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Microsoft has released two new features that will improve your virtual meetings experience. PowerPoint’s integrated camera feature will allow presenters to integrate their live camera feed into their presentations. Also, Team’s new Toggle feature will enable users to turn off their camera briefly while in a meeting.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams redesign and availability via Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com
The Viva Insights app in Teams is being redesigned to create a more intuitive and actionable experience for individuals, managers, and leaders. Additionally, the Viva Insights web homepage – discoverable via insights.viva.office.com as well as via the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com – is being updated to match the app in Teams for simplicity and uniformity across surfaces.
ID: 93346 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Office app and OneNote: Dictation in DoD
We are bringing the capabilities of dictation to DoD. DoD users will be able to use speech to text technology in Office apps to draft documents, emails, and notes.
ID: 93397 Tags: Office app, Outlook, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint – DoD Release: August CY2022
Yammer: Storyline in Microsoft Viva Engage
Storyline empowers leaders to reach and engage people and enables everyone to connect and contribute while building their personal networks and amplifying their impact. Users share updates, experiences, and perspectives to their storyline to reach followers and colleagues. Through storyline, users can find relevant posts in their feeds and discover interesting people to follow to stay in touch with what they share.
ID: 93407 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Viva: A new app called Microsoft Viva Engage
Viva Engage gives leaders a new way to shape culture at their organizations by unlocking communication and engagement opportunities for everyone. Built on the foundation of Yammer, Viva Engage brings people together across the organization to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share their unique story, and find belonging at work.
ID: 93409 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Meeting category insights coming to the Viva Insights app in Teams
Meeting category insights can help you align time spent in meetings with your goals by giving you visibility into the categories of meetings where you spend your time.
ID: 93410 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview Information Protection- Downgrade justification dialog warns users to avoid adding sensitive information in the plaintext justification
A reminder was added to the “Others” option of the label removal justification dialog to remind users not to enter sensitive information in the justification they provide.
ID: 93412 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Azure Active Directory: Multiple Password less Phone sign-in Accounts for iOS Devices
Users can enable password less phone sign-in accounts for their iOS devices. Previously there was a limit of one password less phone sign-in account per device, but we have removed that limitation.
ID: 93413 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Support for Graph Connectors content
Microsoft 365 admins can now connect third-party applications into their environments via Graph Connectors. With this update this content will now be available for eDiscovery workflows including collections, review, and export.
ID: 93414 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge
This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions; and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.
ID: 93415 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Redirecting users to Microsoft 365 Defender (GCC, GCC High, DoD)
We will begin automatically redirecting users in government cloud environments accessing the security-related capabilities in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center to Microsoft 365 Defender. These include capabilities in the Threat Management section, Alerts, 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: 93418 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Optimized behavior of deleted files with multiple versions in SharePoint (U.S. Government clouds)
SharePoint Online items with multiple versions and a retention label now move to the Preservation Hold Library as a single file containing all versions when deleted.
ID: 93420 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Developers can now opt-in and opt-out of Microsoft Teams Connect shared and private channels
Microsoft Teams Connect shared and private channels require special handling to retrieve context. Developers now have the flexibility to opt-in and opt-out of Microsoft Teams Connect shared and private channels to account for this.
ID: 93978 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointment Graph API
The Virtual Appointment Graph API allows developers to create and manage Microsoft hosted Teams Virtual Appointments from any application. Virtual Appointments are designed for business to consumer workflows.
ID: 94647 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Camera On/Off feature
Beginning July 2022, any certified Teams Peripherals supporting the Camera On/Off feature will allow a user to more efficiently turn on or off their Video during a call or meeting. Instead of fumbling with your mouse or keypad to bring up the Meeting Stage and then press the Video icon, a simple click of a button will allow the user to quickly control their video state.
ID: 95738 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2022
PowerPoint: Integrate Camera feed in your slides for PPT Mac
Integrate a live camera feed into your presentation with cameo in PowerPoint.
ID: 95952 Tags: PowerPoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: July CY2022
PowerPoint; Create a More Engaging Presentation
Integrate a live camera feed into your presentation with cameo in PowerPoint.
ID: 95953 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Collaborate in Teams with Excel Live
Collaborate easily in Teams with our new Excel Live feature. You can easily collaborate with all meeting participants on your Excel worksheet during the meeting. Select the file you want to share, grant permissions to meeting participants, and enable all meeting participants to edit the document right from the meeting window.
ID: 96099 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Apply retention label action at end of retention period
When an item reaches the end of its retention period a new label can be automatically applied. This feature is useful for multi-stage retention when there are different retention settings in each phase of a file’s lifecycle
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ID: 88827 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Advanced Message Encryption – Office 365 Message Encryption portal access logs
This feature will enable logging of external user activities accessing the Office 365 Message Encryption Portal to retrieve encrypted mail. The logs can be retrieved using the Audit Logs functionality in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
ID: 88914 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: App Based Link Unfurling supported in ‘Share to Microsoft Teams’
‘App Based Link Unfurling’ will work exactly in ‘Share to Teams’ as it works today in normal Teams messaging.
ID: 91118 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Outlook: MailTips will recommend users to address accessibility issues before sending email messages
Users will see a MailTip in Outlook recommending to fix accessibility issues before sending email messages to large DLs, external users, or for any messages marked as “high importance”. The MailTip will show up at the top of the email compose window.
ID: 93191 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Outlook: Bookings with me
Eliminate the back-and-forth scheduling with your personal bookings page.
ID: 93239 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for when you left or joined meetings
We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when you joined or left a meeting. The markers are personalized, so that only you will see your join and leave marker. The markers help you jump right to part of a meeting that you may have missed. Markers will only show up on recordings of Teams meeting that you were invited to and that you joined.
ID: 93298 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Password protected download of quarantined messages
With this change we are giving the ability to password protects items they download from quarantine. We want users to be confident that the items they are downloading to their systems will not execute involuntarily without their consent, and this capability will allow them to safely transport the items to external analysis tools.
ID: 93305 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Stream and SharePoint: Inline playback of videos in Hero web part
When users click to play a video in the Hero web part section of a SharePoint site, the video will play inline. This feature allows users to watch a video without being taken off the SharePoint page and allows users to browse or scroll through the other contents of the page while the video plays.
ID: 93351 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Stream and SharePoint: Video collections page
SharePoint video collections pages make it easy to gather and display all of the videos from a SharePoint site collection in one place. This feature is particularly helpful schools, universities and other organizations that tend to share videos in Teams channels. With this feature you will be able to create a tab in your Teams channel that links directly to a specific collection of videos.
ID: 93352 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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 To Do: Multiple Linked Entity support
Microsoft To Do will now support multiple links to the source of the task, with this user could open Planner supported tasks in the web version of Planner or in the Tasks app in Teams.
ID: 93396 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Delete Call History
This feature will allow call history users to hide call history records from their call history view.
ID: 94200 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Release of Graph APIs
Script common eDiscovery actions using the Microsoft Graph REST APIs. APIs include, but are not limited to: Case, Custodian, Search, Review Set, and Export management. The graph APIs will first be released to the Microsoft Graph beta endpoints, and then ultimately to production in the More Information link below. APIs will show up in preview as they are completed and available in production after most common scenarios are completed.
ID: 63068 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Optimized behavior of deleted files with multiple versions in SharePoint
SharePoint Online items with multiple versions and a retention label now move to the Preservation Hold Library as a single file containing all versions when deleted.
ID: 82062 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
SharePoint: Updated site logo management
With this update, we’re simplifying where you go to manage the site logo by centralizing it in the Change the Look header experience.
ID: 93231 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD 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
Windows: New Autopatch feature
Windows Autopatch is a new service that automates the process of managing and rolling out updates for Windows and Microsoft 365 apps. By July 2022, Autopatch will be offered as a feature to Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 at no additional cost.
ID: 93343 Tags: Windows, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Admins can pin message extensions for GCC
Admins can manage the pin order of messaging extensions in the compose experience.
ID: 96074 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Paging on Video Gallery for Web
This roadmap is cancelled. Please refer to the roadmap 86480 for this feature on the platforms -Web and desktop. 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 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
