Exchange: Adding Inbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online

Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding inbound support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers outbound mail.

ID: 63213 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Bookings: ”Cc” functionality to email notifications

‘Cc’ an additional email address on confirmation and reminder emails.

ID: 66141 Release: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Commenting (iOS)

Bringing web commenting experience to Lists iOS mobile app. Add/delete a comment on list items to collaborate and share better.

ID: 70705 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Groups – Group Driven Membership Management

With this in-product feature support, end users and admins will be able to add a Security Group or an Microsoft 365 Group as a member of a Dynamic Microsoft 365 Group by using the memberOf property. In the preview, users will be able to create these GDM a.k.a nested groups from Azure Portal & Group Card and they can be accessed & used like any other Dynamic Microsoft 365 Group across apps like Teams, Outlook & SharePoint. Enhancements around deeper levels of nesting, increasing the number of memberOf groups in a tenant are also being worked on and will be eventually available for GA.

ID: 83113 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by priority users

Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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: We apologize for the shifted timeline.  We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.

ID: 83962 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by risky users

Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls.

ID: 83964 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices dashboard for device analytics providing health and usage metrics

Health and usage insights surfaced on a dashboard for Teams devices being managed through the Teams admin center including the ability to export and auto share the insights and set alerts on key metrics to be  notified when attention is required.

ID: 84533 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD)

Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. 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: 85606 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

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

Use Apple account driven enrollment to onboard devices into Intune.

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

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 Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC)

Currently in public preview, Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. 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: 88847 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) in Exchange Online and Teams DLP

Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared in Exchange Online (EXO) and Teams Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies.

ID: 88860 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role.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: 88915 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first.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: 88918 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC

Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.

ID: 93163 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Gain context around ML model policy matches (U.S. Government clouds)

Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. 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: 93196 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (U.S. Government clouds)

Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first. 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: 93246 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

ID: 93268 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources (U.S. Government clouds)

Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case.

ID: 93270 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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: 93324 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Universal Print: GCC and GCCHigh cloud support

Universal Print with all existing features will be available to the GCC and GCC High cloud.

ID: 93404 Release: Universal Print – GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.

ID: 95680 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts

Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.

ID: 95788 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes

Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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: 98186 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium)

Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees.

ID: 98414 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topics in Outlook Desktop

Learn more about topics being discussed in your organization without leaving Outlook Desktop. With this feature, Viva Topics can detect that a topic is mentioned in the email that is currently in focus in read mode. In this case, Viva Topics will prompt the user to open the Viva Insights panel where they can see a list of all topics referenced in the email along with a view of the topic descriptions and the people/resources associated with the topics.

ID: 100247 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook:[iOS] Customizable Compose Toolbar and Drawer

Now while writing an email you can reordering the tools, customizing your experience and making your most used actions even easier to reach.

ID: 100696 Release: Outlook – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows

IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

ID: 101332 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Forms app replaced by Polls app in Teams Meetings

The new “Polls” app will soon replace the “Forms” app for enhanced polling options in Teams meetings. The “Forms” app will continue to support surveys only. We recommend you add “Polls” to your next Teams meetings.

ID: 103683 Release: Forms – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Advanced Endpoint analytics

Data science and AI powered automation, recommendations and insights enable IT to proactively improve user experiences based on endpoint health and performance.

ID: 109536 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Multiple managed accounts

Allows people to use a single device with multiple company accounts to access company information through specific managed applications.

ID: 109560 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Surface existing non-Microsoft DLP policies with the migration assistant

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention migration assistant helps you transfer your non-Microsoft existing DLP policies to the Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort. This tool will automatically detect your policy configurations and create equivalent policies in the Microsoft Purview DLP environment. The v1 of the tool supports conversion of Symantec DLP policies only.

ID: 109571 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities

Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants.

ID: 115482 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites

Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115495 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improved alert filtering

The update offers analysts and investigators the ability to filter out any activity that was already reviewed in a past alert for a user so they can focus their review on new activities that may lead to a data security incident. 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: 115497 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365

The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups.

ID: 115508 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange, Outlook – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies (U.S. government clouds)

Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit.

ID: 117353 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Whiteboard: Voting

This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.

ID: 117392 Release: Whiteboard – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Whiteboard: Create Loop tables and task lists

Insert new Loop tables & task lists directly into whiteboards & copy/paste them across other Microsoft 365 hosts to coauthor content with others in real-time.

ID: 117400 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Custom Topic Types for Viva Topics

Knowledge Managers can define and edit custom topic types that can offer important context on the nature of the topic entity.

ID: 117437 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Enhanced Filters and Custom Views

User can now filter OKRs in entity and explorer pages and save custom views to quickly access views that are most relevant.

ID: 117478 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling (U.S. Government clouds)

This feature will support adding the following new contextual based predicates to auto-labeling: Document property is; File extension is; Document size equals or is greater than; Document created by (only available in advanced rules in OneDrive and SharePoint locations); Document name contains words or phrases

ID: 117537 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High 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

Outlook: Labeling email from attachments’ label in Outlook on the web

Outlook on the web will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admin could configure this either use the cmdlet set-labelpolicy advanced setting or use the Compliance portal to configure the label policy(Roadmap: 100158). Customer will see automatically or recommendations that email gets the higher label from attachments’ label.

ID: 117579 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topic Activities on topic experiences

Viva Topics helps you stay updated on topics of interest by bringing AIand human activities on the topics including topic updates, conversations andmore to experiences across Microsoft 365.

ID: 118241 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Trending Topics

Viva Topics brings a new way to discover and learn about important and relevant topics in your organization through the trending topics experiences across M365.

ID: 118489 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Topic level metrics on topic experiences

View the topic level impact, impressions and usage on topic card and page experiences.

ID: 118491 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity

Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity.

ID: 118588 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge

Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.

ID: 122139 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections

Allow customers to bring their own user activity indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks. 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: 122278 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store

Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store.

ID: 122300 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Town Halls

Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.

ID: 123148 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs

Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. 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: 124777 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters

Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter.

ID: 124796 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News.

The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages.

ID: 124827 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft SharePoint: Resource Specific Consent

Introduction of new .Selected permissions and APIs to support granting applications permissions at all of the levels where it is possible to break inheritance today. This will apply to applications operating in either delegated or app-only mode.

ID: 124842 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

SharePoint: SharePoint Pages – Design Ideas

By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions.

ID: 124846 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring

Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time.

ID: 124853 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Lists- A new forms experience to collect information

We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button.

ID: 124865 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

OneNote: Insert meeting details from across M635

Easily access meeting content across Loop, Outlook, and Teams directly in your OneNote canvas.

ID: 124881 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups (U.S. Government clouds)

To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups.

ID: 124915 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for SharePoint and OneDrive

With this update, you will be able to turn on OCR for images in SharePoint and OneDrive on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be made available to Microsoft Search and Microsoft Purview.

ID: 124937 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Project: New out-of-the-box templates

Quickly create a project from an assortment of new out-of-the box templates including a project retrospective template, a goals template and more.

ID: 124954 Release: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Enhanced security mode on by default

Enhanced security mode is being turned on by default to “Balanced” mode for x64 Windows, x64 macOS, x64 Linux, and ARM64 systems. Also, administrators have 2 new policies to manage the Enhanced security mode user experience:

EnhanceSecurityModeIndicatorUIEnabled and EnhanceSecurityModeOptOutUXEnabled.

ID: 124963 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection tuning

With this update, cumulative exfiltration activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from cumulative exfiltration activities. 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: 124971 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection

Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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: 124973 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced investigation and remediation experience (U.S. Government clouds)

Introducing enhancements to the investigation and remediation workflows to help designated investigators facilitate quicker and better-informed actions on policy matches. Enhancements will be available to designated Communication Compliance admins and investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions, and include bulk policy exports, interactive how-to demos, and additional context around policy settings and keywords/conditions flagged in a policy. 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: 124976 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: SMS Notifications in Virtual Appointments Template (Premium)

External guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including appointment details and the meeting join link so they can join directly from mobile. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a reminder 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This is available in US only at this time.

ID: 127901 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes on Teams mobile

Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.

ID: 128652 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center

Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center.

ID: 131169 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: January CY2024

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 Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable document

We are releasing three predicates in the SharePoint DLP area that will provide protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable documents.

ID: 138475 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: S/MIME support for sensitivity labels

Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) sign and encryption as sensitivity label outcome. Admins can define the label to have S/MIME sign, encryption, or both and emails with those labels will enforce S/MIME accordingly.

ID: 139450 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds)

Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.

ID: 139461 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium)

To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days.

ID: 141108 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention

Currently available in public preview, releasing several new long-term retention policies as part of the 10-year Audit Log Retention add-on SKU. These include 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years. These are available for customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention license.

ID: 144251 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage

Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. 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: 144596 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance

The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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: 145793 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits

We are introducing new version controls that help tenant and site admins or doclib owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. Today, document library owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, tenant and site admins or doclib owners will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently expires new and existing version based on their age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set time-based version expiration and count limits on new and existing versions. These controls enable admins to set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization balanced with storage usage considerations. Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive.

ID: 145802 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds in policy wizard

With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to finetune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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: 146329 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Export APIs

Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs.

ID: 146731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment

By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance.   Timing: Rollout to public preview will begin in the middle of September and end in October.  What you need to do to prepare: No action needed at this time.   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: 146742 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. 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.

ID: 146858 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced recommendations for no-alert policies

With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get insights-enhanced recommendations for policies that do not generate alerts on the policy page. The enhancement provides admins with recommended thresholds derived from real-time analytics, making the recommendations highly actionable and enabling the effectiveness of the policy. 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: 146861 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Bring your own content using external URLs from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections

Users can add content using external links from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections.

ID: 148467 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast

With “Share an Update,” leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 148471 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365: Mexico datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

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

ID: 149271 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft 365: Bing Chat Enterprise

(Preview available now, expected GA date: July 2024) Bing Chat Enterprise gives your organization AI-powered chat for work with commercial data protection. With Bing Chat Enterprise, user and business data are protected and will not leak outside the organization. What goes in—and comes out—remains protected. Your organization’s chat data is not saved, Microsoft has no eyes-on access to it, and it is not used to train the models. Available from bing.com/chat and from the Microsoft Edge sidebar.

ID: 151035 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Engage – Answers in Communities

Community admins can turn on Answers functionality for their communities. Premium license holders can then see ‘related questions’ in the question publisher, ask questions using titles and descriptions, and gain badges for answering questions.

ID: 152480 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect files on remote / mapped network devices

With this capability organizations can leverage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.

ID: 153398 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Planner: Rosters supporting container sensitivity labels

Organization admins will now be able to apply container labels to rosters in Microsoft Planner. This is enabled directly in Planner and by using Microsoft Graph APIs. Rosters are created automatically for task lists in Microsoft Loop. Tenant admins can make container labels for these rosters mandatory and set a default label, or not make them mandatory. The roster and the Planner plan contained by the Roster then follow container policy settings. For Graph API requests, if labels are mandatory as per tenant settings, roster creation fails if a label is not provided at the time of request.

ID: 155837 Release: Planner – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning

With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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: 156014 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Potential high impact user experience enhancements

We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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: 156016 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Improved View switcher and Front of Room display controls for Teams Rooms on Android

The updated interface for the Teams Rooms on Android View Switcher menu provides end users with more control of the front of room display(s) during a meeting and enables customizations including visibility of the meeting chat and which meeting component is displayed on the left and right panel for Front Row. IT admins can configure the default number of panels and default component on panel(s) using the local device setting.

ID: 159128 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [OCR] [ODSP] OCR Support for embedded images on SPOD

Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images. Aim is to Support OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF file – PDF files with both images and searchable text 2. Office files – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX 3. Container files – zip, rar, 7z, etc.

ID: 160010 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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 High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status

Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.

ID: 161739 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance: Enhanced Policy Conditions

Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

ID: 161829 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

ID: 162292 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention -Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of endpoint devices

Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.

ID: 162660 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Require background blur when no background is selected (Premium)

When enabled, if a user does not have a background image applied their video background will be blurred.

ID: 163967 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self Service for bulk uploads

Improved self-service; Ability to bulk upload customer permissions for improved access.

ID: 163976 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for external benchmark consent

Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks.

ID: 163980 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for schema setup

Improved self service; Admins can configure, view, and manage derived dashboard, survey locale, and time zone values for their employees.

ID: 163982 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Viva Glint admin role in Microsoft 365 admin center

Glint admin role in MAC

ID: 163984 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Improved error messaging

Improved error messaging during people import process.

ID: 163986 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders

Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages.

ID: 163989 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights secure bridge to Microsoft Fabric

Create custom solutions with unique insights! Microsoft Graph Data Connect provides secure bridge from Viva Insights to Microsoft Fabric, where you can create even deeper views of how workforce behaviors influence the outcomes your care about by combing computed metrics from Viva Insights with additional data sources, such as data warehouse or line of business and custom applications. Create custom views and experiences by embedding calculated metrics – either directly from Viva Insights or enriched metrics – into third-party and bespoke applications.

ID: 164205 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights custom nudges

Customers and partners to configure custom nudges and recurring nudge workflows. The framework supports custom targeting criteria, UX templates, publication tools, and visibility into impact measures. Supports nudging workflows for a chain of nudges and recurrence for weekly or monthly suggestions.

ID: 164207 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights leader deep-dive reports focus on customers, business operations and agility

There will be a new report for leaders in Viva Insights app in Teams tied to business outcomes. Leaders can view a bundle of relevant metrics and suggested actions. Leaders can further drill down by customizing the filters such as time periods, benchmarks, scopes, view insights breakdown by groups within their organization, and more.

ID: 164211 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.

ID: 164865 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Whiteboard: Email notifications for @ mentions in comments on a whiteboard

The ability for @mentions within comments on a whiteboard to trigger an email notification to the user, with a link back to the @mention.

ID: 164889 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: January CY2024

Whiteboard: Auto-follow when follow session initiated

Participants of a whiteboard will automatically start following a user that starts a follow session when it is initiated.

ID: 164892 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Organization-wide template and question customization

Create organization-wide templates and questions for managers and project leads to use.

ID: 164900 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Schedule a Viva Pulse request to be resent

Schedule and resend pulses to get periodic feedback from your team members.

ID: 164902 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse -Microsoft Teams Chat Notifications and Inline Response

Respond to a Viva Pulse request in Microsoft Teams chat in the flow of work.

ID: 164904 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Select Viva Pulse Questions from a Library

Create a Viva Pulse using research-backed questions found by browsing or searching the question library.

ID: 164906 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Add a link to internal policies

Add a link to your organizations internal policies to the policy reminder messaging in the pulse customization step.

ID: 164908 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Intune: Flexible PKG install for macOS

Agent-based advanced app deployment that unlocks the ability to deploy complex PKG-type apps that are business-critical.

ID: 165278 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved creation, editability, and saved views in review dashboards

Users will save time in preparing for goal review processes with a simplified review dashboard creation and editing experience, and the ability to leverage saved views instead of starting from scratch.

ID: 165681 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Personalized introductory experience for new users

New users will now get a better first run experience tailored to their role that saves them time in getting started.

ID: 165683 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified integration discoverability and set-up experience

Users will be able to easily find and setup integrations to reduce manual check in work.

ID: 165685 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Access and interact with goal progress directly within Outlook email

Users will now be able to access and interact with goal progress directly within Outlook email, enabling them to stay within the flow of work.

ID: 165688 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Edge: Find on page

Searching for a word or phrase on a webpage has become easier with the new smart find update to Find on page. Now when you search with Find on page, we’ll suggest related matches and synonyms making it effortless to find what you’re looking for, even if you misspell a word in your search query. When you search, simply select the suggested word to quickly locate the desired word or phrase on the page. Data is sent to Microsoft for processing. For more information, see Microsoft Edge’s Privacy Whitepaper.Administrators can control the availability using the RelatedMatchesCloudServiceEnabled policy.

ID: 165696 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams

Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

ID: 165707 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Conversational bot in meetings now supported in GCC-H and DoD

Microsoft Teams is now adding conversational bot and meetings extensibility support for meetings and calls in GCC-H and DoD.

ID: 166985 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) ML Classifier support

Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 167221 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations

With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

ID: 167340 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API

Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

ID: 167531 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: December CY2023

Windows 365: GCC and GCC High resize support

The resize feature allows admins to seamlessly upgrade or downgrade users’ existing Cloud PC resources (vCPU/RAM/Storage) via license switch. This capability is now being extended to GCC/GCCH as well as customers on FedRamp. We are targeting the preview by end of 2023.

ID: 167541 Release: Windows 365 – GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Copilot

Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.

ID: 168609 Release: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

OneDrive: Offline mode

This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored.

ID: 168618 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Engage Conversation Analytics

Updates to conversation analytics will allow users to better understand engagement trends that occur on their posts including employee sentiment on popular conversations.

ID: 168625 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope

Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. 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: 168843 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios

New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance?provides the tools to help?organizations detect business conduct and?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: 169212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Project: Lead-Lag in task dependencies

Set advancement and delay between tasks in your project.

ID: 170142 Release: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Home

Viva Home is the home for the Viva suite on the web. Accessible via microsoft365.com app launcher and app explorer, it provides a single landing destination on the web for Viva users with the goal to help with education, discovery and navigation to licensed Viva modules.

ID: 170772 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Outlook: Scheduling Assistant settings moving to the toolbar

We are moving the settings for the Scheduling assistant to the toolbar to reduce clicks and a more seamless scheduling experience.

ID: 170792 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management

With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. 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: 171185 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: June CY2024

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support

Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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: 171717 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection

Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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: 171735 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile

Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile.

ID: 171888 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reporting improvements (Leverage policy insights)

Communication Compliance message details report will support additional user filter to create and download the report for specific users in the policy. The items per policy report will provide item counts and actions on the items matched in the specified date range.

ID: 172017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Town halls (Premium)

Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Advanced town hall capabilities as a part of Teams Premium includes capabilities available in town hall plus capacity for up to 20K attendees, first-party eCDN support, additional language support for live translated captions, email customization, and more.

ID: 173182 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Engage AMA – Private events, multiple hosts, and organizers

An AMA event can now be private and can now also have multiple organizers.

ID: 174141 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant

Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.

ID: 174466 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Contribute to topics you are related to from your inbox

Topics contribution email and Teams notifications will bring relevant topic information for users to review using simple Yes or No questions right from their inbox.

ID: 177490 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Admin setting to disable private messages in a Viva Engage (Yammer) network

Admins will have the ability to turn off private message capabilities in their Viva Engage (Yammer) network. Once turned off, users will not see the feature in the frontend. Once released, this setting is available for admins to use any time. If turning off private messages in existing networks, users will lose access to their messages. All content remains ingested and available via eDiscovery.

ID: 178016 Release: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API

The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.

ID: 178311 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024