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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for iOS
Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.
ID: 86957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for Android
Notification drawer for in-meeting informational messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one tap.
ID: 86958 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
Microsoft Stream: Improve audio quality with Noise suppression for Stream (on SharePoint)
Noise suppression helps both creators and viewers isolate speech from ambient noise, music, and other sounds, making voice more intelligible. Noise suppression significantly reduces ambient noise, bringing more clarity to speech in videos.
ID: 88949 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Yammer: Bookmarks in Yammer
Bookmark threads in Yammer to easily find and read them later.
ID: 88953 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Briefing email support for 16 additional languages
The daily Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks, and protect time for independent work. With this update, the Briefing email will be available in the following additional languages: Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Norwegian (Bokmal), Korean, Chinese Traditional, Polish, Turkish, Portuguese (Portugal), Thai, Hebrew, Czech, Arabic, and Hungarian.
ID: 88958 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
SharePoint: Updates to channel site layouts and parent team site settings
Every team in Microsoft Teams is connected to a team site in SharePoint. This is also true for private channels in Teams. Private channels are connected to their own unique team site. This update includes improvements to the private channel site home page layout and the way site settings apply to the parent site and associated channel sites.
ID: 88963 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022
Yammer: Enhancements to Yammer’s interactive email notifications
The enhancements would include user experience changes to help with information density of the content for ease of consumption and engagement within Yammer’s the interactive emails as well as enable users to discover recommended conversations within these emails.
ID: 88967 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Out-of-the-box assessments for non-Microsoft 365 assets (US Government clouds)
Introducing pre-configured templates that extend Compliance Manager capabilities beyond Microsoft 365 assets.
ID: 88969 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data purge capabilities for Microsoft Teams content (US Government clouds)
Extend data purge functionality to Microsoft Teams content to facilitate purge of sensitive or misplaced data.
ID: 88975 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022
Yammer: Dark mode in Yammer
Dark mode can be enabled to view lighter text on a dark background.
ID: 88976 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Auditing and Analytics in Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac (GCC, GCC-H)
Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac will send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer for admins to search and review.
ID: 88978 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High Release: March CY2022
OneDrive: Large folder delete in OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web
Users will be able to delete large folders (10k items) on OneDrive and SharePoint Document Libraries on web.
ID: 88979 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Multilingual Dashboard
You can create a Viva Connections Dashboard that can be viewed in multiple languages.
ID: 88980 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – Job market trends
Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view location-based job market trends from LinkedIn.
ID: 89920 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February 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 Graph: Teams Device management Graph APIs (Preview)
These APIs provide access to information about the Teams devices and options to manage them and enable easy integration with other workflows.
ID: 90173 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams device store in Teams admin center
Teams device store provides direct procurement through Teams admin center, where admins can discover, purchase and provision Teams certified devices. The functionality will be available to small and medium sized organizations in US and Canada. This will be extended to more customers in the future.
ID: 91090 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Azure Active Directory: CloudKnox Permissions Management enters Public Preview
CloudKnox Permissions Management is a cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) solution that provides comprehensive visibility into permissions assigned to all identities like over-privileged workload and user identities, actions, and resources across multi-cloud infrastructures in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). CloudKnox Permissions Management detects, automatically right-sizes, and continuously monitors unused and excessive permissions.
ID: 92470 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Excel: Argument Assistance
Argument assistance is a card that shows up when the user is writing a formula and accompanies the user during the arguments insert/edit. The Argument Assistance helps the user to be more efficient while writing formulas and reduces risk for errors, without needing to look for help in external resources. It includes descriptions of the formula and the different arguments, as well as an example. The relevant argument (according to caret’s position) will be highlighted for better orientation. The user can collapse the card and see only the top formula signature (like the tooltip today) in case he/she prefers not to hide much of the grid (we’ll save that preference).
ID: 92879 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Excel: Multiline Formula Bar
Users can resize the formula bar and easily navigate.
ID: 92880 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Teams: New default settings when opening Office files For Government clouds
Users can set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams. The desktop setting can be selected, if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.
ID: 92946 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
OneDrive and SharePoint for Business: Library Dropdown
We’re adding a dropdown that allows you to easily switch between multiple document libraries associated with a Team or Site.
ID: 81990 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Whiteboard: Whiteboard on Windows revamped
Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. The new Whiteboard app for Windows addresses key customer asks around offering a uniform & seamless experience with Whiteboard on other clients & platforms. It also provides highly requested features such as the ability to add shapes & adopts a user-centric approach by focusing on marquee features such as ability to insert templates, images, sticky notes, text boxes & stickers thus, keeping the interface lean & the user experience simple yet effective.
ID: 82094 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
SharePoint: New content scenarios for My Feed Web Part on SharePoint
The New content types are added to My Feed Web Part on SharePoint. The new contents are Suggested Tasks, People Highlights, Meetings out of routine and files shared in groups.
ID: 82172 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: New conditions for auto-labeling in Exchange Online (Gov clouds)
An auto-labeling policy can now apply a label to Exchange Online email based on sender, recipient, subject, or header matches without requiring a scan for sensitive content.
ID: 85557 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Enhanced simulations and location support for auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business (Government Clouds)
Auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has been updated with improved performance and ability to configure more locations. The configuration limit of 10 locations in a policy has been removed. Any new simulation will run more efficiently, with results greatly sped up from days to hours.
ID: 85560 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Outlook: Time sensitive Emails in Play My Emails (PME)
Play My Emails in Outlook mobile will now identify potential time sensitive and important emails to you and read them before the rest of your inbox.
ID: 85570 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Configure Teams DLP policies to automatically protect files shared in Teams messages
New and existing Teams DLP policies can be configured to automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.
ID: 85667 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Support of Live Caption for Teams on VDI for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
Teams users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.
ID: 85693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: List of the joined teams per user in Teams admin center
Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.
ID: 87969 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlining the submissions experience in Microsoft Defender for Office 365
We are updating the submissions experience to allow you to submit emails, URLs, and email attachments from one easy to use location.
ID: 88929 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Report a playback issue to Microsoft
This feature enables users with permissions to Microsoft Feedback to report technical issues to Microsoft on a video they’re playing and allows all users to access public help documentation about the video player from the same entry point.
ID: 88932 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Visio: Format Painter in Visio for the web
Copy the formatting from any source object on the canvas and apply it to the destination object with a single click.
ID: 53973 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Search: Custom filters on native verticals
New support for custom filters on native verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search by adding custom refiners.
ID: 57054 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Enabling Delay Delivery Plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users
To empower people with personal insights and recommendations in the flow of work to build better work habits, we are enabling Delay Delivery plan in Outlook to Microsoft Viva Insights licensed users in addition to the users with MyAnalytics (Full) service plan and Microsoft 365 E5 licensed users. (E5 is not required for Viva Insights licensed users.) Microsoft Viva Insights will show you suggestions for scheduling email deliveries that align with the recipient’s working hours in their respective time zones. The delay helps minimize disruptions to recipients outside their working hours.
ID: 82194 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Pin chat messages
Pin a Teams chat message to drive awareness and provide the chat members with quick access to important content. Pinning will help your team stay in sync on what’s relevant in a timely manner.
ID: 82584 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work from Home for Teams VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.
ID: 83555 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Press to unmute for GCC-High and DoD
Introducing the capability to allow meeting participants to temporarily unmute by pressing Ctrl + Space (Windows) and Option + Space (macOS) to speak.
ID: 83610 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Service usage for Message Center Posts
Message center posts will include monthly active users specific to the Microsoft 365 service change being communicated.
ID: 83946 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Visio: Commenting in your Visio for the web files to tag someone for feedback
This capability makes it easier to collaborate on shared diagrams by giving you the ability to get someone’s attention directly within the comments pane. If you are @mentioned in a Visio file, you’ll receive an email notification and link, pointing you to the place in the diagram where your input is needed.
ID: 85597 Tags: Visio – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Lists: Board View
View your list items in a board with swimlanes that represent their current progress.
ID: 85634 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Praise History in Microsoft Viva Insights
The Praise app in Microsoft Teams is designed to help recognize the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send Praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar for most users or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. With Praise history, users will be able to view their sent and received praise over the past six months.
ID: 85639 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Review activity summary
This new Communication Compliance report provides a comprehensive summary of all activities and actions that have occurred against a policy, such as date sent, date flagged, reviewed by, message reconciliation, etc. By providing visibility into policy review activity, organizations will be able to easily fulfill regulatory compliance obligations and can better track the status and progress for unresolved policy violations. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 85652 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – Citrix
This feature enables users on Virtual Machine to validate the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
ID: 86810 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Endpoint discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in GCC-H
Endpoint Discovery and Network Device Assessment Jobs for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enables organizations to discover and secure unmanaged endpoints. Once discovered integrated workflows can be used to secure the devices using Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management, threat detection and automated incident responses capabilities.
ID: 88539 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2022
SharePoint Syntex: Content center site design available in Look Book
A Syntex content center site design will be available for provisioning from the SharePoint look book online.
ID: 88705 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
SharePoint Syntex: Content assembly
Convert your existing docs into templates and generate new docs from list data or manual entries.
ID: 88717 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Visio: Self-service trials
Users can explore all the capabilities of Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 for free using the self-service trial experience to sign up for a trial plan.
ID: 88821 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Outlook: New Outlook for Mac becomes the recommended default
After a year as an opt-in preview, the new Outlook for Mac will become the recommended default experience for new and current customers. Customers will still be able to switch between the new and classic experience in the Help menu.
ID: 88850 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Enable search to add files or pages in Topic Pages
Editors can pin files or pages to a topic page by searching for it in the resource picker.
ID: 88852 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Visio: Enhanced context menus in Visio for the web
Quickly access relevant shape formatting options with additional content and enhancements made to the floating context menu that appears after right clicking on an object in your diagram.
ID: 88857 Tags: Visio – GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Meet now support for Teams Rooms on Windows
Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for Meet now experience to Teams desktop replacing New meeting control on the Teams room console with Meet (aka Meet now). With Meet, users can start an ad-hoc meeting with a single tap and invite participants to it. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes. With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality is moved under calling application.
ID: 89066 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Calling app update for Teams Rooms on Windows
Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for calling experience to Teams desktop replacing Dial pad control on the Teams room console with Call. Calling app provides users functionality to dial PSTN calls where available as well as enable entry point for P2P Teams calls, group Teams calls and P2P federated user calls. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes. With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality that was previously under New meeting button is moved under Call. For customers that use SIP URI calling through Skype for Business, Enter SIP URI entry point is available in Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business mode.
ID: 89069 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Project: Self-serve trials
Users can explore all the capabilities of Project Plan 1 or Project Plan 3 for free using the self-service trial experience to sign up for a trial plan.
ID: 90047 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Search: Semantic search
With intelligent, natural language search capabilities in Microsoft Search, you will experience improved search accuracy as the search engine can now understand intent and contextualize the meaning of the terms typed – leading to more relevant search results. This item is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished with an update in the future.
ID: 57063 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows in GCC-High
This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.
ID: 78700 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows for DoD
This feature is postponed and will be republished as soon as the timeline is defined. Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.
ID: 78701 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: January CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
