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Microsoft Teams eCDN feature will help optimize the streaming experience by reducing the bandwidth usage to help mitigate the impact on networks and line of business applications (LOB). Be on the lookout for this new feature coming soon.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft eCDN
Microsoft eCDN is an enterprise Content Delivery Network that optimizes the streaming experience for Microsoft Teams and other video products. This WebRTC-based solution reduces bandwidth usage helping to mitigate impacts to network and line of business (LOB) applications. Its mesh networks are self-balancing and automatically scale as the number of viewers increases. The technology does not require additional installation on user endpoints or changes to the physical network infrastructure.
ID: 89824 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August 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) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Connectors in GCC
Teams Connectors, which support webhook integrations, will be made available in GCC.
ID: 96290 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC Release: October 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: Activate team from inside the LTI app within LMS itself
Now teachers will be able to activate a class from the Class LTI app within LMS itself. They need not go outside LMS anymore to activate a class. The new activation option is quite intuitive and easy to discover. A notification banner is shown for all the classes that need to be activated.
ID: 97953 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Whiteboard: Save and share user templates
Users will have the ability to save whiteboards as a template, and will be able to share that template with other individual users.
ID: 98085 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2022
SharePoint on Stream: Inline playback of videos in SharePoint Highlighted content web parts for carousel and filmstrip layouts
When users click to play a video in a Highlighted content web part (Carousel or filmstrip layouts) section of a SharePoint site, the video will play inline. This feature allows users to watch a video without being taken off the SharePoint page and keeps the video playing while users to browse/scroll through the other contents of the page.
ID: 98091 Tags: Office 365, SharePoint, Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
SharePoint on Stream: Inline playback of videos in SharePoint Highlighted content web parts for Grid, list and Compact layouts
When users click to play a video in a Highlighted content web part (grid, list or compact layouts) section of a SharePoint site, the video will play inline. This feature allows users to watch a video without being taken off the SharePoint page and keeps the video playing while users to browse/scroll through the other contents of the page.
ID: 98092 Tags: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: View monitoring data on service health issue details
Microsoft 365 monitoring allows you to view near real-time activity metrics and compare these with activity from the previous week. This can help you assess whether a service incident is impacting users in your organization. The service health page will be updated to show metrics from relevant monitoring reports when you view the issue detail page. This information will be shown beneath the “User impact” section, along with links to relevant monitoring charts. Microsoft 365 monitoring is currently in preview and enabled for customers with 5,000 or more Microsoft 365 subscriptions licenses.
ID: 98107 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Release: September CY2022
Viva: Connections Feed
The Viva Connections Feed web part aggregates organizational communication content from sources across SharePoint, Yammer, Stream, Teams, and more into a single personalized feed. We’re introducing a vertical layout to the web part to give you greater flexibility when adding it to SharePoint pages.
ID: 98108 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Connections News Notifications
Mobile users of Viva Connections will receive a push notification from Teams when SharePoint news is published from sites they follow or visit frequently. They’ll also receive notification if they are @ mentioned in a comment on a news post, or if someone likes or comments on news they have published. These notifications will honor Teams notification settings including fully disabling them and quiet hours.
ID: 98112 Tags: Microsoft Viva – GCC Release: November CY2022
Outlook on the web: Update to the location of message compose options
Outlook on the web will update the location of some of the compose options for a message , including the “Send”, “Discard”, and formatting options. This brings the experience in web closer to the classic and new Outlook for Windows.
ID: 98114 Tags: Exchange – GCC Release: September CY2022
Visio: Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) shapes in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 2]
Create BPMN-compliant processes with BPMN 2.0 shapes in Visio for the web. This feature will be available for users with a Visio Plan 2 license.
ID: 98115 Tags: Visio – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Visio: Icons stencils in Visio for the web
Create engaging visuals with 30 new Icons stencils and more than 1,000 new icons for various categories like Accessibility, Analytics, Commerce, Education, Interface, Medical, and more in Visio for the web.
ID: 98116 Tags: Visio – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Visio: New sample diagrams in Visio for the web
Create engaging visuals quickly with 30+ new sample diagrams across the following diagram categories: Basic Diagrams, Basic Flowcharts, Block Diagrams, Cycle Diagrams, and Process Diagrams.
ID: 98117 Tags: Visio – GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Visio: EPC, Fault Tree Analysis, Audit, and Compliance stencils in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]
Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to create additional business diagrams from a blank drawing using four new Business stencils in Visio for the web.
ID: 98118 Tags: Visio – GCC, DoD Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Lists: Add or update images in Microsoft Lists via Power Apps
Power Apps image controls are now fully connected with image columns in Microsoft Lists. You can add, update, or delete images from a list via a Power App.
ID: 98119 Tags: PowerApps – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
SharePoint: People Web Part Medium Card
New medium card allows authors to input a short description accompanying a person’s photo.
ID: 98127 Tags: SharePoint – Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: New formatting for service health emails
We’re updating the subject and heading of service health emails to make it easier to grasp key information quickly. Instead of the generic subject line “M365 Service Health Notification” we’ll include the incident ID and affected product in the subject line. The heading of email will be changed from “[Product name] Service Health Notification” to the title of the issue.
ID: 98133 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office for the web can limit copy to clipboard for encrypted files (U.S. government clouds)
Office for the web will begin respecting the Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption setting that limits users’ ability to copy content to the clipboard.
ID: 98918 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Office for the web can limit copy to clipboard for encrypted files
Office for the web will begin respecting the Microsoft Purview Information Protection encryption setting that limits users’ ability to copy content to the clipboard.
ID: 98919 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Intune: Manage and protect devices running Android Open-Source Project (AOSP)
Manage and protect devices that are running on Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) operating system. Configure single or multiuser devices with conditional access compliance.
ID: 82140 Tags: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Import group policies into Settings Catalog
Add group policies (GPO) used to manage devices on premises to the Endpoint Manager settings catalog so they can be used by customers for cloud or co management.
ID: 88495 Tags: Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release:
Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Add DMG type app management for MacOS
Extend app deployment and management to include DMG type apps for MacOS.
ID: 88498 Tags: Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Add or edit multiple captions and transcripts for a video in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Stream (on SharePoint)
You can upload, download, delete, and replace multiple WebVTT caption files (Web Video Text Tracks) for a single video in Stream (on SharePoint) or for a video stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for business. Multiple WebVTT caption files for one video means you can upload captions and transcripts for different languages or dialects. All uploaded VTT files will be displayed as both captions inside the video player and as transcripts in the pane next to the video. With this feature you’ll be able to add translated captions and transcripts to videos by downloading the WebVTT file generated by Stream or Teams live transcript, editing/translating it on your own in a text or VTT editor, and then uploading it. You will then have one video that gives users the option to view captions and transcripts in multiple languages.
ID: 93235 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Stream: On-demand caption and transcript generation for supported languages
If you have edit permission to a video stored in SharePoint/OneDrive, this feature will allow you to generate closed captions and transcripts for the language spoken in the video. This feature expands from just English (US) to also support the following languages/locales: English (Canada), English (India), English (United Kingdom), English (Australia), English (New Zealand), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Netherlands), Dutch (Belgium), French (France), French (Canada), Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Japanese (Japan), Hindi (India), Italian (Italy), Korean (Korea), Swedish (Sweden), Polish (Poland), Arabic (United Arab Emirates), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Finnish (Finland), Norwegian (Norway), Russia (Russia).
ID: 93327 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October 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
Forms: Distribute your forms by using Teams as a new channel
Forms users can directly share their polls in their Teams chat and channels right within Forms for the web.
ID: 93394 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August 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: External access chat invitation flow for managed organizations
When receiving a new one-on-one chat from an external user, Teams users will now see an invitation to accept or block the external user. This also provides the ability to block external users at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.
ID: 94646 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms
Ability for organizer to pre-assign participants to a breakout room within Channel meetings for channel members not explicitly invited to the meeting. Currently, pre-assignment can only be completed for participants invited to the meeting.
ID: 96350 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Leave a meeting on all my devices
When a Teams user has joined a meeting using multiple personal devices they can encounter friction when leaving the meeting, including forgetting to leave the meeting on one of their many devices. This functionality allows Teams users to leave a meeting from all their devices with a single tap.
ID: 97397 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: View attendance report on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS
You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS.
ID: 97466 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: View meeting transcripts on Microsoft Teams on Android and iOS
You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after the meetings on Microsoft Teams for iOS and Android.
ID: 97693 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Transcription will be turned on together with Recording if the “Record automatically” meeting option is on
If meeting organizer set the “Record automatically” meeting option to on for a meeting, Transcription will be turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts, if transcription is allowed by admins. This will make recording playback experience accessible.
ID: 97842 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics is expanding language support to French, German and Spanish
Support for topic identification from content authored in additional languages.
ID: 72186 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Intune: Security policies for unenrolled Microsoft Defender for Endpoint devices
Manage the security policies on Windows and Windows server that are not enrolled in Intune or Configuration Manager but have Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
ID: 88503 Tags: Microsoft Intune – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release:
Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: Customized compliance settings for Windows
Customize the settings in Endpoint Manager to determine app, Operating System, and Windows device compliance.
ID: 88505 Tags: Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Microsoft Intune – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release:
Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager: VPN Tunnel on enrolled devices
Combined Defender for Endpoint app with Tunnel functionality for friction free anti-phishing and remote VPN.
ID: 88507 Tags: Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Exact Data Match updated UI wizard
An updated Exact Data Match (EDM) UI wizard will supplement the current wizard in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal, offering both an improved manual configuration as well as a new guided experience.
ID: 88895 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Forms: Convert Word/Pdf form or quiz to Microsoft Forms survey
This feature allows you convert you existing surveys or quizzes into Microsoft Forms, making it much quicker to get started. After import, you can still edit as needed before collecting responses.
ID: 93411 Tags: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Attendance Dashboard for GCC-High and DoD
Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled. Measure meeting and webinar registration and attendance data in the Attendance Dashboard.
ID: 94856 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Information protection: Co-authoring on encrypted documents on Mobile
Multiple authors can edit labeled and protected documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, frictionless, and with auto-save, as if they were regular documents.
ID: 98089 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Adobe Sign Integration in Approvals for GCC-High and DoD
This feature is cancelled until further notice.
ID: 81657 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Leavers classifier
The leavers classifier detects messages that explicitly express intent to leave the organization, which is an early signal that may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit 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 explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. This preview has ended.
ID: 93251 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Sexual harassment classifier
The sexual harassment classifier detects explicit instances of sexual harassment as may be outlined in your organization’s policies and code of conduct, such as sexual advances, sexual comments and sexual favors. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit 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 explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. This preview has ended.
ID: 93252 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
