In Development

Microsoft Planner: Recommended Plans

We are introducing a new Recommended section in Planner to help users find plans that are most relevant to them. This section will contain new plans with tasks assigned to the user. It can be seen in the Planner hub and in the left pane between Favorites and Recent.

ID: 70726  Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Data loss prevention (DLP) data surfaced in Activity Explorer

DLP-related data sets which currently flow into Microsoft 365 Audit logs will now also surface within Activity Explorer under an activity called ‘DLP rule matched’.

ID: 70730    Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March 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: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft Browser Usage Report

This new report will allow IT admins to view aggregated Microsoft browser usage reports through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center to help them understand browser usage trends in their organization and plan their migration to Microsoft Edge.

ID: 70745   Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: Portal launch scheduler UX

The Portal Launch Scheduler is designed to help you follow a wave / phased roll-out approach by managing the redirects for the new portal. During each of the waves, you can gather user feedback and monitor performance during each wave of deployment. This has the advantage of slowly introducing the portal, giving you the option to pause and resolve issues before proceeding with the next wave, and ultimately ensuring a positive experience for your users.

ID: 70799    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync on macOS

Admins can exclude newly added files from syncing to the cloud by file name or extension on macOS.

ID: 80684   Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Yammer: General Availability of AzureAD-B2B guests in Yammer communities

AzureAD-B2B guest support in Yammer communities will be generally available. Invite guests to your Yammer community and facilitate rich conversations between members and guests of a Yammer community.

ID: 80993 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Edge v.90: Bulk-delete passwords

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 90, you will be able to delete multiple saved passwords in a single action.

ID: 81031   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom attendee registration

Add a custom attendee registration page to any meeting or webinar to better manage attendance before and after any engagement. Following registration, attendees receive an email confirmation with calendar invite.

ID: 66586  Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Outlook for Windows: intelligent based translations

Communicate across languages with new translation features, which allow you to translate full messages or specific words and phrases.

ID: 69305  Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: PowerShell Support for Team Templates

PowerShell support for team templates operations including creating a new team template, viewing all available team templates,

ID: 70698   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Additional page scaling options for printing

With Microsoft Edge v.90 users will be able to customize scaling while printing webpages and PDF documents with additional options. The ‘Fit to Page’ option ensures that the webpage or document is fit into the space available in the selected ‘Paper size’ for printing. The ‘Actual size’ option would ensure that there are no changes in the size of the contents being printed irrespective of the ‘Paper size’ selected.

ID: 81027 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Synced browser history support for history search

Searching your history is currently limited to your local data. This feature enables you to search your local and synced browser history.

ID: 81028   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Payment instruments are now synced across devices

Beginning with Microsoft Edge v. 92, you have the option to synchronize your payment information across your signed in devices.

ID: 81030   Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Navigate PDF documents using page thumbnails

You will now be able to navigate through your PDF document using thumbnails representing the pages. These thumbnails will appear in the pane on the left side of the PDF reader.

ID: 81032 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Extend autofill suggestions to include content from clipboard.

Clipboard content is parsed when you click on a profile/address field (phone, email, zip code, city, state, etc.) to show as autofill suggestions.

ID: 81038  Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Launched

Office Apps: Microsoft 365 Apps management and deployment

IT admins can discover, purchase, acquire, manage and deploy Microsoft 365 Apps from partners including web apps and add-ins all from one single location of the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID: 60203  Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: New Communication Compliance reports

We are introducing new Communication Compliance reports such as review activity to help you track matches and actions taken by reviewers over time.

ID: 61089 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Tagging by Shifts

Tagging by shift connects you to the right people faster. This new feature automatically assigns users with tags matching their schedule and shift group name from the Shifts app in Teams.

ID: 64972   Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit log retention (1 year)

Log retention for up to one year to meet investigation requirements and customize retention policies per an organization’s requirements.

ID: 68878   Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

OneDrive: 250 GB file size support in Microsoft 365

Users will be able to upload large file sizes up to 250 GB in OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams.

ID: 70558   Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance can now leverage optical character recognition to extract and evaluate messages

Introducing the ability to extract printed or handwritten text from images using Azure’s Computer Vision Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Text extracted will then be evaluated against Communication Compliance policies conditions.

ID: 70622   Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance now support 7 languages for the Threat, Targeted Harassment and Profanities classifiers

Communication Compliance can now detect threat, targeted harassment, and profanities in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese.

ID: 70623   Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Burnout and suicide detection

{Update: This feature is being postponed indefinitely.} Deliver new machine learning models for Communication Compliance to detect both burnout and suicidal thoughts.

ID: 68131 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021