Play of the Week

Resource performance reports are coming to GCC High. The new setting in Microsoft Intune will give resource performance scores and insights for physical devices are aimed to help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve the user experience while balancing hardware costs. This update is expected in March of 2025.

In Development

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Teams Chats in ContextIQ

Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat.

ID: 429646 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard filter and other dashboard enhancements

Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include the following: supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates; and synchronized date ranges across the Readiness and Adoption pages for consistency and ease of analysis.

ID: 429870 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Outlook: Add emails as attachments while composing an email on Outlook for iOS and Android

Now while you are composing in Outlook for iOS or Android, you can use the same attach option you already know to select and attach emails to your mail.

ID: 464206 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Feature usage data sync

Edge Sync, which enables users to synchronize their Edge user data across multiple devices, is now launching a new sync data category called Feature Usage. This new category will allow users to synchronize data regarding their utilization of Edge features across all their devices.

ID: 464208 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot

Copilot for Security in DLP is capable of summarizing DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more. DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain a deeper view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed.

ID: 466740 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-Window Support

Teams now supports multiple windows on iPad. Effortlessly organize your Split View experience with two Teams windows to easily navigate across meetings, chats, and more.

ID: 467246 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing

Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar.

ID: 467445 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Authentication token modernization for Android-based Microsoft Teams devices

All Android-based Microsoft Teams devices including Teams phone devices, non-touch phones, Teams displays and Teams Panels will use IC3 tokens instead of legacy Skype tokens for authentication. Admins can enable ‘Block Legacy Authentication’ to update their authentication tokens when available.

ID: 467446 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Schedule messages in channels

Like in chat, you can now schedule send messages in channels. You can optimize the timing of your messages based on the recipient’s work hours, out-of-office time, etc, and ensuring your messages are delivered at the most suitable time.

ID: 467447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows

The updated Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows arranges all participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes video on the meeting stage, offers additional layout options, optimizes for single and dual displays, and provides a unified meeting experience across both Teams Rooms and desktop.

ID: 468277 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls

Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls.

ID: 468280 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Default enable transcription policy for new tenants

We are updating the default policy for Transcription from “off” to “on” for any new tenant. This change doesn’t mean that every meeting will automatically have transcription enabled, but it will allow users to turn on transcription if needed. This adjustment aligns the default Transcription policy with that of Recording, supporting broader adoption of Transcription and all AI features.

ID: 468282 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Unified video branded start page

This creates a unified Clipchamp and Stream start page that serves as a single video destination of creation, consumption, and discovery.

ID: 468289 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar

The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections.

ID: 468290 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Advanced editing from camera

This aligns the capture experience in camera and editor by enabling a seamless switch to the Clipchamp editor to make videos more appealing and impactful using advanced edit capabilities.

ID: 468293 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Template creation in Commercial

Users can create their own Clipchamp templates for personal use or distribution across an organization via brand kits.

ID: 468295 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within GCCH

Users within GCCH will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams.

ID: 468867 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite – Automated device enrollment without user affinity for visionOS and tvOS

Support for visionOS and tvOS through automated device enrollment for userless enrollment with Microsoft Intune Suite.

ID: 468887 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp

We are introducing a novel and streamlined method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your Clipchamp projects by leveraging the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline. We are looking into making video editing more productive by providing a more intuitive and straightforward editing experience.

ID: 468890 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Admin Controls for recording options

Admin controls will be updated for enterprise customers to better manage the new unified video experience, onboarding new admin policies to enable/disable camera, screen record, and audio record.

ID: 468891 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Sharing a portion of a video as a clip

Clipchamp allows authors and viewers alike to share a portion of a video without changing the original media. Using draggable handles on the playback timeline, a link containing the desired clip start and end is put on the clipboard for easy sharing. Opening this link will play only the specified clip, and viewers can easily pop out to view the full video if desired. This will allow users to share the most relevant portion of their content.

ID: 468892 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS

With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com. Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for eDiscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs – same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. For Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Additionally, customers will experience a faster export capability in the new portal driven through enhancements in backend architecture and optimized partition.

ID: 469031 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Intune: New enrollment policies experience for iOS/iPadOS ADE

These enrollment policies for iOS/iPadOS contains enrollment time grouping, improved UI, and removes automatic deployment of the Company Portal app and deprecated settings.

ID: 469032 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Intune: Resource performance report for Windows physical PCs for GCCH

The resource performance scores and insights for physical devices are aimed to help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve the user experience while balancing hardware costs.

ID: 469034 Release: Microsoft Intune – DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2025

Outlook: “None” color category for Mail and Calendar in the New Outlook for Windows and Web

We’ve introduced a new “None” color category for Mail and Calendar in the New Outlook for Windows and Web. This update provides more flexibility and customization in categorizing your emails and calendar events. By selecting the “None” option, users can now choose to have items without a designated color, allowing for cleaner organization and more control over which items stand out visually. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 469035 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only)

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser.

ID: 401116 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge

The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser.

ID: 401117 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment

Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters.

ID: 410985 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings

This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings.

ID: 411568 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh

The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content. Collaboration tools like whiteboards will be added to the environment as they become available.

ID: 412076 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions

Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app.

ID: 412360 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: 3×3 video gallery on dual displays for Teams Rooms on Android

Dual display rooms are now capable of presenting up to 18 videos (3×3 on each screen) when no content is being shared during meetings. This enhancement ensures a uniform experience across both Windows and Android Teams Rooms devices.

ID: 415239 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android

Admins can switch the screens of Teams Rooms on Android devices in dual display mode remotely, correcting front-of-room display issues without physical support. The screen swap control is accessible in device settings and the Teams admin center.

ID: 415243 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android

Users can rate how likely they are to recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms from 1 to 5 as well as provide additional comments on Teams Rooms on Android devices.

ID: 415245 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for Report a problem

Admins can designate an email address for receiving ‘Report a problem’ submissions from users in Teams Rooms on Android. The email address can be set through device settings and the Teams admin center.

ID: 415247 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience

The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more.

ID: 415249 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Users can opt-in to try the new calendar in Teams

The new calendar in Teams combines rich productivity features and the latest innovations, like Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Places, to help users collaborate seamlessly from anywhere. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, users will see the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams. New calendar is off by default, and users can toggle to try the new experience.

ID: 415415 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar

This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription.

ID: 417156 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events

Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement. Additionally, event hosts will now be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event.

ID: 412078 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events

Mesh events allows for even better collaboration for more people by now supporting guest user attendees into the Mesh PC app. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to the Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest user creation follows the existing process for tenant guest user creation (outside of Mesh). For this release, guest users would require a Teams Premium license, just like regular tenant attendees, to collaborate within Mesh. Guest access for the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update.

ID: 413713 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Access to Viva App Bar

Viva Glint displays Viva App Bar for improved discoverability of other Viva Apps. This feature has been removed from the roadmap to create a more consistent user experience for all Viva Glint users.

ID: 383725 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

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