Play of the Week

Microsoft Teams has new updates for those working in the GCC High tenant space. You can now enable or disable meeting attendees’ video to try to preserve bandwidth and prevent lag, especially in large meetings. There are also a pair of new presenter modes to make for a more engaging experience.

In Development

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhancements to quarantine message preview

We’re changing the way users preview quarantined messages to provide additional security against embedded threats.  With this change some components in quarantined messages will be distorted and not displayed by default. To see the full contents of the message, users can choose to reveal the full message.

ID: 82098 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Compliance center: Core eDiscovery and Advanced eDiscovery – Legal hold for Teams private channel

Legal Hold for Teams will now support Private Channel Messages.

ID: 82114 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Send feedback to Microsoft

With this feature, users can send feedback to Microsoft directly on the topic page, manage topics page and my topics page in Viva Topics.

ID: 85572 Tags: Microsoft Viva, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Project: Conversations and @mentions in Microsoft Project

Initiate conversations on specific tasks and @mention colleagues during these conversations within the Project app in Microsoft Teams.

ID: 85573 Tags: Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022

Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Desktop for GCC

With the new Viva Connection Desktop release for GCC, you can bring your intranet directly into Teams Desktop. The app’s icon and name match your company brand and enable employees to discover, navigate and consume your top sites in Teams. The app gives employees a window into the rest of the company intranet by using the same global navigation as the SharePoint app bar.

ID: 85575 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: August CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Guided onboarding experience: recommended actions

Recommended actions that an admin should take for a complete onboarding experience. In-product guided walkthrough on how to complete onboarding actions such as selecting indictors, setting up a policy, and how to investigate an alert.

ID: 85576 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Admin email notifications

An admin email notification will be sent when the first alert is generated after a new policy is created. This email will be deployed to all admins within the Insider Risk Management, Analyst, and Investigator role groups.

ID: 85577 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhanced alert review experience

Enhancements to the alert overview experience to improve explanation of why an alert was created and improve ability to review the riskiest activity in an alert.

ID: 85578 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration activities

Enhancements to the cumulative exfiltration activity presentation to update how we explain the user’s activity compared to the organization. Enhancements to assign higher risk scores when cumulative exfiltration activity involves Microsoft Information Protection labels that have been configured as priority content in a policy.

ID: 85579 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to User Activity experience

Within the user activity tab in a case, we have made enhancements to improve the activity review experience.

ID: 85580 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Enhancements to Export Alerts

For the Export alerts feature, we have increased the frequency in which alerts are sent to the Office 365 Management Activity API to every hour (previously every 12 hours) so you can have more updated alert information available.

ID: 85581 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Export Teams list from Teams Admin Center

Administrators can export Teams list as a csv file from Teams admin center.

ID: 85704 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live reactions for Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability to view live reactions sent by participants in a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Room users can also send reaction from center of the room console.

ID: 85817 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Anonymous meeting join across clouds

Join meetings in other clouds anonymously from your Teams desktop app (across clouds).  We will be enabling this in three phases. First, Commercial and GCC customers will be able to join meetings in GCC-High and DOD clouds. Next, we will enable GCC-High customers to join Commercial, GCC and DOD meetings. Then, we will enable DOD customers to join Commercial, GCC, and GCC-High meetings.

ID: 86311 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021

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

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

ID: 86513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Graph: Confluence Cloud Graph Connector

Confluence Cloud Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence Cloud site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86516 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Graph: ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector

ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector will index incident tickets from ServiceNow into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86517 Tags: Microsoft Search, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Graph: Confluence On-premises Graph Connector

Confluence On-premises Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence on-premises site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86518 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Graph: ServiceNow Catalog Graph Connector

ServiceNow Catalog Graph Connector will index catalog items from ServiceNow into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.

ID: 86519 Tags: Microsoft Search, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Multi-Window support for VDI – Azure Virtual Desktop

Users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content.

ID: 86548 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: October CY2021

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

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

ID: 86906 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or Window on Mac

You can now include your computer’s sound when you share a Desktop or Window on Mac. This is great when you are sharing a video and want your audience to hear its audio during the meeting.

ID: 67169 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Reading Progress in Teams for Education – reading practice and review software

Reading Progress is a reading practice and fluency experience that is part of Microsoft Teams for Education Assignments. Reading Progress saves teachers time in capturing audio/video reading fluency practice and helps students practice reading out loud independently in a private and non-stigmatizing way. Reading Progress also provides insights and analytics to educators.

ID: 72240 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable all Attendees’ Video for GCC-High and DoD

Ability in GCC-High and DoD to disable and enable video for all attendees before or during a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 80221 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Disable/Enable a Single Attendee’s Video for GCC High and DoD

Ability to disable and enable a single attendee’s video in a Microsoft Teams meeting.

ID: 80224 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Forms: Correct Answer choice in Teams Meeting Forms Polls for GCC

This new feature introduces Correct Answer choices to Polls within Teams meetings and will roll out across Microsoft Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web. The new update will make poll creation, as frictionless as possible and gives presenters control of their meeting experience.

ID: 82095 Tags: Forms – GCC Release: August CY2021

Yammer and Microsoft Teams: Customize branding & link previews.

Microsoft Teams admins can customize the branding for the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams to suit their Yammer network with their preferred app logos, naming, accent color, and more. with this Communities app for Microsoft Teams, users see a rich Yammer preview in chats and channel conversations when the user pastes a URL of a conversation from a public Yammer community.

ID: 82243 Tags: Yammer, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Reporter and Side-by-Side Presenter Mode in desktop or window sharing

Two new presenter modes are now coming available. Reporter places content as a visual aid above your shoulder like a news story. Side-by-side displays your video feed next to your content. You can now select a mode that fits your needs and promotes a more engaging presentation and consumption experience.

ID: 83371 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Lower all raised hands for GCC-High and DoD

Meeting organizers and presenters will see an option to lower all raised hands from the participant pane.

ID: 83487 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2021

Launched

Outlook for Android:  Suggested people and actionable search answers

Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as “John’s phone number”. Searching for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar.

ID: 53122 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Outlook for iOS:  Suggested people and actionable search results

Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as “John’s phone number”. Searching for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar.

ID: 53714 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Search: Update to plan for Extension of Microsoft Bing to be installed to Office 365 ProPlus customers

Recently we published a roadmap item regarding an update that allows customers to get easier access to organizational content when performing browser-based searches. Some customers were concerned with the proposed implementation and we have updated our design to address those concerns, including the choice to opt-in, exclusion of unmanaged devices, and control through a simple toggle. Thank you to our customers for sharing your feedback. For more information, see this article.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/office-365-blog/update-to-microsoft-search-in-bing-through-office-365-proplus/ba-p/1161030

ID: 59917 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Search: In Windows 10 with Microsoft 365

Microsoft Search is an enterprise search experience in Microsoft 365 that increases productivity and saves time by delivering more relevant search results for your organization. Get blazing fast search for people, bookmarks, locations, and Q&A in Windows search. With Microsoft Search in Windows, you can now get answers across both work and web integrated into the search panel.

ID: 64994 Tags: Windows, Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Graph: Connectors for Microsoft Search

Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search provide a set of out-of-the-box search connectors that enable Microsoft 365 customers to connect Microsoft Search to disparate data sources outside of Microsoft 365. Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search include the following connectors available within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Windows File Share, ServiceNow, Microsoft SQL Server, intranet websites, MediaWiki, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure DevOps, and Azure SQL.

ID: 65331 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020

Yammer: Post on behalf of another user

Post on behalf of, is a feature in Yammer which enables approved users to post on behalf of someone else.

ID: 66500 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2021

Microsoft Search: People and bookmarks suggestions in the address bar and new tab search box in Microsoft Edge

The New Edge shows people and bookmarks as suggestions in the address bar and new tab search box.

ID: 68778 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Search: On-canvas search in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for the Web

On-canvas search in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint brings the power of Microsoft Search to their contextual command surfaces.

ID: 68788 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: Modern Media Search in Word, Excel, PowerPoint apps (WXP)

Find the perfect stock image, icon, background and more without ever leaving Office.

ID: 68789 Tags: Microsoft Search, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Search: Natural language file search in Outlook

Files answer are a new fast and succinct user experience that helps you find files in Outlook quickly and using natural language. You can find files by the file name or the person who authored the file or sent it to you over email or a Microsoft Teams chat message.

ID: 68795 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2021

Microsoft Search: Dynamic height for results

Improvements to results with Microsoft Search in SharePoint and Office.com will introduce dynamic height previews to support the results descriptive text and deliver preview images.

ID: 68877 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020

Microsoft Search: reports in modern sites

Microsoft Search reports in modern sites will allow for site administrators to view usage analytics related to Microsoft Search in modern sites in SharePoint Online.

ID: 70616 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Information Protection: Enhanced simulations and location support for auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

Auto-labeling in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business has been updated with improved performance and ability to configure more locations. The configuration limit of 10 locations in a policy has been removed. Any new simulation will run more efficiently, with results greatly sped up from days to hours.

ID: 82060 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Search: Single word acronyms in Microsoft Search in Bing

Microsoft Search in Bing Web and Work vertical will be able to look for the meanings of acronyms just by typing the acronym without any patterns like ‘what is’, ‘meaning of’, ‘define’ etc.

ID: 82076 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Live Events in GCC-High, and DoD

Soon, you will be able to use Live Events in GCCH and DoD for your needs.

ID: 82954 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: July CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Dual-tone multi-frequency support for VDI (Citrix only)

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on Citrix dial an outside number via dialer. Call is connected but DTMF is not sent. For example, if user is trying to use Teams to join a Teams meeting by dialing the PSTN number, the conference ID cannot be entered.

ID: 83014 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Canceled

Yammer: Edit attachments in a post

This is postponed and will be republished when the timeline is confirmed.

ID: 67239 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Network device discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

This is a duplicate of 82001 which launched in June 2021.  This will be removed from the roadmap in the near future. Network device discovery for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint enables organizations to discover and secure network devices. Once discovered Defender for Endpoint’s threat and vulnerability management capabilities will be able to provide security recommendations for network devices. This feature is currently available in preview.

ID: 72209 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021

Word, PowerPoint, and Excel: Quickly bring up a person’s contact card when co-authoring

This is being removed from the roadmap as it is a duplicate of 81009. When co-authoring in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel for the Web you can access people’s contact cards by clicking their profile picture in the ribbon.

ID: 81013 Tags: Excel, PowerPoint, Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2021