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SharePoint: People cut out tab for stock images

The stock images tab inside the image file picker will now include images of people without a background.

ID: 70720  Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Advanced eDiscovery case limits enhancements

Advanced eDiscovery will soon expand the limits for collection size and review set volume. The limits expansion will expand the collection size from 300GB currently to 1TB and will expand the review set capacity as well to accommodate large case volumes. This update will help ensure organizations are able to manage their eDiscovery process across very large data sets effectively with Advanced eDiscovery.

ID: 70721  Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Customer Managed Key (Public Preview)

Customers will be able to encrypt Exact Data Match (EDM) data using their own Customer Managed Key (CMK), further enhancing EDM data security. EDM content that is encrypted using the CMK includes the data file schemas, rule packages, and the salts, which are used in hashing the sensitive data being protected.

ID: 70722 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint spaces: 360° tour annotation icon customization

Customize icons in 360° image tours with choice of icons, colors, and size.

ID: 70733  Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

SharePoint: Scoping Control for SharePoint Online

Scoping control is available for SP page, site, list and library, for users to search faster with specified scope.

ID: 70792  Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Content type synchronization enhancements

Changes to the way content type publishing works in SharePoint, moving from a “push everywhere” model to a “pull as needed” model to help improve reliability and performance of the service.

ID: 70795  Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: New predictive coding module in Advanced eDiscovery

To help cull and reduce data, right where Microsoft 365 data is created, shared, and stored, legal practitioners can use our new predictive coding module without moving data outside the Microsoft 365 security and compliance boundary. As part of this preview release, legal practitioners can organize content for review faster by going through training rounds of relevant and non-relevant content to iteratively train and tune the model performance by starting with as little as 50 items. This is an improvement from traditional models that require customers to train upwards of 10 times more documents to get started and see the output of the model.

ID: 70805 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: New Advanced eDiscovery solution for DoD

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: 70807 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: April CY2021

SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Rich previews for pages and news articles

When users paste links to SharePoint news posts and modern pages in Teams chat/channels, those links will convert into rich cards displaying the page title, image, author and published date.

ID: 70808 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

SharePoint: Audience Targeting capability for Events Web Part

We are adding the ability to target specific audiences per event within the Events Web Part. With it, you target specific events to different audiences, helping you provide more personalized experiences on SharePoint pages.

ID: 70815 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Yammer: Establish Official Communities

Updated community settings on web for communities and All Company community.

ID: 72062 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure sensitivity labels for encrypt-only protection on Outlook messages

In the Microsoft 365 compliance center, you can now create labels that enforce the encrypt-only restriction (available within Office 365 Message Encryption) when applied to Outlook email messages. With encrypt-only, users can send encrypted email to any recipient, whether they are inside or outside the organization, and the protection follows the lifecycle of the email.

ID: 72171 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Outlook: MyDay pane available in Office.com

The MyDay pane from Outlook is now available to users in Office.com. The MyDay pane allows users to quickly glance at their Outlook calendar, join meetings and monitor their To Do list.

ID: 72174 Tags: Office 365 – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Visualize with Power BI

Visualize your list in Power BI. This is a new view and author experience that auto-generates an initial report for you based on the information in your list. You can specify fields to create from, or update the visuals shown in the report. If you want more advanced report authoring capabilities, you can move into Edit mode and further refine. To create a report from a list, click the Integrate menu, choose Power BI and then you will see “Visualize the list”.

ID: 72175 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Form processing – support for custom Power Platform environments

When using Form Processing model, you’ll be able to specify that AI Builder and Dataverse storage can be hosted in custom Power Platform environments. Previously, this was limited to the default tenant environments.

ID: 72176 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Document understanding model improvements – extractor rename; model rename & duplication support

We’re adding support for renaming and duplicating Syntex document understanding models, You’ll also be able to rename data extractors inside models.

ID: 72177 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Document understanding model improvements – consolidated explanation types

We’re streamlining the types of explanations used in document understanding to improve usability for model designers.

ID: 72178 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

SharePoint Syntex: Syntex license expiration – disable experiences in UX

Upon expiration of Syntex user licenses, we’ll be disabling model building and model usage experiences for unlicensed users in the user interface.

ID: 72179 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Azure Active Directory: Access Tokens issued by Azure AD will have lifetime of 60-90 minutes.

Access Tokens issued by Azure AD will have default lifetime between 60-90 minutes.

ID: 72190 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: New named entities SITs and enhanced unified policy authoring templates (Public Preview)

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 DLP and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US HIPAA and EU GDPR.

ID: 72194 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Project: Import Project desktop files to Project for the web

Use a button on the Project Home to import your .mpp files into Project for the web

ID: 72195 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Prevent PTSN attendees from unmuting in meetings

Presenters and Organizers can now prevent PSTN participants from unmuting. This change also allows PSTN participants to request to speak by raising their hand in a meeting via dial-pad command (press *5).

ID: 80262 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Improved Experience in the Meeting Participant Roster

We are now changing how the participant list is displayed in a Teams meeting for the Lobby, In meeting, Presenters, and Attendees participant sections. A maximum of 20 participants for each of the sections will be displayed in the initial view, with an option to drill in and view more participants within that section. For the lobby, you can review the full list before you admit all into the meeting. The roster will display details of most active participants in the meeting arranged in alphabetical order. There are no changes to the participants action menu.

ID: 80385 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Users can now search in meeting participants from the roster

From the search box in the roster, users can now search in meeting participants. They can continue to search for participants outside the meeting and request them to join the meeting.

ID: 80421 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Spotlighting multiple Users at the same time in a meeting

Organizers and presenters can now spotlight up to 7 participants simultaneously during meetings.

ID: 80425 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Establish official communities in Yammer

Designate your most important communities as “Official” to show that they are company-endorsed within the network. (CEO Connections, Contoso News, IT Help, HR Support, LatinX Community).

ID: 80464 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Universal Print: Universal Print Service General Availability for V1.0

Universal Print is generally available in March 2021. This promotes the existing (Microsoft Graph) beta API surface to v1.0. ISV and IHV partners can build more confidently on a Universal Print API surface that fully supported, stable, and immutable.  Print management, printer share management, print job management, 3rd party integration, reporting and service configuration.

ID: 80568 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams

Present your slides directly from PowerPoint for Windows into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.

ID: 80599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams

Present your slides directly from PowerPoint for the web to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.

ID: 80600 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Translate slideshow content

Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live.

ID: 80601 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Join a meeting by digital code

User can join a meeting by entering a digital code.

ID: 80668 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Lock a meeting from additional joins

In the Teams meetings desktop app experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent join attempts. Anyone attempting to join a lock meeting from any device will be informed that the meeting is locked.

ID: 80669 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Excel, Word and PowerPoint: Contact cards accessible from Office Web when collaborating in real-time.

When working with others in an Office file at the same time you can now access people’s contact card directly from within the Office Web Application. This is helpful if you want to email or chat with them or learn about their organization.

ID: 81009 Tags: Excel, PowerPoint, Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Reply to a specific message

When chatting in Teams, you will be able to reply a specific message. The original message will be quoted in the reply text box, helping everyone in the chat to more easily understand the message’s context.

ID: 81113 Tags: Microsoft Teams –  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Related Content for Teams Meetings (iOS and Android)

Related Content makes meetings more effective by providing customers with important information from their mailboxes, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint sites. This helps them prepare before their meetings by offering them content they haven’t had a chance to read or may want to revisit. During the meeting, they can easily access relevant content to share, present, or reference. After the meeting, they can catch-up on completed meetings by returning to content presented during the meeting, sent meeting notes, and other high-utility related content.

ID: 81354 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Supervised chat

Use Teams administrative policy to ensure students are supervised by an educator during private 1:1 or group chats. With Supervised Chat, students will not be allowed to engage in chats without a supervising educator present.

ID: 81359 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Timer and Room assignment retention

Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting. Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions. With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.

ID: 81372 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New bypass lobby option

Meeting policies have a setting for letting users bypass the meeting lobby. We added an option for People in the organization but exclude guest users.

ID: 81376 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Outgoing participant video in meetings in Safari

Users can now use camera during meetings in Safari. Requires Safari 14 or higher.

ID: 81381 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Expanded Emoji Picker

The expanded emoji update offers people more fun and expressiveness in Teams. It also introduces a wider range of diversity and representation. The emoji set has expanded from 85 to over 800 emojis, with a category selector, skin tone selector and short code picker.

ID: 81403 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Adobe Sign Integration in Approvals App

There may be times when you need something approved and recorded with more formal attestation, and adding signatures to the approval process is necessary. We’re working closely with key partners to allow you to create an electronic signature approval using Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and other 3rd party providers natively within the Approval app. Simply choose your electronic signature provider and add the details. Once submitted, signers are notified with an email and can easily review and sign. Approvals will keep track of the entire workflow right in context within Teams.

ID: 81407 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Approvals Templates

User can simply choose a template provided by their tenant admins or a Team Owner when creating a new approval request.

ID: 81408 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Adobe Sign Integration in Approvals App for GCC-High and DoD

There may be times when you need something approved and recorded with more formal attestation, and adding signatures to the approval process is necessary. We’re working closely with key partners to allow you to create an electronic signature approval using Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and other 3rd party providers natively within the Approval app. Simply choose your electronic signature provider and add the details. Once submitted, signers are notified with an email and can easily review and sign. Approvals will keep track of the entire workflow right in context within Teams.

ID: 81657 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Approvals Templates for GCC-High and DoD

User can simply choose a template provided by their tenant admins or a Team Owner when creating a new approval request.

ID: 81658 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: June CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Request Release workflow

We’ve added a way for end users to triage quarantined phish messages. We understand that managing false positives is important to ensuring email is delivered appropriately, and in the past, end users weren’t granted access to the quarantine to view messages. We’ve introduced an option to grant end users read-only access to the quarantine to view quarantined messages and request that an admin release messages to the inbox.

ID: 62449 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine – Custom Policy and Folder

Previously, quarantine behavior was configured through each individual filtering policy. To reduce complexity, we’ve moved new and existing quarantine parameters into a standalone Quarantine policy.

ID: 62450 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD  Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom attendee registration

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

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

Microsoft Project: Email Notifications in Project

Switch on to receive notifications about changes to your projects.

ID: 67152   Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery Search tab is evolving to Collections tab

Now eDiscovery managers will see Collections in the top navigation of the Advanced eDiscovery solution in place of Search. Collections will provide an enhanced experience for collecting content for the case, including generating preview estimates and options for quickly collecting content directly into a new or existing review set.

ID: 68914 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Office 365: Dictation improvements in Word and Outlook including voice commands

Dictation has new UI and settings to control a profanity filter and automatic punctuation. Voice commands make editing and formatting your dictated text easier than ever.

ID: 70596 Tags: Office 365, Outlook, Word – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Audit retention dashboard for government clouds

Create and manage audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

ID: 70627   Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom policy packages

New custom policy packages will enable Teams admins to configure their own set of policy packages tailored to users with similar roles in their organization. We are also adding the capability to assign policy packages to a group so you can assign multiple policies to a group of users.

ID: 70776 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)   Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Support TLS Token Binding for Policy-Configured Sites

TLS Token binding helps prevent token theft attacks to help ensure that cookies cannot be reused from a device other than the device upon which they were initially set. Use of TLS token binding requires setting the AllowTokenBindingForUrls policy and requires that the listed sites provide support this feature.

ID: 79952  Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: New print rasterization mode for non-PostScript printers

Starting with Microsoft Edge v.90 a new policy exists that controls how Microsoft Edge prints to non-PostScript printers on Windows. Sometimes print jobs on non-PostScript printers need to be rasterized to print correctly. The print options are Full and Fast.

ID: 79958 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Removing Chromium-based MDM configuration policies from Microsoft Edge for Android

Microsoft Edge for Android will remove the Chromium-based MDM app configuration settings (Intune and other MDM providers) that currently ship within Microsoft Edge. These settings come from the Chromium source code but are not supported by Microsoft Edge for Android and may have unattended side effects with the app. Administrators will no longer be able to use Chromium-based MDM app configurations policies with Microsoft Edge for Android. We recommend the use of the supported policies as defined in https://aka.ms/edgeappconfig as replacements for the Chromium MDM policies.

ID: 79960 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.90: Bulk-delete passwords

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

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

Launched

Outlook for iOS: Option to reply with your availability or an event invitation

Quickly reply to an email message by selecting a suggested reply such as schedule a meeting or send your availability for a preferred time to meet.

ID: 65441 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: September CY2020

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 Information Protection: Teams location picker supports security groups and distribution lists.

Data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft Teams will now support security groups and distribution lists as part of the Teams location picker, enabling more granular control of DLP policy scope (i.e. to include/exclude particular departments, business units, geo-specific security groups, etc.)

ID: 68874 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Reset your Microsoft Edge sync data in the cloud manually

We are introducing a way to reset your Microsoft Edge sync data from within the product. This ensures that your data is cleared from Microsoft services, as well as resolving certain product issues that previously required a support ticket.

ID: 72361 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Policies to control whether to allow extensions from other stores and block external extensions

With Microsoft Edge version 89, Enterprise admins will be able to decide whether their users can install extensions from stores other than the Microsoft Edge Addons website. They will also be able to block external extensions from being installed.

ID: 79953 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Additional lockdown capabilities available for kiosk mode

Starting with Microsoft Edge version 89, we have added additional lockdown capabilities within kiosk mode to enable customers to get the job done in a productive and more secure experience.

ID: 79955 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)  Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.89: Support for natural language search on the address bar, history search page, and the history hub

Starting with Microsoft Edge 89, finding an article/website will be easier with the natural language search on the address bar, history page, and history hub. Users can search for previously viewed page content/description/timing (such as “cake recipe from last week”) in addition to titles/URL keyword matches.

ID: 80618  Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Compliance Center: Processed audit insights in Advanced Audit

{Processed insights for Audit is being evaluated for future consideration and has been indefinitely postponed.} Insights and correlations that signal key patterns to help identify quick answers to typical queries during investigations

ID: 56792 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Processed audit insights

{Processed insights for Audit is being evaluated for future consideration and has been indefinitely postponed.} Insights and correlations that signal key patterns to help identify quick answers to typical queries during investigations.

ID: 68708 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021