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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Project and Roadmap app in Microsoft Teams
The Project and Roadmap app in Microsoft Teams makes it easy to track, manage, and collaborate on all aspects of a team project in one place.
ID:51138 Tags: Microsoft Project – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Project: convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new Common Data Service APIs
In order to deliver against the Common Data Service (CDS) platform of data usage, we will convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new CDS APIs. This will allow users to have access to the data within CDS.
ID:59929 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Manual sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Government clouds
Sensitivity labels, part of the Microsoft Information Protection framework, are used to classify and protect your organization’s data. Applying sensitivity labels is easy — keeping customers productive and protected. You can now apply sensitivity labels to important documents and associate the labels with protection policies within the Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications. The labels can also be associated with actions like encryption and visual marking.
ID:63662 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2020
Outlook for Windows: Option to start meetings late
Similar the option to end meetings early, we are adding the option to have the meetings you create start 0-15 mins after the specified time. You will be able to set this up in Options/Calendar/Calendar options once it is released.
ID:64944 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC
Targeted communication allows team members to message everyone in a specific role at the same time by @mentioning the role name in a post. For example, you could send a message to all cashiers in a store or to all nurses in a hospital.
ID:68841 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: November CY2020
OneDrive: iOS – Bookmarks for PDF viewing
Users of OneDrive for iOS will be able to Bookmark, or “Tag”, PDF pages that they want to come back to later.
ID:68842 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, Education, GCC, Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes for Government Clouds
Microsoft Forms now provides a setting on multi-page (multi-section) Forms/Quizzes which, when enabled, will show responders a progress bar. The progress bar is a visual indicator telling the responder how far they are through the survey, e.g. “Page 1 of 3”. Note: this feature is off by default on new forms and quizzes. Form owner should choose to enable this setting if they want to use it. However, forms/quizzes already existing at rollout time will have the progress bar setting checked. This Progress bar feature still is only shown on multi-page forms, and can be easily disabled by the Form owner in the settings pane for that form/quiz.
ID:68843 Tags: Forms – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participants
Currently, 300 meeting participants can be part of the meeting chat; this feature update will allow 1000 participants to participate in the meeting chat.
ID:68844 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Live Event Presenter for iPad
Live Event Presenters can now present from their iPad to the audience.
ID:68846 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High and DoD
Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you’re sitting in the same room with everyone else.
ID:68847 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2019
Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Government clouds
Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling, based on content inspection, is natively built into Office apps within Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications on Windows (in the Office 365 subscription version of the Office apps) and Office Online.
ID:68848 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Mac for Government clouds
Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling, based on content inspection, is natively built into Office apps within Outlook and Word/Excel/PowerPoint applications on Mac.
ID:68849 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: January CY2021
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection: EDR in block mode
EDR in block mode is a capability in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that turns EDR detections into blocking and containment of malicious behaviors. This capability uses Defender for Endpoint’s industry-leading visibility and detection capability to provide an additional layer of post-breach blocking of malicious behavior, malware, and other artifacts that your primary antivirus solution might miss.
ID:68850 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection: Web Content Filtering
Web content filtering is a feature in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint that enables security administrators to track and regulate access to websites based on specified content categories. You can configure policies within Microsoft Defender Security Center to block or gather access data on certain categories across your machine groups.
ID:68851 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365
Data at rest encryption for Microsoft 365 provides customer key based encryption across multiple M365 workloads. Tenant administrators can configure a single data encryption policy using customer managed keys and assign it to the tenant. Doing so will start encrypting all new data across the following workloads (and more workloads coming soon) from the point of creation of these policies: “Microsoft Teams Files · Teams Chat Messages (1:1 chats, group chats, meeting chats and channel conversations)”, “Teams Media Messages (images, code snippets, videos, wiki images)”, “Teams Chat Notifications” and, “Chat Suggestions by Cortana Exchange Online (includes existing data)”
ID:68922 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Office 365 – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: March CY2021
Whiteboard: Whiteboard will be available in Microsoft Teams Rooms
Whiteboard will be added to Microsoft Teams Rooms.
ID:73905 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings
ROLL OUT TEMPORARILY PAUSED FOR NOVEMBER 2020. Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer.
ID:60371 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
OneNote: OneNote Feed in OneNote Online, OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows 10
The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in OneNote and Outlook including your Sticky Notes, recent OneNote pages, and Samsung Notes for Samsung users who are syncing to OneNote. You can easily share your notes by dragging and dropping notes into OneNote pages or your emails. Have a thought you want to capture? You can create a new Sticky Note right in your OneNote feed. The OneNote feed is available in Outlook.com, Outlook on the web, OneNote, OneNote for the web, and OneNote for Windows 10.
ID:66204 Tags: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Azure Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Government F3 GCC High and DOD environments are now backfilled with Azure Information Protection P1
This announcement is to confirm that starting 9/1/2020 we’re launching Azure Information Protection (AIP P1) in Microsoft 365 Government F3 SKUs for the GCC High and DoD environments. Azure Information Protection P1 cloud-based solution that enables organizations to classify and protect documents and emails by applying labels. For more information on how to take leverage these capabilities please reference our product documentation here.
ID:66207 Tags: Azure Information Protection – DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Office 365: Updated Office.com Home Page
We are updating the layout and navigation of Office.com and the Office App in Windows 10 to improve the usability based upon customer feedback. Users will find their documents front-and-center, and will be able to access their applications within a more organized page structure.
ID:66739 Tags: Office 365 – GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Organizational branding for line-of-business Teams app catalog
IT Admins will be able to customize their Teams line-of-business app catalog using their organization’s branding. This will enhance the user experience for end users and increase organic discovery and use of an organization’s line-of-business apps.
ID:67111 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Recommended Office information
The Discover feed of information on the Search home page is changing to Recommended and provides quick access to additional relevant company information based on the Microsoft Graph.
ID:67557 Tags: Outlook, Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Set Outlook as your default email app with iOS and iPadOS 14
When iOS and iPadOS 14 are available and you update your OS, you can choose Outlook as your default email app.
ID:67980 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, Education, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2020
Outlook for Android: Use your voice to compose an email
Use your voice to start to compose a message to a specific person.
ID:68286 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Watch email complication with unread email badge count
Your email complication for Outlook will include an unread email badge count on your Apple Watch with watchOS 7
ID:68293 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, Education, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to create a new calendar event
Use your voice to create a new calendar event.
ID:68302 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to compose an email
Use your voice to start to compose a message to a specific person.
ID:68303 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for Android: Use your voice to create a new calendar event
Use your voice to create a new calendar event.
ID:68305 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Support Scribble with iPadOS 14
Once iPadOS 14 is available and you update your OS, you can use the Apple Pencil with Outlook to Scribble in text fields such as the body of your email, keyword Search, new event scheduling. Your hand writing will be converted to text.
ID:70323 Tags: Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Favorites for additional customers
Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people.
ID:72352 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Outlook for Android: Favorites for additional customers
Outlook for Android: Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people.
ID:72353 Tags: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Preset security policies for EOP and Office 365 ATP Security
Although we empower security administrators to customize their security settings, we are introducing two recommended security levels in Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: standard and strict. Each customer’s environment and needs are different, but we believe that these levels of mail filtering configurations will help prevent unwanted mail from reaching employee inboxes in most situations. We will be automatically updating profiles for our smaller customers who want us to manage these settings for them, but for others, we want to enable the admins to easily configure these for their users. Preset security policies will allow admins to take these settings and apply them to a defined set of users on one place. To get more information on the recommended settings, visit our documentation today!
ID: 59220 Tags: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: June CY2020
Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online
Advanced Audit helps organizations to conduct forensic and compliance investigations by providing access to crucial events such as when mail items were accessed, or when mail items were replied to and forwarded, and when and what a user searched for in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
ID: 62587 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Security and Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit – Mail forward and mail send events
The Send event is a mailbox auditing action and is triggered when a user sends, replies to, or forwards an email message. Investigators can use the Send event to identify email sent from a compromised account.
ID: 62588 Tags: Word, PowerPoint, Excel – GCC High Release: October CY2020
Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard: Support for full hybrid to two or more tenants
We are adding support to allow the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard to establish full hybrid from a single on-premise organization, to two or more tenants.
ID: 63991 Tags: Exchange – All environments Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Double Key Encryption
Currently available in preview to Commercial tenants, Double Key Encryption from Microsoft allows you to protect your highly sensitive data while maintaining full control of your key. You can protect your data with two keys – your Azure key and your key in the Double Key Encryption service.
ID: 64646 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft To Do: Support for Sharing Personal Lists
Microsoft To Do will now allow you to share lists from personal to work accounts.
ID: 64658 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Simplified Global Notification Settings
Users can now configure and customize their notification settings through a newly designed notification settings section.
ID: 65636 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
OneDrive: Updates to comment notifications
Users who create or upload Word, Excel, PowerPoint or any other type of file to OneDrive or SharePoint will now get email notifications whenever someone else leaves a comment on their file.
ID: 66192 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, Germany, GCC Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Large Gallery view (Preview) – see up to 49 participants
We will soon bring Large Gallery view to Microsoft Teams, providing a new way to view video up to 49 participants at once on a single screen (7×7). We will begin rolling out the feature to production with the new multi-window experience in late June and target full availability by the end of August. In order to take advantage of this new view, users will need to turn on the new multi-window meeting experience once made available.
ID: 66717 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: October CY2020
Whiteboard: Australia GoLocal
New whiteboards created by tenants in Australia will now be stored in local datacenters. Previously created boards will be migrated in future.
ID: 66762 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
OneNote: OneNote in Teams for DoD
OneNote integration in Teams will be enabled for Department of Defense.
ID: 66925 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Incoming video support on Safari
Teams meetings in Safari 13 and later will support incoming video. A participant can see the video of an active speaker. No configuration is needed.
ID: 67109 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting for GCC and GCC High
We are delivering the ability for presenters to lock on an individual video feed for all attendees to see during a Teams meeting. Once selected, the individual identified as the spotlight will be the main video shown to all participants. This applies to PC, Mac, mobile, and Microsoft Teams room systems.
ID: 67141 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Improvements to Meeting Notes
Meeting notes will now support 100 users by default and, participants who have access to notes will no longer run into issues where they lose access. Also, if anyone joins your meeting past after it is scheduled and, doesn’t have access to notes, they can now request access from the notes owner in one click.
ID: 67142 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account Protection
Over the past few years, attackers have increasingly moved from targeting infrastructure or devices to targeting users. As a result, organizations need protection for all users, but even more protection for their most visible and targeted employees. With Priority Account Protection in Defender for Office 365, security teams can now prioritize focus on critical individuals within the organization, offer them differentiated protection and thwart costly breaches in the process. These Priority account tags and filters will surface throughout the product, including in alerts, Threat Explorer, Campaign Views, and reports.
ID: 67172 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Outgoing screen-sharing support on Safari
Teams meetings in Safari 13 and later will now support outgoing screen sharing. A participant can share their screen. No configuration is needed.
ID: 67174 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams: 6 New Calling Plan Countries
Microsoft adds Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland as new Calling Plan countries.
ID: 68773 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2020
Yammer: Default to the New Yammer experience on web
The new default setting shows the opt-in toggle for new Yammer to all users. Global admins and Yammer Verified Network admins of existing networks can still control how your organization rolls out the new Yammer experience under the ‘New Yammer’ tab in Yammer Admin settings.
ID: 70321 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Wirelessly cast to Teams devices
[This has been broken out to 68739 and 68743 and will be removed from the roadmap.] Wirelessly cast to any Teams Room, collaboration bar or Surface Hub device, enabling seamless ad-hoc in-person collaboration for people in a shared space
ID: 62962 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
