Play of the Week

Secure Score will soon be available for GCC and DoD environments. Secure score is a great tool for identifying benchmarks and assessing your tenant security posture. Through Defender for Cloud Apps, it will create a score, graphs, and a list of improvement actions based on what is implemented in your tenants. This feature will be rolling out in April 2023 to GCC moderate, GCC HIGH and DoD customers.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Attach cloud files in chat and channel from Teams Mobile

Introducing the ability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.

ID: 98327 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Manage Interests – Curate Interests for your tenant and tag content with interests

Admins can curate interest inventory for their tenant and tag content with the curated interests, enabling learners with personalized experience to pursue learning with these interests.

ID: 107778 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft 365 Defender: Secure Score for Government Clouds

Microsoft Secure Score will be available for GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD for assessments on the following Microsoft products: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identify, Defender for Cloud Apps and 3rd party applications (through Defender for Cloud Apps). GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD customers will be able to assess their security posture with Secure Score.

ID: 109579 Tags: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft 365 Defender: Secure Score for Government Clouds

Microsoft Secure Score will be available for GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD for assessments on the following Microsoft products: Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Identify, Defender for Cloud Apps and 3rd party applications (through Defender for Cloud Apps). GCC-H, GCC-M and DoD customers will be able to assess their security posture with Secure Score.

ID: 109579 Tags: Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence

Admins can access the file that resulted in the DLP restrictions with the DLP alert experience. This level of visibility will help analyze the amount of content that triggered the DLP violation, assess severity, and inform remediation.

ID: 109583 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Dashboard for Chat

This feature will update the existing chat details page to provide more information to users and help them easily find content shared in the chat.

ID: 114938 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration

We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.

ID: 117424 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Viva: EU Data Residency for Existing Viva Goals customers

Complete EU data residency compliance, migration and housing for existing EU customers.

ID: 117466 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Activity feed improvements for centrally published urgent tasks

We’re improving visibility for when a time-sensitive urgent task is published to a team. When an organization publishes a task with a priority set to “Urgent”, each member or owner of the team that receives this task will receive a notification in the Activity feed informing them that an urgent task was published to their team.

ID: 117573 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Teams App Usage reporting in M365 Adoption Score

Adoption Score in Microsoft 365 admin center now supports tracking for apps built in the Teams platforms. IT admins will have visibility into monthly/daily active user counts for first-party, third-party store, and third-party line of business applications.

ID: 117581 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Search video transcript for Stream (on SharePoint)

This feature allows users who are viewing a video to search for keywords contained in the video transcript. This feature is available on video files that have transcripts and are stored in OneDrive or SharePoint. Users can navigate through the search results and click on a portion of the transcript to be taken to the respective spot in the video. Users need view or edit permissions on a file to search the transcript. Note: This feature is for searching the transcript of a single video. Users also have the option to search the transcripts of all videos they have permissions to view using Microsoft 365 search.

ID: 117583 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Upload videos using the Stream mobile app

This feature will allow users of the Stream mobile app to upload videos from their mobile device to Stream (on SharePoint).

ID: 117584 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Lists: Applied Filters

As you add and adjust filters to narrow or expand what appears in the current list view, you’ll now see which filters have been applied. And you can remove them without going back into the column filter pane. You do this now in the top-left portion of the list.

ID: 117585 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Increased limits per label for disposition review and proof of disposition (U.S. government clouds)

This feature removes the per label 1,000,000 item limit for items pending disposition review and proof of disposition (reviewed) including record labels.  The tenant limit of 16,000,000 total items pending disposition and disposed still exists.

ID: 117593 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview Information Protection in Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps on the Web can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels

PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Web when the label is unencrypted.

ID: 117594 Tags: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Customize and edit emails for webinars

Customize and edit content for webinar emails including registration confirmation, reminder emails, cancellation notices, and more.

ID: 119391 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Easier Teams Meeting join for Cloud Video Interop (CVI) users

Cloud Video Interop (CVI) licensed users can join Teams meetings as a guest without CVI coordinates. The Teams platform enables all four certified CVI partners to offer customers the ability to quickly join a Teams meeting without requiring the CVI coordinates in the meeting invite.

ID: 120855 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Blue Jeans Meeting join in Teams Rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams Rooms customers can join Blue Jeans Meetings from Teams Rooms devices on Windows. See ‘More Info’ for instructions for third-party service interoperability.

ID: 121769 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Teams Rooms devices that are eligible for Windows 11, will receive the Windows 11 release. Devices that are not eligible, due to an incompatible processor, will continue on Windows 10 per hardware support policy.

ID: 122148 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email and associated entities hunting capabilities available through Microsoft Graph Security API

We are introducing email and associated entities hunting capabilities to the Microsoft Graph Security API. Email meta data like email properties (subject, sender, domain etc ), MDO detections, and related entities can now be hunt via the API.

ID: 122276 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store

Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store.

ID: 122300 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat

Provide a seamless client experience with an interactive lobby that allows facilitators to send messages to customers prior to the meeting.

ID: 122395 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Create offline meetings in Teams

Create a meeting in Teams and turn off the online toggle when setting up calendar events for personal appointments, lunch break slots and more. These offline events will not have chat thread or other Teams online meeting artifacts.

ID: 122483 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores

Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores.

ID: 122527 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New capability for users to share apps directly to chats or channels

This new feature will allow people to share apps from Teams app details page directly to chats or channels.

ID: 122536 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Appointment queue in GCC

Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

ID: 122559 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: May CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows and web – Language Sync for accounts

Users will have the option to enable language sync between their accounts and the new Outlook for Windows and web clients. The option can be found in Settings in those clients, once enabled it will sync the language a user has set in “MyAccount” with the Outlook clients mentioned. This means, the language that a user has set in “MyAccount” will start to be used in Outlook. This feature will be off by default and users can choose to opt-in.

ID: 122703 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to rename themselves

Teams meeting participants will be able to rename themselves in order to have flexible representation in different meetings, regardless of their tenant set display name.

ID: 122934 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Support apps in Channel Meetings

Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across a variety of scenarios.

ID: 81122 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: License Management in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams Admin Center for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)

With Microsoft’s license management solution for SaaS offers built by Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), customers can easily assign, use, and track SaaS licenses in Teams and Teams admin center. This also provides ISVs with a ready-to-use solution without the need to develop their own license management and enforcement system.

ID: 85418 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Pronouns available on the profile card

Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.

ID: 86382 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Support for Local Folders (On My Computer) in the New Outlook for Mac

Local data is saved in “On My Computer” folder in the navigation pane. The items in these folders are saved only on your computer and are not synchronized with a mail server. In the new Outlook for Mac, we are working to migrate and support the local folders.

ID: 88536 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Automatic lowering of a user’s Raised Hand after speaking

To reduce the number of stale raised hands in meetings, we will now suggest users to lower their raised hand after we detect they spoke in the meeting. They will be able to choose to keep their hand raised. If the user doesn’t take any action on the suggestion notification, we’ll automatically lower their hand. This should ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters.

ID: 90022 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Autosuggest location for Emergency location

Easily set your emergency location on Teams with location recommendations.

ID: 94692 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings

Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings.

ID: 97888 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Receive all group chat messages with resource-specific consent

The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions model, originally developed for Teams Graph APIs, is extended for chat and channel scope. Using RSC, you can now request team owners to consent for a bot to receive user messages across standard group chats without being @mentioned.

ID: 100883 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Outlook: Text predictions in Quick Reply on Android

Text predictions will be available in the quick reply experience as they have already been in full compose.

ID: 102147 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Yammer: Bulk community member import for Native Mode

Ability for Yammer community managers in Native Mode networks to bulk add members to their community using a CSV file.

ID: 103096 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC aggregate reports for enterprise

As part of the DMARC standard the owner of the domain can request reports about how receivers viewed their traffic which will help the domain owners adjust their sender authentication configurations so they can get to an actionable DMARC policy.  This feature will be available for all EOP customers.

ID: 109535 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips in government cloud

Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.

ID: 114155 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Alert for junk and not junk user report

With this change, Microsoft will start generating alerts when end user report an email message as junk or not junk.

ID: 115510 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams

Profile cards in Microsoft Teams will now surface insights and information such as birthdays, career changes, or pending meeting invites.

ID: 116006 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Designated Viva Goals Admin Center Console

Viva Goals IT Administrator will have an admin page that will enable them to enable/ disable integrations, configure organization permissions and manage organizations by granting admin access.

ID: 117475 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Search: People centric search in SharePoint and Office.com to GCC and GCC-H environments

People centric search is a pattern that lets you zoom in on a person to view, explore, and search the enterprise graph around them. This has the dual purpose of enabling you to find content through people, and to understand people through their content. When you pick a person, you will be able to search through their work; however this will only include items that you already have permissions to view or modify.

ID: 117556 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Invoke Content Camera on Desktop feature

Currently, users must turn on sharing from a content camera in Microsoft Teams via the Share tray on the Teams Meeting stage. Moving forward, users will be able to start and stop sharing content directly from a certified Teams device. This feature enables presenters to share a Whiteboard, document, or video more quickly during a meeting.

ID: 118587 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Reminder Emails for Webinars

Reminder emails are automatically sent one hour ahead of a webinar to all registered attendees.

ID: 122505 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Express yourself in Teams meeting for DoD

In addition to virtually raising your hand in a Teams meeting, you can express yourself using emojis that will appear to all participants to help make Teams meetings more inclusive, engaging, and fun.

ID: 83251 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript in all available languages in Teams Meetings on Web

Live Transcript is now available in all available languages for web users of Teams Meetings.

ID: 84003 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users

IT admins can now disable chat write access at the policy level for non-federated users and unauthenticated users who join Teams meetings through a link that must be used in conjunction with disabled meeting chat policy to provide additional security against data exfiltration.

ID: 91142 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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 – GCC High, GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Bots and Message Extensions in DOD

DOD customers are able to build and deploy Bots and Message Extensions in their Microsoft Teams environment. This release supports custom, line-of-business bots.

ID: 96076 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation

Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation will be tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.

ID: 98394 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Exchange: Test-Message Cmdlet

Last year we disabled the test-message cmdlet for further enhancements. We are happy to announce that we are introducing the new and improved test-message cmdlet for external use. With this cmdlet, tenant admins can now independently investigate issues related to the execution of their Exchange Transport Rules (ETR) without engaging Microsoft support for assistance in investigation.

ID: 100494 Tags: Exchange – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Project: Advanced Dependencies

Set non-default dependencies between tasks, such as Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish and Start-to-Finish dependencies.

ID: 101151 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements

The updated Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar makes navigating meetings and discovering new features and capabilities easier than ever, including the ability to seamlessly switch between views and menu options.

ID: 102065 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2023

SharePoint: External File Request in SharePoint Document Library

With the file request feature in SharePoint Document Library, you can choose a folder where others can upload files using a link that you send them. People you request files from can only upload files; they can’t see the content of the folder, edit, delete, or download files, or even see who else has uploaded files.

ID: 103625 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support for Co-organizer to manage Breakout Rooms

Co-organizers can create, manage and move between Breakout Rooms like meeting Organizers.

ID: 105014 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: January CY2023

Bookings: Availability for G1 customers

With this update, US government customers with G1 licenses will be able to use Microsoft Bookings.

ID: 109550 Tags: Exchange, Bookings – GCC Release: March CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Activations Graph API Set Releasing for User Detail, Activation, and User Counts in Usage Reports

We are updating Activations in Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports, adding a new graph API set for users to get user detail, activation, and user counts.

ID: 115483 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: New Active Users Graph API Set Releasing for User Detail, User Counts, and Services User Counts for Usage Reports in GCC High/DoD

We are adding a new Graph API set in Microsoft 365 admin center usage reports for active users to get user detail, user counts, and services user counts.

ID: 115486 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms for DoD and GCC High

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

ID: 115504 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Feed on Microsoft 365 Edge New Tab Page

We are rolling out a new experience to the Microsoft 365 tab of the Edge Enterprise New Tab Page. This experience will feature a new layout that centers on a larger version of the Microsoft Feed, featuring more productivity content, and moves the productivity cards including Important Emails, Recent SharePoint sites, Upcoming events, and To Do to the right-hand side.

ID: 117367 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

SharePoint: Review recent SharePoint site actions in admin center

Review the most recent site changes you made from the SharePoint admin center in the last 30 days.

ID: 117553 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2023

Canceled

Outlook: Frontline worker Audience targeting using Job code, location and department

Capability for frontline worker communicators to identify target audience by using Location, Job Code and Department in Outlook.  This feature has been cancelled and will be removed from the roadmap.

ID: 100969 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments App

[This is a duplicate of 98188 and is being removed.] Provides a single location where professionals and administrators can create and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.

ID: 103195 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments calendar level analytics

[This is a duplicate of 98188 and is being removed.] Individuals and departments can drive business outcomes and improve customer experience by focusing on key metrics, such as length of appointments, wait times, and number of attendees. The report includes trends over time and the ability to drill down into individual appointment data.

ID: 103196 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Support for Customer Key (U.S. Government clouds)

[This feature is postponed indefinitely.] Given the sensitivity of Audit log data, many organizations want to add additional layers of protection, including encryption. Microsoft Purview Customer Key allows organizations to use their own keys giving them control over their encryption. With this update, admins will have the ability to encrypt their Audit log data using Customer Key.

ID: 106097 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2023