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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Viva: Sort topics in web part
In the Topics web part, add the ability to sort topics where you have confirmed your connection.
ID: 82043 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Outlook: Support for Online Archive in the New Outlook for Mac
If an Online Archive is enabled, administrators and users can set up their mailbox to automatically move old messages to the Online Archive using Archive Policies.
ID: 82092 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: November CY2021
Whiteboard: Whiteboard on iOS revamped
Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. The new Whiteboard app for iOS addresses key customer asks around improved app performance. It also provides highly requested features such as the ability to add shapes & inking with palm rejection & Apple scribble functionality on iPads. The New iOS App adopts a user-centric approach by focusing on marquee features such as ability to insert templates, images, sticky notes, text boxes & stickers thus, keeping the interface lean & the user experience simple yet effective.
ID: 82093 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: September CY2021
Forms: Correct Answer choice in Teams Meeting Forms Polls for GCC
This new feature introduces Correct Answer choices to Polls within Teams meetings and will roll out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web. The new update will make poll creation, as frictionless as possible and gives presenters control of their meeting experience.
ID: 82095 Tags: Forms – GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Information governance – Retention policies for Microsoft Teams for private channels
This update enables organizations to apply an organization-wide retention policy on Teams private channel messages.
ID: 82100 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Viva: User opt-in as suggested experts
To meet some customer governance and privacy standards, we now allow users to control being displayed as potentially associated with the topic. For these circumstances, you’ll be able to empower users to opt-in to be added to topic pages and cards.
ID: 82103 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Admins can use cloud shell from Teams admin center
Admins can open Azure cloud shell from Teams admin center inline and run powershell scripts from browser.
ID: 82708 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript in all available languages in Teams Meetings on Web
Live Transcript is now available in all available languages for web users of Teams Meetings.
ID: 84003 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Paging on Video Gallery for Web
When you are in gallery view, and there are more videos than what can be shown at once on the meeting stage (the maximum number can vary depending on your device configuration and internet bandwidth), navigation controls and will appear below the Video Gallery to see additional videos of the attendees. You can use these controls to view more video participants.
ID: 84629 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms for GCC-High
Enhanced UX for participant assignment. This includes new capabilities such as sorting participants and rooms and performing multiple selections and assignments to rooms.
ID: 85323 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms for DoD
Enhanced UX for participant assignment. This includes new capabilities such as sorting participants and rooms and performing multiple selections and assignments to rooms.
ID: 85324 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Windows 10 native notifications
Choose the style of your notifications: built-in Teams or Windows native notifications. The latter brings a suite of benefits, like respecting focus assist mode which enables you to avoid distracting notifications when you need to focus, and integrating with Windows 10 action center to helps you review your notifications in one place.
ID: 85417 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Chat preview notification settings
Users can change settings and manage previews for their chat notification toasts.
ID: 85421 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams
Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via macOS native notifications.
ID: 66743 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
You’ll have the ability to show page sections in an accordion view (collapsed or expanded) or as tabs. The accordion view will be collapsed by default, but can be set to show expanded.
ID: 67147 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, Germany, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Retention policies for Microsoft Teams private channels
This update enables organizations to apply an organization-wide retention policy on Teams private channel messages.
ID: 70582 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Simplified Global Notification Settings for GCC-High and DoD
Government users can now configure and customize their notification settings through a newly designed notification settings section.
ID: 70663 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Search: Find a meeting recording based on what was said
For a Teams meeting that was recorded to OneDrive & SharePoint and was also transcribed live during the meeting you can now search in Microsoft Search to find the meeting recording file based on the transcript.
ID: 82003 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Search, Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams classes LTI application for educational learning managements systems (LMS)
Microsoft Teams classes LTI app helps educators and students easily navigate between their Learning Management Systems and Teams. Users can access their class teams associated with their course directly from within their LMS. The LTI app will be available to Canvas users in July 2021 and will be available to Blackboard Learn users in August 2021.
ID: 83071 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for Teams Live Events in GCC-H and DoD
Teams Live Events held in GCC-H and DoD government clouds will have Live Captions available.
ID: 84486 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021
Word: Designer in Word for the web
Designer in Word for the web helps you make your document look and feel consistent by understanding different document constructs and intents. In addition, by providing a variety of document styles you can quickly change the look and feel of your document.
ID: 63455 Tags: Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Windows 10 Native Notifications
Choose the style of your notifications: built-in Teams or Windows native notifications. The latter brings a suite of benefits, like respecting focus assist mode which enables you to avoid distracting notifications when you need to focus, and integrating with Windows 10 action center to helps you review your notifications in one place.
ID: 64138 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Chat preview notification settings, Government Clouds
Users can change settings and manage previews for their chat notification toasts.
ID: 65362 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: July CY2021
Planner: File recommendations
Planner will recommend related files to attach to your tasks.
ID: 66364 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: “Watch-the-watchers” audit trail for Insider Risk Management
Audit and review activities of IRM Analyst, IRM Investigator, and IRM Admin roles within the Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution. The audit trail will be available for a new role (IRM Auditor) to maintain integrity of an independent audit control.
ID: 68921 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Revised in-meeting Share experience
The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily.
ID: 70560 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for GCC-High
Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.
ID: 72168 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Configure sensitivity labels for encrypt-only protection on Outlook messages
In the Microsoft 365 compliance center, you can now create labels that enforce the encrypt-only restriction (available within Office 365 Message Encryption) when applied to Outlook email messages. With encrypt-only, users can send encrypted email to any recipient, whether they are inside or outside the organization, and the protection follows the lifecycle of the email.
ID: 72218 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Outlook support for DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel settings
Outlook clients will now support the advanced Azure Information Protection (AIP) settings DisableMandatoryInOutlook and OutlookDefaultLabel.
ID: 72219 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Out-of-the-box assessments for non-Microsoft 365 assets
Introducing pre-configured templates that extend Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets.
ID: 72223 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Retention for Teams
Admins will be able to apply retention and deletion policies to Teams chats and conversations.
ID: 81963 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May 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, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Customer Managed Key
Customers will be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using their own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security. EDM content that is encrypted using the CMK includes the data file schemas, rule packages, and the salts, which are used in hashing the sensitive data being protected.
ID: 81987 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Transcription with speaker attribution (for additional SKUs)
Live transcripts provide another way to follow along with what has been said and who said it. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting. We are now expanding this feature to Office 365 E1, Office 365 A1, Office 365/Microsoft 365 A3, Office 365/Microsoft 365 A5, Microsoft 365 F1, Office 365/Microsoft 365 F3, Microsoft 365 Business Basic SKUs.
ID: 82029 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Sharing device audio on iOS and Android
Include device audio when sharing on iPhones/iPads and Android devices.
ID: 83353 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Assign the Presenter Role in Meetings for GCC – High
Organizers can now assign one or more Presenters in their meetings with the “Who can present?” meeting option.
ID: 83396 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: June 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
Exchange: Scheduler for Microsoft 365
Scheduler is a new service from Microsoft 365 that allows Cortana to schedule your meetings by negotiating a time that works for you with people inside and outside of your organization. Scheduler will be available in English only in this release. This is a duplicate of 81948 and is being removed from the roadmap.
ID: 70747 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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
