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Microsoft Teams’ new feature will minimize the feedback loop when multiple people join a meeting in the same room. Teams Ultrasound Howling Detection feature will automatically mute the microphone and speaker of the person who joined the meeting after another user joined with their audio on. Check out this update and more in this week’s roadmap.

In Development

Excel: Automatically hide the ribbon in Excel for the Web

Users can now set the ribbon to automatically hide to focus on the content and the grid, expand and access the ribbon whenever required. The ribbon mode can be set from the ribbon switcher control on the bottom right of the ribbon.

ID: 89545 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound Howling Detection

When multiple people join a meeting in the same room then a feedback loop is created which causes echo and in most cases the echo quickly escalates to howling (like when a musician holds the mic too close to a loudspeaker). If multiple users on laptops join from the same location, we share with the user that another Teams Device is detected in the vicinity and is already joined with audio to the current meeting. We will automatically mute the mic and speakers of the person who has joined post a user who has joined with audio on.

ID: 92391 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Autosuggest location for Emergency location

Easily set your emergency location on Teams with location recommendations.

ID: 94692 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation

Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation will be tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.

ID: 98394 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: [iOS] Text predictions in Quick Reply

Text predictions will be available in the quick reply experience as they have already been in full compose.

ID: 100694 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Outlook: Enterprise warning dialog

Now there is clearer messaging and cleanup options when you run out of email storage.

ID: 100695 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Certificate based authentication support for eDiscovery PowerShell cmdlets

Official support for eDiscovery PowerShell cmdlet with certificate-based authentication (CBA).

ID: 106112 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings

Teams now supports an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

ID: 107781 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions Usability Improvement

The new Caption Settings pane allows for better discovery and easier navigation. Users have the ability to customize the size and color of their font as well as the height and position of the caption window with the option to scroll to review captions of what has been said, up to one minute ago.

ID: 107782 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Surface existing non-Microsoft DLP policies with the migration assistant

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention migration assistant helps you transfer your non-Microsoft existing DLP policies to the Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort. This tool will automatically detect your policy configurations and create equivalent policies in the Microsoft Purview DLP environment. The v1 of the tool supports conversion of Symantec DLP policies only.

ID: 109571 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when your name was mentioned

We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when your name was mentioned during the meeting. The markers are personalized, so that only you will see when your name was mentioned. The markers help you see who mentioned your name and in which context, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers enrolled in Microsoft Teams Premium preview or customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.

ID: 109580 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft 365 Defender: Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers continuous discovery, intelligent risk-based prioritization, and built-in remediation to help security and IT teams prioritize and address critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Add-On is available for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers.

ID: 109581 Tags: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips in government cloud

Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.

ID: 114155 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay

You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.

ID: 114306 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set grouping usability enhancements

This feature aims to improve the user experience for reviewing and grouping related items in the eDiscovery (Premium) review sets. It includes a new interface for grouping family items for emails, documents, conversations, and attachments. It also includes a new interface for reviewing duplicates and related items together on a single page.

ID: 115470 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 App: Customize App Bar

This feature enables users to pin and unpin apps to the App Bar on the side of the Microsoft 365 Web and Desktop App.

ID: 115487 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Search: Connected content will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Search mainline search results

Connected content will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Search mainline search results. This means, the results are shown next to Files, Sites, News, OneDrive for Business and other Microsoft content in the search results. Users can then use pagination to browse through the results, including connected content, or use the LastModified- and FileType-filters to refine their search for connected content. Admins can decide how (interleaved, or Result Cluster) and which connected content will appear in the All-tab. There will be no need any more to map a connection to a custom vertical.

ID: 115489 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Deduplication of signals

A single user activity could generate duplicate signals used to identify insider risks, creating noisy alerts. With this update, signals will be de-duplicated, reducing noise in alerts without losing risk context. 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: 115492 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection

Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day”. With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared to their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster. 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: 115493 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File type exclusion in email attachments

Admins can configure file type exclusions from Insider Risk Management policies, though by default these exclusions do not apply to email attachments. With this update, the file type exclusion will extend to email attachments to help reduce noisy signals. 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: 115494 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites

Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115495 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation

Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a security incident. 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: 115496 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improved alert filtering

The update offers analysts and investigators the ability to filter out any activity that was already reviewed in a past alert for a user so they can focus their review on new activities that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115497 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Visualization of cumulative exfiltration trends

When investigating an alert, admins can leverage the activity scatter plot to visualize a historical timeline of activity types, risk scores, and the sequence of events. To help organizations better visualize the growth of exfiltration over time, this new trend chart will show a user’s cumulative data exfiltration activity as it relates to other key signals like resignation date. 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: 115498 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion

Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to reduce noisy signals. 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: 115499 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams

Profile cards in Microsoft Teams will now surface insights and information such as birthdays, career changes, or pending meeting invites.

ID: 116006 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: RTMP-In for Teams Live Events

Produce your Teams Live Events using an external encoder and leverage RTMP-in to broadcast to your Teams Live Event Attendees.

ID: 84960 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Detect sensitive files that are encrypted, or password protected

With this capability, your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies will be able to detect the presence of, and prevent password protected Microsoft Office, PDF, and archive files on Windows endpoint devices from unauthorized use.

ID: 93416 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Room Remote on Desktop

The Room Remote feature users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Windows desktop/PC companion device via the Teams client. This feature first launched on mobile devices and will now be available on Windows PC form factors when joined to the meeting as a companion device.

ID: 95482 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Planner: Templates in Planner web

Get started quickly by using a pre-made template to jump into your work.

ID: 106120 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Create, view and share playlists in SharePoint

This feature will allow users to organize their video and audio files into a playlist for easy organization, sharing and playback. Users can add any video and audio files to a playlist that they have edit access to. People with access to the playlist and to the files in the playlist can view the videos in order or skip back and forth between items in the playlist.

ID: 109564 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Visio: Visio personal app in Microsoft Teams

Visio will be available as a personal app, or private workspace, in Microsoft Teams. With a private workspace, users will be able to view and edit Visio files in a central location without leaving Teams. When using the Teams desktop app, users will be able to use the Pop out app option to open Visio in a separate window, allowing users to continue using Teams chat, call, collaboration, and meeting capabilities.

ID: 109596 Tags: Visio, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: January CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from VBA in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature is for VBA developers who use Office fixed format export functions to create PDFs from documents with sensitivity labels and encryption. By default, all PDFs created using Office’s fixed format export functions will automatically inherit the source document’s label or encryption. Some VBA add-ins may need to be updated to avoid issues when post-processing an encrypted PDF.

ID: 106091 Tags: – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Automatic Topic Relationships available in GCC

The ability for AI to suggest relationships between topics will be available for customers in our Government Clouds. These suggested related topics appear on the topic card, page and answers.  This is already available for standard worldwide customers.

ID: 106765 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: January CY2023

Canceled