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Among the hundreds of Microsoft Roadmaps updates this week, new Outlook features are currently in development. Soon you will be able to record a video of yourself, your screen, or both directly from Outlook and place in email. Also, later this year, Outlook remind you of messages you may need to respond to and allow you to work offline to organize your inbox. All three of these are due out later this year.

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Exchange: Adding Inbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online

Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding inbound support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers outbound mail. Note: This release (Preview) has been pushed to May to allow us to enhance our service’s security measures. We apologize for any inconveniences.

ID: 63213 Release: Exchange – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Bookings: ”Cc” functionality to email notifications

‘Cc’ an additional email address on confirmation and reminder emails

ID: 66141 Release: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy

Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. 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: 68688 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions

User can upload their own custom emojis and reactions to personalize their communication. Emojis will be available within the user’s tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus.

ID: 80659 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – General Security Policy Violations

Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

ID: 83961 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by priority users

ID: 83962 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by departing users

Detects security violations by departing users near their resignation or termination date. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices onboarded to your organization. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

ID: 83963 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts

Enables you to import indicators from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint related to unapproved or malicious software installation or bypassing security controls. 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. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

ID: 83965 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac

AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the MacOS and many of its applications. We will add support for this feature in the new Outlook for Mac.

ID: 88537 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – bulk data export

Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors.

ID: 88870 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role.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: 88915 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first.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: 88918 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations

All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

ID: 89975 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC

Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.

ID: 93163 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (U.S. Government clouds)

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first. 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: 93246 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds)

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

ID: 93269 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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: 93324 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email Response actions available through Microsoft Graph Security API

We are introducing email response actions API. Email purge actions like soft delete, hard delete, move to junk etc can be triggered through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 93434 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.

ID: 95680 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook for the Web: Contact Deduplication

People are at the center of our lives, and we start every digital connection via contacts. Hence, a clean, up-to-date contact list is critical for better collaboration and productivity. We are happy to announce that cleaning up duplicate contacts just got a lot easier with the de-duplication feature in Outlook Web App (OWA).

ID: 98124 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes

Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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: 98186 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails

Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. 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: 100513 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Forms app replaced by Polls app in Teams Meetings

The new Polls app will soon replace the Forms app for enhanced polling options in Teams meetings. The Forms app will continue to support surveys only. We recommend you add “Polls” to your next Teams meetings.

ID: 103683 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024

Outlook: Managing document permissions in Outlook for iOS

Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.

ID: 108887 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Multiple managed accounts

Allows people to use a single device with multiple company accounts to access company information through specific managed applications.

ID: 109560 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities

nformation Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants.

ID: 115482 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium)

We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from three options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters, or (3) No one. This way meeting organizers will be able to manage which roles can initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. This functionality will be available to Teams Premium and Copilot for M365 licensed users.

ID: 116819 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Whiteboard: Existing Azure Board Migration

This feature will migrate boards that exist in your tenant’s Azure storage to OneDrive for Business storage. More information will follow as we near release.

ID: 117394 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)

We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.

ID: 117425 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals in People Profile Cards

View other users’ OKRs and goals in Viva Goals from their user profile cards in Outlook (when enabled).

ID: 117453 Release: Microsoft Viva, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds)

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

ID: 117523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer

The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

ID: 117546 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets

This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place.

ID: 117569 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label in Outlook on the web

Outlook on the web will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admin could configure this either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy(Roadmap: 100158). Customer will see automatically or recommendations that email gets the higher label from attachments’ label.

ID: 117579 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API

Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 117587 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

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. Note: The launch dates were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Note: The launch state was incorrect and has now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 117606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Follow a topic

Users can now follow topics from experiences across Microsoft 365 and the Viva suite to receive personalized experiences and notifications of activities around topics of interest.

ID: 118493 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Work location in scheduling assistant for iOS

You can now view your colleagues’ work locations when scheduling a meeting.

ID: 118956 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Search relevance improvements

Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests.

ID: 118965 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components

Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email.

ID: 122238 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email and associated entities hunting capabilities available through Microsoft Graph Security API

We are introducing email and associated entities hunting capabilities to the Microsoft Graph Security API. Email meta data like email properties (subject, sender, domain etc ), MDO detections, and related entities can now be hunt via the API.

ID: 122276 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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: 122280 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name

Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting.

ID: 122934 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Universal Print: Integration with macOS

The native integration of Universal Print with macOS will empower macOS users to print from any app, just like Windows users can today. Whether people are on Windows or macOS, they have a seamless, no learning curve print-experience. Organizations benefit from the simplicity of a single print-solution for all users.

ID: 124785 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter.

ID: 124796 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2024

SharePoint: New SharePoint Start

New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics

ID: 124824 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News.

The content pane is a new place for relevant panes that help authors create their publications. With the introduction of this centralized location, a new toolbox will help authors quickly browse and add content to create rich and engaging pages. The content pane will include additional panes such as configuration tools, design ideas, etc. Within Viva Amplify, the content pane is also used to host the distribution channel selection, writing guidance, and audience selection.

ID: 124827 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization

We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages.

ID: 124838 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint

Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content. Get assistance drafting your content when creating new pages. Adjust the tone, expand meeting bullets into structured text, or get help making your message more concise. All within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise.

ID: 124840 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint Pages – Design Ideas

By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions.

ID: 124846 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring

Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time.

ID: 124853 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase (U.S. Government clouds)

The activity explorer’s export limit will increase from 10K to 100K records. This update will benefit organizations that prefer exporting user activity insights to a CSV file, as they now can filter, sort, or pivot a bigger data set more conveniently. 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: 124859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations – single device

Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user’s device before they even realize there’s a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device.

ID: 124890 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Project: New out-of-the-box templates

Quickly create a project from an assortment of new out-of-the box templates including a project retrospective template, a goals template and more.

ID: 124954 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level

Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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: 124972 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center

Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center.

ID: 131169 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint

Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress

ID: 139457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance

The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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: 145793 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits

We are introducing new version controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. Today, document library owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, tenant and site admins or document library owners will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently expires new and existing version based on their age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set time-based version expiration and count limits on new and existing versions. These controls enable admins to set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization balanced with storage usage considerations. Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive for Business.

ID: 145802 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment

By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance. Timing: Rollout to public preview will begin in the middle of September and end in October. What you need to do to prepare: No action needed at this time. 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: 146742 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios

Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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: 146859 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Folder/Subfolder Recursive Search

Search now returns content stored in the main folder and content stored within all its sub-folders. Note: We have updated the release phase to show the current state. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

ID: 151025 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 156014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

ID: 156015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Potential high impact user experience enhancements

We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 156016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

ID: 160008 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint

With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope.

ID: 160009 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).

ID: 160010 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Sort search results by ratings

Users can sort in-app search results by ratings and relevance of the content.

ID: 160731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva App Bar integration in Viva Learning Webapp

Viva Learning Webapp will have an easy way to switch across other Viva Webapp modules.

ID: 160733 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status

Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.

ID: 161739 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Spell check in Viva Learning search

User queries will be spell checked and corrected for all in-app Search.

ID: 162943 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Proficiency level content filter

Users can filter content based on the proficiency level of the content: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.

ID: 162947 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self Service for bulk uploads

Improved self-service; Ability to bulk upload customer permissions for improved access.

ID: 163976 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to set survey deactivation times

Improved self service; Ability to set survey deactivation time

ID: 163985 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to relink surveys

Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress

ID: 163987 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights custom nudges

Customers and partners to configure custom nudges and recurring nudge workflows. The framework supports custom targeting criteria, UX templates, publication tools, and visibility into impact measures. Supports nudging workflows for a chain of nudges and recurrence for weekly or monthly suggestions.

ID: 164207 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Whiteboard: Microsoft Forms Poll Loop component live copy/paste

The ability to copy/paste existing Microsoft Forms Poll Loop components into Whiteboard and vice versa.

ID: 164872 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Whiteboard: @ mentions within comments

The ability to @ mention users within comments on a whiteboard, with the associated in-app indicators to inform users of an @ mention.

ID: 164888 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Whiteboard: Email notifications for @ mentions in comments on a whiteboard

The ability for @mentions within comments on a whiteboard to trigger an email notification to the user, with a link back to the @mention.

ID: 164889 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Organization-wide template and question customization

Create organization-wide templates and questions for managers and project leads to use.

ID: 164900 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Send a Viva Pulse request to a larger audience

Send pulses to up to 10,000 recipients.

ID: 164901 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users.

ID: 165402 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

ID: 165707 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) ML Classifier support

Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud 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 ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 167221 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API

ID: 167531 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars

Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

ID: 168524 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Analytics

Updates to community analytics will allow community admins to better understand engagement trends, reach and the top conversations that occur within their communities.

ID: 168626 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API

Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.

ID: 169083 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios

New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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: 169212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.

ID: 170738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – In-app search relevance improvement to increase matching results

Viva Learning in-app Search will be improved to show more relevant and matching results at the top.

ID: 170954 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 171185 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices

With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.

ID: 171586 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 171598 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

ID: 171601 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support

Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 171717 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Potential high impact user experience enhancements

ID: 171720 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level

ID: 171748 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report

Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.

ID: 171751 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights

The Communication Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance.

ID: 172016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope

Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies.

ID: 172024 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: The new Outlook for Windows – Offline support for mail actions and compose

The first set of offline capabilities in the new Outlook for Windows. Mail, calendar events, and contacts will be stored on your device, so you can view them even when you’re not connected to the internet. Additionally, you can perform key actions on your mail, including flag, move, and delete, and compose messages, to stay productive even when you’re not connected to the internet. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 178030 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API

The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.

ID: 178311 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Organize folders in your sidebar

Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want.

ID: 178349 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Message reminders

When Outlook identifies that a user could have forgotten to respond to or follow up on an email message, it could bring that email back to the top of the inbox, marking it needing an action. A maximum of one email message can be brought to the top of the user’s inbox at a time.

ID: 178351 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel – Gateway Scaling

Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5,000 to over 20,000 per server.

ID: 178921 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring

With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 179883 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center

Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account.

ID: 179897 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Excel: Copilot in Excel

Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data in Excel tables by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting portions of data.

ID: 180180 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Domain/URL Update

To align the URL with the new Viva Engage branding and as part of the unified domain for Microsoft 365 initiative, Viva Engage’s URL schema is being updated. This change includes domains only. A separate roadmap will be created for email sender changes. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 180352 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams.

ID: 180769 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements

This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.

ID: 181825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Entra: Expanded support for device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Entra ID will add support for device-bound passkeys stored on computers and mobile devices as an authentication method in preview, in addition to the existing support for FIDO2 security keys. This enables users to perform phishing-resistant authentication using the devices that they already have. The existing FIDO2 authentication methods policy and end user experiences will be changed to support this preview release. For organizations to opt-in to this preview, admins will need to enforce key restrictions to allow specified passkey providers in the FIDO2 policy.

ID: 182056 Release: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed

ID: 182242 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

ID: 182243 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 4 new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MailItemsAccessed; 2. Send; 3. SearchQueryInitiatedExchange; 4. SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint; The following logs will differ based upon the user’s license. This following additional metadata is added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: Premium Insight 1: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed

ID: 182259 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, advanced hunting, and custom detection email entity page take action

SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer, advanced hunting, custom detection and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action.

ID: 184915 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Publish to Viva Engage

Campaign members can now additionally publish their publication to Viva Engage.

ID: 185105 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025

Outlook: Stream video recordings in the new Outlook for Windows and web

We’re introducing the ability to record and insert Stream video recordings in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. Soon you will be able to record a video of yourself, your screen or both, directly from Outlook and insert the recording in your email.

ID: 185369 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions

With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled "Global exclusions" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 185687 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category

We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365.

ID: 185700 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Overview page redesign

The Microsoft 365 admin center Usage report Overview page has been redesigned to better navigate the most important usage insights in your organization. The redesign includes new engagement metrics such as enabled and active users, user state compositions (e.g. first time, returning users), storage by product, and key usage metrics for Microsoft 365 products. The cloud environments have been updated to show current standing. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 185799 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium)

Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

ID: 185802 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Entity Clusters Identified in Automated Investigation and Response (AIR)

The feature will expand upon the automated investigation and response (AIR) by enabling AIR to automatically remediate malicious entity clusters. AIR currently recommends actions for SecOps to approve or decline and this enhancement will allow customers to enable auto-remediation to allow AIR to act on recommendations and soft delete messages included in a malicious URL or malicious file cluster.

ID: 186576 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Planner: Add premium capabilities to Planner

Add premium capabilities like sprint planning, people view, goals, custom fields, and task history to your plans within the Planner Teams app.

ID: 186968 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Planner: Portfolio capabilities in Planner

Structure plans into portfolios and get insights on top of your portfolios

ID: 187140 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview

The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.

ID: 188510 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID: 188799 Release: Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Message Recall

Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature will be coming to Outlook for Mac.

ID: 189804 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience

A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management.

ID: 189826 Release: Visio, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers

Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work.

ID: 314380 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks

With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to shared desks. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal and collect utilization data from these desks for proactive management and planning.

ID: 314430 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Skin tone setting and reactions

In Teams settings, users have the option to select their preferred skin tone. This preference will be applied to all emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings, allowing users to express themselves more authentically in conversations.

ID: 323766 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online

This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more.

ID: 323899 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Glint

Highlight top issues and potential solutions hidden throughout employee suggestions from survey results; plus, help leaders explore comments using natural-language questions.

ID: 324079 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint 360s

Empower employees to collect 360 feedback for personal growth and development.

ID: 324089 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link

Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request.

ID: 325330 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Newsletters

Newsletters in Outlook enable customers to create, distribute, and track success for their internal email newsletters. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 328282 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only)

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)

ID: 329253 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts

Introducing a new control for IT administrators to restrict permissions for the download of meeting transcript files (stored in OneDrive for Business) for any users within the tenant. This policy applies to new meeting transcripts across the entire organization. Administrators can exempt people who are members of specified security groups from the policy. This allows admins to specify governance or compliance specialists who should have download access to meeting transcripts. Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity.

ID: 332800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions

Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

ID: 336046 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Exchange: Adding support for Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD

We are adding inbound support for SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD. Look for another roadmap item for inbound support in WW and GCC, and one for outbound support of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC.

ID: 361914 Release: Exchange – GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the view, download, and delete experience of Teams meeting transcript files

We are streamlining the storage of meeting transcript files. Starting with this feature, all meeting transcript entry points in Teams app will point to the OneDrive for Business copy only. The rollout of this feature also improves the delete experience of the transcript for meeting organizers. Now, when a meeting organizer or co-organizer deletes the transcript in Microsoft Teams app, this will delete both copies of the transcript (from OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online) at the same time. If the meeting organizer deletes the transcript from Stream, only the copy in OneDrive for Business will be deleted. We also update the default permissions so that meeting organizer and co-organizers will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, while meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition, the recording/transcript file owner will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript. At the same time, meeting transcripts will stop saving in Exchange Online altogether and all transcript storage will be standardized on OneDrive for Business. Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity.

ID: 365720 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Add links to content in featured set

Global administrators/knowledge administrators can now add links to content sets in Viva Learning. These links can direct users to content stored internally with services like SharePoint and Stream or found online through YouTube, Vimeo, and other sources. The capability to add links to content allows admins to add content found online to featured sets, in addition to formal learning courses from connected providers.

ID: 366437 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop

We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels.

ID: 367053 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements

To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 368825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange

With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Note: The month and status have been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 369015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.

ID: 370535 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32

We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization’s DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.

ID: 370550 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page

With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 370560 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Create Goals Tab in Microsoft Teams Chats and Channels

Users will be able to add Viva Goals as a tab in a Microsoft Teams chat or channel, so that they can see their goals in the flow of work.

ID: 371197 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Outlook: Outlook Mobile – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender

The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk.

ID: 371383 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Junk/Phishing reporting actions integrated with Microsoft Defender in classic Outlook for Windows

The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in classic Outlook for Windows can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk.

ID: 371388 Release: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Outlook for Mac – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender

The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for Mac can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk.

ID: 371393 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning

Copilot in Viva Learning will act as a virtual learning companion, assisting users throughout their learning journey and providing personalized guidance, recommendations, and the ability to take actions. Users will be able to leverage Copilot to preview and consume courses from Copilot’s search results, create learning collections in a single click, and see highly relevant search results by asking questions in natural language. Copilot will be visible to users on the Home page, My Learning tab, course details pages, and on Academies.

ID: 372245 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow

Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned.

ID: 372670 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot

Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 372895 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates

You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can utilize these email templates to: inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more similar scenarios.

ID: 373310 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 373610 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 373615 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings

Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned.

ID: 373655 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats

Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later.

ID: 374335 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer

Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later.

ID: 374375 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web

With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you have an upcoming meeting, Copilot proactively shows you a “Prepare” button in your inbox which helps you quickly get context for the meeting providing a summary of the meeting and showing and summarizing relevant files leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 374723 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center

We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences.

ID: 374861 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop

Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.

ID: 374866 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center

We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.

ID: 374871 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Customize your Viva Connections experiences with fonts and themes

Site owners and operators will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

ID: 374876 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Supports live data sync to Excel

Microsoft Forms supports quickly and easily syncing form responses to an Excel file. Now you’ll always have the latest information, updated automatically, so you can leverage the full range of Excel functions to analyze your data and collab with your peers.

ID: 374909 Release: Forms, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – New goal sharing experience

Users will now be able to experience the enhanced share functionality in Viva Goals and provide access as they share with their team. Note: The release phase and date have been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 375220 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Stream: video reactions

This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature.

ID: 375287 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams

New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only.

ID: 375418 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint

ID: 375490 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center

We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.

ID: 375495 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes

Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

ID: 375500 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Graph Grounded Chat

Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel.

ID: 375510 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: To Do app opens in the Classic Outlook for Windows

We are updating the tittle and description to highlight that this feature is coming to the Classic Outlook for Windows, we apologize for the inconvenience it might have caused. Use the To Do app without leaving the Classic Outlook for Windows! Click the To Do icon in the navigation bar to open inline without opening in a separate browser window.

ID: 375602 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Shared Mailboxes as Accounts

Shared Mailboxes can be added as Accounts in the new Outlook for Windows. The Shared Mailbox will appear at the Account Level in the Folder list. Access to the Shared Mailbox requires the user’s credentials and associated permissions. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 375635 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 376697 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Information Protection and Insider Risk Management support multicloud environments

Microsoft Purview Information Protection extends its sensitivity labels and protection policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create label-based protection policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope, and which users or groups are allowed to access data with a certain sensitivity label and Purview will automatically enforce the policy and block unauthorized access to sensitive data. Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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. Note: We have updated the cloud environments to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 376698 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32.

ID: 376999 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only.

ID: 377000 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.

ID: 377303 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud

Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 377674 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat

Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat usage metrics will be included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Usage report. This new feature provides additional usage insights and informs adoption strategy decisions for Microsoft Copilot in your organization.

ID: 377675 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection

A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default.

ID: 377676 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports

The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.

ID: 377680 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall

Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

ID: 377703 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for priority content. 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 based on their internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 378409 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation

Physical Windows devices will be attested at enrollment that enrollment credentials are stored in the hardware of the device. Administrators can view device attestations in the new Device attestation status report and manually force attestation from that report.

ID: 378649 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Organize and reorder folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 378775 Release: Outlook – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis

Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 379477 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange

With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules.

ID: 379673 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium)

The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.

ID: 379980 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content

Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case.

ID: 380184 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Date and numeral standardization

All the dates that appear in Viva Learning will match the layout local to the user. This also applies to standardization of numerals.

ID: 380187 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 380418 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot + Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life

ID: 380428 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Custom background for Teams Rooms on Android

IT admins can upload custom background images on the Teams admin center to reinforce their company brand on their Teams Rooms devices. The main room display, extended room display, and touch console can each have its own specific background image. PNG, JPG, and JPEG, formats are supported. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 380671 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP

This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again.

ID: 380678 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound

With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen.

ID: 380681 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate four new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users: MailItemsAccessed, Send, SearchQueryInitiatedExchange, and SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint. The following logs will differ based on the user’s license and additional metadata will be added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed.

ID: 380690 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.

ID: 380721 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.

ID: 380722 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document.

ID: 380821 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows Devices support for presenters in town halls

Presenters can join and present from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) Windows device in a town hall.

ID: 381425 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium)

Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen.

ID: 381447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Minecraft Education: Minecraft Education Summer Release

The next major update for Minecraft Education will include support for preview applications which can be installed side-by-side with the main Minecraft Education application. This update will add OneDrive-based cloud world storage for backup of worlds. It will also include the major features from Minecraft 1.21 such as trial chambers, breezes, and armadillos. More features will be announced soon!

ID: 381449 Release: Minecraft Education – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive

Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

ID: 381450 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound proximity join admin controls for Teams Rooms on Windows

IT admins can use XML files to enable two proximity join settings for Teams Rooms on Windows: enabling ultrasound signals for a user to accurately find and choose a room to join a meeting from, and whether the Teams Rooms automatically accepts the ring from the user’s laptop to join the meeting.

ID: 381464 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet

You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…)

ID: 381643 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow

When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them.

ID: 381734 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Have follow-up conversations with the team

Get a better understanding of survey results within Viva Pulse reports with team conversations.

ID: 381744 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint

This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text.

ID: 381750 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes in GCC

Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.

ID: 381757 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars

IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars.

ID: 381950 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL

We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing

ID: 381953 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Add new questions to Question Library as Pulse admin

Pulse admins can create new questions that become available in their users’ Question Library.

ID: 381965 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

ID: 382107 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature

SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage.

ID: 382128 Release: SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration with SharePoint eSignature

SharePoint users who are also Adobe Acrobat sign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by Adobe and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage.

ID: 382129 Release: SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular trigger throttling

With this update, we are introducing more granular trigger throttling limits to isolate the impact of a surge in noisy trigger volumes and prevent other policies from being affected. This ensures that organizations can receive critical alerts without being throttled by these limits. By default, the throttling limits will be applied as follows: All sensitive triggers, including HR signals, Azure AD leavers, and custom triggers, will be limited to 15,000 per day per trigger. All other triggers will be limited to 5,000 per day per trigger. Additionally, the policy health warning messages will be enhanced to assist admins with appropriate permissions in identifying and addressing noisy triggers effectively. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 382130 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: December CY2024

Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365

High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online.

ID: 382633 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Remove recommendations in Recommended to You

This gives users the ability to remove the recommendations which they do not need in the Recommended to you section.

ID: 382655 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Remove learning objects shown in In-progress section

Users can remove learning objects shown in the In-progress section.

ID: 382656 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows

Can’t find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs.

ID: 382659 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved FRE for new Goals users

New users to Goals will have an easier onboarding with low confusion on their first sign-in.

ID: 382922 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – New users can auto-claim licenses

By creating the Auto-claim policy for any product, IT Admins will enable eligible new users to claim a license to the product when they sign in. This removes the dependency on the IT Admin and provides a seamless experience to end users. Viva Goals will be onboarded to this platform.

ID: 382923 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Campaign Enhancements – Targeted campaigns and campaigns in the digest.

Corporate communications and campaign managers will now have the capability to effectively promote their campaigns by sending notifications directly to users, ensuring they are promptly informed about new campaigns and can readily participate in them. Additionally, campaigns will be discoverable in the engage digest, enhancing visibility and engagement opportunities.

ID: 382924 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life.

ID: 383008 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot assisted check-ins for Viva Goals

Unleash the potential of Copilot and effortlessly generate draft check-ins for your OKRs by synthesizing progress, status, and check-in details from associated child items tailored to your preferences through a selection of dynamic check-in templates.

ID: 383009 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – M365 Chat Plugin

M365 Copilot Plugin for Viva Goals empowers you to effortlessly search and pull quick summaries of your team’s OKRs right within Teams. Stay ahead of the game by identifying key risks based on the progress and status of your team’s OKRs, all seamlessly integrated into the flow of work. Unleash the potential of combining Viva Goals data with M365 information, providing your team with a holistic view for improved productivity and collaboration.

ID: 383012 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk insights in DLP alerts

With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 383014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management.

ID: 383017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – Improved DLP policy tip reliability

Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file.

ID: 383018 Release: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account

When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source.

ID: 383019 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies

Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use.

ID: 383136 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Clipchamp: New feature for silence removal (pauses) in Clipchamp

We think editing your video could be a quick job but isn’t necessarily so sometimes. Silence removal uses AI auto transcription to transcribe your audio. We infer pauses in your speech transcription and any gaps in the speech we detected for more than 3 seconds is considered a pause. We provide you with the option to remove all pauses at once with a single click or to review each pause where you can adjust and consider ones you want to keep.

ID: 383137 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for town hall

IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for town halls.

ID: 383530 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Extending support for viewing MIP Protected PDF Files to different sovereignties (including GCCH)

Sovereign cloud customers (including GCCH) will be able to open MIP protected PDF content in Microsoft Edge. This change will be available in the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader powered by Adobe Acrobat and the legacy Microsoft Edge PDF engine.

ID: 383534 Release: Microsoft Edge – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Notifications and Nudges in Teams

Users can receive survey notifications and nudges in Teams

ID: 383656 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Access to M365 header

Solution displays M365 header in Viva Glint to improve discoverability of other M365 apps

ID: 383724 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Access to Viva App Bar

Viva Glint displays Viva App Bar for improved discoverability of other Viva Apps.

ID: 383725 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience

Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings.

ID: 383726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Upload custom PowerPoint templates

Ability to upload custom PowerPoint templates for exports

ID: 383729 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Support multitenancy organization via cross tenant sync

Enables one instance of Viva Glint to be used by employees in multiple M365 tenants

ID: 383731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – pin post to leadership corner

Admins and corporate communicators will be able to pin one post that will show at the top of everyone’s leadership corner

ID: 383733 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Regional announcements for FLW users in Viva Connections

Create and share time sensitive messages in Viva Connections and target your FLW users based on attributes including job, description and title. You can view these announcements on Viva Connections desktop, mobile and tablet.

ID: 383735 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Cloud egress groups (macOS)

Restrict sensitive files that match your policies from being shared with unrestricted cloud service domains. Restrict the use of specified web browsers, identified by their executable names. The specified browsers are blocked from accessing files that match the conditions of an enforced a DLP policy where the upload-to-cloud services restriction is set to block or block override.

ID: 383738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Restrict unintentional sharing to unallowed cloud apps and services (macOS)

Ability to restrict unintentional sharing of sensitive items to unallowed cloud apps and services in macOS.

ID: 383739 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Video clip in channel

You can now use Teams video clip in channel, in addition to chat. Record yourself, your screen, or an audio-only clip and attach the video clip to your channel post or reply.

ID: 383740 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal

Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. New search features include the ability to conduct precise searches using identifier (message ID), sensitivity labels, audit log, or evidence file. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion.

ID: 383744 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced privacy control: Limiting PII data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role

With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data.

ID: 383745 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Intune: macOS Platform SSO Support

Enable logging in on a managed Mac using your Entra ID password.

ID: 383952 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels

If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly.

ID: 384065 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs

Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors.

ID: 384067 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – New enhancements in Workday integration

Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday.

ID: 384068 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

ID: 384090 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search

Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP.

ID: 384092 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com

Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills.

ID: 384848 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Multi-tenant communities and campaigns in Viva Engage

Microsoft Viva Engage is bringing support to enable multi-tenant organizations to have a seamless experience with Campaigns and Communities.

ID: 384849 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Multi-tenant Events and AMA in Viva Engage

Enable hosting of Cross-tenant AMAs and Events with Viva Engage

ID: 384850 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report

Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.

ID: 384871 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to Copy Rule

With this feature, admins will have capability to reuse existing rules and make slight edits instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This will reduce a lot of manual re-work and boost their productivity.

ID: 384872 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows

Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection.

ID: 385345 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities

Activities performed by users like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history within the Purview Audit feature will now begin to generate Audit logs.

ID: 385346 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls

When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context.

ID: 385349 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization

To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).

ID: 386900 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization

ID: 386901 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: February CY2025

Outlook: Show online archive storage in the new Outlook for Windows and Web

With this latest update, users can now easily view their online archive storage directly within the Outlook application. By displaying online archive storage information, users can proactively manage their email storage and make informed decisions about archiving, cleaning, and their regular and archived folders. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 386902 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News

We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section.

ID: 386904 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs

The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events.

ID: 387128 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Hardware backed attestation – enhanced for Windows 11

This will enhance the Windows compliance policy – device health by adding five additional hardware attestation settings specific to Windows 11 using advanced platform security features like Memory Integrity and Access Protection, firmware protection, virtualization-based security, and Early Launch Antimalware protection.

ID: 387499 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization

Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization.

ID: 387502 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High

Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support, co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration.

ID: 387790 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: September CY2024

OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365

Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint.

ID: 387806 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with Text

This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes, when those files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Users can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”.

ID: 387807 Release: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Share to Teams will be added to the ribbon in the new Outlook for Windows

Users will now be able to find a “Share to Teams” button in the ribbon whenever they select an email in the reading pane. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 387809 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Analytics in GCC

The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment.

ID: 388367 Release: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Dashboard personalization on tablet in Viva Connections

Customize your dashboard by adding, removing, or reordering the dashboard cards.

ID: 388368 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Revamped Resources on mobile and tablet

The Resources section on Viva Connections mobile and tablet will show content from the recently revamped Resources section on Viva Connections desktop.

ID: 388369 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Connections news notifications on desktop

With this release, existing news notifications in Viva Connections mobile will also be available in Viva Connections desktop.

ID: 388370 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Planned release of AI insights

We are planning to provide an LLM-powered data analysis tools that admins can use to gain insights and actions.

ID: 388376 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Clipchamp: Image background removal in Clipchamp

You can remove a background from your image and photos using AI.

ID: 388485 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management

With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 388733 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators

Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted and FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled. You will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 388734 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access

Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 388737 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New proactive assistance in Copilot

Catch-up is a new experience in Copilot which aims to proactively help users catch up and take action on important updates. It contains a group of cards. Each card has an update related to an important meeting or document. It will work in M365chat and Teams Copilot. It shows up as a tab on the home page.

ID: 388746 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Access Copilot directly in classic Outlook for Windows

The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places is now available from within classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar.

ID: 388753 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Add Shared Folders to Favorites in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Customers will have the ability to add shared folders to their favorites. This enhancement offers users increased flexibility and convenience, allowing easy and quick access to important shared content directly from their Favorites list. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 388913 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help you create draft quizzes

To help teachers, staff, and information workers save time, Copilot in Forms can now generate ice breakers, fun trivia, quizzes, and assessments with correct answers, which helps users focus more on engagement and interaction with their audience.

ID: 389148 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can generate quizzes from provided materials

Generating quizzes from provided materials is one of the most commonly requested features in the education industry, and it is now available in Forms. To save time, users can create quizzes from documents, textbooks, or notes using Copilot. Copilot can create draft quizzes based on the provided materials and users’ prompts.

ID: 389149 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested app

Users on teams will be notified when their IT Admin unblocks an app that was previously requested by the user.

ID: 389151 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings

The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting.

ID: 389368 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Autofill columns

This allows SharePoint Premium users to add natural language prompts to document library columns to extract or generate metadata from an uploaded file’s contents.

ID: 389375 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: AIR Initiated Remediation Logging

The AIR attribution update will empower customers with enhanced insights by deciphering between remediations produced by AIR versus truly manual remediations initiated independently by SecOps teams. Presently, all actions produced by AIR and approved by SecOps are logged as manual remediations throughout the portal. With this update, messages that are remediated as a result of approval of an AIR action will be logged as SecOps approved automated actions.

ID: 389376 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators

Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted, FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled, so you will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 389841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion

Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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: 389842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Workspaces now supports adding highlighting

Microsoft Edge Workspaces users are now able to collaborate in a synchronized way by adding highlighting.

ID: 389852 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD

All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD.

ID: 389854 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint Premium content AI Graph API in Beta (formerly known as Syntex)

We are releasing new Graph APIs for SharePoint Premium content AI capabilities in Beta (formerly known as Syntex models). You will be able to build applications using these new Graph API calls: get a Syntex model by its name, get a Syntex model by its ID, apply a Syntex model to document libraries, un-apply a Syntex model from document libraries, list all the applied document libraries of a Syntex model, create a document processing job, and get a document processing job.

ID: 389855 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE

Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool.

ID: 389857 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium)

If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member.

ID: 391639 Release: Bookings, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Engage content in Workplace Search

As users search in office.com, sharepoint.com, bing at work they will find content from Viva Engage in the search results. We will first start with question posts and then roll out discussion posts from Engage.

ID: 391669 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Activity Explorer – Limiting sensitive data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role

ID: 392099 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community

We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement.

ID: 392100 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in webinars

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.

ID: 392328 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Formula Conditional Formatting

Additional support for complex conditional formats beyond the basic top and bottom or conditional operators. For example, Copilot analyzes two factors when highlighting all rows where the product is bikes and sales is greater than 100.

ID: 392454 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label

Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.

ID: 392456 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label

ID: 392457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android

Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license and your room must be configured to enable Direct Guest Join meetings. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below.

ID: 392822 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars

This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.

ID: 392826 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby

Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.

ID: 392836 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies

The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail.

ID: 392838 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.

ID: 392839 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints

In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.

ID: 392840 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities

Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs.

ID: 392841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search

ID: 392842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms helps you collect more responses to your surveys or quizzes

Copilot in Forms assists form owners by recommending optimal distribution channels and settings for sending forms or quizzes. This includes leveraging email, social media, and QR codes to maximize the benefits of digital forms and quizzes.

ID: 392844 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms Smart Reminder to gain higher engagement from audience

Copilot smart reminder will monitor and proactively share engagement and submission status to a form’s owner in order to suggest follow-up actions. For example, if engagement is low, forms owners can leverage Copilot to send reminders for forms or quizzes quickly. Also, Copilot smart reminder can remind owners to check the insights when there are sufficient responses to make decisions.

ID: 392845 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational messages

Organizational messages allows enterprises to connect with their organization through customized messages, enabling them to engage directly within the Microsoft product experiences they use every day, like Windows Spotlight. Starting Spring 2024, Organizational messages will be found under the “Reports” section within the Microsoft 365 admin center and will include features for admins to centrally manage their tenant’s messages, create new messages, and review delivery reports.

ID: 392847 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs

Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When a user navigates back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded. This can be managed through the AutoDiscardSleepingTabsEnabled policy. This policy will be enabled if the SleepingTabsEnabled policy is enabled.

ID: 392848 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinar – Disable social share for attendees

Disable the ability for attendees to share the webinar event page to social networking sites for public events post-registration.

ID: 393225 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls

This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.

ID: 393227 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium)

The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled.

ID: 393229 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – GCC

We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment.

ID: 393333 Release: OneDrive – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business-sensitive data to free public domain emails

In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 393334 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Sensitive information processing model

SharePoint Premium users will now have the capability to apply a prebuilt sensitive information processing model to SharePoint libraries. This model is designed to detect and possibly extract sensitive information from documents upon their library.

ID: 393336 Release: Microsoft Syntex, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Shortcuts to copy and paste emails (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users will be able to copy and paste emails in Outlook using the shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, allowing them to quickly transfer emails to the desired folder, streamlining workflow, and enhancing productivity. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 393337 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints

DLP will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. On inspection, all the files (of supported file format) within the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies. Afterwards, the archive file will get the applicable auditing / enforcement policy applied to it based on the following logic.

ID: 393653 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Workflows – Easier discoverability of Workflows templates

Users will be able to discover which Workflows template was used when they receive a Workflows card in chats and channels. Teams Workflow cards posted from a template will now include a link to the template used. Users will be able to open the workflow template and create their own automated Teams workflows to save them time when completing routine tasks.

ID: 393923 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft 365 Apps: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC

The Cloud policy service will begin rolling out for Microsoft 365 GCC customers late June 2024. The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.

ID: 393925 Release: Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s

The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manage Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals.

ID: 393926 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers – Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App

Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.

ID: 393931 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Deploy DMG and unmanaged PKG apps enhancement for macOS

Admins will be able to use “available” assignment type for DMG and unmanaged PKG app types for macOS. This enables end users to browse and install these apps in the Mac Company Portal.

ID: 393933 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page

This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded).

ID: 393934 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Entry point change – apps when reading emails moved to the ribbon

The Apps flyout and entry point for pinned apps will be moved to the Home tab in the Ribbon in the New Outlook and Outlook for Web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 393936 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients

We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365.

ID: 394269 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center

App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: ‘Deployed to all users’, ‘Deployed to specific users and groups’, or ‘Deployed to no users’. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant.

ID: 394274 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel chat helper

Customers can get more conversational answers to a broader range of Excel-related questions and prompts from Copilot. For example, the customer can ask how to accomplish a task and Copilot will respond with helpful steps that may include formulas to copy and use. In some cases, Copilot may explain a formula error and supply the corrected formula plus additional guidance to ensure the formula works properly.

ID: 394275 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Word: Proactive document summarization

Automatically see a Copilot-generated summary of a document you open.

ID: 394277 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

SharePoint: Enhancements to the Text web part

New features coming to the Text web part include enhancements to styling/formatting, bullets/numbered lists, and tables.

ID: 394278 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive

As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips

ID: 394279 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Policy service audit logs for policy changes

Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.

ID: 394280 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage

With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 394281 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3

Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources.

ID: 394282 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Access: Modern Chart Improvements

A top ask from customers is to modernize Access charts and to support better data visualization in Access. To satisfy this user request, we are integrating a new charting package called “Ivy” into Access. Ivy is a charting package written by the Office DVX team that is currently used in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

ID: 394349 Release: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Access: Integrate Monaco framework to improve SQL editor capabilities

The Monaco Editor is the fully featured code editor from VS Code with standard IDE functionality such as syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and autocomplete.

ID: 394350 Release: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts

Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile.

ID: 394351 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms

Introducing speaker recognition for Teams Rooms on Windows. This feature provides live transcription with speaker identification, creating a unique “voiceprint” for each participant. With speaker recognition, Copilot in Teams can deliver meeting summaries, insights, and action items by attributing contributions to individual speakers. Participants can easily set up a voice profile using the Teams Desktop app. Users’ individual voice signatures are stored securely in your organization’s tenant in the Microsoft Cloud, ensuring accurate capture of every contribution in every meeting.

ID: 394668 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings

Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting).

ID: 394670 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: RSVP improvements in event context menu in new Outlook for Windows and web

Changes to the event’s right-click context menu will make it easier to respond to meeting invitations from the Calendar surface. All RSVP options will be on the first level of the menu. There will be also separate options to respond to either all events in the series or just the current instance. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newOutlookforWindows

ID: 394680 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: New RSVP settings in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Two new settings to improve the user experience when responding to meeting invitations: (1) do not delete invitation email after RSVPing and (2) auto-decline if the attendee’s calendar shows as busy. These features will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 394681 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot

Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings.

ID: 394682 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Swipe in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

The Message List will now support Swipe from Left and Swipe from Right actions on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. As a result, some minor organization changes will also happen for the hover actions. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 394683 Release: Outlook – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Meeting Details in the Reading Pane on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

When a conversation in Mail is part of a meeting, the Reading Pane will have a new and improved Meeting Details card for a more efficient and modern RSVP flow. This will come to Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 394685 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Send updates only to added or removed attendees

When updating meeting attendees, organizers will be prompted with an option to send updates only to added or removed attendees or send updates to all attendees. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 394687 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot

Introducing a new meeting option that gives meeting organizers the flexibility to manage which attendees have access to meeting artifacts such as transcript, recording, AI-generated recap, and Copilot. Meeting organizers can select from three options: (1) People with existing access, (2) Organizers and Co-organizers, or (3) Specific People.

ID: 394688 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Viva Connections Dashboard

Viva Connections will support Viva Pulse cards where admins can add Pulse cards to the Connections Dashboard. Users can create a Pulse survey from the Connections Dashboard. Users of the Connections Dashboard will be notified about Pulse surveys they send as well.

ID: 394690 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Pages – Author inline comments

Author inline comments enables users to collaborate, provide feedback, and track issues within a page or news post.

ID: 394691 Release: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

SharePoint: Flexible Layouts

New flexible layout sections allow authors to build pages without the strict column structure. Web parts can be dynamically resized and moved within the flexible section.

ID: 395213 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2025

SharePoint: Pages – Updated Hero web part with new layout & styles

The reimagined hero web part will feature a carousel layout and a selection of new styles, creating an eye-catching and engaging experience at the top of the page.

ID: 395214 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes

Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy.

ID: 395215 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Universal Print: Mobile print on Android phones

Integration of Universal Print with the Microsoft 365 mobile app will enable users to add work/school printers to their Android phones. Once the printers are installed on the phone, the user can print to them from any phone app that has a print action.

ID: 395216 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center

If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center.

ID: 395372 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC)

Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more.

ID: 395373 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC) (Premium)

Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more.

ID: 395374 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: July CY2024

OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive

We’re making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user.

ID: 395378 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: View only mode in Viva Engage

Engage admins will have the ability to change users’ access to view only mode. In view only mode, users can access and view content in Engage, but cannot comment, react, or create new posts.

ID: 395690 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for iPad

OneNote Copilot on iPad is your intelligent assistant, transforming the way you interact with your notes. With simple natural language commands, Copilot helps you understand, summarize, and rewrite notes for enhanced clarity and purpose. It’s designed to work seamlessly on the iPad, offering a contextual chat experience that allows you to accomplish tasks faster than ever. Whether you’re preparing for a meeting or organizing your thoughts, OneNote Copilot on iPad is the perfect partner for boosting productivity and creativity on the go.

ID: 395787 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Record opening behavior improvement in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint)

When a user opens a file in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) that has a retention label managing the file as a locked record, it will now open as read-only and immediately not allow any user edits. A message will explain to the user why they cannot edit the file. This improvement brings parity to the behavior already in place for the online versions of these Office applications.

ID: 395791 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives

Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit.

ID: 395793 Release: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel

In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order.

ID: 395931 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC

Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment.

ID: 395935 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: File Image preview in chats and channels

When you share documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) in chat or channel conversation, you can see a thumbnail image of the file in the thread. This lets you preview the file’s content without opening it and find the file you need quickly.

ID: 395936 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Universal Print: Pull Print queues

Pull Print enables IT Pros to offer their end users a simplified view of the print solution. Specifically, IT Pros can set up virtualized printer(s) per location or region so that end users only need to know the name of one printer. Those users can securely release their own print jobs at any printer at that location or region, depending on the setup.

ID: 395937 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Security protection controls in the Microsoft Edge management service

The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins with a dedicated experience to manage specific settings that help improve the security posture of their managed browser instances.

ID: 395939 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Topic Subscription notification

This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users would receive a Teams and Engage bell notification whenever a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or the topic is added to an existing post.

ID: 395940 Release: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Simplifying the personal app header

Microsoft Teams personal apps will start showing a new simplified header bar on Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients. With this change, the “About” tab and other utility actions will be moved to the overflow menu. In addition, the “Chat” tab will be moved to a right-hand side panel for apps that support it.

ID: 396166 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Mute user for network

With this feature, Engage admins can remove specific users’ posts from the Engage home feed, storylines feed, and all email digests. Selected users are not notified about this change. Engage admins may find this feature helps to moderate the visibility of content in the network. Mute user for network is part of a suite of moderation features in Engage, including view-only mode, close conversations, and more.

ID: 396168 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat

The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change.

ID: 396169 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC sovereign cloud

GCC sovereign cloud customers will be able to use features in Excel run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data found on the Home tab.

ID: 396171 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policies support Fingerprinting SITs

Admins can now automatically label files and emails with Fingerprinting SITs via auto-labeling policies.

ID: 396173 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Edit Learning Paths in Viva Learning

Admin will be able to edit learning paths metadata and content. Latest updates will be shown to learner after the LP is edited.

ID: 396286 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Create goals from multiple M365 documents with Copilot

Users will be able to add more than one file from Context IQ suggestions as references in their prompts to Copilot for generating goals.

ID: 396287 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Clipchamp for Education (A3 & A5)

Clipchamp enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web or Windows app for Microsoft 365 A3 and Microsoft 365 A5 SKUs.

ID: 396288 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator

Microsoft Edge will include an AI theme generator, that allows users to input a text prompt and generate a series of images to preview as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image on the Edge new tab page, and applying the image’s dominant color to the browser frame. Admins can restrict access to this feature using the AIGenThemesEnabled policy.

ID: 396289 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights Product Updates

Adding trendlines to show metric movements over past 6-month time periods, before vs after Copilot comparisons, and providing the option to view an estimated dollar value for the existing Copilot assisted hours metric.

ID: 396345 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Dashboard in Viva Insights to become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365

In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard will become available to all Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers at no additional cost and will not require a Viva or Viva Insights license. Users will be able to access the dashboard in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or the web app.

ID: 396346 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Copilot works on any selection

Copilot will enable the edit box on any worksheet regardless of selection. Copilot will reason over the nearest table or data range to the customer’s selected grid area on the same worksheet.

ID: 396560 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Support for Data Ranges Resembling Tables

Copilot can now reason over data ranges with a single row of headers on top, even when they’re not Excel tables.

ID: 396561 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Graph: Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage

Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app).

ID: 396562 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Graph, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Viva Glint Dashboard

Enable managers and leaders to gather additional information and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey. By leveraging a Pulse survey that recommends questions based on the top strengths and opportunities identified in the org-wide Glint survey, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the team’s progress to-date in addressing key focus areas, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.

ID: 396563 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

ID: 396570 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

ID: 396571 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Time Suggestions Update

We are improving how suggested times are shown when scheduling a meeting. We are removing the automatically shown suggested times and instead you will need to enable a switch – Find a time – if you want to see suggested times. If you enable the toggle, the new availability view on time suggestion tiles will make it easier to find a suitable time with more clarity on everyone’s availability. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396574 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv

ID: 396575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Official Communities Discovery

Official Communities are discoverable in the Communities Discovery page. Under Recommended Communities, there is an Official Communities section which highlights the communities that have been verified by the network admins.

ID: 396722 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage change log for leaders and audiences identified

Admins and corporate communicators will be able to see any leaders who were added or removed in Viva Engage, as well as any audiences and removed from a leader in Viva Engage.

ID: 396726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Calendar split view when surface is set to month view

When viewing multiple calendars in month view, users will be able to select “split view” to see those calendars displayed side by side. This feature will be available in new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396727 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Intune policy available for specific primary account in the new Outlook for Windows

This adds Intune policy in the new Outlook for Windows to a specific primary account based on Active Directory Primary SMTP address. This will ease the setup process for new managed devices and guarantee that company policies will always be respected. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396729 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Private Line on Teams Phone Devices

Teams phone devices will support Private line, a new functionality for Teams Phone that allows you to enable a private second phone number for a select set of users so they can receive inbound calls directly, by passing delegates, admins, or assistants. Calls to the private line are distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone.

ID: 396769 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: People app on Teams Phone Devices

An updated People app on Teams phone devices will provide a simplified and faster experience to help users manage contacts easily.

ID: 396773 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent recording meeting policy support on Teams Phone Devices

When explicit consent recording meeting policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of participants on Teams phone devices.

ID: 396777 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Improved Report PDF Exports

PDFs exported from Glint Reports are improved to be easily printable, searchable, and readable.

ID: 396781 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Universal Print: Logs and alerts

With a new Azure Monitor integration, Universal Print customers can send detailed diagnostic logs to a Log Analytics workspace to conduct troubleshooting and configure custom alerts.

ID: 396782 Release: Universal Print – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery

With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click.

ID: 397089 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.

ID: 397090 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property

This cmdlet allows users to verify the compliance boundary property of a specific OneDrive site, ensuring that the value is correctly configured. If the property is not set or if the site is in arbitration, users can use this cmdlet to assign the property value for the site for compliance boundary to take effect.

ID: 397091 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience

Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI.

ID: 397092 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: New Contact View and Org Chart

This improves the large contact view experience, including the org chart and recent files.

ID: 397093 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through the new Outlook for Windows

When users are in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint apps, and they want to share a file that is saved locally in their device (not stored in a cloud location), the new Outlook for Windows will show up as a share target and they will be able to easily email the file. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 397094 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Proactive document summarization

Automatically see a Copilot-generated summary of a document you open.

ID: 397096 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

OneNote: OneNote Copilot on Mac

OneNote Copilot on Mac is your intelligent assistant, transforming the way you interact with your notes. With simple natural language commands, Copilot helps you understand, summarize, and rewrite notes for enhanced clarity and purpose. It’s designed to work seamlessly on the Mac, offering a contextual chat experience that allows you to accomplish tasks faster than ever. Whether you’re preparing for a meeting or organizing your thoughts, OneNote Copilot on Mac is the perfect partner for boosting productivity and creativity on the go.

ID: 397097 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Guided upgrade of applications

Enterprise Application Management enables you to easily update previously provisioned EAM applications with a securely hosted enterprise catalog.

ID: 397750 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes

ID: 397753 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced incident communication with DLP email templates

You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can use these email templates to inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more scenarios like these.

ID: 397754 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Scheduling Assistant Updates

We are updating the scheduling assistant view to help users have better readability. Some of these changes are in alignment to customer the feedback. These changes will also improve the grid lines, availability view, adding combined availability bar and much more. These updates will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 397769 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Channel cards

Channel cards will provide you quick overview of key information about what is happening within the channel, including who is in the channel and the purpose of the channel.

ID: 397883 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Simplified App Control policy creation experience (curated workflow)

Configure an App Control policy with built-in toggles in the console that expose all App Control for Business capabilities.

ID: 397885 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations.

ID: 397889 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Import navigational links from SharePoint into Resources in Viva Connections

On the desktop experience for Viva Connections, operators will be able to effortlessly import SharePoint links from their home site navigation and global navigation directly into the Resources section.

ID: 397890 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Support S/MIME in the new Outlook for Windows

New Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions) signing and encryption. All new and existing S/MIME configurations will work without any explicit action from admins. The feature was already available for Web and now we are extending its availability to New Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 397891 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Edit questions associated to live surveys

Allow Glint Admins to edit select fields of a question that is associated to live surveys.

ID: 398016 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: School Connection – Providing access to parents via their phone number

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams (mobile) empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. This release enables a parent/guardian to get access to their child’s profile in School Connection if they login to Teams (mobile) with their phone number and the school has registered that phone number as a parent/guardian contact. Additionally, a parent/guardian will easily get access to their child’s profile if the phone number or email address that is registered by the school is saved as a contact information in their Microsoft account. Learn more about School Connection at the link below.

ID: 398447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window

When meeting window is minimized, participants can enlarge the small view of Teams meeting to a new bigger gallery view, making it easier to multitask on screen and stay aware of meeting events. Users can choose the size of the minimized gallery view window from the following options: one participant visible in the minimized window, 4 participants visible in the minimized window, fully minimized, or fully expanded.

ID: 398449 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property

ID: 398451 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Users can scope suggestions to specific entities in the new Outlook for Windows and Web

Users will be able to scope their search suggestions down to specific entities such as Files, People, Mail etc in order to sort through their suggestions more easily. They will be able to navigate from the suggestion directly to the entity tab in their search results. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 398707 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams premium feature usage report for administrators in Teams admin center (Premium)

Teams Premium feature usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) will help administrators understand the usage of various Teams Premium features across users in their organization.

ID: 398709 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Show Chat info in Microsoft Teams

Chat users can have access to contextual information including members, pinned messages, shared files and links, and entry point to contextual search from this canvas.

ID: 398956 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – Page range setting for prebuilt and structured models

This creates a new setting for prebuilt (contract, invoice, and receipt) and structured/freeform models to specify the file pages to be processed.

ID: 398960 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Support for SharePoint audience targeting

When publishing to one or multiple SharePoint sites from within Viva Amplify, you can now promote the news post to specific audiences by indicating security groups, Microsoft 365 groups, or AAD dynamic groups.

ID: 398975 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard delegation

Users can delegate access to the Copilot Dashboard to others within their company. Admins can set policies to manage access to the delegation feature.

ID: 398976 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Introducing content pane

The content pane is a new place for relevant panes that help authors create their publications. With the introduction of this centralized location, a new toolbox will help authors quickly browse and add content to create rich and engaging pages. The content pane will include additional panes such as configuration tools and design ideas. Within Viva Amplify, the content pane is used to host the distribution channel selection, writing guidance, and audience selection.

ID: 398977 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Easier to find your most recent templates

Updates to the Viva Amplify template display include showing the most recently modified templates on the campaign overview page for easy access and separating the Viva Amplify provided templates from the user-saved campaign templates.

ID: 398978 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Improved authoring experience

This updates the Viva Amplify editors for both Outlook and Teams distribution channels to improve previewing and editing. These updates will provide improvements to load time and create a coherent audience selection experience across the channels.

ID: 398980 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Updated conversation actions on Outlook for Android

ID: 398981 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for iOS

We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for iOS. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you’re looking for.

ID: 398982 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Updating Conversation Actions on Outlook for iOS

Currently, when viewing a message, you can access the available actions in the top-right corner. We are updating these actions to be at the bottom of the screen with the ability to customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs. With this update, you will also be able to access all conversation actions from the inbox view by long-pressing a message.

ID: 398983 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for Android

We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for Android. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you’re looking for.

ID: 398984 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Excel: Formula data summaries in rows and cells

Add a single formula to summarize column data into one cell. Today, full column calculations produce a unique result in each row, but this new feature gives you the option to calculate all data in a column together to return one result. You can also create a row with formulas that apply for relevant columns; for example, an “add total sales row” will add a SUM formula underneath every column that has sales data.

ID: 398989 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

SharePoint: eSignature sequential signing

Sequential signing enables the creator of an eSignature request to specify the sequence of recipients. The document is first signed by the initial recipient in the sequence, then forwarded to the subsequent recipient for their signature. This process continues in the designated order until every recipient has added their signature. Once everyone has signed, the signed document is made available to all involved.

ID: 398990 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Prevent some connected experiences that analyze content with sensitivity labels in files and emails

You can configure a new setting for sensitivity labels that prevents content within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook from being sent to Microsoft for content analysis as a privacy control, even when these are stored in Microsoft’s cloud, such as SharePoint or OneDrive. Use this to help you optimize your data privacy needs on a per-content basis, using the familiar configurations and end-user experiences available with Microsoft Purview.

ID: 398991 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Ability to send dual- and triple-language surveys in emails

Microsoft Viva Glint now supports sending survey emails in multiple languages within a single mailer.

ID: 398993 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights employee engagement with leader communications report

Leaders will have a new report to help them understand the reach of their communications within their organization, and their employees’ engagement with their sent emails, meetings, and shared files to better understand the effectiveness of different modes of communication.

ID: 399426 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage and navigation refresh for organizational leaders

Homepage and left-hand navigation will be updated to highlight the value of recently released reports. In addition, a new library page will be introduced where users can filter on metrics by sub-organizations, time periods and peer benchmarks and access all of their available reports.

ID: 399427 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Initial version of PST support in new Outlook for Windows

The initial version of PST support in new Outlook for Windows will enable users to open “*.pst” files (a.k.a. Outlook Data Files), read all e-mail messages within the “*.pst” file, and search e-mail messages within the “.pst” file. This initial support is limited to Mail items and is read-only. All Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks data saved in the “*.pst” files are still there, but they cannot be accessed in this initial version. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 399467 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails

ID: 399551 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 backup storage

The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees.

ID: 399552 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft 365, Exchange, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view

Introducing more avatar reactions, personal boundary on avatars, and improved active speaker indication on avatar name tags.

ID: 399553 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business

With this change Teams meeting recordings will be saved to the meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business instead of to the OneDrive for Business folder of the person who initiated the recording. This improves the compliance of recordings as meeting organizers can then manage access permissions and recording file management.

ID: 116251 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings

Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner.

ID: 167330 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Support for Exchange On-Premises Servers

Outlook for Mac will support accounts for Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers.

ID: 182252 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage

With the new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.

ID: 189809 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows

This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.

ID: 191528 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

ID: 373720 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Enhancements to insider risk level settings

With this new feature, an admin can choose whether they want to expire the Adaptive Protection insider risk level. Today, this expiration happens automatically, but you can now choose to keep the Adaptive Protection insider risk level for a user, even if their alert is dismissed or case is closed. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 388736 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Easily manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing

We’re introducing a setting that allows Teams Phone Mobile users to opt-out of your presence automatically transitioning to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. When this setting is enabled, users will be able to continue to receive call notifications when presenting, without having to manually adjust their presence status.

ID: 393228 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Draggable Presenter Toolbar while screensharing

Introducing the ability for presenters to freely drag Presenter Toolbar appearing on top of screen while screensharing.

ID: 394270 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Attach files from SharePoint Sites in the mobile app

Users will be able to browse, multiselect and attach files from SharePoint Sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app.

ID: 395375 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365

Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company data it’s able to access.

ID: 395783 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Closed captioning support in Teams Walkie Talkie

Walkie Talkie users can now view captions on the walkie talkie home screen, for transmissions being received.

ID: 396558 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Interactivity analytics

This feature gives audience engagement metrics on interactive Stream videos. Users with edit access to a Stream video that contains links, polls, or callouts will be able to see the number of unique viewers and the percentage of those who viewed or clicked on interactive elements in the video, as well as average number of interactions and average attention time. These metrics help video owners understand which content is most engaging.

ID: 396732 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Connected actions – Viva Pulse integration into Viva Insights Leader deep dive reports

Leaders can send Viva Pulse surveys tailored to new out-of-the-box reports from the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams at anytime to add additional context to workplace metrics.

ID: 378430 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Copilot deployment kits in Viva Amplify

Prepare for and launch Copilot in your organization using our new deployment kit in Viva Amplify. This is a set of pre-written and formatted publications that will educate users on how to use Copilot, all of the M365 endpoints, and develop their AI skills. This is a tested set of communications that the Microsoft team used internally to ensure the right messages are reaching your end users and preparing them for Copilot.

ID: 392453 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Canceled

Whiteboard: Voting

*This feature has been deprioritized for the time being as Whiteboard prioritizes other highly requested feature development. As a workaround, Whiteboard has features that accommodate lightweight voting such as sticky note reactions that can be used. This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.

ID: 117392 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

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