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Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal will now include Information Protection Smart Alerts and Alert Spotlighting for admins. This new update provides admins with timely notifications of suspicious activities and quickly identifies high-priority alerts. Be on the lookout for this powerful tool update coming in April 2023.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
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 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April 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: 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 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: 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 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 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 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 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 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April 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 – GCC, GCC High, 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 Viva: Feature Access Management
Admins will have the ability to enable or disable designated Viva Engage features for specific users through the M365 admin center.
ID: 117504 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September 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, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February 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 Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)
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: 117531 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August 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, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD 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
Microsoft Viva: Add to Calendar
Add to Calendar feature will help the learners block learning time in their calendar to take up any course at their preferred time.
ID: 118670 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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: Search relevance improvements in Viva Learning
Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests.
ID: 118965 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Support Breakout Rooms on VDI
Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.
ID: 119698 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD 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: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Topic discovery analytics to show sites processed
This update will provide transparency on topic discovery through analytics, by showing Sites processed for discovery counts in the Microsoft Admin Center.
ID: 100060 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Outlook: Better messaging and options when a user runs out of email storage
Now there is clearer messaging and cleanup options when you run out of email storage.
ID: 100699 Tags: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced flyout design for app engagement and discovery
Enhanced visual layout helps you quickly launch apps that you have as well as discover new ones to help you complete your day-to-day tasks in Teams.
ID: 110710 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Project: Increased number of tasks in Project for the web
Create up to 1,000 tasks within a project to take on big projects.
ID: 100495 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: Universal Annotations
Collaborate with others by highlighting and inking on files without changing the underlying document. Licensed Syntex users will be able to create and view universal annotations.
ID: 103608 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February 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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
