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Did you know you could pin your messages? Microsoft Teams allows for you to pin your important messages to the top of your list. You can stay in sync with your team within a timely manner.

In Development

SharePoint: Migration Manager content discovery

Before you move any file or folder from on-premises into Microsoft 365, you need to discover content and plan for the migration. The Migration Manager, from within the SharePoint admin center, will provide content discovery so admins can best understand what content they have, decide what to migrate and what to remediate.

ID: 82000 Tags: SharePoint – Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Whiteboard: Web Templates

Participants in Teams and on Whiteboard for the Web can add a variety of built-in templates for meetings, workshops, decision making, planning, design thinking and more.

ID: 82030 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021

Whiteboard: User Experience

Participants in Teams and on Whiteboard for the web will see a new, refreshed user experience.

ID: 82034 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Outlook and Exchange for Business: Microsoft Outlook browser extension for Edge

The Microsoft Outlook browser extension brings you the power of mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks using an icon in Microsoft Edge. Quickly access your Outlook work account or your Outlook.com or Hotmail account without switching to another tab or app. The extension will be available in the Chrome Store soon as well.

ID: 82036 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Control visibility of suggested topics

This update will empower knowledge managers to enable or prevent general visibility of AI-suggested topics.

ID: 82050 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Information governance – Retention policies for Yammer

This update enables organizations to apply retention policies on Yammer messages.

ID: 82055 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Investigation updates for improved email threats and actions

We have new updates and improvements to the Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) playbooks to better capture the state of the emails and entities that are being investigated. This results in more accurate threat data and actions – which are better for security operations workflows.

ID: 82056 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Pin chat messages

Pin a Teams chat message to drive awareness and provide the chat members with quick access to important content. Pinning will help your team stay in sync on what’s and relevant in a timely manner.

ID: 82584 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New default settings when opening Office files

Users can set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams.  The desktop setting can be selected, if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.

ID: 82662 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Fluid components in Teams chat

Fluid 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: 82779 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live Events in GCC-High, and DoD

Soon, you will be able to use Live Events in GCCH and DoD for your needs.

ID: 82954 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams Meetings Auto Recording

This feature allows users to auto record meetings by choosing auto record option in meetings options.

ID: 83054 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Left navigation updates in Teams Admin Center

To make it easier to find Team’s features and navigate your Teams organization, we reorganized the left navigation based on user studies and customer feedback.

ID: 83320 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams Network planner for government clouds

Network Planner can help you determine and organize network requirements for connecting Microsoft Teams users across your organization. When you provide your network details and Teams usage, the Network Planner calculates your network requirements for deploying Teams and cloud voice across your organization’s physical locations.

ID: 83471 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: EDU tailored deployment plan in Teams Advisor

EDU IT Administrators can use a tailored plan to deploy Teams to their organization.

ID: 83509 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: RTMP Streaming Support

Enables support for your users to stream their Teams meetings to large audiences through RTMP, including endpoints outside your organization.

ID: 83562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021

Outlook: Rich AutoReply Toolbar for Android

Users will now be able to format the text in their autoreplies. Options include bold/italics/underline, numbered/unnumbered lists, font style and links.

ID: 83732 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021

Outlook: Rich Event Description ToolBar

Users will now be able to format the text in their event descriptions. Options include bold/italics/underline, numbered/unnumbered lists, font style and links.

ID: 83733 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Paging on Video Gallery

When you choose Large Gallery, and there are more than 49 videos or in Gallery with more than 9 videos, navigation controls and now appear below the Large Gallery and Video Gallery. You can use these controls to view more video participants.

ID: 84464 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Attendee Dashboard

Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the reporting dashboard.

ID: 66585 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021

SharePoint: Scenario-Based Site Templates

Use scenario-based site templates that leverage existing SharePoint capabilities (e.g. pages, lists, libraries, branding) to build your own sites faster and get inspired.

ID: 70574 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling

Organizations will be able to configure new or existing Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.

ID: 81968 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Project: Book resources to manage resource availability

Avoid over-scheduling resources by using bookings to ensure a resource’s time is effectively allocated within their availability.

ID: 81978 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: First contact safety tip

First contact safety tips notify recipients the first time they get a message from a sender or if they don’t often get messages from the sender. This capability adds an extra layer of security protection against potential impersonation attacks. Previously the first contact safety tip was available via PowerShell cmdlet, and with this release will now be available for configuration in the anti-phishing policy.

ID: 82052 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Lower all raised hands.

Meeting organizers and presenters will see an option to lower all raised hands from the participant pane.

ID: 82643 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2021

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or Window on Mac

You can now include your computer’s sound when you share a Desktop or Window on Mac. This is great when you are sharing a video and want your audience to hear its audio during the meeting.

ID: 67168 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management solution available for DoD

Announcing the general availability of the Insider Risk Management solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center for DoD cloud environments.

ID: 68710 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 1:1 PSTN Call Recording

Record 1:1 PSTN Calls.

ID: 68777 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Yammer: New Feature: Restricting conversations in All Company

Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High

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

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

Microsoft Teams: Update to meeting participant’s access to meeting chat

People added to a meeting via a meeting link and were not added to the original meeting invite will no longer have access to chats, files, notes, and other meeting content after the meeting ends. They will continue to have access to meeting assets during the meeting but lose access once the meeting ends.

ID: 68853 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Yammer retention

This update enables organizations to apply retention policies on Yammer messages.

ID: 70581 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events

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

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

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable a Single Attendee’s Video

Ability to disable and enable a single attendee’s video in a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 70620 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable all Attendee’s Video

Ability to disable and enable video for all attendee’s before, or during, a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 70621 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Recommendation widget for Teams DLP

A new recommendation widget will appear within the Microsoft 365 compliance center to guide admins in creating a packaged Teams DLP policy if they currently have no policy related to Teams DLP in their policy portfolio.

ID: 70731 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Yammer: Essential Announcements

This feature allows Yammer community admins to achieve a guaranteed distribution of important community announcements via email for all members of that community, even if its outside of their preferred notification settings.

ID: 70741 Tags: Yammer, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Ability to test Exact Data Match

After setting up EDM-based classification, tenant admins will now be able to test EDM sensitive information types (SITs) via the Microsoft 365 compliance center and via PowerShell cmdlet. Classification results returned will include the sensitive type, its count, and confidence.

ID: 72220 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: Request Files for GCC High and DoD

The Request Files feature is now available for the GCCH and DoD environments.

ID: 72228 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2021

SharePoint: Admin center – Migration Manager: Dropbox migrations (Public Preview)

With our recent Mover acquisition, we are excited to expand our capabilities to allow moving content from Dropbox into Microsoft 365. When you’re ready to move your content, click on the Migrate tab in the SharePoint admin center to start scan discovery, assessment, and migrate. You’ll get detailed reports and the rest in a seamless transition of files and folders to Microsoft 365 (OneDrive, SharePoint, and/or Teams). This will be a Public Preview.

ID: 82015 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Outlook: Pin emails on Android and iOS

Do you pin emails in Outlook on the Web? We’ve got your back. You can now find your pinned emails using the filter button at the top of the message list. You can pin new emails by setting up a Pin swipe action in settings, or by tapping the … in the top right corner of the reading pane.

ID: 83043 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Apps in Meeting Chats with External Users

We will now support apps added by native users (hosts) in meeting chats with external users (users from other domains).

ID: 83094 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Canceled