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Microsoft Teams will soon be releasing a feature update to support Targeted Release. This new update will allow a team of early adopters to see, test, and provide feedback about the latest Teams features before rolling the changes out to the rest of the organization. Be on the lookout for this update in mid-March.
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Microsoft Teams: License Management in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams Admin Center for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
With Microsoft’s license management solution for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), customers can easily assign, use, and track SaaS licenses in Teams and Teams admin center. This also provides ISVs with a ready-to-use solution without the need to develop their own license management and enforcement system.
ID: 85418 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Pronouns available on the profile card
Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.
ID: 86382 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Video Closed Captions in PowerPoint Live
Closed Captions will now be supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. If the video contains out-of-band closed captions, all viewers will automatically have the option to turn closed captions on for the video.
ID: 114494 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023
OneDrive: Update to settings pane for PC folder backup
OneDrive plans to make a change to the settings pane for the PC folder backup feature (sometime called Known Folder Move). This settings pane is found by going to OneDrive icon in the system tray then selecting Settings- Sync and backup- Manage backup. The change will introduce toggle buttons to the settings pane along with information showing how much storage, of an end users total storage allotment, will be used by the feature. There is no change to the PC folder backup feature itself which, when enabled, automatically syncs your end user’s Desktop, Documents and Pictures folders on their Windows PC to their OneDrive.
ID: 114510 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: January CY2023
Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities
Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants.
ID: 115482 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms for DoD and GCC High
Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.
ID: 115504 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023
Outlook: Pronouns available on the profile card
Users on Outlook on the web will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.
ID: 115511 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Active speaker view in meetings
Active speaker is a new view added to Microsoft Teams meetings. It highlights the active speaker while still showing the rest of the participants in the meeting. Users can use this new view through the view switcher in a meeting.
ID: 116009 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Enable zooming while viewing screenshare
Users can now zoom in and out while viewing a screenshare in a Teams call and meeting.
ID: 116010 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2023
Windows 365: Administrator alerts for Cloud PCs in grace period
An administrator will have the ability to configure to receive notifications when Cloud PCs enter grace period.
ID: 117360 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2023
Windows 365: Service & Downtime maintenance windows
A service scheduled recurring default maintenance window to perform general maintenance activities with least disruption to the end-user.
ID: 117361 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2023
Windows 365: Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365 Enterprise
Support for administrators to integrate Citrix Cloud with Windows 365 giving access to Citrix HDX technologies for enhanced Cloud PC security and manageability.
ID: 117362 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Project: Assigned to Me view for Project tasks
View and update (i.e. mark as complete & progress) all the tasks assigned to you across projects in one place – Assigned to Me view. This view appears in the app of their choice – Planner, Tasks in Teams, or ToDo.
ID: 117363 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
Microsoft Project: Email notifications for late project tasks
Task assignees will now get email notification for late Project Tasks.
ID: 117364 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
SharePoint: Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring
Updates include two changes to the text web part from multilingual proofing to better control over line spacing.
ID: 117365 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Feed on Microsoft 365 Edge New Tab Page
We are rolling out a new experience to the Microsoft 365 tab of the Edge Enterprise New Tab Page. This experience will feature a new layout that centers on a larger version of the Microsoft Feed, featuring more productivity content, and moves the productivity cards including Important Emails, Recent SharePoint sites, Upcoming events, and To Do to the right-hand side.
ID: 117367 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
SharePoint: New site theme options
We are adding two new SharePoint themes to our Change the Look menu. The addition of Black and Cerulean will enhance your site customization options for how you want your sites to look.
ID: 117368 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Records Management advanced deployment guide
Expanding and distinguishing the tasks within the Data Lifecycle and Records Management advanced deployment guide based on licensing requirements.
ID: 117373 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Take action after reflecting on meeting category insights in Viva Insights
Viva Insights customers will be able to take actions such as editing meeting invites or responses directly from the Viva Insights app after reflecting on their meeting category insights to align their time spent in meetings with their goals.
ID: 117374 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Support for Targeted Release
Microsoft Teams will support Targeted Release. When an admin sets release preferences to one of the Targeted Release options, those users will be first to see the latest updates and help shape the product by providing early feedback. You can choose to have individuals, or the entire organization receive updates early.
ID: 117577 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Ability for Teams users to manage their Teams third-party app subscriptions from within Teams Client
Ability for Teams users to view and manage in single place all third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased in the Teams app store, without leaving the Teams client. Easily adding more licenses for the purchased subscriptions, cancel, upgrade and downgrade subscriptions and access invoices.
ID: 92484 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements
Now eDiscovery admins can understand the progress of Collections, statistics on what content contributed to changes between estimated items with hits and actual collected items, as well as commit the collection directly from the estimate without navigating through the entire collection wizard.
ID: 93380 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Room Remote on Desktop
The Room Remote feature users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Windows desktop/PC companion device via the Teams client. This feature first launched on mobile devices and will now be available on Windows PC form factors when joined to the meeting as a companion device.
ID: 95482 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium
Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure, with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, live translated captions, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and advanced Virtual Appointment experiences.
ID: 100654 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Review set – Add notes to items
Support for adding customer notes to items within a review set.
ID: 103623 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2023
SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library
With the file request feature in SharePoint Document Library, you can choose a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send them. People you request files from can only upload files; they can’t see the content of the folder, edit, delete, or download files, or even see who else has uploaded files.
ID: 103625 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2023
Planner: Task Email Notifications for GCC-High
Task Email Notifications for GCC-High aims at bringing existing Planner email notifications to customers in GCC-High. The two main categories are: Assignment email Notifications and Due date digest email notifications.
ID: 106086 Tags: Planner – GCC High Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Self-diagnostic tool for SPODB – Test-DlpPolicies
A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
ID: 98928 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in DoD
Organization-wide search across files, sites, people, and news; Search box in suite navigation bar in SharePoint, OneDrive, Office.com; Shared Search Results page between SharePoint and Office.com; Adding a new image vertical and actions on search results in SharePoint and Office.com
ID: 103635 Tags: Microsoft 365 – DoD Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Elevated Teams Integration
Fully featured Viva Goals app in Team, complete with check-ins within the app.
ID: 106126 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New Class & Lecture Meeting Templates
Class and Lecture Meeting Templates help Educators easily set-up highly secure meetings for their classes and lectures!
ID: 109578 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Search: Search & intelligence admin center, Search Usage Analytics, and Item Insights
This release includes a new section in the Microsoft 365 admin center called “Search & intelligence.” This section allows you to manage Microsoft Search features. This release also includes Search Usage Reports (find Usage Analytics on the Insights tab) and Item Insights (find Item Insights on the Configurations tab).
ID: 115484 Tags: Microsoft 365 – DoD Release: January CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
