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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal has an update launching that will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell and Export-ContentExplorerData to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Be on the lookout for this update coming in March 2023.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Universal Print: Information to help troubleshoot print failures
Universal Print wants to eliminate most print failures automatically. For failures that cannot be eliminated completely, we want to make it more informative for admins to troubleshoot the issue. As a first step, the printer’s jobs page will be enhanced by adding more information about the job like size of the print payload, document name, time taken at each step, error code for failed jobs with links to corresponding help page.
ID: 93402 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management (iOS)
A light weight VPN solution for secure access to premises resources from iOS mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.
ID: 106108 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft 365: Microsoft Feed
Microsoft Feed provides you with a mix of relevant content from across Microsoft 365 that helps you discover and learn about people and interests relevant at work. The feed is personal to you, and you will only see documents or other content that is explicitly shared with you, or that you have access to.
ID: 106124 Tags: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management
Allows administrators to elevate end-user permissions to perform approved administrative actions only when needed on their desktop computers.
ID: 109491 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements
Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more.
ID: 109533 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Multiple managed accounts
Allows people to use a single device with multiple company accounts to access company information through specific managed applications.
ID: 109560 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023
Outlook: Working hours and location
New working hours and location options in Outlook lets people set more flexible working hours each day and specify the location from where they plan to work.
ID: 114511 Tags: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Goals Bulk OKR Import
Viva Goals allows bulk importing of Objectives, Key Results and Projects using a standard Excel template. Bulk import allows you to take pre-existing lists of OKRs and Projects and quickly add them to Viva Goals.
ID: 115477 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Assign a sublabel as the default when a parent label is selected in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
When using built-in sensitivity labels in M365 Apps, admins can specify a sublabel to get applied automatically when a parent label is selected. This takes effect only when users select a parent label manually.
ID: 115481 Tags: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: New Active Users Graph API Set Releasing for User Detail, User Counts, and Services User Counts for Usage Reports in GCC High/DoD
We are adding a new Graph API set in Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports for active users to get user detail, user counts, and services user counts.
ID: 115486 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Grading Categories in Teams Assignments
Teams Assignments is adding grading categories, which will allow users to define categories of assignments with associated weights that will be used to calculate grades. Average grades will be calculated by multiplying the average grade for each category by its associated weight. This will allow users to give different levels of importance to different types of assignments.
ID: 115513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Windows 365: Windows 365 Frontline
A Windows 365 offering designed for organizations to provide Cloud PCs for shift workers or part time workers that only need a Cloud PC for a limited amount of time each day or week.
ID: 117348 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Windows 365: Utilization insight reports
Cloud PC performance low utilization report will surface all Cloud PCs that never had any user login.
ID: 117350 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2023
Windows 365: Windows 365 Azure Service Tag for network endpoint access
FQDN tags specifically for Windows 365 will be available to make it easier and simpler to grant access to required service endpoints through an Azure firewall.
ID: 117351 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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: 117352 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023
Windows 365: Custom Name template for Cloud PCs in Provisioning Policy
An Administrator will have the ability to associate a custom naming template as part of the provisioning policy.
ID: 117371 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2023
Windows 365: Web client enhancements
Enhancements for the Windows 365 web client to improve and optimize Cloud PC experiences for end-users running the environment in the browser.
ID: 117375 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
SharePoint: Improvements to the Image web part
Improvements to the Image web part include one consolidated toolbar for better navigation, and added capabilities to text overlay, such as text size and styling, text box color and opacity, and image overlay color and transparency.
ID: 117376 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023
SharePoint: Improvements to the Page authoring experience
We’re reducing clutter and creating an efficient canvas by moving the “add section” action to be inline and visible on hover, as well as surfacing the layout options in the web part toolbars.
ID: 117377 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023
SharePoint: Export Microsoft Lists as a dataset for Power BI Data Hub
Today, you can visualize a list as a report in Power BI, from within the list itself. Soon, it will be possible to export a dataset from Microsoft Lists for use in Power BI Data Hub. Once your list is in Power BI Data Hub, you can take advantage of its rich data visualization features to create powerful, custom reports based on your list data.
ID: 117379 Tags: Power BI, SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Windows 365: Downsizing a Cloud PC (Direct Assigned Licenses)
An administrator will have the ability to downsize a user’s Cloud PC, provided that the admin has licenses in inventory to perform the downgrade. Only available for direct assigned licenses. Downsizing is only supported for vCPU/RAM – not storage.
ID: 117380 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2023
Windows 365: Resize Cloud PCs for Group Based Licensing
An administrator will have the ability to resize Cloud PCs of users who are licensed via Group Based Licensing. Administrators will be able to resize multiple Cloud PCs at once. This will work for upgrades as well as downgrades.
ID: 117381 Tags: Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Connections for Android tablet
Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This release brings the experience of Viva connections to Android tablet, thus extending the set of devices you can access it on.
ID: 117388 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Search: Message vertical in Office.com now available in GCC and GCC-H
Looking for a message, but you can’t remember whether it was in Teams or Outlook? Search for it in Office.com or Bing for Work and then go to the Messages Tab. You’ll get both Teams and Outlook messages in the list of results. Now available in GCC and GCC-H.
ID: 117389 Tags: Microsoft Search, Microsoft 365 – GCC, GCC High Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Add to Favorites & navigate to Stream Start page in the Stream web app on SharePoint
You will now be able to favorite a video directly from the Stream web app. Additionally, there will be a new Home button in the Stream web app for easier navigation to the Stream start page in Microsoft 365 to get back to videos you favorited or videos recently shared with you.
ID: 117390 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023
Whiteboard: Connectors (Line Anchoring)
This feature will provide the ability to create more effective flowcharts and diagrams. It will allow you to anchor lines between different shapes, and easily create new shapes and lines off of existing ones.
ID: 117391 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2023
Whiteboard: Voting
This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.
ID: 117392 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023
Whiteboard: Existing Azure Board Migration
This feature will migrate boards that exist in your tenant’s Azure storage to OneDrive for Business storage. More information will follow as we near release.
ID: 117394 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Whiteboard: Import ADO/Jira work items
Import ADO/Jira work items onto whiteboards to collectively brainstorm & ideate with your colleagues. (Note: The initial release will only provide support for work/school accounts & will allow importing existing work items but neither updating them nor creating new ones).
ID: 117395 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023
Whiteboard: Create Loop tables and task lists
Insert new Loop tables & task lists directly into whiteboards & copy/paste them across other Microsoft 365 hosts to coauthor content with others in real-time.
ID: 117400 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Whiteboard: Start new whiteboards with templates
This feature will bring templates front and center when creating a new whiteboard. When starting a whiteboard, users will be able to choose from a selection of templates or explore all templates to pre-populate a new whiteboard. Users can also start from suggested templates from a blank whiteboard.
ID: 117401 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Enhanced security mode improvements
Enhanced security mode will support WebAssembly for macOS x64 and Linux x64. Additional cross-platform (ARM64) support is expected in the future.
ID: 117402 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when a screen was shared
We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when a screen was shared in the meeting. The markers help you see who shared the screen at which moment, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.
ID: 117418 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Bot support for building Viva Connections Cards
developer can leverage the power of Microsoft bot framework to build cards for Viva Connections.
ID: 117419 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Administration in Microsoft Admin Center
Centralized IT administration of Viva Connections experiences along with home sites within the Microsoft Viva admin experience in M365 admin center.
ID: 117421 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023
OneDrive: New Shared Experience
We are updating the Shared experience in OneDrive for web which can be found in the left nav pane. The new experience will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage the new filtering pills to quickly find shared files.
ID: 117426 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Outlook: Disallow Reactions on an email
We are developing a suite of improvements that support the Reactions in Outlook feature, including methods for a sender to disallow reactions on an email they are about to send, or methods for an admin to control which emails in their tenancy should disallow reactions.
ID: 117433 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Flows packaged into custom list templates
Expand your organizational list templates by packaging Power Automate flows into them.
ID: 117436 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Custom Topic Types for Viva Topics
Knowledge Managers can define and edit custom topic types that can offer important context on the nature of the topic entity.
ID: 117437 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Visio: Right-click menu for text formatting options in Visio for the web
Visio for the web users will be able to quickly access text formatting options from the new floating menu that appears after selecting and right clicking on text in their diagram. Formatting options include changing the font, growing and shrinking the font size, changing the font color, aligning text, and changing the font style—bold, italic, or underlined. Users will also be able to cut, copy, and paste the selected text using the new menu options.
ID: 117442 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Notifications in Teams activity feed in Viva Goals
User can now receive notifications for Viva Goals check-in reminder, mentions, and repliesto your comments within your Teams activity feed.
ID: 117445 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Share Viva Goals OKRs directly to teams chats/channels
Users can now copy and paste links to OKRs in Teams chats and channels, and the links will automatically be replaced to display a card with OKR details.
ID: 117448 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Dashboard Enhancements
Expand Viva Goals OKRs within a dashboard widget and compare progress.
ID: 117451 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Verified Topic badges
Users can now mark published topics as verified and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors.
ID: 118239 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Topic Activities on topic experiences
Viva Topics helps you stay updated on topics of interest by bringing AI and human activities on the topics including topic updates, conversations and more to experiences across M365.
ID: 118241 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Variable playback speed support (0.5 – 2x) for all video on OneDrive & SharePoint
This feature allows users to control the playback speed of videos stored OneDrive & SharePoint. Users will be able to slow down or speed up the playback (0.5x -2x) while watching the video. Note: Teams meeting recordings already have this functionality, we are now adding it to all other videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint.
ID: 99914 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint): View video analytics in playback experience
This feature will allow users to view analytics for videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint for which they have view permissions. The analytics are shown as an overlay during video playback and can be toggled on or off by selecting the ‘Analytics’ side pane. Users will be able to see stats showing the number of views and viewers for the last 90 days along with viewership retention which indicate the parts of the video that are most and least viewed.
ID: 99938 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Presenter window usability improvements in screen sharing
With the new Presenter window, controls are located at the top, making active speakers’ faces clearly visible during screen sharing, and raise hand notifications are surfaced for improved awareness.
ID: 100392 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Parent Teacher Meeting
Enable teachers to schedule virtual meetings with parents/guardians of students through Teams.
ID: 100951 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Actionable Missed call Notification in Activity
Users will have the option to call back on a missed call directly from their activity feed.
ID: 102236 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Update Readiness Reports
App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.
ID: 103614 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Engage Premium Analytics
New advanced personal, community, and leader analytics to better understand engagement, reach, insights, and sentiment in communities and storyline posts in Viva Engage.
ID: 109574 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Accelerate onboarding with step-by-step guidance
This feature will provide step-by-step guidance on how to properly configure, triage, and remediate policies, highlighting tasks that are heavily leveraged by a user’s role group.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: 88919 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Sanctioned and unsanctioned site groups for different sensitive files
With this capability you will be able to create groups of service domains and manage restrictions for the groups within the DLP policy. As an example, you will be able to allow ‘upload’ of sensitive data only to corporate SharePoint sites and block elsewhere.
ID: 98139 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized USB devices
With this capability, you can create groups of USB devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups of USB devices based on serial numbers and allow ‘copy’ of documents to certain groups of USB devices and block ‘copy’ for others.
ID: 98140 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized network share paths
With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
ID: 98141 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Network location as a condition in DLP policy
With this capability you will be able to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal Wi-Fi but not on Corporate Wi-Fi on VPN.
ID: 98142 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized printer groups
With this capability, you can create groups of printer devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups and allow the “Print” activity to certain groups of printers and block “Print” for others.
ID: 98156 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: [Android] Shared Device Mode for Front Line Workers (via OneAuth)
Frontline workers such as retail associates, flight crew members, and field service workers often use a shared mobile device to do their work. That becomes problematic when they start sharing passwords or pin numbers to access customer and business data on the shared device. Shared device mode allows you to configure an Android device so that it can be easily shared by multiple employees. Employees can sign in and access customer information quickly. When they’re finished with their shift or task, they can sign out of the device and it will be immediately ready for the next employee to use. Shared device mode also provides Microsoft identity backed management of the device.
ID: 107506 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer
The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.
ID: 115472 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Praise highlights in profile card in Teams and Outlook
[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] With updates coming in February, praises received will be highlighted on a user’s profile card in Teams and Outlook. There are user settings available that prevent praise highlights from being visible on their profile card.
ID: 109551 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Outlook: Attestation add-in
[This item is postponed indefinitely.] Attestation add-in in Outlook will enable operational communicators, area managers, store managers and FLM to better track, manage and follow up on broad communication.
ID: 109555 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
