Play of the Week

Some days we are super busy at work and we run into unexpected situations that require us to attend meetings outside of our home offices. Microsoft Teams has a new feature that will allow GCC-High and DOD tenants to attend meetings with Apple CarPlay. Tenants can use Siri’s voice command feature to join a call or contact specific customers or coworkers without having to touch your cellphones. Be sure to lookout for this new feature coming soon.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak

Introducing the capability to allow meeting participants to temporarily unmute by press “Ctrl Spacebar” to speak.

ID: 83419 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop

This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop on VDI to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.

ID: 83555 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Teams now available on CarPlay

When Teams is connect to CarPlay, you can now handsfree call or message one or a group of Teams contacts, as well as join your next meeting.

ID: 84391 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Physical badging Connector for Government clouds

You can set up a connector in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to import physical badging data, such as employee’s raw physical access events or any physical access alarms generated by your organization’s badging system. This information can be used by the Microsoft 365 insider risk management solution to generate risk indicators that can help you identify possible malicious activity or data theft inside your organization.

ID: 85588 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: HR 1.2 Connector for Government clouds

You can set up a connector in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to import human resources (HR) related events such as a user’s resignation or a change in a user’s job level. This information can be used by the Microsoft 365 insider risk management solution to bring users under scope of data theft/leak policies and enrich risk insights.

ID: 85589 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Viva: Draft support in Topic Pages

With this feature, topic editors and curators can save a page edit as a draft which is a feature parity to SharePoint page authoring.

ID: 85593 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – sorting and filtering

Add support for sorting and filtering the list of devices in the Sync admin reports.

ID: 85595 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – aggregated errors view

Adds ability to view an aggregated summary view of the top sync errors happening in the organization.

ID: 85596 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Bookings: Bookings app in Teams for GCC

Bookings app available in Teams.

ID: 85599 Tags: Bookings – GCC Release: September CY2021

Bookings: SMS notifications for booking appointments

Microsoft Bookings supports sending SMS notifications for appointment confirmations, reminders, and cancellations for including Teams meeting link for virtual appointments.

ID: 85600 Tags: Bookings – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Word: Simple Markup view in Word for the web

Simple Markup view keeps suggestions from others—both tracked changes and comments—on the periphery, allowing you to focus on the document itself while remaining aware that there are suggestions present.

ID: 85601 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

OneDrive: New Command Bar

With this update you can easily identify the right file and access primary commands. The simplified view allows you to focus on the content and that is visually pleasing.

ID: 85602 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate

Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users.

ID: 85604 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate for GCC

Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users.

ID: 85605 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC Release: October CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate for GCC High

Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users.

ID: 85606 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to the common attachment filter in the anti-malware policy

We’re adding file types to the common attachment filter (default block list) of the Anti-malware policy with three new file types. Please refer to Message Center for the updated list.

ID: 85611 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Queue view for virtual visits scheduled in the Microsoft Bookings app

Real time updates to meeting state in a queue view for virtual visits scheduled in the Microsoft Bookings app.

ID: 86718 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Teams: Attendance Dashboard in GCC

Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the Attendance Dashboard.

ID: 87061 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: December CY2021

Microsoft Yammer: Restrict Yammer community posting

Gives network managers the ability to restrict who can start a thread in a community. Once this setting is enabled, only admins will have the ability to post in the community while members can only reply and react to conversations.

ID: 87114 Tags: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Updated Web player for video & audio files in SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and OneDrive for Government Clouds

The web player for audio and video files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint (including when those files are embedded in Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint), is updated with a new user look and feel, and adheres to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

ID: 87204 Tags: Yammer, SharePoint, Microsoft Stream, OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: October CY2021

Rolling Out

Microsoft Stream: Updated Web player for video & audio files in SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and OneDrive

The web player for audio and video files that are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint (including when those files are embedded in Teams, Yammer, and SharePoint), is updated with a new user look and feel, and adheres to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

ID: 82039 Tags: OneDrive, Yammer, SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Stream: Viewing the transcript for a Microsoft Teams meeting recording

For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint that were recorded with Teams Live Transcript, you’ll now be able to view the transcript from that meeting directly in the transcript pane next to the video player.

ID: 82057 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Launched

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – Windows support

New dashboard to check sync app versions, sync status, top sync errors on individual devices and monitor deployment progress of Known Folder Move.

ID: 65909 Tags: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: May CY2021

SharePoint: Organization Chart Webpart

This webpart allows page authors to generate an organization chart based off of an individual. The page author will have the option to determine how many levels up this org chart goes.

ID: 67131 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit – Optional 10 year audit log retention add-on

To help meet rigorous regulatory and internal compliance obligations or conduct longer running investigations, organizations can add 10-year audit log retention to Advanced Audit. Once enabled, you can access the logs in the Microsoft 365 compliance center or through the Office 365 Management Activity API. The events will also soon be accessible across Microsoft 365 compliance solutions. 10-year audit lot retention will be available for purchase an an add-on SKU for G5 customers.

ID: 68706 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2021

SharePoint: Page Authoring First Run Experience

The page authoring First Run experience is an interactive tutorial that walks users through the editing process the first time that they create a page or news post.

ID: 70667 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, Germany, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: February CY2021

SharePoint: Web Part Toolbox Updates

We are rolling out several changes to the web part toolbox; featured web parts will be replaced with a users most frequently used web parts, the categories from the large toolbox will also appear in the small toolbox, and the size of the small toolbox has increased.

ID: 70668 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2021

Outlook for iOS: Support .ICS calendar attachments

Support for .ICS file attachments that enable you to add events received in email to your Outlook Calendar.

ID: 71264 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Advanced Delivery for SecOps Mailboxes and Third-Party Phishing Simulations

Advanced delivery gives admins the ability to configure advanced message delivery for special scenarios, including third-party phishing simulation campaigns and SecOps mailboxes. Advanced delivery will deliver unfiltered messages in these cases and clearly mark messages as part of each scenario across all admin surfaces.

ID: 72207 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: July 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: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms

Enhanced UX for participant assignment. This includes new capabilities such as sorting participants and rooms and performing multiple selections and assignments to rooms.

ID: 81389 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2021

Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance discrimination classifier

The Discrimination classifier aims to detect and triage explicit discriminatory language.

ID: 81971 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2021

SharePoint: Page details updates

This update to the page details panel will allow page authors to delete a page and change the page’s URL.

ID: 81994 Tags: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, Germany, DoD, GCC High Release: September 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

Microsoft Teams: Missed Activity Email in DOD

Missed activity email enables the user to stay on top of their Microsoft Teams notifications. A missed activity email is generated in case a user is away from Microsoft teams and has not reviewed their notifications. A user can choose to receive Missed activity emails by going to settings – notifications – choosing the frequency.

ID: 83061 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD Release: September CY2021

Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style

Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.

ID: 83062 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021

Canceled