Play of the Week

Microsoft Teams is getting ready to roll out a new Locked Meeting feature that will allow organizers to lock their meetings so no other participates can join. Participates who are locked out of the meeting will still have access to the live meeting chat and meeting recording when the organizer has ended the meeting. Be on the lookout for this new Microsoft Teams feature coming soon!

In Development

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold optimizations

This update provides various service optimizations for Advanced eDiscovery, including service improvements for hold and limits increase.

ID: 70586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Whiteboard: Whiteboard on Windows revamped

Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. The new Whiteboard app for Windows addresses key customer asks around offering a uniform & seamless experience with Whiteboard on other clients & platforms. It also provides highly requested features such as the ability to add shapes & 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: 82094 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021

SharePoint: New SharePoint site Usage reports for Government clouds

We are making additional SharePoint Site Usage reports available in Government clouds. The reports include “time spent report”, “popular platforms”, “hub analytics” and “ability to download site usage data to excel”.

ID: 82096 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Project: Add Checklist to tasks

Add checklist items to your tasks & mark them complete as you finish your work.

ID: 82104 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Project: Different Dependency types in Project for the web

Add Finish-Finish, Start-Start, and Start-Finish dependencies to your tasks in Project for the web.

ID: 82105 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Project: Guest users in Project for the web

Add guest users & assign tasks to them. Guest users can view projects shared with them.

ID: 82106 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Redirecting users to Microsoft 365 Defender

We will begin automatically redirecting users accessing the security-related capabilities in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com), to Microsoft 365 Defender (https://security.microsoft.com). These include capabilities in the Threat Management section and the Threat Management dashboard and reports. Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center that are not related to security are not redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. Customers are able to turn off automatic redirection.

ID: 82107 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Security and Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Co-authoring on MIP encrypted documents

Multiple authors can edit labeled and protected documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, frictionless, and with auto-save, as if they were regular documents.

ID: 82112 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Better Together feature for Calls on Teams phones and displays

Better together allows Microsoft Teams devices to seamlessly integrate with your PC to bring a companion experience for cross-device interaction. With the new feature support, users can make and receive calls from either Teams device or PC client with a distributed calling experience across both devices.

ID: 84308 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in Microsoft Teams for GCC

Quickly create tasks right from any Microsoft Teams chat or channel conversation without having to switch apps or windows. Select More options on a Teams message to choose ‘Create task’ and track in the Tasks app in Teams.

ID: 85257 Tags: Microsoft To Do, Planner, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: January CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for Government clouds

Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.

ID: 68718 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Prevent Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) attendees from unmuting in meetings

Presenters and Organizers can now prevent (Public Switched Telephone Network) PSTN participants from unmuting. This change also allows PSTN participants to request to speak by raising their hand in a meeting via dial-pad command (press *5).

ID: 80262 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Lock a meeting from additional joins

In the Teams meetings desktop app experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent join attempts. Anyone attempting to join a lock meeting from any device will be informed that the meeting is locked.

ID: 80669 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance discrimination classifier

The Discrimination classifier aims to detect and triage explicit discriminatory language.

ID: 81971 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility

New policy cloning feature helps you easily create similar policies for different audiences but with the same conditions for instance. The new policy consumption visibility will help you manage policies within your tenant.

ID: 82059 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Launched

Yammer: New Live Events Insights

Improve your live events viewership. Monitor attendance, measure engagement, and recognize trends.

ID: 65515 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit – Teams reactions on messages

See new audit activity related to Teams reactions on messages.

ID: 70585 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance cross tenant classifier feedback

Cross tenant feedback enables customers to provide feedback on messages that were misclassified (such as false positives) by a Communication Compliance policy leveraging any of the classifiers.

ID: 81972 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance now support 7 languages for the Threat, Targeted Harassment and Profanities classifiers

Communication Compliance can now detect threat, targeted harassment, and profanities in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

ID: 82006 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: July CY2021

PowerApps: Power Platform performance and diagnostics monitoring with Azure Application Insights

Enables organizations using model-driven apps and Microsoft Data verse to monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot errors and performance issues for Unified Interface form-loads, plug-ins, and platform API calls based off Data verse telemetry made available in customer’s own instance of Azure Application Insights.

ID: 82011 Tags: PowerApps – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

PowerApps and Power Automate: Power Platform admin center Data Export to Azure Data Lake Services

Enables organizations to build custom inventory reports and analytical views by enabling export of usage and inventory data for canvas and model-driven apps into customers’ own instance of Azure Data Lake.

ID: 82012 Tags: PowerApps, Power Automate – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Block downloads for channel meeting recordings saved to SharePoint

There is a new admin setting for channel meeting recordings saved to SharePoint that determines if the recordings are saved to the channel in the “Recordings” folder (as they are today) or to a “Recordings\View only” folder. The new option for the “View only” folder will restrict the editing and download of the channel meeting recordings by team & channel members. Only team & channel owners will have full control over the files with this new option.

ID: 82053 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management data appears in Activity Explorer

Activity explorer provides risk investigators and analysts with a comprehensive tool that surfaces detailed information about alerts to enhance the alert triage experience.

ID: 83953 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management recognizes device indicators

Policy indicators are now available to capture signals from Windows 10 endpoints to deliver new insights related to obfuscation, exfiltration, and infiltration of sensitive information.

ID: 83954 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Insider Risk Management: Define priority user groups and detect data leaks by priority users

Define users in your organization that need closer inspection based on factors such as their position, level of access to sensitive information, or risk history. Once created, these groups can be included in certain policy templates, such as detecting data leaks by users included in a priority user group.

ID: 83956 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Enhanced policy creation wizard, policy customization, and policy health check for Insider Risk Management

We’re improving the experience of Insider Risk Management policy creation, including enhanced guard rails to enforce proper policy configuration and ability to customize policy templates to meet the unique needs of your organization. Additionally, Insider Risk Management will now surface policy status to identify misconfigured policies which could impact detections.

ID: 83957 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: July CY2021

Canceled