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Organizers of Microsoft Teams Town Halls will soon be able to reach up to 50,000 attendees with a Teams Premium License. This is a significant increase from the previous cap of 20,000 people. The quality of the events will not decrease with the larger amount of people but some interactivity features will be disabled. The upgrade is coming in December 2024.
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Microsoft Stream: Video reactions
This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature. This feature was incorrectly updated to a status of rolling out upon preview availability. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 375287 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your AI assistant in the GCC environment
Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com.
ID: 415097 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC Tags: December 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: Notes powered by Loop now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD
Teams Notes, powered by Loop, is now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments. Teams Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner.
ID: 418119 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage)
With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow.
ID: 420333 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365: Cloud Update logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Update service, like enabling Cloud Update or changing a Cloud Update configuration setting, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.
ID: 420932 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Windows 365, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces
Manage retention and deletion workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces like Copilot Pages when users leave the organization. Notify and provide temporary access to other employees or administrators to save important data before deletion policies take effect.
ID: 421612 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Admin management tasks enabled for all Loop workspaces
Admins can manage membership, ownership, deletion, and restoration of Loop workspaces in the SharePoint Embedded admin center or PowerShell. These changes are visible within the Loop experience.
ID: 421613 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Loop guest sharing via Entra B2B configuration for organizations with sensitivity labels
Enable B2B guest sharing for Loop workspaces, pages, and components, subject to administrator policy. This allows sharing with people outside your tenant and now includes organizations that utilize sensitivity labels.
ID: 421614 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – User accessible recycle bin for Loop workspaces
When users delete a Loop workspace, owners can restore it from a recycle bin in Loop.
ID: 421615 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: MySites card for Viva Connections Dashboard
This card will help operators add a card on the Viva Connections Dashboard which will provide quick access to the frequently accessed and followed sites by the end user.
ID: 421617 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Customize who receives shift request notifications
To streamline your workflow and reduce notifications, we’ve enhanced our notification system so that shift request alerts are now exclusively sent to schedule group owners, and not all owners of a team. This targeted approach ensures that the right people receive the necessary updates, helping team owners maintain focus.
ID: 422259 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Places – Auto update location with Workplace Presence
With Workplace Presence, you can discover coworkers who are in office nearby. Location will be automatically updated to “office” when we detect that an employee is on site, signaled by the connection of their laptop to a known peripheral, e.g. a known or company-managed monitor in a corporate office, or on a bookable desk. Users can enable/disable “Auto-update my location when detected in the office” via the Places settings menu in Teams.
ID: 422716 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Workplace check-in with Workplace Presence
With Workplace Presence, employees will have the ability to check in to the office in Outlook, Teams, and Places to confirm their work plans, receive check-in reminders, and view others nearby and who planned to come in. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 422717 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot
?In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends.
ID: 422718 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics
Space analytics in Places provides dashboards for buildings, bookable rooms, and desk pools, providing a unified view of key metrics. Users can pick the space type of their interest and dive deeper to know more about its utilization.
ID: 422719 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Team guidance
With team guidance in Places, managers communicate which days their team should plan to be in the office and what the priorities are for each in-office day. Providing a purpose for team days in the office gives you another reason to come into the office.
ID: 422720 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Microsoft Places – Individual desk booking
With the addition of individual desk booking via Places Finder, employees can view individual desks, filter by sections, and book a specific desk.
ID: 422722 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Intelligent suggestions in calendar
Intelligent suggestions will appear in calendar peek cards and the Places people pages when users have actions to complete to organize their day. Users will be prompted to “quick book” rooms for in-person meetings and desks for in-office days. They will also see recommendations to update their work location to “Office” when needed for in-person events.
ID: 422723 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces
Ensure new Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Microsoft 365 Group, similar to SharePoint Team sites.
ID: 422725 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Microsoft 365 Groups for Managing New Loop workspaces
When creating a new Loop workspace, users can specify an existing Microsoft 365 Group to manage the workspace’s lifetime, governance, and compliance, similar to SharePoint Team sites.
ID: 422728 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Town halls now available in GCC-High
Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 423478 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Town halls in GCC-High (Premium)
Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
ID: 423479 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only)
This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices.
ID: 429537 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000
Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
ID: 429538 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Drag and drop to download attachments and emails for GCC
Users can drag and drop attachments and emails from the new Outlook for Windows to their desktops or local folders to download them directly to that location. A feature that is already available in world-wide multitenant will now be available for customers in GCC. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 429869 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (customer managed storage)
In the alerts triage and incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity.
ID: 429871 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify users about hidden content matches in Communication Compliance
This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
ID: 429872 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: December CY2024
OneDrive: Enable OCSI for Tenants
If a tenant has the (EnableAllOcsiClients) GPO enabled, Office and OneDrive are able to communicate smoothly. Right now, tenants have the option to disable the GPO, and when they disable the GPO, it becomes difficult to ensure that all internal versions of Office files are kept up to date so that features like autosave, version history, real time user collab, and merging in the case of conflicts can work.
ID: 429874 Release: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
OneDrive: Office Files on Hold
If a tenant has the (EnableHoldTheFile) GPO enabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then end users can open the file in Office to merge changes. If a tenant has the GPO disabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then OneDrive automatically creates a copy of the file in conflict. When tenants have this GPO disabled, it leads to end users potentially having to manually merge hundreds of conflicts because OneDrive automatically forks a file instead of allowing the users to have the option to merge conflicts in Office. The proposal no longer allows tenants to disable this GPO thus not automatically forking a file when in conflict for end users.
ID: 429875 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage
Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations.
ID: 429876 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places
Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, empowering hybrid employees to foster in-office collaboration and leveraging insights into space optimization. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data.
ID: 433684 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Ability to request delegate access in Viva Insights
Viva Insights users will now be able request delegate access from a Manager in the Insights Teams or Web app. Previously, Managers could assign delegates, but potential delegates could not request access from a Manager. This request access update will allow for increased ease & flexibility of providing delegate access in Insights.
ID: 464174 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams
With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon.
ID: 464175 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Additional features on the profile card in Outlook Mobile
Reachability panel, hybrid location, and pronouns (read only) will be available on the Outlook profile card in iOS and Android. Events panel will be replaced with the calendar in Outlook mobile.
ID: 464205 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Admin ability to assign Delegates
Admins (Global administrators or Insights administrators) will now be able to assign or remove delegates for a Manager in Viva Insights via PowerShell. Previously, only Managers could assign delegates. Now, this ability provides delegate access in Insights to admins, allowing for ease and flexibility.
ID: 464207 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): General availability for the GCC environment
Microsoft Copilot will be generally available for the GCC environment and will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary.
ID: 464984 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats
Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work.
ID: 464988 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft 365: Create Dynamic rule-based backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup
Create backup policies for your SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange data based on distribution lists and security groups memberships, and have the tool automatically update these policies based on dynamic membership changes.
ID: 464989 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Create full-workload backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup
Automatically backup all Exchange or OneDrive users and/or SharePoint sites in the tenant and have the tool automatically add new users/sites to the backup policy.
ID: 464990 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 Backup
Perform file-level browse/search and then restore using Microsoft 365 Backup. With this enhancement you will be able to browse for files across in a site from available daily restore points and apply filters to narrow results, restore at the original location by overwriting existing content or to a new place by creating a copy of the content.
ID: 464991 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Dedicated Backup Administrator Role for Microsoft 365 Backup
Use a dedicated Backup Administrator role to manage your M365 Backup administration tasks.
ID: 464992 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft 365: Multi-admin change notifications for Microsoft 365 Backup
Set of pre-defined administrators can be configured to receive email notifications for any potentially damaging changes to the backup settings or actions taken to ensure proper oversight of the tool in the organization.
ID: 464993 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025
Microsoft 365: Protection unit-level offboarding for Microsoft 365 Backup
Ability to permanently delete, after appropriate grace period, protection units from the backups. A protection unit is defined as a OneDrive Account, SharePoint site, or Exchange Online shared or user mailbox being protected in the Backup tool.
ID: 464994 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Power Apps card for Viva Connections
This card allows you to bring your Power Apps and Cards on the dashboard for quick access.
ID: 464999 Release: Microsoft Viva – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Name pronunciation on profile card in Outlook web and Outlook desktop
You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues’ name pronunciations. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 465000 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Excel: Forms data sync support in Excel desktop
Users can get up-to-date form responses data in Excel desktop. Users can also create a new form from Excel desktop with a data sync connection to the Excel workbook.
ID: 466743 Release: Forms, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
ID: 377303 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet
You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…)
ID: 381643 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts
Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile.
ID: 394351 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Digital signage on Teams Rooms on Windows
Users can view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. Admins can remotely configure tenant-wide and room-specific digital signage settings at scale from Teams Rooms Pro Management. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems are supported, initial partners are Appspace and XOGO. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers.
ID: 400700 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms
Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform’s in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license.
ID: 400703 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall
Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site.
ID: 401120 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio control for language interpretation
New user setting that enables meeting participants using language interpretation to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio.
ID: 411569 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for non-touch phones
Quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for non-touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature will enable one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars.
ID: 411577 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New security and certification information available for apps and extensions
This feature will equip administrators evaluating apps and copilot extensions for deployment with extensive security and related certification data to help those admins more quickly evaluate that an app and/or extension complies with their tenant security requirements. Initially, the information provided will include results from individual M365 certification tests and evidence submitted by ISVs during Microsoft’s audit of their app or copilot extension. Additionally, for non-certified apps, admins will receive details on data handling, security, and compliance as self-attested by the ISV.
ID: 412935 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Multi-Account Support for Add-Ins and Apps in new Outlook for Windows
Currently, new Outlook for for Windows supports apps and add-ins for the user’s primary account only. We will be enabling apps and add-ins to be supported across all of the accounts added to new Outlook, dynamically switching to the active identity. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412936 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Copy list of attendees to clipboard
Allow users to copy the list of attendees to clipboard from calendar event. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412937 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Sort Meeting Attendees
Allow user to sort meeting attendees in the tracking list alphabetically. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412938 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Filter Meeting Attendees
Allow user to filter meeting attendees by name in the tracking list. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412939 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms
When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities.
ID: 413711 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Edge on MacOS now seamlessly opens links in Teams
When you set the default browser to Microsoft Edge on MacOS and enable the feature, web links from the Teams desktop app sent via chats, channels, calendar, and other entry points will seamlessly open automatically in the profile that is signed into Teams app and skips the need to reauthenticate in the browser making it faster and easier to access content. Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “Choose Which Browser Opens Web Links” Microsoft 365 policy.
ID: 414521 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls (Premium)
Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer role to deploy this feature within town hall instances.
ID: 418117 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers
Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work.
ID: 314380 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium)
The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.
ID: 379980 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Intune: New design for Windows Company Portal app
With the updated design, users will see improvements in user experience for the Home, Devices, and Downloads & updates pages. The new design is more intuitive and highlights areas where users need to take action.
ID: 399931 Release: Microsoft Intune – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments
Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 416076 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Contextual evidence match for endpoint DLP
With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 172028 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024
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 Teams: Audio zones enable Mesh creators to craft custom audio experiences
We will not release Audio Zones for Mesh Toolkit at this time. We are sorry for any inconvenience and will continue to share updated roadmap entries as additional Mesh features and functionality become available in Teams. Spatial audio in Mesh provides a realistic recreation of how sound moves in the real world, with the volume of people speaking or media playing getting lower of as you move away from the source of the sound. The introduction of audio zones enables creators to craft custom audio experiences for the intended use of a space with features such as extended audio drop off distances for conversations that happen in a large area, or restricting what audio can enter a given area, to allow smaller groups to have lively conversations without disrupting their neighbors.
ID: 412077 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
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