Play of the Week

Microsoft Forms’ new Present Mode feature will take your surveys and quizzes to the next level through QR codes or URLs. The groundbreaking feature allows meeting organizers to enhance audience engagement and accurately collect data to unlock valuable insights. Check out this new feature and more in this week’s roadmap.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meeting Recordings

Microsoft Graph meeting recording API allows developers access to Teams meeting recordings once the meeting is completed. Recorded media output is in MP4 audio+video format.

ID: 95787 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Intelligent recommendations

Intelligent Recommendations powered by Machine Learning model add insights to baselines giving you confidence in configurations that have been successfully adopted by similar organizations.

ID: 103634 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity label required to restrict permissions for labeling-enabled users

Users with sensitivity labels available will no longer be able to restrict permissions without a label in most cases. Entry points to the legacy Set Permissions dialog will redirect to a sensitivity labeling dialog, where users can select an appropriate label to restrict permissions. UX allowing users to remove encryption or permission information without changing the sensitivity label will also be removed.

ID: 109532 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, PowerPoint, Word, Excel – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements

IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users.

ID: 119789 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements

Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls.

ID: 123753 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Analytics Enhancements

Enhancements to existing Viva Connections analytics capabilities providing an analytics dashboard for data visualization and additional metrics at a Dashboard card level.

ID: 124918 Tags: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Automatic transcriptions for video files uploaded to SharePoint, Yammer, and Office.com

Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies.

ID: 124932 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, Yammer – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals OKR Level Permissions Enhancements

Users can now use AAD groups and Viva Goals teams to assign permissions at an OKR level.

ID: 124942 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Project: Access custom environment projects in Teams

Users can now use the Project app to add Custom environment projects in their Teams channel.

ID: 124949 Tags: Microsoft Project – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023

Forms: New Present mode shares surveys or quizzes live through QR code or URL

You can now share a survey or quiz by selecting “Present” mode. The survey can be accessed via QR code or URL from any screen. Results are viewed on the same screen, dynamically updated as information is gathered.

ID: 124955 Tags: Forms – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Campaign discovery hub

It is campaign discovery hub in Microsoft Viva to help users explore and discover existing campaigns.

ID: 124957 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Tag templates and review set tagging usability enhancements

Streamline your review process with our refined tagging experience, designed to simplify your workflow. Leverage the tenant level tagging templates to easily manage your organization’s tagging needs.

ID: 124962 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence and anomaly detection in insider risk analytics

With this update, insider risk analytics now includes sequence and anomaly detection indicators, providing more comprehensive and effective 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 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: 124967 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds by insider risk analytics

With this update, admins can receive recommended thresholds for insider risk policies, including potential data leak and data theft by departing employee policies, by leveraging the insights from insider risk analytics. By using these recommended thresholds, admins can improve the effectiveness of policies and generate an optimal number of alerts. 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: 124968 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Analytics email digest

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will receive a monthly email summarizing the latest insider risk analytics insights scanned from the environment. 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: 124969 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023

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

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection

Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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: 124973 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2024

Microsoft Syntex: Customers with the seat license can sign up for Pay-as-you-go services

Customers with Syntex seat licenses can also sign up for new Pay-as-you-go services. Microsoft will not charge pay-as-you-go for services that are covered under the seat license.

ID: 124985 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Project: Task history

Review the history of activities for a given task to track the changes in the project and help inform follow ups.

ID: 124987 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2023

Microsoft Graph: Connectors in GCCH

Microsoft Graph Connectors that allow to index third-party content into Microsoft Graph to enable intelligent experiences like Microsoft Search will be available in Government Community Cloud High (GCCH). Graph Connectors is already live in GCC. DoD launch is coming soon.

ID: 124991 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs (Premium)

The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.

ID: 125072 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Shared Device license on Teams mobile app for Android

To support mobile and flexible work styles, the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license will be available on the Teams mobile app on Android. This will enable Android phones to be set up as shared devices. Walkie Talkie, call queues, auto attendants, cloud voicemail, call park and all other calling features currently supported for common area phones will be available through the Teams Android app.

ID: 126706 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Preview and playback of Stream videos inline in Teams chat and channels

Stream videos that are saved in OneDrive and SharePoint are now embedded in chat and channels enabling users to preview and play them directly in Teams without the need to open a browser window.

ID: 127596 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds)

Extend protection to unclassified files on Windows endpoint by applying restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.

ID: 138591 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: November CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Viva: Connections News Notifications

Mobile users of Viva Connections will receive a push notification from Teams when SharePoint news is published from sites they follow or visit frequently. They’ll also receive notification if they are @ mentioned in a comment on a news post, or if someone likes or comments on news they have published. These notifications will honor Teams notification settings including fully disabling them and quiet hours.

ID: 98112 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft To Do: Apple Watch Support

Now, you can access Microsoft To Do on your Apple Watch. View, add and complete your tasks through your watch.

ID: 98122 Tags: Microsoft To Do – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android meetings

This feature allows you to add your Android device to an ongoing meeting, making it easy to chat, react, share, and more.

ID: 109606 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enable zooming while viewing screenshare

Users can now zoom in and out while viewing a screenshare in a Teams call and meeting.

ID: 116010 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Mobile Dashboard personalization

Now you can customize your Viva Connection Dashboard by adding, removing or reordering your dashboard cards.

ID: 117428 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft Edge management service

Microsoft Edge management service is a single portal for admins to manage the Edge browser. It is a simple and easy-to-manage experience. Admins will be able to configure all Edge browser policies for their organization in a configuration profile and set-up the browser to use these settings.

ID: 124856 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Reading pane background image

To offer more personalization to end users, Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows will now have the ability to display a background image in the reading pane whenever emails are not selected. This feature will be turned off by default for commercial customers. A user will be able to turn on a background image by going to Settings General Appearance from Outlook.

ID: 126221 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Intune: Security policies for unenrolled Microsoft Defender for Endpoint devices

Manage the security policies on Windows and Windows server that are not enrolled in Intune or Configuration Manager but have Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

ID: 88503 Tags: Microsoft Intune – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant synchronization

Admins will be able to automate creating, updating, and deleting B2B users across tenants within an organization.

ID: 109568 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Alert triage improvements – user context during alert review

While reviewing an alert, analysts and investigators can quickly reference more user context details, such as the detected event and the activities that generated the alert. These additional details can provide context that may be relevant to determining if an alert should be escalated for further investigation. 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: 117602 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced alert experience

This update introduces enhancements to the alert overview page to provide explanation of why an alert was generated and to improve the ability to review the riskiest user activities in an alert. 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: 117605 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy customization from alert review experience

This feature allows admins to customize an Insider Risk Management policy and adjust policy thresholds from within the alert review experience instead of going through the policy configuration wizard, so customization decisions can be made in the context of alert review activities. 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: 117608 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Edge: v.114 – Workspaces

Edge Workspaces provides a way for customers to organize their browsing tasks into dedicated windows. Edge Workspaces lets users share a set of browser tabs so working groups can view the same websites and latest working files in one place and stay on the same page. Each Edge Workspace contains its own sets of tabs and favorites, all created and curated by the user and their collaborators. Edge Workspaces are automatically saved and kept up to date.

ID: 124844 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams Admin Center: New widget for unspent Azure consumption commitment

New widget in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) helps admins quickly view unspent Microsoft Azure consumption commitment (MACC) that they can apply when making purchase of Teams apps that are Azure benefit eligible. It will only be available to organizations that have an existing MACC agreement with Microsoft.

ID: 125173 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Appointment queue in GCC

Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.  This item is being removed as a duplicate of 121360.

ID: 122559 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2023