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Microsoft will be introducing a new ability in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Soon, DLP administrators will be able to clone and edit existing policies, instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This enhancement will significantly reduce manual effort for admins and boost their productivity. The feature is expected to roll out in May 2024.
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Microsoft Teams: Automatic application updates for new Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows devices
In the quest to deliver low-friction deployment and proactive management for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows app now automatically checks for, and installs, new application and Windows updates during the initial setup process, ensuring devices are protected and up to date on day one.
ID: 120405 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Windows and Android (GCC)
GCC customers can now use Remote Help on Windows and Android devices.
ID: 364029 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint
Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint.
ID: 365059 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium)
Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen.
ID: 381447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint
This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text.
ID: 381750 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator
Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.
ID: 382106 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular trigger throttling
With this update, we are introducing more granular trigger throttling limits to isolate the impact of a surge in noisy trigger volumes and prevent other policies from being affected. This ensures that organizations can receive critical alerts without being throttled by these limits. By default, the throttling limits will be applied as follows: All sensitive triggers, including HR signals, Azure AD leavers, and custom triggers, will be limited to 15,000 per day per trigger. All other triggers will be limited to 5,000 per day per trigger. Additionally, the policy health warning messages will be enhanced to assist admins with appropriate permissions in identifying and addressing noisy triggers effectively. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 382130 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot assisted check-ins for Viva Goals
Unleash the potential of Copilot and effortlessly generate draft check-ins for your OKRs by synthesizing progress, status, and check-in details from associated child items tailored to your preferences through a selection of dynamic check-in templates.
ID: 383009 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – M365 Chat Plugin
M365 Copilot Plugin for Viva Goals empowers you to effortlessly search and pull quick summaries of your team’s OKRs right within Teams. Stay ahead of the game by identifying key risks based on the progress and status of your team’s OKRs, all seamlessly integrated into the flow of work. Unleash the potential of combining Viva Goals data with M365 information, providing your team with a holistic view for improved productivity and collaboration.
ID: 383012 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk insights in DLP alerts
With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 383014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Stream: New Stream app in Teams chat/channel’s tab
The Stream app that is accessed from the chat/channels ‘+’ icon to add a tab will be updated with the new Stream (on SharePoint) experience that will enable users to pin and watch a video or playlist from new Stream.
ID: 383531 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Outlook: Updated work hours and location experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web
This update brings a new look with the daily peek: click on your work location icon at the top of your calendar to change your work location, view who else will be in the office, or receive suggestions to help optimize your work day. This feature will come to the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Your work location will reflect across Microsoft 365, such as in Teams and your profile card. You can also update your location from Teams which will stay in sync with Outlook. We are also introducing a new location type, out-of-office, which will automatically sync with your out-of-office calendar appointments. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 383721 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience
Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings.
ID: 383726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Support multitenancy organization via cross tenant sync
Enables one instance of Viva Glint to be used by employees in multiple M365 tenants
ID: 383731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100
Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location.
ID: 383743 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery premium: Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content
Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.
ID: 383748 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Search: Content source filters in Microsoft Search
Users can filter results by content source in the All vertical in Microsoft Search in microsoft365.com, SharePoint Home, and Bing @ Work. This feature will be available for all tenants with multiple sources configured in Microsoft Search (such as Power BI, Viva Learning, and third-party sources indexed via Microsoft Graph Connectors).
ID: 383953 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels
If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly.
ID: 384065 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs
Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors.
ID: 384067 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – New enhancements in Workday integration
Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday.
ID: 384068 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Trainable Classifiers in Server Side Auto-labeling
Trainable Classifiers are now available for server side auto-labeling policies in exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint. In addition to the 15 Classifiers that are already available, we have now launched 23 more Trainable Classifier to detect sensitive content such as IP and Trade Secrets, sensitive documents pertaining to important business functions such as Finance, Sales, HR, and Material Non Public Information.
ID: 384094 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: Mobile – In-app Contact Editor
This update implements a new contact editor experience, replacing the use of the native device experience. This gives users the ability to create and edit their contacts with a 1st Party form in Outlook mobile.
ID: 384869 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Updates to Settings pages on privacy, security, search, & services
To improve ease of use, we are updating Edge settings page into two sections: ‘Privacy and Security’ and ‘Search and Services.’ This streamlined approach should enable users to find the settings they are interested in more easily.
ID: 384870 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report
Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.
ID: 384871 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to Copy Rule
With this feature, admins will have capability to reuse existing rules and make slight edits instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This will reduce a lot of manual re-work and boost their productivity.
ID: 384872 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search
Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot.
ID: 385352 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Archive channels
With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.
ID: 123769 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa
This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client.These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).
ID: 167326 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
OneDrive: Performance improvements
This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service.
ID: 168616 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
OneDrive: Offline mode
This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored.
ID: 168618 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web
The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action. OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space.
ID: 168619 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in Android applications 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 Android applications when the label is unencrypted.
ID: 363449 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in iOS applications 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 iOS applications when the label is unencrypted.
ID: 363454 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Information Protection, Excel, Word, PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels
We’ve integrated Walkie Talkie in Teams with the dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on specialized headsets to instantly brings up walkie talkie for clear and secure voice communication. In addition to select specialized headsets, Walkie Talkie in Teams will now work with any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headsets on Android. As long as the generic headsets have a control button to play/pause or to accept/decline calls, frontline workers can tap the button to start and stop transmissions on walkie talkie.
ID: 369470 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium)
When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background.
ID: 371690 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Tags in Shared Channels
Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people within shared channels.
ID: 373555 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Teams Meeting Chat from Outlook
This feature provides an easy Teams chat experience from Outlook in the context of a meeting for participants to send a quick message or review the chat.
ID: 98130 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for external benchmark consent
Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks.
ID: 163980 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks
Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports
ID: 163981 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments
Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers.
ID: 184497 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Project: Additional capabilities for Microsoft 365 users in Microsoft Project for the web
Currently, users with Microsoft 365 licenses can view projects shared with them by users of Microsoft Project for the web. This update will enable Microsoft 365 users to collaborate more seamlessly with Project users by editing shared projects. The added capabilities enable Microsoft 365 users to access any functionality where Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project for the web overlap. Note: This feature is specific to projects that are created within the default environment, such as by using project.microsoft.com.
ID: 186228 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Outlook: Coaching by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows
Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message.
ID: 190927 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Edge: v. 122 Moving Managed Site Indicator (Briefcase icon) into the lock icon in the address bar omnibox
The briefcase icon which signals that a page is managed, has been moved into the lock icon within the address bar. If an admin would like to see whether there are protections for a given page, they can click to open the lock icon in the address bar to look for the briefcase icon.
ID: 381451 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Data residency commitments
New commitments covering stored content of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added to existing data residency commitments for Microsoft 365. The commitments will be available for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers through Microsoft Product Terms and data residency product offerings, including the Advanced Data Residency (“ADR”) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons.
ID: 382931 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
