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Microsoft Teams: Chat with External Users in Group Chats
With this feature users can create group chats that include people external to their organization using Teams (requires all users to have external access capabilities enabled).
ID: 51126 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Word, Excel, PowerPoint for Business: Recommended files in Office
Microsoft Office displays a list of recommended files on the File tab, or start page, of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on Windows. This list allows you to keep track of work around you and quickly access files with activity you value most such as edits, mentions, comments by people you interact with. This feature uses machine learning to predict which files you’re most likely to want to work on next and presents those as a set of cards you can choose from. Only files that you have access to in OneDrive or SharePoint are suggested. For each recommended file you’ll see a card with a thumbnail of the file, information about what kind of activity has been happening with that file, and when that activity occurred.
ID: 72233 Tags: Excel, PowerPoint, Word – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: New guide with scripts and tools for Microsoft Edge IE mode and site discovery
Enterprise Site Discovery provides a way for you to detect which of your users’ frequently visited sites need to use Internet Explorer mode (IE mode) in Microsoft Edge. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll get scripts to automate configuration of Enterprise Site Discovery, get IE mode recommendations from a cloud-based tool, and create an Enterprise Mode Site List that you’ll deploy to your users.
ID: 72236 Tags: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Reading Progress in Teams for Education – reading practice and review software
Reading Progress is a reading practice and fluency experience that is part of Microsoft Teams for Education Assignments. Reading Progress saves teachers time in capturing audio/video reading fluency practice and helps students practice reading out loud independently in a private and non-stigmazating way. Reading Progress also provides insights and analytics to educators.
ID: 72240 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Power Automate templates to be added to teams templates
Team templates enable end users to create the right team with predefined channels and preinstalled apps. Select Microsoft provided team templates will include a new Power Automate tab. In the tab, you can find a variety of Power Automate flow templates that support the template type.
ID: 81090 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript in unscheduled Teams meetings
Now unscheduled/ad hoc Teams Meetings are supported by Live Transcript.
ID: 81808 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live Transcript in Channels Teams Meetings
Channel meetings in Teams are now supported by Live Transcript.
ID: 81809 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2021
Outlook: Floor Plans for workspace booking in mobile devices
Add floor plans to your reserved workspaces so users can easily see where a workspace is located. To add floor plans, in the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to Answers, and then select Floor plans.
ID: 81950 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Search: Custom result types in Microsoft Search
New support for custom result types allows you to create result types with modern display templates with adaptive cards for SharePoint content for SharePoint home and sites, Office.com and Bing.com.
ID: 81952 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
OneDrive and SharePoint for Business: Immersive Reader support in OneDrive and SharePoint
Users can now open Word files directly into Immersive Reader from inside OneDrive and SharePoint.
ID: 81954 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
SharePoint and OneDrive for Business: Share dialog : adding Link settings to the quick permissions
We are making link settings more discoverable by adding it to the quick permissions inside the OneDrive Share Dialog.
ID: 81958 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Exchange: Online – Tag for external email
Exchange will make available a PowerShell cmdlet so that admins can enable the protections against spam & phishing threats from external senders. This will be achieved by presenting a new tag on emails called “External” in the message list in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook for Mac, Outlook for iOS and Android. In some Outlook clients, a “mail tip” will be included at the top of the reading pane with sender’s email address.
ID: 81961 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Lists: Export Microsoft Lists to Excel
Export Microsoft Lists to Excel, to work with the data in a spreadsheet. You’ll now have the option to open the list as an Excel Workbook or CSV file – giving you the ability to analyze your data in Excel no matter your OS platform – Windows or macOS.
ID: 81962 Tags: – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Retention for Teams
Admins will be able to apply retention and deletion policies to Teams chats and conversations.
ID: 81963 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Ability to delete a record label
With the update, you will be able to delete unused record labels within the Microsoft 365 Records Management solution.
ID: 81964 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Outlook: Update on how feedback is submitted
We are updating how and where feedback is submitted inside Outlook. Feedback can still be submitted from inside Outlook, but you will notice changes in the submission process.
ID: 81967 Tags: Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online for DoD
Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
ID: 81969 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Communication Compliance Sensitive information types per location report
Review and export the sensitive information types detected in all your Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft communication channels currently scoped into your Communication Compliance policies.
ID: 81970 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Communication Compliance discrimination classifier
The Discrimination classifier aims to detect and triage explicit discriminatory language.
ID: 81971 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Communication Compliance cross tenant classifier feedback
Cross tenant feedback enables customers to provide feedback on messages that were misclassified (such as false positives) by a Communication Compliance policy leveraging any of the classifiers.
ID: 81972 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Group Assignments
With the new group assignment feature you can organize your students into groups so they can work together to create, collaborate and submit the same work – like a Whiteboard file or Word document. Each student in the group gets the credit and recognition for having turned in their work.
ID: 82017 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Apps in Assignments
Educators and students rely on a variety of tools to support learning. With this new feature, educators can include links to content from other learning and resource tools directly into a Teams assignment.
ID: 82019 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Whiteboard integration with Assignments
Digital whiteboards give educators and students a canvas to spark creativity and collaboration. Now, educators can include a Whiteboard as reference material or the content type of a Teams assignment.
ID: 82020 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: July CY2021
Yammer: Discover communities in Communities app for Microsoft Teams
Browse, discover, and join communities around your Yammer network directly in the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams on the web, desktop, or mobile.
ID: 82242 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Present slides from PowerPoint app
Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams.
ID: 82712 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Together Mode for VDI
Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.
ID: 82998 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Apps in Meeting Chats with External Users
We will now support apps added by native users (hosts) in meeting chats with external users (users from other domains).
ID: 83094 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Excel: Search values within Data Validation dropdown list
When using a Data Validation dropdown list, now you can start typing the value you’re looking for, and Excel will search & suggest to auto complete it for you.
ID: 83140 Tags: Excel – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Android On-Demand Chat Translation
Inline message translation will ensure that every worker in the team has a voice and facilitate global collaboration. With a simple click, people who speak different languages can fluidly communicate with one another by translating posts in channels and chat. This feature will now be available on Android.
ID: 63226 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
OneDrive: Sync admin reports (Public Preview)
New dashboard to check sync app versions, sync status, top sync errors on individual devices and monitor deployment progress of Known Folder Move.
ID: 65909 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic view
Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side.
ID: 65943 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Exchange: Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval for Exchange Online
We’re introducing the ability for email admins to customize the message expiration timeout interval to less than 24 hours.
ID: 68839 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC Release: June CY2021
Exchange: Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection
This update will give admins the ability to customize the various thresholds and the reply block duration for their organization in regards to a reply-all storm. Additionally, we will provide insights and reports in the modern Exchange admin center for detected reply-all storms and, information about the blocked replies.
ID: 68840 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance Teams conversation context
Provide the ability to retrieve additional conversation context for Microsoft Teams messages that has matched a Communication Compliance policy. This feature will help an investigator make a more informed decision of remediation actions to take next.
ID: 68872 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Large gallery view and Together Mode for web meetings in Edge and Chrome browsers
User can change layout to Together mode or Large gallery during a meeting in Edge or Chrome browsers.
ID: 70573 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics for GCC-High and DoD
Data classification capabilities in Microsoft 365 compliance center help you get a holistic understanding of the sensitive data in your digital estate and related user activities. Overview shows you the locations of your digital content and most common sensitive information types and labels present. Content Explorer provides visibility into amount and types of sensitive data, and allows you to filter by label or sensitivity type to get a detailed view of locations where the sensitive data is stored. Activity Explorer shows activities related to your sensitive data and labels, such as label downgrades or external sharing that could expose your content to risk.
ID: 70666 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High Release: May CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: New Advanced eDiscovery solution for DoD
The Advanced eDiscovery solution in Microsoft 365 builds on the existing eDiscovery and analytics capabilities in Office 365. This new solution, called Advanced eDiscovery, provides a workflow to identify, preserve, collect, review, analyze, and export content that’s responsive to your organization’s internal and external investigations. It also lets legal teams manage the entire legal hold notification workflow to communicate with custodians involved in a case.
ID: 70807 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: May CY2021
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Visualize with Power BI
Visualize your list in Power BI. This is a new view and author experience that auto-generates an initial report for you based on the information in your list. You can specify fields to create from, or update the visuals shown in the report. If you want more advanced report authoring capabilities, you can move into Edit mode and further refine. To create a report from a list, click the Integrate menu, choose Power BI and then you will see “Visualize the list”.
ID: 72175 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Germany, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Outlook: Updates to attachments in received mail
We are consolidating the options to manage a received file under a single dropdownmenu similar to Outlook for Windows and Mac. For customers with OneDrive enabled, we are adding the ability to directly edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in the corresponding desktop or web app.
ID: 72212 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Outlook: Admin-set organization logos in Outlook for iOS and Android
Admins can set an organization logo through Azure Active Directory, and users will see this logo in certain multi-account scenarios to better differentiate between work and personal mail.
ID: 72214 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention for Microsoft Teams for DoD
Data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities in Microsoft 365 government clouds will be extended to include Microsoft Teams chat and channel messages, including private channel messages. If your organization has DLP, you can now define policies that prevent people from sharing sensitive information in a Microsoft Teams channel or chat session.
ID: 80375 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Users can now search in meeting participants from the roster
From the search box in the roster, users can now search in meeting participants. They can continue to search for participants outside the meeting and request them to join the meeting.
ID: 80421 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Supervised chat
Use Teams administrative policy to ensure students are supervised by an educator during private 1:1 or group chats. With Supervised Chat, students will not be allowed to engage in chats without a supervising educator present.
ID: 81359 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Distribute Assignments to more students: from 200 to 300
With this update educators will be able to distribute assignments to up to 300 students.
ID: 82021 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: June CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Lens integration with Assignments
With the Lens integration into Assignments, students will be able to directly include images of their physical work as part of submitting their assignment. In addition, students will be able to crop and rotate their work to help with educator readability.
ID: 82022 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: May CY2021
M365 Admin center: Translator service for the Service Health Dashboard
The new translator toggle in the service health dashboard page translates the content of Incidents and advisories to the language selected by user.
ID: 82267 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Double Key Encryption for government clouds
Coming soon to government clouds, Double Key Encryption from Microsoft allows you to protect your highly sensitive data while maintaining full control of your key. You can protect your data with two keys – your Azure key and your key in the Double Key Encryption service.
ID: 67105 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2020
Outlook for Windows: Intelligent based translations
Communicate across languages with new translation features, which allow you to translate full messages or specific words and phrases.
ID: 69305 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021
Microsoft Lists for iOS: iPad support
Microsoft is expanding device support on iOS to now include iPad. Microsoft Lists for iOS looks great on iPhone and iPad, scaling the user-friendly user interface to give you the best access to create, edit and share your information from your iOS device.
ID: 70748 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Germany, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Lists: iOS Intune support (MAM CA)
Microsoft is currently working on getting the Lists app for iOS into the Intune console, for Mobile App Management (MAM) policies. Learn more how to enable Intune app protection policies (APP) with Microsoft Lists; : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/intune-customer-success/support-tip-how-to-enable-intune-app-protection-policies-app/ba-p/2100061.
ID: 70752 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Germany, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Compliance Center: Communication Compliance for DoD
Communication Compliance is an insider risk solution in Microsoft 365 that helps minimize communication risks by helping you detect, capture, and act on inappropriate messages in your organization.
ID: 72204 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New Teams Live Events eCDN – Ramp
We will be enabling a new eCDN provider, Ramp, for live events. You will be able to use this new eCDN for your live events needs.
ID: 80825 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Timer, Room Retention, and Participant Reassignment
Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the main meeting. Room assignment retention provides the ability to persist room configuration and assignment over multiple sessions. With participant reassignment capability, organizer will now be able to move joined participants across rooms and main meeting also when rooms are opened.
ID: 81372 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Speaker Attribution for Live Captions for GCC
Teams Meetings in GCC clouds will now have live captions utterances attributed to the speaker of the utterance.
ID: 82849 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2021
Outlook on the Web: Option to show declined events
Update 3/17: We’ve paused development on this feature until the summer. Outlook is adding an option to allow the user to show in their calendars the events they have declined.
ID: 30676 Tags: Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
