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Microsoft has some new enhancements to eDiscovery review coming soon. You will have the ability to create review sets, which will allow data to be analyzed and exported for a case through the peer review compliance portal using eDiscovery premium. The new feature will also include user experience improvements alongside workflow enhancements.

In Development

Microsoft 365: The new look of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Web

Excel, PowerPoint, and Word web have a refreshed look that?provides a simpler, more coherent experience that lets you focus more easily on your work.

ID: 87307 Tags: PowerPoint, Word, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms users can now start a Microsoft Whiteboard in a Teams meetings using the in-meeting share content function. With the new patterns of work, whiteboarding is a key feature to enable collaboration between in room and remote users. When Whiteboard is started from the room, it is attributed to the meeting organizer so that they can manage access to the artifact.

ID: 95260 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: View video recordings and attendance reports inside LMS

Teachers and students will be able to access video recordings and attendance reports inside their LMS itself. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI app has enabled availability of these artifacts inside LMS. The feature will be available to use in all the LMSs incorporating Teams Meeting LTI app.

ID: 96402 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Sign Language View and always-on captions in meetings

Prioritize up to two other participants’ videos for sign language in meetings so they stay visible even while content is shared and set captions to stay on across all meetings.

ID: 99452 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

ID: 100297 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: November CY2022

Outlook: Navigation changes for Android

Outlook for Android is making it easier to find your contacts, files, and more. A new, customizable navigation bar at the bottom of Outlook is your destination for Mail, Calendar, Feed, Contacts and Files, in whatever order works best for you. The Floating Action Button also gets an update to make creating new items even easier.

ID: 100570 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Dynamic subject titles for the briefing email

Currently, the subject line of the Briefing email is static to “Your daily briefing.” Beginning in November, the briefing email will feature dynamic subject lines based on particular content available in the email for the day and will enable users to have a quick preview of values presented in emails directly from the subject line.

ID: 100709 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure labels independently on files and emails

Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only, or both.

ID: 100711 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support up to 500 EDM evaluations

Organizations will be able to configure policies for solutions where EDM is supported, such as Data Loss Prevention, with Min and Max unique instance counts up to 500, aligning instance count supported with other Sensitive Information Types, such as U.S. Social Security Number (SSN). Note that there is no change for the support of the value Any, which remains an option for Max instance count.

ID: 100712 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Graph: Cloud Site List Management Graph APIs

New Graph APIs that allow admins in organizations to create, manage, and publish their site lists for Internet Explorer mode in the cloud.

ID: 100722 Tags: Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: February CY2023

Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Firefox

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Firefox browser.

ID: 100983 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections 1st party apps for Desktop and Mobile available in GCC

Viva Connections desktop and mobile experiences are now available in GCC.

ID: 101152 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: November CY2022

Planner: Additional API Capabilities for Tasks in Teams and Planner

The new application permissions capabilities for the Microsoft Planner APIs include two sets of enhancements that will make it easier to work with tasks in your organization. Business Scenario capabilities will enable integrations with external sources so those external inputs can be represented as tasks for the appropriate team. Application permissions will be added to all existing Planner API capabilities.

ID: 101153 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Outlook for the Web: RSVP User Experience Consistency Updates

The RSVP experience will appear more consistent across the various locations from which a user can RSVP within both mail and calendar. For most RSVP flows, a user will be presented with the option to email an organizer, send an optional message to the organizer, and respond yes/no/maybe to the invite. This is not new functionality, but will be presented earlier in the RSVP flow in some RSVP locations and will have a more consistent visual treatment across all RSVP locations.

ID: 101163 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Review set – Add notes, Pin metadata, and usability enhancements

Enhancements to eDiscovery review set experience, such as support for adding notes to review set, pin metadata, pagination.

ID: 101508 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2022

Outlook: Editor proofing in multiple languages.

Outlook on the web can now proof your writing simultaneously in up to three languages. Users must select which languages to add in Editor settings.

ID: 101511 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Stories Public Preview

Stories allow people and leaders to share updates, experiences, vision, and perspective on your storyline, using short videos or photos. Stories are a new way to express yourself authentically, and to reach and engage people in your organization across Viva Engage, Teams, Outlook, and Yammer.

ID: 101514 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Music on Hold for Voice over IP Calls and PSTN Consult and Transfer for GCCH and DOD

This feature ensures that music can be played for VOIP calls placed on hold, as well as VOIP and PSTN consult then transfer scenarios.

ID: 83503 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Live Share SDK support for meeting extensions

Live Share is a new developer capability designed to transform Teams meeting apps into collaborative multi-user experiences without writing any dedicated back-end code. Live Share SDK support for meeting extensions enables general-purpose collaboration features, turn-key media synchronization to co-watch videos in meetings, and inking, cursors & annotations.

ID: 95677 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Collaborate in Teams with Excel Live

Collaborate easily in Teams with our new Excel Live feature. You can easily collaborate with all meeting participants on your Excel worksheet during the meeting. Select the file you want to share, grant permissions to meeting participants, and enable all meeting participants to edit the document right from the meeting window.

ID: 96099 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Project: Sprints and backlogs in Project for the web

Description: Agile support will be rolling out for Project for the web soon! You can create and prioritize tasks in their backlogs, define sprints and their date boundaries, moves tasks between sprints and their respective backlogs, and then build reports that include backlogs and sprint data.

ID: 98105 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: improvements for model discovery and use

Updated experience for the discovery of and access to the list of available models – both in the content center and team sites. This update also allows extract by layout (formerly form processing) models to be reused across libraries and sites.

ID: 98109 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

SharePoint Syntex: new model type for free-form documents

A new model type – trained using AI Builder. It is suitable for extracting information from files contained in both fields and paragraphs. This model type is currently in preview.

ID: 98110 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Detailed call history

Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.

ID: 98455 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Firefox Meeting Support for Outgoing Screen Sharing

Extend outgoing screen sharing capabilities for Teams Meetings from the Firefox browser.

ID: 99384 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Review set usability enhancements

This update includes various UX and workflow enhancements for Review set for document list viewer and the document viewer, including search and filtering capabilities for the metadata, cleaner metadata list value formatting, and row number indicator.

ID: 99945 Tags: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: Creation of Contact Groups in Calls App

Creation of Contact Groups are now available in the right rail pane of the Calls App. Users can now create new groups, and edit the membership of existing groups via the Calls App.

ID: 100152 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): New role for review set tag management

We are introducing a new role called “Manage review set tags” which will allow the user to have granular permission on creating/editing/deleting of review set tags in eDiscovery (Premium) cases.

ID: 100498 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2022

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Viva 1st party apps (desktop and mobile) available in GCC

Microsoft Viva Connections is your gateway to a modern employee experience designed to keep everyone engaged and informed. This update allows GCC customers to enable Viva Connections.

ID: 85575 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers

Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer.

ID: 88937 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Project: People view in Project for the Web

Visualize and balance your team’s workload in your project through the People view.

ID: 93422 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC 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 High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Microsoft Teams: People targeting Graph API

This allows organizations to publish content to multiple teams. Today, the hierarchy is used for task publishing to distribute task lists across multiple teams based on team attributes. Today, customers must use a preview version of PowerShell since we do not have Graph APIs to upload their hierarchy. Having Graph APIs for this hierarchy would Give customers capabilities to work with their hierarchies through Graph for both querying the hierarchy and for end-to-end workflows Remove the barrier of downloading the preview cmdlets from PowerShell once we eventually get the APIs out and release new cmdlets.

ID: 99191 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2022

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Automatically end stale Teams meetings

This feature is being reworked and is cancelled. If a user is the sole participant in a meeting that has been identified as stale, the user will see a dialog prompting to end the call or dismiss the notification. If no action is taken, the meeting will automatically end.

ID: 96710 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: December CY2022