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Policy tuning analysis provides admins with real-time predictions of policy alerts based on a set of policy conditions that come from internal guidelines, governance, and organizational requirements. The indicators and thresholds can be adjusted, and warnings are issued for potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. This update will be available for GCC, GCC High, and DoD later this year.

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Microsoft Teams: Hide general channel

Alike other channels, now you will be able to hide general channels in your teams, helping you focus on the channels that matter most to you.

ID: 324840 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Automatic Targeting based on roles for Frontline

Frontline teams can notify the right set of colleagues on channel posts (e.g. notify colleagues in specific role or department)

ID: 365845 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive

In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint).

ID: 366697 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender

Organizations can click the "Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft 365 Defender and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.

ID: 368895 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2024

Outlook: OneDrive for Business Opens in-app for Outlook on the web

Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Previously, the OneDrive button in Outlook opened a new tab for OneDrive; with this change, you will see OneDrive inline for a consistent and fast experience.

ID: 369520 Release: OneDrive, Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium)

When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background.

ID: 371690 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for Webinars

The meeting options for a webinar are now accessible within the webinar setup in Teams. Organizers can edit meeting options in an inline window within the scheduling form in Teams.

ID: 373420 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Registration Form Updates in Webinars

Organizers can rearrange the sequence of registration form questions that are presented to attendees during the webinar registration process. The questions available for reordering include address, city, state, zip/post code, country/region, job title organization, industry, and custom questions.

ID: 376970 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat

Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat usage metrics will be included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Usage report. This new feature provides additional usage insights and informs adoption strategy decisions for Microsoft Copilot in your organization.

ID: 377675 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Connected actions – Viva Pulse integration into Viva Insights Leader deep dive reports

Leaders can send Viva Pulse surveys tailored to new out-of-the-box reports from the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams at anytime to add additional context to workplace metrics.

ID: 378430 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

SharePoint: Section Background

SharePoint now allows you to add an image or gradient color to the sections of the page from a new set of options, including image settings to ensure readability. With this release, we’re providing authors to make beautiful pages with featured sections.

ID: 378647 Release: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background

SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful.

ID: 378648 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation

Physical Windows devices will be attested at enrollment that enrollment credentials are stored in the hardware of the device. Administrators can view device attestations in the new Device attestation status report and manually force attestation from that report.

ID: 378649 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: Organize and reorder folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want.

ID: 378775 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: New options to copy email items in the new Outlook for Windows and web

We’re thrilled to introduce two new ways to copy email items in the new Outlook for web and Windows that will make your email management even more seamless and efficient. Ctrl + Drag and Drop: Simply hold down the Ctrl key while dragging and dropping your email items to effortlessly duplicate them. It’s a quick and intuitive way to manage your emails with precision. Ctrl C + Ctrl V: For those who prefer the classic copy-and-paste method, we’ve got you covered! Just use Ctrl C to copy the email item and Ctrl V to paste it wherever you need.

ID: 378776 Release: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: New context menu experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web

We’re thrilled to bring you an enhanced folder creation experience! In this update, we’ve introduced a more intuitive way to manage your folders and accounts. Starting soon, the creation links will be removed, streamlining your interface for a cleaner and more efficient workspace. What’s New: A new ellipsis icon will appear in your left nav bar when hovering the folders and accounts for a quick and easy way to create folders, subfolders or execute the existing folder and account actions ensuring a smoother workflow. As part of this update, we’ll be removing creation links to provide a more focused and user-friendly experience. Rest assured, the traditional right-click method will still be available for your convenience.

ID: 378777 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Code Snippets in Viva Engage

Users will be able to add code snippets to their posts, discussions, replies, questions, polls, and praises on Viva Engage. Additionally, if customers are licensed for Answers in Viva Engage, this feature will also be available when asking questions on Answers. To add code snippets, locate the new button on the publisher toolbar.

ID: 378778 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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: 379477 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: Filter Calendar Items in Message List in new Outlook for Windows and web

You can now filter your message list for conversations that have calendar invites when using the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Getting an overview of new meetings you’re invited to and RSVP-ing to them directly in the message list becomes much easier with this new filter.

ID: 379615 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange

With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules.

ID: 379673 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: OneDrive for Business available in classic Outlook for Windows

Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in classic Outlook for Windows, for a consistent and fast experience.

ID: 379674 Release: Outlook, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

OneNote: Loop components in OneNote

Tap into the real-time, online collaborative solution provided by Loop directly within the powerful multimodal OneNote canvas—the opportunities are endless. You can create or insert Loop components into your OneNote notebook. Navigate to Insert > Loop to create a new component or try pasting a link to an existing component to have it show up in your OneNote canvas.

ID: 379968 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Bookings: Bookings in GCC High and DoD

With this update, Bookings will be available to customers in GCC High and DoD environments.

ID: 379975 Release: Bookings – GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds)

Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.

ID: 117490 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Meetings

The updated Gallery View places everyone in tiles of equal size by default (16:9 ratio) whether their video is on or off. Users can also easily change their gallery size, choose to prioritize tiles with video-on, and remove their tile from the main gallery. When a Microsoft Teams Room joins the meeting, video is optimized by enlarging the size by default and users can re-size via the contextual menu. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

ID: 118467 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to set the availability by specific date in Shifts

Currently, we solely permit the frontline workers to establish daily recurring availability. With this new feature, we are enabling Frontline workers to set the availability for a specific date/time, in addition to recurring availability.

ID: 156952 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enabling cameras with IntelliFrame and People Recognition experiences in the new Microsoft Teams app

Remote attendees in a hybrid meeting will be able to view multi-stream IntelliFrame video, panoramic room view, and in-room attendees with speaker recognition (including name labels) in the new Teams desktop client

ID: 161427 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Syntex: Translation

A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand.

ID: 161828 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

We’re developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly.

ID: 184504 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App

Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.

ID: 186553 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Control your activity notifications from the activity card

Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them.

ID: 186571 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Discover feed for channels

Users can access a personalized feed based on important updates in the channels they are a part of.

ID: 187084 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Audio and video flyout and settings in Teams meetings

The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments.

ID: 187098 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024

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