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Microsoft Lists, Power BI, Loop, and Whiteboard content will soon be available in OneDrive for Web across all tenants. If you have recently opened, shared, or favorited one of these files, then it will appear in your recent shared and favorites views. This feature is slated for release in November 2023.
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Microsoft Teams: Forward Messages in Teams chats
Forward messages quickly from one chat to another using the right-click menu. You can add additional content to the message to provide context and clarity for the recipient. You can forward messages to 1:1 chats and group chats.
ID: 90585 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, 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 – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Files app updated to OneDrive app experience in Teams
The Files app accessed from left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams.
ID: 145798 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Privacy options for frontline managers to control Time off in Shifts app
Frontline Managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers. These settings can be applied at the team level.
ID: 152119 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Follow a meeting in new Outlook for Windows and web
Follow is a new meeting response (RSVP) option that goes beyond the traditional Accept, Tentative and Decline choices geared towards individuals with high meeting loads and conflicting meetings each day. Follow is the ideal RSVP option for meetings you can’t attend but still want to stay engaged and receive info about. Other attendees will be able to see if you are following a meeting. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web.
ID: 154557 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Manage Microsoft Surface Hub as a Teams Rooms on Windows device
With the transition of Microsoft Surface Hub devices to the Teams Rooms on Windows platform, Admins can now manage Surface Hub devices as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams Admin Center and Teams Rooms Pro Management (available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers).
ID: 168347 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Quickly capture content in Teams mobile
This feature enables you to quickly capture content shared in a Teams meeting on a mobile device and save it in your photo gallery or share in Teams and other apps. We’ll honor privacy choices set in the meeting.
ID: 171217 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – recommendations for new policies and policy finetuning
Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards: for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts.
ID: 173161 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections desktop
The refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections introduces several requested new features including branding capabilities, sending announcements, a revamped Resources section, and support for different card sizes. The refreshed landing experience also brings the feed back into the viewport on your Connections page and offers an improved layout to the landing page.
ID: 176677 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ending the Microsoft Purview legacy alerts ingestion into Microsoft 365 Defender portal
To increase the relevance of DLP alerts and incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, we are ending the flow of the following legacy alerts into Microsoft 365 Defender portal: eDiscovery Search started or exported, successful exact data match upload, retention auto-labeling policy simulation completed, unusual volume of DLP policy matches, failed exact data match upload, MIP autolabel simulation completed, unusual volume of external file sharing, and unusual volume of file deletion. These alerts were created as a result of legacy standalone alert policies. For a better experience, we recommend using the alerting toggle in the DLP policy authoring experience.
ID: 177440 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
OneDrive: Add individual file shortcuts in OneDrive for Web
This feature will let you create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved, renamed, or deleted without impacting the source content, and they will show up in OneDrive for Web, Android, iOS, and sync client endpoints.
ID: 177873 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
OneDrive: Access Microsoft Lists, Power BI, Loop and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web
You will be able to easily find and open your Microsoft Lists, Loops, Power BI dashboards and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web. If you have recently opened, shared, or favorited one of these files, then it will appear in your Recent, Shared, and Favorites views in OneDrive for Web.
ID: 177877 Release: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
OneDrive: Admins can configure a group policy to block specific folders from OneDrive Sync
In addition to being able to configure a group policy to exclude specific files or file extensions from Syncing with OneDrive, admins can now exclude folders as well. End-users will be able to see the excluded folders in the Sync configuration applied to them via their OneDrive Advanced Settings.
ID: 178292 Release: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-New attributes and features for alert and case
With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide additional attributes for alerts and cases to make it easier to understand which alerts and cases should be prioritized. The additional attributes include details, such as the date the last activity was detected and the last working date of departing employees. In addition, admins with appropriate permissions can customize columns and save a preferred combination of filters and columns. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 179385 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams
Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, and calls, with the ability to ask Copilot any question and discover insights. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter a free text question of your own.
ID: 180201 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Domain/URL Update
To align the URL with the new Viva Engage branding and as part of the unified domain for Microsoft 365 initiative, Viva Engage’s URL schema is being updated. This change includes email sender and domains.
ID: 180352 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts
Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.
ID: 95788 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites
Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115495 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store
Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store.
ID: 122300 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 – Sequence detections for obfuscation involving excluded events
This change enhances sequence detection to improve its effectiveness in identifying users who are performing obfuscation activities that may result in a data security incident, such as file renaming, to evade detection. With this improvement, Insider Risk Management can detect sequences that may result in potential data security incidents, even if the obfuscation activities in those sequences involve excluded events, such as an excluded keyword. 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: 124970 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024
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
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators
With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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: 168841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs
Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. 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: 124777 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft 365: Italy datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability
Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Italy. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Italy and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Italy local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.
ID: 149269 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Manage Audit permissions from Purview Compliance Portal
Permissions to search or export the audit log can now be assigned from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
ID: 177888 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – New predictive coding module
To help cull and reduce data, right where Microsoft 365 data is created, shared, and stored, legal practitioners can use our new predictive coding module without moving data outside the Microsoft Purview security and compliance boundary. As part of this preview release, legal practitioners can organize content for review faster by going through training rounds of relevant and non-relevant content to iteratively train and tune the model performance by starting with as little as 50 items. This is an improvement from traditional models that require customers to train upwards of 10 times more documents to get started and see the output of the model. Note: We will not be releasing this feature at this time and will provide a new Roadmap ID when a date is available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 70805 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams AI library
This feature is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished when an update is available. The Teams AI library offers developers a suite of code functionalities designed to ease the integration of Large Language Models, empowering them to build rich, conversational Teams apps. It simplifies the process of creating Bots and Message Extensions, as well as interactions with Adaptive Cards for conversational experiences. Additionally, the Teams AI library also aids the migration of existing Bots, Message Extensions, and Adaptive Card functionalities with seamless integration with Large Language Models.
ID: 130662 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
