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Outlook’s Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policy tip text will soon be updated to a more gentle form when warning that recipients may not be authorized to receive sensitive information. The update will roll out in February 2024 for commercial tenants.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop”

Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams. This feature will no longer be rolling out to classic Teams and will only be generally available in the new Teams experience with a revised Rollout Start schedule.

ID: 118580 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Global Address List updates in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

We are making some adjustments to the GAL search and browse experiences. Users will be asked to type in more characters to refine their search in some cases. There will be some other visual improvements in error messaging. Another way to find recipients is by using the suggestion dropdown picker in the To/Cc/Bcc lines. Note: We have updated the status and release date to reflect the current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 185475 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams

We are extending the Object Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft Purview to support images embedded in more file types such as: Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text, Microsoft Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX , Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.

ID: 323899 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links

Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.

ID: 325325 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

ID: 369470 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32

We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization’s DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.

ID: 370550 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center

We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences.

ID: 374861 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop

Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.

ID: 374866 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center

We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.

ID: 374871 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Customize your Viva Connections experiences with fonts and themes

Site owners and operators will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

ID: 374876 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation

Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

ID: 375177 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Integration of Auto-Claim Policy for Licensing of Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp in your Tenant

We’re excited to announce an upcoming feature to enhance our Microsoft 365 offerings with a new, innovative auto-claim policy for Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp. These two applications can be configured as a policy, allowing users with active base offerings like Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Original SKUs to automatically claim a Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 license when needed. As they engage with Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp, a license from your tenant’s pre-provisioned Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 SKU will be seamlessly assigned to them. This new feature is designed to simplify admin tasks and requirements.

ID: 375274 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Pay-as-you-go transcript translations

Make your content more inclusive by creating videos that your coworkers can easily view and understand in their primary language. Transcript translations in Stream (on SharePoint) give you the option to translate the transcript and closed captions of your Stream videos into more than 100 supported languages. To enable translations Admins must first setup billing using an Azure subscription, then they must be enable the feature in the M365 Admin center. Once enabled translations are billed via pay-as-you-go meters.

ID: 375485 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint

Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.

ID: 375490 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center

We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.

ID: 375495 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes

Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

ID: 375500 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows

Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Click the To Do icon in the navigation bar to open inline without opening in a separate browser window.

ID: 375602 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Shared Mailboxes as Accounts

Shared Mailboxes can be added as Accounts in the new Outlook for Windows. The Shared Mailbox will appear at the Account Level in the Folder list. Access to the Shared Mailbox requires the user’s credentials and associated permissions.

ID: 375635 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

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

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

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

Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service

Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service

ID: 375694 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall (Premium)

Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the 10 translated languages available to attendees.

ID: 375696 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings and make calls on Android Auto

Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones.

ID: 375701 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Forms: New user onboarding experience

Introducing an upgraded onboarding experience tailored for new Forms users, designed to provide a seamless and user-friendly initiation to the platform. Get started effortlessly with our refreshed interface and streamlined features.

ID: 375742 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop

Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.

ID: 376219 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 376697 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update

Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details.

ID: 376700 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation

Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

ID: 376853 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange

Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes.

ID: 124920 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Visio: Containers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Containers are a powerful tool for organizing and managing complex diagrams. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use containers in Visio for the web to create professional-looking diagrams that are easy to understand and navigate.

ID: 180322 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics

This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center.

ID: 88699 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center

Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge
managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.

ID: 118768 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence

Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.

ID: 124847 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs

The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.

ID: 125072 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile)

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.

ID: 182046 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians

When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.

ID: 189639 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Canceled