Play of the Week

Microsoft 365 Purview Insider Risk Management User Activity Reports feature allows admins to examine risky user activity reports. The new feature will identify potential malicious risks like IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Be on the lookout for this new feature rolling out soon.

In Development

Outlook: Context IQ -inline search and insert

Editor leveraging Context IQ allows users to easily search for and insert entities that exist across their Microsoft 365 account like people and files, in a message they’re writing. When users type the “@” symbol, a menu will appear that shows the different options. Outlook can also proactively assist users by suggesting relevant content to insert based on the context of their current message.

ID: 88943 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Support for Graph Connectors content

Microsoft 365 admins can now connect third-party applications into their environments via Graph Connectors. With this update this content will now be available for eDiscovery workflows including collections, review, and export.

ID: 93414 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Outlook: Outlook for Windows: Reactions

Thumbs up, laugh, heart, celebrate, or shed a tear in reaction to emails in Outlook. Apply your sentiment and see the reaction of others in emails in Outlook without sending or receiving incremental emails.

ID: 98101 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Whiteboard: Open existing whiteboard in Teams meetings

Users will be able to choose from preexisting whiteboards in their board picker to share during a Teams meeting.

ID: 98102 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, GCC High Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Syntex: new rules actions – move and copy

Create rules to move or copy files processed by Syntex models based on the extracted value.

ID: 98111 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Edge: Test Base for Microsoft 365 Testing support for Microsoft 365 apps and Edge

Test Base will support testing of how your app works with newer versions of Edge and the monthly update channel of the Microsoft 365 client applications.

ID: 98155 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Schedule send suggestions from Viva Insights in Teams chat

To encourage adoption of healthy collaboration habits, Viva Insights will display actionable recommendations to align message delivery in Teams chat to recipient work hours. Schedule send suggestions will be automatically displayed for those who compose 1:1 chats in Teams desktop and web after-hours. With just one click, users can schedule chat message delivery to be at the start of recipient work hours and minimize work-related interruptions during personal time.

ID: 98159 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score People Experiences: Group level aggregates for Communication, Mobility & Collaboration

We are adding group level aggregates to Adoption Score people experiences across Communication, Content Collaboration and Mobility. Group information can be viewed across five Azure Active Directory attributes- Company, Department, Country, State and City. For group level aggregate information to be displayed, the capability must be enabled by a Global Administrator and a minimum of 10 users must be included in a group to ensure that individual users cannot be tracked.

ID: 98163 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score People Experiences: Organizational Messages for Communication and Content Collaboration

Organizational messages for selected people experience categories in Adoption Score will enable IT admins to help users understand how to get more from Microsoft 365 using targeted in-product notifications. We will be releasing new organizational messages for Communication and Content Collaboration experiences, backed by Microsoft’s commitment to user level privacy.

ID: 98166 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score – New insights and page redesign for the ‘Meetings’ People Experience category

We are releasing an updated meetings page with new insights and data on pre, during and post meeting features under people experiences in Adoption Score. The new page will have an updated scoring logic and will provide transparency on which recommended practices affect your score, which recommended practices show the most significant growth and also areas for improvement.

ID: 98170 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Office App: The Microsoft 365 App

The Microsoft 365 app for web, Windows, and mobile is an evolution of the Office app. It is the place to find all your apps and files, create new content, and get intelligent recommendations that make work easier.

ID: 98173 Tags: Office app – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments App

Provides a single location where professionals and administrators can schedule and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.

ID: 98188 Tags: Bookings, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Location-based routing for Teams on VDI

When making or receiving a PSTN call, location-based routing for Teams on VDI, enables the bypass of toll restrictions based on where the user is located. Such as when the user is not physically located on a corporate network.

ID: 98501 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Outlook on the web: Meeting Recap

Meeting recap helps users stay on top of meeting results and follow up by making it easy to find meeting related documents such as the recording and meeting notes without the need to navigate across multiple apps, so they can recap a meeting and follow-up asynchronously.

ID: 98805 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Outlook: Compliant meetings

Outlook: Compliant Meetings – Make your meetings secure and compliant by applying sensitivity labels.

ID: 98924 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Outlook for iOS: Schedule send

Write now, send later with “Schedule send”. To choose when to send, select … when writing an email.

ID: 98926 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Outlook for Android: Schedule send

Write now, send later with “Schedule send”. To choose when to send, select … when writing an email.

ID: 98927 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from Teams meetings on VDI

Users in a Teams meeting on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) can now share audio while screen sharing.

ID: 99189 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Call Merge for Teams on VDI

Call Merge for Teams on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) gives users the capability to merge an active 1-1 call into another 1-1 call or another group call. This applies to both Teams VOIP calls and PSTN calls.

ID: 99863 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pre-meeting Breakout Room creation and participant assignment for Teams on VDI

Organizers of Teams meetings on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) can configure breakout rooms and participant assignments before the meeting starts.

ID: 99864 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Simulcast for Teams on VDI

Simulcast support for Teams on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) enables multiple video call streams at the same time, even in the event of low network quality.

ID: 99865 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Teams: On-demand Virtual Appointments

Enable on-demand B2C appointments to allow customers to meet with staff in businesses or departments right away without requiring them to schedule it in advance.

ID: 99919 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Forms: Animated backgrounds for forms

Create engaging & inviting forms to attract your audience by using a large selection of new animated backgrounds.

ID: 99937 Tags: Forms – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments Premium Analytics

Admin analytics and reporting for Teams virtual appointments.

ID: 99947 Tags: Bookings, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Bookings: Follow up reminders

Configure post-appointment reminders to customers.

ID: 100054 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure policy tips for emails with sensitivity labels

Configure Data Loss Prevention policies to enable policy tips for emails with sensitivity labels.

ID: 100157 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure inheritance of attachment labels to email messages

Configure label policies for email messages with attachments to inherit labels that match the highest classification of those attachments.

ID: 100158 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Display store apps in Viva Connections Toolbox

With this improved experience, editors will be able to see and request third-party apps while editing the Dashboard for Viva. The “Browse more cards” section will be added in the toolbox, showing up the third-party apps that complement Viva Connections.

ID: 100249 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments calendar analytics

End-user calendar analytics in the Virtual Appointment Teams application.

ID: 100491 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

OneNote: New Navigation Options

Bringing a new way to navigate OneNote. Choose between our new vertical tabs option or the current horizontal tabs available in the app today.

ID: 100492 Tags: OneNote – Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Project: Increased number of tasks in Project for the web

Create up to 1,000 tasks within a project to take on big projects.

ID: 100495 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in Government Community Cloud (GCC)

A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web, and the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences currently in the Viva Insights app in Teams, and will include a link to the MyAnalytics dashboard for users who want to reflect on insights related to their work habits.

ID: 100496 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: November CY2022

Whiteboard: Text formatting

This brings text formatting functionality in Whiteboard, optimizing the default font style (for text boxes) & allowing you to format text among other functionalities!

ID: 100497 Tags: Whiteboard – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Rules packaged into out-of-the-box List templates

Several of the out-of-box list templates will now come with rules pre-packaged into them, to help you keep you and your team members notified of distinct changes in your list items.

ID: 100499 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Rules packaged into custom List templates

Expand your custom organizational templates by packaging rules into them – alongside the ability to pre-program the list schema (columns), formatting, and more.

ID: 100500 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2023

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Create a list from CSV

You can now import from a CSV file to create a list with it. The Export to CSV feature is also augmented with schema, so when you import, your source and destination lists will look identitical, down to all the custom formatting, choice pills, richtext based editing etc.

ID: 100501 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Approvals integration

Microsoft Lists templates will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. When you specify the approver within your list item, the request will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly within the list. Once approved, the list item status is updated.

ID: 100502 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: New Lookup column type support

Create Lookup columns in modern list user interface – no settings page required. This means you can program a list item (column) to ‘lookup’ another set of data of pre-populated, managed choices. We are pleased to expand the columns types that are now supported when ‘looking up’ from the other list: Boolean (Yes/No), choice, and multi choice – plus formatting.

ID: 100503 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Calendar view – week layout

When you create a new view for your list, you can now choose between month view or the new week view to visualize your list information in a way that works best for you. And you can create multiple calendar views – using both month and week – you choose. Once in the calendar view, it’s easy to drag-n-drop items to reschedule them (adjusting their date on the list itself).

ID: 100504 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: AIP Scanner admin experience moving to Microsoft Purview compliance portal

The AIP Scanner admin configuration is currently managed through the Azure portal. The admin configuration will be moved to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Existing users of the Scanner will see their configurations in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal with no additional steps.

ID: 100505 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Virtual appointment – a new Teams Meeting type for B2C meetings

Virtual Appointment is a new Teams meeting type tailored for B2C meetings with people outside of your organization. When using the meeting type, guests will get a meeting invitation that includes important appointment details to make joining easy. They can join from any device—no need to install Teams—and experience a comfortable pre-appointment virtual waiting room until you’re ready to begin.

ID: 100705 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Focus mode in Viva Insights

The focus time experience in Microsoft Teams is being enhanced for users with Viva Insights subscriptions. Focus plan users will gain access to a focus mode experience. Focus mode will allow users to set a timer to balance short bursts of productivity with breaks, manage their task list, and tap into mindfulness exercises during their breaks.

ID: 100706 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score People Experiences: Group level aggregates for Meetings and Teamwork

We are adding group level aggregates to Adoption Score people experiences for Meetings and Teamwork. Group information can be viewed across five Azure Active Directory attributes – Company, Department, Country, State and City. For group level aggregate information to be displayed, the capability must be enabled by a Global Administrator and a minimum of 10 users must be included in a group to ensure that individual users cannot be tracked.

ID: 100710 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

OneDrive: Sharing Experiences – simplifying external sharing

We want to simplify the sharing journey when a customer would like to collaborate with someone outside of their organization.

ID: 100713 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

OneDrive: Sharing Experiences – Sensitivity Labels in the sharing dialog

We’re adding sensitivity labels to the sharing dialog to help better secure your company data and compliance.

ID: 100714 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Focus mode in Viva Insights

The focus time experience in Microsoft Teams is being enhanced for users with Viva Insights subscriptions. Focus plan users will gain access to a focus mode experience. Focus mode will allow users to set a timer to balance short bursts of productivity with breaks, manage their task list, and tap into mindfulness exercises during their breaks.

ID: 100977 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint: Updates to site themes

We are introducing updates to site themes that will improve the experience. A new update for the Office theme in Classic SharePoint will align the presentation with the application experience. A second update will introduce visual changes to various modern SharePoint experiences to align with the Microsoft design system principles.

ID: 101150 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Viva: New praise compose experience and praise trends

The praise composer – accessible through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Viva Insights app in Teams – is being refreshed to replace praise badges with emojis and introduce the ability to select gradient backgrounds. Additionally, in the Viva Insights app in Teams, praise trends are being introduced, privately surfacing analytics such as counts of praise sent and received, your top fans and top praises received.

ID: 101161 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Pages API

New graph API to create and manage SharePoint pages and news posts.

ID: 101166 Tags: Microsoft Graph, SharePoint – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Enhancement to app usage report – support for Line of Business apps

An updated version of Teams app usage report with support for Live of business apps in alignment with Teams app usage in M365 admin center. This will help admins track all app usage metrics over time.

ID: 70677 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites

Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label.

ID: 82115 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Teams app usage report

We are introducing a new Teams app usage report to help you track app usage metrics over time.

ID: 82128 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022

SharePoint: Security – Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites

Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device, and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection by simply attaching CA policies to a label. For example, the Top-Secret label can now have a conditional access policy that requires MFA when accessing a site. This feature for GCC-H and DoD environments tracked by the roadmap item 85979.

ID: 82163 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022

OneDrive: Sharing experience – Share menu dropdown

We’re updating the Share menu to provide easy access to additional sharing options like Email, Copy link, Teams chat as well as Manage access settings.

ID: 83727 Tags: OneDrive – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Effective meetings in Viva Insights

A new “Effective meetings” experience is being introduced in the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams. Meeting organizers will be able to view personalized insights and suggestions to help improve their meeting habits. Users will also be able to create and share meeting plans to set team meeting norms such as shorter meetings by default and always including Teams links.

ID: 85660 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | Granular conditional access policies via “Sensitivity Labels” for SharePoint Online sites for GCC High and DoD

Admins will have the ability to use Azure AD conditional access policies to trigger multi-factor authentication (MFA), device and location policies on a specific SharePoint site collection based by simply attaching CA policies to a label.

ID: 85979 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – User activity reports

Privacy-enabled security and compliance user activity reports allow Insider Risk Management admins with the appropriate permissions to examine risky user actions that may lead to a potential data security incident, such as an employee attempting to download confidential files to a personal device, for specific users across a defined time period without having to assign them to an Insider Risk Management policy. This helps customers maintain scale and flexibility in cyber risk and data security incident management. 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: 88491 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Customer complaints classifier

Detects messages that may suggest customer complaints made on your organization’s products or services, as required by law for regulated industries.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as FINRA Rule 4530, FINRA 4513, FINRA 2111, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 – Food and Drugs, and Federal Trade Commission Act.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88872 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Customer complaints classifier (U.S. Government clouds)

Detects messages that may suggest customer complaints made on your organization’s products or services, as required by law for regulated industries.This classifier can help customers manage regulatory compliance obligations such as FINRA Rule 4530, FINRA 4513, FINRA 2111, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Code of Federal Regulations Title 21 – Food and Drugs, and Federal Trade Commission Act.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 88996 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: Net Promoter Score (NPS) Sentiment Insights per topic available to IT Administrators

The sentiment per topic feature in the NPS survey insight dashboard will help IT admins like you to obtain actionable sentiment insights per specific topics derived from Microsoft NPS surveys as responded by your users.

ID: 90493 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Audit (Standard and Premium) – New search

This is a new search for Audit (Standard) and Audit (Premium). This new search offers increased reliability and efficiency for search jobs. It also allows for search jobs to be completed in the background and saved for later reference.

ID: 93236 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Custom organization branding for quarantine notification (custom sender address and Custom subject)

We are adding capabilities to making it possible for SecOps to customize end user quarantine notifications with their respective organization sender address and custom subject. Doing so helps ensure that users have safe and secure access to their quarantined messages and trains them to recognize legitimate notifications.

ID: 93301 Tags: Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Viewing the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results

When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

ID: 97510 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Automatic chapters for Teams meeting recordings from PowerPoint Live sharing

With this feature, chapters will automatically be created for your Teams meeting recording when you share your slides during the meeting with PowerPoint Live. This will help meeting recording viewers easily find the right part of the meeting to watch based on when slides are presented. This feature is part of Teams Premium.

ID: 98088 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Schedule send suggestions (formerly delay delivery plan) available default on in Outlook with admin and user controls

Schedule send suggestions are currently available in the latest versions of Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows to help schedule email delivery aligned with recipient work hours and minimize interruptions after-hours.   With Schedule send suggestions turned on by default, users with Insights by MyAnalytics service plan can get up to two daily schedule send suggestions. Microsoft 365 users with MyAnalytics (Full) service plan or Viva Insights subscription get an unlimited number of inline suggestions for delaying email delivery to their coworkers.   A Global admin or an Exchange Online admin role can configure tenant level settings in the Microsoft admin center. Individuals can also turn schedule send suggestions on or off through their own Settings within the Viva Insights add-in in Outlook or Viva Insights dashboard.

ID: 98128 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Stream: Revamped Mobile apps for iOS and Android

We will soon release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android. The rebuilt app will give you seamless access to Stream (Classic) and Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app will also provide an enhanced video playback experience as well as an improved user interface. If your users currently have the Stream mobile app installed on phones or tablets, they will automatically receive the app update when it becomes available. Note: The general release of the rebuilt Stream mobile app will lack certain features that may be critical to some users, such as video recording, uploading and offline downloads. As we continue to build out the revamped mobile app, we expect to add these features in 2023.

ID: 98916 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Upload documents from OneDrive for Business for E-signature Approvals

When creating an e-sign request in Approvals in Teams, users can now upload documents from OneDrive for Business.

ID: 99971 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Universal Print: Integration with Excel web app

Users can print directly from Excel on the web, to the organization’s printers with Universal Print. Integrating Universal Print into Excel for the web gives authenticated user a new in-app print experience to search for an available printer in their organization and print to it, on any device with a supported browser without installing the printer.

ID: 100493 Tags: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Launched

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Support Teams reactions (US Government clouds)

Discover Teams reactions (heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, laugh, surprised, angry) in eDiscovery (Premium).

ID: 88922 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Recommended policy actions

Recommended policy actions help organizations discover trends that they may not be aware of, like harassment, threats or sharing of sensitive information. Insights for sensitive information types are surfaced automatically through the existing compliance portal data classification service while insights for machine learning classifiers require an organization to have already configured a policy in Communication Compliance. Insights for both sensitive information types and machine learning classifiers are designed to help organizations holistically set up parameters for internal governance by identifying potential areas of risk and determining the type and scope of communication policies to be configured. Recommended policy actions displays the aggregate number of matches per classification type, with none of the insights containing any personally identifiable information.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 93195 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | SIT Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts

Admins can provide feedback for sensitive information type (SIT) False Positives via Content explorer and DLP Alerts. This feedback can be provided in a compliant manner and users can see a summary view of the feedback in the SIT overview page. The feedback will be used to make systematic fixes to SITs for improved accuracy.

ID: 93210 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | New cmdlet for exporting Activity Explorer logs

Export feature of Activity Explorer has limitation of 10,000 rows. Our new feature will allow users to use cmdlet and export all the rows for all the data up to 30 days.

ID: 93281 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | New cmdlet for exporting Activity Explorer logs (U.S. Government clouds)

Export feature of Activity Explorer has limitation of 10,000 rows. Our new feature will allow users to use cmdlet and export all the rows for all the data up to 30 days.

ID: 93316 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | DLP incident management in Microsoft Defender portal

This feature provides a singular view for incident management across solutions by making the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention incidents available in the unified incidents queue in the Microsoft Defender portal. In addition, customers can also leverage the M365 Defender connector in Microsoft Sentinel to import all DLP incidents into Sentinel to extend correlation, detection, and investigation across additional Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources and extend automated orchestration flows using Sentinels native SOAR capabilities.

ID: 93322 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center | Microsoft Purview: eDiscovery (Premium) – Release of Graph APIs (U.S. Government clouds)

Script common eDiscovery actions using the Microsoft Graph REST APIs. APIs include, but are not limited to: Case, Custodian, Search, Review Set, and Export management. The graph APIs will first be released to the Microsoft Graph beta endpoints, and then ultimately to production in the More Information link below. APIs will show up in preview as they are completed and available in production after most common scenarios are completed.

ID: 93348 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Viva: A new app called Microsoft Viva Engage

Viva Engage gives leaders a new way to shape culture at their organizations by unlocking communication and engagement opportunities for everyone. Built on the foundation of Yammer, Viva Engage brings people together across the organization to connect with leaders and coworkers, find answers to questions, share their unique story, and find belonging at work.

ID: 93409 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams and Forms: Ranking Poll

The Ranking question type is being added to the Polls app within Microsoft Teams. Meeting owners can easily create and launch Ranking polls to increase engagement and collect input from their meeting attendees, as well as share the results live.

ID: 94764 Tags: Forms, Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Pin and hide the room video for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows allows room users to pin or hide room video on the front of room screen. In-room participants can control these options by selecting the room from the roster on the console. This added capability provides greater personalization for room users who feel the room video to be potentially distracting or not needed.

ID: 95258 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Activate team from inside the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within your Learning Management System (LMS)

Now educators can activate a class from the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within a LMS and no longer need to leave the LMS to activate a class. The new activation option is intuitive and easy to discover, with a notification banner for classes that need to be activated.

ID: 97406 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022

Whiteboard: URL support

The ability to insert links with rich preview is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App.

ID: 98080 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Whiteboard: Embedded Online Video

The ability to insert & embed online Videos (YouTube, Stream, Flip, Vimeo, TED and Slideshare) is coming soon to Whiteboard web, Teams and Windows App.

ID: 98084 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint: People Web Part Medium Card

New medium card allows authors to input a short description accompanying a person’s photo.

ID: 98127 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Microsoft 365 admin center: New formatting for service health emails

We’re updating the subject and heading of service health emails to make it easier to grasp key information quickly. Instead of the generic subject line “M365 Service Health Notification” we’ll include the incident ID and affected product in the subject line. The heading of email will be changed from “[Product name] Service Health Notification” to the title of the issue.

ID: 98133 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: RTMP-In for Teams Live Events

This is being removed as a duplicate of item 84960. Produce your Teams Live Events using an external encoder and leverage RTMP-in (Real Time Messaging Protocol-In) to broadcast to your Teams Live Event Attendees.

ID: 98481 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022