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Microsoft Defender for IoT will be adding capabilities to discover and perform security monitoring for enterprise IoT devices. Additionally, Microsoft Defender for IoT will be added to Microsoft SIEM and XDR offering allowing Defenders to secure IoT devices using the tools they already know.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Multitasking panel for meetings on iPad

Optimized user experience for iPad. Users will now see a collapsible right panel during meetings, which enables richer experiences such as chat alongside the ongoing meeting, faster roster views and more.
ID: 86923 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Priva for U.S. Government clouds

Microsoft Priva will be generally available to GCC, GCC High, and DoD customers. Currently, Microsoft Priva provides two products: Priva Privacy Risk Management helps organizations build a privacy-resilient workplace by identifying personal data and critical privacy risks around it, automating risk mitigation to prevent privacy incidents, and empowering employees to make smart data handling decisions. Priva Subject Rights Requests helps organizations manage requests at scale with the ability to automate data discovery and conflict detection, collaborate in a secure and efficient way, review and redact files in their native views, and integrate with in-house or partner-built privacy solutions.
ID: 93263 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention – Document Fingerprinting support for additional workloads

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.
ID: 93280 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | New cmdlet for exporting Activity Explorer logs

Export feature of Activity Explorer has limitation of 10,000 rows. Our new feature will allow users to use cmdlet and export all the rows for all the data up to 30 days.
ID: 93281 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Auditing and Analytics in Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac (DoD)

Outlook for iOS, Android, and Mac will send user label activity data to the Audit Log and Activity Explorer (depending on licensing configuration) for admins to search and review.
ID: 93282 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD Release: May CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists Calendar view item drag and drop

List items can be rescheduled by dragging and dropping them from one day to another while within a Calendar view, or by pulling an item from the ‘Unscheduled’ pane that appears on the right within Calendar view.
ID: 93285 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match to support eDiscovery search queries

Organizations will be able to include Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs) when searching for sensitive data using the eDiscovery search tools.
ID: 93286 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match to support Insider Risk Management

Organizations will be able to configure new or existing Insider Risk Management policies using Exact Data Match Sensitive Information Types, enabling more assertive control in specifying policies to identify risk indicators. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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: 93287 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Yammer: New Yammer as the only option for non-admin users

All users will only have access to the new Yammer experience, and the toggle for classic Yammer will be removed. Admins can still switch to the classic Yammer experience via a new toggle in the Yammer admin settings.
ID: 93288 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022

Microsoft 365 Defender: Enterprise IoT Support (VoIP devices, printers, cameras, smart TVs, digital assistants, etc.)

Microsoft Defender for IoT will be adding capabilities to discover and perform security monitoring for enterprise IoT devices (e.g., VoIP devices, printers, cameras, smart TVs, digital assistants, etc.). Additionally, Microsoft Defender for IoT will be updated to be part of the Microsoft SIEM and XDR offering enabling Defenders to easily secure IoT devices using the tools they already know.
ID: 93289 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022

SharePoint: Updated site logo management

With this update, we’re simplifying where you go to manage the site logo by centralizing it in Settings in the Change the Look panel, grouped with the Header options.
ID: 93290 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account Protection for Government clouds

We’re extending Priority Account Protection to cover customers in government clouds. With Priority Account Protection in Defender for Office 365, security teams can now prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization, offer them differentiated protection and thwart costly breaches in the process. These Priority account tags and filters will surface throughout the product, including in alerts, Threat Explorer, Campaign Views, and reports.
ID: 93291 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Outlook: Advanced Room Finder with filters for Government clouds

Adding an Advanced Room browse functionality with filters for Building/Room List, type, capacity, floor, and features replacing existing Room Finder add-in in meeting form for Government clouds.
ID: 93293 Tags: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Stream web app

The Stream web app improves how you view and publish video and audio files that are uploaded to Teams, Yammer, OneDrive, and SharePoint. The app and player experience works seamlessly with Office.com and brings key features of Stream (classic) into SharePoint. You can easily prepare your video for publishing with a title and description right under the video, set the custom thumbnail, add chapters, generate a transcript, share videos, and even share your video at a specific time code. Office.com and Share links to video and audio files across Microsoft 365 will get this updated experience automatically replacing the previous player page.
ID: 93294 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022

Universal Print: Universal Print available for Azure tenants that reside in India

This will make Universal Print service available to Azure tenants in India. Universal Print is available in most other geographies since March 2021.
ID: 93296 Tags: Universal Print, Windows – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Yammer: Enhancements to Yammer’s interactive email notifications

Enhancements to Yammer’s email notifications meta-data, such as the name of the sender, for a more efficient email triage.
ID: 93297 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Advanced Metadata Search supports new column types: multiline text and taxonomy

End users will be able to add the queriable multiline text and taxonomy columns from their library into the advanced metadata search.
ID: 93299 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Automatic groupings available in Teams for channel posts

When creating a message post in a team channel, users will be able to notify owners of the team all at once by mentioning “@Team Owners”, removing the need to mention each Team Owners individually. “Team Owners” is automatically grouped and does not require any manual maintenance.
ID: 94118 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: DocuSign recipients can now sign, view and cc in e-signature approvals

DocuSign users can now select sign, view and cc when creating new e-sign approval requests.  Recipients with the viewer role must view the document while the CC role allows the recipient to view it if they choose to.
ID: 94858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Improved login & logout experience for e-signature approvals

Users will only have to sign into their e-sign provider account once every 30 days.  They will also be able to logout of a particular e-sign provider account.
ID: 94872 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window support for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365

Users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.
ID: 86548 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – VMware

This feature enables users on VMware on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders. This feature has been delayed to incorporate initial feedback.
ID: 86858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Users on Virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. Live transcripts provide way to follow along with what has been said and who said it. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
ID: 87571 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: June CY2022

PowerPoint: Organization Fonts in PowerPoint for web

This feature will allow organizations to add their custom fonts into PowerPoint.
ID: 88538 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Yammer: Support for Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security)

Yammer supports Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (formerly Microsoft Cloud App Security). Users are properly routed to their intended target destination after authentication via Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.
ID: 88889 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Policy operations details in enhanced activity log

Admins can see group policy assignments in activity log along with other policy operations. Activity log has now enhanced details regarding a policy operation to give admins more visibility.
ID: 90712 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Background Blur for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365

Users on Teams on VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop/Windows 365 can blur their background in your video meeting and call.
ID: 92505 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022

Launched

Excel: Run your Office scripts from a workbook button now on Windows

Previously, Office scripts could be run via buttons by everyone with access to the workbook in Excel on the web. Now, you can run that same button on your windows client.
ID: 88842 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: Use taxonomy term set or term as input source in placeholders for modern templates

You can associate pre-defined term sets or terms as an input source to the placeholders you create in modern templates. When users fill the placeholder for creating a document from the template, you can only choose values from the configured term set for that placeholder.
ID: 88938 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Outlook: Suggested replies expansion to Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish languages

Outlook on the web, iOS, and Android are extending support for suggested replies to include the following languages: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish.
ID: 88992 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Additional classifier language support

To expand the ability to detect policy violations in communications beyond English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, Communication Compliance built-in classifiers (threat, harassment, and profanity) now support these additional four languages: Arabic, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese Traditional. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 88995 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022

Microsoft Project: Guest users in Project for the web

Add guest users to your projects to allow them to view project information.
ID: 91686 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End User Quarantine Notification for High confidence phish mail

We will begin supporting high confidence phish mails in user quarantine notification. Previously, High confidence phished mails were only supported in the quarantine portal for users. with this new capability, we will also trigger quarantine notification for high confidence phish items as well.
ID: 93198 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022

Canceled