Play of the Week

Microsoft will be adding Mac OS platform SSO support into Intune allowing users to sign into their Mac using Entra ID usernames and passwords without the need of a local account. This feature will be available later this year.

In Development

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: March CY2024

Outlook: In-Person Event

New option during event creation in Outlook will allow organizer to request invitees to attend the event in person. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web.

ID: 322590 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

OneNote: Preview of New Sticky Notes app on Windows available from OneNote app

Microsoft is expanding its notetaking solution, OneNote, to include users who need a simple and quick way to jot down ideas and remember important information while staying focused on the task at hand. New Sticky Notes is a new experience built on the foundation of OneNote that offers the same experience as existing Sticky Notes, while making it easier to capture screenshots, automatically add the source information to the notes, and more. Existing Microsoft Sticky Note users on Windows will gradually be transitioned to the new Sticky Notes app.

ID: 370039 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Quicker sign in without entering the domain name

Users can skip typing the full user principal name (UPN) and sign in faster on shared and managed devices, by using app configuration policies to autofill the domain name.

ID: 383134 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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 – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in improved presenter window when screen sharing

When sharing the screen or content, the presenter will now be able to better keep track of the participants’ activity during a meeting. The Improved Presenter Window shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), who are active speakers and who raised hands, as well as a preview of the content being shared. Meeting notifications appear in the middle of the screen for better visibility. This gives presenters increased confidence and awareness of what is happening among participants during a meeting.

ID: 383653 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Question level permissions

Enable question level permissions for survey takers

ID: 383723 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Access through M365 header

Solution available on M365 header for improved discoverability

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

Microsoft Viva: Via Glint – Access through Viva App Bar

Solution available on Viva App Bar and Viva Home for improved discoverability.

ID: 383725 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop

Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps and acts as the home base for Viva experiences in Teams.

ID: 383734 Release: Microsoft Viva – DoD Tags: March 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: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Dashboard personalization on desktop in Viva Connections

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

ID: 383736 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – New device properties in device onboarding page

Added new device details to provide more insights on the device health. This includes OS build, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, sensitive data activity, Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded, valid user, server DLP status, and first onboarded date.

ID: 383737 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April 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, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: April 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: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – HighCompleteness parameter in Search-UnifiedAuditLog Audit cmdlet

Microsoft is introducing a new query parameter which allows you to switch between performance and completeness of query results based on the scenario requirement. When enabled, the query returns more complete search results but may take significantly longer to run. When disabled, the query runs faster but may have missing search results.

ID: 383741 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Remove export limit in Device Onboarding page

Ability to export all from the device onboarding page without page limits.

ID: 383742 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: April CY2024

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. 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: July CY2024

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

There will be an improvement in privacy measures. Access to PII data will be restricted. 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, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Analytics and Recommendations to understand risks, improve existing policies and improve posture

Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards:  for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts.

ID: 383747 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Intune: macOS Platform SSO Support

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

ID: 383952 Release: Microsoft Intune – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: June 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 ObjectId, UserKey, UserType, IP Address, DocumentId, SiteId, and AppId.

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

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: New calendar views on Teams Rooms on Android

The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 11 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses.

ID: 157123 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Improved View switcher and Front of Room display controls for Teams Rooms on Android

The updated interface for the Teams Rooms on Android View Switcher menu provides end users with more control of the front of room display(s) during a meeting and enables customizations including visibility of the meeting chat and which meeting component is displayed on the left and right panel for Front Row. IT admins can configure the default number of panels and default component on panel(s) using the local device setting.

ID: 159128 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting protection support on Teams Rooms on Android

Teams Rooms on Android devices apply the Teams Premium meeting security features including end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels if the meeting organizer has them turned on.

ID: 161423 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Branded Meetings – Join Launcher Screen with Brand Image and Logo Support (Premium)

The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image uploaded for branded meetings. This is a Teams Premium feature.

ID: 164081 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites

The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint.

ID: 171100 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Project: Additional capabilities for Microsoft 365 users in Microsoft Project for the web

Currently, users with Microsoft 365 licenses can view projects shared with them by users of Microsoft Project for the web. This update will enable Microsoft 365 users to collaborate more seamlessly with Project users by editing shared projects. The added capabilities enable Microsoft 365 users to access any functionality where Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for the web overlap. Note: This feature is specific to projects that are created within the default environment, such as by using project.microsoft.com.

ID: 186228 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels

Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.

ID: 373545 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Improved issue details for service health

We are introducing a new version of the service health issue details pane (the surface that appears when you click on a service incident or service advisory to view details). The new version substantially reduces the amount of duplicated text and brings key information forward with improved formatting. This gives you quicker access to the information you need, reducing the time and effort required to get up to speed on service incident details.

ID: 374703 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings and make calls on Android Auto

Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones.

ID: 375701 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Content camera on New Teams Desktop

This feature it will be available on new Team Teams on Windows and Mac, making whiteboards, printed documents, books, and other physical objects the focus of your Teams meeting. With minimal setup, you can help meeting attendees who aren’t in the room feel more included and engaged in your next class, demo, or brainstorming session.

ID: 377670 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Granular Add-ins availability control from education Office Store

With this feature, education tenant administrators will be able to manage the availability of Add-ins from the Office store at a more granular level. We will provide three options—Non-adult student, Adult student, and Faculty and staff—under Microsoft admin center > Org Settings > User owned apps and services > Let users access the Office store. The options are based on the user’s role and age group properties.

ID: 377677 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant

This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.

ID: 378407 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: February CY2024

Launched
Canceled

Microsoft Teams: screen recorder on mobile device

We are not releasing this feature at this time and apologize for any inconvenience. You can use Teams on your Android device to record your screen and share it with others in any channel or chat. Just press and hold the camera icon next to the compose box and then tap the screen recorder icon to begin the recording.

ID: 380850 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024