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Microsoft Excel Automate Task feature will allow users to create, edit and run Office Scripts using Code Editor and All Scripts task pane. Users will be able to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks.
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Microsoft Teams: Music on Hold for Voice over IP Calls and PSTN Consult and Transfer for GCCH and DOD
This feature ensures that music can be played for VOIP calls placed on hold, as well as VOIP and PSTN consult then transfer scenarios.
ID: 83503 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2022
Outlook: Simplified and Classic Ribbons
Outlook on the Web will be adding support for two new ribbon types. Simplified and classic. These ribbons are modeled after classic Outlook for Windows simplified and classic ribbons, to provide a more familiar experience across apps.
ID: 88101 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
SharePoint: SharePoint server migration assessment
Before you move any site or list from SharePoint Server on-premises into Microsoft 365, it’s best practice to assess content and plan for the migration. The SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) will provide content assessment so cloud admins can best understand what content they have, decide what to migrate, and what to remediate. In this update, SPMT supports SharePoint Server migration assessment for versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.
ID: 93440 Tags: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: December CY2022
Teams admin center: View users and groups assigned to a policy
Admins can view the list of assigned users and groups for a policy.
ID: 97253 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Sanctioned and unsanctioned site groups for different sensitive files
With this capability you will be able to create groups of service domains and manage restrictions for the groups within the DLP policy. As an example, you will be able to allow ‘upload’ of sensitive data only to corporate SharePoint sites and block elsewhere.
ID: 98139 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized USB devices
With this capability, you can create groups of USB devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups of USB devices based on serial numbers and allow ‘copy’ of documents to certain groups of USB devices and block ‘copy’ for others.
ID: 98140 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Authorized network share paths
With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.
ID: 98141 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP: Network location as a condition in DLP policy
With this capability you will be able to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal Wi-Fi but not on Corporate Wi-Fi on VPN.
ID: 98142 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
SharePoint:Create pages and news from the SharePoint app bar
Now you’ll be able to start creating pages and news as an action from within the SharePoint app bar. This means, no matter where you are in SharePoint you can jump right into the content creation process and stay in the flow of work.
ID: 98143 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Search: Coherent Workplace Search experience across Microsoft Search in Bing, SharePoint and Office.com
Users see the same search results no matter where they are across Microsoft Search in Bing, SharePoint and Office.com in all native verticals (All, Files, Sites, Images, Messages, People)
ID: 98144 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels
Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an automatically applied retention label or retention policy. This allows them to test the policy before deploying it in production.
ID: 98146 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2023
Excel: Automate your tasks in Excel for Windows
With this update, you can now create, edit, and run Office Scripts in Excel for Windows using the Code Editor and All Scripts taskpane. Office Scripts is a feature that enables you to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks that was previously only available in Excel for the web.
ID: 98157 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Excel: Automate your tasks in Excel for Mac
With this update, you can now create, edit, and run Office Scripts in Excel for Mac using the Code Editor and All Scripts taskpane. Office Scripts is a feature that enables you to automate repetitive spreadsheet tasks that was previously only available in Excel for the web.
ID: 98158 Tags: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Meeting category insights coming to the Digest email
The Digest email from Microsoft Viva will include a summary of meeting category insights for users with a Viva Insights subscription, highlighting up to 3 categories in which users spent the most time over the last 4 weeks.
ID: 98164 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Limitless Tenant Allow/Block List
Today, customers can only create 500 block and 500 allow entries in sender, URL and file category in Tenant allow/block list. Going ahead, customers with MDO P2 or E5 security can create any number of allows and blocks in Tenant allow/block list for sender, URL and file category. Spoof in Tenant allow/block list will remain unaffected by this change and all SKUs will have 1024 entries for both allows and blocks.
ID: 98185 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Detailed call history
Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
ID: 98455 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Transcription for calls on Microsoft Teams for Android
Transcription for 1:1 calls and group calls will be available on the Microsoft Teams app for Android.
ID: 98510 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Choose your spoken language for captions and transcriptions for Microsoft Teams on Android
Specify your spoken language for meetings and calls for more accurate captions and transcriptions. Choose translated captions for a more inclusive calling and meeting experience.
ID: 98513 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Self-diagnostic tool for SPODB – Test-DlpPolicies
A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.
ID: 98928 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Planner: Recurring tasks
Configure your tasks to occur on a regular cadence in Planner.
ID: 82028 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Assign seats in Together Mode
Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode.
ID: 83648 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Device Test for virtual visits
Ability for users to test their device before a virtual visit.
ID: 87715 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams chat embedded within Dynamics 365
Microsoft Teams chat can be accessed directly from Dynamics 365 allowing users to continue existing chats or create new individual or group chats.
ID: 89100 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview | SIT Feedback Loop for Content explorer and DLP alerts
Admins can provide feedback for sensitive information type (SIT) False Positives via Content explorer and DLP Alerts. This feedback can be provided in a compliant manner and users can see a summary view of the feedback in the SIT overview page. The feedback will be used to make systematic fixes to SITs for improved accuracy.
ID: 93210 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Actions from the email entity page
We are adding the ability to take actions from the email entity page. You can take email purge actions, create submissions, tenant level block actions (block sender/domain/file/URLs), investigative actions from email entity page.
ID: 93295 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Background Blur and Effects for VMware
Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.
ID: 97952 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
SharePoint: Configure navigation links to open in a new tab
With this update, you will be able to manage the experience for each navigation item to open in a new tab.
ID: 93318 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Office app and OneNote: Dictation in DoD
We are bringing the capabilities of dictation to DoD. DoD users will be able to use speech to text technology in Office apps to draft documents, emails, and notes.
ID: 93397 Tags: Office app, Outlook, Word, OneNote, PowerPoint – DoD Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Redirecting users to Microsoft 365 Defender (GCC, GCC High, DoD)
We will begin automatically redirecting users in government cloud environments accessing the security-related capabilities in the Office 365 Security and Compliance center to Microsoft 365 Defender. These include capabilities in the Threat Management section, Alerts, Threat Management dashboard and Reports. Items in the Office 365 Security and Compliance Center that are not related to security are not redirected to Microsoft 365 Defender. Customers are able to turn off automatic redirection.
ID: 93418 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Choose preferred download location for files
Teams will now enable users to select the default download location where they would like to have their files downloaded. This is applicable only on the desktop client. Teams on the web will continue to honor the setting in the browser.
ID: 94719 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams and Forms: Ranking Poll
The Ranking question type is being added to the Polls app within Microsoft Teams. Meeting owners can easily create and launch Ranking polls to increase engagement and collect input from their meeting attendees, as well as share the results live.
ID: 94764 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies in Group Chat
Suggested Replies will be enabled in group chats, allowing you to select a quick response when you are mentioned in a group chat or when you are having a 1:1 conversation within a group chat.
ID: 95618 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in Group VOIP Calls
All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams VOIP Calls. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their Teams VOIP Calls.
ID: 96189 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to in-meeting notifications
Simplifying the in-meeting notification displays where users are informed about what they need to know or do without causing unnecessary distraction.
ID: 96283 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Activate team from inside the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within your Learning Management System (LMS)
Now educators can activate a class from the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within a LMS and no longer need to leave the LMS to activate a class. The new activation option is intuitive and easy to discover, with a notification banner for classes that need to be activated.
ID: 97406 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Manage meeting options for DoD
Organizers will now be able to modify the user experience, or customize the safety and security settings for their meetings using the new “Meeting Options” feature.
ID: 72169 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: June CY2022
OneDrive: New information architecture on iOS
To make it easier to discover options, OneDrive on iOS has a new information architecture (IA) using the bottom sheet to show all commanding options.
ID: 85571 Tags: OneDrive – Germany, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: April CY2022
Microsoft To Do: iOS and Android apps available for GCC moderate users
GCC customers will be able to sign into the Microsoft To Do iOS and Android apps using their GCC accounts.
ID: 85590 Tags: Microsoft To Do – GCC Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Viewing Teams meeting recording transcripts for GCC High
You can see transcripts in transcript pane next to the video for Teams meeting recordings when Teams Live Transcript is also enabled. Video viewers can use the transcripts pane to find content most relevant to them and subsequently jump to any point in the video.
ID: 85647 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Check out for Microsoft Teams panels
From a Microsoft Teams panel, users can “check out” of a room with the touch of a button, ending the room reservation and returning the room back to the room inventory.
ID: 88047 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Extend Room reservations for Microsoft Teams panels
From a Microsoft Teams panel, users can extend their existing meeting room reservation. The reservation can only be extended if the room is available during that time.
ID: 88643 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Forms: Enable templates for commercial users
Microsoft Forms will not only surface it portal page on office hub, but we will also reroute partial traffic to forms.office.com and forms.microsoft.com. Then user will be able to find Collection on the portal page with some other minor improvements. All Forms users could easily find and explore high quality 1st party templates on portal page through different business categories like build better events, grow product success, improve employee satisfaction, digitalize business process and create engaging learning environment (for EDU).
ID: 88946 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Forms: Brand new first-run experiences for Forms new users
For those new-to-forms users, we will help them understand through branded new first-touch experience about Forms capability, where they can use Forms and how. Users can navigate through the Forms templates categories through several selected business scenarios and pre-populated grab-and-go solutions.
ID: 88947 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Bulk removal for individual policy assignments
Admins can cleanup individual policy assignments from users in bulk, so that those users can inherit the correct policy either via a group policy assignment or global org-wide default.
ID: 90705 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Information Protection – Automatically turn on auto-labeling policy
Admins can configure their auto-labeling policies to be automatically turned on if there aren’t any changes to the policy within a set number of days from simulation completion. This configuration has rolled out via cmdlet. We are still in the process of rolling this out in the auto-labeling policy setup in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
ID: 93330 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2022
Microsoft Search: Natural Language search support in Microsoft Search
Natural language search in Microsoft Search enables support for common search patterns when searching for content such as files, people, calendar events (meetings), messages, emails.
ID: 93335 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams redesign and availability via Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com
The Viva Insights app in Teams is being redesigned to create a more intuitive and actionable experience for individuals, managers, and leaders. Additionally, the Viva Insights web homepage – discoverable via insights.viva.office.com as well as via the Microsoft 365 app launcher on Office.com – is being updated to match the app in Teams for simplicity and uniformity across surfaces.
ID: 93346 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
SharePoint: Content Type Deletion – Improved Error Messages
If you attempt to delete multiple content types from content type gallery which have dependencies on other lists/content types, you will get improved error messages that lists out the dependent resources.
ID: 93379 Tags: SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Addition of Shared Mailboxes to the Mailbox Usage Report
Expansion of mailbox insights to the mailbox usage report.
ID: 93398 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Time trends for Adoption Score people experiences
Time Trends in Productivity Score helps IT admins understand historical information about people experiences in their environment. Time trends extends organizational trend data from 28 days up to 180 days across Content collaboration, Meetings, Teamwork, Mobility, and Communication insight categories within people experiences. Productivity Score and people experiences must be enabled by a Global Administrator within the Microsoft 365 admin center to access this feature.
ID: 93430 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: View Together Mode for everyone for GCC-High and DOD
Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
ID: 94390 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Native Apple Silicon Support – Universal Binary Teams Version
Teams now comes as a Universal Binary Mac so it runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon based Mac devices.
ID: 94836 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Mute/ unmute status icon for Teams Rooms on Windows
To ensure users in the room are aware of the mute state of the room, a mute icon is added to the room video on the front of room display.
ID: 95257 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at scale for frontline workers
Deploying Teams at Scale enables your admins to deploy up to 500 teams and add 25 users per team using one Teams PowerShell command and 2 csv files. This allows admins to meet their organization’s scale needs and significantly reduces deployment time. Admins can also use this solution to add and remove members from existing teams at scale.
ID: 96352 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Whiteboard: Migrating previously created boards
This feature is postponed indefinitely.
ID: 66763 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: April CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Noisy signal management – File path exclusions
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Define specific file paths to manage user activity signals that may be considered noisy. 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.
ID: 88903 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Noisy signal management – Site URL and keyword exclusions
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Define specific site URLs and keywords to manage user activity signals that may be considered noisy. 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.
ID: 88904 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
