Play of the Week

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal has significantly enhanced its Information Protection capabilities. Users can now automatically label PDF files stored in SharePoint Online, extending the auto-labeling functionality beyond Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. With this update, organizations can ensure that sensitive information within their files remains secure and compliant with regulatory requirements.

In Development

Outlook: Understand and update sharing privileges on OneDrive and SharePoint links

Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.

ID: 100697 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: New location for saved feed items on Viva Connections Mobile

Updating the location for saved feed items to make it easy for users to find the same.

ID: 161514 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to set survey deactivation times

Improved self service; Ability to set survey deactivation time.

ID: 163985 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024

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 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, DoD, GCC High 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, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights custom attributes

New logic allows analysts to build on or combine existing organizational attributes. For instance, a new org attribute that combines several roles that can then be used to filter results in the analysis.

ID: 167345 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

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, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023

Windows 365: Cross-region disaster recovery (BCDR)

Windows 365’s cross-region BCDR capability will enable customers to achieve greater data resilience by maintaining additional geographically diverse copies of their Cloud PCs. This includes the ability to recover Cloud PC instances, along with user context (optional), in the event of an Azure full region outage. We are targeting a private preview by the end of 2023.

ID: 167539 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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, GCC High 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

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: Insider Risk Management- Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection

Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day.” With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared with their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster. 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: 168630 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: January CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators

With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. 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: 168841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

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, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files

This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files.

ID: 168865 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoint – Protect sensitive text when it is shared through Web forms

This capability extends Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for endpoints’ data protection controls for sensitive files and unsanctioned sites to also include sensitive data that’s shared through text. (e.g. pasted into a Web survey form).

ID: 169079 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Test function for Exact Data Match will include results for configured primary elements

When using the test function in the Compliance portal or in PowerShell to test Exact Data Match (EDM) matches, the resulting EDM matches will be returned along with matches for the Sensitive Information Types (SITs) configured as EDM primary elements to help admins troubleshoot when EDM is not returning expected matches.

ID: 169088 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Changes to Viva Engage Connector for Topic Name

In support of migrating tenants from using legacy Viva Engage topics to Viva Topics, changes are coming to the Power Automate connector for Viva Engage. The topic name parameter will be deprecated from the connector. Legacy flows will continue to work, but the topic name parameter will not be available for new flows.

ID: 169199 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

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, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.

ID: 170738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints

Extend protection to cold/unclassified files on endpoint devices by just-in-time protection at the time of egress.

ID: 117493 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: The new Microsoft Teams app

The new Teams has been reimagined from the ground up, delivering up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory. It enables users to collaborate with people across organizational boundaries by seamlessly using Teams across multiple tenants or accounts.

ID: 122540 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript (Premium)

Teams Premium users can now view Live Transcript in their preferred languages during the meeting and choose to show the translated transcript with the original transcript as a reference.

ID: 126321 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Stream: Audio tracks and descriptions for Stream on SharePoint

Video owners and editors will soon have the ability to upload multiple audio tracks in a single video when using Stream (on SharePoint). These audio tracks will act as alternates to the main audio track.  This feature can be used to add multiple language audio tracks for multi-lingual organizations, or to add audio descriptive tracks or to add audio tracks for other purposes. Viewers of the video will be able to select which audio track they would like to hear by clicking the Audio Tracks button (headphones icon) in the video player.

ID: 145123 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access

Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access extends the existing Guest Access functionality to allow a user coming from another Microsoft cloud to participate in rich collaboration experiences across Microsoft Clouds including joining teams, channels, documents, 1:1 and group chat as well as Teams meetings with audio/video, screen share and file share.

ID: 145459 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings

Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.

ID: 145460 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Remove Teams call and meetings details from mobile device call logs

Teams users can now choose if they want to keep or remove their Teams call and meetings history details from their iOS device call log. Users will have the option to determine their preference in the Call settings in the Teams app.

ID: 152469 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Support for offline search without Spotlight dependency

iOS’s offline search implementation relies on Spotlight (Apple’s local search index). In some cases, Intune policy can block the use of Spotlight, which will completely disable offline search for users. We are adding support for offline search even if your company’s Intune policy blocks use of Spotlight.

ID: 153121 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Upload and share documents on large emails

On Outlook accounts when you try to attach a file to an email 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 OneDrive so that you can still easily share the document.

ID: 156100 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label”

Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition “content contains sensitivity label” to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported. This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client.

ID: 164212 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023

Launched

Outlook: Enterprise warning dialog

Now there is clearer messaging and cleanup options when you run out of email storage.

ID: 100695 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Working hours and location

New working hours and location options in Outlook lets people set more flexible working hours each day and specify the location from where they plan to work.

ID: 114511 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

Canceled

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

Microsoft Viva: McKinsey Integration through Data Egress in Insights

Organizational Health Index (OHI) applies analytical rigor to organizational health management. Our quantitative diagnostics and proven recipes for success empower senior leaders to measure and achieve the organizational health required to sustain long-term performance. This integration includes Viva Insights metrics to enhance OHI’s diagnostics and solutions. [This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer scheduled.]

ID: 117411 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Avanade Integration through Data Egress in Insights

Avanade’s employee experience transformation takes the next step by integrating with Viva Insights metrics to unlock deeper understanding and offer new solutions. [This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer scheduled.]

ID: 117412 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat in Virtual appointments

Provide a seamless client experience with an interactive lobby that allows facilitators to send messages to customers prior to the meeting. Note: This feature is being removed from the roadmap and will be republished with updated information if applicable.

ID: 122395 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023