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Text Predictions in Word for Windows helps users write more efficiently by predicting text quickly, timely and accurately.

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Excel: Natural Language Queries in Ideas

With Natural Language Queries, Ideas in Excel allows you to ask questions about your data, whether it is retrieving a specific fact or summarizing the data in your preferred way. For example you can ask ‘total number of products’, ‘top 10 products by sales’, or even more complicated questions like ‘what percentage of products have sales higher than 2000 in 2018?’

ID: 60775 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management analytics

The Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution will now provide aggregated and anonymized analytics to help identify potential insider risk activity within the organization.

ID: 70633    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: Page Analytics

View rich page analytics on SharePoint Pages, including page views, page viewers and page traffic.

ID: 70635 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: OneDrive for Business location picker supports security groups and distribution lists.

Data loss prevention (DLP) for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker, enabling more granular control of DLP policy scope (i.e. to include/exclude particular departments, business units, geo-specific security groups, etc.)

ID: 70708 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Visio for the Web: Organization Charts

Build your organization charts in Visio for the Web.

ID: 78150 Tags: Visio – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Word: Dictation in Word for the Web now available for GCC and GCC-High Tenants

Dictation is now available for those in government GCC and GCC-High Tenants.

ID: 79599 Tags: Word –  Release: February CY2021

Outlook and Word: Dictation in Desktop and Mac now available for GCC and GCC-High Tenants

Dictation is now available in Outlook and Word for both Desktop and Mac in GCC and GCC-High Tenants.

ID: 79600 Tags: Outlook, Word – Release: February CY2021

Word: Dictation in Word for iOS and Word for Android now available for GCC and GCC-High Tenants

Dictation is now available in Word for Android and Word for iOS in GCC and GCC-High Tenants.

ID: 79606 Tags: Word – Release: February CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Improvements to Service Health Dashboard and Incident Communications

Microsoft is updating the Service Health dashboard to make it quicker and easier to find out about active issues of the services. Incidents and advisories will be now be displayed directly on the landing page of the Service Health dashboard. For high impacting incidents we will continue to provide the regular updates but now in addition to those Microsoft will also provide smaller and more frequent updates intermixed with the regular updates labeled as quick updates in the details panel.

ID: 80175  Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Word for Windows: Text Predictions

Text Predictions in Word for Windows helps users write more efficiently by predicting text quickly, timely and accurately.

ID: 80179 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Planner: More labels for GCC-High and DoD

Add up to 25 labels to your tasks in Planner

ID: 80456 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Planner – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience

Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation.

ID: 51230  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Outlook for Windows: Text Predictions

Outlook will provide you with suggested ways to complete the text in your email messages. Just tab to accept and finish emails faster, with less typing.

ID: 60340 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Android: Text predictions

Outlook will help speed up writing and replying to emails by predicting text to complete sentences. By swiping you can choose to use the suggested text or just keep typing to ignore.

ID: 67028 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: History Menu

The History Menu for Teams desktop clients displays your recently visited locations when hovering over the backward and forward navigation options. Using the menu you can quickly jump back to previous locations, making it much easier to quickly get back to nested locations like tabs or documents. The menu is also accessible via keyboard shortcut.

ID: 70545   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Add taxonomy columns from modern library views

Allows users to add taxonomy columns directly to library views in modern SharePoint and Syntex libraries

ID: 70609   Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

SharePoint: Image Lightbox

This feature lets users click on an image web part while in view mode to see a larger version of the image.

ID: 70669   Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Word: Better collaboration with modern comments for Mac

Share your comments with co-authors only once they’re complete, enjoy improved @mention notifications, and be more productive with a consistent commenting experience between Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

ID: 76166   Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Word: Better collaboration with modern comments

Share your comments with co-authors only once they’re complete, enjoy improved @mention notifications, and be more productive with a consistent commenting experience between Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

ID: 76186 Tags: Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Forms: Specific User Sharing for Response Collection

Microsoft Forms owners will now be able to send out a survey to collect responses from specific users or security groups. (You now have the new option in the “Send to Collect Responses” dropdown menu to select that “Specific people in my organization can respond.”

ID: 79246  Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Launched

SharePoint: Information barriers

Not only in governance, we are also evolving our Compliance controls for highly regulated verticals like Finance, Healthcare, etc., FINRA like compliance regulations for finance vertical require controls in place to avoid insider trading between different department users in the organization. You can now achieve these advanced regulations with Information barriers in SharePoint and OneDrive. Sign up if you are interested in joining any of the above security private previews: https://aka.ms/SecurityPreviews.

ID: 57313  Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020

Windows Virtual Desktop: choose the EU geography to store the Windows Virtual Desktop service metadata

Windows Virtual Desktop allows customers to pick the region best-suited to them to deploy their VMs. They should also get the choice of storing the service metadata in the geography best suited for their needs.

ID: 59889  Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to reserving a conference room.

ID: 61101   Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Outlook for iOS: Block unmanaged data in emails and calendar events

Support for the Microsoft Intune app protection policy that blocks file attachments and switching from personal to work accounts in new emails or calendar events with attachments from unmanaged apps.

ID: 61130   Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: June CY2020

Outlook for Android: Block unmanaged data in emails and calendar events

Support for the Microsoft Intune app protection policy that blocks file attachments and switching from personal to work accounts in new emails or calendar events with attachments from unmanaged apps.

ID: 61131 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: June CY2020

Information Governance: New retention engine for SPO

New retention engine for SharePoint Online, which addresses the challenges with large tenants or tenant that must process large volume of data. Will also enhance reliability and SLAs for retention.

ID: 63061   Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft Lists: comments – built on SharePoint

Add/delete a comment on list items to collaborate and share insights on individual items.

ID: 64169 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support data configuration

Exact Data Match will support data configuration, allowing text case and character delimiters to optionally be ignored, helping reduce the need for manually defining minor variations in the hashed and uploaded data being protected

ID: 65880   Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Android: Book a physical workspace

You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in a way similar to reserving a conference room.

ID: 66513 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

Microsoft To Do: WebApp available to GCC

Microsoft To Do WebApp will become available for GCC Moderate Customers.

ID: 67144   Tags: Microsoft To Do – GCC Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Project: Deploy Project for the web in multiple environments

Organizations have more flexibility in how they deploy Project. In addition to using Project in the Default environment, you can now use it in multiple environments.

ID: 67156 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

 

 

MyAnalytics: More granular control to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features

Two new PowerShell cmdlets to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features: Get-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig and Set-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig. These new cmdlets will provide more granular control over Privacy Mode and enablement of particular features,

ID: 67167 Tags: MyAnalytics – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics for GCC

Data classification capabilities in Microsoft 365 compliance center help you get a holistic understanding of the sensitive data in your digital estate and related user activities. Overview shows you the locations of your digital content and most common sensitive information types and labels present. Content Explorer provides visibility into amount and types of sensitive data, and allows you to filter by label or sensitivity type to get a detailed view of locations where the sensitive data is stored. Activity Explorer shows activities related to your sensitive data and labels, such as label downgrades or external sharing that could expose your content to risk.

ID: 68709 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Survivable Branch Appliance

Survivable Branch Appliances (SBAs) are designed to ensure access to data and voice services in the event of a WAN outage. Microsoft is working with partners to provide this capability.

ID: 68772 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Upgraded data classification confidence levels

We are upgrading the confidence levels (match accuracy) from a numerical scale of 1 to 100 to three distinct levels: high, medium, and low. Each level reflects how much supporting evidence is detected along with primary element. A high confidence level looks for the most supporting elements and has the fewest false positives but the most false negatives, while a low confidence level has most false positives but fewest false negatives. All existing polices will automatically be migrated to these upgraded confidence levels.

ID: 68915 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Copy and edit built-in info types and other improvements

Delivering on a common request, you can now copy built-in sensitive info types and edit the copied versions to fine-tune them to for your organization. Also, when creating a custom info type, you’ll notice an improved user interface and new capabilities. Highlights include the ability to use validators (like a Luhn check) for regular expressions and additional checks to help refine detection, including options for excluding text, defining starting and ending characters, and more.

ID: 68916   Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: M365 informed network routing – SD-WAN integration

Informed network routing is a feature that integrates various Microsoft 365 applications with third party software defined network (SD-WAN) solutions in order to optimize and improve your network connectivity to Microsoft service endpoints. Optimized SD-WAN connectivity may result in improved user experiences and performance.

ID: 70549 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Yammer Cross-geo external collaboration support on External Networks for the EU

With this release, guests from Yammer networks associated located in the  European Union, can be invited to Yammer External Networks hosted by a Yammer network located in the United States.

ID: 76676 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Retention policies for Yammer

{This is a duplicate of 70581 and will be removed} Expand support for Yammer messages.

ID: 63064  Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Windows: Make all meetings online by default

Item is being removed as a duplicate of 66021. Turn on the option to make every meeting an online meeting by default when the event is created in Outlook for Windows.

ID: 71010  Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: February CY2021