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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Outlook: Embed Teams Chat in Outlook Web
Teams embedded chat in Outlook web allows users to stay on top of their chats without leaving Outlook.
ID: 95601 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Archive channels
With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.
ID: 123769 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience
Making it easier for users to access calling capabilities with a redesigned user experience during calls.
ID: 141204 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights
The Communication Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance.
ID: 172016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024
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 Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New fields added to Activity Explorer
Added Protection Event Type and Protection Type fields in Activity Explorer for sensitivity label applied, sensitivity labels updated, and sensitivity label removed.
ID: 177293 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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
Microsoft Search: Monthly search report
The monthly search report provides key tenant search metrics and insights for your organization directly into the search admin’s mailbox, allowing administrators an easy way to understand how search performed in the previous month. Administrators can follow links provided in the report to the Search & Intelligence Admin Center for more information and deeper insights.
ID: 177895 Release: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps
IT admin has the ability to customize Teams apps to align with the company’s brand and enhance their usefulness for employees. By creating and managing multiple customized app instances, it can improve branding, awareness, and user engagement, overcomes the limitations of a single-instance approach and enables greater adaptability to meet the diverse business needs.
ID: 178355 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App
Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.
ID: 179769 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New settings available for your frontline manager in Shifts app
In the Shifts app, we are rolling out the ability for frontline manager to control additional functionalities through our Shifts settings page. Frontline managers will gain the ability to enable and disable swap shift request, offer shift request and/or time off requests for their teams.
ID: 179786 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager
The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers. eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to.
ID: 180170 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Syntex: Advanced Tenant Rename
As part of SharePoint Advanced Management, change your SharePoint domain with greater control. This includes the ability to prioritize up to 4,000 sites for early execution as well as support for tenants with total site counts up to 100,000.
ID: 180383 Release: Microsoft Syntex, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store
IT administrators can already browse and purchase Teams certified devices in the device store in Teams Admin Center. This update will enable IT admins to try and buy Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses from the device store.
ID: 180902 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
SharePoint: Clipchamp content
Content improves your ability to create engaging and inspiring videos using Clipchamp. This feature includes stock videos and images, music, shapes, graphics and annotations and is available via web only for the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
ID: 180990 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Updated admin experience for settings
We are improving the admin experience to manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention settings, including the endpoint settings.
ID: 181397 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Support for Two New Predicates on Endpoint DLP
With this capability, admins can extend the two below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document Property is – Document name contains words or phrases
ID: 181623 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting “Recording & Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab
Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.
ID: 181918 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
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 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile)
The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA); the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.
ID: 182046 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels (Premium)
Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. For Teams Premium, users will have additional access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, to generate images for their backgrounds.
ID: 183785 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Sort By Category
This feature allows users to sort their emails by categories in inbox and other folders. It will help users stay focused and organized by allowing them to group related emails together directly in the message list. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web.
ID: 183902 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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 Defender for Office 365: Admins can provide intent while submitting
Admins submitting to Microsoft can convey whether they are submitting for a second opinion or they are submitting to convey their confirmation of clean or malicious verdict.
ID: 183907 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List
Tenant allow block list domains & addresses, URL, and file entries will show last used date. This helps admins understand when an entry was last used (either at mailflow or time of click), helping them remove entries which are no longer needed.
ID: 183908 Release: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: Catch Up Improvements on Web
Catch Up allows you to stay in sync with your collaborators in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by showing you the latest comment activity that is directed at you and a summary of recent changes. Based on your feedback, we made improvements to the Catch Up feature. The comment activity directed at you will now persist in Catch Up between sessions for up to 28 days. New items will be indicated with a blue dot for clarity. You can also dismiss items individually if you do not wish to keep them in Catch Up.
ID: 184359 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft 365 app, Excel – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows
We’re developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly.
ID: 184504 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables
Accessibility improvements to tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers.
ID: 184511 Release: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new roles added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Information Protection, and Privacy Management related role groups.
Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization’s landscape. Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with new roles to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups. Additional roles will be added to Microsoft Purview built-in role groups for Compliance Administrator, Information Protection related role groups, and Privacy Management related role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups, it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage additional data types in the future.
ID: 184899 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium)
Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees.
ID: 98414 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Understand and update sharing privileges on OneDrive and SharePoint links
Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.
ID: 100697 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Android
Provides cloud-based Android remote assistance connection.
ID: 109554 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365
The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups.
ID: 115508 Release: Exchange, Outlook, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration
We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.
ID: 117424 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Personalized Viva Goals Digest Emails
Viva Goals activity summary digest emails summarize and curate the most relevant content for users across their Viva Goals experience.
ID: 117479 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels
Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. Powered by Microsoft Designer, use generative AI to create expressive images.
ID: 123501 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: SMS Notifications in Virtual Appointments Template (Premium)
External guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including appointment details and the meeting join link so they can join directly from mobile. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a reminder 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This is available in US only at this time.
ID: 127901 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Workflows within Channels
Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels. Note: This feature is only available within new Teams (T2.1).
ID: 131293 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Local Contact Search
With a newly added search bar, you may now search your local contact list in Outlook mobile by typing the name of a contact.
ID: 135281 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Choose which users to notify when publishing a task list
The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to choose which users to notify when you publish or unpublish a task list. In response to customer requests, you’ll soon have the ability to choose which members of teams receiving the tasks should get a notification in their Teams activity feed: all owners and members, owners only, or no one. Similarly, you will be able to choose who to notify when unpublishing a task list.
ID: 144248 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Scheduling improvements in Shifts app
In the Shifts app, people count, and full names, will show in the calendar view. The most recent filter settings will be saved automatically. Managers will be able to add inline notes in the day view, and notes can also be added using the Graph API.
ID: 146855 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect files on remote / mapped network devices
With this capability organizations can leverage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.
ID: 153398 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Advanced classification scanning and protection for Endpoints running on Mac OS
With this capability, admins can now extend Advanced classification support to Mac Endpoints as well. Advance Classification scanning and protection allows the more advanced Microsoft Purview cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them and return the results to the local machines. This means admins can take advantage of classification techniques like fingerprinting, exact data match classification and named entities in their DLP policies. Currently available in GA for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we’re introducing the ability to extend Advance Classification support to Mac endpoint devices for Government Clouds.
ID: 162667 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Automatic updates for the Teams app on Android-based Teams devices
Android-based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for any manual intervention. Administrators can manage the automatic updates by organizing devices into update phases or pausing the rollout temporarily, if needed, from Teams Admin Center.
ID: 163598 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Require background blur when no background is selected (Premium)
When enabled, if a user does not have a background image applied their video background will be blurred.
ID: 163967 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Incoming webhook connector in GCC-H
Incoming webhook connector can be enabled/uploaded by Tenant admins in GCC-H.
ID: 166986 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files
This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files.
ID: 168865 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Planner: Planner Personal Plans
Today in Planner, all created plans must be contained by an M365 group or a roster. With the new Personal plan API, plans can be contained by a new type of container, called a user container. For these types of plans, the creator of the plan is the only member and owner.
ID: 171611 Release: Planner – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: S/MIME support for sensitivity labels
Outlook on the web will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) signature and encryption as sensitivity label outcomes. Admins can define the label to have S/MIME signature, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly.
ID: 180732 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Town Halls
Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 123148 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection tuning
With this update, cumulative exfiltration activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from cumulative exfiltration activities. 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: 124971 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: Scheduling Assistant settings moving to the toolbar
We are moving the settings for the Scheduling assistant to the toolbar to reduce clicks and a more seamless scheduling experience.
ID: 170792 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Town halls (Premium)
Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Advanced town hall capabilities as a part of Teams Premium includes capabilities available in town hall plus capacity for up to 20K attendees, first-party eCDN support, additional language support for live translated captions, email customization, and more.
ID: 173182 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Enabling People Recognition in a Teams Meeting with a desktop client face enrollment process
This item has been cancelled due to duplication. Users will be able to enroll their face and create a face profile using the new enrollment process in the Teams desktop client. The face profile is used in Teams Rooms meetings where an Intelligent Camera capable of People Recognition is deployed to recognize in-room attendees, and then labels their identity for all meeting participants, both in-room and remote.
ID: 161426 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
