Play of the Week

Improvements are coming to Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard for Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management. The enhancements will be released in January 2024 for all customers.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Calendar notifications in Teams

Users can now triage the calendar notifications in their Activity Feed and will get notifications for meeting invites, updates, cancellations, and forwards (if the user is the meeting organizer). These notifications will show up as unread in the Activity Feed pane and will display the details when a user clicks on it.

ID: 314355 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only)

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)

ID: 329253 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions

Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

ID: 336046 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

OneDrive: Create with Templates

We’re refreshing the file creation experience in OneDrive for Web which you initiate by clicking the “Add new” button. Soon, clicking the “Add new” button in OneDrive will give you the option to create a blank file or choose from a selection a high-quality, beautifully designed Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates to jumpstart your work.

ID: 363474 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements

To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 368825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams admin center – external domain activity report

The external domain activity report will show Teams administrators which domains their users communicate with. Available for both those with open federation on and those with explicit allow lists.

ID: 370565 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Create Goals Tab in Microsoft Teams Chats and Channels

Users will be able to add Viva Goals as a tab in a Microsoft Teams chat or channel, so that they can see their goals in the flow of work.

ID: 371197 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: 3P eCDN support for town halls (Premium)

Admins have the ability to disable Microsoft first party eCDN at a user level within a tenant for users licensed with Teams Premium and switch the users back to using a third-party eCDN as they prefer.

ID: 371568 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium)

Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers.

ID: 371578 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow

Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned.

ID: 372670 Release: Exchange, Microsoft 365 Defender – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Teams Channels announcements in Viva Connections

If a Frontline worker (FLW) licensed user is @mentioned in a Teams channel announcement, the announcement will be displayed in Viva Connections so that the user can find all their important updates in a single place.

ID: 373510 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels

Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.

ID: 373545 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Tags in Shared Channels

Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people within shared channels.

ID: 373555 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer

Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later.

ID: 374375 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Viva Engage

Adding topics to posts in Viva Engage will default open for question post types and be aligned with new topic experiences as seen in Answers in Viva.

ID: 374596 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Room Remote on Desktop for GCC

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meeting experiences by allowing users to control a nearby shared Teams Rooms device (Windows or Android) from their PC companion device with the Teams client.

ID: 374708 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Add Images to Check-In Notes and Review Dashboards

With this capability, users can attach images to check-in notes and dashboards in Viva Goals to better illustrate their ideas visually.

ID: 375014 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – New goal sharing experience

Facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goal progress with the enhanced sharing functionality in Viva Goals.

ID: 375220 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition in OneDrive and SharePoint supports multi-page PDF and TIFF files

Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images. With this update image-only PDF and TIFF files in OneDrive and SharePoint will also benefit from OCR.

ID: 124940 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs

The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.

ID: 125072 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background (Premium)

Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

ID: 126123 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Integrated Apps in M365 admin center for managing apps across M365 suite products

Introducing Integrated Apps in M365 admin center to allow admins to discover, deploy and manage apps across various M365 suite products.

ID: 164079 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC Tags: December CY2023

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites

The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint.

ID: 171100 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant

Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.

ID: 174466 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

OneNote: New ‘notes’ tab when creating a standard Teams channel

When creating a new standard channel, a new Notes tab will be automatically created. Each Teams team will have a dedicated OneNote workbook and each channel will have its own section, making it easier on the workgroup to add their notes.

ID: 180484 Release: OneNote – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Remove items from your activity feed

Users will be able to remove items they no longer need from their activity feed, helping the user stay on top of their notifications.

ID: 181794 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category

We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365.

ID: 185700 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Launched

Outlook: Modern Translation in Outlook on the Web

In Outlook, you can translate words, phrases, and full messages when you need them. You can also set Outlook to automatically translate messages you receive in other languages. When you receive an email message in another language, you’ll see a prompt at the top of the message asking if you’d like Outlook to translate it into your preferred language.

ID: 164486 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Create a Viva Pulse from scratch

Build your Viva Pulse from scratch by creating your own questions or choosing from the question library.

ID: 164903 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Select Viva Pulse Questions from a Library

Create a Viva Pulse using research-backed questions found by browsing or searching the question library.

ID: 164906 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms

Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to customize terminology in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework.

ID: 165684 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Yammer / Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. ThreadViewed; 2. ThreadAccessFailure; 3. MessageUpdated; 4. FileAccessFailure; 5. MessageCreation; 6. GroupAccessFailure

ID: 180741 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Chat between multi-tenant organization contacts will default to external chat

We are cancelling this item because it will be included in a broader roadmap communication about multi-tenant organization (MTO) improvements. 1:1 chat between MTO contacts will now default to external chat, creating a single conversation thread. As part of this change, existing B2B chat threads will be available as read-only.

ID: 185006 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024