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Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP feature allows admins to scan, classify and return results to endpoint devices. This feature also allows admins more advanced classification techniques like exact match for their loss prevention policies.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: App Based Link Unfurling supported in ‘Share to Microsoft Teams’

‘App Based Link Unfurling’ will work exactly in ‘Share to Teams’ as it works today in normal Teams messaging.

ID: 91118 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection (U.S. Government clouds)

Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage.

ID: 93275 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: August CY2022

SharePoint: Video collections page

SharePoint video collections pages make it easy to gather and display all of the videos from a SharePoint site collection in one place.  This feature is particularly helpful schools, universities and other organizations that tend to share videos in Teams channels. With this feature you will be able to create a tab in your Teams channel that links directly to a specific collection of videos.

ID: 93352 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Archived file support (U.S. Government clouds)

Support the scanning for sensitive content in ZIP and ARJ archive files in Windows devices.

ID: 93353 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Contextual policy conditions (U.S. Government clouds)

Support to identify when a file is sensitive based upon the file type or extension in Windows devices. Extend your Endpoint DLP policy controls to detect and protect even more content types such as CAD drawing files, video and audio files, and custom file types used in your specific industry.

ID: 93354 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Classification globalization support (CCJK) (U.S. Government clouds)

Microsoft Endpoint DLP will support content authored using double-byte character sets in Windows devices (including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese) in service workloads.

ID: 93355 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library (U.S. Government clouds)

With this update, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the document library (if not already labeled).

ID: 93362 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Recipient Block using Tenant Allow/Block List Senders

Today the Tenant Allow Block List is used to prevent users from receiving email from select senders. However, users are still able to send emails to that same address or domain. With this new feature, the Tenant Allow Block List will be extended to prevent users from sending emails to addresses and domains that are added to the Allow/Block list.

ID: 93363 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention – Customizable DLP policy violation justification (U.S. Government clouds)

You can customize and replace the out-of-the-box justifications with your organization’s own text to better define the type and scope override.

ID: 93376 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict copying sensitive files to Bluetooth on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds)

Microsoft Endpoint DLP provides customers the ability to create and enforce DLP policies that regulate the sharing of sensitive data to Bluetooth devices using the same DLP policy creation and management solution they currently use to support DLP across Microsoft’s fully unified DLP offering with the experience their users are already familiar with.

ID: 93377 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Improved classification accuracy (U.S. Government clouds)

Availability of high/medium/low confidence levels to fine tune the match condition for any Sensitive Info Type in your Endpoint data loss prevention policies.

ID: 93378 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone for GCC-High and DOD

Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.

ID: 94390 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Get your favorite tools in Microsoft Edge sidebar

Easily access commonly used tools while you browse the web, including Calculator, Internet speed test, and Unit converter.

ID: 96098 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge sidebar

The Microsoft Edge sidebar enables users to access Edge features side-by-side with their browsing window. Available features include Discover, Bing search, Outlook, Office, Games, and Tools such as a unit converter and internet speed test. Administrators can control the availability of the Microsoft Edge sidebar by using the HubsSidebarEnabled policy.

ID: 96138 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for DoD

Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.

ID: 72169 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer Meeting Role

Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new “Co-organizer” role to people they invite. Co-organizers will have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.

ID: 81391 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions in all available languages on Teams Meetings on Web

Live Captions in all available languages are now available for web users of Teams Meetings.

ID: 84001 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript in all available languages in Teams Meetings on Web

Live Transcript is now available in all available languages for web users of Teams Meetings.

ID: 84003 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Integrated CART captioning in meetings on Web

Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting on Chrome and Edge. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

ID: 84906 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Case limit enhancements (US Government clouds)

eDiscovery (Premium) is expanding the limits for collection size, review set volume, and export. The limits expansion increases the collection size from 300GB currently to 1TB and expands the review set capacity as well to accommodate large case volumes. Export limits will be increased to 5M documents or 500GB, whichever is smaller. This update will help ensure organizations are able to manage their eDiscovery process across very large data sets effectively with eDiscovery (Premium).

ID: 85631 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Briefing email for Government Community Cloud

The daily briefing email- a personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC).

ID: 85681 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: June CY2022

Outlook: Support for Retention Policies

Use retention policies in Outlook for Mac to apply a policy to your messages in your mailbox. Retention policies define how long your messages will be saved. This update will only work in the new Outlook for Mac.

ID: 88849 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Add or Edit captions and transcript for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive for GCC and GCC-High

You can upload, download, and delete captions in the Web VTT file format for a video in SharePoint or OneDrive. This will enable you to edit transcript files generated by Teams live transcript or Stream via downloading the file, editing in a text or VTT editor, and re-uploading it. The VTT file will be displayed as captions inside the video player and as a transcript in the transcript pane next to the video.

ID: 88890 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Collection of Teams conversation as transcript (US Government clouds)

eDiscovery managers will soon have the flexibility to collect Teams messages as transcript items. Transcripts will aggregate and thread messages in the same Teams conversations into a single HTML file that is available for review and export. Customers will continue to have the ability to collect Teams messages as individual items as offered today.

ID: 88896 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Modern meeting experience on the web

The modern meeting and calling experience will be available for Teams on the web in Chrome and Edge browsers – including improved pre-join, dynamic view, and the updated control bar.

ID: 92928 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds

Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.

ID: 92937 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: E-signature approvals creation on mobile

Users will now be able to create e-signature approvals on any mobile device.

ID: 92940 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: E-sign approvals fully embedded within Team Approvals for a streamlined experience

Users can now seamlessly create and review e-signature approval requests directly in Teams removing the need to access the e-sign provider website.

ID: 92941 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Alert policies

we are enhancing the existing Microsoft Defender for Office 365 alert policy (A potentially malicious URL click was detected).

ID: 93211 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Viva: First run experiences to introduce topic highlights in SharePoint pages and topic page editing

First Run Experiences for a user’s first encounter with topics and contribution. Visual cues appear to teach users how to interact with the topic highlights on SharePoint pages, how to edit and publish a topic page, and how to reference a topic using topic picker while authoring a SharePoint page.

ID: 93215 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

SharePoint: Planner cards appear within SharePoint team site home page activity feed

When you use connected Planner plans, task cards will appear on the related team site home page. Each task will appear in the site Activity feed (default web part commonly found in the bottom portion of the page) when it approaches its due date.

ID: 93273 Tags: Planner, SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: GroupID to be hidden by default in Microsoft 365 active user reports

We will be hiding the ‘GroupID’ variable in the Groups activity section of the Active users Microsoft 365 Services and Active Users Microsoft 365 Apps reports. The reports can be accessed by going to the Microsoft 365 admin center and selecting Reports – Usage – ‘Active users – Microsoft 365 Services’ or ‘Active users – Microsoft 365 Apps’ – Groups activity. ‘Group ID’ is shown in Column R in the csv file when ‘export’ is selected.

ID: 93308 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Reports in the Admin Center – API available to manage user, group, and site names

An API will be released that helps Global Administrators change how user, group, and site names are displayed in the Microsoft 365 admin center based on their organizations privacy practices without having to manually change the setting in Org Settings – Reports.

ID: 93313 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists calendar view conditional formatting

Items in a list’s calendar view can be color coded based on conditions or rules specified on the fields available in the view. These rules can be managed using the ‘Format current view’ section of the calendar view.

ID: 93360 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Moodle Learning Management System integration

In addition to integration with Canvas and Blackboard, Microsoft has now partnered with Moodle Learning Management System to deliver seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Moodle.

ID: 95675 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Configurable impersonation protection sender and domain lists and scoping in Preset Security policy

We’re adding capabilities within preset security policies (Strict and Standard) to configure custom users and custom domains for impersonation protection. Additionally, within the preset security policy, you will also be able to apply the policy to all recipients instead of selected users, groups, and domains. You will still be able to exclude selected recipients.

ID: 93262 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2022

OneDrive: Rename Add to OneDrive shortcuts

We’ve added the ability to rename shortcuts you’ve added using the “Add to OneDrive” feature within OneDrive web.

ID: 93279 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account Protection for Government clouds

We’re extending Priority Account Protection to cover customers in government clouds. With Priority Account Protection in Defender for Office 365, security teams can now prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization, offer them differentiated protection and thwart costly breaches in the process. These Priority account tags and filters will surface throughout the product, including in alerts, Threat Explorer, Campaign Views, and reports.

ID: 93291 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related messages directly using Admin Submissions

Today security administrators can use the Submissions page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to submit email messages, URLs, and attachments to Microsoft for scanning. We are enhancing this capability with an option to automatically allow Spoofing and Impersonation related emails from senders/infrastructure that were classified as legitimate by the admin, despite being initially blocked by the system. This will help mitigate false positives while the system continues to learn.

ID: 93366 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Manage What Attendees See

A new release date for this feature is under discussion. We will communicate the new timeline when it is available. Attendees will only see shared content and presenters that you bring on screen.

ID: 86818 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: 

  1. Microsoft Teams: RTMP Streaming Support for GCC-High and DoD

This feature is postponed indefinitely. We will communicate new timelines when it is available. Enables support for your users to stream their Teams meetings to large audiences through Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), including endpoints outside your organization.

ID: 93635 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022