Play of the Week

Reporter and Side by Side presenter modes are two new features in Microsoft Teams that will make your presentation a dynamic experience! Presenters will have the opportunity to display their video feed side by side and have their content shown above their shoulder while presenting. These two new features will allow presenters to select a mode that fits their needs while providing an engaging experience for everyone.

In Development

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, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021

Outlook and Exchange for Business: Project Moca moving to Outlook board

With the recent launch of Outlook calendar board, we are moving all spaces created in Project Moca to the new calendar board. With this move, all Project Moca data will be moved into the board view in Outlook on the web.

ID: 82013 Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admin review and feedback

Responding to reports about phishing or junk emails from end users can be very time consuming. With the new admin review feature, your security team will be able to quickly review reported messages and choose appropriate responses, automatically sending predefined but customizable emails to your end users. Coupled with automated investigation & response (AIR), you’ll be able to free up time for more critical work.

ID: 82025 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July 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: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Host Intrusion Detection (HDI) for VDI on Windows Virtual Desktop

This feature will support use of Host Intrusion Detection (HID) on Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD).

ID: 83024 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Missed Activity Email in DOD

Missed activity email enables the user to stay on top of their Microsoft Teams notifications. A missed activity email is generated in case a user is away from Microsoft teams and has not reviewed their notifications. A user can choose to receive Missed activity emails by going to settings – notifications – choosing the frequency.

ID: 83061 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: June 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.

ID: 83071 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams meetings LTI application for educational learning management systems (LMS)

Microsoft Teams meetings LTI app helps educators and students easily incorporate Teams meetings into their Learning Management System course. Users can view past & upcoming meetings, schedule individual or recurring meetings, and join the Teams meetings related to the course all from within their LMS.

ID: 83072 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Reporter and Side-by-Side Presenter Mode in desktop or window sharing

Two new presenter modes are now coming available. Reporter places content as a visual aid above your shoulder like a news story. Side-by-side displays your video feed next to your content. You can now select a mode that fits your needs and promotes a more engaging presentation and consumption experience.

ID: 83371 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Rolling Out

SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel

Now it’s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel & chat associated to it – right from within the SharePoint user interface.

ID: 30686 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Inline Message Translation in channels for iOS

Inline message translation in Channels lets users translate Channel posts and replies into their preferred language. To translate a message, press-and-hold the channel post or reply and then select “Translate”. The post/reply will be translated to your UI language by default. If you want to change the translation language, go to Settings General Translation.

ID: 63219 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Whiteboard: Additional content types

Participants in Teams and on Web can now insert additional content types such as shapes, images, and notes grid.

ID: 66757 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High

Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.

ID: 68847 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites

Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label. Then these labels can be applied to Sites and now users access these sites will have to go through the CA policies in order to gain access. The Preview will be available in May 2021.

ID: 70594 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Outlook: Suggested replies for government licenses

We are rolling out suggested replies for customers with government licenses in GCC. Replies will be available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, and Chinese (People’s Republic of China).simplified.

ID: 70719 Tags: Outlook – GCC Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Graph: Graph connectors Results in All tab

Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors and search %26amp; indexing APIs that enable Microsoft 365 customers to connect Microsoft Search to data sources outside of Microsoft 365.  With this feature, users can explore results from Microsoft Graph connectors in the All vertical.

ID: 72198 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Outlook: Meetings online by default

Whether you’re working from home or meeting with people in other locations, all your meetings will automatically be online so everyone can attend. This setting can be disabled by users from Outlook, or by admins from PowerShell. In its initial release, only Teams and Skype will be supported, and 3rd party online meeting add-ins will not be included.

ID: 81995 Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Inline Message Translation in channels for Android

Inline message translation in Channels lets users translate Channel posts and replies into their preferred language. To translate a message, press-and-hold the channel post or reply and then select “Translate”. The post/reply will be translated to your UI language by default. If you want to change the translation language, go to Settings General Translation.

ID: 83399 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Launched

Excel: Use ink and highlighter to annotate in Excel on the web

Use ink and highlighter to naturally annotate over worksheets in Excel on the web.

ID: 66260 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Custom attendee registration

Add a custom attendee registration page to any meeting or webinar to better manage attendance before and after any engagement. Following registration, attendees receive an email confirmation with calendar invite.

ID: 66586 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Project: Email Notifications in Project

Switch on to receive notifications about changes to your projects.

ID: 67152 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browser.

ID: 70589 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events

You may allow an anonymous user who does not have and MSA or AAD identity to be a presenter in your live event.

ID: 70599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2021

Yammer: New Yammer experience as default for all users

Default to new Yammer experience for all users on web.

ID: 70689 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

SharePoint: Focus mode for modern SharePoint pages

SharePoint page authors and viewers will be able to focus on page content by using the Expand content button on the command bar to hide the site header, site navigation, and global navigation bar. Focus mode will persist when page viewers select links to pages within a site, but not when they select links to pages outside of the site (even if they are within a hub site).

ID: 70800 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) solution overview page

The DLP solution overview page will appear in the Microsoft 365 compliance center and house policy recommendation widgets and other actions and guidance related to your available DLP solutions.

ID: 70814 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams webinar capabilities general availability

Schedule and deliver 1,000 person webinars with the same Teams app you use for meetings! Webinar capabilities support registration page creation, email confirmation for registrants, host management for attendee video and audio, attendee reporting, plus interactive features like polls, chat and reactions.

ID: 80099 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync on macOS

Admins can exclude newly added files from syncing to the cloud by file name or extension on macOS.

ID: 80684 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Separate Window Teams Live Events Producer Experience

With this new feature, you are now able to produce your Teams Live Events as a Producer in a separate window, allowing you to effectively manage your event.

ID: 81804 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

OneDrive: Android – Outline for PDF viewing

Users of OneDrive for Android will be able to view an outline or table of content that they can use to navigate to.

ID: 81917 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Topic management dashboard

You can track the stats over time for topics through the lifecycle of suggested, confirmed, published, and removed with the new visual topic management dashboard.

ID: 81977 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC

This is a duplicate of 72216 and will be removed from the roadmap in the near future.  Microsoft Search: Organization-wide Search via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing. Customizable Bookmarks, Acronyms, and QnA Answers.

ID: 81929 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC Release: September CY2021