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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium for GCC-H and DoD

Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure, with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, live translated captions, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and advanced Virtual Appointment experiences.

ID: 132632 Release: – GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New Teams and Channels layout

Presenting the improved grid layout in Teams which allows easy navigation for classes. Bonus – all top-used EDU apps are now a click away inside the class!

ID: 137357 Release: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage

Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 144596 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – reminders window

The reminders window is a new notification style in the new Outlook for Windows. It is a pop-out window that organizes your meeting, event, and task reminders in one place. You can also snooze or dismiss reminders, or join Teams meetings directly from the window.

ID: 144731 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Search: Message vertical in Office.com now available in DoD

Looking for a message, but you can’t remember whether it was in Teams or Outlook? Search for it in Office.com and then go to the Messages Tab. You’ll get both Teams and Outlook messages in the list of results. Now available in DoD.

ID: 148181 Release: Microsoft Search – DoD Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Add video to existing playlist

Soon you will be able to search for existing playlists when you add a video to a playlist from Stream web app.

ID: 148470 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Outlook: Search Box Interface Improvement

Search experience improvement makes it more prominent and discoverable, with higher color contrast on the input area, border, and font, along with fine tunes on all themes as well as light and dark modes.

ID: 151024 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Folder/Subfolder Recursive Search

Search returns content stored in the main folder and content stored within all its sub-folders.

ID: 151025 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Outlook: 1000+ Search Results

Allow users to return over 1000 results on a single search.

ID: 151032 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft 365: Bing Chat Enterprise

Bing Chat Enterprise gives your organization AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside the organization. What goes in—and comes out—remains protected. Your organization’s chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to it, and it is not used to train the models. Available from bing.com/chat and from the Microsoft Edge sidebar.

ID: 151035 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Announcements in Viva Connections

Announcements allow you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.

ID: 152481 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop

Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps and acts as the home base for Viva experiences in Teams.

ID: 152560 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2023

OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and Document Libraries

Adding files and folders to Favorites is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you get to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Microsoft 365 apps by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience. This release will include support for favoriting additional file types and folders from OneDrive web and Document Libraries.

ID: 152744 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.

ID: 153651 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Rolling Out

PowerPoint: present local files from PowerPoint app to PowerPoint Live in Teams

The “Present in Teams” button in PowerPoint apps has extended its support to present local files to PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams.

ID: 117477 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – OCR support in Insider Risk Management

With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 117606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage.  These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.  With this release, we’re proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users.

ID: 118672 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft 365 App: New sensitivity bar in Microsoft 365 apps on Windows for viewing and applying sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview

Sensitivity bar provides a more prominent and contextual user experience for viewing and applying sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Windows.  Preview dates may defer between apps. GA date consistent for all apps.

ID: 139362 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft 365 – GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report

eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded.

ID: 101518 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool

This feature release enables users to move their existing eDiscovery (Standard) cases to the eDiscovery (Premium) new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After upgrade, user has the ability to continue their work in the upgraded case following the eDiscovery (Premium) workflow pipeline.

ID: 106106 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Windows 365: Windows 365 Frontline

A Windows 365 offering designed for organizations to provide Cloud PCs for shift workers or part time workers that only need a Cloud PC for a limited amount of time each day or week.

ID: 117348 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Physical access indicators and connectors

This feature allows admins to define priority physical assets. With priority physical assets enabled and the physical badging data connector configured, Insider Risk Management can correlate signals from an organization’s physical control and access systems with other user activities to help make more informed response decisions for alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 117607 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence and anomaly detection in insider risk analytics

With this update, insider risk analytics now includes sequence and anomaly detection indicators, providing more comprehensive and effective insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 124967 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds by insider risk analytics

With this update, admins can receive recommended thresholds for insider risk policies, including potential data leak and data theft by departing employee policies, by leveraging the insights from insider risk analytics. By using these recommended thresholds, admins can improve the effectiveness of policies and generate an optimal number of alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 124968 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Analytics email digest

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will receive a monthly email summarizing the latest insider risk analytics insights scanned from the environment. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 124969 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2023

Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access

Users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.

ID: 138229 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2023

Canceled