Play of the Week

Microsoft Teams Green Screen feature will improve the sharpness and definition of your virtual backgrounds during meetings. Participants can show props or other objects easier to other users in the meeting. Be on the lookout for this exciting feature coming in April 2023.

In Development

Access: New Modern Web Browser Form Control

The Access team is releasing a new web browser control to a version that supports Chromium Edge! Our existing, internet explorer browser control will remain in the platform as-is.

ID: 88345 Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Azure Active Directory: Customize SSPR, footer hyperlinks and favicon in Company Branding

Today, self-service password reset (SSPR) and footer hyperlinks direct end-users to Microsoft resources. Also, Microsoft logo is rendered in the browser tab. We’re introducing the ability to customize them and remove all references to Microsoft.

ID: 88928 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Azure Active Directory: Limited CSS and pre-defined layout templates

Update the Azure AD and Microsoft 365 login experience with new Company Branding capabilities. You can apply your company’s brand guidance to authentication experiences with pre-defined templates.

ID: 93320 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Bookings: ”Cc” functionality to email notifications

‘Cc’ an additional email address on confirmation and reminder emails.

ID: 66141 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Bookings: Availability for G1 customers

With this update, US government customers with G1 licenses will be able to use Microsoft Bookings.

ID: 109550 Tags: Bookings, Exchange – GCC Release: March CY2023

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 CY2023

Excel: Blocking XLL add-ins from the internet.

In order to combat the increasing number of malware attacks in recent months, we are implementing measures that will block XLL add-ins coming from the internet.

ID: 115485 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Excel: Record spreadsheet actions using Office Scripts

With this update, you can now record spreadsheet actions into a replayable Office Script in Excel for Windows and Mac. Office Scripts is a feature that enables you to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks that was previously only available in Excel for the web.

ID: 109565 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score People Experiences: Group level aggregates for Communication, Mobility & Collaboration

We are adding group level aggregates to Adoption Score people experiences across Communication, Content Collaboration and Mobility. Group information can be viewed across five Azure Active Directory attributes- Company, Department, Country, State and City. For group level aggregate information to be displayed, the capability must be enabled by a Global Administrator and a minimum of 10 users must be included in a group to ensure that individual users cannot be tracked.

ID: 98163 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”

Email notifications will now be sent for all health issues that require an admin to take an action.

ID: 103631 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Reports in the Admin Center – Visio Usage Report

A new report will be made available to help customers understand how Microsoft Visio is used within their organization.

ID: 88834 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Visio – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Send email notifications from your own domain

Notifications that cannot be sent from a user’s email account can now be configured to use your own custom verified domain instead of the Microsoft default domain.

ID: 103628 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Project, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, PowerPoint, Word, Planner, SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Windows 365 cloud PC advanced deployment guide

The Advanced deployment guides page in the Microsoft 365 admin center will have a new guide to help admins plan for, deploy, and scale Windows 365 Enterprise in their organization. This guide will have a checklist of Cloud PC configuration tasks and will include best practices, tools, and recommendations based on the tenant’s configuration.

ID: 102406 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Windows 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 app: Completing Authentication Requests in Outlook

Authenticator Lite (in Outlook) is a feature that allows your users to complete multi-factor authentication (MFA) for their work or school account using the Outlook app on their iOS or Android device.

ID: 122289 Tags: Azure Active Directory, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 app: New sensitivity bar in Microsoft 365 apps on Windows for viewing and applying sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview

Sensitivity bar provides a more prominent and contextual user experience for viewing and applying sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Windows.  Preview dates may defer between apps. GA date consistent for all apps.

ID: 88517 Tags: Office app, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 Defender: Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers continuous discovery, intelligent risk-based prioritization, and built-in remediation to help security and IT teams prioritize and address critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Add-On is available for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers.

ID: 109581 Tags: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Defender – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 100 Admin Submission at once

With this change, Admins can submit upto 100 emails from advanced hunting, Threat explorer and user report to Microsoft for analysis.

ID: 115509 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Alert for junk and not junk user report

With this change, Microsoft will start generating alerts when end user report an email message as junk or not junk.

ID: 115510 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Categorization of user-reported messages

An updated “Submissions” experience will categorize user-reported messages into individual tabs for Phish, Spam (Junk) etc., based on the user’s report.

ID: 100159 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC aggregate reports for enterprise

As part of the DMARC standard the owner of the domain can request reports about how receivers viewed their traffic which will help the domain owners adjust their sender authentication configurations so they can get to an actionable DMARC policy.  This feature will be available for all EOP customers.

ID: 109535 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC policy handling

We are working on improvements to the way that DMARC policy (reject/quarantine) handling is implemented within both consumer and enterprise services.

ID: 117533 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email Response actions available through Microsoft Graph Security API

We are introducing email response actions API. Email purge actions like soft delete, hard delete, move to junk etc can be triggered through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 93434 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hourly option for notifications

We are adding a new hourly option to end user notifications, allowing users to be able to rely on prompt notification about quarantined items when appropriate. With this feature users can be rest assured that they will be updated frequently once new items lands on their quarantine folder.

ID: 93304 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Introducing the new post-delivery activities report

The post-delivery activities report will display all the ZAP activities that occurred in your tenant.

ID: 117516 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New filter option for messages blocked due to file type block

We are introducing a new filter for the ‘Quarantine Reason’ in the Quarantine page (Email). As part of this release, the SecOps can now apply this filter to display only the emails which are blocked when file extension/type of one or more of the attachments matches those configured in the common attachment filter in the Anti-malware policy. Currently these emails are shown under the ‘Malware’ as the Quarantine Reason.

ID: 117520 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List domain & addresses block to send inbound emails to admin quarantine

Today, domain & addresses block in Tenant Allow/Block List mark inbound emails from those domains and email addresses with SCL:9 thus not effectively shielding end users from malicious messages. With this change, inbound messages from domain & addresses blocked on Tenant Allow/Block List will land in admin quarantine.

ID: 115505 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List Limit per SKU

Today, customers can only create 500 block and 500 allow entries in sender, URL and file category in Tenant allow/block list. Going ahead, customers with MDO P2 or E5 security can create 5000 allows and 10000 blocks in Tenant allow/block list for sender, URL and file category. Spoof in Tenant allow/block list will remain unaffected by this change and all SKUs will have 1024 entries for both allows and blocks.

ID: 98185 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages

This change will modify logging and handling of intra-org messages.

ID: 117487 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Within 4 hours option for notifications.

We are adding a new within 4 hours option to end user notifications, allowing users to be able to rely on prompt notification about quarantined items when appropriate.  With this feature users can be rest assured that they will be updated frequently once new items land in their quarantined folders.

ID: 99939 Tags: PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Enhanced security mode improvements

Enhanced security mode will support WebAssembly for macOS x64 and Linux x64. Additional cross-platform (ARM64) support is expected in the future.

ID: 117402 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Feed on Microsoft 365 Edge New Tab Page

We are rolling out a new experience to the Microsoft 365 tab of the Edge Enterprise New Tab Page. This experience will feature a new layout that centers on a larger version of the Microsoft Feed, featuring more productivity content, and moves the productivity cards including Important Emails, Recent SharePoint sites, Upcoming events, and To Do to the right-hand side.

ID: 117367 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Split Screen – Browse faster with side by side tabs

Boost your productivity with two tabs side-by-side in one browser window. Multitask without losing focus. Users can access Split Screen by clicking the toolbar icon or selecting “Open link in split window” in the context menu.

ID: 115126 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Test Base for Microsoft 365 Testing support for Microsoft 365 apps and Edge

Test Base will support testing of how your app works with newer versions of Edge and the monthly update channel of the Microsoft 365 client applications.

ID: 98155 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Graph: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels and event-based retention

The first release of Graph APIs for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management will enable organizations to create and manage retention labels, events, and event types for event-based retention.

ID: 88276 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Anomaly detection

Anomaly Detection is an early warning mechanism that IT Admins can rely on to learn about user experience impacting issues before it reaches through other channels.

ID: 103633 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Device Scope

Slicing of Endpoint analytics reports to a subset of devices based on scope tags.

ID: 103627 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management

Allows administrators to elevate end-user permissions to perform approved administrative actions only when needed on their desktop computers.

ID: 109491 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management (iOS)

A light weight VPN solution for secure access to premises resources from iOS mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.

ID: 106108 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel Mobile Application Management(Android)

A lightweight VPN solution for secure access to on-premises resources from Android mobile devices that does not require device enrollment.

ID: 103629 Tags: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Support new security baseline for Office

Customers can manage and deploy the Office security baseline using mobile device management (MDM) settings and the Intune experiences around upgrade, comparison, and reporting.

ID: 88502 Tags: Microsoft Intune – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Windows 11 update readiness reports

App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.

ID: 103639 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft OneNote : improved protection against known high risk phishing file types

We add enhanced protection when users open or download an embedded file in OneNote. Users will receive a notification when the files deem dangerous to improve the file protection experience in OneNote on Windows.

ID: 122277 Tags: OneNote – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Corporate sabotage classifier

Detects messages that may mention acts to damage or destroy corporate assets or property.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection standards or state by state regulations like Chapter 9.05 RCW in Washington state.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93253 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Gifts and entertainment classifier

Detects messages that may suggest exchanging gifts or entertainment in return for service, which violates regulations related to bribery.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act, and FINRA Rule 2320.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93254 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Money laundering classifier

Detects signs that may suggest money laundering or engagement in acts to conceal or disguise the origin or destination of proceeds.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA Patriot Act, FINRA Rule 3310 and Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93255 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Regulatory collusion classifier

Detects messages that may violate regulatory anti-collusion requirements such as an attempted concealment of sensitive information.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as the Sherman Antitrust Act, Securities Exchange Act 1933, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Investment Advisers Act of 1940, Federal Commission Act, and Robinson-Patman Act.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93258 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Stock manipulation classifier

Detects signs of possible stock manipulation, such as recommendations to buy, sell, or hold stocks that may suggest an attempt to manipulate the stock price.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, FINRA Rule 2372, and FINRA Rule 5270.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93256 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Unauthorized disclosure classifier

Detects sharing of information containing content that is explicitly designated as confidential or internal to unauthorized individuals.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as FINRA Rule 2010 and SEC Rule 10b-5.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93257 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels

Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types.

ID: 98146 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention: Contextual evidence match for Endpoint DLP

With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices. Now available in public preview.

ID: 98095 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention: Support for complex conditions (U.S. government clouds)

With this update, you will be able to create complex conditions while configuring your Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies. You will be able to create conditions with AND/OR combinations with the ability to create groups to achieve condition combinations like A AND (B OR C).

ID: 103620 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export

Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators.

ID: 100055 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export (U.S. Government clouds)

Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators.

ID: 100056 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report

eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded.

ID: 101518 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report (U.S. government clouds)

eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded.

ID: 101525 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP App groups and granular app restriction policies (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature enables admins to define endpoint data loss prevention policies to lock specific apps for different activities and enables more granular restrictions for individual apps.

ID: 100155 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Assign a sublabel as the default when a parent label is selected in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

When using built-in sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 Apps, admins can specify a sublabel to get applied automatically when a parent label is selected. This takes effect only when users select a parent label manually.

ID: 115481 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Excel – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure inheritance of attachment labels to email messages

Configure label policies for email messages with attachments to inherit labels that match the highest classification of those attachments.

ID: 100158 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure labels independently on files and emails

Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only, or both.

ID: 100711 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure policy tips for emails with sensitivity labels

Configure Data Loss Prevention policies to enable policy tips for emails with sensitivity labels.

ID: 100157 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office apps can now audit protection properties applied to a document through sensitivity labels

Added the missing audit fields related to the protection status of a document and how the protection was changed due to a specific event. That would include the following fields: protectionEventType, documentEncrypted, documentEncryptedBefore, protectionType, protectionTypeBefore, protectionTemplateId, protectionTemplateIdBefore, protectionOwner and protectionOwnerBefore.

ID: 98135 Tags: Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Recommended actions enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Recommended actions enhancements will include the ability to turn on weekly or daily email notifications for key events such as high severity alerts and all warnings summary along with additional suggestions to help optimize policy configurations. 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: 122285 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Auto-labeling of cloud attachments

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: 70580 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

ID: 88816 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)

Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer.

ID: 93267 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Default classification for content matching trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)

In the Microsoft Purview compliance center, admins can view items that match trainable classifiers in Content explorer without first needing to create a policy.

ID: 93266 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Discover only the document version that has been shared

Many customers often consider shared documents or cloud attachments as a form of communication, and therefore are required to preserve and make that content discoverable. While end users benefit from quickly sharing files for visibility and collaboration, this practice has been challenging for eDiscovery and legal professionals. To help customers efficiently meet their regulatory obligations for discovery, eDiscovery (Premium) plans to support the ability to discover the version of the document at the time that it was shared. This helps ensure that the correct document information is available to eDiscovery processes.

ID: 70718 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources

Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case.

ID: 88815 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Support for Graph Connectors content

Microsoft 365 admins can now connect third-party applications into their environments via Graph Connectors. With this update this content will now be available for eDiscovery workflows including collections, review, and export.

ID: 93414 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March 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: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium – Collections progress, statistics, and workflow enhancements (GCC, GCC-High)

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: 93381 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Increased set of first-party indicators

Insider Risk Management will now recognize an increase set of first party indicators, including Endpoint (Windows 10), Microsoft Teams, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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 help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 83966 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by risky users

Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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.

ID: 83964 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized retention policies for 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On

This feature will enable customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) to create additional customized retention policies. The new options are 7 days, 30 days, 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years retention.

ID: 115501 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – New built-in trainable and global classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)

This update includes new classifiers for use in Communication Compliance policies, including Corporate sabotage, Gifts & entertainment, Money laundering, Regulatory collusion, Stock manipulation, and Unauthorized disclosure. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 109531 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links

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: 106098 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April 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: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review: Export of items pending review using a cmdlet

This change will enable admins to export the list of items pending disposition review or disposed items for a label using a PowerShell cmdlet without the 50,000-item limitation that applies to exporting via the UX.

ID: 106102 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention – | Configure Power BI DLP policies to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces

DLP policies can be configured to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces and trigger custom policy tip for data owner and/or alert to security admin.

ID: 115474 Tags: Power BI, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy tips revamp for Outlook for Windows

Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook for Windows to support additional top predicates and exceptions for all customers, and also advanced classification for E5 customers.

ID: 109589 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements

Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more.

ID: 109533 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more.

ID: 109543 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections: Query builder enhancements

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality and grouping for collection query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

ID: 100057 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections: Query builder enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality and grouping for collection query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs.

ID: 100058 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for Teams meeting recordings & videos stored in OneDrive & SharePoint

Enhancements to Teams meeting recording & video files in OneDrive & SharePoint to improve management within eDiscovery workflows. Including collection and review of metadata associated to Teams meeting recordings and video files in OneDrive and SharePoint including transcripts/captions, chapters, and custom thumbnails.

ID: 106101 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export API

The Export function plays an integral role in eDiscovery. After a review set is added, with use of this Export API, organizations can create export jobs and get the download URL to successfully download the export created in a programmatic manner. This API will enable external applications and partners to successfully integrate the eDiscovery export function through scripting.

ID: 117508 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set grouping usability enhancements

This feature aims to improve the user experience for reviewing and grouping related items in the eDiscovery (Premium) review sets. It includes a new interface for grouping family items for emails, documents, conversations, and attachments. It also includes a new interface for reviewing duplicates and related items together on a single page.

ID: 115470 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool

This feature release enables users to move their existing eDiscovery (Standard) cases to the eDiscovery (Premium) new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After upgrade, user has the ability to continue their work in the upgraded case following the eDiscovery (Premium) workflow pipeline.

ID: 106106 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library

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: 85621 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | 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 Purview compliance portal, SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Named entities sensitive information types (SITs) and policy authoring templates

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 & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

ID: 82116 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered

With this update, PDF files with sensitivity label (and encryption) can be reasoned over in SharePoint Online, searched, or eDiscovered. Additionally, labels can be applied to the existing PDF files hosted in SharePoint.

ID: 85617 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier

The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases.

ID: 117486 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

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.

ID: 88860 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – SIT Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can provide feedback for sensitive information type (SIT) False Positives via Content explorer and DLP Alerts. This feedback can be provided in a compliant manner and users can see a summary view of the feedback in the SIT overview page. The feedback will be used to make systematic fixes to SITs for improved accuracy.

ID: 117534 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Smart Alerts and Alert Spotlighting for admins

Smart Alerts are Out of Box alerts/insights for admins that are system generated and surface the top risks the admins must triage as a priority. These are intelligent alerts that leverage various signals including previous alerts, rule matches, user activity across workloads and combine them within and across solutions to flag high risk detections to the admins. They are not dependent on policies and admins can benefit from these detections even if they don’t have policies in place.

ID: 117491 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence

The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. 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: 109540 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Azure Cognitive Search results in Microsoft Search

Azure Cognitive Search federation with Microsoft Search provides a cohesive search experience with Azure Cognitive Search to intelligently help business search user find, learn, operate, and navigate information enriched and indexed with Azure Cognitive Search.

ID: 81928 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Search: Coherent Workplace Search experience across Microsoft Search in Bing, SharePoint and Office.com

Users see the same search results no matter where they are across Microsoft Search in Bing, SharePoint and Office.com in all native verticals (All, Files, Sites, Images, Messages, People).

ID: 98144 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Connected content will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Search mainline search results

Connected content will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft Search mainline search results. This means, the results are shown next to Files, Sites, News, OneDrive for Business and other Microsoft content in the search results. Users can then use pagination to browse through the results, including connected content, or use the LastModified- and FileType-filters to refine their search for connected content. Admins can decide how (interleaved, or Result Cluster) and which connected content will appear in the All-tab. There will be no need any more to map a connection to a custom vertical.

ID: 115489 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Search: Message vertical in Office.com now available in GCC and GCC-H

Looking for a message, but you can’t remember whether it was in Teams or Outlook? Search for it in Office.com or Bing for Work and then go to the Messages Tab. You’ll get both Teams and Outlook messages in the list of results. Now available in GCC and GCC-H.

ID: 117389 Tags: Microsoft Search, Microsoft 365 – GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results in the ‘All’ vertical

Results from remote repositories indexed with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the ‘All’ vertical in Microsoft Bing (when signed in with a work or school account) alongside information from Microsoft 365 apps and services.

ID: 93336 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to GCC and GCC-H environments

People centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around them. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people through their content. When you pick a person, you will be able to search through their work; however this will only include items that you already have permissions to view or modify.

ID: 117556 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC High, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream

Our new Video vertical on Bing, Office.com, SharePoint, and Stream will provide better search capabilities for videos in your organization.

ID: 117552 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Add to Favorites & navigate to Stream Start page in the Stream web app on SharePoint

You will now be able to favorite a video directly from the Stream web app. Additionally, there will be a new Home button in the Stream web app for easier navigation to the Stream start page in Microsoft 365 to get back to videos you favorited or videos recently shared with you.

ID: 117390 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when a screen was shared

We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when a screen was shared in the meeting. The markers help you see who shared the screen at which moment, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.

ID: 117418 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when your name was mentioned

We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when your name was mentioned during the meeting.  The markers are personalized, so that only you will see when your name was mentioned. The markers help you see who mentioned your name and in which context, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.

ID: 109580 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Accounts Payable In-product site template

Licensed Syntex users will be able to apply an accounts payable site template directly from the in-product template gallery. This template includes automatic data classification and extraction using a prebuilt invoice model, a preconfigured content assembly model and various sample webparts, lists and libraries to inspire you. It also includes learning material about how to use and extend this template to customize it for your own use case!

ID: 103607 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file with the Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for Android

Users of Microsoft Syntex can now combine PDF files into one PDF file with the Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for IOS. The Merge PDFs action lets you quickly combine multiple PDF files into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

ID: 117547 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file with the Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for iOS

Users of Microsoft Syntex can now combine multiple PDF files into one PDF file with the Merge PDFs action in OneDrive for iOS. The Merge PDFs action lets you quickly combine PDF files into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

ID: 117549 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Pay-as-you-go General Availability

Customers of Microsoft Syntex will be able to enter an Azure subscription to pay for Syntex services on a pay-as-you-go basis.

ID: 117530 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Pay-as-you-go Preview

With this limited-time preview, you will be able to use Unstructured Document Processing and see where pages are processed across your tenant.

ID: 101512 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract action in OneDrive for iOS

Users of Microsoft Syntex can now split a PDF file into multiple PDFs with the Extract file action in OneDrive for iOS. The Extract file action lets you quickly split and extract multiple pages of a PDF into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

ID: 117548 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Pronouns available on the profile card

Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.

ID: 86382 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Active speaker view in meetings

Active speaker is a new view added to Microsoft Teams meetings. It highlights the active speaker while still showing the rest of the participants in the meeting. Users can use this new view through the view switcher in a meeting.

ID: 116009 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Approvals – Sequential Approvers Support

Requestors will now be able to toggle on sequential approvals to designate the approval order of the request.

ID: 81675 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s

The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manager Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals.

ID: 94653 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile

Introducing ability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.

ID: 98321 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Autosuggest location for Emergency location

Easily set your emergency location on Teams with location recommendations.

ID: 94692 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Bots and Message Extensions in DOD

DOD customers are able to build and deploy Bots and Message Extensions in their Microsoft Teams environment. This release supports custom, line-of-business bots.

ID: 96076 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for DoD

Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

ID: 85437 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for GCC-High

Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

ID: 85436 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users

To adapt to changing environments, Teams users need to make adjustments to their call queue/auto attendant greetings and announcements. This is required more frequently than what the IT helpdesk can typically handle. Introducing user managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Now, authorized users, as identified by Teams tenant admins, can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant without leaving Teams.

ID: 116739 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Content sharing and Admin controls for Teams Rooms on Android

Enhanced content sharing capabilities with PC audio shared via HDMI and IT Admin controls on automatic sharing of HDMI content. Users can view and add annotations to shared content when a desktop user starts a session in a meeting. And, for Teams Premium users, there is support for watermark-enabled meetings to safeguard confidential information.

ID: 119622 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop”

Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature.  When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams.

ID: 118580 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced OneDrive file picker

Users can leverage the new UI to more easily navigate, access and pick files from OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams.

ID: 106107 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Excel Live for GCCH and DoD

Collaborate easily in Teams with our new Excel Live feature. With this feature, you can easily collaborate with all meeting participants on your Excel worksheet during the meeting. Select the file you want to share, grant permissions to meeting participants, and enable all meeting participants to edit the document from the meeting window.

ID: 116897 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Expanded view for profile card

With the expanded view of the profile card, users will now be able to see a richer view of a person’s profile, such as their contact data, custom properties, and their LinkedIn information. This expansion also enables the user to view richer organization chart information about the person they are interacting with, without leaving the context they are in.

ID: 109526 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Expanding up to 10,000 users in Distribution Lists for lobby policy in Teams meeting

Currently, if you change your lobby policy in a Teams Meeting to “Invited Users Only” and invite a Distribution List (DL), only the first 1,000 users of that DL will be recognized and let through the lobby. All other users a part of the DL will not be recognized and will be placed in the lobby. With this update, up to 10,000 users of that given DL will be recognized and let through the lobby if the lobby policy is set to “Invited Users Only.”

ID: 93585 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings

Teams now supports an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

ID: 107781 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Express yourself in Teams meetings on VDI

While in a Teams meeting on a virtual desktop, you can express yourself using emojis that will appear to all participants to help make Teams meetings more inclusive, engaging, and fun.

ID: 118470 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Front row gallery improvements for Teams Rooms on Windows

Improvements to the front row experience for Teams Rooms on Windows using Microsoft AI to remove individual backgrounds, adjust video participant size, and apply a unified background design so remote participants appear as if they are in the same room.

ID: 95267 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Front Row layout in Teams Rooms on Android

Additional functionality with the Front Row experience, a layout for hybrid meetings that enables users to see remote attendees at eye level and on dual screens. Users can see Chat in the right panel and participants with raised hands on the left panel. And, Meeting Chat is added in the Gallery, Large Gallery, and Together Mode layouts.

ID: 119620 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Teams Panels

Teams Panels already support Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants and now will meet Government Community Cloud High (GCC-H) account requirements.

ID: 119618 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Geo filtering for Teams apps

ISV’s can now target applications to select geographies (countries/regions) via partner center. Thus, users will only see apps relevant for them given their country and region.

ID: 100974 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Grading Categories in Teams Assignments

Teams Assignments is adding grading categories, which will allow users to define categories of assignments with associated weights that will be used to calculate grades. Average grades will be calculated by multiplying the average grade for each category by its associated weight. This will allow users to give different levels of importance to different types of assignments.

ID: 115513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Green screen in Teams meetings

Green screen improves the sharpness and definition of the virtual background effect around your face, head, ears, and hair. It also allows you to show a prop or other object in your hand to be more visible to other participants in a call. The virtual background with a green screen provides the best virtual background effect, consuming fewer system resources, allowing your Teams to run smoother.

ID: 117941 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams

Profile cards in Microsoft Teams will now surface insights and information such as birthdays, career changes, or pending meeting invites.

ID: 116006 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Invoke Content Camera on Desktop feature

Currently, users must turn on sharing from a content camera in Microsoft Teams via the Share tray on the Teams Meeting stage. Moving forward, users will be able to start and stop sharing content directly from a certified Teams device. This feature enables presenters to share a Whiteboard, document, or video more quickly during a meeting.

ID: 118587 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay

You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.

ID: 114306 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: License Management in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams Admin Center for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

With Microsoft’s license management solution for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), customers can easily assign, use, and track SaaS licenses in Teams and Teams admin center. This also provides ISVs with a ready-to-use solution without the need to develop their own license management and enforcement system.

ID: 85418 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Live Captions Usability Improvement

The new Caption Settings pane allows for better discovery and easier navigation. Users have the ability to customize the size and color of their font as well as the height and position of the caption window with the option to scroll to review captions of what has been said, up to one minute ago.

ID: 107782 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Location-based routing for Teams on VDI

When making or receiving a PSTN call, location-based routing for Teams on VDI, enables the bypass of toll restrictions based on where the user is located. Such as when the user is not physically located on a corporate network.

ID: 98501 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC

Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.

ID: 93163 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Meeting join and extension enhancements for Teams Rooms on Android

Users can start an ad-hoc meeting in one touch with the ‘Meet’ button, join a Teams meeting with a meeting ID and passcode, and extend a current room reservation within in a meeting.

ID: 119621 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Zero-touch App Install

Microsoft Teams Zero-touch App Install uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.

ID: 100385 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New channels experience

New channels experience, built with an intuitive design that help teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience include: compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page, every post will now have a conversation view and a new right pane with the channel’s key information.

ID: 91683 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New Files App in Teams

One place for all your content across chats, channels, meetings and Microsoft 365 – manage, organize & locate the content you need quickly and easily. In addition, way finding is now more consistent and familiar to users.

ID: 97677 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions

With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is.

ID: 113412 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Receive all group chat messages with resource-specific consent

The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions model, originally developed for Teams Graph APIs, is extended for chat and channel scope. Using RSC, you can now request team owners to consent for a bot to receive user messages across standard group chats without being @mentioned.

ID: 100883 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips in government cloud

Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.

ID: 114155 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from Teams meetings on VDI

Users in a Teams meeting on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) can now share audio while screen sharing.

ID: 99189 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Simplified app update experience

Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels and meetings.

ID: 95676 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Spatial Audio

Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you’re there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive and focused for everyone.

ID: 107783 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats

Save time with AI based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click.

ID: 95065 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support apps in Channel Meetings

Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across a variety of scenarios.

ID: 81122 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support Breakout Rooms on VDI

Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.

ID: 119698 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Stream Deck to interact with Microsoft Teams within a meeting

Teams users can connect a Stream Deck device to their Teams desktop client and utilize it to mute/unmute themselves, turn on/off their camera or send reactions during a Teams meeting.

ID: 96112 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings

Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings.

ID: 97888 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Targeted Release

Microsoft Teams will support Targeted Release.  When an admin sets release preferences to one of the Targeted Release options, those users will be first to see the latest updates and help shape the product by providing early feedback. You can choose to have individuals, or the entire organization receive updates early.

ID: 117577 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms for DoD and GCC High

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

ID: 115504 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation

Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation will be tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.

ID: 98394 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Button to bring Meeting Stage to foreground during meeting

With this feature, users can bring up the meeting stage to the foreground by pressing their Teams Button during a meeting. This allows users to more quickly return to the meeting stage to review chat discussions or the content being shared, especially if the meeting stage was hidden behind other windows. Note: This feature only applies to devices with dedicated Teams Buttons. If the device has a dual-purpose button (both hookswitch and Teams Button), pressing the button will end the call.

ID: 98496 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Button to Join Meeting from Pre-Join Screen

Starting today, users can successfully join and participate in a meeting directly with their Teams Button on their Microsoft Teams certified peripheral. After a user receives a meeting start notification, the user can press the Teams Button to bring up their Meeting Pre-Join Screen. Now, a subsequent press of the Teams Button will allow the user to join the meeting!

ID: 95632 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Video filters allow participants in Teams Meetings to augment their video stream with visual effects. The effects are provided by app developers on Teams Platform.

ID: 86811 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: View switcher improvement for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows’ view switcher now has an updated interface where you can easily control views in a meeting. Customize your view such as turning on and off meeting chat or choosing what to see on the front row’s left and right panels. IT admins can configure default number of panels and default component on panel(s).

ID: 98422 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members

Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.

ID: 99706 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Workspace Management

Workspace Management is a new feature within Teams Admin Center that provides an integrated view of Teams devices and peripherals based on their location, along with relevant insights. This capability provides IT admins the ability to manage connected devices, and monitor workspace health, utilization and conformance to standards at any location.

ID: 88326 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft To Do: Multi-account support

Now, you can add multiple accounts to Microsoft To Do on your iOS device.

ID: 98121 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Ability to recommend course to groups

Allows users to use existing user groups while making recommendations.

ID: 118677 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Adding Viva Goals team members through AAD Groups

With this capability, team admins can add members to teams by selecting AAD Groups (SG, DLs, etc.); This will enable roll outs and deployment across all teams as well as multiple group support at an organizational level.

ID: 117470 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Automatic Topic Relationships available in GCC

The ability for AI to suggest relationships between topics will be available for customers in our Government Clouds. These suggested related topics appear on the topic card, page and answers.  This is already available for standard worldwide customers.  This feature deployment has changed and the roadmap item has been updated to reflect those plans.

ID: 106765 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Bot support for building Viva Connections Cards

developer can leverage the power of Microsoft bot framework to build cards for Viva Connections.

ID: 117419 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Configure Viva Learning permissions by provider

Admins can configure permission settings for Viva Learning content by learning provider, ie. hide all content from a certain connected learning provider from certain users.

ID: 102662 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Connections for Android tablet

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This release brings the experience of Viva connections to Android tablet, thus extending the set of devices you can access it on.

ID: 117388 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Controlling Topic highlights on SharePoint

The long-awaited feature to control what Topics get highlighted on SharePoint pages and news posts with an alternative user experience to discover Topics on the page.

ID: 100245 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Designated Viva Goals Admin Center Console

Viva Goals IT Administrator will have an admin page that will enable them to enable/ disable integrations, configure organization permissions and manage organizations by granting admin access.

ID: 117475 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Digest emails for DoD

The semi-monthly Digest email, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox, will be available for DoD. Twice a month, you’ll receive a Digest email that summarizes data about your work patterns and ways to improve them.

ID: 109530 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Digest emails for GCC High

The semi-monthly Digest email, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox, will be available for GCC High. Twice a month, you’ll receive a Digest email that summarizes data about your work patterns and ways to improve them.

ID: 109529 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Display connected topics on people profile cards

Profile cards displayed through Outlook will display Topics associated to an individual.

ID: 88697 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Employee learning API – learner record sync

Assignments and learner records sync from providers/LMS connected to Viva Learning through the employee learning API.

ID: 100200 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Enhanced Viva Goals Azure DevOps data integration

This enhanced version of the Viva Goals ADO data integration enables users to directly link work items to projects and Key Results and eliminates the dependency on shared queries.

ID: 117473 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: EU Data Residency for Existing Viva Goals customers

Complete EU data residency compliance, migration and housing for existing EU customers.

ID: 117466 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Expanded Viva Goals Analytics Feature

Viva Goals Analytics now includes actionable insights and recommendations expanded to team admins, OKR Champions, and organization admins.

ID: 117454 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: GCCH support for Connections

Viva connections will be made available for Government Community Cloud High.

ID: 117429 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Goals EU Data Residency

With EU Data Residency support, EU-based customers interested in using Viva Goals can have their data stored in EU Data centers. Currently, EU Data Residency is available for new customers. With this change, for existing Viva Goals EU customers, the data will be migrated to EU Data centers.

ID: 115479 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Increased Language Availability for Viva Goals

Viva Goals will support a total of 37 languages. Currently Viva Goals supports 28 languages.

ID: 115478 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Insights web app in DoD

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106096 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Jira on prem support for Viva Goals

Support for Jira Server and Jira Data Center that allows users to automatically track the progress for objectives and key results (OKRs) along with the work driving those OKRs in Viva Goals.

ID: 109592 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Manage user level information

Admin function to download, retrieval & delete user level information regarding manual course completion tagging.

ID: 118673 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Manual course completion

Users can mark a course as complete in Viva learning.

ID: 99523 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Progress tracking for Learning paths

Now in Viva Learning, users will be able to track their progress on different courses within the Learning path.

ID: 99171 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Resolve topic name similarities

Allows users to select a topic among several when they share similar or matching names (disambiguation).

ID: 72183 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Send Praise from your Viva Connections Dashboard

Site owners/authors can add the Praise card from Microsoft Insights on the Viva Connections dashboard, allowing employees to send out praises to their colleagues.

ID: 117378 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics

Feed items are highlighted with a Topic Pill when they have relevant SharePoint content allowing the user to further contextualize their Feed.

ID: 118063 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Simple topic segmentation

Create segments of topics based on sites and information architecture.

ID: 88694 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Stories Public Preview

Stories allow people and leaders to share updates, experiences, vision, and perspective on your storyline, using short videos or photos. Stories are a new way to express yourself authentically, and to reach and engage people in your organization across Viva Engage, Teams, Outlook, and Yammer.

ID: 101514 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Take action after reflecting on meeting category insights in Viva Insights

Viva Insights customers will be able to take actions such as editing meeting invites or responses directly from the Viva Insights app after reflecting on their meeting category insights to align their time spent in meetings with their goals.

ID: 117374 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topic Activities on topic experiences

Viva Topics helps you stay updated on topics of interest by bringing AIand human activities on the topics including topic updates, conversations andmore to experiences across Microsoft 365.

ID: 118241 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics

This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center.

ID: 88699 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topic level metrics on topic experiences

View the topic level impact, impressions and usage on topic card and page experiences.

ID: 118491 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics Adoption Metrics Dashboard

Topics will include a new analytics page, where knowledge managers and admins will have access to a set of metrics that details the health of their adoption. Tenants will have health targets to reach to keep them on track for adopting Viva Topics, as well as recommended actions to perform to drive each metric to healthy.

ID: 100028 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics bot brings you topic information to your Teams chat

We are introducing an exciting new way to interact with Topics. A new Teams bot for Viva Topics to bring important topic related information, activities and more to users on their Teams chat.

ID: 118488 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center

Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.

ID: 118768 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Outlook Desktop

Learn more about topics being discussed in your organization without leaving Outlook Desktop. With this feature, Viva Topics can detect that a topic is mentioned in the email that is currently in focus in read mode. In this case, Viva Topics will prompt the user to open the Viva Insights panel where they can see a list of all topics referenced in the email along with a view of the topic descriptions and the people/resources associated with the topics.

ID: 100247 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Teams Channels

Earlier this year, we rolled out new Viva Topics integrations with Microsoft Teams. To widen the reach of Topics into the areas team members work, Viva Topics will expand from chats in Teams to channels in Teams, allowing users to mention topics and see topic cards within a given channel. This addition to the Teams integration will make the Topics experience more intuitive and approachable, allowing you to interact with topics in the spaces you are used to collaborating with team members.

ID: 100254 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Verified Topic badges

Users can now mark published topics as verified and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors.

ID: 118239 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva connections support for iOS tablet

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern engagement experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This release brings the experience of Viva connections to iPad, thus extending the set of devices you can access it on.

ID: 101167 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Dashboard Enhancements

Expand Viva Goals OKRs within a dashboard widget and compare progress.

ID: 117451 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with personal insights for DoD

The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in DoD and will show you personalized recommendations that help you do your best work.

ID: 101522 Tags: Microsoft Viva – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with personal insights for GCC-H

The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in GCC-H and will show you personalized recommendations that help you do your best work.

ID: 101521 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in GCC-H

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams.

ID: 106095 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity

Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity.

ID: 118588 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Minecraft Education: License Management Moving to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center

The Microsoft Store for Education is retiring in the first quarter of 2023. In March 2023, license purchase and assignment for Minecraft Education subscriptions will be moved to the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID: 109556 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite files

Not all M365 documents are used in the same way. You’ll inevitably have a few that you use every week and some you’ll use occasionally. This is where using Favorites can help you stay organized. Favoriting files is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you to get back to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Office.com, OneDrive, Document Libraries, and the Files app in Teams by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience in Office.

ID: 117497 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

OneDrive: New Shared Experience

We are updating the Shared experience in OneDrive for web which can be found in the left nav pane. The new experience will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage the new filtering pills to quickly find shared files.

ID: 117426 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

OneDrive: Updated Files On-Demand Settings on Windows

We are updating the OneDrive sync app settings for Files On-Demand for users who have the feature enabled.

ID: 101520 Tags: OneDrive – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

OneNote: iOS Home Tab

Quickly view all of your notes in a new grid style format.

ID: 103621 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

OneNote: Meeting Notes in OneNote

Every Teams meeting now comes with a collaborative OneNote canvas. Create notes from the Teams calendar or during a meeting. You can easily recall your notes and manage your tasks directly from OneNote.

ID: 101509 Tags: OneNote – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

OneNote: New Navigation Options

Bringing a new way to navigate OneNote. Choose between the horizontal tabs at the top for your sections with notebooks and pages being separate on the side or a new navigation that consolidates notebooks, sections, and pages on the side and removes the tabs at the top.

ID: 100492 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Pronouns available on the profile card

Users on Outlook on the web will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.

ID: 115511 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Outlook: [Android] Customizable Compose Toolbar and Drawer

Now while writing an email, you can reorder tools to customize your experience and make your most used actions even easier to reach.

ID: 100692 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Compliant (Protected) meeting

Outlook: Compliant Meetings – Make your meetings secure and compliant by applying sensitivity labels.

ID: 98924 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Desktop accessibility ribbon

Adding a new Accessibility Ribbon tab will make it easier for authors to make their messages more accessible. All the tools you need to make your message accessible, together in one place, so you don’t need to go find them.

ID: 109563 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Frontline worker Audience targeting using Job code, location and department

Capability for frontline worker communicators to identify target audience by using Location, Job Code and Department in Outlook.

ID: 100969 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: iOS Navigation changes

Outlook for iOS is making it easier to find your contacts, files, and more. A new, customizable navigation bar at the bottom of Outlook is your destination for Mail, Calendar, Feed, Contacts and Files, in whatever order works best for you. The Floating Action Button also gets an update to make creating new items even easier.

ID: 100568 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label

Outlook desktop will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admin could configure this either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy(Roadmap: 100158). Customer will see automatically or recommendations that email gets the higher label from attachments’ label.

ID: 100490 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME

Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Customer admins could use set-label advanced setting to define the label to have S/MIME sign or encryption or both, and emails with those labels applied will enforce S/MIME sign and encrypt accordingly.

ID: 109582 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows Preview

The toggle to try the preview of the new Outlook for Windows will be available to customers with access to the classic Outlook for Windows and a Microsoft 365 subscription. The toggle has been available for Insiders since May 2022.

ID: 118476 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Outlook for Android – Schedule send

Write now, send later with “Schedule send”. To choose when to send, select … when writing an email.

ID: 98927 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Outlook for the Web – RSVP User Experience Consistency Updates

The RSVP experience will appear more consistent across the various locations from which a user can RSVP within both mail and calendar. For most RSVP flows, a user will be presented with the option to email an organizer, send an optional message to the organizer, and respond yes/no/maybe to the invite. This is not new functionality, but will be presented earlier in the RSVP flow in some RSVP locations and will have a more consistent visual treatment across all RSVP locations.

ID: 101163 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac

AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the MacOS and many of its applications. We will add support for this feature in the new Outlook for Mac.

ID: 88537 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Support of sensitivity labels scoping to emails

Microsoft Purview Information protection now allows to configure labels to be scoped for files only or emails only. Outlook on the web will show those email-scoped labels in emails and will not show non-email-scoped labels.

ID: 117510 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Support pop-up messages in Outlook that warn, justify, or block emails being sent with sensitivity labels

Outlook desktop native sensitivity labeling will support oversharing pop-up dialogue as AIP plug-in to warn, justify or block email being sent. Admin could use the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to define the oversharing pop-up DLP rules(Roadmap 100157) to group of users. If users has the configured DLP rule trigger when they click send, a warn/justify/block pop up message will show up to make sure customer could comply admin’s security double check requirements. As the first stage, Outlook desktop will only support these Pop-up message for DLP rule regarding sending emails to external with specific email and attachment labels. More DLP condition support will come later.

ID: 100255 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Working hours and location

New working hours and location options in Outlook lets people set more flexible working hours each day and specify the location from where they plan to work.

ID: 88822 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Power BI: Power BI content in Microsoft 365 Graph

This integration gives you the option to actively interact with and view your Power BI content. Your PBI content can be seen through ‘Recommended’ content within Office Hub and search on Office.com, SharePoint Online, and Bing@Work. You will also be able to see the actions taken on Power BI content such as who viewed it, edited it, or shared the content with you. The Public Preview is available now.

ID: 102409 Tags: Power BI, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

PowerPoint: present local files from PowerPoint app to PowerPoint Live in Teams

The “Present in Teams” button in PowerPoint apps has extended its support to present local files to PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams.

ID: 117477 Tags: PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

SharePoint Syntex: Content Assembly – Choose fields in modern templates to create document library columns

While publishing modern templates, you can now choose fields that you want to map to document library columns. When documents will get generated, the fields chosen to be library columns will get auto filled by the value entered by the users.

ID: 98126 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

SharePoint Syntex: Image tagging

Automatically recognize thousands of standard objects and automatically tag the file with recognized items.

ID: 88715 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

SharePoint: Improvements to custom site template experience

We are updating the experience for when you apply a custom site template, also known as a third -party site template, from your organization. With these updates, you will have more insight into the status updates and site script details for the template as you are applying it to your site.

ID: 117495 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: April CY2023

SharePoint: Improvements to the Image web part

Improvements to the Image web part include one consolidated toolbar for better navigation, and added capabilities to text overlay, such as text size and styling, text box color and opacity, and image overlay color and transparency.

ID: 117376 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Improvements to the Page authoring experience

We’re reducing clutter and creating an efficient canvas by moving the “add section” action to be inline and visible on hover, as well as surfacing the layout options in the web part toolbars.

ID: 117377 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: New SharePoint site templates

We are introducing 3 new SharePoint site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your portal home site, to provide guidance and assets for your brand, and a template powered by Microsoft Syntex for your Accounts payable team.

ID: 117554 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: New site theme options

We are adding two new SharePoint themes to our Change the Look menu. The addition of Black and Cerulean will enhance your site customization options for how you want your sites to look.

ID: 117368 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Review recent SharePoint site actions in admin center

Review the most recent site changes you made from the SharePoint admin center in the last 30 days.

ID: 117553 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Site Sharing will use Azure B2B Invitation Manager for External Sharing

The SharePoint Site sharing experience will now use Azure B2B Invitation Manager when new external users are invited, instead of the SharePoint Invitation Manager.

ID: 117557 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: March CY2023

SharePoint:Create pages and news from the SharePoint app bar

Now you’ll be able to start creating pages and news as an action from within the SharePoint app bar. This means, no matter where you are in SharePoint you can jump right into the content creation process and stay in the flow of work.

ID: 98143 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Visio: Enhanced organizational charts experience in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Further customize your org charts in Visio for the web. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to quickly add new org chart shapes using Quick Shapes in the Shapes pane, then add additional fields, such as email, location, and more.

ID: 78150 Tags: Visio – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Visio: Extend interoperability between the Visio web and desktop apps

Users will be able to open files that were previously not supported for editing in Visio for the web and edit shapes with 1D and 2D protection, and additional shape properties. However, some interactions will be blocked or optimized.

ID: 88878 Tags: Visio – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Visio: Pictures for organizational charts in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]

Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to add pictures of team members directly to new org chart shapes in Visio for the web.

ID: 88879 Tags: Visio – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Visio: View and edit shape data in Visio for the web

As part of our effort to enable data-linked diagrams in Visio for the web, this feature allows Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers to view and edit shape data fields in the Visio web editor for diagrams originally created in the Visio desktop app. Visio in Microsoft 365 users will be able to view shape data but will not be able to edit the data.

ID: 113915 Tags: Visio – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Whiteboard: Commenting

The ability to add comments on a whiteboard to aid in discussion with board participants. This will include a comments pane to see all comments on a given whiteboard.

ID: 98083 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Word: Send-to-Kindle

Send-to-Kindle feature allows users to export Microsoft Word documents to Amazon accounts and Kindle devices.

ID: 117542 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Yammer: Rebranding to Viva Engage

To provide a consistent and delightful experience to our customers and users, Yammer across all its surfaces: web, mobile, and integrations (Embed, SharePoint and Outlook) will be rebranded to Viva Engage by late 2023. In the coming months you can expect Yammer to become Viva Engage through the update of brand elements like logo, app icon and name.

ID: 117366 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Rolling Out

Azure Active Directory: Tenant Creation Lockdown

This new capability will provide admins with the ability to lock down tenant creation to decide whether they want their users to create more tenants. We have also created the Tenant Creator role, which will allow users assigned to this role to create new tenants.

ID: 109541 Tags: Azure Active Directory – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Exchange: Microsoft multi-geo admin operation auditing

We are pleased to announce that Exchange Online Multi-Geo will be introducing a new feature release in early March, allowing admins to audit operations across all locations with the help of Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet and Microsoft Purview portal. Once the feature has been rolled out to tenants, users can begin testing it by using either Microsoft Purview portal or Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet(not Search-AdminAuditLog) to track admin operations. Please note that this feature is limited to admin operations only and does not include other types of audit logs.

ID: 117543 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Experience insights for Microsoft 365 admins

The Experience insights in the Microsoft 365 admin center offers admins consistent data across usage, feedback, Net Promoter Score, and Help articles consumption. Admins can use such data to increase user satisfaction by launching relevant trainings and awareness campaigns in the organization. This experience would be particularly valuable to those roles in the IT organization who are responsible for understanding and improving the user experience for Microsoft 365.

ID: 93395 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Security Threat Submission API

The current InformationProtection/Threat Assessment API does not support setting up end user reporting experiences and triaging samples reported by a user.  The new Security Threat Submission API will address these scenarios and further improve existing capabilities. It was created using the Microsoft Graph Platform. The current API will continue to exist for several years to ensure existing processes are not affected, with eventual deprecation.

ID: 93364 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Pages API

New graph API to create and manage SharePoint pages and news posts.

ID: 101166 Tags: Microsoft Graph, SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Update Readiness Reports

App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.

ID: 103614 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Planner: Templates in Planner web

Get started quickly by using a pre-made template to jump into your work.

ID: 106120 Tags: Planner – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Project: Additional Timeline Zoom Options

Four new options to the zoom feature in the Timeline view will enable you to view your long-term projects at 18 months and 2, 3, and 6 years.

ID: 109577 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: User-defined permissions now support domain name restrictions

When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, they can now use domain names to restrict file access to specific individuals, or to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com” and permissions will be restricted based on those parameters.

ID: 98131 Tags: Office app – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: List page usability enhancements

Get a detailed view of all the jobs, collections and exports associated with a review set. Group and filter by columns such as date range to quickly take action on the review set of your interest.

ID: 106104 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: Attachment search

Include classic attachments from Outlook in search. Attachments under People Centric Search on office.com shipped in December 2022. Attachments showing in the All and Files tabs are scheduled for end of March.

ID: 81922 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Busy-on-busy end user setting

Manage how incoming calls are routed when you are busy in an existing call or meeting directly from your Calls settings in the Teams app. Choose from the option to allow calls to come through, play a busy signal, or to redirect the call based on your unanswered call routing preference.

ID: 86991 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Power Automate Connector – Updates App (Microsoft 365)

Updates App (Microsoft 365) connector enables creation of Power Automate flows which trigger when an update is sent to the flow owner. Currently, the connector supports two triggers, 1) When a new update is received, 2) when a new update tied to a specific request is received.

ID: 104397 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound Howling Detection

When multiple people join a meeting in the same room then a feedback loop is created which causes echo and in most cases the echo quickly escalates to howling (like when a musician holds the mic too close to a loudspeaker). If multiple users on laptops join from the same location, we share with the user that another Teams Device is detected in the vicinity and is already joined with audio to the current meeting. We will automatically mute the mic and speakers of the person who has joined post a user who has joined with audio on.

ID: 92391 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Video Closed Captions in PowerPoint Live

Closed Captions will now be supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. If the video contains out-of-band closed captions, all viewers will automatically have the option to turn closed captions on for the video.

ID: 114494 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Yammer

Display topic highlights and access topic cards in Yammer conversations.

ID: 72184 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics

The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections. and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment.

ID: 93367 Tags: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings

Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud, so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. This feature is now available to 50% of Current Channel.

ID: 60371 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Outlook: Support for Local Folders (On My Computer) in the New Outlook for Mac

Local data is saved in “On My Computer” folder in the navigation pane. The items in these folders are saved only on your computer and are not synchronized with a mail server. In the new Outlook for Mac, we are working to migrate and support the local folders.

ID: 88536 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Export Microsoft Lists as a dataset for Power BI Data Hub

Today, you can visualize a list as a report in Power BI, from within the list itself. Soon, it will be possible to export a dataset from Microsoft Lists for use in Power BI Data Hub. Once your list is in Power BI Data Hub, you can take advantage of its rich data visualization features to create powerful, custom reports based on your list data.

ID: 117379 Tags: Power BI, SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Microsoft Lists – Approvals integration

Microsoft Lists templates will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. When you specify the approver within your list item, the request will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly within the list. Once approved, the list item status is updated.

ID: 100502 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Whiteboard: Save and share user templates

Users will have the ability to save whiteboards as a template, and will be able to share that template with other individual users.

ID: 98085 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Project: Assignments view

This feature provides more precision in project planning and estimation by letting you edit resource work schedule.

ID: 103626 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Accelerate onboarding with step-by-step guidance

This feature will provide step-by-step guidance on how to properly configure, triage, and remediate policies, highlighting tasks that are heavily leveraged by a user’s role group.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88919 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized network share paths

With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.

ID: 98141 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized USB devices

With this capability, you can create groups of USB devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups of USB devices based on serial numbers and allow ‘copy’ of documents to certain groups of USB devices and block ‘copy’ for others.

ID: 98140 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Network location as a condition in DLP policy

With this capability you will be able to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal Wi-Fi but not on Corporate Wi-Fi on VPN.

ID: 98142 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Sanctioned and unsanctioned site groups for different sensitive files

With this capability you will be able to create groups of service domains and manage restrictions for the groups within the DLP policy. As an example, you will be able to allow ‘upload’ of sensitive data only to corporate SharePoint sites and block elsewhere.

ID: 98139 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: In-context Stores

The in-context stores are found in menus throughout the Teams experience that let users discover and install apps that support the specific context the user is in. For example, when a user opens the Message extension (ME) in-context store they are shown a selection of apps that have the ME capability. Discovering apps in the in-context Store keeps users in their flows and reduces the confusion regarding the apps capability users face today when installing apps from the Store.

ID: 95566 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Simulcast for Teams on VDI

Simulcast support for Teams on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) enables multiple video call streams at the same time, even in the event of low network quality.

ID: 99865 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Minecraft Education: Product Name change

We are changing our app name to “Minecraft Education” and will be rolling out new branding starting in January. Please note that “Minecraft Education” is the same product as “Minecraft: Education Edition” should you see our name appear differently. We are excited to share our new look soon!

ID: 109545 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Windows 365: Citrix HDX Plus for Windows 365 Enterprise

Support for administrators to integrate Citrix Cloud with Windows 365 giving access to Citrix HDX technologies for enhanced Cloud PC security and manageability.

ID: 117362 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Support for Customer Key

This feature is postponed indefinitely. Given the sensitivity of Audit log data, many organizations want to add additional layers of protection, including encryption. Microsoft Purview Customer Key allows organizations to use their own keys giving them control over their encryption. With this update, admins will have the ability to encrypt their Audit log data using Customer Key.

ID: 98201 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer

[This item is incorrect and being removed from the roadmap, we apologize for any inconvenience.] The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location.  This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

ID: 115472 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023