In Development

Windows 365: Microsoft 365 Lighthouse support for Windows 365 Business

Integration of Windows 365 Business Cloud PCs in the Device List in Microsoft 365 Lighthouse management UI.

ID: 93674 Tags: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Room Remote on Desktop

The Room Remote feature users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Windows desktop/PC companion device via the Teams client. This feature first launched on mobile devices and will now be available on Windows PC form factors when joined to the meeting as a companion device.

ID: 95482 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Transmission Usage Report

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. Through this new capability, customers can download Walkie Talkie Usage and Transmission Quality related data to build insights for understanding product usage in stores and making investment decisions.

ID: 96972 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Add people to a group chat with @mention

Add new participants to the chat with @mention, removing the need to navigate to the add-dialog. When adding a new participant, you can control how much of the chat history to share.

ID: 97736 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – New touch and collaboration experiences

New touch and collaboration experiences will include 4K display support to further enhance your meeting experience on large screen devices and the ability to control the room system from both the Front of Room touch display and the touch console for convenience; to get this experience, the“Enable touch controls”setting on the device must be enabled. You will also be able to quickly start collaborating outside of a Teams meeting with the new, one-touch Whiteboard icon on the home screen. Tapping on this will launch the Microsoft Whiteboard app locally, and it will also allow you to start an ad-hoc meeting with your local whiteboard, enabling you to seamlessly switch from local to online collaboration. The“Allow initiate Whiteboard”setting on the device must be enabled to get this experience. When joining from a Teams Rooms device, you’ll start to see incoming chat messages to increase meeting inclusiveness. As a remote meeting participant, you’ll be able to add the PTZ Camera Controls app and control the zoom and orientation of a Teams Rooms camera directly from your desktop during a meeting; to get this experience, the Far end camera control policy must be enabled on the resource accounts.

ID: 101948 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments App

Provides a single location where professionals and administrators can create and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.

ID: 103195 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments calendar level analytics

Individuals and departments can drive business outcomes and improve customer experience by focusing on key metrics, such as length of appointments, wait times, and number of attendees. The report includes trends over time and the ability to drill down into individual appointment data.

ID: 103196 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Accounts Payable In-product site template

Licensed Syntex users will be able to apply an accounts payable site template directly from the in-product template gallery. This template includes automatic data classification and extraction using a prebuilt invoice model, a preconfigured content assembly model and various sample webparts, lists and libraries to inspire you. It also includes learning material about how to use and extend this template to customize it for your own use case!

ID: 103607 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Universal Annotations

Collaborate with others by highlighting and inking on files without changing the underlying document. Licensed Syntex users will be able to create and view universal annotations.

ID: 103608 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Increased limits per label for disposition review and proof of disposition

This feature removes the per label 1,000,000 item limit for items pending disposition review and proof of disposition (reviewed) including record labels. The tenant limit of 16,000,000 total items pending disposition and disposed still exists.

ID: 103622 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Review set – Add notes to items

Support for adding customer notes to items within a review set.

ID: 103623 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Project: Update resources work hours in Project for the Web

This feature provides more precision in project planning and estimation by letting you edit resource work schedule.

ID: 103626 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Email notifications for “Issues in your environment that require action”

Email notifications will now be sent for all health issues that require an admin to take an action.

ID: 103631 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in DoD

Organization-wide search across files, sites, people, and news; Search box in suite navigation bar in SharePoint, OneDrive, Office.com; Shared Search Results page between SharePoint and Office.com; Adding a new image vertical and actions on search results in SharePoint and Office.com

ID: 103635 Tags: Microsoft 365 – DoD Release: January CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Delay delivery of chat messages

You can send out a chat message in a time that is convenient to you, and the message will arrive to its destination at the time you scheduled.

ID: 88281 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Record a new video on the Stream Start page in Office for Government clouds

Users can create a new video directly from the Stream Start page in Office web by recording their webcam and/or screen. The new video is uploaded to OneDrive and ready to share.

ID: 88523 Tags: OneDrive, Office app, Microsoft Stream – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Apply default label policies to existing documents being edited (WXP on PC/Mac)

The OneDrive sync app will automatically sign in if there are existing credentials available to Microsoft applications (Teams, Office, Edge, Windows).

ID: 93242 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: November CY2022

Outlook: Notifications pane in Outlook for Windows

Using the Notifications pane, you can stay connected with updates focused on you, like @mentions, that you might have missed in the context of your regular mail.

ID: 93264 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Group chat invitations from unmanaged users

When using external access for Teams, users receiving a group chat invitation from an unmanaged Teams user will be prompted with the option to acknowledge or leave the group chat.

ID: 95051 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls

Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.

ID: 98054 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: November CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Global sign in and sign out for GCCH & DOD

Teams iOS app will support Global sign-in and sign-out tosimplify the experience for Frontline Workers. Employees can now use any devicefrom the shared device pool to sign in with their credentials and sign out ofit at the end of the shift. This will remove all their personal and company information from the device.

ID: 85736 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Forms: Instant Poll in Teams meeting

Microsoft Forms will add a new question type – Instant Poll to Polls app in Teams meeting. This feature will help meeting presenters quickly launch a binary poll to collect audience responses on the question without any beforehand preparation.

ID: 96670 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: November CY2022

Outlook for iOS: Schedule send

Write now, send later with “Schedule send”. To choose when to send, select … when writing an email.

ID: 98926 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Approvals in integrated SharePoint Lists

This feature will be released under SharePoint. List users will now be able to create and manage simple approval requests directly within integrated SharePoint Lists.

ID: 91417 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022