Play of the Week
Bring your kids…bring your whole family to this special session full of “News You Can Use” as a public service from Microsoft 365 Meetup for Government and Wizer. There’s never a bad time to learn about or be reminded of cybersecurity techniques and strategies to protect your kids and keep your whole family safe. However, Summer break leaves a lot of free time and opportunity for kids and the “bad guys” to be online and using technology. Join Gabriel Friedlaner, Wizer, CEO and Planet Technologies’ CTO, Andrew Kagan, for an evening of information to keep the hackers at bay this Summer so you and your family can enjoy your time together both on and offline. This session is especially geared for families to watch together and learn the importance of cyber security at any age, and prepare to be extra vigilant during the summer months!
- How to Prevent Getting Hacked on Social Media and Messenger Apps
- The Cyber Risks in Online Gaming
- Cyberbullying and Online Predators
- Privacy Online
- And, More…
Presenter: Gabriel Friedlander – CEO, Wizer
Moderator: Andrew Kagan – CTO, Planet Technologies
Register for Meetup Here: Protecting Your Kids and Keeping Your Family Cybersafe this Summer, Tue, May 31, 2022, 5:00 PM | Meetup
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Annotation on presenter shared screen
Presenters are able to start collaborative annotation for all participants or just the presenter to annotate on shared screen content.
ID: 86732 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: June CY2022
Outlook: Integration with other Microsoft 365 apps
We are adding a way for users to quickly access To Do, Org Explorer, Yammer Communities, and Bookings directly inside Outlook. You can also customize this experience by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps.
ID: 88968 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Sentiment Insights per topic available to IT Administrators
The sentiment per topic feature in the NPS survey insight dashboard will help IT admins like you to obtain actionable sentiment insights per specific topics derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.
ID: 90493 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Channel owner/s can delete meeting chat messages within channel meetings for government clouds
An IT admin can turn on “owners can delete sent messages” and assign this messaging policy to a user or group of users. This policy must be applied before channel owner/s can see “owners can delete sent messages” option on Member Permissions through Manage Team – Settings. If this option is enabled, channel owner/s who were assigned the policy will be permitted to delete chat messages in the main window and meeting window.
ID: 91320 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds
Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.
ID: 92937 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Viva: First run experiences to introduce topic highlights in SharePoint pages and topic page editing
First Run Experiences for a user’s first encounter with topics and contribution. Visual cues appear to teach users how to interact with the topic highlights on SharePoint pages, how to edit and publish a topic page, and how to reference a topic using topic picker while authoring a SharePoint page.
ID: 93215 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Configurable impersonation protection sender and domain lists and scoping in Preset Security policy
We’re adding capabilities within preset security policies (Strict and Standard) to configure custom users and custom domains for impersonation protection. Additionally, within the preset security policy, you will also be able to apply the policy to all recipients instead of selected users, groups, and domains. You will still be able to exclude selected recipients.
ID: 93262 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Stream: New in-product messages to help admins promote usage of Stream (on SharePoint)
We are introducing two new in-product messages that will allow admins to promote the usage of Stream (on SharePoint) within their organization. First, admins will have the option to turn on a small banner message which will appear on the home page of Stream (Classic) to all users. Admins can choose a default message or customize one of their own. The default message states: You’re accessing Stream (Classic). To visit the new version of Stream, select the Stream (on SharePoint) button to the right. The default message is localized to all languages. If admins choose to place a custom message, they will need to localize the message to any required languages. Second, when users select “Upload video” from Stream (Classic) a message will appear by default that gives users the option to upload their videos to either Stream (Classic) or Stream (on SharePoint). Should your organization wish to opt-out of this default message, you can raise a support ticket with subject line “Disable upload to Stream (on SharePoint)”.
ID: 93276 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Actions from the email entity page
We are adding the ability to take actions from the email entity page. You can take email purge actions, create submissions, tenant level block actions (block sender/domain/file/URLs), investigative actions from email entity page.
ID: 93295 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for when you left or joined meetings
We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when you joined or left a meeting. The markers are personalized, so that only you will see your join and leave marker. The markers help you jump right to part of a meeting that you may have missed. Markers will only show up on recordings of Teams meeting that you were invited to and that you joined.
ID: 93298 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Expansion for URL Click Alert policy
We are expanding coverage of the malicious URL click alert. The alert will now include any clicks in the past 48 hours (for emails) from the time the malicious URL verdict is identified.
ID: 93300 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Custom organization branding for quarantine notification (custom sender address and Custom subject)
We are adding capabilities to making it possible for SecOps to customize end user quarantine notifications with their respective organization sender address and custom subject. Doing so helps ensure that users have safe and secure access to their quarantined messages and trains them to recognize legitimate notifications.
ID: 93301 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to quarantine folder storage
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is making some changes to quarantine folder storage. The experience for users will remain the same and users can leverage the delete action to maintain the storage folder for their quarantined messages.
ID: 93302 Tags: Exchange – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Quarantine asynchronous update [stage one]
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is working to enable additional quarantine enhancements, like partial string search functionality and 1,000 message bulk operation support in quarantine. As a result, we’ll be making adjustments to the release process through an asynchronous approach. the first stage will be the introduction of the asynchronous updates and the second stage will the introduction of enhancement features such as partial string search and 1,000 message bulk support.
ID: 93303 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Hourly option for notifications
We are adding a new hourly option to end user notifications, allowing users to be able to rely on prompt notification about quarantined items when appropriate. With this feature users can be rest assured that they will be updated frequently once new items lands on their quarantine folder.
ID: 93304 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Password protected download of quarantined messages
With this change we are giving the ability to password protects items they download from quarantine. We want users to be confident that the items they are downloading to their systems will not execute involuntarily without their consent, and this capability will allow them to safely transport the items to external analysis tools.
ID: 93305 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management integration with Power Automate
Insider Risk Management integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Insider Risk Management cases and users. 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: 93306 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management integration with Power Automate
Insider Risk Management integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Insider Risk Management cases and users. 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: 93307 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD Release: December CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Reports in the Admin Center – API available to manage user, group, and site names
An API will be released that helps Global Administrators change how user, group, and site names are displayed in the Microsoft 365 admin center based on their organizations privacy practices without having to manually change the setting in Org Settings – Reports.
ID: 93313 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Exchange: Customizable Message Expiration
A common request from Exchange Online admins is for the ability to customize the organizations message expiration timeout. When a message can’t be delivered immediately due to a transient error, it will queue up and be periodically retried until either the message is sent or until the message expires 24 hours later. For some messages, 24 hours can be too long to wait only to find out a message wasn’t delivered. So, we’re introducing the ability for admins to customize the message expiration timeout to be less than 24 hours.
ID: 93315 Tags: Exchange, Office 365 – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | New cmdlet for exporting Activity Explorer logs (U.S. Government clouds)
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: 93316 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022
SharePoint: Configure navigation links to open in a new tab
With this update, you will be able to manage the experience for each navigation item to open in a new tab.
ID: 93318 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection
The chronological order of risky activities is an important aspect of risk investigation and identifying these related activities can help to better identify which activities pose a bigger risk. In Insider Risk Management, you can detect these activities with a sequence detection. 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: 93319 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Azure Active Directory: Limited CSS and pre-defined layout templates
Update the Azure AD and Microsoft 365 login experience with new Company Branding capabilities. You can apply your company’s brand guidance to authentication experiences with pre-defined templates.
ID: 93320 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Outlook: Reactions to emails
Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate, or shed a tear in reaction to emails in Outlook. Apply your sentiment and see the reaction of others in emails in Outlook without sending or receiving incremental emails.
ID: 93321 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)
This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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: 93324 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Expanding up to 10,000 users in Distribution Lists for lobby policy in Teams meeting
Currently, if you change your lobby policy in a Teams Meeting to “Invited Users Only” and invite a Distribution List (DL), only the first 1,000 users of that DL will be recognized and let through the lobby. All other users a part of the DL will not be recognized and will be placed in the lobby. With this update, up to 10,000 users of that given DL will be recognized and let through the lobby if the lobby policy is set to “Invited Users Only.”
ID: 93585 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Outlook: [Android] Adding the option to Save attachments to OneDrive for Business
Quickly and easily save files from your email to your configured cloud storage accounts.
ID: 95108 Tags: Outlook – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Multi-language meeting invite control
IT administrators can apply a new policy to set multiple languages in Teams meeting invites.
ID: 81521 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window support for VDI for VMware
Users 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: 85691 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Exchange: Adding Outbound support for DNSSEC or DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online
Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding outbound Support for DNSSEC or DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online.
ID: 88876 Tags: Exchange – GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Parent Connection with chat, email or phone call
Educators will be able to connect with the guardians of their students by chat, email or phone call with a single click.
ID: 90383 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
SharePoint: Site template history
View the history of any site templates applied to your site and related site script actions.
ID: 93186 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, DoD, 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, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Bots in GCC-High
GCC-High customers will be able to build and deploy bots in their Microsoft Teams environment. This release supports custom, line-of-business bots.
ID: 94695 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: May CY2022
Access: Dataverse Connector
We are providing a collaborative platform for you to integrate your data and applications into the cloud/mobile-based world through Dataverse while continuing to preserve the Access Desktop value. This opens a realm of opportunities to share and collaborate on your apps & data in our consistently growing Teams and Power Apps/Dataverse ecosystems.
ID: 68897 Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Topics available in GCC
Availability for Viva Topics in GCC.
ID: 72185 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Integration with Teams and Power Automate
Insider Risk Management integration with Microsoft Teams allows for richer collaboration across an organization. Additionally, integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Insider Risk Management cases and users. 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: 83955 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | HR 1.2 Connector for Government clouds
You can set up a connector in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to import human resources (HR) related events such as a user’s resignation or a change in a user’s job level. This information can be used by the Insider Risk Management solution to bring users under scope of data theft/leak policies and enrich risk insights. 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: 85589 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, GCC, DoD Release:
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
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
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams app in Microsoft store
Microsoft Teams app for work, school and life will soon be available to download from Microsoft store. This app will support work, school and consumer accounts on Windows 10 and Work or school accounts on Windows 11.
ID: 94577 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Access: New (Modern) Web Browser Control (to support Chromium Edge)
This roadmap is cancelled and removed from the roadmap at this time and will be republished when we have a new date. Improve and increase the efficiency of your browsing capabilities through our Modern Web BrowserControl, which will support our new Chromium Edge browser.
ID: 65405 Tags: Access, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: September CY2022
Access: Enabling Large Address Aware (LAA) for 32-Bit Access
This roadmap is cancelled and removed from the roadmap at this time and will be republished when we have a new date. 32-bit Access will become Large Address Aware (LAA) to address 4G of memory, rather than 2G.
ID: 65406 Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: September CY2022
Access: SQL Monaco Editor
This roadmap is cancelled and removed from the roadmap at this time and will be republished when we have a new date. Use the embedded Monaco Editor, the same editor used for Visual Studio Code, in Access.
ID: 65409 Tags: Access – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Approvals Templates for GCC-High and DoD
This item has been delayed and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. User can simply choose a template provided by their tenant admins or a Team Owner when creating a new approval request.
ID: 81658 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD Release: May 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. This is a duplicate of 93231 and will be removed from the roadmap.
ID: 93290 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
