Play of the Week

Copilot is coming to Microsoft Forms. This new feature will be released this month (February), enabling users to create forms with ease and speed using natural language. Users will have the ability to preview and refine the form before publishing. This feature will be available to all customers.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Group chat profile picture

You will have a better way to reflect your team and group chat topic, with custom pictures. Group chat members can upload an image or use pre-selected illustrations and emojis, adding a layer of inclusivity and expression to their chat.

ID: 119305 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Limit Presenter Role Permissions

We are introducing a tenant configuration that admins can apply to limit user actions assigned to presenters in meetings. When enabled, presenters will no longer be able to control attendee mics and cameras, change the role of other participants, lower participants’ hands, and remove participants from the meeting. We want organizers to have control, flexibility, and structure in managing their meetings.

ID: 319398 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Inactive teams and inactive domains report export capability

Admins will be able to export the inactive teams and inactive domains reports to a csv file in Teams Admin Center.

ID: 341083 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot

Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile.

ID: 372895 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Copilot in Forms empowers you to create and customize forms with ease and speed

Copilot in Forms is a new feature that enables users to create forms and customize themes with ease and speed. With this feature, you can describe the form you need in natural language, and Copilot will generate a form based on your description. You can preview the form and refine it as needed. After that, you can get suggested themes to uplift your form that encourages more engagement from the audience.

ID: 375324 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams

New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only.

ID: 375418 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Stream Web App Recap Button

This feature allows a user to move from the Stream Web App to the equivalent meeting recording on Microsoft Teams (in the Recap tab). Watching the meeting in Microsoft Teams provides additional meeting information such as Speakers and Topics.

ID: 376845 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content

With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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: 380178 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone

You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel.

ID: 380852 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Clipchamp: Auto-captioning in Clipchamp

Clipchamp now enables making your videos accessible or easy to follow while muted. Easily generate real-time captions in just one click with the auto-captions feature. Using smart voice detection technology, our auto-captions generates captions and a downloadable SRT file for you, with no typing required. The transcript also creates an index of timestamps to help you navigate and edit your video faster. You can correct the captions if there are any mistakes using the captions panel easily.

ID: 381128 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Import schedule improvements in Shifts app

Frontline managers importing a schedule from Excel into Shifts will be capable of viewing the import history of their teams. This allows them to monitor the status and outcome of their import at anytime.

ID: 381129 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: User reported events in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management

When an end user reports an issue from a Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 381430 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Minecraft Education: Minecraft Education Summer Release

The next major update for Minecraft Education will include support for preview applications which can be installed side-by-side with the main Minecraft Education application. This update will add OneDrive-based cloud world storage for backup of worlds. It will also include the major features from Minecraft 1.21 such as trial chambers, breezes, and armadillos. More features will be announced soon!

ID: 381449 Release: Minecraft Education – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements to available metadata for search and collection queries

Now eDiscovery admins can use additional metadata to search and collect content within their organization. The additional metadata that will be added for support will include message ID, sensitivity label and more to help enable additional flexibility of search for specific scenarios to enable specific outcomes related to investigations.

ID: 381452 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows using Teams mobile

Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their native mobile camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. This feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization settings and user policies allow it.

ID: 381460 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: Aggregated Reactions Count in Message List in new Outlook for Windows and web

We will be showing the count of Reactions aggregated across all items in the conversation in the Message List. This new feature will be available on Outlook on the web and the New Outlook for Windows.

ID: 381463 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Expand investigation pane to full screen for Data Loss Preventions alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender

The investigation experience is now improved with a key usability feature to expand the investigation pane to full screen while reviewing the details of a Data Loss Prevention incident or alert in Microsoft 365 Defender.

ID: 381751 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

OneDrive: Updates to file viewer

The OneDrive file viewer offers a quick and easy way to view your files in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, across all your devices. OneDrive is enhancing the user interface and design of the file viewer to make it more useful and intuitive. We are adding a new toolbar, new panes, and collaboration features. Additionally, the file viewer will open files up to 50% faster once these updates launch.

ID: 381752 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams.

ID: 381758 Release: Visio – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: URL changes to Viva Insights on the web and Viva Insights analyst workbench

The URL for Viva Insights on the web and Viva Insights analyst workbench will be updated as part of a broader effort across Microsoft to transition to a unified domain. The updated URLs are as follows: Viva Insights on the web will be https://insights.cloud.microsoft, and Viva Insights analyst workbench will be https://analysis.insights.cloud.microsoft. Previous URLs will redirect accordingly.

ID: 381759 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path.

ID: 381760 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars

IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars.

ID: 381950 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL

We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing

ID: 381953 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024

OneDrive: Media node in OneDrive for Web

We’re adding a Media node to the left nav of OneDrive for Web which will allow commercial customers to easily find all the photo and video content stored in their OneDrive in a single view.

ID: 382105 Release: OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature

SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage.

ID: 382128 Release: SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

SharePoint: Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration with SharePoint eSignature

SharePoint users who are also Adobe Acrobat sign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by Adobe and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage.

ID: 382129 Release: SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Project: Assigned to Me view for Project tasks

View and update (i.e. mark as complete and progress) all the tasks assigned to you across projects in one place, with the Assigned to Me view. This view appears in the app of the user’s choice—Microsoft Planner, Tasks app in Teams, or Microsoft To Do.

ID: 382207 Release: Microsoft To Do, Planner, Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies

Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use.

ID: 382607 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Cross policy remediation actions for enhanced remediation experience

Communication Compliance introduces the ability for an investigator to resolve every instance of a message across all policies with one Resolve action. Customers with several active policies may see the same message captured as a policy match in more than 1 policy: Instead of an investigator Resolving the same message multiple times, Cross Policy Remediation allows investigators to resolve every instance of that message at once.

ID: 382608 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Extension requests and feedback

The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins and end users with an enhanced extensions management experience. End users can request access to blocked extensions, and admins can view these requests in the Microsoft Edge management service. Admins can also optionally choose to receive email notifications for these requests to inform them promptly of any new feedback.

ID: 382635 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Automatic profile switching controls for Microsoft Edge for Business

The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins with the ability to configure settings for automatic profile switching in the Microsoft Edge browser. This can help enforce context separation between their end users’ work and personal browsing.

ID: 382636 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: External domain activity report export capability

Export the ‘External domain activity’ report to a csv file in Teams Admin Center.

ID: 382642 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Developers can now build Microsoft Teams apps with Outlook add-ins as extension element

Developers can now build and publish Teams apps with Outlook add-ins for use by their customers. Users can acquire these Teams apps with Outlook add-in for themselves via Outlook on the web, new Outlook for Windows, and classic Outlook for Windows clients. Admins can deploy to users from Integrated Apps in Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

ID: 382657 Release: Outlook, Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Data residency commitments

New commitments covering stored content of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added to existing data residency commitments for Microsoft 365. The commitments will be available for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers through Microsoft Product Terms and data residency product offerings, including the Advanced Data Residency (“ADR”) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons.

ID: 382931 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Customize organization branding in Edge for Business

Admins can customize their organization’s branding assets onto Edge for Business. Admins can enable and configure branding onto profile-related UI for profiles signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) account. You can configure your organization’s details such as name to the profile pill; name, logo, 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. The Microsoft Edge management service will give admins an enhanced experience to control, preview, and customize assets. Admins can control organization branding through the following policies: OrganizationColor, OrganizationLogo, OrganizationLogoOnAppIcon, OrganizationName.

ID: 383013 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Right preview pane in the single line view aka column layout

Adding support to show the reading pane in the right when user selects column view.

ID: 383015 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Search tasks using Microsoft To Do

Search across your tasks lists using the Microsoft To Do module in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows.

ID: 383016 Release: Outlook, Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management.

ID: 383017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard for Watermark meeting (Premium)

Watermark enabled Microsoft Teams meetings will now support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard to also be watermarked.

ID: 100066 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Advanced Analytics

Data science and AI powered automation, recommendations and insights enable IT to proactively improve user experiences based on endpoint health and performance.

ID: 109536 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements

IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users.

ID: 119789 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time-zone

When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.

ID: 123963 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Enterprise Application Management

Enterprise app management enables you to easily discover and deploy prepackaged apps and keep them updated with a securely hosted enterprise catalog. Note: We have updated the release phase to show the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.

ID: 124866 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage

Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We have updated the release phase to the reflect current state. Additionally, this began rolling out to GA in December 2023 and did not release to Preview. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 144596 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device

Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant.

ID: 178013 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Online Archive for Shared Mailboxes

Add Online Archive for Shared Mailboxes in Outlook for Mac.

ID: 178350 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement

With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.

ID: 181615 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting “Recording & Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript.  For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.

ID: 181918 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Support for Exchange On-Premises Servers

Outlook for Mac will support accounts for Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers.

ID: 182252 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments

Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers.

ID: 184497 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Global Address List updates in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

We are making some adjustments to the GAL search and browse experiences. Users will be asked to type in more characters to refine their search in some cases. There will be some other visual improvements in error messaging. Another way to find recipients is by using the suggestion dropdown picker in the To/Cc/Bcc lines. Note: We have updated the status and release date to reflect the current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 185475 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Coaching by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows

Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message.

ID: 190927 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Hide general channel

Alike other channels, now you will be able to hide general channels in your teams, helping you focus on the channels that matter most to you.

ID: 324840 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links

Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.

ID: 325325 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: OneDrive for Business Opens in-app for Outlook on the web

Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Previously, the OneDrive button in Outlook opened a new tab for OneDrive; with this change, you will see OneDrive inline for a consistent and fast experience.

ID: 369520 Release: Outlook, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for Webinars

The meeting options for a webinar are now accessible within the webinar setup in Teams. Organizers can edit meeting options in an inline window within the scheduling form in Teams.

ID: 373420 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February 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: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service

Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service

ID: 375694 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Registration Form Updates in Webinars

Organizers can rearrange the sequence of registration form questions that are presented to attendees during the webinar registration process. The questions available for reordering include address, city, state, zip/post code, country/region, job title organization, industry, and custom questions.

ID: 376970 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Filter Calendar Items in Message List in new Outlook for Windows and web

You can now filter your message list for conversations that have calendar invites when using the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Getting an overview of new meetings you’re invited to and RSVP-ing to them directly in the message list becomes much easier with this new filter.

ID: 379615 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: New search UI for contacts and global address list

A new in-flow experience for searching contacts and the global address list while addressing mail and calendar events.

ID: 380188 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for town halls

The meeting options for a town hall are now accessible within the town hall setup in Teams. Organizers can edit meeting options in an inline window within the scheduling form in Teams.

ID: 380744 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Gain context around ML model policy matches

Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting.This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88917 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Gain context around ML model policy matches (U.S. Government clouds)

Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93196 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification (U.S. Government clouds)

Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact match data. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 146728 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Outlook: Stream videos can now be watched inline in Outlook

We’re introducing the ability to watch Stream videos inline in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. Soon, if someone pastes a Stream video link in a supported Outlook app and sends it to you, you will be able to watch it directly in your inbox. The videos will play inline for recipients within the same organization, meaning you will not have to leave Outlook to watch the video. Recipients outside the organization, and those not using the new Outlook or web, will see a link to the video which they can watch in the Stream web app (depending on the organization’s file sharing settings).

ID: 185389 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Canceled