Play of the Week

Organization’s branding assets will soon be available through Microsoft Entra for user profiles using Edge. You will be able to add your organization’s name and brand colors to the profile flyout, and logo to overlay the Edge for Business taskbar icon. This feature will be available for commercial customers starting in January 2024.

In Development

Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers

Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work.

ID: 314380 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams

Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.

ID: 323894 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint 360s

Empower employees to collect 360 feedback for personal growth and development.

ID: 324089 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection

Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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: 335856 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements

Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it’s better grouped.

ID: 366447 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page

With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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: 370560 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for live translation for captions in a town hall

Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translation for captions during a town hall.

ID: 371308 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats

Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later.

ID: 374335 Release: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center

Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.

ID: 374390 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings

This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.

ID: 374515 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Improved issue details for service health

We are introducing a new version of the service health issue details pane (the surface that appears when you click on a service incident or service advisory to view details). The new version substantially reduces the amount of duplicated text and brings key information forward with improved formatting. This gives you quicker access to the information you need, reducing the time and effort required to get up to speed on service incident details.

ID: 374703 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP

With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable – Document didn’t complete scanning – Document name matches patterns – Document size equals or is greater than

ID: 374811 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: To Do in Outlook for Mac

To Do helps you manage your tasks and stay on top of what’s next. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac for commercial users.

ID: 375179 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Block downloads for shared videos

Some videos are meant to be viewed but not downloaded. Soon you will be able to share videos more securely with the “Can view, but not download” option. This option will be available in the permission drop down in the Microsoft 365 share dialog for Stream videos. When you select “Can view, but not download,” people who access the video you shared will be able watch it, but won’t be able to download or copy the video file.

ID: 375188 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Custom Check-In Templates

Check-In templates will allow team owners and admins to specify a template for check-ins. Goal owners can use these templates when making check-ins on their goals.

ID: 375201 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization at Team Level

This feature extends the Goals Terminology Customization capabilities to the team level. Now, team admins can use custom terminology to match their team’s Goal nomenclature and structure.

ID: 375206 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization in Copilot in Viva Goals

Enhancements to Viva Goals Copilot to better support customized terminology.

ID: 375211 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Enable organizational branding in Edge for Business

Enable your organization’s branding assets from Entra onto profile-related UI for profiles signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) account. You can add your organization’s details such as name to the profile pill, name and brand color to the profile flyout, and logo to overlay the Edge for Business taskbar icon. This branding can help users more easily differentiate between multiple profiles and browser windows. Default organizational branding can be enabled by admins through the following policies: OrganizationalBrandingOnWorkProfileUIEnabled and OrganizationLogoOverlayOnAppIconEnabled. Admins will need to have ‘company branding’ assets configured in the Microsoft Entra admin center for branding assets to be applied to this feature.

ID: 375261 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users

This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the “External” label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label.

ID: 375631 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: January CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature)

In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.

ID: 135561 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme

A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.  Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Rolling Out.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 161740 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Respond to a Viva Pulse in email

Respond to a Viva Pulse request inline in email.

ID: 164907 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results merged inline in “All” vertical for GCC and GCCH

Results from external data sources that are ingested with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the "All" vertical alongside content from Microsoft 365 apps and services for GCC and GCC-High.

ID: 189062 Release: Microsoft Search – GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Canceled