Play of the Week

Soon, you will be able to control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes speaker’s name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro and will be rolling out in December for Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, and GCC

In Development

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Loop workspace sensitivity labels

Users can apply container-level sensitivity labels to Loop workspaces to prevent oversharing and manage access effectively.

ID: 111225 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Promote members to owners in Loop workspaces

Loop workspaces support multiple owners, allowing end users to promote members to owners.

ID: 362124 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Custom question benchmark mapping

Viva Glint survey creators will be able to associate a custom question with a Viva Glint benchmark to leverage the benchmark in the reporting UI.

ID: 418130 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared

Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel.

ID: 421188 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Context IQ menu in Business Chat

Updates to Copilot Context IQ menu provides an intuitive and seamless interaction improving reliability and performance.

ID: 422307 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (iPhone)

Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively. Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity.

ID: 422320 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (Android)

Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively. Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity.

ID: 422321 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (Android)

With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them.

ID: 422322 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android)

With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively.

ID: 422323 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone)

With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively.

ID: 422324 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template

Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and response to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used in Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.

ID: 422328 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support

Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 422503 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – New personal Loop workspace

The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. All governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes apply the same way they would to a user’s OneDrive.

ID: 422727 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Ideas Workspace Functions as a Shared Loop workspace

Loop Ideas workspaces are tenant-managed like SharePoint Communication sites. They appear with existing Loop workspaces, with all features such as adding members and organizing pages

ID: 422729 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on desktop and web

Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via desktop or web. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for town hall instances that have been set up by an Organizer role with a Teams Premium license.

ID: 422804 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Automatically set building location in Teams

With work location in Teams now including buildings, make your presence known, coordinate with others, and take advantage of AI-assisted booking in the future. Once enabled and opted-in, your work location can auto-update to a specific building when you connect to a peripheral at a bookable desk or BYOD room.

ID: 422807 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections experience for Homesite customers

This feature sets the Home site as the default for the Viva Connections experience in Teams desktop. Once implemented, users will be able to access their organization’s Home site through the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. This change will only apply to customers who have not yet configured a Viva Connections experience.

ID: 422815 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Live transcription on Teams Rooms on Windows

You can control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes each speaker’s name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, the translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro.

ID: 423088 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows

While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.

ID: 423089 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: VDI Status Indicator

This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized’, or ‘Not Optimized’), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart).

ID: 423472 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations

Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant.

ID: 423474 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events

We’re adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license.

ID: 423475 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Configure External access policies in TAC

External access policies can be managed in Teams admin center. These policies were previously only supported in PowerShell, and we are bringing the same capabilities into the Teams admin center user experience.

ID: 423476 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Share prompts with others in Business Chat and Copilot Lab

Easily share a prompt with others in the form of a link.

ID: 423482 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Scoping changes in Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive

Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker.

ID: 423484 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Admins have transparency on granular metadata for agents

Admins have transparency on granular metadata (data source, custom actions) for agents.

ID: 429877 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Skin tone setting and reactions

In Teams settings, users have the option to select their preferred skin tone. This preference will be applied to all emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings, allowing users to express themselves more authentically in conversations.

ID: 323766 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium)

The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.

ID: 379980 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion

Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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: 389842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements

Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings.

ID: 398458 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails

In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 399551 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Intune: SCEP certificate delivery

Intune solution for our customers as well as external partners to deliver SCEP certificates with the right security precautions to devices to mitigate the KDC issue.

ID: 399932 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars (Premium)

This feature will now allow event organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars. These labels are visible to organizers when creating an event instance once selected, and notify organizers if the details of the event being created are not valid for the selected sensitivity.

ID: 409226 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership

With our Deploy Teams at Scale tool on the Teams Admin Center, you can deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed alongside any manual changes made by your team owners.

ID: 410774 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: New work location sharing options

This updates the work location sharing options to include the option of not sharing any location information to other users in the organization. The three supported location sharing options will now be “No location shared,” “Only general location shared (Office or Remote),” and “Detailed location shared (Building or desk location information).” The location sharing option will be respected when showing a user’s location information coming from Work Hours and Location across Outlook, Places, and Teams experiences. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 418127 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes

Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy.

ID: 397753 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List

Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List.

ID: 406166 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy Nudges to all Copilot SKU users (Seeded and Premium Viva Learning Users)

All Users having Copilot SKU (Viva Learning Seeded and Premium) will be nudged about Copilot Academy through a notification on Teams. Users will also get a monthly recurring notification in Teams about Copilot Academy.

ID: 409968 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Education grid view refresh

Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels.

ID: 412934 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Room audio auto-detect and pre-select in BYOD meeting rooms

When users connect their laptop to a room’s shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room’s audio and recommends connecting on the pre-join screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (e.g., displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft’s known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room’s audio upon connection.

ID: 413710 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Edge: Edit image with Designer

Discover advanced AI-powered image editing in Microsoft Edge with Designer. Easily personalize your images by erasing objects, adding text, enhancing visuals with auto crop, removing or blurring the background, and more, all without leaving your browser. Start editing by right clicking an image in your browser and selecting “Edit image with Designer.” Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “ImageEditorServiceEnabled” policy. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 418132 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024