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Microsoft’s OneDrive Colored Folders feature offers users a functional and personalized way to locate important folders quickly and efficiently. Users will have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Be on the lookout for this release in August 2023.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) in Exchange Online and Teams DLP
Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared in Exchange Online (EXO), and Teams Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Note: We apologize for having stated that this has launched. Only Public preview has been completed. GA is expected in August.
ID: 88860 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
Outlook: Apps for Teams meetings available in Classic Outlook for Windows
Now, you can configure or add an app for Teams meetings while scheduling a meeting from Outlook. This app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting in Teams.
ID: 96633 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Amplify Author Publications & Distribute to Multiple Destinations
Viva Amplify enables you to author a publication once, and then choose different destinations such as Outlook, SharePoint and Teams to make it available. Viva Amplify will automatically format your content for different destinations and you can choose to customize the content or layout.
ID: 117416 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Amplify Reporting & Analytics
Measure how effective your campaign and its associated publications are with reports. View aggregate results across campaigns, specific publications, or audiences. Understand reach, impact and interactions.
ID: 117417 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Outlook: [Android] See recipient’s auto-reply messages when composing an email
Understand if someone inside your organization to whom you are sending a message has automatic replies turned on.
ID: 118481 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone
When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.
ID: 123963 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents.
The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.
ID: 124683 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
OneNote: Insert meeting details from across M635
Easily access meeting content across Loop, Outlook, and Teams directly in your OneNote canvas.
ID: 124881 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2024
OneDrive: Colored Folders
You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive.
ID: 124980 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Copilot product usage report
The new Microsoft 365 admin center Copilot product usage report shows enabled and active user time trends across 7/30/90/180 days.
ID: 124988 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access
Users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.
ID: 138229 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable document
We are releasing three predicates in the SharePoint DLP area that will provide protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable documents.
ID: 138475 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints (U.S. Government clouds)
This update provides several DLP capabilities for macOS, including support for Bluetooth, ability to customize notifications, auto-quarantine, tamper protection, ability to create app groups and granular app restrictions policies, and support for Japanese language.
ID: 138589 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser (U.S. Government clouds)
With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.
ID: 138590 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: November CY2023
Outlook: S/MIME support for sensitivity labels
Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Admins can define the label to have S/MIME sign, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly.
ID: 139450 Tags: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages
Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.
ID: 139460 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments (U.S. Government clouds)
Configure DLP rules that display warnings in a popup dialog before sending emails. With this capability, admins can set up rules to provide warnings, require business justifications, or request explicit acknowledgements before sending emails. Furthermore, admins can customize a Compliance URL within a DLP rule, ensuring that end users receive valuable guidance through the popup.
ID: 139511 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2023
Outlook: Refiners in Outlook Web
Users will now be able to click on refiners after they complete a search, to filter down their results. These refiners will show up after each search.
ID: 141109 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Find Related Search (Sender & Conversation)
Find related search allows users to search for similar emails based on one selected from the message list. Right clicking an email and selecting “Find related” offers users the chance to search for “Messages in this conversation” and “Messages from sender”.
ID: 141712 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2023
SharePoint: Updated site creation experience
With this update, you will choose a site template based on your scenario to get started creating your site. When choosing a template you can see its capabilities, and even see a preview. This change will help site owners through the process by simplifying and providing additional guidance while creating the site.
ID: 141819 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export Teams messages as individual messages
Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium).
ID: 142092 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge for Business
Microsoft Edge for Business aims to address the needs of both end users and IT Pros. It is designed to help meet the needs of the evolving security landscape while empowering users to be more productive. In addition to the rich set of native enterprise controls, it now supports a new look and feel, automatic switching to keep your work and personal browsing separate, a lightly managed Enterprise Personal Browser window (MSA profile), support for Unmanaged BYOPC, and Company Branding. Microsoft Edge for Business will be the standard browser experience for organizations and will get activated by Azure Active Directory (AAD) login.
ID: 144362 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Steam migration tool for GCC customers
The Stream migration tool will become available for GCC customers on July 30, 2023. This tool helps admins migrate video and audio files and related metadata from Stream (classic) to new Stream (on SharePoint). With the Stream migration tool admins can select some, or all, video and audio files in Stream (classic) and then move them to SharePoint folders, SharePoint site collections, or specific OneDrive folders.
ID: 144573 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC Release: July CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Project data Integration in Viva Goals
Connect Viva Goals OKRs with MS Project. As Project tasks and milestones are completed, the connected OKRs and projects will reflect the latest status.
ID: 117462 Tags: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: App search improvement in Teams store
Improvements to search in Teams app store allows users to find the right apps and workflows quickly.
ID: 122521 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New capability for users to share apps directly to chats or channels
This new feature will allow people to share apps from Teams app details page directly to chats or channels.
ID: 122536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023
Outlook: Loop Components Read Support in Mail on Mobile
Loop components are live, interactive, collaborative objects that you can embed in Teams chats and now also in Outlook emails. When you send a Loop component, everyone in the email can view it inline, see changes instantly, and easily make edits. That means you can collaborate right inside an Outlook email message. Outlook mobile users will see the active Loop component — where changes made to the component across supported apps sync instantly — and then be able to tap on the component to edit it in the Microsoft 365 mobile app or if you are in Android in the Loop mobile app.
ID: 124259 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Playlists in the SharePoint List webpart
This feature will allow you to display playlists on SharePoint pages using the List webpart. The playlist will display video titles and thumbnails, and people with access to files in the playlist can click on the thumbnails to view the videos.
ID: 124808 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: pay as you go billing for content assembly
Content Assembly will support pay as you go billing where customers will be charged for the number of documents generated. Customers need to have a valid Azure billing subscription and they will be able to see and download their bills from Azure billing portal.
ID: 124812 Tags: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account User tags filtering in the URL protection report
We are adding a new filter to the URL protection report that will allow security admins to easily filter for Users who are in the Priority Account tag of their organization. This capability will be extremely valuable in helping security teams prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization while reviewing the URL threat details in the report.
ID: 124852 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023
OneDrive: Configure Sync Setting to excluded specific files
This feature will allow you to configure OneDrive Sync Setting to exclude selected files and selected file types from syncing to OneDrive. When available the configuration settings will be located in the OneDrive admin center.
ID: 124868 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policy supports excluding locations (U.S. Government clouds)
Auto-labeling policy supports excluding specific locations in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange.
ID: 124908 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: Admin controls to enable users to apply prebuilt and unstructured document processing models
Admins will be able to select the sites where end users can create and apply unstructured and prebuilt document processing models.
ID: 124983 Tags: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements (DoD)
Now eDiscovery admins can understand the progress of Collections, statistics on what content contributed to changes between estimated items with hits and actual collected items, as well as commit the collection directly from the estimate without navigating through the entire collection wizard.
ID: 93382 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links (U.S. Government clouds)
Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message.
ID: 106099 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention support for files shared as cloud attachments or links (U.S. Government clouds)
This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages.
ID: 106100 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: DOD support for Connections
Vica Connections will be made available to use for DoD.
ID: 117431 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Live People Card within Viva Goals
Users can now hover over icons of different users within Viva Goals to display their Live People Card.
ID: 117472 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support for Viva Engage / Yammer messages
Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links and link attachments shared in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will also work with Yammer/Viva Engage user and community messages.
ID: 117561 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments app for GCC
The Virtual Appointments app provides a single location where professionals and administrators can create and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.
ID: 121360 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: June CY2023
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web, support for search folders
Search Folders are virtual folders that provide a view of all email items that match specific search criteria. For example, the Unread Mail Search Folder enables you to view all unread messages in one folder, even though the messages might be saved in different folders across your mailbox.
ID: 122152 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Bulk complaint level (BCL) filtering in Threat protection status report
We are adding a new filter to the Threat protection status report that will allow security admins to easily filter for bulk related email catches at their different complaint level in the organization. With this capability, security admins can take confident bulk email management steps for users in their organization that is backed by the data in the Threat protection status report.
ID: 124784 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Label footers enhancement for emails
When labels are configured to add footers, currently the footers accumulate at the very bottom of long email chains. This enhancement now adds footers at the bottom of the most recent reply instead of at the bottom of the whole email thread. Note that this feature supports emails formatted as HTML or PlainText. Support for Rich Text email formats is legacy and will not be improved in Outlook. For emails formatted as Rich Text, label footers will continue to accumulate at the bottom of email threads as before.
ID: 124816 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Project: Goals in Project for the Web
Goals in Project allows you to define a set of objectives that your project is targeting, link these goals to tasks, and define goal properties such as priority and status.
ID: 124894 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals OKR views in Sharepoint
[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] Embed OKR lists as URL or HTML i-frame in your organization’s announcement pages on SharePoint.
ID: 117484 Tags: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023
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
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to assign alerts & cases to an owner
[This is a duplicate of 124925] With this update, admins will be able to assign a case or alert to other admins, analysts, and investigators, making it easier for colleagues to know which alerts and cases are being worked on. 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: 124927 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in presenter window when screen sharing
[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] While screen sharing, the presenter window now shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), active speakers, and raise hands. Meeting notifications are surfaced to the central area of the screen for easier awareness and consistent windowing behavior.
ID: 128651 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
