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Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory Multiple Passwords feature has now removed the limitation for how many IOS devices a user can sign in to. This new update will allow users the flexibility and security to authenticate multiple devices.
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Microsoft Teams: Frictionless app re-install for users
Users will now be able to find the apps they use regularly more prominently via app flyouts, and just @mention their favorite bot to start using it seamlessly in a new chat/team. Users will not need to repeat installation of apps. One-time installation would ready the app for use for that user anywhere inside Teams.
ID: 87551 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Add or edit multiple captions and transcripts for a video in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Stream (on SharePoint)
You can upload, download, delete, and replace multiple WebVTT caption files (Web Video Text Tracks) for a single video in Stream (on SharePoint) or for a video stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business. Multiple WebVTT caption files for one video means you can upload captions and transcripts for different languages or dialects. All uploaded VTT files will be displayed as both captions inside the video player and as transcripts in the pane next to the video. With this feature you’ll be able to add translated captions and transcripts to videos by downloading the WebVTT file generated by Stream or Teams live transcript, editing/translating it on your own in a text or VTT editor, and then uploading it. You will then have one video that gives users the option to view captions and transcripts in multiple languages.
ID: 93235 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Default classification for content matching trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)
In the Microsoft Purview compliance center, admins can view items that match trainable classifiers in Content explorer without first needing to create a policy.
ID: 93266 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds)
Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer.
ID: 93267 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
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SharePoint: SharePoint File Card for Government clouds
You can get quick insights on files before you even open them. When you see a file in OneDrive or SharePoint, point to the file, and then wait for the file card to appear. The file card tells you if a file is popular among your peers, how long it might take to read it, and even show the author key points. If you are working on the file with others, the file card will show you recent activities you haven’t seen yet, a list of viewers and views, and links to places where you referenced the file in email, meetings, or Teams chats. The file card is only visible to people who have access to the file, so the information on the card is just as secure as your files. Also, what’s shown on the file card is personalized to you. For example, the file card shows conversations you took part in, but doesn’t show them to anyone who wasn’t in that same conversation. The same is true of activity highlights; we’ll show that you’ve been @mentioned, but we won’t show that to others when they view the file card.
ID: 93271 Tags: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Azure Active Directory: Multiple Password less Phone sign-in Accounts for iOS Devices
Users can enable password less phone sign-in accounts for their iOS devices. Previously there was a limit of one password less phone sign-in account per device, but we have removed that limitation.
ID: 93272 Tags: Azure Active Directory, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2022
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention (DLP) support for complex conditions
Complex condition support in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rule authoring experience will enable Admins to create advanced rules using a combination of AND/OR/NOT operators.
ID: 93274 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Search: Conversation search in Microsoft search in SharePoint
Conversation search will allow you to find relevant Microsoft Teams, and Outlook conversations when searching in Microsoft search in SharePoint.
ID: 94207 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Lists: Mobile App (Android)
Access all lists you own and that have been shared with you – all on the go. You’ll be able to create new lists, edit list items and easily share with other people.
ID: 70704 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Azure Active Directory: Application Proxy traffic optimization
You now can now designate which region your Application Proxy service connector group should use. By choosing the closest region to your applications and connectors, you can improve performance and reduce the latency to the App Proxy service.
ID: 72248 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Azure Active Directory: verifiable credentials
Verifiable credentials let organizations confirm information about someone without collecting and storing their personal data. Organizations will be able to issue digital versions of a variety of credentials such as physical badges, loyalty cards, and government-issued paper documents based on open standards.
ID: 72255 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for DoD
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86088 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Support of live captions for Teams for VDI for Citrix
Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) will be able to use live captions. Live captions display the text version of the audio during the call.
ID: 86774 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2022
SharePoint: Section Templates for SharePoint Pages
When you add a new section to a page, you can select a blank template with popular image and text combinations for a quick start.
ID: 88838 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
SharePoint: Section Templates for SharePoint Pages
When you add a new section to a page, you can select a blank template with popular image and text combinations for a quick start.
ID: 88838 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Forms: Enable templates for commercial users
Microsoft Forms will not only surface it portal page on office hub, but we will also reroute partial traffic to forms.office.com and forms.microsoft.com. Then user will be able to find Collection on the portal page with some other minor improvements. All Forms users could easily find and explore high quality 1st party templates on portal page through different business categories like build better events, grow product success, improve employee satisfaction, digitalize business process and create engaging learning environment (for EDU).
ID: 88946 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager Alerts and notifications for score changes (US Government clouds)
This feature will allow admins to set monitoring policies on top of Compliance Manager activities such as score change, improvement action assignment, and evidence upload. A successful policy match will generate an alert which will allow admins to further investigate.
ID: 88965 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager Recommendation wizard for bulk assessment creation (US Government clouds)
Compliance Manager can indicate which assessments may be most relevant to your organization. When you provide basic information about your organization’s industry and locations, we’ll recommend which templates to use from our library of over 300 templates. Simply choose among the recommended templates for quick setup of multiple assessments all at once.
ID: 88966 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD 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 Teams: Custom Banner for Emergency Calling
Admins can now inform their users about emergency calling through a customizable disclaimer banner that will appear in the Calls app. Users will be able to acknowledge the message by clicking on the banner.
ID: 93054 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Calendar Show As in meetings
Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.
ID: 93145 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD 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
Microsoft Teams: Additional language support for Suggested Replies for mobile
Suggested replies now supported in: Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Korean, Czech, Danish, Turkish, Polish.
ID: 94017 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Graph: New privacy controls for Microsoft Graph-based insights
For administrators who wish to enable granular control over where intelligent insights are available to their employees, we’re introducing new controls that provide you the ability to configure the visibility of Graph-derived insights, between users and other items in the Graph (such as documents or sites) across apps and services in Microsoft 365.
ID: 68863 Tags: Microsoft Graph – GCC Release:
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:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Multi-stage disposition review
This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.
ID: 70579 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Information governance – Yammer retention
This update enables organizations to apply retention policies on Yammer messages.
ID: 70581 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Threat and vulnerability management for Windows 8.1
Threat and vulnerability management capabilities, both software vulnerability assessment for the OS and applications, as well as secure configuration assessment will now support Windows 8.1 devices. Customers will be able to see Security recommendations, Software inventory, and weaknesses.
ID: 70690 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from meetings on web
Users in a Teams meeting on web can now share audio while screen sharing.
ID: 84175 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Outlook: View and navigate the organization chart
Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles.
ID: 84785 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: Up to 25K members per team in DoD
You can now add up to 25,000 members per team in DoD.
ID: 85338 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams team usage report and Graph API
We are introducing a new Teams team usage report and Graph API to help you track Teams team usage metrics over time.
ID: 85540 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports
Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.
ID: 88540 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Activity explorer user experience improvements (US Government clouds)
We’re improving the user experience of the Activity explorer in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. New functionality includes a refresh button to allow refreshing the data without reloading the page, and a new option for “Sensitive info type” added to the list of customizable columns.
ID: 88934 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Auto-labeling policies support overwriting manual label and encrypting mail received from any organization (US Government clouds)
New and existing Exchange auto-labeling policies can be configured to apply encryption to email received from outside the organization. In addition, policies can be configured to enforce classification on any email by replacing existing manual labels that have the same or lower label priority.
ID: 88940 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhanced support for domains
Insider Risk Management now support enhanced classification of unallowed, allowed, and third-party domains leveraging wildcards. This helps improve classification of detections. 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: 88997 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Export Alerts
For the Export alerts feature, we have increased the frequency in which alerts are sent to the Office 365 Management Activity API to every hour (previously every 12 hours) so updated alert information is more readily available. 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: 88998 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Integration with Teams
Insider Risk Management integration with Microsoft Teams allows for richer collaboration across an organization. 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: 88999 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Define priority user groups and detect data leaks by priority users
Define users in your organization that need closer inspection based on factors such as their position, level of access to sensitive information, or risk history. Once created, these groups can be included in certain policy templates, such as detecting data leaks by users included in a priority user group. 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: 89000 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management- Native triggers (New signals, indicator selection, customization, Activity explorer)
You can choose to assign selected indicators as triggering events for a policy. This flexibility and customization help scope the policy to only the activities covered by the indicators. You can also customize thresholds for each triggering event. 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 user-level privacy.
ID: 89001 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Triage and investigation improvements
Enhancements including historical insights for Exchange Online, and ingestion of triggering events into Activity explorer. 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: 89002 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Detect Music Automatically (Education only)
The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which should be suppressed. To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson. This new feature is now available to Edu customers only. We will communicate when this is available to commercial and government customers.
ID: 89016 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Edge v.101: Ability to set default profile
The EdgeDefaultProfileEnabled policy will allow you to set a default profile to be used when opening the browser rather than the last profile used. This policy will not be applicable if the “–profile-directory” parameter has been specified.
ID: 92657 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Edge v.101: Configure default state of Allow extensions from other stores setting
This policy allows you to control the default state of the “Allow extensions from other stores” setting.
ID: 93104 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Information Barriers admin experience – Segments and Policies landing pages
The Information Barriers solution within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal enables organizations to restrict communication and collaboration between two user groups to avoid a conflict of interest from occurring. This user experience (UX) update adds solution landing pages within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for management of Information Barriers segments and policies.
ID: 93193 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists unscheduled items pane on calendar view
You can review all the items not yet appearing in the Calendar view due to missing dates. These items will appear on the Unscheduled tab within the events pane to the right of the Calendar view.
ID: 93223 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey insights
NPS survey insights is an AI driven dashboard that helps to obtain actionable insights derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.
ID: 93241 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Branded Lobby for desktop
This feature has been delayed to an unforeseeable date in the future. We will communicate when this feature is coming available. Admins will now be able to add a custom logo to the Teams experience, for display in the lobby and meeting pre-join experience. The logo will be displayed for meetings where the organizer has the Advanced Comms SKU.
ID: 79957 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2022
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