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Do you need help with those pesky email size limits? Outlook now offers a new update that allows users to upload and share documents through OneDrive. When users attach file/s that meet or exceed the size limit in an email, Outlook will prompt the user to upload their file to their linked OneDrive account. The new update ensures users can easily share documents while avoiding email size restrictions. Be on the lookout for the update in September 2023.
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Excel: Refresh queries from Authenticated Data Sources in Excel for the Web
You can now refresh Power Query data from data sources that require authentication in Excel for the Web.
ID: 65632 Release: Excel – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Work Hours and Location for iOS
You can now view your colleagues’ work locations when scheduling a meeting.
ID: 118956 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Workflows within Channels
Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels.
ID: 131293 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Real-time calendar sync and updates with Outlook
Any changes you make to your calendar in Outlook, will be reflected in real-time in your Teams calendar and vice-versa.
ID: 138248 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: calendar synchronization
You can view changes to your meetings in real time in the Teams calendar on your mobile device.
ID: 138326 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs (U.S. Government clouds)
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: 139455 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to assign alerts & cases to an owner (U.S. Government clouds)
With this update, admins will be able to assign a case or alert to other admins, analysts, and investigators, making it easier for colleagues to know which alerts and cases are being worked on. 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: 139456 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups
App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant.
ID: 151829 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2023
Outlook : Upload and share documents through OneDrive on large emails
When you try to attach a file to an email message that has hit the maximum size limit, or when an attachment will push the email over that limit, you will be prompted to upload the file to the OneDrive account associated with the email so that you can still easily share the document.
ID: 162653 Release: – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for Android to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules such as encryption as defined by tenant admins.
ID: 163358 Release: – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: MIP Label Support for Events
Tenants who have setup MIP sensitivity labels for use on events will now have support in Outlook for iOS to both read and write labels to their meetings with enforcement of rules such as encryption as defined by tenant admins.
ID: 163359 Release: – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Granular scoping with role-based access control (RBAC)
IT departments in large organizations are built in a way that some of the day-to-day tasks are delegated to specific people or roles in the organization following the industry standard of least privilege access. Admins have a need to delegate role based permissions to users or analysts in a granular way. In some cases, this delegation is based on function, and in other cases it is based on geography or scope of work. In this release, Audit will provide role based information with Audit search results through the UI.
ID: 163961 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for conditional logic
Improved self service; Ability to enable if/then questions on surveys and support conditional logic.
ID: 163978 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for SFTP file transfer
Improved self service for admins to setup SFTP for file transfer.
ID: 163979 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 enabled under Viva Admin
Viva Glint Admin enabled under Viva Admin.
ID: 163983 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 relink surveys
Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress.
ID: 163987 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights flexible data model
Add any contextual data about your business using seamless data ingress and a flexible data model to support outcome-driven scenarios, such as sales or developer productivity.
ID: 164206 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation
From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed.
ID: 164210 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Auto Install Approved Apps
Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.
ID: 164494 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved Phased Target Feature to Reflect Child Objectives and Key Results
Customers who want to factor seasonality into tracking progress can now set expected targets for specific time periods at the child key objective and key result level and see the progress reflected in the parent objective or key result.
ID: 164766 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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
Whiteboard: Expanded reaction set
Additional reaction stickers for use in Whiteboard.
ID: 164873 Release: Whiteboard – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: September CY2023
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 Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements
This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds.
ID: 164895 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Send a Viva Pulse request to a larger audience
Send pulses to up to 10,000 recipients.
ID: 164901 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 – 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 – Respond to a Viva Pulse in email
Respond to a Viva Pulse request inline in email.
ID: 164907 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 – Automated organization, team member, and default admin set-up for new users with M365 groups
New users will now save time with a simplified onboarding experience for setting up organizations, team members, and admins.
ID: 165682 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms and structures
Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework.
ID: 165684 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 – Copilot
With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals.
ID: 165689 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified Goal Creation
Users can save time in adding or creating Goals with the new simplified creation experience.
ID: 165697 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels
Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls.
ID: 165698 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November 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: 165995 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence
This update provides two enhancements to app and risky browsing activities that may lead to a data security incident in forensic evidence. Admins with appropriate permissions will no longer need to enable browsing indicators from the insider risk settings page to gain visual insights of these activities. In addition, the feature has been updated with more precise detection when users switch between tabs and windows. This results in more reliable visual evidence insights when context is switched in the browser. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 165996 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Syntex: pay-as-you-go for structured models
Microsoft Syntex users will be able to use their Azure subscription to pay for Syntex structured and freeform models on a pay-as-you-go basis.
ID: 167309 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Front row gallery improvements for Teams Rooms on Windows
Improvements to the front row experience for Teams Rooms on Windows using Microsoft AI to remove individual backgrounds, adjust video participant size, and apply a unified background design so remote participants appear as if they are in the same room.
ID: 95267 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – – Create a list from CSV
You can now import from a CSV file to create a list with it. The Export to CSV feature is also augmented with schema, so when you import, your source and destination lists will look identitical, down to all the custom formatting, choice pills, richtext based editing etc.
ID: 100501 Release: SharePoint – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy
Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.
ID: 117489 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Spatial Audio
Spatial Audio brings next-generation experiences to Teams Rooms on Windows that have Teams-certified stereo speakers with right and left capabilities. This intelligent audio technology delivers a more natural and inclusive experience for in-room participants making it feel like remote people are in the room with them.
ID: 122554 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – User experience (UX) update
This update improves overall performance of Microsoft Lists and introduces new features, like the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who collaborating with you – and where – in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.
ID: 124867 Release: SharePoint – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Shared Device license on Teams mobile app for Android
To support mobile and flexible work styles, the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license will be available on the Teams mobile app on Android. This will enable Android phones to be set up as shared devices. Walkie Talkie, call queues, auto attendants, cloud voicemail, call park and all other calling features currently supported for common area phones will be available through the Teams Android app.
ID: 126706 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams.
Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date.
ID: 127888 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Stream: New “Add to playlist” functionality
We are updating the functionality of the “Add to playlist” feature in Stream. Soon you will be able to add a video to playlists stored in SharePoint sites while viewing the video in the Stream web app. To add a video to a playlist in a SharePoint site you must be a member or owner of the site.
ID: 145216 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Add video to existing playlist
Soon you will be able to search for existing playlists when you add a video to a playlist from Stream web app.
ID: 148470 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Stream: Insert and playback videos in Word and PowerPoint
This feature allows customers to insert Stream (on SharePoint) videos into PowerPoint and Word using the existing “Insert Online Video” feature in those apps. Video playback happens inline within Word and PowerPoint with enhanced playback features such as transcripts, captions, search, chapters, and playback speed controls. Stream (on SharePoint) videos are videos stored in a user’s OneDrive Business account or in SharePoint. Note: Video insertion will be available on desktop client and web, but not on mobile. Video playback will be available on desktop client, web and mobile. PowerPoint for Mac is supported; however, Word for Mac is not supported.
ID: 155751 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: August CY2023
Outlook: Outlook for the Web – RSVP User Experience Consistency Updates
The RSVP experience will appear more consistent across the various locations from which a user can RSVP within both mail and calendar. For most RSVP flows, a user will be presented with the option to email an organizer, send an optional message to the organizer, and respond yes/no/maybe to the invite. This is not new functionality, but will be presented earlier in the RSVP flow in some RSVP locations and will have a more consistent visual treatment across all RSVP locations.
ID: 101163 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels (U.S. government clouds)
Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types. Note: We apologize for having updated this to rolling out in June. It will launch in August.
ID: 109569 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Auto-categorization coming to meeting category insights in Viva Insights
Users with a Viva Insights license will be able to see what kind of meetings are taking up their time, automatically categorized by Viva Insights based on meeting size, cadence, and people in the meetings. Categories include long and large, recurring, and 1:1 meetings.
ID: 117396 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents.
The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.
ID: 124683 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Prompt Walkie Talkie first time users to connect to a single channel
Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. We are releasing a new change where new users can now easily determine a channel to connect to start collaborating with colleagues.
ID: 129970 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Shifts: Notifications improvements
Several improvements to notifications for open and assigned shifts, including notifications will be sent to impacted team members only, schedule owners will have more control on who get the notifications, improved information for end user in the notification (such as location and department information), and consistent notifications across all platforms (desktop, web, iOS, Android).
ID: 135383 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Shifts notification deep link improvements
Frontline workers and managers will be able to take appropriate actions when they receive notifications on key activities. For example, when a manager receives a notification for requests, clicking on notification will take them directly to the request approval page. When frontline workers gets notified of new shift schedule, the message will take them directly to the schedule view.
ID: 138476 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Edge: v.116 – Microsoft Edge for Business
Microsoft Edge for Business on desktop and mobile aims to address the needs of both end users and IT Pros. It is designed to meet the needs of the evolving security landscape while empowering users to be more productive by enhancing focus. In addition to native enterprise controls that you’re already familiar with in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge for Business includes new visual elements, including an adjusted icon, and optional automatic switching between a personal browser window (activated by Microsoft account MSA login) and a work browser window (activated by Entra ID login). All users who sign into Edge using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) will automatically be transitioned to Microsoft Edge for Business as part of the release.
ID: 144362 Release: Microsoft Edge – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AIP client and scanner data surfaced in Content explorer
All files detected by the AIP_Onprem_scanner via the ‘Discover’ event will be showcased in the Content explorer under two new on-premises locations: File Share and SharePoint Server. This item is no longer scheduled and will be removed from the roadmap.
ID: 88529 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: 1000+ Search Results
[This item is being postponed indefinitely.] Allow users to return over 1000 results on a single search.
ID: 151032 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024
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