Play of the Week

An AI-generated document summary can be included when sharing a Word Document with Copilot. The document summary is included in the share notification email sent to the recipient(s) giving them more context around the contents of the shared document. This feature is coming this month and is only enabled for customers with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and works only when sharing a Word for the web file.

In Development

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase

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. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. 2nd Note: The status and launch phase were incorrect and are now updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 156018 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Newsletters

Newsletters in Outlook enable customers to create, distribute, and track success for their internal email newsletters. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web.

ID: 328282 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows

Meeting Chat is now shown by default when joining a Teams meeting with Teams Rooms on Windows in Gallery View, making it easier to see incoming chat messages on the front of room display. IT Admins can configure the default chat experience for a room, and users can make in-meeting changes to show or hide the chat using the touch console.

ID: 332424 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: View, download and delete OneDrive transcript files in Teams

We are simplifying the storage and management of meeting transcript files by focusing transcript actions such as view, download, and delete to source from one place (OneDrive for Business) instead of two places (OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online).

ID: 365720 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.

ID: 370535 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings

Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned.

ID: 373655 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider Risk Management supports multicloud environments

Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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: 376698 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32.

ID: 376999 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only.

ID: 377000 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in Activity explorer

During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. 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: 377669 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud

Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. 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 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: 377674 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Simulation mode for DLP

With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated environment. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time.

ID: 377679 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: EML, MSG, and OFT File Support in the new Outlook for Windows

EML, MSG, and OFT files type support will enable users to open “*,eml”, “*.oft”, and “*.msg” files in the new Outlook by dragging-and-dropping them onto the reading pane, or by double-clicking on them, or by using the Open With menu option in File Explorer.

ID: 379606 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Privacy statement customization in Virtual Appointments

Admins can customize the privacy statement shown to attendees joining the appointment to address specific considerations and concerns for their online engagement. Admins can update the content for the privacy statement under the privacy profile in the Microsoft Admin Center.

ID: 379610 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: OneDrive – Share Word Documents with AI summary

Users can now opt to include an AI-generated document summary inside the share dialog when they share a Word document with other users. The document summary is included in the share notification email sent to the recipient(s) giving them more context around the contents of the shared document. This feature is only enabled for customers with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and works only when sharing a Word for the web file.

ID: 379972 Release: OneDrive, Word, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Drag to order list items

Easily organize your list by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team.

ID: 380183 Release: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

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

Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case.

ID: 380184 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Exchange: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management

We are Updating the experience for end user allow and block list management of their emails. With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted senders and prevent those emails from showing up in their default quarantine view anymore as well as in their Quarantine notifications. End users will also be able to allow emails from trusted senders and prevent future emails from those senders from landing in quarantine given there are no Admin overrides in place. End users will also have visibility into Admin overrides that led to a Quarantined email message if there is one.

ID: 380185 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlined False positive submission for Quarantined files from OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint

We are providing an easy and robust way for Admins and security operators to submit and temporary mitigate False positive files that have been Quarantined from the OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint workload.

ID: 380186 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Date and numeral standardization

All the dates that appear in Viva Learning will match the layout local to the user. This also applies to standardization of numerals.

ID: 380187 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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: 4K local HDMI content sharing quality for Teams Rooms on Android

Users can see HDMI content in 4K quality on Teams Rooms on Android devices that support 4K HDMI input, when they share content without joining a Teams meeting.

ID: 380667 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Android 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 mobile device 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. The feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization and user policies allow it.

ID: 380674 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.

ID: 380678 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Give feedback for Teams Rooms on Android

The Help button includes a Give feedback option that lets users share their opinions and ideas about Teams Rooms with Microsoft. We use this feedback to improve the Teams experience. IT admins can enable or disable this feature for users and manage feedback policies using PowerShell.

ID: 380683 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Home screen refresh for Teams Rooms on Android

The Teams Rooms on Android home screen matches the look and feel of Teams Rooms on Windows, enabling users to engage with a consistent Teams Rooms interface. The touch console features six action buttons and shows the room calendar on the right side of the home screen. A room tip appears at the bottom left corner of the front of room display for user education.

ID: 380687 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April 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

Microsoft Teams: 4K display UI scaling for Teams Rooms on Windows

4K-enabled displays, including front of room displays and touch boards, are natively supported on the Teams Rooms experience. Additional disclosure: 4K video is not supported.

ID: 380856 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: new Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows

The new Teams app is now supported on Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing all Teams Rooms devices to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video more reliably.

ID: 381157 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Live meeting status for mobile

Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.

ID: 98328 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium)

To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days. Note: We have updated the release phase and month to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 141108 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast

With "Share an Update," leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 148471 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

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: 165995 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Add a hyperlink or text callout to a video at specific times

Make your video interactive and more engaging by adding annotations that can include hyperlinks and text. Call out important moments or share documents and other links to additional resources. You can add text and links anywhere in the video timeline to help guide your viewers to the right information.

ID: 180795 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Catch Up Improvements on Web

Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.

ID: 184359 Release: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Browsed to generative AI websites indicator

With this update, we are adding a new indicator, “browsed to generative AI sites,” for the risky browser usage policy template, giving visibility into organizational usage of generative AI domains. User information is pseudonymized by default with strong privacy controls in place to protect end user trust. While visiting one of these AI domains may be authorized by an organization, this indicator is designed to help ensure they are correctly accounting for whether and how, these sites may be accessed in policies. 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: 186584 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January 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, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024

Outlook: Admin apps pinned by default in Mail Compose and Read

When an app is deployed in Integrated Apps (Get Apps & Upload Custom LOB apps) in the Microsoft Admin Center, it will be available in Outlook on the web in Read Message Actions and Compose Ribbon.

ID: 192236 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Viva Engage

Adding topics to posts in Viva Engage will default open for question post types and be aligned with new topic experiences as seen in Answers in Viva.

ID: 374596 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Launched

Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows.

ID: 167892 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

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: 181812 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.

ID: 375640 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Canceled