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Microsoft Teams Intelligent translation feature for iOS and Android devices will now promptly translate messages that are not in your set language. Also, Teams now allows users to pop out shared meeting content in a separate window. Check out these new features soon.
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Microsoft Teams: Pop out shared content into a separate window
Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window.
ID: 86948 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements
Now eDiscovery admins can understand the progress of Collections, statistics on what content contributed to changes between estimated items with hits and actual collected items, as well as commit the collection directly from the estimate without navigating through the entire collection wizard.
ID: 93380 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements (GCC, GCC-High)
Now eDiscovery admins can understand the progress of Collections, statistics on what content contributed to changes between estimated items with hits and actual collected items, as well as commit the collection directly from the estimate without navigating through the entire collection wizard.
ID: 93381 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements (DoD)
Now eDiscovery admins can understand the progress of Collections, statistics on what content contributed to changes between estimated items with hits and actual collected items, as well as commit the collection directly from the estimate without navigating through the entire collection wizard.
ID: 93382 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: November CY2022
Outlook: Outlook Lite for Android
An Android app that brings the main benefits of Outlook in a smaller app size with fast performance for low-end devices on any network.
ID: 93383 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Health Dashboard
Designed for small and medium-sized organizations, this dashboard pulls together information about the total health of your Microsoft 365 environment, including service status, number of devices that are current with Office updates, critical alerts, and adherence to security best practices.
ID: 93385 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Outlook: Mobile to Mac Handoff
Handoff is a capability within Apple devices that transfers user activities among multiple devices associated with the same user. For Outlook, this means that introducing this feature will allow a user to start off on an activity like read or compose within Outlook on one Apple device (Mobile/Mac) and be able to continue that activity from its current point on Outlook on another Apple device (Mobile/Mac).
ID: 93386 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Outlook: Mac to Mobile Handoff
Handoff is a capability within Apple devices that transfers user activities among multiple devices associated with the same user. For Outlook, this means that introducing this feature will allow a user to start off on an activity like read or compose within Outlook on one Apple device (Mac/Mobile) and be able to continue that activity from its current point on Outlook on another Apple device (Mac/Mobile).
ID: 93387 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Forms: Re-use previously created polls in Teams meetings
Meeting organizers and presenters can now access the polls previously created to re-use or modify, so that they can apply them to new meetings instead of creating repeated polls every time from scratch.
ID: 94765 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Relevance recommendation for Message Center posts
The new relevance recommendation in Message Center will help you determine how relevant a change is to your tenant. The recommendation (high, medium, or low) will be determined based on multiple factors, such as service usage and the type of change.
ID: 96289 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile
Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that are not in your language.
ID: 96481 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile
Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that are not in your set language.
ID: 96545 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: August CY2022
Office App: Idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps
Idle session timeout feature allows IT admins to configure a tenant-wide timeout value based on which users get automatically signed out after a period of inactivity on Microsoft 365 web apps. This feature is an improvement over, and will eventually replace, current idle timeout settings in Outlook Web App (OWA) and SharePoint Online (SPO).
ID: 55183 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware for GCC-High and DoD
Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.
ID: 83486 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Annotation on presenter shared screen
Presenters are able to start collaborative annotation for all participants or just the presenter to annotate on shared screen content.
ID: 86732 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June 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
Exchange: OAuth Client Credential Flow support for POP/IMAP
Adding support for the Client Credential OAuth flow to the POP and IMAP protocols in Exchange Online.
ID: 70577 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Direct guest join for Zoom and Webex meetings on video-enabled certified Teams Android devices
Direct guest join (aka Third-party meeting join) is an ability to join meetings of other meeting providers from Microsoft Teams. Third-party meetings will appear on the Teams calendar and users will be able to join them the same way they join any other Teams meeting. This functionality will be limited to video-enabled certified Teams Android devices and will support only Zoom and Webex meetings.
ID: 81482 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Generate captions for a video uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive for GCC and GCC High
Users with edit permissions to a video file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can click a button in the player to generate closed captions in English.
ID: 85644 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, SharePoint – GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Multitasking panel for meetings on iPad
Optimized user experience for iPad. Users will now see a collapsible right panel during meetings, which enables richer experiences such as chat alongside the ongoing meeting, faster roster views and more.
ID: 86923 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive for GCC and GCC-High
You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.
ID: 88890 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Viva: First run experiences to introduce topic highlights in SharePoint pages and topic page editing
First Run Experiences for a user’s first encounter with topics and contribution. Visual cues appear to teach users how to interact with the topic highlights on SharePoint pages, how to edit and publish a topic page, and how to reference a topic using topic picker while authoring a SharePoint page.
ID: 93215 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with Personal Insights for GCC
The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in GCC and will show you personalized recommendations that help you do your best work.
ID: 93244 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match to support eDiscovery search queries
Organizations will be able to include Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs) when searching for sensitive data using the eDiscovery search tools.
ID: 93286 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match to support Insider Risk Management
Organizations will be able to configure new or existing Insider Risk Management policies using Exact Data Match Sensitive Information Types, enabling more assertive control in specifying policies to identify risk indicators. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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: 93287 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022
Universal Print: PIN Release Support for Windows 10
People will be able to set a PIN for every print job. At the printer they enter the PIN to release their print job, supporting sustainability goals by preventing the consumption of power, paper and toner, if the print job is not completed. This functionality is already supported on Windows 11. Supported printers can be found on the Microsoft docs under More info link.
ID: 93310 Tags: Universal Print, Windows – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Universal Print: Print Support Application (PSA) on Windows 10
Printer manufacturers are in the process of creating Print Support Applications (PSA) to add custom print finishing options and workflows, such as adding a watermark or accounting code to customize the print experience. PSA APIs are already available on Windows 11. This item will bring the power of PSAs to Windows 10 as well. To find available PSA use the supporting docs under More info link.
ID: 93311 Tags: Windows, Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Edge v.103: More reliable web defense
Browse the web with more reliable protection thanks to the rewritten Microsoft Defender SmartScreen library for Microsoft Edge on Windows. The NewSmartScreenLibraryEnabled policy will allow enterprise customers to continue using the legacy version of the library until it’s deprecated in Microsoft Edge version 105.
ID: 95159 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Edge v.103: Ability to control automatic profile switching
The GuidedSwitchEnabled policy allows Microsoft Edge to prompt the user to switch to the appropriate profile when Microsoft Edge detects that a link is a personal or work link.
ID: 95397 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
