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Microsoft Visio: Link your diagrams

Link shapes in your diagram by adding hyperlinks to web pages, other files stored online, pages within same Visio file, and email addresses to make your diagrams interactive with richer information.

ID:53961    Tags: Visio – GCC, DoD, GCC High  Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Copy a link to your task or plan in Planner iOS and Android

Easily share your task or plan with others in your organization by copying and sending a link.

ID:63466    Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Support for Exact Data Match (EDM) for the government clouds

Organizations will be able to use EDM (Exact Data Match) to better protect content. With EDM-based classification, you can create a custom sensitive information type that is designed to: be dynamic and refreshable, be more scalable, result in fewer false-positives, work with structured sensitive data, handle sensitive information more securely and be used with several Microsoft cloud services.

ID:65150    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams – PSTN participant phone numbers are masked from external users for GCC

For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we will mask the PSTN participant’s phone number to users who have joined from outside of your organization.

ID:65202     Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC    Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support SALT in the data hashing process to improve data security

Exact Data Match will support SALT in the data hashing process to improve data security. Adding a random string, known as a SALT, to each data value prior to hashing can make it much more challenging for an attacker to reverse engineer the original values.

ID:65207    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – All environments, GCC High, Germany, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: August CY2020

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support data files containing up to 100 Million rows

The size of the data tables that can be uploaded into the Exact Data Match service will increase to 100 M rows.

ID:65208    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, Germany, GCC High, All environments   Release: Q3 CY2020

Access: New Microsoft Graph Data Connector

Link to or import from Microsoft Graph services to build Access applications that can leverage the smart contextual data stored in the Graph.

ID:65224    Tags: Microsoft Graph, Access – DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Large Gallery view (Preview) – see up to 49 participants

We will soon bring Large Gallery view to Microsoft Teams, providing a new way to view video up to 49 participants at once on a single screen (7×7). We will begin rolling out the feature to production with the new multi-window experience in late June and target full availability by the end of August. In order to take advantage of this new view, users will need to turn on the new multi-window meeting experience once made available.

ID:65333    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams: New channel files tab for GCC, GCC-High and DoD

We are rolling out the new channel files tab experience to the government clouds (GCC, GCC-High, and DoD). This upgrade brings in more than 10 new features, including different SharePoint view, ability to view metadata, sync, row/column formatting etc.

ID:65350    Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Forms: Specific User Sharing for Collaboration for GCC, GCC-High and DoD

Microsoft Forms: Specific User Sharing for Collaboration is a new Office 365 feature that allows Form Owners to collaborate with specific users or security groups. This allows for the creation of specified Co-authors that can help design the form and view/analyze response data and allows a Form Owner to keep the collaboration locked down much further than using the existing collaboration styles “Users with an office 365 work or school account can view and edit” or “Only users in my organization can view and edit” We’ll be gradually rolling this out to Worldwide O365 customers in Late April 2020. The roll-out will be completed by Early May 2020 . Previously, Co-authors created by the feature Share-Share to Collaborate- “Users with an office 365 work or school account can view and edit” or “Only users in my organization can view and edit” were able to modify the permissions level of collaboration, eg changing it from “Only users in my organization” – “Users with an office 365 account”. This ability will now be removed from all existing co-authors as well as any newly created co-authors. Only Form owners will be able to change this setting.

ID:65379    Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD  Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Data loss prevention and Microsoft Teams

Data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities in Microsoft 365 government clouds will be extended to include Microsoft Teams chat and channel messages, including private channel messages. If your organization has DLP, you can now define policies that prevent people from sharing sensitive information in a Microsoft Teams channel or chat session.

ID:65383    Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 Data Loss Prevention – GCC, GCC High, DoD   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Tasks for Information Workers in Teams

Tasks for Information Workers in Teams—Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you’re on desktop or mobile.

ID:65385    Tags: Planner, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020

Access: New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)

Improve and increase the efficiency of your browsing capabilities through our Modern Web Browser Control, which will support our new Chromium Edge browser.

ID:65405    Tags: Microsoft Graph, Access – DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Access: Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access

32-bit Access will become Large Address Aware (LAA) to address 4G of memory, rather than 2G.

ID:65406    Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: Q4 CY2020

Access: ODBC Interface Support (without ACE Redistributable Engine)

If you have O365, or click-to-run versions of Access 2016/2019 Consumer installed, you will no longer need to install the ACE Redistributable to use the ACE ODBC provider

ID:65407    Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD   Release: July CY2020

Access: DAO Interface Support (without ACE Redistributable Engine)

If you have O365, or click-to-run versions of Access 2016/2019 Consumer installed, you will no longer need to install the ACE Redistributable to use the ACE DAO provider.

ID:65408    Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD   Release: July CY2020

Access: SQL Monaco Editor

Use the embedded Monaco Editor, the same editor used for Visual Studio Code, in Access.

ID:65409    Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High, Germany   Release: Q4 CY2020

Yammer: The New Yammer

The next phase of the new Yammer experience rollout will begin in mid-July. Global Admins of existing networks can control how their organization previews and rolls out the new Yammer experience under the ‘New Yammer’ tab in Yammer Admin Settings.

ID:65410    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Exchange online: Client Access rules support for OAuth POP and IMAP

We are adding Client Access Rules Support to OAuth POP and IMAP in Exchange Online.

ID:65417    Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany   Release: July CY2020

Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Analytics Public Preview

Endpoint analytics aims to improve user productivity and reduce IT support costs by providing insights into the user experience. The insights enable IT to optimize the end-user experience with proactive support and to detect regressions to the user experience by assessing user impact of configuration changes. Features available for the preview include Startup Score, Recommended Software, and Proactive Remediations. ConfigMgr-managed devices are now supported in addition to Intune-managed devices.

ID:65419    Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2020

Access: SQL Date & Time Extended Data Type Integration

To enhance syntax compatibility with SQL, and to increase the accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates/times, we are implementing a new “Date & Time Extended” data type into Access. This additional date & time type is directly compatible with SQL’s DateTime2 data type, and it will include a larger date range (0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31), and higher-specified time precision (nanoseconds). The current DateTime data type will continue to operate as-is.

ID:65420    Tags: Microsoft Graph, Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Outlook for iOS: New location for New Message and Event

Similar to Outlook for Android, the location of the New Message or New Event button will move from a fixed location in the header to a location closer to the bottom right on of the screen, closer to your thumbs.

ID:65440    Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education

Microsoft Teams: Language-aware proofing

Communicate using multiple languages in Microsoft Teams. Users who write different messages in different languages will now see spellchecking relevant to the language they use when typing a message in the Microsoft Teams desktop app.

ID:65446    Tags: Worldwide   Release: June CY2020

Rolling Out

Office 365 Data Loss Prevention treats files as sensitive by default until fully scanned

Office 365 Data Loss Prevention will be able to treat files in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business as sensitive (by default) and therefore block external access until the file has been fully scanned for sensitive information.

ID: 34247    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q2 CY2020

SharePoint: Enable modern communication site experience on classic sites

Using PowerShell, admins can now enable the modern communication site experience on any classic team site, including the root site.

ID: 46338    Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, GCC High, All environments, DoD, Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

Mobile video sharing from Yammer

Connect with your community instantly. Capture, edit, and share videos from your mobile device.

ID: 50557    Tags: Yammer – All environments Release: Q2 CY2020

Updates to Office.com and Office 365 App Launcher

There are two changes coming for Office.com and the Office 365 App Launcher: 1. Office.com and the Office 365 app launcher will show the same set of apps. Recently used apps will now be pinned for users on both. Users have the ability to unpin any app that have been pinned automatically from recent usage or manually by an admin or user. 2. Admins will have the ability to pin applications to Office.com and the Office 365 app launcher through the Azure Active Directory admin portal. Global admin, Application admin and Cloud application admin roles can be used to pin apps for users.

ID: 59667    Tags: Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: July CY2020

Tasks in Excel

Create and assign tasks to collaborators in an Excel workbook to track ownership and get work done

ID: 61111    Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q2 CY2020

Android On-Demand Chat Translation

Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. This feature will now be available on Android.

ID: 63226    Tags: Microsoft Teams – All environments, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2020

[iOS] Teams Mobile On-Demand Chat Translation

Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. This feature will now be available on iOS.

ID: 63227    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Planner: Sync Message Center posts to Planner

Microsoft is introducing Planner integration for the Message Center to help with workflow management. Lots of information arrives in the Message Center, and you need to decide whether to act on it or not. And if an action is needed, who performs that action, and how do you track that task to completion? Or maybe you want to make a note of something and tag it for later. You can do all of this and more when you sync your Message Center to Microsoft Planner.

ID: 63317    Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: September CY2020

Yammer: Updated conversations webpart for SharePoint

We are updating the Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint that contains the new Yammer experience. SharePoint Sites that use the Yammer Conversations web part will start displaying the new Yammer Conversations web part experience.

ID: 63530    Tags: Yammer – All environments   Release: July CY2020

Outlook on the web – Text predictions

Using smart technology, Outlook will predict text while you type. Just use the Tab key to accept the text prediction.

ID: 63795    Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: Q2 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – live captions in Teams meetings for GCC tenants

This feature enables meeting participants to view live captions during a Teams meeting. Supported spoken languages in 1st release: English. Note this release is for our GCC tenants, and does not yet include GCC High and DoD environments.

ID: 64368    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC   Release: June CY2020

Outlook on the web – redesigned inbox “Storage” view in Settings

We are redesigning the the inbox storage view in Settings, so you can easily see which files and folder are consuming your inbox storage space and manage it.

ID: 65472    Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Germany, All environments, Education, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: July CY2020

Launched

Visio: Visio as a tab in Microsoft Teams

To make collaborating on Visio diagrams within Teams an even better experience, Visio as a tab helps you easily access and manage the Visio files you need or interact with the most. Visio tabs in Teams allow team members to access services and content in a dedicated space within a channel or in a chat. This lets the team work directly with tools and data, and have conversations about the tools and data, all within the context of that channel or chat.

ID: 20886  Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: June CY2020

Screen recording and editing in Microsoft Stream

Quickly create videos using Microsoft Stream! Quickly create screen recordings by capturing your screen, mic, or webcam, applying light edits, and uploading directly into Stream.

ID: 25687   Tags: Microsoft Stream – All environments Release: Q2 CY2020

Outlook for Windows: Drag and drop emails into a Group

Drag a single email or an entire thread to a Group in Outlook.

ID: 27473    Tags: Outlook   Release: Q1 CY2020

SharePoint sites: audience targeting in site navigation

Increase the value and engagement of your site navigation by filtering the items within the navigation menu based on people and groups. This applied to communication sites and hub sites in Office 365.

ID: 34251    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: Q2 CY2020

SharePoint – OneDrive – Teams – file upload limit up to 100GB

As requirements grow, so, too, must the content service that you depend on for your day to day content and files use. We are increasing the file upload limit in Office 365 to 100GB (up from 15GB). That means you can bring bigger files into SharePoint document libraries, OneDrive and Teams files – all based on the same, robust content store.

ID: 49368   Tags: OneDrive – All environments, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2020

Planner: Copy a plan within an existing Group or Teams

You will be able to select an existing group or team that you’d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan.

ID: 49429    Tags: Planner – All environments, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC   Release: July CY2020

View labeled & protected Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business using Office Online apps

Ability to open labeled and protected documents stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business using the Office Online apps.

ID: 49448    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – Private channels

Limit which team members can see the conversation and content within a particular channel. You can right-size channel participation and exposure without having to create discrete teams to limit visibility.

ID: 50588    Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Prevent Yammer groups from being hidden from the directory

Yammer admins will be able to prevent Yammer groups from being hidden from the groups directory

ID: 53635    Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Microsoft Teams – Phone System for GCC High and DoD

Phone System enables call control and PBX capabilities in the Office 365 cloud for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is now enabling this environment for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD.

ID: 54207   Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High   Release: Q4 CY2019

Outlook for Android: Up next

Events on your calendar that are coming up in the next 30 minutes and marked as Busy will be included in a new banner at the top of your inbox.

ID: 54578   Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Education, GCC   Release: Q2 CY2020

Noise Suppression in Stream Videos

Noise suppression eliminates distracting background noise in recorded videos uploaded to Stream, so you focus on the person speaking, not what’s happening around them.

ID: 57301    Tags: Microsoft Stream – All environments Release: May CY2020

SharePoint – lists and libraries web parts consume dynamic data

Let web parts talk to other web parts and your pages and experiences become more dynamic with data and interactive. You will be able to configure list web part to send its property values to the List Properties web part, including updating those values based on what is selected.

ID: 57307    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2019

Outlook for Android: Gallery support

Browse your photo gallery from Outlook when you want to add a photo to your email message.

ID: 60393   Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Education, DoD, GCC High   Release: June CY2020

Pin Microsoft Teams apps in more places

Administrators can now pin Apps more broadly across Microsoft Teams, including the expanded Apps area of the Microsoft Teams App Bar. This makes featuring the right apps for your organization more discoverable by users.

ID: 61332   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education, GCC, Germany, All environments, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q1 CY2020

Microsoft Graph: [IDENTITY AND ACCESS] Publisher Verification (Preview)

App developers will be able to prove their authenticity byassociating their verified organizational identity with their app registration. After this is complete, admins and end users will be able to see a “verified” badge on the consent screen andother UX surfaces. Publisher Verification status will also be used by tenantadmins to set policies that control what apps users can consent to, and it willbe factored into Microsoft’s risk evaluation of an app. All new multi-tenantapps created after Build will be required to be Publisher Verified in order tobe user consentable in any tenant.

ID: 63733    Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: May CY2020

Microsoft Teams meeting attendee limit increases to 300 participants

To help customers meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, we are increasing the maximum number of participants allowed in a Teams meeting to 300. We expect to enable this new increase in June.

ID: 64225   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Safe Documents is available worldwide

With Safe Documents, we’re bringing the power of the Intelligent Security Graph down to the desktop to verify that documents are safe at the endpoint itself. Although Protected View helps secure documents originating outside the organization, too often users would exit this sandbox without great consideration and leave their networks vulnerable. Bringing a minimal trust approach to the Office 365 ProPlus clients, Safe Documents automatically checks the document against known risks and threat profiles before allowing to open. Users are not asked to decide on their own whether a document can be trusted; they can simply focus on the work to be done. This seamless connection between the desktop and the cloud both simplifies the user workflow and helps to keep the network more secure. And with every malicious attack contained, the entire Intelligent Security Graph becomes stronger, benefiting everyone.

ID: 64678    Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: June CY2020

Microsoft Teams – PSTN participant phone numbers are masked from external users for GCC

For customers with Audio Conferencing enabled for their Teams meetings, we will mask the PSTN participant’s phone number to users who have joined from outside of your organization.

ID: 65202    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2020

Canceled

New in Access – Data Connector to Microsoft Graph

This Roadmap item has been replaced by Item 62554 and will be removed from the Roadmap in mid-July.

ID: 43360    Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: Q4 CY2020

Microsoft Teams – 7×7 view in meetings

This is a duplicate of 65333 and will be removed from the M365 Roadmap. We will soon bring Large Gallery view to Microsoft Teams, expanding the meeting grid view in Teams to accommodate up to 49 participants at once on a single screen (7×7). Large Gallery will be a public preview feature starting in late June and scaling up production access beginning in July. In order to take advantage of this new view, users will need to turn on the new multi-window meeting experience once made available.

ID: 65336    Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Germany, DoD, GCC   Release: July CY2020