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Excel: Track Tasks With @ Mentions

Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your workbook.

ID:49291 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: February CY2021

Office 365: Office is now available on iPad

With this release, we are bringing the Microsoft Office app to the iPad, combining the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know, plus additional tools to keep you more productive than ever. Optimized for iPadOS, use your keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to create and collaborate on Office documents, or create using your camera, sign PDFs, jot down notes, and more.

ID: 60685 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Search: New Image Vertical

A new image is coming to Microsoft Search to provide better search capabilities for images in your organization. The new image vertical will initially be available for search results in SharePoint and Office.com, and will come to Bing.com later.

ID: 67117 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Search: Use, View, and Manage Your Personal Query History

Microsoft Search is the intelligent search experience in Microsoft 365. We’re improving Microsoft Search, adding a new option to view and manage your personal query history. With personal query history, you’ll see your recent queries as you begin typing in the search box to help you get back to insights and information you recently used or accessed so you’ll no longer have to bookmark your queries or memorize the right query to get you back to where you were. Your personal query history can be managed through your Office 365 My Account settings. New My Account privacy controls allow you to delete your query history or download your query history for future reference.

ID: 67133 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Outlook for Windows: New Location For Key Outlook Modules

The main modules in Outlook such as email, calendar, tasks and people are moving to a new app bar on the left of the folder pane. You can customize the app bar by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps. This change can be previewed with the return of the Coming Soon toggle.

ID: 68205   Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Expanded Support To Search and Export Items In SharePoint and OneDrive For Business Recycle Bin in Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery

Traditionally, when a site is on hold, the files in the Recycle Bin would be stored in the Preservation Hold library. In cases when a site is not on hold, there is no way to search or export items in the Recycle Bin. The eDiscovery and SharePoint Online teams are making architectural changes that will make the Recycle Bin (both first-stage and second-stage Recycle Bins) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business searchable and exportable by eDiscovery Managers. That means organizations can search and export items in the Recycle Bin regardless of whether a site is on hold or not.

ID:68707 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: January CY2021

SharePoint: Video Webparts and Templates

New SharePoint video webparts and templates to enable users combine video with messaging and other media to tell their story on any page or news post.

ID: 68715 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)          Release: February CY2021

Excel: Office Macro Runtime Integration with AMSI Now Includes Excel 4.0 Macros

Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) integration with Office now also includes Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. AMSI is an open interface available on Windows 10 for applications to request, at runtime, a synchronous scan of a memory buffer by an installed antivirus or security solution. When malicious activity is detected, the user is notified by Excel, and the application session is shut down to avoid any further damage. This can stop an attack in its tracks, protecting both the device and user.

ID: 68917   Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Share System Audio On Mac

This will allow Mac desktop users to include audio when sharing their Desktop or Window during a Teams meeting. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user’s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear.

ID: 68941 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Conglomerate Branding

Conglomerate Branding will give global administrators the ability to define multiple themes within their organization using Microsoft 365 Groups. Each theme can be further customized by specifying mobile-specific and alternate dark mode logo experiences.

ID: 70551 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

 Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Global Usage Report For Microsoft Teams

A new report will be made available with both tenant level aggregation and per-team level details to enable admins to get an overall picture of how the organization is using teams within Microsoft Teams.

ID: 70552 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Extending Suggested Replies In More Languages Worldwide

Customers worldwide will be able to see suggested replies to email messages in the following languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. Suggested replies will appear if people are having a conversation in any of those languages.

ID: 70557 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

OneDrive: 250 GB File Size Support In Microsoft 365

Users will be able to upload large file sizes up to 250 GB in OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams.

ID:70558 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook For Android: Extending Suggested Replies In Additional Languages World Wide

Customers worldwide will be able to see suggested replies to email messages in the following languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. Suggested replies will appear if people are having a conversation in any of those languages.

ID: 70559 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Revised In-Meeting Share Experience

The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily.

ID: 70560   Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Revised In-Meeting Share Experience For GCC-High

The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily.

ID: 70561   Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Revised In-Meeting Share Experience In DOD

The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily.

ID: 70562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Top Hits In Search Autosuggest

Top hits is a new section at the top of the autosuggest results in search where users will see the most relevant results across people, chats, files and more. This feature will improve discovery and reduce search times.

ID: 70563 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams Casting From iOS Teams App

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room from their mobile device and display content. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365.

ID:70564 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams Casting From Android Teams App

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room from their mobile device and display content. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365.

ID: 70565 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Changes In Display Of Hierarchical Sensitivity Labels For Microsoft Teams

For hierarchical sensitivity labels, channel headers will only display the parent label instead of showing the child label. For example, for a sensitivity label such as Confidential\Finance, Teams will only show “Confidential” in the channel header.

ID: 70566 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Excel: Excel Trust Center – Adding A Separate Macro Settings Option To Block Excel 4.0 (XLM) Macros

A new Excel Trust Center settings option will be introduced to further restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. With this new macro settings option, choosing to disable XLM macros will no longer impact VBA macro settings. Previously, all of Excel’s macro settings configurations applied to both VBA and XLM macros. This update will not change users’ existing macro settings.

ID: 70568 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams : Follow Or Mute Conversations In GCC

This feature will empower users to have finer controls at a conversation thread level within a channel.

ID: 70569 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: February CY2021

Outlook: On The Web – New files Search In Compose Mode

You can now add files from OneDrive, SharePoint, and notes from sticky notes by using the / and getting suggestions from Outlook.

ID: 70570 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Enhanced Video Discovery And Multi-Video Deletion For Video Admins In Stream (Classic)

New filter parameters to allow video admins discovery based on video type, created date, creator and view permissions. Multi-select and bulk delete capabilities for video admins to allow better storage management.

ID: 70571 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Large Gallery View And Together Mode For Web Meetings In Edge And Chrome Browsers

User can change layout to Together mode or Large gallery during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browsers.

ID: 70573 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

SharePoint: Scenario-Based Site Templates

Use scenario-based site templates that leverage existing SharePoint capabilities (e.g. pages, lists, libraries, branding) to build your own sites faster and get inspired.

ID: 70574 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

OneDrive: Sync Client Support For DWG File Version History

We’re updating OneDrive Sync client to support Version History for DWG files. This change fixes a known issue where Version History is missing for DWG files backed by Sync client.

ID: 70575 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: App Bar

The SharePoint app bar brings a consistent navigation experience to every site on your intelligent intranet, featuring quick access to important sites across the organization with global navigation, personally relevant sites, and the news feed.

ID: 70576 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Exchange: OAuth Client Credential Flow Support For POP/IMAP

Adding support for the Client Credential OAuth flow to the POP and IMAP protocols in Exchange Online

ID: 70577 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Information Governance – Adaptive Retention Policies (Public Preview)

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Information Governance – Multi-Stage Disposition Review

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.

ID: 70579 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Information Governance – Auto-Labeling Of Cloud Attachments

This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages.

ID: 70580 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Information Governance – Yammer Retention

This update enables organizations to apply retention policies on Yammer messages.

ID: 70581 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Information Governance – Retention policies For Microsoft Teams Private Channels

This update enables organizations to apply an organization-wide retention policy on Teams private channel messages.

ID: 70582 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Mail Attachments Event

This update adds a new audit event that specifies if a mail attachment was accessed by the user.

ID: 70584 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Teams Reactions On Messages

See new audit activity related to Teams reactions on messages.

ID: 70585 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold Optimizations

This update provides various service optimizations for Advanced eDiscovery, including hold reliability and limits increase.

ID: 70586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Teams Location Picker Supports Security Groups And Distribution Lists (GCC)

Data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft Teams will now support security groups and distribution lists as part of the Teams 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: 70587 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: February CY2021

2×2 Video In Gallery View For Web Meetings In Edge And Chrome Browsers

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browser.

ID: 70589 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Enhancements To Spoof Intelligence

Spoof intelligence experience for Security Admins will introduce enhancements so that Admins can setup spoof configurations, manage spoof allow/block lists for a tenant, review insights provided by spoof intelligence and view/export detailed spoof detections report. This feature provides a clearer, easier way for Security Admins to manage ability for a sending infrastructure to be able to spoof a particular domain or a user (email address) for both Cross-Org (External) and Intra-Org (Internal) email messages using “Spoof intelligence tenant allow/block list overrides policy.” As a Security Admin, you can view, add, update, delete spoofed domain pairs using this Policy or optionally using the PowerShell cmdlet.

ID: 70590 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Allowing URLs And Files With Tenant Allow/Block List

One of the ways EOP protects customers is by blocking malicious attachments, URLs, and certain senders from reaching end users. We also understand that from time to time, customers may have special needs to block something on their own that our filters might find to be not malicious. In order to provide a way for our customers to do this at time of click and during mail flow, we’re developing a portal to help you self-serve and do it yourself. This portal will give admins the opportunity to explicitly allow or block attachments, URLs, senders and even certain recipients in your Office 365 tenant. This phase of this rollout enables explicitly allowing files and URLs.

ID: 70591 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Microsoft Compliance Manager General Availability For DoD

Compliance Manager is the next generation of the existing Compliance Manager and Compliance Score solutions, which have been in commercial public preview since November 2019. With Compliance Manager, you will benefit from intuitive end-to-end compliance management, a vast out-of-the-box assessment template library and built-in automation to scale your compliance across global, industrial, and regional standards.

ID: 70592 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Meetings – Live Captions In Additional Languages

Today, Teams meetings live captions is available for English. We will enable live captions in additional spoken languages such as German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch.

ID: 70593 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Granular Conditional Access Policies Via “Sensitivity Labels” For SharePoint Online Sites

Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label. Then these labels can be applied to Sites and now users access these sites will have to go through the CA policies in order to gain access.

ID: 70594 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Exchange: Online – Label For External Email Messages Received

Exchange will make available a PowerShell cmdlet so that admins can enable the protections against spam & phishing threats from external senders.  This will be achieved by presenting a new label on emails called “External” in the message list in Outlook on the web, for iOS and Android. In some Outlook clients, a “mail tip” will be included at the top of the reading pane with sender’s email address.

ID: 70595 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Office 365: Dictation Improvements In Word and Outlook Including Voice Commands

Dictation has new UI and settings to control a profanity filter and automatic punctuation. Voice commands make editing and formatting your dictated text easier than ever.

ID: 70596 Tags: Office 365, Outlook, Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Office 365: Intelligent Suggestions

Intelligent Suggestions will help you quickly find, work on, and collaborate on the files that matter most to you.

ID: 70597 Tags: Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Share To Microsoft Teams From Outlook

Send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels or start a Teams chat related to a specific email message. Share to Teams supports Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows, and the new Outlook for Mac Preview.

ID: 70598 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support For Live Events

You may allow an anonymous user who does not have and MSA or AAD identity to be a presenter in your live event.

ID: 70599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: AIP Client And Scanner Data Available In Audit And Activity Explorer

Azure Information Protection (AIP) customers can now access data in Microsoft 365 compliance center Audit logs and Activity explorer, in addition to the AIP Analytics portal. This means that all data logged via AIP client and AIP scanner can be witnessed along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.

ID: 70600 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Azure Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie For GCC

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned Android smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

ID: 70601 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Get A “Meet Now” Meeting Link

Users can now copy a “Meet Now” meeting link without starting the meeting from the Calendar tab which can be used later.

ID: 70602 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Breakout Rooms For GCC-High

Meeting hosts can create breakout rooms to be used by meeting participants for smaller group discussion. They can assign participants to a room and call them back to the larger group when the breakout is complete.

ID: 70604 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: February CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Document Understanding Model – Extractors Position Awareness

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browser.

ID: 70605 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Dynamic Explanation Templates In Document Understanding Models

A set of explanations with dynamic phrase lists based on the labeled entities or the tokens before/after.

ID: 70607 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Retention Label Support For Form Processing

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browser.

ID: 70608 Tags: – 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Availability For GCC

General availability for SharePoint Syntex in GCC.

ID: 70610 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Extended Language Support – Form Processing

Support for processing documents using form processing in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

ID: 70611 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Search Inside Training Files While Building Document Understanding Models

Support for searching inside example files when building or training a document understanding model

ID: 70612 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Hunting For Impersonated Domains And Users

Threat Explorer (P2) and Real-time detections (P1) are powerful near real-time tools to help Security Operations teams investigate and respond to threats. Today we provide filters for Detection Technology with User impersonation or Domain impersonation which show all Phish emails caught by our impersonation detection. We are adding new filters called Impersonated user and Impersonated domain to enable Security Operations teams to explicitly hunt for specific users or domains within their organization that are targets of impersonation attacks. This additional information related to Impersonated domain(s) and Impersonated user(s) will surface in existing Impersonation insight pages and our new Email Entity page.

ID: 70613 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Updates To Post-Delivery Detections And Investigations

We are rolling out updates to alerts and investigations including new alert policies and post-delivery detections related to Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP). There will also be updates and improvements to the AIR playbooks for the post-delivery detections to capture the state of the emails and entities that are being investigated.

ID: 70614 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook: On The Web – React To An Email Message

Outlook on the web is expanding the existing ability to like email messages with a thumbs up icon. In addition to likes, users will be able to react with love, celebration, laughter, surprise, or sadness.

ID: 70615 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Search: Reports In Modern Sites

Microsoft Search reports in modern sites will allow for site administrators to view usage analytics related to Microsoft Search in modern sites in SharePoint Online.

ID: 70616 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Project: API Support For Extensibility

API support to create, update and delete Projects, Tasks, Task Dependencies, Resource Assignments, Team Members and Project Buckets.

ID: 70618 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance Can Now Leverage Optical Character Recognition To Extract And Evaluate Messages

Introducing the ability to extract printed or handwritten text from images using Azure’s Computer Vision Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Text extracted will then be evaluated against Communication Compliance policies conditions.

ID: 70622 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance Now Support 7 Languages For The Threat, Targeted Harassment and Profanities Classifiers

Communication Compliance can now detect threat, targeted harassment, and profanities in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

ID: 70623 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode For DoD

Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

ID: 70625 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Audit Retention Dashboard For Government Clouds

Create and manage audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

ID: 70627 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Share System Audio on Mac

This will allow Mac desktop users to include audio when sharing their Desktop or Window during a Teams meeting. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user’s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear.

ID: 70662 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Email Entity Page

Email entity page brings a new look to your email investigations, designed to provide a 360 degree view of an email. These updates eliminate the need to traverse multiple experiences to view email details. The email entity page will contain information in parity with existing email details flyout in protection.offfice.com from Threat Explorer, along with new information regarding authentication and detections, a revamped email preview capability for cloud mailbox emails, and detonation details for related files or URLs.

ID: 70665 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Lists: Grid View Keyboard Improvements

When you edit in grid view (previously ‘Quick edit’), you will have a faster editing experience that adheres to greater levels of accessibility. Navigate across rows and columns using the tab key. Plus, pressing Enter enbales you to edit that field. Clicking Enter on a new row saves the new item. And pressing the Esc key closes editor.

ID: 70670 Tags:– GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Lists: Number Column Symbols

When leveraging a Number column, select common number symbols (dollar, euro, yen, percentage) or create a custom symbol, plus decide if you want the symbol to be on the left or right of the number.

ID: 70671 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Lists: visual UI For Read-Only Fields

Lists fields will show people when a field is edit-only and screen reader support when a field is read-only.

ID: 70672 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Lists: Configure Person Column Profile Pictures

When using a Person column (for individuals or groups), you will have more control to show as text-only or using available user’s profile pictures with the visual ‘pill’ formatting.

ID: 70673 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Simple Periodic Review For Guest Users

Enable Teams IT admin to schedule a periodic reviews on guests across Teams, discovers every Team that has one or more guests, and triggers a review process for each.

ID: 70674 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch Provisioning For Teams Devices

This will allow Remote Provisioning of Teams Android devices from Teams Admin Center.

ID: 70675 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Role Based Access Scoping On Devices Category

This feature allows you to delegate admin roles to specific members.

ID: 70676 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Enhancement To App Usage Report  –  Support For Line Of Business Apps

Line of business type of Apps were added to the Teams Admin center App usage reports.

ID: 70677 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Endpoint: Threat And Vulnerability Management For MacOS

Software vulnerability assessment are available for macOS. The same familiar insights are available as for Windows devices in the recommendations, software inventory, weaknesses, and other dashboards.

ID: 70691 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

OneDrive: Updates To The Sync App On Mac Available In .pkg Format

Updates to the sync app on Mac will be available in the .pkg format which allows for faster updates and better security.

ID: 70693 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

OneDrive: 64-bit OneDrive (Public Preview)

A preview of 64-bit OneDrive is now available for download. It will only be supported on AMD64-based devices.

ID: 70694 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

OneDrive: 64-bit OneDrive

OneDrive is now available as a 64-bit install for AMD64-based devices.

ID: 70695 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Align The Experience Creating A Team From Different Teams Interfaces

Align the experience for Teams creation in Teams Admin Center to the experience in creating a team in the Teams client.

ID: 70696 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Moving All Power Shell Work Items Under ITPro-Power Shell

Migrate from ADAL to MSAL – Moving all PowerShell work items under ITPro-Powershell.

ID: 70697 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook For Android: Weather

Weather in Outlook for Android gives you the latest weather information based on your current location and indicates the forecast on all calendar views except monthly (Agenda, Day, 3 Day and Week).

ID: 71042 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Yammer: Improvements To Hashtags And Topics

We are creating a sharper distinction between topics and hashtags in Yammer further differentiating these features so that topics power curation, management, and categorizing of knowledge, while hashtags will continue to be used to support campaigns and user expression.

ID: 73251 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Forms: Shorten URL When Sending Forms To Collect Responses

In Microsoft Forms, you can now choose to use a shorter URL in some scenarios directly, enabling the responders easier to type and access the link for specific situations.

ID: 75243 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook For iOS: Increase Visibility Of Messages From People Outside Your Organization

Increase the visibility of email messages that were sent from outside the organization in order help identify and report suspicious emails that may be an attempt of impersonation or spoofing.

ID: 75264 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Android: Increase Visibility Of Messages From People Outside Your Organization

Increase the visibility of email messages that were sent from outside the organization in order help identify and report suspicious emails that may be an attempt of impersonation or spoofing.

ID: 75265 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD 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: March CY2021

SharePoint: Site Collection Level Permissions For Microsoft Graph

Applications can now use the new “Sites.selected” permission to request access to SharePoint sites.  By default an application that requests “Sites.Selected” instead of a tenant wide permission may not access any SharePoint sites. The tenant administrator can grant or revoke an application’s access to individual sites through new endpoints in the Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 76685 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February 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

Office 365: Admins Can Choose To Allow Users To Self-Select Their Office Update Channel.

This feature will allow an admin to enable the user to self-select the Office channel within the Office client, resulting in an immediate change on the user’s device. Starting with the February 2021 update to the Office ADMX templates there is a new policy called ‘Show the option for the Office Update Channel experience’. It can be found in the ‘Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine)/Miscellaneous’ and ‘User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Microsoft Office 2016/Miscellaneous’ nodes.

ID: 79809 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Windows Virtual Desktop: Choose The UK Geography To Store The Windows Virtual Desktop Service Metadata

Windows Virtual Desktop allows customers to choose the region best suited to them for virtual machine deployment. They can now also choose to store service metadata in the geography best suited to their needs.

ID: 79839 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Windows Virtual Desktop: Choose The Australia Geography To Store The Windows Virtual Desktop Service Metadata

Windows Virtual Desktop allows customers to choose the region best suited to them for virtual machine deployment. They can now also choose to store service metadata in the geography best suited to their needs.

ID: 79842 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2021

Windows Virtual Desktop: Choose The Canada Geography To Store The Windows Virtual Desktop Service Metadata

Windows Virtual Desktop allows customers to choose the region best suited to them for virtual machine deployment. They can now also choose to store service metadata in the geography best suited to their needs.

ID: 79843 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

SharePoint: Simplified MUI Editing For Multilingual Communication Sites

This new feature allows the same user, with the right permissions, to update site navigation, site title, site description and site footer in all the languages enabled in your communication site.

ID: 79847 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Outlook For iOS: Conversational AI With Cortana

Ask Cortana to provide assistant to schedule meetings, compose short email messages, and find files, emails, and people that are relevant to you, all using your voice and natural language.

ID: 79865 Tags: Cortana, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Expandable New Message And Event Buttons

The button for new event and message buttons on your Calendar and Inbox hat will expand to provide quick actions that are available in Outlook. By long pressing these new buttons, you’ll have easy access to commonly needed email and calendaring capabilities.

ID: 79866 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Support TLS Token Binding For Policy-Configured Sites

TLS Token binding helps prevent token theft attacks to help ensure that cookies cannot be reused from a device other than the device upon which they were initially set. Use of TLS token binding requires setting the AllowTokenBindingForUrls policy and requires that the listed sites provide support this feature.

ID: 79952 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v. 90: Identify Network Traffic Originating From App Guard Containers At The Proxy Level

Beginning with Microsoft Edge v. 90, there is a built in support to tag network traffic originating from App Guard containers allowing enterprises to identify them and apply specific policies.

ID: 79954 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v. 90: Support Added To Optionally Allow Favorites To Sync From The Application Guard Container To The Host

Starting in Microsoft Edge v. 90, customers can now optionally configure Microsoft Edge App Guard to synchronize their Favorites from the container to the host, keeping a unified list of favorites across host and container.

ID: 79956 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Branded Lobby

Admins will now be able to add a custom logo to the Teams experience, for display in the lobby and meeting pre-join experience. The logo will be displayed for meetings where the organizer has the Advanced Comms SKU.

ID: 79957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: New Print Rasterization Mode For Non-PostScript Printers

Starting with Microsoft Edge v.90 a new policy exists that controls how Microsoft Edge prints to non-PostScript printers on Windows. Sometimes print jobs on non-PostScript printers need to be rasterized to print correctly. The print options are Full and Fast.

ID: 79958 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.91: View Microsoft Information Protected (MIP) Files Across Tenants

Starting in Microsoft Edge v. 91, PDF files protected in other organizations, or tenants of the organization can now be viewed seamlessly within the browser.

ID: 79959 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Removing Chromium-Based MDM Configuration Policies From Microsoft Edge For Android

Microsoft Edge for Android will remove the Chromium-based MDM app configuration settings (Intune and other MDM providers) that currently ship within Microsoft Edge. These settings come from the Chromium source code but are not supported by Microsoft Edge for Android and may have unattended side effects with the app. Administrators will no longer be able to use Chromium-based MDM app configurations policies with Microsoft Edge for Android. We recommend the use of the supported policies as defined in https://aka.ms/edgeappconfig as replacements for the Chromium MDM policies.

ID: 79960 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Office 365: Dictation Improvements In Word For Mac Including Voice Commands

Dictation has new UI and settings to control a profanity filter and automatic punctuation. Voice commands make editing and formatting your dictated text easier than ever.

ID: 79976 Tags: Office 365, Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Office 365: Dictation Improvements In Outlook For Mac Including Voice Commands

Dictation has new UI and settings to control a profanity filter and automatic punctuation. Voice commands make editing and formatting your dictated text easier than ever.

ID: 79977 Tags: Office 365, Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Forms: New Forms Start Page In GCC, Gcc-High And DoD

This update replaces the existing Forms Portal page with a new Forms Start page on Office.com (Office.com – Forms). Users who access forms via Office.com will get this experience first, then users accessing forms via the Forms website will get the experience soon after.

ID: 80044 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Rolling Out

SharePoint and Teams: Updated Add A Team To A Site Wizard

Microsoft wants to make it easier to use the connected value of SharePoint and Teams. People use SharePoint team site home pages with dynamic web parts as mini-dashboards for group content: pages, news, links, documents, group activity and more – and it’s configurable. Choose the SharePoint content that you want to add as tabs in Teams when you first connect them via the “Add a Team” flow from your site.

ID: 46990   Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Visio: Azure Icons In Visio For The Web

The latest Azure icons are available in Visio for the web. These icons can be used to accurately create diagrams to represent Azure services and networks.

ID: 56627 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: New Bing Industry News

Industry news gives you a targeted set of news content specific to their company and industry. In addition, it offers access to news content for free, that would otherwise be behind a paid subscription wall, such as Wall Street Journal and more.

ID:57071 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Secure by Default – Honoring Detonation Verdicts

We see lots of cases where configuration of our protection stack has enabled malicious content to be inadvertently delivered to end users. We’re working on a few features that will help address this problem. Our first phase includes Honoring detonation verdicts. All too frequently, URLs and files that have been flagged as malicious are allowed through to the inbox due to transport rules and domain allows. We’re updating our filters to ensure that malicious files and URLs are not delivered regardless of configuration, unless manually overridden.

ID:60827 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – All environments Release: December CY2020

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: New Communication Compliance Reports

We are introducing new Communication Compliance reports such as review activity to help you track matches and actions taken by reviewers over time.

ID:61089 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window Chat

Users will be able to pop out individual Teams chat conversations into a separate window, to help them streamline their workflow and more easily move between ongoing conversations.

ID:65602 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD  Release: January CY2021

Yammer: “Embed feed” Updated With New Look And Functionality

Using embed, you can display a single My Feed, Group Feed, Topic Feed, User Feed or OG object feed.

ID: 66150  Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

SharePoint: Share A Page To Yammer

The ability to share a modern SharePoint Online (SPO) page to a Yammer community will be available in the page actions bar.

ID: 66183 Tags: SharePoint, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Excel: Use Ink And Highlighter To Annotate In Excel On The Web

Use ink and highlighter to naturally annotate over worksheets in Excel on the web.

ID: 66260 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Office 365: Application Guard For Office

Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users’ computer and data. To help protect your users, Office can open files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard, a secure container that’s isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization. When Office opens files in Application Guard, users can securely read, edit, print, and save those files without having to re-open files outside the container. This functionality is available as a Preview to organizations with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 Security license or Users (in the above enterprise) who use Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Beta Channel.

ID:67101 Tags: Office 365, Excel, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Conflict Of Interest Template

Introducing a new policy template for Communication Compliance that will monitor communications between two groups of users which can be used for collusion or conflict of interest detection.

ID: 68132 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced eDiscovery – Collect And Review Encrypted Content Stored In SharePoint And Or OneDrive For Business

Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content that has been encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and stored in SharePoint or OneDrive from the Advanced eDiscovery solution.

ID: 68705 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Theme And Icon Updates

We’re updating the Teams default and dark theme background colors and icon set to align with the overall Microsoft 365 design vision.

ID: 68721 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: New Simplified View For Very Small Businesses

We are developing a new landing experience in the Microsoft 365 admin center that replaces the existing dashboard and provides a simplified admin experience for customers with 10 or fewer licenses of any Microsoft 365 Business subscription.

ID: 68722 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 25K Person Teams

Support for up to 25,000 members per individual team.

ID:68723 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Search: On-Canvas Search In Word, Excel, and PowerPoint For The Web

On-canvas search in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint brings the power of Microsoft Search to their contextual command surfaces.

ID: 68788 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Targeted Ccommunications In GCC

Targeted communication allows team members to message everyone in a specific role at the same time by @mentioning the role name in a post. For example, you could send a message to all cashiers in a store or to all nurses in a hospital.

ID:68841 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: January CY2021

OneDrive: iOS – Bookmarks For PDF Viewing

Users of OneDrive for iOS will be able to Bookmark, or “Tag”, PDF pages that they want to come back to later.

ID:68842 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2021

OneDrive: Dark Mode For The Web

Dark mode changes the default bright background color in OneDrive for web to a darker color, which is easier on the eyes in low-light environments or if you prefer less bright interfaces.

ID:68868 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exchange Online Service Encryption Using Microsoft Managed Keys For Government Clouds

Service encryption using Microsoft managed keys provides default encryption for all of Exchange Online data-at-rest. With Microsoft managed keys, data-at-rest always stays encrypted by default. Microsoft manages all cryptographic keys including the root keys in this case. Customers still have the choice to bring their own encryption keys by onboarding to Customer Key.

ID:68871 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Exchange – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window Meetings And Calling Experiences For GCC-High And DoD

Multi-window experiences are coming to Teams meetings and calling. Users will have the ability to pop out meetings and calling into separate windows to help them optimize their workflow in the GCC-High and DoD Clouds. These experiences can be turned on directly within Teams for PC and Mac clients.

ID:68892 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Forms: Text Formatting (Bold, Italicize, And Underline) In Forms and Quizzes

Bold, Italics, and Underline (text formatting) in Forms are now available to help survey/quiz designers emphasize and differentiate content with hierarchy. Consistent with Office 365 products, users can select the text format in a floating tool bar or use shortcuts (e.g. control/command).

ID:68894 Tags: Forms – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Sync Contact Subfolders As Category Labels

Outlook contacts and contact subfolders in Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook on the web will be synced to Outlook for iOS. They will be labeled with a contact category based on the name of  the original contact subfolder.

ID:69139 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2021

Outlook For Android: Scan QR Code To Sign Into Your Work Or School Account

When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to Google Play store to download Outlook for Android and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.

ID:69147 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Scan A QR Code To Sign Into Your Work Or School Account

When notified in Outlook on the web, send yourself a link to the Apple app store to download Outlook for iOS and scan the on screen QR code to securely log into Outlook without entering your user name and password.

ID:69148 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Remediation Enhancements

We’re making changes to remediation capabilities in Defender for Office 365. First, we’re increasing the export limit of records from mail submissions or action log in the action center to 100,000. We’re also adding two new columns to the action log details view within the action center. The first is a column for network message ID, allowing security teams to review based on network message ID. The second is a column for “Already in Destination”. Previously, all records submitted for remediation were remediated based on their original delivery location.

ID:70554 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Investigations Triggered By Manual Actions

In order to provide the most accurate information in the Action center, we’re making a change that creates an investigation when manual actions are taken by admins. As we converge to the security.microsoft.com portal, this will ensure that all actions are shown in the converged action center.

ID:70555 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Defender For Office 365: Override Alerts

We’re introducing Override Alerts in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. With these new system alert policies, security admins will now be alerted if a message with a high confidence phish or malware verdict is delivered to a mailbox due a policy or configuration override rule.

ID:70567 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Yammer: Suggested Communities

This new section on the Yammer homepage will suggest relevant communities for people discover and join.

ID:71474 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Policies To Control Whether To Allow Extensions From Other Stores And Block External Extensions

With Microsoft Edge version 89, Enterprise admins will be able to decide whether their users can install extensions from stores other than the Microsoft Edge Addons website. They will also be able to block external extensions from being installed.

ID:79953 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Additional Lockdown Capabilities Available For Kiosk Mode

In order to provide the most accurate information in the Action center, we’re making a change that creates an investigation when manual actions are taken by admins. As we converge to the security.microsoft.com portal, this will ensure that all actions are shown in the converged action center.

ID:79955 Tags: General Availability – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Launched

OneDrive: Full-fidelity Shared Libraries In OneDrive

Not only can you sync shared libraries from SharePoint and Microsoft Teams to your PC or Mac using OneDrive, you can now view shared libraries in OneDrive on the web with support for viewing file metadata. Initial capabilities include viewing, sorting and grouping by custom metadata and changing your file view to any previously saved file view.

ID: 49093 Tags: OneDrive – All environments Release: December CY2020

Excel: AutoFill With Touch Screen In Excel For The Web

You can now use AutoFill with touch screen.

ID: 51826 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Visio: Link Your Diagrams

Link shapes in your diagram by adding hyperlinks to web pages, other files stored online, pages within same Visio file, and email addresses to make your diagrams interactive with richer information.

ID: 53961  Tags: Visio – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Improvements To The Microsoft Search API In The Microsoft Graph

The Microsoft Search API in the Microsoft Graph allows for developers to build custom applications to leverage Microsoft Search results from across Microsoft 365.

ID: 57068 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Visio: The Visio Data Visualizer Add-In For Excel Is Now Generally Available

At Ignite 2019, we released for public preview the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, a new way to create data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel. The add-in is now available to all Office 365 subscribers—no Visio subscription is required.

ID: 58771 Tags: Excel, Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Visio: The Visio Data Visualizer Add-In For Excel Is Now Generally Available

At Ignite 2019, we released for public preview the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, a new way to create data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel. The add-in is now available to all Office 365 subscribers—no Visio subscription is required.

ID:58771  Tags: Excel, Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Task Publishing And Reporting For Frontline Workers

Task publishing and reporting features will include several manager and team member experiences specific to targeting, assigning and completing activities, in addition to features for headquarters reporting. The Task publishing experience for central offices includes corporate audit view to track tasks across FLW locations; frontline manager desktop view with reporting and filters; frontline worker mobile view to review tasks assigned.

ID: 59719 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Security and Compliance Center: Advanced eDiscovery Tenant Reports In Preview

The Advanced eDiscovery tenant reports feature aggregates information around custodians, data sources, communications, and cases. You can filter your view based on various criteria and export the aggregated information for further analysis.

ID: 60435  Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Security and Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Visio: People Gallery And Modern Presence

Easily see who is collaborating on your Visio diagram and where they are in the drawing.

ID: 61431  Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [SEARCH] Connectors Type Filtering & Multiple Connections Support (Preview)

Support multiple Connections in a single request. Support type filtering within a Connection

ID: 63721 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Insider Risk Management Solution Available For Government Clouds

The following Insider Risk Management features will be rolling out to Government clouds: Office indicators (Teams, SharePoint sites, email messaging) – Used to determine a risk score for a user; Data theft by departing users and general data leaks policies – Used to define risk activities that you want to detect and investigate; Ability to access and investigate insider risk management alerts; Ability to investigate insider risk management cases with content explorer; Ability to action on insider risk management cases with notice templates and escalate for investigation for Advanced eDiscovery

ID: 64187 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High Release: January CY2021

Outlook on the Web: Admin Control To Remove The Option To Search For GIFs When Composing A Message

We are providing admin controls to remove the option for users to search and insert a GIF using the native controls in the ribbon.

ID: 64237  Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: for RealWear

FirstLine Workers using RealWear HMT-1 andHMT-1Z1 can now collaborate with a remote expert using video calling on Teams. Through a voice-controlled user interface, Teams for RealWear allows fieldworkers to remain 100% hands-free while maintaining situational awareness in loud and hazardous environments. By showing what they see in real-time, fieldworkers can accelerate the time to resolve issues and reduce the risk of an expensive downtime.

ID: 65038 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data Loss Prevention For Microsoft Teams

Data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities in Microsoft 365 government clouds will be extended to include Microsoft Teams chat and channel messages, including private channel messages. If your organization has DLP, you can now define policies that prevent people from sharing sensitive information in a Microsoft Teams channel or chat session.

ID: 65383 Tags: Office 365 Data Loss Prevention, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: January CY2021

Yammer: New Community Insights

Manage and moderate content faster with Yammer Community Insights. Key metrics help admins and users measure engagement and find valuable insights.

ID: 65591 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Information Protection and Governance: Trainable Classifiers

Customers can use machine learning through built-in and build-your-own models to classify sensitive content.

ID: 65764  Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Multiple Number Dialing

Teams now supports dialing additional numbers for a given user. A new split button in the chat header for audio/video calling displays multiple numbers for a single contact as available numbers with which to initiate a call.

ID: 66194 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Single Sign On (SSO) Now Available For Azure Active Directory (AAD) Accounts On Down-Level Windows

A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on down-level Microsoft Windows (7, 8.1) will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work or School accounts (eg: sharepoint.com, office.com, bing.com).

ID: 66331 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Single Sign On (SSO) Now Available For Microsoft Account (MSA) On MacOS And Down-level Windows

A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on either MacOS or down-level Microsoft Windows (7, 8, 8.1) will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Microsoft accounts (eg: bing.com, office.com, msn.com, outlook.com).

ID: 66332  Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Improvements to Threat Hunting with Threat Explorer and Real Time Detections

As part of this work, we will be introducing additional enhancements when it comes to identifying threats within your organization. This includes the following updates: Addition of spam verdict within Threat Explorer, so that going forward you will be able to identify if a particular email was Malware, Phish or Spam. Showing Threats in URLs to identify the verdict associated with a URL (Malware, Phish, Spam or None). Introducing Additional Actions to identify the post-delivery actions like ZAP or Manual Remediation which were applied to an email. Updating delivery location to show both Original and the latest delivery location for an email. Updating Email Timeline to make it simpler, and showing more details when it comes to showing information about post-delivery events like ZAP. Enabling information about Tenant/User level Overrides applied on an email which may have impacted delivery location.

ID: 66467 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Yammer: New Immersive Experience For Live Events

A redesigned experience for live events in Yammer to ensure the video and event feed are optimized for desktop.

ID: 66502  Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Planner: Smart Backgrounds

Add relevant and unique background images to your Planner plans through smart image recommendations based on the title of the plan.

ID: 66578 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode For GCC

Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

ID: 66716 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Enable Tenant Administrators To Configure Masking Of PSTN Participant Phone Numbers

For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we are providing the ability for tenant administrators to define how Audio Conferencing participants’ phone numbers appear in the roster view for meetings scheduled within their organization: masked to external users, masked for everyone, or off (visible to everyone).

ID: 67091 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Lists: Updated Person Column Experience: Built On SharePoint

Items within a Person column, in and out of Quick Edit mode, will appear using the new “pill” design format when a person’s photo is displayed. Select one or more people to add to a Person column quickly and they appear with an updated look.

ID: 67095 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2021

SharePoint Spaces: Touch Device Support

SharePoint spaces will enable users to interact with a space using touch interactions in addition to the mouse and keyboard based interactions currently supported.

ID: 67107 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Forms: New Forms Start Page

This update replaces the existing Forms Portal page at Forms.office.com with a new Forms Start page at Office.com (Office.com – Forms). Users who access forms via office.com will get this experience first, then users accessing forms via forms.office.com will get the experience soon after.

ID: 67143 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Project: Create Attachments On Tasks

Add file attachments or links to any task in Project.

ID: 67151 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Forms: Specific User Sharing For Response Collection

With this update, 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: 67157  Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Inline Message Translation In DOD

With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration.

ID: 67165  Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat Moderation Settings

Meeting organizers can now turn off the chat functionality during a meeting, which is turned on by default.

ID: 67175 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Windows: Natural language Search in Outlook

Use the language you use every day to quickly filter and narrow your search queries.

ID: 68219 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance Center: Records Management – Regulatory Records

Provides customers the ability to declare items in SharePoint Online as regulatory items. These labels are more stringent label vs record labels. Targeted to Financial services or other industries who have WORM compliance requirements. Will update the Cohasset assessment to include SharePoint Online.

ID: 68712 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Compliance Center: CJK or Double-byte Character Support For Advanced eDiscovery

This update adds support for adding CJK or Double-byte characters to Advanced eDiscovery review sets.

ID: 68713 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Mail forward and Mail Send Events For Government Clouds

The Send event is a mailbox auditing action and is triggered when a user sends, replies to, or forwards an email message. Investigators can use the Send event to identify email sent from a compromised account.

ID: 68719 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams

Get to results faster with Approvals in Microsoft Teams. Easily create, manage, share, and act on approvals directly from your hub for teamwork.

ID: 68724 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New Together mode scenes

Together mode helps you and your colleagues feel closer together even when you are apart. With new Together mode scenes coming this calendar year, you can transport your team to a variety of settings that can help set the tone for your meeting, whether it be an auditorium, a conference room, or a coffee shop.

ID: 68749 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Power BI App For Teams (Preview)

Enhancements to the Power BI app for Teams will make it easier to discover data from across the organization and quickly create visualizations from Excel datasets right within Teams, collaborate more effectively, and make decisions based on real-time insight. It creates a centralized place for users to find and analyze data, while enhancing usage of Excel and Teams with embedded channel, chat, and meeting experiences.

ID: 68762 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Power BI stage view in chat (Preview)

Share a link to a report that is already is set to the view of the person that is sharing.

ID: 68763 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Power BI improved tab/channel experience (Preview)

Improved look and feel, expanded view to see visualization better.

ID: 68764 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for 1:1 Calls

Live Captions display the text version of the audio in the call.. This can be enabled via the control bar within the Call window.

ID: 68775 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Search: Improved Usage Analytics

Adds full usage analytics capabilities for usage across Office.com and SharePoint end points in addition to Bing, with capabilities like top queries, no results queries, abandoned queries, query volume and impression distribution.

ID: 68781 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Available in Excel Online

We are bringing Microsoft Search to Excel Online. Now you’ll be able to take advantage of intelligent search in Microsoft 365 from your favorite productivity applications on the web.

ID: 68787 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Available in Word Online

We are bringing Microsoft Search to Word Online. Now you’ll be able to take advantage of intelligent search in Microsoft 365 from your favorite productivity applications on the web.

ID: 68798 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Available in PowerPoint Online

We are bringing Microsoft Search to PowerPoint Online. Now you’ll be able to take advantage of intelligent search in Microsoft 365 from your favorite productivity applications on the web.

ID: 68799 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Smart Find (Find-in-Document) in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Search your document like you search the web. We’re utilizing well-established web search technologies, such as query and document understanding, and adding deep learning based natural language models. This allows us to handle a much broader set of search queries beyond “exact match.” Typos: When there is a misspelling in the query, search can now show related matches. For example, technincian vs. technician. Forms of words: When there are different forms of the word in document and query. For example: tech, technology, technologies”; or USA, U.S.A, United States, United States of America; or newborn, new born, new-born, etc. Synonyms: For example: citation, quotation, quote, reference might be all the candidates for a term that you are searching for inside the document. A multi-word query: A single word query might lead to too many search results. A modern semantic search can often yield better results. For example: as a query of Oil Price, the content having Price of Oil, Prices of the Oil, Cost of Oil can offer related matches from within the document content.

ID: 68801 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Q&A in Microsoft Word

With the recent breakthroughs in deep learning techniques, you can now go beyond the common search term-based queries. The result is answers to your questions based on the document content. This opens a whole new way of finding knowledge. When you’re looking at a water quality report, you can answer questions like “where does the city water originate from? How to reduce the amount of lead in water?”

ID: 68802  Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Lists: undo / redo

As you work across rows and columns within Microsoft Lists, mistakes will happen and it needs to be easy to recover information. Similar to how you can remove sentences and phrases in a Word document, you will be able to do this in Lists by using the undo button. The same is true in reverse if there was something in a field previously that you want to bring back – just click the redo button.

ID: 68810 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection: EDR in block mode

EDR in block mode is a capability in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that turns EDR detections into blocking and containment of malicious behaviors. This capability uses Defender for Endpoint’s industry-leading visibility and detection capability to provide an additional layer of post-breach blocking of malicious behavior, malware, and other artifacts that your primary antivirus solution might miss.

ID: 68850 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Compliance Center: Microsoft 365 compliance center – Audit retention dashboard (preview)

Create and manage audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

ID: 68854 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Add document libraries, pages or news to a channel in Teams via the new SharePoint tab

Team members can now use the SharePoint tab experience to pin any page, news, list or document library as a separate tab in their Teams channel, Just go to the “+” button from any channel in Teams, select SharePoint and start pinning resources that your team needs to collaborate better.

ID: 68860 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Defender for Office 365 – Evaluation Mode

We’re introducing Evaluation Mode in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – the most effective way to evaluate the filtering efficacy of Defender for Office 365 using real-world email in your production environment. The feature can be configured by all customers that have Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes, and provides a report that quantifies the messages that would have been blocked by Defender for Office 365 had the policies taken action. With Evaluation Mode, messages are scanned and evaluated without requiring a change to your MX record.

ID: 68862 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: EHR connector for virtual visits in healthcare

The Microsoft Teams EHR connector let’s patients schedule and join the virtual visit from within their electronic health record (EHR) system’s patient portal. Providers can schedule and launch the visits from within the EHR provider portal. Integration with Epic is currently supported by the Microsoft Teams EHR connector, with other EHR systems coming soon.

ID: 68865 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

SharePoint: Migration Manager – Teams and OneDrive destinations in Migration Manager

SharePoint Migration Manager now lets you select a Teams channel or a OneDrive username when setting your migration destination.

ID: 68884 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Sensitivity labels extend to assets in Azure

With the new Microsoft Azure Purview, you can now extend the reach of your MIP sensitivity labels and the value from built-in sensitive information types to a much broader set of data locations and data types. Use existing sensitivity labels or create new sensitivity labels via the Microsoft 365 compliance center to extend security and compliance intent to data assets in Azure.

ID: 68889 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Exchange: Application Access Policy Support in EWS

We will be introducing support for Application Access Policy in EWS. Application Access Policy enables an administrator to access control an AppOnly app to a specific set of mailboxes by specifying an inclusion or exclusion list. Administrators who want to limit the 3rd party app access to a specific set of mailboxes can use the ApplicationAccessPolicy (AAP) PowerShell cmdlets to configure access control.

ID: 68901 Tags: Exchange – GCC Release: February CY2021

Forms: Email Receipt and Download Response Options Now Available

In the form settings, Forms designers can now enable the function for respondents within their organization to get an email confirmation that they completed the form. Within this email, there will a link to their response to the form. This function also enables respondents both within and outside of your organization to download (and thereby print) their responses to the form on the “Thank you” page of the form (after they submit the form).

ID: 68904 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Add a shared calendar to a Teams channel

Create and share a channel specific calendar for members to view events. Teams automatically creates a new post, which will appear in the activity feed, when a channel meeting is created. Any user who has notifications turned off will see the event only when they open the channel calendar.

ID: 68911 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview)

Data at rest encryption for Microsoft 365 provides customer key based encryption across multiple M365 workloads. Tenant administrators can configure a single data encryption policy using customer managed keys and assign it to the tenant. Doing so will start encrypting all new data across the following workloads (and more workloads coming soon) from the point of creation of these policies: “Microsoft Teams Files · Teams Chat Messages (1:1 chats, group chats, meeting chats and channel conversations)”, “Teams Media Messages (images, code snippets, videos, wiki images)”, “Teams Chat Notifications” and, “Chat Suggestions by Cortana Exchange Online (includes existing data)”

ID: 68922 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Office 365 Advanced threat Protection: Attack Simulation Training

Attack Simulation training helps customers detect, assess, and remediate phishing risk across users through integrated simulations and targeted training campaigns that change user behavior.

ID: 68925 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January 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

Microsoft Teams: GCC support for devices management in Teams Admin Centre.

Teams admin center enables effective management of Teams. Now our customers who have tenants in the GCC environment can also manage their Teams devices from the Teams admin center. Admins can now control the entire lifecycle of their Teams devices which include an increasing variety of supported device types – IP Phones, Collaboration bars, Teams displays, Teams Meeting Room devices.

ID: 70660 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Education Policy Wizard

The Microsoft Teams for Education Policy Wizard easily and quickly applies education-tailored policies to students, educators, and staff for a safe learning environment.

ID: 70661 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: January CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails available in other countries

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS can be used by customers in Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and India.

ID: 71039 Tags: Cortana, Outlook – Release: January CY2021

Outlook for Android: Play My Emails

Play My Emails in Outlook for Android can be used by customers in Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and India.

ID: 71375  Tags: Cortana, Outlook – Release: January CY2021

Yammer: Azure AD B2B guest support in Yammer (Public Preview)

AzureAD-B2B guest support in Yammer communities will be available in public preview. Invite guests to your Yammer community and facilitate rich conversations between members and guests of a Yammer community.

ID: 73902 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Whiteboard: Whiteboard will be available in Microsoft Teams Rooms

Whiteboard will be added to Microsoft Teams Rooms.

ID: 73905 Tags: Whiteboard, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Teams: meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint for GCC

Ability to save Microsoft Teams meeting recordings to OneDrive and SharePoint for improved sharing capabilities, basic governance, automatic retention labels, go local, bring your own keys and, more that comes from recording video files and storing them in SharePoint and OneDrive.

ID: 76074 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: PDF document display in book view (two page)

Starting with Microsoft Edge v. 88, you can now view PDF document in single page or book view. To change the view, click on the Page View button in the toolbar.

ID: 76253 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve productivity and multi-tasking with vertical tabs

As the number of horizontal tabs grows, site titles start to get cut off and tab controls are lost as each tab shrinks. This interrupts user workflow as they spend more time finding, switching, and managing their tabs and less time on the task at hand. Vertical tabs let users to move their tabs to the side, where vertically aligned icons and longer site titles make it easier to quickly scan, identify and switch to the tab they want to open. Vertical tabs also make it easier to organize several tabs, by providing more space to quickly multiselect, close and reorder tabs. When users want to focus and see more of the web while using vertical tabs, they can always collapse the pane, and simply hover to expand it whenever they want to interact with a specific tab.

ID: 76254 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Deprecate support for FTP protocol

Support for the legacy non-secure FTP protocol has been removed from Microsoft Edge. Attempting to navigate to a FTP link will result in the browser directing the Operating System to open an external application to handle the FTP link. Alternatively, Enterprise Administrators may configure Microsoft Edge to use IE Mode for their sites that rely upon the FTP protocol.

ID: 76255 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Automatically switch users on MacOS to their work profile for sites that authenticate with their work account

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 88, we provide the ability to switch sites that authenticate with your work profile on MacOS.

ID: 76256 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: View site permissions by site and by recent activity

Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users will be able to manage site permissions more easily. They will be able to view permissions by web site rather than just permission type.  Additionally, we’ve added a recent activity section that will show a user all the recent changes to their site permissions.

ID: 76257 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Increased controls for browser cookies

Starting with Microsoft Edge 88, users can delete third party cookies without affecting first party cookies. Users will also be able to filter their cookies by first or third party and sort by name, number of cookies, and the amount of data stored and last modified.

ID: 76258 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Adobe Flash support will be removed

Starting with Microsoft Edge Beta version 88 Adobe Flash support and capability will be removed.

ID: 76259 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Single Sign On (SSO) now available for Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts on MacOS

A user signed in on Microsoft Edge on MacOS will now get automatically signed into websites that are configured to allow single sign on with Work or School accounts (eg: sharepoint.com, office.com, bing.com).

ID: 76260 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve Microsoft Edge startup speed with startup boost

To improve Microsoft Edge startup speed, we’ve developed a feature named startup boost. Startup boost launches a set of Microsoft Edge processes in the background which makes Microsoft Edge available quickly when launched.

ID: 76261 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Browser icons updated to Fluent icon spec.

As part of our continued work around Fluent Design in the browser, we’ve made changes in Microsoft Edge v. 88 to closer align out icons to the new Microsoft icon system. These changes will impact many of our high-touch user interfaces, including tabs, address bar, as well as navigational and wayfinding icons found in our various menus.

ID: 76264 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Improve browser performance with sleeping tabs

Sleeping tabs improves browser performance by reducing system resources (e.g., RAM, CPU) that are used by background, inactive browser tabs. Users can prevent tab sites from going to sleep and configure the length of time before an inactive tab goes to sleep. This feature is limited to a randomly selected group of users who have enabled experimentation. We are planning to have sleeping tabs feature enabled by default with Microsoft Edge v. 89. This feature can be managed with group policies.

ID: 76265 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.88: Alerts if your passwords are found in an online leak.

Starting with Microsoft Edge v. 88, the browser checks your passwords against a repository of know-breached credentials and alerts you if a match is found.

ID: 76267 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.87: Office task modules on the Edge Enterprise New Tab page’s Office feed

Starting on January 21, all stable versions of Edge higher than Edge 87 will receive four new information cards from their office card on the Edge enterprise new tab page. These are Weather, Recommended documents, Day’s Events, and Recommended sites.

ID: 76687 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021

Canceled

Security and Compliance Center: Advanced eDiscovery delegated access

{This feature has been postponed indefinitely and will be removed.} Now add external counsel to a specific case within Advanced eDiscovery. This feature will help organizations ensure their partners of choice are able to execute eDiscovery related tasks within Microsoft 365 directly.

ID: 50754 Tags: Security and Compliance center, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: On/Off Shift – V2

{This item is being merged with 57173 and will be removed.} IT admins have the option to block the entire Teams app when a user is off shift.

ID: 59722 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Germany  Release: December CY2020

SharePoint admin center: OneDrive settings

{This item is a duplicate of 65911 and will be removed.} To align with administration integration and consolidation, we’ve moved a number of the OneDrive settings into the SharePoint admin center. Admin will find settings for OneDrive storage limits, notifications, retention for deleted users and sync – all within the SharePoint admin center under “Settings.”.

ID: 68814 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: December CY2020