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Work seamlessly and securely with those inside and outside your organization in DoD and GCC High environments. With Microsoft Teams Shared Channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space — have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants. This update began rolling out this month.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft Loop – a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Loop is an app built for the new era of modern work aimed at redefining the boundaries of creation and collaboration. Microsoft Loop combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications — enabling teams to think, plan, and create together.
ID: 122270 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Cloud PKI
A cloud-based certification authority to create, deploy, and manage certificates for secure authentication and Wi-Fi, VPN scenarios.
ID: 124877 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation
With Voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advanced noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. Voice isolation is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience.
ID: 125387 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – ICS support
ICS is a file format that holds event and calendar information and enables users to share that information through email. With full ICS support in the new Outlook for Windows, users will be able to view local ICS files and import them to their calendar. This mimics the experience currently available in classic Outlook for Windows.
ID: 128028 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Advanced Analytics – Battery health
Allows IT admins to make asset management decisions that optimize hardware costs and improve the end-user experience/productivity while using their devices.
ID: 155840 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Ability to set the availability by specific date in Shifts
Currently, we solely permit the frontline workers to establish daily recurring availability. With this new feature, we are enabling Frontline workers to set the availability for a specific date/time, in addition to recurring availability.
ID: 156952 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024
SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites
The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint.
ID: 171100 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: Online Archive for Shared Mailboxes
Add Online Archive for Shared Mailboxes in Outlook for Mac.
ID: 178350 Release: Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024
Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web
Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams.
ID: 180769 Release: Visio – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Visio: Infinite Canvas in Visio for the web
Infinite canvas in Visio for the web is an expansive digital canvas designed to remove spatial limitations. It will allow users to stretch their creative boundaries by providing the room they need to capture, organize, and visualize ideas without constraints.
ID: 180781 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Mac – Full control
Provide full control on Mac devices to reduce time to mitigation.
ID: 180794 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Entra: Expanded support for device-bound passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft Entra ID will add support for device-bound passkeys stored on computers and mobile devices as an authentication method in preview, in addition to the existing support for FIDO2 security keys. This enables users to perform phishing-resistant authentication using the devices that they already have. The existing FIDO2 authentication methods policy and end user experiences will be changed to support this preview release. For organizations to opt-in to this preview, admins will need to enforce key restrictions to allow specified passkey providers in the FIDO2 policy.
ID: 182056 Release: Azure Active Directory – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva content in Workplace Search
Users searching from Microsoft Search surfaces will be able to find content from Answers in Viva that match their search.
ID: 182258 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: Presence is back to Outlook on the Web
Teams Presence will be shown in Compose and read scenarios for recipients, co-recipients, and sender. The bubble indicators will provide contact’s status and help you decide the best way to communicate with them.
ID: 184004 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms
The new shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out and view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is extended to the front of the room for others to see and provides the host the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, minimizes the personal information that others in the room can see.
ID: 184363 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – New location for add-ins and integration with Teams search-based message extensions
We are consolidating all the add-ins into a flyout menu in the ribbon and adding Teams search-based message extensions into this same flyout.
ID: 184668 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Publish to Viva Engage
Campaign members can now additionally publish their publication to Viva Engage.
ID: 185105 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Outlook: Stream video recordings in the new Outlook for Windows and web
We’re introducing the ability to record and insert Stream video recordings in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. Soon you will be able to record a video of yourself, your screen or both, directly from Outlook and insert the recording in your email.
ID: 185369 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Outlook: Stream videos can now be watched inline in Outlook
We’re introducing the ability to watch Stream videos inline in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. Soon, if someone pastes a Stream video link in a supported Outlook app and sends it to you, you will be able to watch it directly in your inbox. The videos will play inline for recipients within the same organization, meaning you will not have to leave Outlook to watch the video. Recipients outside the organization, and those not using the new Outlook or web, will see a link to the video which they can watch in the Stream web app (depending on the organization’s file sharing settings).
ID: 185389 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Power BI: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights
The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is a new Power BI app from Viva Insights that helps organizational leaders prepare for rollout, and track adoption and impact of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
ID: 185698 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Power BI – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender
Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft 365 Defender and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.
ID: 185708 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Copilot for Microsoft 365. The report will include two sections: readiness and usage. The readiness section will include insights into your organization’s technical eligibility, license assignment, and Microsoft 365 usage metrics to inform Copilot license assignment decisions. The Usage section of the report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, activity insights, and more to follow.
ID: 185797 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Overview page redesign
The Microsoft 365 admin center Usage report Overview page has been redesigned to better navigate the most important usage insights in your organization. The redesign includes new engagement metrics such as enabled and active users, user state compositions (e.g. first time, returning users), storage by product, and key usage metrics for Microsoft 365 products.
ID: 185799 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Expand Investigation Pane to Full Screen for Data Loss Preventions alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender
The investigation experience is now improved with a key usability feature to expand the investigation pane to full screen while reviewing the details of a Data Loss Prevention incident or alert in Microsoft 365 Defender.
ID: 185813 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Outlook: High and Low Importance
You can now send email with High or Low importance from Outlook for Android
ID: 185828 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels
This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.
ID: 186527 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Controls for enterprise secure AI
The Microsoft Edge management service will give admins the controls to manage settings for Enterprise AI features, including Copilot in Edge.
ID: 186540 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Planner: New Microsoft Planner App for Teams
The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. Assisted by AI, it brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner and the power of Project into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
ID: 186964 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024
Planner: Planner Copilot
Through simple, natural-language prompts, Copilot in the Planner Teams app will help you generate new plans, set goals, track status, and react to changes as projects evolve.
ID: 186965 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Planner, Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Planner: Open and Edit Projects in Planner
Manage your projects along with plans and to-do lists in one simple, familiar experience within the Planner Teams app.
ID: 186966 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024
SharePoint: Advanced Video Analytics for Clipchamp Premium
We are building the next set of analytics features that would help video creators to better understand the audience and video viewing patterns. These features would be available as a part of the Clipchamp Premium license. Views by geolocation: Geolocation shows the views of the video as a percentage of total views from different countries over the last 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days. Usage by devices: This metric shows the views of the video as a percentage of total views from different devices (desktop, mobile, etc.) over the last 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days. Average watch time: It represents the total playback minutes of a video across multiple sessions divided by unique sessions. It reflects the average time spent by a user while watching the video over its lifetime.
ID: 187081 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva : Connections Analytics for multiple Connections experiences
With this feature, customers using multiple Viva Connections experiences in their tenants will see analytics aggregated at each experience level. There will be no change in how the analytics module is accessed or any metrics provided.
ID: 187086 Release: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Intune: New version of the Windows hardware attestation report
New organizational report that contains information on hardware-attested compliance settings, replacing the Windows health attestation monitor.
ID: 187118 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Project: Baseline with Project level variance
Record a snapshot of the project and view project level variance to know if the project is on track or delayed.
ID: 187139 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Project: Portfolio capabilities in Microsoft Project for the web
Structure projects into portfolios and get insights on top of your portfolios.
ID: 187140 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians
When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.
ID: 189639 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats
Save time with AI-based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed. We will notify you, via Message Center, when we know more. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 95065 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups
App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.
ID: 151829 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Front Row gallery improvements on Teams Rooms on Windows: Active video speaker promotion
Front Row now promotes pinned or spotlighted participants to the center stage when there is no shared content in the single and dual display mode. For single display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the most recent active speaker video will be promoted to the center. In dual display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the two most recent active speaker videos will be promoted to the center on each screen. If someone is sharing content, the most recent active video speaker will be promoted on the right screen.
ID: 161825 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management
Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels.
ID: 164490 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
SharePoint: eSignature
Microsoft’s native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from internal and external recipients for a PDF document in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the document leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft.
ID: 168828 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Support joining a live event as an attendee for Teams Rooms on Windows
Teams Rooms on Windows can now join a live event as an attendee and watch the streaming experience.
ID: 169881 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Synced updates for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices and paired consoles.
When Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices are updated from the Teams Admin Center, their paired consoles will get updated in tandem, ensuring a seamless experience.
ID: 174344 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD
Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations – like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove, share or “get more apps”.
ID: 174474 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Search: New user analytics extended to Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Office
User analytics improvements that provide deeper insights and filtering capabilities for search adoption across user segments like geography, department and occupation as well as search applications such as SharePoint, Microsoft Search for Bing, and Microsoft365.com. New capabilities include search insights from within Windows Search, Outlook, Teams and other Microsoft Office applications.
ID: 177894 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Classic Outlook for Windows – Summarize by Copilot
Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot can summarize email threads and extract key points.
ID: 180900 Release: Outlook, Microsoft 365 Copilot – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Click-to-Chat with Teams App Publishers
This feature enables users of Teams Admin Center to quickly and easily open a private Teams chat between themselves and a third-party app publisher to directly ask questions on pricing, compliance or other topics as they consider the deployment and/or purchase of the app.
ID: 182034 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Azure Active Directory: Auto-rollout of Conditional Access policies
Starting in November 2023, Microsoft will begin automatically protecting customers with Microsoft managed Conditional Access policies. All eligible tenants will be notified prior to this rollout.
ID: 183905 Release: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. StreamInvokeGetTranscript; 2. StreamInvokeChannelView; 3. StreamInvokeGettExtTrack; 4. StreamInvokeGetVideo; 5. StreamInvokeGroupView
ID: 180738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Yammer / Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. ThreadViewed; 2. ThreadAccessFailure; 3. MessageUpdated; 4. FileAccessFailure; 5. MessageCreation; 6. GroupAccessFailure
ID: 180740 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect shared channels in GCCH & DoD
Work seamlessly and securely with those inside and outside your organization. With Microsoft Teams shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space – have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants.
ID: 180742 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Control inbox and calendar sharing options
Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows provides users with the ability to share mail and calendar with other users at different permission levels. This feature provides admins with the ability to use Office Policy setting “Turn off sharing recommendation” to prevent users from sharing folders.
ID: 182261 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
