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Microsoft Exchange Server Software Update feature provides a report to admins with information about their on-premises Exchange servers, curates data from multiple sources, and provides details on server update status.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Assign seats in Together Mode

Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode.

ID: 83648 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics

The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections. and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment.

ID: 93367 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

SharePoint: Content Type Deletion – Improved Error Messages

If you attempt to delete multiple content types from content type gallery which have dependencies on other lists/content types, you will get improved error messages that lists out the dependent resources.

ID: 93379 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Education Insights – Student Support Card

New AI-based Student Support spotlight in Education Insights helps educators better support students before they fall behind.

ID: 93388 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Teams: External access chat invitation flow for managed organizations

When receiving a new one-on-one chat from an external user, Teams users will now see an invitation to accept or block the external user. This also provides the ability to block external users at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.

ID: 94646 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts

Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.

ID: 95788 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Discover in Microsoft Edge sidebar

Discover content relevant to the page you’re browsing including summaries, source information, and more.

ID: 96137 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Search in Microsoft Edge sidebar

Easily access an updated sidebar search via Microsoft Edge sidebar, including easy access to Microsoft Search in Bing for organizations.

ID: 96140 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms

Ability for organizer to pre-assign participants to a breakout room within Channel meetings for channel members not explicitly invited to the meeting. Currently, pre-assignment can only be completed for participants invited to the meeting.

ID: 96350 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Automatically end stale Teams meetings

If a user is the sole participant in a meeting that has been identified as stale, the user will see a dialog prompting to end the call or dismiss the notification. If no action is taken, the meeting will automatically end.

ID: 96710 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Teams Q&A

Question & Answer for Teams webinars & meetings. By enabling Q&A to any Teams Webinars or Meetings through Meeting Options, Meeting Organizers will be able to create either moderated or unmoderated Q&A experience.

ID: 97020 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Rolling Out

Outlook: Delegate access control on protected emails

Outlook will provide consistent access control on protected emails for delegates and shared mailbox members. For delegates or shared mailbox members, when they have full access of the owner’s mailbox but are not allowed to read encrypted email, Outlook will have a new setting to block the owner’s protected email access which covers ad-hoc encrypted email as well as email with protected MIP sensitivity labels.

ID: 88888 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2022

SharePoint: Improvements to SharePoint pages authoring – Column reflow and RSS connector web part

Few changes to our reflow automation for two-column sections, control of vertical section reflow, and the RSS Connector web part will give more control to the users around the number of publications shown at a time and the number of articles shown per publication.

ID: 93243 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Whiteboard: Bing Image Search

The ability to search online images through Bing is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App. This service can be controlled by optional connected experiences policy, which controls whether users have access to the functionality.

ID: 93341 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Give Take Control for Teams for VDI on Azure Window Desktop and Windows 365

User on Azure Window Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to give and take control during calls and meetings. Give control: If you want another meeting participant to change a file, help you present, or demonstrate something, you can give control to that person. You will both be in control of the sharing, and you can take back control anytime. Take control: To take control while another person is sharing, select Request control. The person sharing can then approve or deny your request. While you have control, you can make selections, edits, and other modifications to the shared screen. When you’re done, select Release control to stop sharing control.

ID: 87559 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Chat with self

Users can send themselves notes, messages, files and images/videos; helping them stay organized.

ID: 88066 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Expanded Optical Character Recognition to support handwritten and printed text

Expanding optical character recognition beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to include handwritten and printed text, which will then be evaluated against the customers policy conditions (such as keywords matches for threatening language), further reducing an organizations policy violation risk. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88920 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Configure Teams DLP policies to automatically protect files shared in Teams messages (US Government clouds)

New and existing Teams DLP policies can be configured to automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.

ID: 88939 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Expanded Optical Character Recognition to support handwritten and printed text (US Government clouds)

Expanding optical character recognition beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to include handwritten and printed text, which will then be evaluated against the customers policy conditions (such as keywords matching for threatening language), further reducing an organizations policy violation risk. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93194 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – Automatically turn on auto-labeling policy

Admins can configure their auto-labeling policies to be automatically turned on if there aren’t any changes to the policy within a set number of days from simulation completion. This configuration option will be available in the auto-labeling policy setup in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and via cmdlet.

ID: 93330 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Isolated audio feed capabilities for GCC-High and DoD

When using NDI or hardware-out in Microsoft Teams, users will be able to get the isolated audio feed along with the isolated video feed from any Teams meeting.

ID: 93634 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Outlook: [Android] Adding the option to Save attachments to OneDrive for Business

Quickly and easily save files from your email to your configured cloud storage accounts.

ID: 95108 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Project: Charts view

Visually assess the progress of your work through chart view.

ID: 82141 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Canceled

Outlook: New options for RSVP responses

This feature has been cancelled. We will update as soon as we have new timelines. New RSVP response options in Outlook lets people know if you will be attending a meeting online or in-person.

ID: 88535 Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022