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With Outlook’s new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them — even while offline. This new feature will be available for all customers starting in January 2024
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Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center
Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.
ID: 138479 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center
Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.
ID: 138480 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa
This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client. These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).
ID: 167326 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization
We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.
ID: 168523 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New fields added to Activity Explorer.
Added Protection Event Type and Protection Type fields in Activity Explorer for sensitivity label applied, sensitivity labels updated, and sensitivity label removed.
ID: 177294 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario.
ID: 177297 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario.
ID: 177301 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer
Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer.
ID: 177302 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer
Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer.
ID: 177362 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions
With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled “Global exclusions” within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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: 185687 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024
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 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: High and Low importance
You can now send email with High or Low importance from Outlook for iOS.
ID: 185704 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium)
Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.
ID: 185802 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Visio: Custom shapes in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 2]
Users with a Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use third-party custom shapes to create diagrams in Visio for the web.
ID: 186203 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Visio: Edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]
Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web by creating an exact copy (except macros) and saving it in the latest .vsdx format.
ID: 186204 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium)
Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.
ID: 186429 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Full File Evidence for all workloads in Activity Explorer
This feature grants the user the capability to view the source link of the file associated with the activity flagged in Activity Explorer.
ID: 186528 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App
Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
ID: 186553 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and set duration for on-demand Virtual Appointments (Premium)
Scheduling administrators and staff managing on-demand appointments can assign specific staff members and set appointment duration to handle on-demand services. This ensures that when an on-demand appointment is requested, there is a designated staff member assigned to the appointment and a defined duration for the appointment is set. The designated staff member also receives a notification to attend the on-demand appointment.
ID: 186560 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Entity Clusters Identified in Automated Investigation and Response (AIR)
The feature will expand upon the automated investigation and response (AIR) by enabling AIR to automatically remediate malicious entity clusters. AIR currently recommends actions for SecOps to approve or decline and this enhancement will allow customers to enable auto-remediation to allow AIR to act on recommendations and soft delete messages included in a malicious URL or malicious file cluster.
ID: 186576 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium)
“Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants in order to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu option or keyboard shortcut, forward messages or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether user can see or use this feature in Meeting Options page. Admin can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates they create.
ID: 186675 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Audio flyout and settings in Teams meetings
The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments.
ID: 187098 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024
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, GCC High Tags: December CY2023
Outlook: Message Recall
Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature will be coming to Outlook for Mac.
ID: 189804 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage
With the new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.
ID: 189809 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows
Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Clicking the To Do icon in the navigation bar will open inline and will no longer open in a separate browser window.
ID: 190006 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience
Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls.
ID: 190177 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Goals Bulk Import Enhancements
Improved bulk import of Goals experience and supporting additional fields with bulk import
ID: 190178 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Updated post type designs in Viva Engage
The design of the praise, poll, and question post types in Viva Engage are changing to a more streamlined format. Users will retain all the same publishing and engagement features as the previous design. We’ve made this change to put more emphasis on user content and help with the experience across surfaces.
ID: 190366 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows
This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.
ID: 191528 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Search: Answer insights and enhanced user adoption analytics
Answer analytics for Microsoft Search provides insights into how editorial content like Bookmarks, Acronyms and Q&A are performing within the organization. Enhanced user analytics provides insights into search adoption across search applications like SharePoint, Microsoft Search for Bing, Microsoft Search for Windows, Microsoft365.com, and now also cover in-app searches from Outlook, Teams and other office applications.
ID: 191542 Release: Microsoft Search – GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Forward Messages in Teams chats
Forward messages quickly from one chat to another using the right-click menu. You can add additional content to the message to provide context and clarity for the recipient. You can forward messages to 1:1 chats and group chats.
ID: 90585 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Join a meeting by digital code for GCC-High and DoD
User can join a meeting by entering a digital code.
ID: 94620 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Hide attendee names in Webinars (Premium)
Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar or a meeting, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.
ID: 119153 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams.
Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date. Note: We are updating a release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 127888 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management improved search for rooms
The new search for rooms function in the Rooms Pro Management Portal will be available in the room view to allow users to easily search and capture data within small sets of rooms based on specified criteria.
ID: 141821 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Priority account chat controls (Premium)
Administrators will be able to manage priority account chat controls using a policy setting. This enables end users to decide how to handle unwanted internal communications. End users will be notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations. If conversations are blocked, all future messages from the sender will no longer be received. Senders can be unblocked at anytime by the users with these policies. This feature is available with a Teams Premium add-on license.
ID: 144367 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Files app updated to OneDrive app experience in Teams
The Files app accessed from left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams.
ID: 145798 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts
We are releasing additional manager-controlled privacy settings in the Shifts app. Frontline managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers and they can set how far in the past their employees can view data in schedule view, to manage employees’ views of each other’s breaks and notes.
ID: 152119 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for iOS to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules such as encryption as defined by tenant admins.
ID: 163359 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging
Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience.
ID: 167211 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations
With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal
ID: 167340 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Excel import enhancements in Shifts app
Frontline managers will gain the ability to import an Excel file into Shifts with time off and open shift entities. Complementary, those entities will also be supported when managers export schedules in a compatible format to import.
ID: 169705 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections desktop
The refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections introduces several requested new features including branding capabilities, sending announcements, a revamped Resources section, and support for different card sizes. The refreshed landing experience also brings the feed back into the viewport on your Connections page and offers an improved layout to the landing page.
ID: 176677 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Workflows in Chat
Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams chats. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
ID: 180364 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels (Premium)
Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. For Teams Premium, users will have additional access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, to generate images for their backgrounds.
ID: 183785 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Copilot for Microsoft 365. The report will include two sections: readiness and usage. The readiness section will include insights into your organization’s technical eligibility, license assignment, and Microsoft 365 usage metrics to inform Copilot license assignment decisions. The Usage section of the report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, activity insights, and more to follow.
ID: 185797 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Enroll iOS devices into Azure AD Shared device mode
Shared device mode for iOS is an Azure Active Directory (AAD) capability supported by apps that allows you to initiate a global app sign in/ sign-out by any supported applications.
ID: 82130 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources (U.S. Government clouds)
Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case.
ID: 93270 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Windows 365: Support for Azure AD Single Sign-on (SSO) to AADJ Cloud PCs
A user is able to leverage Azure AD Single Sign-on functionality to log into Windows 365 instance.
ID: 93670 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meeting Recordings
Microsoft Graph meeting recording API allows developers access to Teams meeting recordings once the meeting is completed. Recorded media output is in MP4 audio+video format.
ID: 95787 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Windows 365: Support for Azure AD Single Sign-on (SSO) to HAADJ Cloud PCs
A user is able to leverage Azure AD Single Sign-on functionality to log into Windows 365 instance.
ID: 106093 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft Loop – a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Loop is an app built for the new era of modern work aimed at redefining the boundaries of creation and collaboration. Microsoft Loop combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications — enabling teams to think, plan, and create together.
ID: 122270 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for EXO – Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine
We are adding a new column that enables messages delivered to hosted quarantine to be viewed under “Data Loss Prevention” rather than needing to be filtered under transport rules.
ID: 124974 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds in policy wizard
With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to finetune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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: 146329 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Export APIs
Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs.
ID: 146731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365: Israel datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability
Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Israel. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Israel and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Israel local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.
ID: 149270 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Preserve Declined Meetings
A new calendar setting in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will enable users to choose if they want their declined meetings to be removed or kept on their calendar. Declined events will not show as tentative nor block your free/busy when other people try to book time with you.
ID: 154056 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal
With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
ID: 162292 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for Android to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules such as encryption as defined by tenant admins.
ID: 163358 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements
This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds.
ID: 164896 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64)
With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) and prevent sensitive data exfiltration through actions such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, printing, and more. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 164897 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse -Microsoft Teams Chat Notifications and Inline Response
Respond to a Viva Pulse request in Microsoft Teams chat in the flow of work.
ID: 164904 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Customize a Viva Pulse end date
Customize your Viva Pulse end date when sending a pulse.
ID: 164905 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Workflows Message Extension: New Default Actions
The Microsoft Teams Workflows Message Extension will include new default actions to assist user collaboration. These actions will simplify collaboration within a conversation by enabling users to kick off common workflows and post adaptive cards to conversations.
ID: 167324 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: New feedback experience
The feedback entry point for Outlook for Web will be moving from the bottom of the Help pane to the Help tab of the ribbon, for ease of discovery. A streamlined experience, diagnostics log collection and the ability to add screenshots and video make it easier and quicker for users to describe their feedback and helps Microsoft act on it. Also, users can search for information related to their feedback, including updates on features under development, workarounds for problems and how-to from Help. This change obeys the general Feedback policy.
ID: 169101 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Dictation support in the new Outlook for Windows and web
Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author messages in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It’s a quick and easy way to draft emails, send replies, and capture the tone you’re going for.
ID: 171199 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Search: New user analytics extended to Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Office
User analytics improvements that provide deeper insights and filtering capabilities for search adoption across user segments like geography, department and occupation as well as search applications such as SharePoint, Microsoft Search for Bing, and Microsoft365.com. New capabilities include search insights from within Windows Search, Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft Office applications.
ID: 177894 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Admin setting to disable private messages in a Viva Engage (Yammer) network
Admins will have the ability to turn off private message capabilities in their Viva Engage (Yammer) network. Once turned off, users will not see the feature in the frontend. Once released, this setting is available for admins to use any time. If turning off private messages in existing networks, users will lose access to their messages. All content remains ingested and available via eDiscovery.
ID: 178016 Release: Microsoft Viva, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Updated admin experience for settings
We are improving the admin experience to manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention settings, including the endpoint settings.
ID: 181397 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Search: Staged Rollout for Graph Connectors
Staged rollout is a feature that allows you to gradually introduce Microsoft Graph connectors to a select group of users in your production environment. You can use it to deploy an existing or new connection to a limited set of users, monitor the performance, and adjust settings as needed.
ID: 181514 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exchange Auto-labeling supports non-mail enable security groups
Service side auto-labeling now supports scoping of exchange auto-labeling to non-mail enabled security groups.
ID: 184908 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender
Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft 365 Defender and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.
ID: 185708 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
