Play of the Week

M365 Compliance Center has a new feature getting ready to launch in November that will allow commercial tenants to see communication compliance reports occurred against a policy. Organization will be able to view a comprehensive summary of all their organization activities and actions. This new feature will allow organizations to easily fulfill regulatory compliance obligations, track the status and progress of unresolved policy violations.

In Development

Microsoft Search: Work Search Shortcut in Edge

To help users stay focused and find work results faster when searching from the Microsoft Edge address bar, Microsoft Search is adding the capability to create customized address bar shortcuts for your organization. With this feature, Edge users can type a shortcut keyword in address bar, then press the Tab key followed by their work query, they will see internal work results on Microsoft Search.

ID: 85614 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Lists entry point in the SharePoint app bar

An entry point to Microsoft 365 Lists will appear in the SharePoint app bar after the files icon. Content in the Microsoft 365 lists panel is driven by Microsoft Graph and is personalized to user activity.

ID: 85641 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Day zero insights

Communication Compliance Day Zero Insights helps organizations discover concerning behavior that they may not be aware of, like harassment, threats, or sharing of sensitive information, without even configuring a policy. This evaluation can help organizations identify potential areas of higher risk and determine the type and scope of communication policies to configure. For example, a trend of threatening language may be surfaced in Teams chats, and customers can easily configure a policy to detect threats sent over Teams channels.

ID: 85650 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – DLP policy recommendation

We are surfacing Communication Compliance policy recommendations within the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) workflow, with the ability to apply DLP policy insights to your insider risk practice to better identify user behavior and intent. Customers will now be directed to configure a relevant policy in Communication Compliance at the end of the DLP policy configuration flow.

ID: 85651 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Review activity summary

This new Communication Compliance report provides a comprehensive summary of all activities and actions that have occurred against a policy, such as date sent, date flagged, reviewed by, message reconciliation, etc. By providing visibility into policy review activity, organizations will be able to easily fulfill regulatory compliance obligations and can better track the status and progress for unresolved policy violations.

ID: 85652 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance – Additional classifier language support

To expand the ability to detect policy violations in communications beyond English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese, Communication Compliance built-in classifiers (threat, harassment, and profanity) now support these additional four languages: Arabic, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese Traditional.

ID: 85653 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance discrimination classifier

Currently available in public preview, the Discrimination classifier aims to detect and triage explicit discriminatory language.

ID: 85654 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance cross-tenant classifier feedback

Currently available in public preview, cross-tenant feedback enables customers to provide feedback on messages that were misclassified (such as false positives) by a Communication Compliance policy leveraging any of the classifiers.

ID: 85655 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Identity: New Detection – BronzeBit

An alert will be triggered when there is evidence of suspicious Kerberos delegation attempts using the BronzeBit method, where a user has attempted to use a ticket to delegate access to a particular resource.

ID: 85656 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Search: Customize out of box verticals and add verticals for SharePoint content

New support for custom verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search and add new verticals based on SharePoint content.

ID: 85657 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Search: Add custom filters on custom verticals

New support for custom filters on custom verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to add custom filters to custom verticals.

ID: 85658 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records Management – Disable unlocking of records

Records Management admins can disable the ability for users to unlock a record tenant wide. Currently, items marked as a record in SharePoint can be “unlocked” for editing by end users.

ID: 85663 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails available in Brazilian Portuguese

Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS now supports playing your emails in Brazilian Portuguese for users in Brazil. This is in addition to our support of English speaking users.

ID: 85664 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Configure Teams DLP policies to automatically protect files shared in Teams messages

New and existing Teams DLP policies can be configured to automatically protect files shared in Teams private chats and channel messages.

ID: 85667 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Meeting room capacity notifications for Microsoft Teams Room

Alerts in-room meeting participants if the room is over-capacity based on data defined in a room account. Not all cameras will support this feature.

ID: 65965 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Integrated CART Captioning in Meetings

Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting window. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

ID: 70588 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Admins can use cloud shell from Teams admin center

Admins can open Azure cloud shell from Teams admin center inline and run powershell scripts from browser.

ID: 82708 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Guest access support on mobile for DOD

Teams now supports Guest Access between tenants inside the DoD Cloud.

ID: 83676 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Guest access support on mobile for GCC-High

Teams now supports Guest Access between tenants inside the GCC-H Cloud.

ID: 83677 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the FLW onboarding wizard

The frontline worker (FLW) onboarding wizard empowers IT admins to pilot and deploy Teams for frontline workers in just a few steps. This wizard allows admins to streamline team creation, license assignment, and policy package assignment in a few simple steps.

ID: 84468 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: OneDrive data in Content Explorer

Display sensitive information, sensitivity labels, and retention labels detected on files and documents in OneDrive within the Content Explorer.

ID: 85626 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: 1:1 Calling in Safari Web Browser

We are now bringing 1 to 1 calling from Teams to Safari. Users can now initiate a 1:1 call with another Teams user while using Teams on Safari. Users can initiate a 1:1 call from the Calls App or from the Call button in the header of a 1:1 chat.

ID: 87312 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: October CY2021

Launched

Microsoft Teams: Real time data for Teams Meetings in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

Admin Real-time data for meetings for troubleshooting and immediate remediation.

ID: 68758 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Excel: Excel Trust Center – Adding a separate Macro Settings option to block Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros

A new Excel Trust Center settings option is available to further restrict the usage of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros. With this new macro settings option, choosing to disable XLM macros will no longer impact VBA macro settings. Previously, all of Excel’s macro settings configurations applied to both VBA and XLM macros.

ID: 70568 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Together mode for 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: 70625 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams user usage report in Teams client

The Teams user usage report provides users a view into their Teams activities and usage. A user can generate insights and metrics on a per-team and cross-team basis to understand their interaction with peers and across the organization. The reports are generated with privacy in mind, so only the individual user can view their own data.

ID: 70773 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Co-author in encrypted docs using Office Apps

Multiple users can now simultaneously edit an Office document that has been encrypted using Microsoft Information Protection, including using AutoSave. Co-authoring in encrypted docs is supported through the Office apps, Office Web Apps, and Teams.

ID: 70782 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Prompt to set Meeting Options for Large Teams Meetings in Outlook for Windows in GCC

Teams users in Outlook for Windows will be prompted to set meeting options when organizing Teams meetings for 40 or more participants or 10 or more distribution lists.

ID: 78699 Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams for Windows

Present your slides directly from PowerPoint for Windows into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams.

ID: 80599 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams for Web

Present your slides directly from PowerPoint for the web to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams.

ID: 80600 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: May CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Updated Web player for video & audio files in SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and OneDrive

The web player for audio and video files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint (including when those files are embedded in Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint), is updated with a new user look and feel, and adheres to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

ID: 82039 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, Yammer, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Control visibility of suggested topics

This update will empower knowledge managers to enable or prevent general visibility of AI-suggested topics.

ID: 82050 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support Auto-labeling (client-side)

Organizations will be able to configure new or existing client-side Auto-labeling policies using Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs), enabling more fine-grained control over which sensitive content gets labeled.

ID: 82072 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021

SharePoint: Editing Modern Pages in Teams Experience

Edit Modern SharePoint Pages that are pinned to Teams channels & conversations.

ID: 82969 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Present from PowerPoint to Teams with Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license

The capability of presenting your slides directly from the PowerPoint desktop apps to a meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams is now extended to the Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license.

ID: 83640 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub

This next generation of Teams on Surface Hub has been redesigned to bring your favorite features from the desktop and Microsoft Teams Rooms into the meeting space.

ID: 85447 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Communication Compliance tagging improvements

We are making tagging improvements based on feedback to improve investigation and remediation actions in Communication Compliance. We are adding column that will display the current tag applied, and we’ll provide the ability to unresolve a message so it can be triaged again by an investigator.

ID: 85556 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention (DLP) integration with Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS)

Extend data loss prevention (DLP) policies to non-Microsoft cloud apps to monitor and detect when sensitive items are used and shared via non-Microsoft cloud apps.

ID: 85565 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Physical badging Connector for Government clouds

You can set up a connector in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to import physical badging data, such as employee’s raw physical access events or any physical access alarms generated by your organization’s badging system. This information can be used by the Microsoft 365 insider risk management solution to generate risk indicators that can help you identify possible malicious activity or data theft inside your organization.

ID: 85588 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Records management multi-stage disposition review

This update allows organizations to use a multi-stage disposition process, including multiple stakeholders and reviews before deleting the content.

ID: 85591 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Data loss prevention (DLP) for Microsoft Teams data surfaced in Activity Explorer

DLP-related data sets which currently flow into Microsoft 365 Audit logs (i.e., Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams DLP) will now also surface within Activity Explorer and will now be available for Teams DLP under an activity called ‘DLP rule matched’.

ID: 85594 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for DoD

Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).

ID: 86067 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC High

Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.

ID: 86087 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Operator Connect

Operator Connect is a new way for customers to simply and quickly enable PSTN calling for Teams, using services from non-Microsoft telephony operators. Administrators can select their desired operator in the Teams Admin Center, and provision phone numbers to their users in just hours, with no required hardware.

ID: 87546 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Top hits in Search Autosuggest

This is being removed from the roadmap as a duplicate of 70563.  Top hits is a new section at the top of the autosuggest results in search where users will see the most relevant results across people, chats, files and more. This feature will improve discovery and reduce search times.

ID: 83576 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Edge: New policy to support more flexibility in Microsoft Edge startup

Beginning with Microsoft Edge version 93, enterprise administrators will have more flexibility in the options they choose in their startup policy. This will include the ability to specify the start page, add/remove additional pages, and Continue where you left off”, while ensuring that the set of pages specified by policy are also opened.  This feature has been cancelled.

ID: 85317 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021