Play of the Week

Microsoft Forms first-run experiences will provide users with better adoption and use when creating their desired form. The new update will teach users how to use Forms to its fullest capacity by providing several business scenarios and pre-populated grab-and-go solutions templates to try.

In Development

Excel: Queries Task Pane

The Queries Task Pane will allow to view the queries and query groups in the workbook and related details.

ID: 79308 Tags: Excel – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Power BI: Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365

The Emissions Impact Dashboard for Microsoft 365 is a Power BI template app that allows Microsoft 365 admins to view the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their organization’s usage of Microsoft 365 applications. The dashboard is available in preview and includes emissions associated with Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams.

ID: 82196 Tags: Power BI – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Excel: Refresh Power Query data from the current workbook

You can refresh Power Query queries that their data was imported from the current workbook.

ID: 83863 Tags: Excel – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Visits usage report in Teams Admin Center

The Virtual Visits usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center gives you an overview of Teams Virtual Visits activity in your organization for Global Admins and Teams Admin. Customer can view detailed activity for virtual appointments scheduled through the Bookings app and the Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Records (EHR) connector.

ID: 88792 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Visio: Visio web app in Microsoft 365 for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD

This release extends the availability of the Visio web app in Microsoft 365 to GCC, GCC-High, DoD, and other sovereign clouds. To help make diagramming more accessible, we’ve brought core Visio capabilities to Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers, enabling anyone to create, edit, share, and coauthor professional diagrams with team members across the organization.

ID: 88925 Tags: Visio – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlining the submissions experience in Microsoft Defender for Office 365

We are updating the submissions experience to allow you to submit emails, URLs, and email attachments from one easy to use location.

ID: 88929 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection

Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match and named entities, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage.

ID: 88935 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers

Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer.

ID: 88937 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Office app: Add apps and use them inside Office.com and Office app for Windows

Apps built for Teams can run in Office.com and Office app for Windows. Users will be able to acquire and use these updated Teams apps (with personal tabs) without leaving Office.com and Office app for Windows.

ID: 88942 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft 365 Admin center: Office cloud policy service for Government cloud

The Office cloud policy service lets you enforce policy settings for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on a user’s device, even if the device isn’t domain joined or otherwise managed.

ID: 88944 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Forms: Portal Page Experience Improvement

Microsoft Forms will not only surface it portal page on office hub, but we will also reroute partial traffic to forms.office.com and forms.microsoft.com. Then user will be able to find Collection on the portal page with some other minor improvements.

ID: 88945 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Forms: Enable templates for commercial users

Microsoft Forms will not only surface it portal page on office hub, but we will also reroute partial traffic to forms.office.com and forms.microsoft.com. Then user will be able to find Collection on the portal page with some other minor improvements. All Forms users could easily find and explore high quality 1st party templates on portal page through different business categories like build better events, grow product success, improve employee satisfaction, digitalize business process and create engaging learning environment (for EDU).

ID: 88946 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Forms: Brand new first-run experiences for Forms new users

For those new-to-forms users, we will help them understand through branded new first-touch experience about Forms capability, where they can use Forms and how. Users can navigate through the Forms templates categories through several selected business scenarios and pre-populated grab-and-go solutions.

ID: 88947 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

SharePoint: Enable Content types from modern library views

If you have SharePoint site collection administrator access, you can enable management of content types directly in your library from modern SharePoint and Syntex libraries and lists.

ID: 88948 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Site owners manage app requests in SharePoint Store

Site owners can manage requests for store apps in a streamlined process and track the status in a modern view of My requests page under SharePoint Apps.

ID: 88950 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Software updates page (Windows)

The Windows tab in the Software Updates page will provide admins with a high-level update status for all devices in the organization.

ID: 88951 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Refinement rules for document understanding extractor models

New refinement option to edit model extracted values before saving to the library column.

ID: 88952 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

OneDrive: Sync Activity Center Visual Update

The Activity Center has received a visual update to more align with the Fluent Design language. This visual update applies a modern look to the Activity Center.

ID: 88954 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Top news card on Viva Connections Dashboard

Set up Top news card in Viva Connections Dashboard to surface boosted news from SharePoint. News that has been boosted will prominently display in the Top news card.

ID: 88955 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Enroll in Focus plan from the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams

Viva Insights is introducing updates to better enable users to protect time for focus from the Viva Insights Teams app. These updates to the protect time page will allow users to enroll in a focus plan and adjust preferences to auto book focus time on one’s calendar from within the Insights app in Teams. Users enrolled in a focus plan will also see insights about their progress towards their focus time goals.

ID: 88957 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Outlook: Room Finder during meeting bookings for Android

Need to book a space? Outlook Mobile is here to make your transition to hybrid work easier. Search and book conference rooms when you need to collaborate with colleagues or book a workspace when you need some focus time.

ID: 90740 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Outlook: Room Finder during Meeting Bookings for iOS

Need to book a space? Outlook Mobile is here to make your transition to hybrid work easier. Search and book conference rooms when you need to collaborate with colleagues or book a workspace when you need some focus time.

ID: 90741 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Disable or Enable all Attendees’ Video for DoD

Ability in DoD to disable and enable videos for all attendees before or during a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 91665 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Disable or Enable a Single Attendee’s Video for DoD

Ability to disable and enable a single attendee’s video in a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 91666 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Message action entry point for Workflows in Teams

Message based workflows are powerful for collaboration and efficiency. With message action based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the message action overflow menu.

ID: 92453 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Message extension entry point for Workflows in Teams

Chat/Channel/Teams based workflows are a powerful tool for collaboration and efficiency. With message extension based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the message extension menu.

ID: 92454 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Outlook: Support Cross Profile Calendar Data Sync

If you are an Android Work Profile user, this one’s for you! Through Connected Apps, you will be able to show your personal calendar events on your work profile calendar. Say goodbye to juggling your work and personal calendars in two separate apps and hello to easier scheduling management.

ID: 92463 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Background Blur for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365

Users on Teams on VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365 can blur their background in your video meeting and call.

ID: 92505 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Local time added to people profile

You can easily find out the local time of the people you collaborate with by checking their profile card.

ID: 54254 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

OneDrive: Sync client support for Apple Silicon

We will be updating OneDrive for Mac to be a universal app that will run natively on Macs with M1.

ID: 82035 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pin chat messages

Pin a Teams chat message to drive awareness and provide the chat members with quick access to important content. Pinning will help your team stay in sync on what’s relevant in a timely manner.

ID: 82584 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work from Home for Teams VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365

This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.

ID: 83555 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Outlook: View and navigate the organization chart

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles.

ID: 84785 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly for GCC

A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby.

ID: 86069 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – Citrix

This feature enables users on Virtual Machine to validate the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.

ID: 86810 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Admins can pin message extensions

Admins can manage the pin order of messaging extensions in the compose experience.

ID: 87506 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Chat density

Customize the number of chat messages you see on the screen. Use the compact setting to fit 50 percent more messages on the screen. Comfortable setting keeps the chat display as it is in Teams today.

ID: 88064 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: New Fluent Emoji style coming to Teams emojis and reactions

Teams is joining M365 and Windows in updating all emojis and reactions to the new Microsoft Fluent emoji style, bringing users a more vibrant and expressive emoji experience.

ID: 88277 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Yammer: Support for EU members to be invited to External Networks hosted in the US

Members from Yammer Networks hosted in the EU can be invited to and participate in Yammer External Networks hosted in the US.

ID: 88837 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Education policy wizard – Multiple group support

Admins can now add up-to three groups, instead of one previously, of educators and staff for applying the specialized custom set of policies.

ID: 90510 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Launched

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Adaptive retention policies

This update allows admins to create retention policies scoped to geography, department, or other user or site attribute. For example, admins can create a policy specifically for users in the UK’s human resources team by leveraging the adaptive policy scope.

ID: 70578 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Support Application screen sharing for Teams for VDI for Citrix

Citrix users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to share application during Teams meeting once the feature is available. This will help user to share an application instead of sharing a complete desktop screen.

ID: 83116 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Outlook: FindTime availability in GCC (Moderate)

FindTime will become available for customers in GCC.

ID: 85649 Tags: Outlook – GCC Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Search: Add custom filters on custom verticals

New support for custom filters on custom verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to add custom filters to custom verticals.

ID: 85658 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Graph: Confluence Cloud Graph Connector

Confluence Cloud Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence Cloud site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86516 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Enable third-party Teams app developers to test the in-product purchase experience within the Teams client

Third-party Teams app developers can now test the purchase experience of their Teams app directly from within the Teams client before making either app or offer available to the public.

ID: 87354 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Share specific parts of the App to meeting stage

We have introduced new API’s within the Teams Client SDK that will provide developers the ability to share specific content within their app to the meeting stage from the app side panel experience.

ID: 87799 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Group assignment of app setup policies

App setup policies allow apps to be pre-installed and pinned to the app bar by the admin. App setup policies can now be assigned to groups.

ID: 88304 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Prebuilt models for invoices and receipts

Analyze and extract structured information from sales invoices or receipts using prebuilt models.

ID: 88703 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Provide a document card view for applied Syntex document understanding models

A new library view setting to display extracted model information in a tile view.

ID: 88704 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – edX learning content

Career Coach will now feature edX content, an online course provider, within the learning experience.

ID: 89918 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Search: Semantic search

With intelligent, natural language search capabilities in Microsoft Search, you will experience improved search accuracy as the search engine can now understand intent and contextualize the meaning of the terms typed – leading to more relevant search results. This item is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished with an update in the future.

ID: 57063 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows in GCC-High

This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.

ID: 78700 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows for DoD

This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.

ID: 78701 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: January CY2022