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Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels is getting ready to launch a new feature for Azure Purview. Organizations can now 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.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
SharePoint: New vertical site templates – Nonprofit, Retail and Healthcare
New vertical site templates coming to SharePoint including nonprofit volunteer center, retail management, store collaboration and healthcare hospital collaboration.
ID: 85659 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Focus time experiences in Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams
Viva Insights will be rolling out a new experience that expands on the focus time feature in Viva Insights enabling Microsoft 365 users to work uninterrupted with Teams notifications silenced. Focus mode will enrich the focus time experience by helping users make progress on important work, with focus music from Headspace. This immersive experience includes a notification, and a new focus mode page in the Viva Insights Teams app. Users will be able to enroll or modify their focus plan settings, or book ad-hoc focus time in the Viva Insights Teams app.
ID: 85661 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Extend sensitivity labels to assets in Azure with Microsoft Azure Purview
With Azure Purview, you can now extend the reach of your Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) sensitivity labels and the value from built-in sensitive information types to a much broader set of data locations and data types. Use existing sensitivity labels or create new sensitivity labels via the Microsoft 365 compliance center to extend security and compliance intent to data assets in Azure.
ID: 85666 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Stream: Empty tenant recycle bin as Stream admin
The feature allows Stream (Classic) admins to permanently delete videos in bulk from the tenant recycle bin.
ID: 85669 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Sync learning management systems with Learning
Configure learning management systems (Saba, SuccessFactors, Cornerstone On demand) as a learning content source to make your organization’s own content available in Viva Learning. The content is available for search and discovery and can be browsed by the employees who use Viva Learning.
ID: 85670 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Connect third party learning providers to Learning
Configure various learning sources in Viva Learning app to make the global or tenant specific content from those learning sources available within your Viva Learning app. The content is available for search and discovery and can be browsed by the employees who use Viva Learning. Global sources available by GA include EdX, Coursera, Pluralsight, LinkedIn, JBA, Infosec; Tenant specific sources include Skillsoft, Udemy, and Go1.
ID: 85671 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Add Viva Learning app to Microsoft Teams
Viva Learning will be shipped as a pre-installed app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to add the Viva Learning app to Microsoft Teams to discover, share, track, and consume learning content.
ID: 85672 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Search for learning content in Learning app in Microsoft Teams
Search for learning content from Microsoft and partner providers inside Viva Learning Teams app.
ID: 85673 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Social learning features
Share learning courses from Teams chat using Learning App compose extension. Curate a list of courses for a Chat/Channel by creating a learning tab in a chat and pinning Learning Objects within it. Share a Learning object from Learning app to Teams via Share- Share to teams option. Share a Learning Object to any other surface by copying the link to the object via Share-Copy Link.
ID: 85674 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Recommend learning content and track completion progress
Recommend a learning course to one or more individuals, with options to set a due date for completion and capture additional information via the ‘notes’. For all recommendations, the recommender can view reported completion progress of each of the recommendees. Recomendees can view recommendations made to them along with information of who recommended, notes from the recommender and Due date. As content is consumed, recomendees can update status of the recommendation to in-progress or Completed. Users get notifications for new recommendations, notifications for recommendations approaching due date and notifications for overdue recommendations.
ID: 85675 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Feature learning content to organization
Knowledge admins can highlight content within their organization to appear in banner carousel in the Viva Learning app.
ID: 85676 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Learning – My Learning view
In the My Learning view, users will be able to view and track learning content assigned and recommended to them, bookmarked content, recently viewed courses, and completed courses on this page.
ID: 85677 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning for mobile
Access Viva Learning on the go, anytime, anywhere on your Mobile device.
ID: 85678 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Learning content discovery based on user’s interests
Users will be able to discover engaging learning opportunities by picking and saving their interests. Once interests are saved, learning content based on those interests will show in the Home page in ‘Based on your interest’ section and in the ‘Your interests’ tab in the ‘Browse courses’ section as well. Users will also be able to use their interests to filter learning content in the search results page.
ID: 85679 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Content consumption in Viva Learning
User can consume learning content from Microsoft Learn, and Microsoft 365 training within the Viva Learning app.
ID: 85680 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Viva: Briefing email for Government Community Cloud
The daily briefing email- a personalized, actionable briefing email from Microsoft Viva, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will be available for Government Community Cloud (GCC).
ID: 85681 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: December CY2021
SharePoint: Updated site creation experience
We’ve updated the site creation experience to make it easier for site creators to select the right type of SharePoint site, understand roles, and site permissions. Updates to this experience include refreshed graphics, expanded site descriptions, and more context for different permission levels in the Site permissions panel.
ID: 85683 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, Germany Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Exchange Online Protection- Customizable Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) configuration
Email senders use authentication mechanisms like SPF, DKIM, DMARC to authenticate emails, but some legitimate intermediate services may potentially make changes to the email, which might cause the email to fail authentication at subsequent hop. Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) is an authentication mechanism that helps preserve authentication results across intermediaries. With this change, admins will be able to add trusted intermediaries in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal to allow Microsoft to honor these ARC signatures, thereby allowing legitimate messages.
ID: 85684 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Toggle video or audio features on and off for all viewers
Users with edit permissions to a video or audio file uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive can toggle features, such as transcript and comments, on or off for all viewers of that video.
ID: 85686 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2022
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: 85687 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Planner: Rich text and images in Planner task notes
The Planner task notes field will support rendering rich text formatting (bold, italics, underline, and more) and image previews. Users can insert rich text and images into task notes.
ID: 85688 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Teams support of guest users with credentials managed by the host tenant
Support internal guest users with credentials managed by the resource tenant (formerly known as State 3 and State 4 guests accounts).
ID: 87830 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Edge: Cloud Site List Management for IE mode
Microsoft Edge with IE mode creates a seamless single browser experience for enterprise environments with a mix of legacy and modern applications. Cloud Site List Management enables you to manage your site lists for IE mode in the cloud without needing on-premises infrastructure to host your organization’s site list. You can access this through the Microsoft Edge Site Lists experience in the M365 Admin Center. You can create, import, edit and export your site lists as well as publish site lists to the cloud. Multiple site lists can be published to the cloud and group policy can be used to assign different groups of devices to use different lists.
ID: 88257 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity labels for Teams templates and graph API
Sensitivity labels enable admins to protect and regulate access to sensitive organization content. We now support sensitivity labels when creating teams via Graph APIs and templates.
ID: 84232 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Teams meetings roster update for Teams Rooms on Windows
The updated meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) more closely aligns with the experience available through the Teams desktop app, and includes capabilities like participant grouping, sort roster by raised hand, integrated user search. As well as with ability to ask others to join meeting from invited list or from chat.
ID: 84578 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic view on single and dual displays for Teams Rooms on Windows
Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side or to view content or people only.
ID: 85811 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Room video fits to frame for Teams Rooms on Windows
Conference room video fits to frame by default and provide a full view of the room on Teams desktop app. Users can choose to fill frame for room video as needed.
ID: 85813 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Support for large meeting controls for Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability for a Teams Room on Windows to join a large meeting as a presenter or attendee. Based on the role assumed by the Teams Room, appropriate meeting controls are made available to presenters for meeting moderation and for attendees.
ID: 85814 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Lock meeting support for Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability to lock a meeting, preventing additional participants from joining. Users attempting to join a locked meeting will be informed that the meeting is locked.
ID: 85815 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Live reactions for Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability to view live reactions sent by participants in a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Room users can also send reaction from center of the room console.
ID: 85817 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Pin multiple video streams in Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability to pin multiple video streams (up to 9 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. User can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.
ID: 85819 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Presenter mode support in Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability for presenter mode views to appear on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Presenter mode is a feature in PowerPoint Live that helps you customize how your video feed and content appear to the meeting audience.
ID: 85820 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Spotlight multiple video streams for Teams Rooms on Windows
Ability to Spotlight multiple video streams (up to 7 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. Users can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.
ID: 85822 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Content from camera
“Content from camera” in Teams enables you to share content from physical artefacts such as whiteboards and documents in a high quality and legible way during meetings. All you need is a laptop or PC with an in-built camera or with an attached USB camera. Educators can also share content directly from a document camera.
ID: 86062 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Yammer: Restrict Yammer community posting
Gives network managers the ability to restrict who can start a thread in a community. Once this setting is enabled, only admins will have the ability to post in the community while members can only reply and react to conversations.
ID: 87114 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Presenter Mode in desktop or window sharing for GCC-High and DoD
Standout, Reporter and Side-by-side Presenter modes are now available when sharing a window or your desktop. Standout overlays your video on top of the content for a more immersive presenting experience. Reporter places content as a visual aid above your shoulder like a news story. Side-by-side displays your video feed next to your content. Presenter mode for PowerPoint Live sharing is coming in the future.
ID: 87522 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Azure Active Directory: [Preview] AAD Application Proxy now supports the Remote Desktop Services web client
Azure AD Application Proxy now supports Remote Desktop Web Client. The Remote Desktop web client allows users to access Remote Desktop infrastructure through any HTLM5-capable browser such as Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 11, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. Users can interact with remote apps or desktops like they would with a local device from anywhere. By using Azure AD Application Proxy you can increase the security of your RDS deployment by enforcing pre-authentication and Conditional Access policies for all types of rich client apps.
ID: 66461 Tags: Azure Active Directory – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Exchange: Online – Tag for external email messages received
Exchange will make available a PowerShell cmdlet so that admins can enable the protections against spam & phishing threats from external senders. This will be achieved by presenting a new tag on emails called “External” in the message list in Outlook on the web, the new Outlook for Mac, Outlook for iOS and Android. In some Outlook clients, a “mail tip” will be included at the top of the reading pane with sender’s email address.
ID: 70595 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: AIP client and scanner data available in Audit and Activity explorer
Azure Information Protection (AIP) customers can now access data in Microsoft 365 compliance center Audit logs and Activity explorer, in addition to the AIP Analytics portal. This means that all data logged via AIP client and AIP scanner can be witnessed along with the rest of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) data sets from native Office apps and other cloud resources.
ID: 70600 Tags: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Content type synchronization enhancements
Changes to the way content type publishing works in SharePoint, moving from a “push everywhere” model to a “pull as needed” model to help improve reliability and performance of the service.
ID: 70795 Tags: SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Reply to a specific message
When chatting in Teams, you will be able to reply a specific message. The original message will be quoted in the reply text box, helping everyone in the chat to more easily understand the message’s context. Quoted replies will be available in 1:1, Group and Meeting chats.
ID: 81113 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Project: Critical Path
Highlight the tasks that affect your project’s finish date on the Timeline view in Project for the web.
ID: 82118 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic labeling using trainable classifiers in Office apps for Windows and Web
Within Microsoft Information Protection, you can create sensitivity labels and corresponding automatic or recommended labeling policies in Office apps for Windows and Office Online apps using the following built-in classifiers: Resume, Source code, Threat, Harassment, Profanity.
ID: 82119 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New default settings when opening Office files
Users can set a default of browser, desktop or Teams when opening Office files (Word, Excel, and Power Point) that are shared in Teams. The desktop setting can be selected, if the user has Office version 16 or newer installed and activated.
ID: 82662 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Chat supervisors can delete messages
This feature, designed with our Teams for Education users in mind, allows chat supervisors to delete inappropriate, off-topic, or other messages in a Teams chat.
ID: 82939 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance Sensitive information types per location report
Review and export the sensitive information types detected in all your Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft communication channels currently scoped into your Communication Compliance policies.
ID: 83699 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance policy health check and ability to pause policy
Provide guidance during Communication Compliance policy creation on the settings used and the potential volume of items that will be captured. Pausing a policy will enable an administrator to manually suspend evaluations of communications.
ID: 83700 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance policy cloning and consumption visibility (Government clouds)
New policy cloning feature helps you easily create similar policies for different audiences but with the same conditions for instance. The new policy consumption visibility will help you manage policies within your tenant.
ID: 85585 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: November CY2021
Bookings: Bookings app in Teams for GCC
Bookings app available in Teams.
ID: 85599 Tags: Bookings – GCC Release: October CY2021
Bookings: SMS notifications for booking appointments
In US and Canada, Microsoft Bookings supports sending SMS notifications for appointment confirmations, reminders, and cancellations for including Teams meeting link for virtual appointments.
ID: 85600 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Career Coach – Improved accessibility and minor updates
Career Coach will receive minor updates to copy and performance. The application will also adhere to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.
ID: 85916 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Safari
Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Safari browser
ID: 86513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
SharePoint: Text web parts automatically added to new sections in modern pages
This feature is cancelled as a result of customer feedback. We’ll now add test web parts automatically for you when you add new sections to a modern page.
ID: 67146 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, GCC High, DoD Release: September 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
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Advanced Audit – Teams reactions on messages
Addition of new audit activity related to Teams reactions on messages. This item has been delayed, and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined.
ID: 85554 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
