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Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview

With Collaborative Stageview, app content opens in a new Teams window where users can engage with content and chat with other team members, side-by-side. Collab Stage lets users share links and collaborate on content, right from within Teams.

ID: 93769 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android meetings

This feature allows you to add your Android device to an ongoing meeting, making it easy to chat, react, share, and more.

ID: 109606 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC 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 Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams Admin Center

With this feature, IT admins can track which firmware is being rolled out through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time to validate scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, Panels, and displays.

ID: 119389 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Unified user experience for Bookings App in Teams

The Bookings app in Teams is moving to the new Virtual Appointments app and users will see a unified Bookings app experience across all the entry points. Users will be able to access features targeted for virtual appointments scenarios via the new Virtual Appointments app.

ID: 120420 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New Net Promoter Score survey in Teams Rooms on Windows

Capture meeting room participant feedback and help make Teams Rooms experiences better with the new Net Promotor Score (NPS) survey that occasionally appears on Teams Rooms on Windows consoles upon leaving a Teams Meeting.

ID: 121117 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Export API Support for Teams Control Messages

Control Messages are system generated messages on Teams client when an activity or event occurs. For example, User A was added User B to a chat and shared all chat history. Export API, a compliance archiving solution for Teams, goes beyond user generated Teams message and provides support to archive Teams control messages. As part of this release, Export API will support member add and member remove messages in the context of Teams, chats, and channels.

ID: 122517 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2023

PowerPoint: Camera Source Selection and toggle available in SlideShow and Presenter View

Change the camera source and turn on or off camera within PowerPoint Slideshow and presenter view in Desktop.

ID: 123377 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Label footers enhancement for emails

When labels are configured to add footers, currently the footers accumulate at the very bottom of long email chains. This enhancement now adds footers at the bottom of the most recent reply instead of at the bottom of the whole email thread. Note that this feature supports emails formatted as HTML or PlainText. Support for Rich Text email formats is legacy and will not be improved in Outlook. For emails formatted as Rich Text, label footers will continue to accumulate at the bottom of email threads as before.

ID: 124816 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2023

OneNote Quick Note: New Simplified Toolbar and Modern UX

We have incorporated a sleek new toolbar with useful text formatting options and inking capabilities in Quick Note, given you faster access to screen clipping and made it easier to transition to OneNote on Windows through the overflow menu.

ID: 124837 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence

Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.

ID: 124847 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: July CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips

Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips.

ID: 124848 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips (U.S. Government clouds)

Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips.

ID: 124849 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Service side auto-labeling shows file labeling progress for turned on policies in SharePoint and OneDrive (U.S. Government clouds)

Service side auto-labeling will show files to be labeled, files labeled (past 7 days), and files labeled (total) for turned on policies in SharePoint and OneDrive. Clicking on the auto-labeling policy will show files to be labeled and files labeled (total) broken down by the different sites. If a policy includes Exchange as a location, the number of emails that were labeled won’t be displayed because labels are automatically applied as messages are sent.

ID: 124850 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft defender for Office 365: Priority Account User tags filtering in the URL protection report

We are adding a new filter to the URL protection report that will allow security admins to easily filter for Users who are in the Priority Account tag of their organization. This capability will be extremely valuable in helping security teams prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization while reviewing the URL threat details in the report.

ID: 124852 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft Edge management console

Microsoft Edge management console is a single portal for admins to manage the Edge browser. It is a simple and easy-to-manage experience. Admins will be able to configure all Edge browser policies for their organization in a configuration profile and set-up the browser to use these settings.

ID: 124856 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Bulk import and export of domains

This feature will allow admins to upload or download a CSV file of unallowed, allowed, and third-party domains defined by admins with the right permissions in insider risk settings to fine-tune the detection of activities involving certain domains. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124857 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase

The activity explorer’s export limit will increase from 10K to 100K records. This update will benefit organizations that prefer exporting user activity insights to a CSV file, as they now can filter, sort, or pivot a bigger data set more conveniently. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124858 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sensitivity label downgrade activities

Insider Risk Management can detect users downgrading sensitivity labels on files or SharePoint sites. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124860 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Site URL and keyword exclusions

Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring SharePoint site URLs and keywords exclusions, so activities involving these sites, or file names and email subject lines containing certain keywords won’t generate alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124861 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sensitive information type exclusion

Enable admins to reduce signal noise by defining sensitive information type exclusions, so files that contain certain sensitive information types won’t generate alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124862 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File path exclusions

Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring file path exclusions, so activities around files with specific file paths won’t generate alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124863 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Peer group anomaly detection

With this update, Insider Risk Management can detect exfiltration anomalies when compared with users in similar groups or roles. Insider Risk Management defines similar user groups by grouping together users who access the same SharePoint Online destinations, who are in the same team, or who have similar job titles as configured in Azure AD. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. 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: 124864 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: June CY2023

Microsoft Lists: A new forms experience to collect information

We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button.

ID: 124865 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Advanced app management

Advanced app management enables you to easily discover and deploy prepackaged apps and keep them updated with a securely hosted enterprise catalog.

ID: 124866 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2023

Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone on Teams Rooms for Windows

Meeting organizers and presenters can select Together Mode for all the participants and select a layout to fit the meeting type.

ID: 126105 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2023

Outlook: Message Reminders

Outlook will surface emails to the top of your inbox when we detect a reply is still needed.

ID: 126517 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2023

Rolling Out

Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings

Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud, so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. This feature is now available to 50% of Current Channel.

ID: 60371 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual appointment – a new Teams Meeting type for B2C meetings

Virtual Appointment is a new Teams meeting type tailored for B2C meetings with people outside of your organization. When using the meeting type, guests will get a meeting invitation that includes important appointment details to make joining easy. They can join from any device—no need to install Teams—and experience a comfortable pre-appointment virtual waiting room until you’re ready to begin.

ID: 100705 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Windows 365 cloud PC advanced deployment guide

The Advanced deployment guides page in the Microsoft 365 admin center will have a new guide to help admins plan for, deploy, and scale Windows 365 Enterprise in their organization. This guide will have a checklist of Cloud PC configuration tasks and will include best practices, tools, and recommendations based on the tenant’s configuration.

ID: 102406 Tags: Windows 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Spatial Audio

Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you’re there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive and focused for everyone.

ID: 107783 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 109534 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements (U.S. Government clouds)

Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more.

ID: 109543 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention – | Configure Power BI DLP policies to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces

DLP policies can be configured to automatically detect upload of sensitive data to Power BI premium workspaces and trigger custom policy tip for data owner and/or alert to security admin.

ID: 115474 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Power BI – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when a screen was shared

We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when a screen was shared in the meeting. The markers help you see who shared the screen at which moment, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering.

ID: 117418 Tags: Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract action in OneDrive for iOS

Users of Microsoft Syntex can now split a PDF file into multiple PDFs with the Extract file action in OneDrive for iOS. The Extract file action lets you quickly split and extract multiple pages of a PDF into a new PDF file stored in SharePoint or OneDrive.

ID: 117548 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Federated group calling for GCCH and DoD

Easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside your organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.

ID: 117566 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Call Health Panel for VDI

The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view you will get data on your network, audio, screen sharing, and outgoing video quality. These real-time metrics are updated every 15 seconds and are best used to troubleshoot issues that last for at least that long. To view your stats during a call or meeting, select More actions icon at the top of the call window, and then select Call health near the top of the menu.

ID: 117858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: May CY2023

Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Teams Panels

Teams Panels already support Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants and now will meet Government Community Cloud High (GCC-H) account requirements.

ID: 119618 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: April CY2023

Launched

OneDrive: Updated Files On-Demand Settings on Windows

We are updating the OneDrive sync app settings for Files On-Demand for users who have the feature enabled.

ID: 101520 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2023

Minecraft Education: Wild Update (1.19)

Get ready for the Wild Update for Minecraft Education! With useful new blocks and items, charismatic mobs, and mangrove swamps, explore and survive in amazing new worlds. This update improves the user experience with smoother sign-in, library search, and tooltips.

ID: 106094 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention policy support for legacy Teams CDR messages

Retention policies for Microsoft Teams are being extended to include CDR messages (system-generated messages from Teams meetings). Up until now, only messages generated after October 2022 were supported for retention. This update extends coverage to messages created before October 2022, so that old and new are now supported in the same manner.

ID: 106103 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Records Management advanced deployment guide

Expanding and distinguishing the tasks within the Data Lifecycle and Records Management advanced deployment guide based on licensing requirements.

ID: 117373 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Intune: Update Readiness Reports

[This is cancelled as a duplicate of 103639] App and driver compatibility reports for Windows update planning.

ID: 103614 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023