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Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Quarantine Support for Shared Mailboxes feature will lighten the workload of your help desk. The new feature allows users to triage quarantine items, help prevent false positives and bring action items to the help desk’s attention.

In Development

Office app: Notification Center for tablets and iPad

Find all alerts and notifications from the Office app in the Notification Center.

ID: 88959 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Advanced search with custom columns

With this release, end users will be able to add site columns and other queryable columns from the current document library view into the advanced search flyout by clicking “more options”. Managed Metadata fields are not yet supported.

ID: 88961 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Contextual policy conditions

Support to identify when a file is sensitive based upon the file type or extension. 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: 88981 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention – Archived file support

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

ID: 88982 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Bookings: Tenant level setting for SMS notifications

Support for tenant level setting to enable or disable SMS notifications. SMS notifications are currently only available in North America.

ID: 88985 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Bookings: Onboarding and Landing Page

Onboarding experience and a landing page for managing Bookings calendars.

ID: 88986 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Bookings: Graph APIs with App permission support

Support App permissions in Bookings APIs.

ID: 88987 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Bookings: Power Automate Integration

Support for a Power Automate custom connector for Bookings.

ID: 88988 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Bookings: Microsoft Bookings for E1 and Business Basic

Bookings will be available for E1 and Business Basic licenses.

ID: 88989 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Bookings: Multi-staff availability

Support booking appointments when multiple staff are available.

ID: 88990 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Bookings: Naming Policy

Support naming policy for Bookings calendar with custom prefix/suffix and blocked words.

ID: 88991 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Viva: New Settings page to configure all personal insights and experiences

The Config Settings page in the MyAnalytics dashboard allows users to customize working hours, set up focus plan, set quiet hours, set up delay delivery, and, when applicable, configure their team. We are introducing a new universal Settings page in the MyAnalytics web dashboard that will include settings for the daily Briefing email in addition to the existing controls. Access to select settings will be extended to all users that have licenses with the Exchange Online service plan.

ID: 88994 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Additional classifier language support

To expand the ability to detect policy violations in communications beyond English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, Communication Compliance built-in classifiers (threat, harassment, and profanity) now support these additional four languages: Arabic, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese Traditional. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88995 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Upload files to your approval request via Power Automate portal

Files that are uploaded within the Power Automate portal will now show within the view details window of an Approval request within Teams.

ID: 89106 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Improvements to the Cloud Site List Management experience

Identify gaps in your enterprise site list by configuring reporting of site feedback. You can view local site list URLs from users and potentially misconfigured neutral site URLs in the Microsoft Edge site lists experience in the M365 Admin Center. Also, you can configure session cookies between Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer for IE Mode in your site lists.

ID: 92987 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for Anonymous (Guest) Users

Anonymous (Guest) Users are now able to view Live Captions in Teams Meetings on desktop.

ID: 93049 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Client Certificate Switcher

This feature will offer a way for users to clear the remembered certificate and resurface the certificate picker when visiting a site requiring http certificate authentication without manually quitting Microsoft Edge.

ID: 93052 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Configure default state of Allow extensions from other stores setting

This policy allows you to control the default state of the “Allow extensions from other stores” setting.

ID: 93104 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint: Updated SharePoint app bar my sites for GCC High and DoD environments

The My sites panel in the SharePoint app bar will include sites that users frequently access and follow. This change will populate the sites panel in GCC High and DoD environments.

ID: 93181 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Whiteboard: Connected experience controls

Microsoft Whiteboard on Windows, Teams, web, mobile, and Surface Hub applications will support optional connected experiences, with Windows and Surface Hub applications supporting them after upgrade to the new client. The only optional connected experience that will be available initially is the ability for users to provide feedback using Microsoft Feedback portal, with additional features being added in the future. Tenants can opt-out of these experiences within their Office policies, and Individual users will be able to opt-out of these features within the Whiteboard application.

ID: 93184 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Site template history

View the history of any site templates applied to your site and related site script actions.

ID: 93186 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2022

Outlook: Global calendars for Outlook on web

Users can add a 2nd calendar type to display. They can choose from a variety of global calendars.

ID: 93481 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2022

Yammer: Introducing Editing attachments on Yammer

With this feature, attachments on posts can be modified or removed after being posted. This applies to all types of attachments such as images, links and GIFs and will allow authors to correct any mistakes made with the original attachments without having to delete the thread and start over as is done today.

ID: 93627 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Rolling Out

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 relevant in a timely manner. Item has been delayed for GCC and is being rescheduled.

ID: 82584 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous meeting join across clouds

Join meetings in other clouds anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds).  We will be enabling this in three phases. First, Commercial and GCC customers will be able to join meetings in GCC-High and DOD clouds. Next, we will enable GCC-High customers to join Commercial, GCC and DOD meetings. Then, we will enable DOD customers to join Commercial, GCC, and GCC-High meetings.

ID: 86311 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams panels Check in notifications to Microsoft Teams Rooms

For Teams panels deployment with Microsoft Teams Rooms, when this feature is enabled, checking in on Teams panels will send a notification to the Teams Rooms front of room display to inform the people in the room that their meeting room reservation is over and others are waiting for the room outside. This release will support Teams Rooms on Android. Support on Teams Rooms on Windows will be available at a later time.

ID: 86719 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Isolated audio feed capabilities

When using NDI or hardware-out in Microsoft Teams, users will be able to get the isolated audio feed along with the isolated video feed from any Teams meeting.

ID: 86757 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists Customizable Command Bar

You can personalize a list to suit your needs by customizing the command bar. Like how you can customize form headers and footers, the JSON based feature will allow basic changes to the command bar, including modification of icon or text, hiding existing options or repositioning commands.

ID: 88861 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022

Office app: Support for add-in metrics on Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard

A new view about add-in health is being added to the Microsoft 365 Apps health dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. The view will provide information about the reliability and performance of COM and VSTO add-ins used by Office apps in your organization.

ID: 88907 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Visio: Visio web app in Microsoft 365 for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD

This release extends the availability of the Visio web app in Microsoft 365 to GCC, GCC-High, DoD, and other sovereign clouds. To help make diagramming more accessible, we’ve brought core Visio capabilities to Microsoft 365 commercial subscribers, enabling anyone to create, edit, share, and coauthor professional diagrams with team members across the organization.

ID: 88925 Tags: Visio – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine support for shared mailboxes

Users who have been granted delegate access to shared mailbox either through direct access or security group access will be able to triage the quarantine folder items of those mailboxes. This makes managing the quarantine for shared mailboxes easier for users.

ID: 88931 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Improve audio quality with Noise suppression for Stream (on SharePoint)

Noise suppression helps both creators and viewers isolate speech from ambient noise, music, and other sounds, making voice more intelligible. Noise suppression significantly reduces ambient noise, bringing more clarity to speech in videos.

ID: 88949 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

SharePoint: Site owners manage app requests in SharePoint Store

Site owners can manage requests for store apps in a streamlined process and track the status in a modern view of My requests page under SharePoint Apps.

ID: 88950 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Top news card on Viva Connections Dashboard

Set up Top news card in Viva Connections Dashboard to surface boosted news from SharePoint. News that has been boosted will prominently display in the Top news card.

ID: 88955 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Enroll in Focus plan from the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams

Viva Insights is introducing updates to better enable users to protect time for focus from the Viva Insights Teams app. These updates to the protect time page will allow users to enroll in a focus plan and adjust preferences to auto book focus time on one’s calendar from within the Insights app in Teams. Users enrolled in a focus plan will also see insights about their progress towards their focus time goals.

ID: 88957 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Search: Connector results on All vertical

Results from Microsoft Graph connectors will be available through the All vertical as a results cluster in Microsoft Search.

ID: 68784 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Content explorer enhancements for Insider Risk Management

The Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution will have an improved performance and experience within the content explorer, including transparency of document loads and completeness. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 70632 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

OneDrive: 64-bit OneDrive (Public Preview)

A preview of 64-bit OneDrive is now available for download. It will only be supported on AMD64-based devices.

ID: 70694 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Policy health check for Insider Risk Management

Insider Risk Management will now surface policy status to identify misconfigured policies which could impact detections. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 70714 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Enhanced policy creation wizard for Insider Risk Management

We’re improving the experience of Insider Risk Management policy creation, including enhanced guard rails to enforce proper policy configuration. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 70716 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft 365 compliance center: ServiceNow template for PowerAutomate available within Insider Risk Management

A ServiceNow PowerAutomate template will be provided to integrate Insider Risk Management with ServiceNow. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 70717 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Exchange: Exchange Admin Center supports Delegated Admins

Delegated admins, with necessary permissions, can now open the mailbox, and view, add and remove the contents of the mailbox they have access permissions for.

ID: 70740 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Windows Virtual Desktop: Manage Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session WVD VMs with Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM)

IT Pros can manage Active Directory or hybrid Azure Active Directory joined Windows 10 Enterprise multi-session Windows Virtual Desktop VMs with Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM).

ID: 70743 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Operator Connect (Public Preview)

Operator Connect is a new way for customers to simply and quickly enable PSTN calling for Teams, using services from non-Microsoft telephony operators. Administrators can select their desired operator in the Teams Admin Center, and provision phone numbers to their users in just hours, with no required hardware.

ID: 70759 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Endpoint discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Endpoint for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enables organizations to discover and secure unmanaged endpoints. Once discovered integrated workflows can be used to secure the devices using Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management, threat detection and automated incident responses capabilities.

ID: 70813 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:

Microsoft Teams: Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware.

Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.

ID: 82812 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization

New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.

ID: 85668 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022

Microsoft Edge v.99: Bidirectional Cookie Sharing for IE mode

This feature expands on the cookie sharing capability already available and allows users to sync specific session cookies from Internet Explorer/IE mode to Microsoft Edge.

ID: 92497 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022

Canceled