Play of the Week

Microsoft Bookings is going to be released for government GCC tenants with G1 licenses. The popular productivity tool lets you track, manage, and organize your team’s appointments and calendars all in one place. Bookings is currently in development and slated for release in March 2023.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Surface Message Actions by Most Recently Used Menu

This feature surfaces most recently used Message Actions into the level one menu for users to access quickly.

ID: 109430 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2023

Outlook: Mandatory labeling pre-compose for mobile

We have listened customer feedback on Outlook mobile need meet the mission of “On the Go”, and for organizations have mandatory labeling enabled without default labeling, and would like to have the label selection first before going to compose the email. Then when the users click “Send”, the email could just be sent without any forgotten labeling pop ups. Outlook mobile will introduce a new MDM setting to allow admins to enable this louder mandatory configuration for Outlook mobile clients (iOS and Android) specifically. We will enable Android first in early Q1 of 2023, and iOS will release in Q2 of 2023.

ID: 109544 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Teams Group Graph API and Teams Team Activity Counts

We are updating Group Graph APIs to add Teams related groups, and adding getTeamsTeamCounts Graph API to strengthen Teams team Graph API sets for Microsoft 365 usage report.

ID: 109548 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: January CY2023

Bookings: Availability for G1 customers

With this update, US government customers with G1 licenses will be able to use Microsoft Bookings.

ID: 109550 Tags: Bookings, Exchange – GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced flyout design for app engagement and discovery

Enhanced visual layout helps you quickly launch apps that you have as well as discover new ones to help you complete your day-to-day tasks in Teams.

ID: 110710 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enabling new call controls with Survivable Branch Appliance

In the event of a network outage, users will now have access to new call controls with Survivable Branch Appliance. Users will now be able to use contact search, dial by name, and initiate a call from their call history. When connected to the same SBA and network, VoIP calls to peers will be routed through PSTN if the call recipient has an associated phone number.

ID: 111421 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Rolling Out

Word: Create Tasks with @mentions

Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your document.

ID: 64122 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2022

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: December CY2022

Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Pages API

New graph API to create and manage SharePoint pages and news posts.

ID: 101166 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Launched

Bookings: Multi-staff availability

Support booking appointments when multiple staff are available.

ID: 88990 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft 356 Admin Center: Viva admin center in MAC

The new Viva Admin experience has rolled out to all users and can be found via search (Search for Viva) or in the setup tab.

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

Microsoft 365 admin center: New ways to find advanced deployment guides

You’ll see a new look on the Advanced deployment guides page in the Microsoft 365 admin center and the setup.microsoft.com website. We’re updating the search tools, recommendations, and layout of both locations so it’s easier to find step-by-step guides for the product or scenario you’re deploying. You’ll also see new guides on setup.microsoft.com that are currently available only within the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID: 102402 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Increased limits per label for disposition review and proof of disposition

This feature removes the per label 1,000,000 item limit for items pending disposition review and proof of disposition (reviewed) including record labels. The tenant limit of 16,000,000 total items pending disposition and disposed still exists.

ID: 103622 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Graph: Teams Device management Graph APIs (Preview)

{This item is being postponed indefinitely.} These APIs provide access to information about the Teams devices and options to manage them and enable easy integration with other workflows.

ID: 90173 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2023