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Sensitivity labels for Microsoft Teams shared channels are coming to GCC High and DoD environments as part of the effort to provide a more consistent Azure experience across commercial and government tenants. The updates will begin rolling out in February 2024.

In Development

Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components

Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email.

ID: 122238 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments Analytics updates in Teams Admin Center (Premium)

Tenant admins can see updated analytics with new insights in Teams Admin Center including average lobby wait times for scheduled vs. on-demand appointments, percentage of appointments completed after scheduled end time, and percentage of appointments with a late start.

ID: 161629 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64)

With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) and prevent sensitive data exfiltration through actions such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, printing, and more.

ID: 164897 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence

This update provides two enhancements to app and risky browsing activities that may lead to a data security incident in forensic evidence. Admins with appropriate permissions will no longer need to enable browsing indicators from the insider risk settings page to gain visual insights of these activities. In addition, the feature has been updated with more precise detection when users switch between tabs and windows. This results in more reliable visual evidence insights when context is switched in the browser. 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. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out and has now been corrected. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 165996 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars

Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

ID: 168524 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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: 171601 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels

Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls.

ID: 174575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Expanded reactions in Viva Engage

We’re expanding the set of reactions available in all instances of Viva Engage. Users will see an additional 24 icons on top of the 6 we already offer. These new icons cover a wide range of emotions and sentiments, helping users express themselves and improve engagement in your network.

ID: 178015 Release: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Outlook: Hide sent messages in conversation mode

Sent messages in the conversation mode can be hidden by updating the settings to exclude them in the conversation mode.

ID: 178345 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Organize folders in your sidebar

Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want.

ID: 178349 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Outlook: Message reminders

When Outlook identifies that a user could have forgotten to respond to or follow up on an email message, it could bring that email back to the top of the inbox, marking it needing an action. A maximum of one email message can be brought to the top of the user’s inbox at a time.

ID: 178351 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel – Gateway Scaling

Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5,000 to over 20,000 per server.

ID: 178921 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center

Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account.

ID: 179897 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Outlook: Reactions in Outlook for GCC High and DoD

We will be enabling reactions in Outlook, a feature that is already available in world-wide multitenant, for customers in GCC High and DoD.

ID: 180188 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Workflows in Chat

Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams chats. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

ID: 180364 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

OneNote: New ‘notes’ tab when creating a standard Teams channel

When creating a new standard channel, a new Notes tab will be automatically created. Each Teams team will have a dedicated OneNote workbook and each channel will have its own section, making it easier on the workgroup to add their notes.

ID: 180484 Release: OneNote – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path.

ID: 180989 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement

With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.

ID: 181615 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Private Line

With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only.

ID: 181616 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention – Updated admin experience for settings

We are improving the admin experience to manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention settings including the endpoint settings.

ID: 181812 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed

ID: 182242 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed

ID: 182243 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Support for Exchange On-Premises Servers

Outlook for Mac will support accounts for Microsoft Exchange on-premises servers.

ID: 182252 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 4 new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MailItemsAccessed; 2. Send; 3. SearchQueryInitiatedExchange; 4. SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint; The following logs will differ based upon the user’s license. This following additional metadata is added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: Premium Insight 1: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed

ID: 182259 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Control inbox and calendar sharing options

Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows provides users with the ability to share mail and calendar with other users at different permission levels. This feature provides admins with the ability to use Office Policy setting “Turn off sharing recommendation” to prevent users from sharing folders.

ID: 182261 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians

When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.

ID: 183498 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration

Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.

ID: 88816 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Controlled-content meeting template (Premium)

We are launching an out-of-the-box template that can be useful when meeting with external participants. The controlled-content meeting template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting, and who can record.

ID: 91286 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence (U.S. Government clouds)

The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. 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: 117565 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: An improved search experience in chat and channels

A new search experience will allow users to search in a specific chat or channel and reach relevant results faster. The results will appear in the right handrail so you can stay in the flow of your work. Enhancements like highlighted key words will make it easier for user to scan their results.

ID: 122550 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Workflows App

All workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions.

ID: 131294 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Mobile

We are improving the meeting join experience on mobile by 1) streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization, 2) users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting, and 3) simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.

ID: 146741 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Enabling Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms in the new Microsoft Teams app

Online meeting participants will now be able to experience a meeting with Cloud IntelliFrame in the new Microsoft Teams app. With Cloud IntelliFrame, in-room participants appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether working from home or in the office, participants can gather more context about the physical shared space and are able to see every facial expression and cue, just as if they were there in person. Cloud IntelliFrame is only available with a Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 161428 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva – AI Topic suggestions in publisher

With the help of AI topic extraction, we can offer suggested topics based on the user’s question. Our AI topic extraction recommends up to 3 topics to add to one’s question based on what they wrote. These can be existing Viva topics or newly generated ones that the user can create and add. The user still must select and add our AI suggested topic since they do not automatically get attached to the question. The user can also still search and add their own topic and choose not to use our AI suggested topics.

ID: 164856 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: From the new Outlook for Windows, open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in desktop apps

From the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in their respective desktop apps by double clicking them.

ID: 167891 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Expand and Collapse Folders

Stay organized and navigate easily by expanding or collapsing your nested mail folders using the chevron button at the right of the folder row.

ID: 171602 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Expand and Collapse Folders

Stay organized and navigate easily by expanding or collapsing your nested mail folders using the chevron button at the right of the folder row.

ID: 171603 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Notifications for @mentions in mail and documents

Now you’ll receive a notification when you’re @mentioned in an email, document, or loop. To view your notifications, tap the bell icon to the upper right of the message list.

ID: 171606 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Paste as plain text on iOS

You can now paste as plain text, removing all formatting with ease.

ID: 173186 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Syntex is available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants

With this release, Syntex capabilities such as document processing, image tagging, taxonomy tagging, content assembly, and OCR are available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants.

ID: 181409 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Intune: Account-driven User Enrollment on iOS/iPadOS

Use Apple account driven enrollment to onboard devices into Intune.

ID: 88497 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard)

The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days. The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year.

ID: 171160 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Canceled

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: Approvals Graph API’s

This feature is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished when an update is available. The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manager Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals.

ID: 94653 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Resources-specific consent apps

This feature is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished when an update is available. Allows admins to preapproved apps using resource-specific consent permissions, so that users can install them even when RSC is otherwise turned off.

ID: 96980 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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 High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365: Israel datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Israel. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Israel and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Israel local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data. This item is cancelled. 

ID: 149270 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023