In Development

Yammer: New Yammer experience as default for all users

Default to new Yammer experience for all users on web.

ID: 70689 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint spaces: Embed Web Part and Annotation

Show SharePoint pages or HTML embed content as an interactable overlay on a SharePoint space.

ID: 70732    Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for sensitivity labels in Teams and SharePoint sites

With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ‘confidential’—restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ‘general’—allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in.

ID: 70735 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Planner: Move tasks to any of your plans

You can now move tasks to any plan you’re a member of. Comments cannot move to a plan in a different group, and labels do not move across plans.

ID: 70738 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Migrate legacy exchange DLP policies to the M365 compliance center

The Exchange DLP migration wizard will enable you to seamlessly migrate the exchange DLP policies managed in the exchange admin center to the compliance center. M365 compliance center provides access to advanced classification capabilities like EDM, ML etc. along with rich alerts, incident management features and more.

ID: 70790    Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Get Template Graph API

Get team templates list and team template details via Graph API.

ID: 70793 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Customized Website Tab Apps in Team Templates

This feature enables Admins to add customized website tab apps in custom team templates.

ID: 70794 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

SharePoint: Focus mode for modern SharePoint pages

SharePoint page authors and viewers will be able to focus on page content by using the Expand content button on the command bar to hide the site header, site navigation, and global navigation bar. Focus mode will persist when page viewers select links to pages within a site, but not when they select links to pages outside of the site (even if they are within a hub site).

ID: 70800 Tags: SharePoint – Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Forms: Forms response receipt – GCC/GCC High/DoD support

A new approach for form responder to get their response receipt in GCC/GCC High/DoD environment.

ID: 70803 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Forms: Forms Design Page Printing – GCC/GCC High/DoD support

This feature allows form designer to print a blank form/quiz to responder who cannot fill the online form.

ID: 70804 Tags: Forms – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

OneDrive: Quickly change permissions in OneDrive/SharePoint share controls.

Users can now have the ability to change permissions more easily from the OneDrive/SharePoint share controls.

ID: 70806 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for GCC-High

Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.

ID: 72168 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for DoD

Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.

ID: 72169 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Policy package assignment to groups

Streamline assignment of policy package with group assignment. Group assignment empowers admins to assign a policy package to a group instead of individual users.

ID: 80241 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Improvements for managing attendee audio permissions in Teams Meetings

Meeting presenters and organizers can manage attendee audio permissions with greater flexibility. Attendees no longer must request to speak for the organizer or presenters to allow them to unmute, and presenters and organizers can prevent individual attendees from unmuting instead of all attendees at once.

ID: 80261 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Forms: Poll in teams meeting support 1k meeting/webinar

For the large meeting, Forms poll will support the overall user experience and to help presenter could improve the meeting engagement.

ID: 80619 Tags: Forms, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Availability of Praise for GCC

GCC support for Praise.

ID: 80913 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Tasks and Task publishing for GCC

GCC support for Tasks and Task Publishing.

ID: 80914 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie on iOS (Preview)

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT.

ID: 80915 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Edge v. 94: Microsoft Edge moving to a 4-week cadence for updates in Beta and Stable channels

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, we will adopt a new, 4-week release cycle for major versions.

ID: 81426  Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New Extended stable option being offered.

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 94, we are offering a new Extended Stable option to our managed Enterprise customers. The Extended Stable option will stay on even numbered revisions and update every 8 weeks. There will be a biweekly security update.

ID: 81427 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Customized Website Tab Apps in Team Templates

This feature enables Admins to add customized website tab apps in custom team templates.

ID: 70794 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for gov clouds

Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online will soon be available in GCC and GCC-High environments. Sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection, enabling you to label important content to associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. With this release, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input.

ID: 67125   Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint for GCC-High and DoD

Ability to save Microsoft Teams meeting recordings to OneDrive and SharePoint for improved sharing capabilities, basic governance, automatic retention labels, go local, bring your own keys and, more that comes from recording video files and storing them in SharePoint and OneDrive.

ID: 70664 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Low data mode

Whether you want to preserve data or are in a location with a poor or limited network connection, sometimes it’s helpful to limit the amount of data you’re using during a video call. A new low data mode allows users to cap the amount of data that will be used during Teams video calls as well as establish different settings based on network availability.

ID: 70786  Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Planner: Sync Message Center posts to Planner – Government Clouds

Microsoft is introducing Planner integration for the Message Center to help with workflow management. Lots of information arrives in the Message Center, and you need to decide whether to act on it or not. And if an action is needed, who performs that action, and how do you track that task to completion? Or maybe you want to make a note of something and tag it for later. You can do all of this and more when you sync your Message Center to Microsoft Planner.

ID: 77441 Tags: Planner – GCC, GCC High, DoD  Release: March CY2021

Launched

Azure Active Directory: passwordless sign-in for work or school accounts

The Microsoft Authenticator mobile app will support sign-in with your face/fingerprint or device PIN to your work accounts. You can take out the security risk of passwords and have the convenience of using a device you already own and carry with you.

ID: 33013 Tags: Azure Active Directory – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), All environments, GCC High, DoD  Release: March CY2021

Office 365: Office is now available on iPad

With this release, we are bringing the Microsoft Office app to the iPad, combining the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps you know, plus additional tools to keep you more productive than ever. Optimized for iPadOS, use your keyboard, mouse, and trackpad to create and collaborate on Office documents, or create using your camera, sign PDFs, jot down notes, and more.

ID: 60685 Tags: Office app – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: Improved SharePoint page/news publishing experience

A pre-publish panel enforces that authors supply missing required properties before they can publish a page or a news post. Additional improvements related to required properties in the pages library take effect.

ID: 63257   Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: November CY2020

Office 365: New Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 for Gov clouds

The Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 builds on the existing eDiscovery and analytics capabilities in Office 365. This new solution, called Advanced eDiscovery, provides a workflow to identify, preserve, collect, review, analyze, and export content that’s responsive to your organization’s internal and external investigations. It also lets legal teams manage the entire legal hold notification workflow to communicate with custodians involved in a case.

ID: 64288 Tags: Office 365 – GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020

Microsoft Teams: Queue sent messages when offline

When attempting to send messages while offline, Teams will queue messages and send once a network connection is re-established. If the message is in an unsent state for more than 24 hours, the message will fail and the user will be prompted to resend or delete the message.

ID: 64687  Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live reactions

React during a meeting using emojis that will appear to all participants.

ID: 65946   Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Outlook for Windows: Every meeting online

Update your settings to make every meeting you create a Teams Meeting by default so you no longer need to remember to click the Teams Meeting option.

ID: 66021 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Planner: More labels

Add up to 25 task labels and colors in Planner and in Planner for Teams.

ID: 66193 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Azure Active Directory: Application Proxy – Header-based authentication apps

Application Proxy now natively supports applications that use header-based authentication in a public preview released in December 2020. Customers can use their existing Application Proxy connectors and no changes to their apps are needed. All header values available are based on standard claims that are issued by Azure AD. All attributes and transformations available for configuring claims for SAML or OIDC applications are also available to be used as header values.

ID: 68895 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Get a “Meet Now” Meeting link

Users can now copy a “Meet Now” meeting link without starting the meeting from the Calendar tab which can be used later.

ID: 70602 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hunting for Impersonated domains and users

Threat Explorer (P2) and Real-time detections (P1) are powerful near real-time tools to help Security Operations teams investigate and respond to threats. Today we provide filters for Detection Technology with User impersonation or Domain impersonation which show all Phish emails caught by our impersonation detection. We are adding new filters called Impersonated user and Impersonated domain to enable Security Operations teams to explicitly hunt for specific users or domains within their organization that are targets of impersonation attacks. This additional information related to Impersonated domain(s) and Impersonated user(s) will surface in existing Impersonation insight pages and our new Email Entity page.

ID: 70613 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: Image Lightbox

This feature lets users click on an image web part while in view mode to see a larger version of the image.

ID: 70669 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recording improvements

{This is a duplicate of 67138 and will be removed.} Stream playback performance and new features are coming to Teams meetings recordings by the end of the year as part of the new Stream experience. As part of this, meeting recordings will be stored in OneDrive, thus unlocking new value for customers including permissions and sharing, retention policies, basic information governance, immediate meeting availability, “go local” tenant support, bring your own key (BYOK) support, multi-geo support, and improved transcript quality and speaker attribution.

ID: 68761 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live Event Presenters can now present from their iPad to the audience

{This item has been indefinitely postponed and will be removed from the roadmap.} Live Event Presenters can now present from their iPad to the audience.

ID: 68867 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New file sharing experience

{This item is being removed as it is a duplicate of 51230.} Streamline sharing with Microsoft Teams. You can now create a shareable link for any file stored in Teams and directly set the appropriate permissions. Additionally, you can also set permissions for files stored in SharePoint or OneDrive while composing a private chat or starting a channel conversation.

ID: 70629 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021