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Microsoft Teams Speaker Coach Feature will help your presentation run smoother with AI-powered tools that provide personalized private feedback about your presenting and speaking skills. Be on the lookout for this new feature in April 2022.
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Microsoft Teams: Language Interpretation
Language interpretation will allow language interpreters to translate what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other.
ID: 87547 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings
Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking and presentation skills in both real-time as well as post-meeting in a summary.
ID: 88253 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance detects customer complaints
Detect customer complaints made on your organization’s products or services with Communication Compliance’s new machine learning classifier, customer complaints. This new feature can help organizations meet regulations that mandate detection and triage of complaints, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Food and Drug Administrator requirements. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 88996 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Export Alerts
For the Export alerts feature, we have increased the frequency in which alerts are sent to the Office 365 Management Activity API to every hour (previously every 12 hours) so updated alert information is more readily available. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 88998 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Integration with Teams
Insider Risk Management integration with Microsoft Teams allows for richer collaboration across an organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 88999 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Define priority user groups and detect data leaks by priority users
Define users in your organization that need closer inspection based on factors such as their position, level of access to sensitive information, or risk history. Once created, these groups can be included in certain policy templates, such as detecting data leaks by users included in a priority user group. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 89000 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Windows 365: Disk Encryption with “Bring your own key” support
Cloud PC’s can be encrypted using their organizations “bring your own key” if enabled for their entire M365 tenant and meets licensing requirements.
ID: 89003 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Windows 365: Nested Virtualization support for Linux and Android subsystem (Preview)
Nested Virtualization platform capability will be enabled for certain license types allowing the ability to use Linux and Android subsystem.
ID: 89004 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies in chats
Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message. Suggested replies presents users with up to three recommended responses to choose from.
ID: 92674 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training APIs
We’re onboarding Attack Simulation Training Read APIs to the Microsoft Graph, providing a unified interface and schema to integrate with security solutions from Microsoft, as well as integrate with downstream systems and ecosystem partners.
ID: 93143 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Graph – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
SharePoint: Predictable API rate limits and app quotas
We are working on publishing API rate limits and quotas for applications integrated with SharePoint and OneDrive. Applications quota and consumption information will also become available through APIs which applications can consume and manage the rate limiting.
ID: 93182 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Expanded support to search and export items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Recycle Bin (US Government clouds)
Traditionally, when a site is on hold, the files in the Recycle Bin would be stored in the Preservation Hold library. In cases when a site is not on hold, there is no way to search or export items in the Recycle Bin. The eDiscovery and SharePoint Online teams are making architectural changes that will make the Recycle Bin (both first stage and second stage Recycle Bins) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business searchable and exportable by eDiscovery Managers. That means organizations can search and export items in the Recycle Bin regardless of whether a site is on hold or not.
ID: 93188 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Outlook: MailTips will recommend users to address accessibility issues before sending email messages
Users will see a MailTip in Outlook recommending to fix accessibility issues before sending email messages to large DLs, external users, or for any messages marked as “high importance”. The MailTip will show up at the top of the email compose window.
ID: 93191 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
SharePoint: Mobile App (Android) for GCC/GCCH/DoD
Access all lists you own and that have been shared with you – all on the go. You’ll be able to create new lists, edit list items and easily share with other people.
ID: 93192 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: November CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information Barriers admin experience – Segments and Policies landing pages
The Information Barriers solution within the Microsoft 365 compliance center enables organizations to restrict communication and collaboration between two user groups to avoid a conflict of interest from occurring. This user experience (UX) update adds solution landing pages within the Microsoft 365 compliance center for management of Information Barriers segments and policies.
ID: 93193 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Expanded Optical Character Recognition to support handwritten and printed text (U.S. Government clouds)
Expanding optical character recognition beyond text extracted from images or PDFs to include handwritten and printed text, which will then be evaluated against the customers policy conditions (such as keywords matching for threatening language), further reducing an organizations policy violation risk. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 93194 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Gain context around ML model policy matches (U.S. Government clouds)
Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 93196 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End User Quarantine Notification for High confidence phish mail
We will begin supporting high confidence phish mails in user quarantine notification. Previously, High confidence phished mails were only supported in the quarantine portal for users. with this new capability, we will also trigger quarantine notification for high confidence phish items as well.
ID: 93198 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Outlook: MIP sensitivity label support S/MIME
Outlook clients 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: 93199 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered (U.S. Government clouds)
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: 93203 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Follow Office preview policy on Mac
Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public. The existing follow Office preview policy allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview Channel of Teams if they are in the Office Current Channel (Preview) on Windows. We are now expanding the “follow Office preview” policy to Mac users who are in the Office Current Channel (Preview).
ID: 93536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Isolated audio feed capabilities for GCC-High and DoD
When using NDI or hardware-out in Microsoft Teams, users will be able to get the isolated audio feed along with the isolated video feed from any Teams meeting.
ID: 93634 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Provision Windows 365 Cloud PC using only Azure AD Join
An administrator is able to provision Windows 365 Cloud PCs for users without requiring Hybrid Azure AD Join, with further options to let Microsoft host the virtual network connections.
ID: 93667 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Provision Windows 365 Cloud PC with Language Packs
An administrator is able to provision Windows 365 Cloud PCs with Language Packs, to determine Cloud PC user experience at first run.
ID: 93668 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Point-in-Time Recovery of Windows 365 Cloud PCs
A user is able to recover their Windows 365 Cloud PC to a known point-in-time backup.
ID: 93669 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Support for Azure AD Single Sign-on (SSO) enhancements to RDP session
A user is able to leverage Azure AD Single Sign-on functionality to log into Windows 365 instance.
ID: 93670 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Windows 365: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse support for Windows 365 Business
Integration of Windows 365 Business Cloud PCs in the Device List in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse management UI.
ID: 93674 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Windows 365: Windows 365 Cloud PCs can be recovered across different datacenters
Administrators and Users will be able to restore Cloud PC instances to a known good state in a different zone during a zone outage.
ID: 93677 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Ability to get a Cloud PC disk snapshot for forensic analysis and legal discovery
An administrator is able to create a Cloud PC snapshot for purposes of forensic analysis and legal discovery.
ID: 93678 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: System based Alerting on Microsoft Endpoint Manager
An administrator can configure alerts and notifications specific to Windows 365 Cloud PCs.
ID: 93681 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Administrator can create manual restore points
An administrator can manually create a point-in-time restore point for Cloud PCs.
ID: 93689 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Windows 365: Windows 365 availability on GCC
Windows 365 services will be available on US Government Cloud.
ID: 93690 Tags: – GCC Release: December CY2022
Windows 365: Windows 365 availability on GCCH
Windows 365 services will be available on US Government Cloud – High Security.
ID: 93691 Tags: – GCC High Release: December CY2022
Windows 365: Administrator can freeze end user access for a person under investigation (Legal hold)
An administrator is able to temporarily freeze an end-user’s access to Windows 365 Cloud PC while that user is under investigation.
ID: 93699 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Office app: Updates to Office.com and Office app for Windows in GCC
We’re rolling out updates to Office.com and the Office app for Windows to help make it easier to get to the content you care about, take action on documents, and find the apps and tools you need.
ID: 93864 Tags: Office app – GCC Release: March CY2022
Office app: Read Aloud works during screen lock on Android devices
Listen to your documents on mobile when screen is locked.
ID: 94016 Tags: Office app – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Yammer: Upvote answers to Yammer questions
This feature will allow people upvote answers that they find useful and appropriate. It will be available for questions both in communities and live events.
ID: 65760 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Yammer: Yammer profile page updates
Revamped profile page with cover photo, followers/following, right rail and joined communities.
ID: 68066 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
OneDrive: Sync client support for ARM on Windows
The OneDrive sync client will run natively on ARM on Windows.
ID: 82182 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022
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: June CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Generate captions and transcripts for a video uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive
Users with edit permissions to a video file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can click a button in the player to generate closed captions and a transcript in English.
ID: 85552 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Meeting room capacity notifications for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
Notification that appears on the front of room display alerting in-room meeting participants if the room is over-capacity based on the capacity defined in a room account. Only cameras that support people counting will support this feature. When a Teams panel is deployed outside a Teams Room that supports this feature, an alert will also be visible on the Teams panel, notifying people outside the room that it has reached capacity.
ID: 86730 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Admins can pin message extensions
Admins can manage the pin order of messaging extensions in the compose experience.
ID: 87506 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
SharePoint: Manage apps using the App Catalog
As a SharePoint or global admin in Microsoft 365, you can distribute custom apps that can be used across SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Connections using the modernized App Catalog.
ID: 88844 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – Student activity insights
Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view insights for aggregated student activity insights in Career Coach. Insights include student skills, career interests, and progress on career-related activities in Career Coach.
ID: 89921 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams webinar capabilities in GCC
Schedule and deliver 1,000 person webinars with the same Teams app you use for meetings! Webinar capabilities support registration page creation, email confirmation for registrants, host management for attendee video and audio, attendee reporting, plus interactive features like polls, chat, and reactions.
ID: 91562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Message extension entry point for Workflows in Teams
Chat/Channel/Teams based workflows are a powerful tool for collaboration and efficiency. With message extension based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows as well as trigger pre-configured workflows from the message extension menu.
ID: 92454 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Partner Delegated Access, Multi–tenant Support
Invitation system to allow partner access and provide partners with multi-tenant view in their portal.
ID: 81911 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Insider Risk Management: Integration with Communication Compliance
This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Ability to leverage Communication Compliance capabilities to identify additional risk areas. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 61225 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Location Based Roles Scope
This item has been delayed and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. IT roles based on location scopes such as building, sites, regions, etc.
ID: 81906 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams user activity per user graph API
This feature is cancelled as a result of customer feedback. We are introducing a new Teams user activity per user Graph API to help you track Teams usage per user over time.
ID: 85543 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
