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A Data Loss Prevention (DLP) analyst will be able to access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Defender. This feature will be rolling out in May 2024 to commercial, GCC, GCC High and DoD customers.
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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie: automatically listen to multiple channels
Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now connect to, up to 5 favorite channels in multi-channel mode, automatically listen to incoming transmission from these favorited channels and initiate easily initiate PTT transmission on these channels.
ID: 161725 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Post articles in Viva Engage
With articles, you can write longer, more thoughtful posts with inline images, sections, headings, and more.
ID: 177407 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device
Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant.
ID: 178013 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Insider risk insights in DLP alerts
With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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: 179880 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: May CY2024
Visio: Containers in Visio for the web
Containers are a powerful tool for organizing and managing complex diagrams. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use containers in Visio for the web to create professional-looking diagrams that are easy to understand and navigate.
ID: 180322 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Search: Staged Rollout for Graph Connectors
Staged rollout is a feature that allows you to gradually introduce Microsoft Graph connectors to a select group of users in your production environment. You can use it to deploy an existing or new connection to a limited set of users, monitor the performance, and adjust settings as needed.
ID: 181514 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content
Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.
ID: 181617 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.
ID: 185103 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Stream: New features to record your screen in Stream
Record your screen with fun picture-in-picture shapes, new layouts, and easy access to the teleprompter.
ID: 185383 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Updated Outlook for Android Settings
The whole Outlook for Android Settings page is being updated to be better organized so that you can find the settings you need more efficiently.
ID: 185387 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: Updated Outlook for iOS Settings
The whole Outlook for iOS Settings page is being updated to be better organized so that you can find the settings you need more efficiently.
ID: 185388 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams channels
Co-create and collaborate using Loop components in channels. Share a Loop component like a table, a list or a paragraph, so anyone in the channel can view and edit it. Available in classic and new Teams.
ID: 123491 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Stream Mobile app for GCC-H and DoD users
The completely rebuilt Stream mobile app on iOS and Android will soon be available for GCC-H and DoD users. The rebuilt app gives you seamless access to Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app provides an enhanced video playback experience, an improved user interface as well as core functionalities like offline downloads, video recording and uploading.
ID: 139272 Release: Microsoft Stream – DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Export APIs
Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs.
ID: 146731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments Analytics updates (Premium)
Tenant admins can see updated analytics with new insights inside the Teams Virtual Appointments app, including average lobby wait times for scheduled vs. on-demand appointments, percentage of appointments completed after scheduled end time, and percentage of appointments with a late start.
ID: 161629 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New Shortcuts for Calls in Teams
We are changing the keyboard shortcuts used to initiate calls in Teams to create differentiation from other commonly used shortcuts and reduce accidental calls. The new shortcuts for Windows will be: Alt + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Alt + Shift + V for video calls. For MacOs the new short cuts will be:Option + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Option + Shift + V for video calls.
ID: 164200 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Desktop to web browser join experience for attendees in Virtual Appointments
Schedulers can enable the ‘have attendees join from a web browser’ setting so that attendees joining the virtual appointment on desktop will be routed to the Teams web browser experience. This allows attendees to have access to engagement features including raise hand and live reactions.
ID: 165485 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Quickly capture content in Teams mobile
This feature enables you to quickly capture content shared in a Teams meeting on a mobile device and save it in your photo gallery or share in Teams and other apps. We’ll honor privacy choices set in the meeting.
ID: 171217 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Chat button on missed call activity
Easily stay in touch with your contacts after a missed call. A new chat button is added to your activity feed, enabling you to follow up on a missed call and start a chat with just one click.
ID: 176318 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, and calls, with the ability to ask Copilot any question and discover insights. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter a free text question of your own.
ID: 180201 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Org Explorer
Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web.
ID: 182237 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites
Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115495 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD
Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center.
ID: 138550 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams
Immersive spaces in Teams makes it easier for Teams users to transform their meetings into a 3D experience. With just one click, you can connect with your team in a pre-built immersive space right from the view menu in Teams meetings.
ID: 161720 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – New predicates for endpoint DLP
With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning- Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than.
ID: 167332 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Word: Copilot in Word
Copilot in Word transforms your writing with efficiency and creativity—create, summarize, ask questions, refine, and elevate your documents. Copilot in Word can now help you to draft content, bring in specific information from other documents into your content, generate summaries, ask questions about your document, get ideas about specific topics, and even transform text into tables or provide suggestions for ways to rewrite your content.
ID: 180179 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
PowerPoint: Copilot in PowerPoint
Copilot in PowerPoint is a tool that can help you create, edit and understand presentations. It can draft a presentation based on your topic or Word doc, or add slides and images for you. It can design using your template, organize your slides, and summarize and extract the main points from a longer presentation.
ID: 180181 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Copilot in Outlook
Copilot in Outlook helps you stay on top of your inbox and create impactful communication in a fraction of the time. Copilot can now summarize an email thread and quickly jump to the source of the summarized content, suggest action items, and draft new messages or replies. Copilot also coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac, web, iOS, Android, and the new Outlook for Windows.
ID: 180185 Release: Outlook, Microsoft 365 Copilot – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
OneNote: Copilot in OneNote
Copilot in OneNote helps you revolutionize the way you plan and organize by staying better prepared and proactively taking action from notes. Now you can gain deeper insights on your notes by asking comprehensive questions, generating summaries of your content, asking Copilot to generate content for you, and helping make your writing clearer.
ID: 180189 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
