Play of the Week

New updates for Defender O365 for message security. These enhancements will be available in August.

In Development

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Word – Customize Copilot in Word responses with Personalization profiles

Personalization profiles allow users to customize the way Copilot responds to their prompts. It considers user preferences, interests, and other information to give users a more personalized experience.

ID: 380430 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Current web content included when drafting with Copilot in Word

Draft with Copilot will include information from Bing search, resulting in content that’s as current as what you would find when searching with Bing on the web.

ID: 380839 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word

When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document.

ID: 399922 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying allowable command arguments

Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying a list of allowable command parameters, ensuring elevation for only the allowed or mandatory arguments.

ID: 399934 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts

Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.

ID: 401124 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Quick Links Card on Viva Connections Dashboard

This feature helps tenant admins add a card with a list of curated quick links for users on the Viva Connections Dashboard.

ID: 402189 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Preview and “Apply” changes suggested by Copilot

Previously, when a user asked Copilot to make changes to their table data, Copilot would make the changes directly. Now, Copilot will respond with a description of the planned changes, along with a button to “Apply”. Users can choose to refine before applying. This provides more user awareness and control over Copilot’s changes.

ID: 402191 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Use the Alt key to bring up key tips in new Outlook for Windows

Users in new Outlook will now be able to use the Alt key to bring up key tips when using keyboard navigation. This behavior was previously Win+Alt. Other Outlook apps will not be impacted by these changes. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 403109 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot takes emails and meetings into account while drafting content in Word

You will no longer need to reference certain types of organizational data for Copilot to generate contextually relevant content. People and chats will still need to be referenced explicitly.

ID: 405753 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create allow directly in Tenant Allow/Block List

Admins can create an allow inside the Tenant Allow/Block List to override bulk, spam, and regular confidence phish verdicts directly.

ID: 406165 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List

Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List.

ID: 406166 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Third party add-in user report can be sent to Microsoft for analysis

Admins and security analysts of organizations who use a third-party reporting add-in in Outlook can configure using user-reported settings to send their user reports to Microsoft for analysis and learning.

ID: 406167 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Add an account to Outlook mobile using a QR code

Microsoft is simplifying how users can add their Microsoft 365 for work or school accounts to Outlook mobile by allowing them to use a QR code instead of typing their username and password. This experience will roll out first to Outlook on the web. From there, users will see a new button in Help labeled “Outlook mobile.” Once they click it, a QR code will appear. Users can scan the QR code from within Outlook mobile following the steps for “Add account” to add their account without the need to type their usernames and passwords.

ID: 406169 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add brand images in M365 Copilot from SharePoint organization asset libraries

Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand.

ID: 406170 Release: Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups

Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites.

ID: 406554 Release: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment

Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment (ADE) ensures targeted apps and policies can get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup. ETG will only be part of new iOS/iPadOS enrollment policies. Admins can add a static Entra ID group into the enrollment policy, so devices will be part of that group upon enrollment, reducing latency of targeted policies and apps.

ID: 406907 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Security Baselines for HoloLens 2

These security baselines represent Microsoft’s best practice guidelines and experience from deploying and supporting HoloLens 2 devices to customers across various industries.

ID: 406909 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: Org Explorer in Outlook for Mac

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will now also be available in Outlook for Mac.

ID: 406913 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls

When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context.

ID: 385349 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints

In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.

ID: 392840 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms on Windows

Intelligent speaker recognition is being enabled for all Teams Rooms on Windows environments, with intelligent speakers or on existing speakers via the cloud. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique “voiceprint” for each participant. Copilot in Teams can deliver meeting summaries, insights, and action items attributing contributions to individual speakers. Users can enroll voices in the Teams Desktop. Learn more at the link below.

ID: 394668 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center

If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center.

ID: 395372 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Channel cards

Channel cards will provide you quick overview of key information about what is happening within the channel, including who is in the channel and the purpose of the channel.

ID: 397883 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinar presenter orderability on event page

Users can now customize the list of presenters in the webinar event page via drag and drop functionality. This option can be found under the “Presenter Bio” section of the webinar set-up dialog box.

ID: 399465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Define criteria for validating responses to open-text questions in Microsoft Forms

Now you can set specific requirements for answers to open-text questions. You can ensure the answer is an email address, URL, contains certain keywords, must be number or text, etc.

ID: 400503 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reporting improvements (Leverage policy insights)

Communication Compliance message details report will support additional user filter to create and download the report for specific users in the policy. The items per policy report will provide item counts and actions on the items matched in the specified date range.

ID: 172017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Canceled