In Development

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Advanced Delivery for SecOps Mailboxes and Third-Party Phishing Simulations

Advanced delivery gives admins the ability to configure advanced message delivery for special scenarios, including third-party phishing simulation campaigns and SecOps mailboxes. Advanced delivery will deliver unfiltered messages in these cases and clearly mark messages as part of each scenario across all admin surfaces.

ID: 72207 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Pairing the channel and the corresponding SharePoint folder name.

When renaming a Teams’ channel, the corresponding SharePoint folder will be renamed and reflect the new name. This will help create consistency across Microsoft 365 endpoints, making it easier on users to find their files from anywhere.  This new feature will be available for all Standard and Private channels. For Standard channels – The corresponding folder in SharePoint will be renamed. For Private channels – The corresponding site name and the folder in SharePoint will be renamed. For legacy Teams channels that were renamed prior to this rollout, there will be no change in experience. When a legacy channel is renamed after this release, it will simultaneously rename the corresponding SharePoint folder.

ID: 72211 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May 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

OneDrive and SharePoint: Adjusting version retention for PST files

This update will help customers manage PST file versions from consuming storage capacity for OneDrive & SharePoint Online. PST files are a type of Outlook Data File which can consume a lot of storage – especially when versions are considered. The service will now limit the number of PST versions retained, often resulting in less storage consumption.

ID: 72237 Tags: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Public Preview: Teams follow Office preview

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public. Coming up in June 2021, not only can users be opted-in to use Teams Public Preview, but IT admins can even configure Teams users preview state to follow Office preview state. All of this functionality will be accessible from the Teams Admin Center.

ID: 81704 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: May CY2021

SharePoint: Updates for Microsoft Teams connected team sites

Every Microsoft Teams team is connected to a SharePoint team site. If you create a private channel, it gets a unique team site. You will see specific updates, including updates to site features, site permissions alignment, site classifications and sensitivity labels, and improvements to the user interface.

ID: 81945 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, Germany, DoD Release: May CY2021

Outlook: Dictate emails on iPhone and iPad

Use speech-to-text to dictate email messages, available starting in EN-US.

ID: 81951 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Search: Query variable support on Keyword Query Language (KQL)

Profile attributes and Query String values from the URL can be used as Query variables on KQL. This will be resolved for both SharePoint and Graph connector verticals.

ID: 81953 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

PowerPoint: PowerPoint modern comments for enterprise

The new modern comments experience for PowerPoint is now available through your enterprise account. Modern comments greatly improves your comments experience with features such as resolving comments, anchoring comments to objects and text, improved @mentions, and more.

ID: 82731 Tags: PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

SharePoint: Admin center – Migration Manager: Google migrations

With our recent Mover acquisition, we are excited to expand our capabilities to allow moving content from Google into Microsoft 365. When you’re ready to move your content, click on the Migrate tab in the SharePoint admin center to start scan discovery, assessment, and migrate. You’ll get detailed reports and the rest in a seamless transition of files and folders to Microsoft 365 (OneDrive, SharePoint, and/or Teams).

ID: 82014 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Support for Microsoft Endpoint DLP on MacOS

Microsoft Endpoint Data Leak Protection (DLP) policy enforcement will be available natively on MacOS.

ID: 82860 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.91: Support for Speech Recognition APIs

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 91, API support for speech recognition commands on Google.com and similar sites will be added.

ID: 82861 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.94: New policy to stop implicit sign in

This new policy allows system administrators to disable implicit sign-in on Microsoft Edge browsers, starting with version 94.

ID: 82863 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Edge v.92: Protocol launch support for PWA

Developers can create a more engaging native-like experience if we allow Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to be registered as handlers for URL protocols.

ID: 82864 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center and Microsoft Teams for Business: Compliance capabilities for card content generated through apps in Teams messages

We are extending Microsoft 365 compliance capabilities to content generated through Teams apps.

ID: 82992 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: May CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Time Clock APIs

Now, with new Time Clock APIs, organizations can create rules such as how late someone can clock-in without requiring manager approval or requiring a health screening survey before clocking-in for the day.

ID: 66317 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Office 365: Microsoft 365 Groups ownership governance experience

Microsoft 365 Groups ownership governance in the Microsoft 365 admin center is designed to help manage the problem of ownerless Microsoft 365 Groups by providing a view showing the number of owners for each group, along with a way to assign group owners and to send an email asking group members to take ownership. We are also adding a filter that enables you to see all groups with zero owners.

ID: 67160 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Outlook for Windows: New location for key Outlook modules

The main modules in Outlook such as email, calendar, tasks and people are moving to a new app bar on the left of the folder pane. You can customize the app bar by pinning preferred Outlook and Microsoft 365 apps. This change can be previewed with the return of the Coming Soon toggle.

ID: 68205 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Out of Office

Let others know that you are not available by scheduling your Out of Office in Teams. During this time, your presence status will change to “Out of Office” and your status message will be displayed when someone reaches out to you via chat. Additionally, your Outlook calendar and automatic replies will be updated accordingly.

ID: 68701 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New Lobby Setting: Only Invited Users join directly

A new lobby setting is coming to Teams Meeting Options. We are adding “People I Invite” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the participants invited by the organizer in meeting invite will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else will be sent to the lobby.

ID: 68730 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Personal wellbeing insights in Teams

New personal insights to help you reimagine your work day and embrace wellbeing are coming to Microsoft Teams. Users can create mental bookends to productively start and mindfully end the work day with a virtual commute, tap into dedicated moments of mindfulness with Headspace and use emotional check-ins to pause and reflect.

ID: 68748 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participants

Currently, 300 meeting participants can be part of the meeting chat; this feature update will allow 1000 participants to participate in the meeting chat.

ID: 68844 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Update to meeting participant’s access to meeting chat

People added to a meeting via a meeting link and were not added to the original meeting invite will no longer have access to chats, files, notes, and other meeting content after the meeting ends. They will continue to have access to meeting assets during the meeting but lose access once the meeting ends.

ID: 68853 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Feedback from your organization coming to the admin center

This features enables admins to view feedback submitted to Microsoft by organizational users about their experiences with Microsoft 365 applications. The new feedback view will be under the Health node in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

ID: 68899 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration for Government clouds

Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence for a specific period of time.

ID: 68937 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New Offline Presence Status for Government clouds

Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence to “Offline”. This will allow them to have full access to Teams while signaling to colleagues that they are unavailable.

ID: 68939 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams casting from iOS Teams App

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room from their mobile device and display content. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365.

ID: 70564 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Changes in display of hierarchical sensitivity labels for Microsoft Teams

For hierarchical sensitivity labels, channel headers will only display the parent label instead of showing the child label. For example, for a sensitivity label such as Confidential\Finance, Teams will only show “Confidential” in the channel header.

ID: 70566 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous Presenter Support for Live Events

You may allow an anonymous user who does not have and MSA or AAD identity to be a presenter in your live event.

ID: 70599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to post-delivery detections and investigations

We are rolling out updates to alerts and investigations including new alert policies and post-delivery detections related to Zero-hour auto purge (ZAP). There will also be updates and improvements to the AIR playbooks for the post-delivery detections to capture the state of the emails and entities that are being investigated.

ID: 70614 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook on the Web: New calendar board view

With Outlook Calendar board view people can organize and manage their time, beyond the hour to hour time slots in a redesigned free-flow view of the things that are important.

ID: 70746 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for GCC-High

Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.

ID: 72168 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: April CY2021

Power BI: New sharing experience

We’re introducing a new sharing capability in Power BI that will allow reports to be shared with people within the organization through shareable links.

ID: 72200 Tags: Power BI – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Ability to test Exact Data Match

After setting up EDM-based classification, tenant admins will now be able to test EDM sensitive information types (SITs) via the Microsoft 365 compliance center and via PowerShell cmdlet. Classification results returned will include the sensitive type, its count, and confidence.

ID: 72220 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: April CY2021

Word: Better collaboration with modern comments for Windows

Share your comments with co-authors only once they’re complete, enjoy improved @mention notifications, and be more productive with a consistent commenting experience between Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

ID: 76186 Tags: Word – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: April CY2021

SharePoint: Simplified MUI editing for multilingual communication sites

This new feature allows the same user, with the right permissions, to update site navigation, site title, site description and site footer in all the languages enabled in your communication site.

ID: 79847 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD Release: May CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Expandable new message and event buttons

The button for new event and message buttons on your Calendar and Inbox hat will expand to provide quick actions that are available in Outlook. By long pressing these new buttons, you’ll have easy access to commonly needed email and calendaring capabilities.

ID: 79866 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Exchange: Exchange Admin center

The new Exchange Admin Center is a modern and a performant portal. The EAC will be available to all the customers from April, 2021. This new portal has all the functions that were available in Classic EAC portal and a lot of other value additions like T2T Migration, Automated G-Suite Migration etc. A personalized dashboard with reports and insights is also available that makes the user more productive.

ID: 80626 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync on macOS

Admins can exclude newly added files from syncing to the cloud by file name or extension on macOS.

ID: 80684 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Related Content for Teams Meetings (iOS and Android)

Related Content makes meetings more effective by providing customers with important information from their mailboxes, OneDrive for Business and SharePoint sites. This helps them prepare before their meetings by offering them content they haven’t had a chance to read or may want to revisit. During the meeting, they can easily access relevant content to share, present, or reference. After the meeting, they can catch-up on completed meetings by returning to content presented during the meeting, sent meeting notes, and other high-utility related content.

ID: 81354 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New manage tag experience and other enhancements

Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone. Tags now can be managed as a Tab and you can receive notification for tag membership changes or search for tags in Teams. Tags will also now have a description field so that you can add more details to a tag.

ID: 81803 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Custom Backgrounds on mobile devices

Microsoft provided and user uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on iOS.

ID: 82234 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

Launched

Microsoft Lists: new ‘Integrate’ drop-down menu – powered by SharePoint

As part of updating the command bar at the top of Microsoft Lists, we are introducing a new top-level menu item: ‘Integrate.’ This is the home for features that help extend list experiences. To start, existing command buttons for Power Apps and Power Automate will move into Integrate – as they are integrated technologies and experiences.

ID: 64869 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: April CY2021

Yammer: New Live Events Insights

Improve your live events viewership. Monitor attendance, measure engagement, and recognize trends.

ID: 65515 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 20,000 attendee view-only broadcast

When attendees exceed the meeting or webinar limit, the meeting will scale to accommodate up to 10,000 in an view-only experience. And during this time of increased remote work, users can take advantage of even larger 20,000-person broadcasts through the end of 2021.

ID: 65952 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Updated functionality for downloading participant reports in Teams meetings

Review and download attendee reports following a meeting or webinar.

ID: 66459 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: View all upcoming assignments in the Teams calendar

Keep tabs on all of your student’s responsibilities and due dates by visualizing their upcoming assignments across classes alongside student meetings and other calendar events.

ID: 66562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Windows native notifications in Teams

Users can now chose to deliver Microsoft Teams notifications via Windows 10 native notifications.

ID: 66742 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Exchange: Block sending to a Distribution Group when it’s on the BCC

Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention for Microsoft Teams in GCC-High

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: 67098 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High Release: April CY2021

PowerPoint for Mac: Record Slide Show Updates

With new Record Slide Show updates, users can now record presenter video and inking with PowerPoint.

ID: 67104 Tags: PowerPoint – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, Germany Release: April CY2021

Azure Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Groups – support for Sensitivity Labels in Government Community Clouds

Microsoft 365 Groups will soon support Sensitivity Labels to help you manage privacy and external access. When an admin creates a sensitivity label in the Microsoft 365 security center or Microsoft 365 compliance center, a new site and groups settings page will allow the admin to specify privacy settings for Microsoft 365 Groups and group-connected team sites and whether or not groups created with the label can have external users. Once the labels have been configured published by the admin, users can apply them to groups they create.

ID: 67158 Tags: Azure Information Protection – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: April CY2021

Office 365: Microsoft 365 Groups support for Information Barriers

Microsoft 365 Groups will soon support Information Barriers. Information barriers help you create communication barriers, sometimes referred to as ethical walls, between users within your organization. This allows you to restrict communication and collaboration between two people or groups to avoid a conflict of interest or to safeguard internal information.

ID: 67159 Tags: Office 365, Microsoft 365 Groups – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails car mode

Automatically detect when your phone is connected to your car audio system and starts Play My Emails when you use your steering wheel controls.

ID: 67688 Tags: Cortana, Outlook – Release: April CY2021

Outlook: Suggested times for Android

When scheduling a meeting with colleagues, Outlook automatically provides time suggestions that makes it easy to find a time that works for everyone.

ID: 68076 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Include up to 10,000 users in an org-wide team

We are raising the upper limit on org-wide team membership from 5,000 to 10,000 users.

ID: 68692 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Restricting Windows and Mac managed device sign-In to specific tenants

You will be able to restrict Teams sign-in for Windows and Mac managed devices to ensure that employees cannot sign-in to another organization’s tenant using the other tenant’s credentials from the device they are authorized to use for work. This policy can also be used to configure access to personal accounts.

ID: 68693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams casting for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room running on Android, and display content from their mobile phone. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365.

ID: 68743 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Personal productivity insights in Teams

Personal productivity insights – powered by MyAnalytics – are coming to Microsoft Teams. Users will get intelligent reminders to catch up with key people, follow up on to-dos, and protect time to work uninterrupted.

ID: 68747 Tags: MyAnalytics, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Manage Teams displays in Team Admin Center

We are adding the Teams Display, one more device category that can be now managed within Teams Admin Center.

ID: 68754 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: iOS – Page rotation for PDF viewing

You can now rotate page orientation while viewing PDF documents in OneDrive. Any changes made are saved to OneDrive.

ID: 68855 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, GCC High, Germany, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Recording 3×3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms

View up to nine meeting participants during a Teams meeting recording in the 3×3 gallery view.

ID: 68935 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: Android – Page rotation for PDF viewing

Users will be able to rotate the page of a PDF being viewed in OneDrive on Android.

ID: 70548 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Audit retention dashboard for government clouds

Create and manage audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center.

ID: 70627 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: March CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Content explorer enhancements for Insider Risk Management

The Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management solution will have an improved performance and experience within the content explorer, including transparency of document loads and completeness.

ID: 70632 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Simple Periodic review for guest users

Enable Teams IT admin to schedule a periodic reviews on guests across Teams, discovers every Team that has one or more guests, and triggers a review process for each.

ID: 70674 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch provisioning for Teams devices

This will allow Remote Provisioning of Teams Android devices from Teams Admin Center.

ID: 70675 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

OneDrive: Dialog on First-Time deletion of File(s)

When a user deletes a file(s) for the first time, they will be shown a dialog to educate them that their file is in the OneDrive recycle bin where it can be restored. This will show up on subsequent deletes until the user checks the box stating they do wish to see it again. Admins can turn off this notification all together with a group policy setting.

ID: 70702 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Policy health check for Insider Risk Management

Insider Risk Management will now surface policy status to identify misconfigured policies which could impact detections.

ID: 70714 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Enhanced policy creation wizard for Insider Risk Management

We’re improving the experience of Insider Risk Management policy creation, including enhanced guard rails to enforce proper policy configuration.

ID: 70716 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: ServiceNow template for PowerAutomate available within Insider Risk Management

A ServiceNow PowerAutomate template will be provided to integrate Insider Risk Management with ServiceNow.

ID: 70717 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Exchange: Exchange Admin Center supports Delegated Admins

Delegated admins, with necessary permissions, can now open the mailbox, and view, add and remove the contents of the mailbox they have access permissions for.

ID: 70740 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft Browser Usage Report

This new report will allow IT admins to view aggregated Microsoft browser usage reports through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center to help them understand browser usage trends in their organization and plan their migration to Microsoft Edge.

ID: 70745 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Lists: Smart people picker

When you type in the people picker, the autofill suggestions will come from Microsoft Graph. This makes it the people picker more personalized and relevant based on who you work with most often.

ID: 70751 Tags: – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, Germany, DoD Release: April CY2021

Windows: Windows Update for Business deployment service

The deployment service is a new cloud service within the Windows Update for Business product family. It provides control over the approval, scheduling, monitoring, and safeguarding of content delivered from Windows Update (WU), and is designed to work in harmony with your existing Windows Update for Business policies. Our initial release focuses on new Microsoft Graph APIs for managing feature updates and responding to zero-day security updates, with support for additional content coming in subsequent updates.

ID: 70796 Tags: Windows, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Show Weather in Calendar

Stay on top of what’s changing in the weather at a glance at your Outlook Calendar across multiple views based on your current location.

ID: 71041 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook for Android: Weather

Weather in Outlook for Android gives you the latest weather information based on your current location and indicates the forecast on all calendar views except monthly (Agenda, Day, 3 Day and Week).

ID: 71042 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook: Suggested times for iOS

When scheduling a meeting with colleagues, Outlook automatically provides time suggestions that makes it easy to find a time that works for everyone.

ID: 71061 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Excel: Workbook Link Support in Excel for the Web

Workbook link support in now available in Excel for the Web. This feature was previously only supported in Excel for Windows and Mac. (aka “External Links”).

ID: 71476 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Office 365: Microsoft feedback management controls

We are introducing new cross platform policies to help administrators better manage the feedback experience for their organization. They will be able set feedback collection policies per AAD group for Microsoft 365 products.

ID: 72199 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Increase visibility of messages from people outside your organization

Increase the visibility of email messages that were sent from outside the organization in order help identify and report suspicious emails that may be an attempt of impersonation or spoofing.

ID: 75264 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: April CY2021

Outlook for Android: Increase visibility of messages from people outside your organization

Increase the visibility of email messages that were sent from outside the organization in order help identify and report suspicious emails that may be an attempt of impersonation or spoofing.

ID: 75265 Tags: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Simplified way to manage your channel notification settings for GCC

Through the teams and channels list or from the channel header, the users can quickly manage their notification settings by the means of a new fly-out design. Users can turn on all activity on or off with a single click or diving deep into custom to set their preferred permutations.

ID: 77796 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: January CY2021

Exchange: Exchange Admin center for GCC

The new Exchange Admin Center is a modern and a performant portal. The EAC will be available to all the customers from April, 2021. This new portal has all the functions that were available in Classic EAC portal and a lot of other value additions like T2T Migration, Automated G-Suite Migration etc. A personalized dashboard with reports and insights is also available that makes the user more productive.

ID: 80627 Tags: Exchange – GCC Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Enable Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center for GCC customers

As an admin, the Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center is where you view and manage all Teams apps for your organization. Here, you can see the org-level status and properties of apps, approve or upload new custom apps to your organization’s app store, block or allow apps at the org level, add apps to teams, purchase services for third-party apps, view permissions requested by apps, grant admin consent to apps, and manage org-wide app settings.

ID: 81182 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2021

Canceled

Exchange: Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) – updates for mail servers

{This feature is being postponed indefinitely and will be removed.} We are rolling out a series of updates to Office 365 Message Encryption aimed at creating a more authentic OME email experience. The capabilities rolled out in this update include improvements to reduce the likelihood of mail servers marking OME OTP mails as spam.

ID: 64532 Tags: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Power Appp in Teams usage analytics in Teams Admin Center

The tight Power Apps and Teams integration empowers users to build custom apps for whatever business challenge they are facing, and it will soon be easier than ever for Admins to understand how these apps are being used in Teams. Teams Admins will soon be able to analyze how their organization is using apps built with Power Apps inside of Teams, under the analytics section of the Teams Admin Center.

ID: 68751 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention for Microsoft Teams in GCC-High

This is a duplicate of 67098 and will be removed from the roadmap shortly.  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: 80374 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Speaker Attribution for Live Captions

{This is a duplicate of 82849 and will be removed.} Teams Meetings in GCC clouds will now have live captions utterances attributed to the speaker of the utterance.

ID: 82850 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: April CY2021