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Microsoft Teams is getting ready to implement two new features that will provide users more control options during meetings and the ability to communicate with first responders during emergencies. The ‘Ctrl Spacebar’ feature allows users the option to unmute their microphones during meetings. This new feature reduces the risk of microphones being accidentally left on. The second new feature is the Dynamic Emergency Calling. Users will now be able to make emergency calls while working at home and emergency responders will automatically be sent their location information from Microsoft Teams. Be sure to lookout for these new features coming soon!
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Intune: Enroll iOS devices into Azure AD Shared device mode
Shared device mode for iOS is feature of Azure Active Directory that enables you to sign-in/sign-out a user device-wide through any supported application.
ID: 82130 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: March CY2022
Microsoft Intune: Manage and protect devices running Android Open-Source Project (AOSP)
Manage and protect devices that are running on Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) operating system. Configure single or multiuser devices with conditional access compliance.
ID: 82140 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Triage and investigation improvements
Enhancements including historical insight for Exchange Online, ingest triggering events into Activity explorer.
ID: 82142 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Policy customization enhancements
Ability to fine-tune policies to trigger on precise exfiltration events.
ID: 82143 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – Increased visibility on browsers
Increased visibility of risky activity using browsers and associated insider risk policy templates.
ID: 82144 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – New ML detectors
New detections powered by machine learning (ML) to help uncover hidden insider risks.
ID: 82145 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 admin center: Send users Edge adoption emails
We’ll be adding a feature titled “Get fast, secure browsing with Microsoft Edge”, on the Setup page in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature will let admins send a promotional email to encourage the adoption of Microsoft Edge. It will also provide the option to include instructions to turn on security and performance features in Microsoft Edge.
ID: 82146 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Search: History suggestions on Microsoft Search in Bing
Enterprise users will now get their historical searches as suggestions in the autosuggest pane on Bing and Microsoft Search in Bing.
ID: 82147 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Office 365: Copy Education Insights Premium
The Software updates page gives admins and business decisionmakers a high-level overview of the software update status for Office devices in the organization. Future iterations of the page will include more products from the Microsoft 365 suite. The Data Lake utilized for Education Insights Premium, which stores external data from Student Information Systems (SIS), School Data Sync (SDS), and M365 Activity Data, can now be shared and copied to the customer’s own Azure Data Lake. This allows a customer to leverage all the data meant for Insights Premium for their own data exploration, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) purposes.
ID: 82150 Tags: Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak for GCC-High and DoD
Introducing the capability to allow meeting participants to temporarily unmute by press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak.
ID: 83610 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Intune: Enhancements to AAD Shared Device Mode multi-user support on Android Enterprise dedicated devices
Use apps on multi-user shared devices that don’t have native support for AAD Shared Device Mode. Uses Android OS capability to clear local storage of specified apps upon sign-out.
ID: 83968 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release:
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – VMware
This feature enables users on VMware on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.
ID: 86858 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Pairing the channel and the corresponding SharePoint folder name.
When renaming a Teams’ channel, the corresponding SharePoint folder will be renamed and reflect the new name. This will help create consistency across Microsoft 365 endpoints, making it easier on users to find their files from anywhere. This new feature will be available for all Standard and Private channels. For Standard channels – The corresponding folder in SharePoint will be renamed. For Private channels – The corresponding site name and the folder in SharePoint will be renamed. For legacy Teams channels that were renamed prior to this rollout, there will be no change in experience. When a legacy channel is renamed after this release, it will simultaneously rename the corresponding SharePoint folder.
ID: 72211 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in GCC
Microsoft Search: Organization-wide Search via Search Box in SharePoint, Office.com, and on Microsoft Search in Bing. Customizable Bookmarks, and QnA Answers.
ID: 72216 Tags: Microsoft Search – GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room Presenter support
Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
ID: 81118 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment
Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
ID: 81390 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Compliance center: Communication Compliance analyze linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint online (modern attachments)
Communication compliance policies that detect violations in Microsoft Teams will now analyze the content of documents shared in chat for potential policy match.
ID: 82084 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Redirecting users to Microsoft 365 Defender
We will begin automatically redirecting users accessing the security-related capabilities in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center (protection.office.com), to Microsoft 365 Defender (https://security.microsoft.com). These include capabilities in the Threat Management section and the Threat Management dashboard and reports. Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center that are not related to security are not redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. Customers are able to turn off automatic redirection.
ID: 82107 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Security and Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Enable Teams users to purchase Teams apps through the Teams store
Microsoft Teams users have now the ability to purchase third-party Teams app subscriptions from the Teams store.
ID: 83502 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms for GCC-High
Enhanced UX for participant assignment. This includes new capabilities such as sorting participants and rooms and performing multiple selections and assignments to rooms.
ID: 85323 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Team Templates maintenance
Enhancements to Team Templates content with additional apps and channels in the Microsoft-provided predefined team structure.
ID: 85917 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Outlook on the Web: Send from proxy addresses (aliases)
The ability to send email from a proxy address (aka alias) other than the sender’s primary SMTP address is useful in multiple scenarios, such as mergers and acquisitions when you need the to send from multiple branded domain names, or sending on behalf of a team or department, like info@contoso.com. And of course, having the FROM and REPLY TO boxes preserve that alias when the recipient sees it is just as important. So to kick-off our journey to provide you and your users with the flexibility to send email using alias, we’re excited to announce that soon Outlook on the web (aka OWA) will natively support the ability to choose the sender or FROM from a drop-down list right within the compose pane. And when the recipient receives that message, the FROM and REPLY TO will show that alias, regardless where the recipient’s mailbox happens to live.
ID: 59437 Tags: Exchange, Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: New Microsoft 365 admin center multi-tenant management experiences
These experiences are for Microsoft 365 admins that manage multiple tenants. They include a tenant switcher, assessing the health and status of multiple tenants, performing repetitive tasks against multiple tenants, and understanding configuration differences between multiple tenants.
ID: 67130 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Revised in-meeting Share experience in DOD
The user interface for the in-meeting Share feature in Microsoft Teams has been redesigned to help presenters find their desired content more quickly and easily. This feature has been delayed.
ID: 70562 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Information Protection: Migrate legacy exchange DLP policies to the Microsoft 365 compliance center
The Exchange DLP migration wizard will enable you to seamlessly migrate the exchange DLP policies managed in the exchange admin center to the compliance center. Microsoft 365 compliance center provides access to advanced classification capabilities like EDM, ML etc. along with rich alerts, incident management features and more.
ID: 70790 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
OneDrive for Business: Progressive Web App (PWA)
You can now install the web version of OneDrive for Business as a Progressive Web App (PWA) in Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, or other browser that supports Progressive Web Apps. After you install the web version of OneDrive for Business as a Progressive Web App, you can launch it from your desktop, and it will work the same way as it does in your web browser.
ID: 82040 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, Germany, GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Search: Back to school with Microsoft Search in Bing
New back to school features in Microsoft Search in Bing for EDU add capabilities to help students and educators discover classes, assignments, and more. Powered by Microsoft Search and integrated with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search in Bing EDU features are designed to help students and educators make the most of their time.
ID: 82073 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
OneDrive: Universal Print integration with OneDrive web for work or school
This feature allows users to print directly to their organization’s printers from OneDrive web for work or school.
ID: 82099 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021
SharePoint: Updates to options for disabling subsite creation
This new update will improve the options for subsite creation settings in the SharePoint admin center.
ID: 82122 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, Germany, GCC Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Present slides from PowerPoint app for Mac
Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app to a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams.
ID: 82712 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021
OneDrive: Sharing experience – “Shared with” list
At the bottom of the Share dialog, the “Shared with” list will give you an at-a glance view of everyone you’ve given access to the file.
ID: 83725 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Germany 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
SharePoint Syntex: Advanced metadata search
Users licensed for Syntex will soon be able to select an icon in the search box that will unlock a metadata-based search experience in Syntex & SharePoint document libraries. In the first release, this search experience will have 5 fixed fields – keyword, people, name, type, and modified.
ID: 85549 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Project: Different Dependency types in Project for the web
This feature has been postponed. Add Finish-Finish, Start-Start, and Start-Finish dependencies to your tasks in Project for the web.
ID: 82105 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Admin email notifications
This item has been delayed, and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. An admin email notification will be sent when the first alert is generated after a new policy is created. This email will be deployed to all admins within the Insider Risk Management, Analyst, and Investigator role groups.
ID: 85577 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
