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Microsoft Intune iOS Web Enrollment update will allow organizations who use BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy to register users who own iOS devices. With this new update, users can easily enroll with Intune, install company apps and profiles, and use web browsers and corporate resources securely from their devices. Be on the lookout for the new update coming in July 2023.

In Development

Microsoft Intune: iOS Web enrollment

Apple’s device enrollment is the most common form of enrollment for BYO.  This has relied on our Company Portal app but that added extra auth prompts, app downloads, and steps.  Web Enrollment is our new streamlined BYO enrollment flow.  Leveraging JIT-registration, web enrollment is a fast and easy way for users to get productive securely.

ID: 109559 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Live People Card within Viva Goals

Users can now hover over icons of different users within Viva Goals to display their Live People Card.

ID: 117472 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Mobile Dashboard personalization

Now you can customize your Viva Connection Dashboard by adding, removing or reordering your dashboard cards.

ID: 117428 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge (U.S. Government clouds)

This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions, and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.

ID: 117574 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: QR code sign-in on Teams Displays for hotdesking

This feature helps hotdesking users sign-in quickly and securely into their Teams displays by scanning a QR code using their Teams mobile app on Android phones and iOS phones.

ID: 123153 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on certified Teams displays

Virtual front desk is a feature that enables IT admins to interact with and provide personalized assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on a Microsoft Teams display.

ID: 123154 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Reporting access and updated policy settings for Webinars in the Teams Admin Center

IT admins can access reports for webinars getting created within their tenant through the Teams Admin Center. There is a new policy setting to control the type of questions organizers can use in a registration form and an updated UX within the Teams Admin Center to configure event policy settings without Powershell.

ID: 124764 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Stream: new webpart

The updated Stream web part will ensure you can configure Stream videos inside your pages by supporting single and multiple videos from folders.

ID: 124800 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

SharePoint: News in Outlook

With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, we’re also adding 6 templates designed to look great in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number.

ID: 124803 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Highlight the keywords/phrases that contribute significantly to trainable classifier results, so that users can more easily understand the classification of the documents and use these insights to inform creation of DLP policies.

ID: 124815 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

SharePoint: Page sharing

With this feature, users can now share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like other Microsoft 365 files. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected.

ID: 124822 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: July CY2023

SharePoint: Video Pages

Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application.

ID: 124823 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2023

SharePoint: New SharePoint Start

New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics.

ID: 124824 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023

SharePoint: Advanced editing in Image web part

New advanced editing capabilities available in the Image web part will include adjustments, filters, and markup.

ID: 124825 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News.

The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages.

ID: 124827 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2023

SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization

We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages.

ID: 124838 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint

Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.? Use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with user needs. And all within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise.

ID: 124840 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2023

Microsoft SharePoint: Resource Specific Consent

Introduction of new .Selected permissions and APIs to support granting applications permissions at all of the levels where it is possible to break inheritance today. This will apply to applications operating in either delegated or app-only mode.

ID: 124842 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

SharePoint: Application Site Creation without Sites.FullControl.All

Currently an application requires Sites.FullControl.All to create new site collections within a tenant. This work will allow applications to use a new scope, Sites.Create.All, to create new site collections without accessing any existing content. During the site creation process the application can request access to the new site, allowing for provisioning scenarios with reduced tenant permissions.

ID: 124843 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2023

SharePoint Pages: Design Ideas

By integrating with the MSFT Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their sharepoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions.

ID: 124846 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2024

SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring

Design ideas will offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint Pages through tailored section level design suggestions.

ID: 124853 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2024

OneDrive: Access Lists, Forms, Sway & PowerBI content in OneDrive Web

We’re adding the capability to surface Lists, Forms, Sway and PowerBI content in the OneDrive Home, Shared and Favorites experiences within OneDrive Web.

ID: 124870 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2023

SharePoint: Change history in SharePoint admin center

Create and download change history reports in the SharePoint admin center to review SharePoint site property changes made within the last 180 days.

ID: 124872 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Stream: View video analytics in playback experience for government clouds

This feature will allow users to view analytics for videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint for which they have view permissions. The analytics are shown as an overlay during video playback and can be toggled on or off by selecting the ‘Analytics’ side pane. Users will be able to see stats showing the number of views and viewers for the last 90 days along with viewership retention which indicate the parts of the video that are most and least viewed.

ID: 124873 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review auto-approval (U.S. Government clouds)

Admins can enable automatic approval of items pending disposition if the reviewer doesn’t act within a specified number of days. Items will advance to the next stage of approval or auto-approved for deletion if in the final stage.

ID: 124880 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliance Manager – Salesforce & Zoom Connectors

Compliance Manager now integrates with Salesforce and Zoom, empowering customers to continuously monitor their compliance posture across their data estate.

ID: 124884 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Project: Goals in Project for the Web

Goals in Project allows you to define a set of objectives that your project is targeting, link these goals to tasks, and define goal properties such as priority and status.

ID: 124894 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Allowing registered attendees to bypass the lobby in Webinars

Organizers can set a new lobby policy so registered attendees will now automatically bypass the lobby when they join the webinar.

ID: 125881 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – ICS support

ICS is a file format that holds event and calendar information and enables users to share that information through email. With full ICS support in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to view local ICS files and import them to their calendar. This mimics the experience currently available in classic Outlook for Windows.

ID: 128028 Tags: Outlook – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Pages API

New graph API to create and manage SharePoint pages and news posts.

ID: 101166 Tags: Microsoft Graph, SharePoint – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user can report from shared/delegate mailbox

End users can report messages from online shared/delegate mailbox using in-built report buttons in Outlook on the Web.

ID: 115507 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser

With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.

ID: 106123 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Granularity in Viva Goals Permissions- New Tenant IT Admin role

Introducing an additional admin role with the Tenant level IT Admin who has the ability to administer Viva Goals, enable integrations, etc.

ID: 117469 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June 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 – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: May CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Search: Azure Cognitive Search results in Microsoft Search

[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] Azure Cognitive Search federation with Microsoft Search provides a cohesive search experience with Azure Cognitive Search to intelligently help business search user find, learn, operate, and navigate information enriched and indexed with Azure Cognitive Search.

ID: 81928 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes

[Updated April 20, 2023: We will not be rolling this feature to customers in GCC at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.] Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items.  Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in.  Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.

ID: 101509 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023