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Microsoft Search and Office 365 for Business: Topics in Microsoft 365 Profile Cards
Users will now be able to add Topics to their profile card in Microsoft 365. Topics are terms that individuals can add to their profile through their profile card or Office Delve. Users can add topics to their profile to make it easier for people to learn more about them. Topics can be skills, projects, and even hobbies. When others search for a term that matches a topic on their profile, their name and profile picture may show up in search results across Microsoft apps.
ID: 82081 Tags: Office 365, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) support for Advanced Delivery
We’re adding support for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) domains to our advanced delivery feature, enabling administrators to use DKIM domains in addition to sending domains to configure their third-party phishing simulations.
ID: 82083 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance analyze linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint online (modern attachments)
Communication compliance policies that detect violations in Microsoft Teams will now analyze the content of documents shared in chat for potential policy match.
ID: 82084 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Power BI sensitivity label data in Activity Explorer (preview)
Power BI will now send sensitivity label activity data to Activity Explorer for admins to search and review along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Azure Information Protection (AIP), and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.
ID: 82086 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Outlook: Suggested Reply Language Support Added
Outlook on the web and Outlook for iOS and Android are extending support for suggested replies. New languages include Korean, Russian, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew.
ID: 82090 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Ability to remove the title region gradient
We are adding a new toggle for the title region that allows page authors to remove or add a gradient to the title region.
ID: 82091 Tags: SharePoint – Germany, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: 1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription In Call App V2
1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription will now show in the Calls App, in the “call details” panel. This feature permits users to view call recordings and transcriptions for both PSTN and VoIP calls. Users have the option to delete call recordings, removing them from the call history in “call details” panel. If there are multiple recordings of a call, each call recording will appear in a list in call history, in the “call details” panel.
ID: 83497 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams with Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license
The capability of presenting your slides directly from the PowerPoint desktop apps to a meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams is now extended to the Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license.
ID: 83640 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Paging on Teams phones
Like traditional walkie talkies, the Walkie Talkie app on your Teams phones provides an instant push-to-talk (PTT) communication for your team. It allows you to press and hold a button to speak to your team, and release the button to listen. Users can connect with their team using the Teams channels.
ID: 83653 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Captions in all available languages on Teams Meetings on Web
Live Captions in all available languages are now available for web users of Teams Meetings.
ID: 84001 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Share Feedback in mobile app
Share your feedback directly from the Help & Feedback option in Settings, without the need to send an email message. Admins will now be able to control elements such as sharing email addresses and logs from the mobile app.
ID: 84004 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Auto-Expiration of Meeting Recordings stored on OneDrive and SharePoint
Newly created Teams meeting recordings in OneDrive and SharePoint will be automatically deleted by the service based on a default Teams policy setting. Teams Admins will be able to modify the default meeting recording expiration time via a setting in the Teams Admin Portal or by modifying policy attributes using Powershell scripts. Newly created meeting recordings in OneDrive & SharePoint will be automatically deleted after this point unless the meeting owner extends the expiration. Meeting owners will be notified about expired recordings and may extend the expiration date in OneDrive/SharePoint. Compliance policies will override the expiration setting.
ID: 84580 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.95: Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET)
Microsoft Edge will begin supporting an even safer browsing mode that uses hardware-dependent control flow for browser processes on supported hardware (Intel 11th Gen. or AMD Zen 3). You can disable CET by manipulating Image File Execution Options (IFEO) using group policy.
ID: 84891 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Yammer: Community Header in Yammer Embed Feed
Previously, embedded community feeds did not surface the community name, description, or ability to join. In an effort to give users more context and ability to engage deeper with the feeds, we are adding the community name, description, and ability to join/leave at the top of the community feeds by default. When clicked, the community name will take users to the community page in Yammer.
ID: 84955 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Sharing device audio on iOS and Android for GCC High and DoD
Include device audio when sharing on iPhones/iPads and Android devices.
ID: 85005 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Timer, Room Retention, and Participant Reassignment for GCC-High
Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting. Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions. With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.
ID: 85009 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Edge: New policy to support more flexibility in Microsoft Edge startup
Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 93, enterprise administrators will have more flexibility in the options they choose in their startup policy. This will include the ability to specify the start page, add/remove additional pages, and Continue where you left off”, while ensuring that the set of pages specified by policy are also opened.
ID: 85317 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.94: Free form highlighting on PDFs
Starting in Microsoft Edge version 94, the PDF viewing and markup experience will be improved with the addition of freeform highlighters. This will allow you to highlight sections on PDFs that you may not have access to comment on as well as scanned documents.
ID: 85318 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.94: Notification from web apps show as coming from the Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, notifications from progressive web applications PWAs will no longer show as coming from Microsoft Edge, but rather will display the name of the web app instead.
ID: 85319 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.93: Initial Preferences in Microsoft Edge
Deploying Microsoft Edge to your enterprise will become easier starting in version 93, with the addition of Initial Preferences.
ID: 85320 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.95: Improved handoff between IE mode and the modern browser
Starting with Microsoft Edge version 95, the transition between the modern browser experience and the IE mode experience will improve. Referrer headers, post data, forms data and request methods will now be forwarded properly across the two experiences.
ID: 85321 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Presenter support for Dod
Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
ID: 85326 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.97: Launch PWA instead of browser with URL links
Starting in Microsoft Edge version 97, you can opt into launching the browser in a PWA rather than the full native browser.
ID: 85327 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold optimizations
This update provides various service optimizations for Advanced eDiscovery, including service improvements for hold and limits increase.
ID: 70586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: July 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 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Translate slideshow content
Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live
ID: 80601 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: New DLP alert management dashboard for gov clouds
A new data loss prevention (DLP) alert management experience within the Microsoft 365 compliance center will enable admins to review, investigate, and manage DLP policy match events, related content, and associated metadata, as well as edit alert configuration options as a part of the DLP policy authoring experience. The dashboard shows alerts for DLP policies that are enforced on these workloads: Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Devices.
ID: 81980 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Cortana and Outlook: Briefing email support for French, German, Italian, and Portuguese
This personalized, actionable briefing email from Cortana, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will support French, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
ID: 81999 Tags: Outlook, Cortana – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Edge v.92: Default for auto play will be set to Limited
To help you maintain your focus online, we have changed the default for auto playing media to Limit from Allow, beginning with Microsoft Edge version 92.
ID: 85322 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Power BI: Excel data types from Power BI
Using data types in Excel, you can quickly retrieve data from featured tables in Power BI and load it in the Excel grid. Discover available tables in Excel’s data types gallery and analyze your data in a familiar and simple way.
ID: 57141 Tags: Power BI, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Excel: 3D Model Support in iOS
Add 3D models to your Excel worksheets, adjust their size and position, and change their rotation.
ID: 59909 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Administration – Azure Active Directory Global Reader role
We have introduced a new Azure Active Directory (AAD) built-in role called “Global Reader.” Global Reader is the read-only counterpart to Global admin. Users in this role can read settings and administrative information across Microsoft 365 services, but cannot take management actions. When the Global Reader role initially launched, it did not support the SharePoint admin center. And now, a “Global Reader” will see ‘SharePoint’ listed in left pane under Admin Centers in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Users who are assigned this role will have read-only access to all info and settings in the new SharePoint admin center. Note: This feature is related to the global admin role introduced in Message Center post: MC191391 (September 2019); roadmap ID: 55096.
ID: 59984 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2020
Office 365 Groups: New groups management features available in the Microsoft 365 admin center
Several new groups management features are now available in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including the ability to export groups, Teams creation improvements for groups, the ability to edit a group’s e-mail address, the ability to sort by group name, and the ability to restore deleted groups.
ID: 64477 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Word: Add Files in Word Online
An updated Add from Files experience in Word Online makes it easier to find and reuse content across your company.
ID: 64560 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Office 365: Office.COM UI update
Office.com is being updated to include the catch-up pane. A single place for you to catch up on all activity related to content you shared, or was shared with you. (including comments, @mentions, changes and more)
ID: 67088 Tags: Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Network Connectivity in the Microsoft 365 admin center
The Network Connectivity category within Admin Center allows you to see a network assessment that evaluates the impact of your network design on Microsoft 365 user experience in a 0 – 100 scale. This is calculated based on network attributes which have been proven through support cases to affect user experience the most. The network assessment is best evaluated at a specific office location, but an organization wide network assessment is also provided. In addition, specific network insights are provided which identify network design improvements that could be made to align with the published network connectivity principles and improve network performance.
ID: 67153 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in Microsoft Teams
Quickly create tasks right from any Microsoft Teams chat or channel conversation without having to switch apps or windows. Select More options on a Teams message to choose ‘Create task’ and track in the Tasks app in Teams.
ID: 68696 Tags: Microsoft To Do, Planner, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Lists: @mentions in comments
Get a colleague’s attention to an item in a list by @mentioning them within list comments. That person will receive a notification and a link that takes them directly back to the item, to review the comment and take the requested action.
ID: 68811 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Excel: Switch Office themes automatically to match Windows 10
If you are using Windows 10 in Dark Mode then Office can now switch themes to match automatically – just choose “Use system setting” as your Office Theme.
ID: 68954 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: App risk evaluation
Teams admins will be able to view the security, compliance, and data privacy details for apps coming from Microsoft Cloud App Security. This will help Teams admins save time on security reviews and enable a more focused selection-based security specifications, resulting in increased app quality.
ID: 70775 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for DoD
Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in DoD 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: 72192 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD Release: July 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: July CY2021
Microsoft Forms: File upload question is available in GCC, GCC-High, and DoD
Form designers are able to add file upload questions in Microsoft Forms to collect respondents’ uploaded file in GCC, GCC-High, or DoD environment.
ID: 81837 Tags: Forms – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Room Threat Protection (with MDE)
Advanced Threat Protection of MTR devices with Microsoft Defender for Endpoints
ID: 81899 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Vulnerability Detection
Detection of vulnerabilities in MTR devices with Microsoft Defender for Endpoints
ID: 81900 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Security Updates Management
Managed deployment of security updates based on monitoring
ID: 81901 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Custom Administrative Roles
Custom roles to support different types of IT organizations and staffing
ID: 81902 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Managed Firmware Updates (Crestron Devices)
Managed firmware updates for Crestron devices
ID: 81903 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Global Incident Detection (Outages)
Detection of widespread outages affecting multiple rooms
ID: 81905 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Managed Operating System Updates
Support managed updates of the Operating System for Windows based MTR devices
ID: 81907 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Support Human Interface Devices for Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)
This feature will support use of Human Interface Devices (HID) for Teams on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)/Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI).
ID: 83024 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participants for GCC-High and DoD
Currently, 300 meeting participants can be part of the meeting chat; this feature update will allow 1000 participants to participate in the meeting chat.
ID: 84178 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Large meeting support for GCC-High and DoD
Hold interactive meetings and webinars with more attendees—up to 1,000.
ID: 84179 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Ability to ignore email signature or disclaimer
Provide the ability within Communication Compliance to define text that should be ignored during policy evaluation to avoid false positives.
ID: 68133 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management hand-off
Introducing a new remediation action in Communication Compliance that will enable a user to be added to an existing Insider risk management policy for further evaluation.
ID: 68686 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account
Users in your organization will have the ability to earn Microsoft Rewards points when signed into select Microsoft 365 services (Microsoft Search in Bing) with their organizational (work or school) account. This item is being postponed and will be added back to the roadmap when appropriate.
ID: 70634 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Yammer: Establish Official Communities
Updated community settings on web for communities and All Company community.
ID: 72062 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
