of the Week

New! AI-based, real-time noise suppression, will be added to Microsoft Teams, SharePoint: Improved SharePoint page/news publishing experience & SharePoint: Updates to site header options – all in the GCC and DoD environments!

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Tasks publishing and reporting for Firstline Workers

The Tasks publishing and reporting features will include several manager and team member experiences specific to targeting, assigning and completing activities, in addition to features for Headquarters for reporting and audit trails. Task publishing experience for central offices include: Corporate audit view to track tasks across FLW locations Firstline manager desktop view with reporting and filters Firstline Worker mobile view to review tasks assigned

ID:59719    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Outlook for Windows: Every meeting online

Update your settings to make every meeting you create a Teams Meeting by default so you no longer need to remember to click the Teams Meeting option.

ID:66021    Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2020

Azure Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Groups – support for Sensitivity Labels in Government Community Clouds

Microsoft 365 Groups will soon support Sensitivity Labels to help you manage privacy and external access. When an admin creates a sensitivity label in the Microsoft 365 security center or Microsoft 365 compliance center, a new site and groups settings page will allow the admin to specify privacy settings for Microsoft 365 Groups and group-connected team sites and whether or not groups created with the label can have external users. Once the labels have been configured published by the admin, users can apply them to groups they create.

ID:67158     Tags: Office 365 Groups, Azure Information Protection – GCC High, GCC, DoD  Release: December CY2020

Azure Advanced Threat Protection: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Auditing capabilities

Defender for Identity will offer audit logs for most activity types, allowing administrators to track changes to administrative settings and configurations. These activities will be published to the audit log accessible from the Microsoft 365 security & compliance center.

ID:68885   Tags: Azure Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Sensitivity labels extend to assets in Azure

With the new Microsoft Azure Purview, you can now extend the reach of your MIP sensitivity labels and the value from built-in sensitive information types to a much broader set of data locations and data types. Use existing sensitivity labels or create new sensitivity labels via the Microsoft 365 compliance center to extend security and compliance intent to data assets in Azure.

ID:68889   Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Third-party data connectors

Use data connectors to import and archive third-party data from social media platforms, instant messaging platforms, document collaboration platforms and more, to mailboxes in your Microsoft 365 organization where you can then apply various Microsoft 365 compliance solutions to the imported data. This helps you ensure that your organization’s non-Microsoft data is in compliance with the regulations and standards that affect your organization.

ID:68896    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC, DoD   Release: March CY2021

Access: Dataverse and Microsoft Teams Connector

We are providing a collaborative platform for you to integrate your data and applications into the cloud/mobile-based world through Dataverse as well as Microsoft Teams, while continuing to preserve the Access Desktop value. This opens a realm of opportunities to share and collaborate on your apps & data in our consistently growing Teams and Power Apps/Dataverse ecosystems.

ID:68897    Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Information barriers for GCC

Information barriers is a compliance feature to restrict communication and collaboration between two groups to avoid a conflict of interest from occurring in your organization.

ID:68898    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC    Release: January CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Feedback from your organization coming to the admin center

This features enables admins to view feedback submitted to Microsoft by organizational users about their experiences with Microsoft 365 applications. The new feedback view will be under the Health node in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID:68899   Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft 365 admin center: Aggregated views of Service Health across partner-managed tenants

Partner admins with delegated administration privileges relationships for managing multiple tenants can see aggregated views of service health incidents and advisories affecting all managed tenants. The new views are targeted at admins to draw actionable insights and proactively support their customers. The multi-tenant Service Health view pulls together all incidents and advisories affecting your managed tenants so you can constantly monitor the health of your services.

ID:68900    Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Exchange: Application Access Policy Support in EWS

We will be introducing support for Application Access Policy in EWS. Application Access Policy enables an administrator to access control an AppOnly app to a specific set of mailboxes by specifying an inclusion or exclusion list. Administrators who want to limit the 3rd party app access to a specific set of mailboxes can use the ApplicationAccessPolicy (AAP) PowerShell cmdlets to configure access control.

ID:68901    Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

SharePoint: Updated Tag column for images

Image tags are automatically created and includes descriptive labels when they are uploaded into SharePoint within Microsoft 365. This improves Microsoft Search results. With the new update, people will be able to manually add or remove tags from this column using freeform text or from the managed metadata service (your company taxonomy). Additionally, we are designing a new flow trigger in Power Automate that will allow programmable actions based on these tags.

ID:68902    Tags: SharePoint – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, Germany, DoD  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Presenter View in Teams Meetings

Presenters can view slide notes and upcoming slides helping the presenters keep the meeting on track, discuss meeting notes as needed and navigate to meeting slides quickly.

ID:68903    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD  Release: January CY2021

Forms: Email Receipt and Download Response Options Now Available

In the form settings, Forms designers can now enable the function for respondents within their organization to get an email confirmation that they completed the form. Within this email, there will a link to their response to the form. This function also enables respondents both within and outside of your organization to download (and thereby print) their responses to the form on the “Thank you” page of the form (after they submit the form).

ID:68904    Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Live reactions in Teams Meetings

React during a meeting using emojis that will appear to all participants.

ID:68905    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD   Release: February CY2021

Outlook for iOS: format options for signatures

The text box to create a signature for your mobile email messages will support HTLM format if you cut and paste from another source as well as provide bold, italics, underline, links and images formatting options.

ID:74940    Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD   Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Now you can view Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDAPT) threat signals from Application Guard (AppGuard) containers

Application Guard is now integrated with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDAPT), which allows IT admins track threat activity detected by MDATP inside the container.

ID:76263    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Browser icons updated to Fluent icon spec.

As part of our continued work around Fluent Design in the browser, we’ve made changes in Microsoft Edge v. 88 to closer align out icons to the new Microsoft icon system. These changes will impact many of our high-touch user interfaces, including tabs, address bar, as well as navigational and wayfinding icons found in our various menus.

ID:76264    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for DoD

Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling, based on content inspection, is natively built into Office apps within Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications on Windows (in the Office 365 subscription version of the Office apps) and Office Online.

ID:76502    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – DoD   Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Manual sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for DoD

Sensitivity labels, part of the Microsoft Information Protection framework, are used to classify and protect your organization’s data. Applying sensitivity labels is easy — keeping customers productive and protected. You can now apply sensitivity labels to important documents and associate the labels with protection policies within the Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications. The labels can also be associated with actions like encryption and visual marking.

ID:76504    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High   Release: February CY2021

Rolling Out

SharePoint: Active time spent reports on SharePoint Site Usage

You can now get reports with aggregated data on the amount of time that users are spending on your intranet sites

ID:57159    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

SharePoint: Improved SharePoint page/news publishing experience

A pre-publish panel enforces that authors supply missing required properties before they can publish a page or a news post. Additional improvements related to required properties in the pages library take effect.

ID:63257    Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

SharePoint: Updates to site header options

Custom SharePoint branding options are expanding to include new header configurations for modern sites in addition to the header options you are familiar with today. In the Change the look panel, new minimal and extended header layouts will become available along with the option to toggle site title visibility and select an additional square site logo thumbnail image that displays in search results. Additionally, the default site header for new SharePoint sites will be updated to the compact header instead of the standard header for all sites created after the updates launch.

ID:63776    Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Yammer: Notifications added to the Yammer Communities App in Teams

Yammer notifications will be available from with the Yammer Communities app in Teams.

ID:64015   Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Access: DAO Interface Support (without ACE Redistributable Engine)

If you have O365, or click-to-run versions of Access 2016/2019 Consumer installed, you will no longer need to install the ACE Redistributable to use the ACE DAO provider.

ID:65408    Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC  Release: January CY2021

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Improvements to Threat Hunting with Threat Explorer and Real Time Detections

As part of this work, we will be introducing additional enhancements when it comes to identifying threats within your organization. This includes the following updates: Addition of spam verdict within Threat Explorer, so that going forward you will be able to identify if a particular email was Malware, Phish or Spam. Showing Threats in URLs to identify the verdict associated with a URL (Malware, Phish, Spam or None). Introducing Additional Actions to identify the post-delivery actions like ZAP or Manual Remediation which were applied to an email. Updating delivery location to show both Original and the latest delivery location for an email. Updating Email Timeline to make it simpler, and showing more details when it comes to showing information about post-delivery events like ZAP. Enabling information about Tenant/User level Overrides applied on an email which may have impacted delivery location.

ID:66467    Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for gov clouds

Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in GCC and GCC-High environments. Sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to label important content to associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. With this release, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input.

ID:67125    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High, GCC   Release: November CY2020

SharePoint: SharePoint spaces General Availability

SharePoint spaces moves from Public Preview to General Availability.

ID:67135    Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft To Do: Plan your day better with urgent and important task suggestions in My Day

Microsoft To Do has a list called My Day where users can add the tasks they wish to focus on today. We are introducing a new section in the suggestions pane of the My Day list where we will surface some urgent and important tasks to help users plan their day better.

ID:67155    Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: inline message translation in DOD

With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration.

ID:67165    Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD   Release: December CY2020

Office 365: Translate in Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Translate is coming to Word, Excel and PowerPoint for DoD customers.

ID:67173    Tags: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Office 365 – DoD   Release: November CY2020

Outlook: Outlook on the web – Text predictions in English now supported worldwide

We are extending support for text predictions in Outlook on the web. Now text predictions will be available in English for customers worldwide.

ID:68833    Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Compliance Center: Microsoft 365 compliance center – Audit retention dashboard (preview)

Create and manage audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

ID:68854    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Mandatory Labeling in Office apps

Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) will now respect the Admin policy setting to require users to apply a label to documents and emails on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android (for the Office 365 subscription version of the apps).

ID:68873    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics

We are creating a sharper distinction between topics and hashtags in Yammer further differentiating these features so that topics power curation, management, and categorizing of knowledge, while hashtags will continue to be used to support campaigns and user expression.

ID:73251    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.88: PDF document display in book view (two page)

Starting with Microsoft Edge v. 88, you can now view PDF document in single page or book view. To change the view, click on the Page View button in the toolbar.

ID:76253    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve productivity and multi-tasking with vertical tabs

As the number of horizontal tabs grows, site titles start to get cut off and tab controls are lost as each tab shrinks. This interrupts user workflow as they spend more time finding, switching, and managing their tabs and less time on the task at hand. Vertical tabs let users to move their tabs to the side, where vertically aligned icons and longer site titles make it easier to quickly scan, identify and switch to the tab they want to open. Vertical tabs also make it easier to organize several tabs, by providing more space to quickly multiselect, close and reorder tabs. When users want to focus and see more of the web while using vertical tabs, they can always collapse the pane, and simply hover to expand it whenever they want to interact with a specific tab.

ID:76254    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Deprecate support for FTP protocol

Support for the legacy non-secure FTP protocol has been removed from Microsoft Edge. Attempting to navigate to a FTP link will result in the browser directing the Operating System to open an external application to handle the FTP link. Alternatively, Enterprise Administrators may configure Microsoft Edge to use IE Mode for their sites that rely upon the FTP protocol.

ID:76255    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Automatically switch users on MacOS to their work profile for sites that authenticate with their work account

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 88, we provide the ability to switch sites that authenticate with your work profile on MacOS.

ID:76256    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: View site permissions by site and by recent activity

Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users will be able to manage site permissions more easily. They will be able to view permissions by web site rather than just permission type.  Additionally, we’ve added a recent activity section that will show a user all the recent changes to their site permissions.

ID:76257   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Increased controls for browser cookies

Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users can delete third party cookies without affecting first party cookies. Users will also be able to filter their cookies by first or third party and sort by name, number of cookies, and the amount of data stored and last modified.

ID:76258    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Adobe Flash support will be removed

Starting with Microsoft Edge Beta version 88 Adobe Flash support and capability will be removed.

ID:76259    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Single Sign On (SSO) now available for Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts on MacOS

A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on MacOS will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work or School accounts (eg: sharepoint.com, office.com, bing.com).

ID:76260    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve Microsoft Edge startup speed with startup boost

To improve Microsoft Edge startup speed, we’ve developed a feature named startup boost. Startup boost launches a set of Microsoft Edge processes in the background which makes Microsoft Edge available quickly when launched.

ID:76261    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve browser performance with sleeping tabs

Sleeping tabs improves browser performance by reducing system resources (e.g., RAM, CPU) that are used by background, inactive browser tabs. Users can prevent tab sites from going to sleep and configure the length of time before an inactive tab goes to sleep. This feature can also be managed with group policies.

ID:76265    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Alerts if your passwords are found in an online leak

Starting with Microsoft Edge v. 88, the browser checks your passwords against a repository of know-breached credentials and alerts you if a match is found.

ID:76267    Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021

Launched

Outlook for iOS: LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 account connections

Securely connect your LinkedIn account with your Microsoft account to see information from LinkedIn Profiles directly in the People Card in Outlook for iOS.

ID: 31436  Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2019

Exchange Monitoring preview

Exchange monitoring focuses on monitoring data from your user’s location to Office 365 cloud service. Incidents and Advisories that impact your end to end experience are surfaced here. You can look at near real time signals per scenario to infer the impact. Exchange monitoring experience will be integrated inside service health in M365 Admin center and you will have one single place to consume the goodness of current service health combined with richer monitoring experience.

ID: 62555   Tags: Exchange, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Sync Message Center posts to Planner

Microsoft is introducing Planner integration for the Message Center to help with workflow management. Lots of information arrives in the Message Center, and you need to decide whether to act on it or not. And if an action is needed, who performs that action, and how do you track that task to completion? Or maybe you want to make a note of something and tag it for later. You can do all of this and more when you sync your Message Center to Microsoft Planner.

ID: 63317    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education   Release: September CY2020

Azure Active Directory: New reviewer experience for Access Review

We are introducing the public preview of this updated experience for reviewers who currently use Azure Active Directory Access Review.

ID: 63573    Tags: Azure Active Directory – GCC High, DoD, All environments, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Pinned Posts

Keep important information easily accessible and top of mind with Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to pin any message in a channel to the channel information pane for all members of the channel to see.

ID: 64334   Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education

This feature will allow site owners to set a page template as the default when a user creates a new page or news post on the site. The default template will be selected when the template picker is opened, but users can select a different template to use before they create their page

ID: 64529    Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Access: ODBC Interface Support (without ACE Redistributable Engine)

If you have O365, or click-to-run versions of Access 2016/2019 Consumer installed, you will no longer need to install the ACE Redistributable to use the ACE ODBC provider

ID: 65407   Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High   Release: August CY2020

Access: SQL Date & Time Extended Data Type Integration

To enhance syntax compatibility with SQL, and to increase the accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates/times, we are implementing a new “Date & Time Extended” data type into Access. This additional date & time type is directly compatible with SQL’s DateTime2 data type, and it will include a larger date range (0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31), and higher-specified time precision (nanoseconds). The current DateTime data type will continue to operate as-is.

ID: 65420    Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Yammer: Adding Ability to “Mute” Communities at Admin and User levels

Admins will be able to ‘mute’ Yammer communities so they don’t appear in the feed for non-members. Members of the of those muted communities will still see these posts in their home feed. Users will be able to ‘mute’ Yammer communities so they don’t appear in their feed.

ID: 66129    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Edge v.87: Single Sign On (SSO) now available for Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts on down-level Windows

A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on down-level Microsoft Windows (7, 8, 8.1) will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work or School accounts (eg: sharepoint.com, office.com, bing.com).

ID: 66331     Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: 3×3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

View up to 9 meeting participants during a Teams meeting in the 3×3 gallery view.

ID: 66346     Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Shift Schedule Assistance

Shifts schedule assistance will alert managers if conflicts occur anywhere in the schedule and they will receive conflict warnings when approving schedule change requests.

ID: 66609     Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance Center: Microsoft Compliance Manager general availability

Compliance Manager is the next generation of the existing Compliance Manager and Compliance Score solutions, which have been in commercial public preview since November 2019. With this announcement, we are consolidating the functionality of these two solutions into one single solution, Compliance Manager, which sits in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. With Compliance Manager, you will benefit from intuitive end-to-end compliance management, a vast out-of-the-box assessment template library and built-in automation to scale your compliance across global, industrial and regional standards.

ID: 67132     Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC   Release: November CY2020

SharePoint: General Availability of SharePoint Syntex

Microsoft SharePoint Syntex uses advanced AI and machine teaching to amplify human expertise, automate content processing, and transform content into knowledge. SharePoint Syntex will be available as a user-based add-on for Microsoft 365 plans and will be generally available to Microsoft 365 commercial customers on October 1, 2020.

ID: 67134     Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: October CY2020

Microsoft To Do: WebApp available to GCC

Microsoft To Do WebApp will become available for GCC Moderate Customers.

ID: 67144     Tags: Microsoft To Do – GCC   Release: December CY2020

SharePoint: My Feed web part

Make your page or site in SharePoint more dynamic and relevant to individual users by adding the My feed web part. The My feed web part will show a mix of content from across Microsoft 365, based on what’s likely to be most relevant to the current user at any given time.

ID: 67148     Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams and Power Automate – Simpler automation for everyone

A new Power Automate app for Teams will make creating and using automation simpler than ever. New workflow templates will be made available, and using those templates to build automation will become easier with a simplified editor experience.

ID: 68120     Tags: Microsoft Teams, Power Automate – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression

AI-based, real-time noise suppression, will be added to Microsoft Teams. This feature will automatically remove unwelcome background noise during your meetings. AI-based noise suppression works by analyzing an individual’s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out the noise and retain only the speech signal. This is an update to the existing noise suppression. Users will now have have control over how much noise suppression they want. The “High” setting is new and will suppress more background noise.

ID: 68694     Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD   Release: November CY2020

Outlook: FindTime – Require Attendee Verification and Locking Poll for Attendees

By enabling these new options, attendees of a poll can be required to authenticate themselves before voting. Attendees can also be prevented from adding, removing, and editing other attendees; and can additionally be prevented from suggesting new time options.

ID: 68699     Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)    Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration

Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence for a specific period of time.

ID: 68726     Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: November CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Meetings extensibility

Teams meeting extensibility will enable developers to integrate their apps into the experience and construct of a meeting. New meeting surfaces, such as pre-/post- meeting tabs, in-meeting side panel, and content notifications will provide more areas to build richer interaction points for users. New meeting APIs will allow developers to enable their apps to be aware of meeting and participant context, such as roster, roles, and permissions.

ID:68733     Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: November CY2020

Canceled

Microsoft Project: Project for the Web – Export to Excel

{This is a duplicate of 67149 and will be removed.} Export your project grid into an Excel spreadsheet. Share this information with colleagues so you can analyze your Project data.

ID: 61297   Tags: Excel, Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Project: Receive Email Notifications

{This is a duplicate of 67152 and will be removed.} Switch on to receive notifications about changes to your projects.

ID: 66608   Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Project: Deploy to different environments

{This is a duplicate of 67156 and will be removed.} Organizations have more flexibility in how they deploy Project. In addition to using Project in the Default environment, you can now use it in Named Environments.

ID: 71034   Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: March CY2021