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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.

In Development

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

Rolling Out

Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for gov clouds

Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in GCC and GCC-High environments. Sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to label important content to associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. With this release, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input.

ID:67125    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High  Release: November CY2020

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

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

Launched

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

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 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 High, GCC, Germany, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Canceled

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

Microsoft Teams: Share System Audio on Mac

{This is a duplicate of 67168 and will be removed from the M365 Roadmap.} 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:69941   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: January CY2021