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Say goodbye to connectivity constraints and hello to uninterrupted file control with OneDrive’s Offline Mode. Users can access OneDrive through their browser to perform essential tasks like viewing, sorting, renaming, moving, copying, and deleting files without an internet connection. Also, for locally stored OneDrive files marked as “always available offline,” users can seamlessly open and work on them in their browsers, even offline. The changes will automatically sync to the cloud once they are online. Be on the lookout for this update coming in December 2023.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Teams AI library
The Teams AI library offers developers a suite of code functionalities designed to ease the integration of Large Language Models, empowering them to build rich, conversational Teams apps. It simplifies the process of creating Bots and Message Extensions, as well as interactions with Adaptive Cards for conversational experiences. Additionally, the Teams AI library also aids the migration of existing Bots, Message Extensions, and Adaptive Card functionalities with seamless integration with Large Language Models.
ID: 130662 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds)
Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 138577 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds)
Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.
ID: 139461 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Search: Microsoft Search in DoD updates
Additional features including Customizable Bookmarks and QnA.
ID: 145807 Release: Microsoft Search – DoD Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast
With “Share an Update,” leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 148471 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Engagement information in Teams Attendance Report (Premium)
Enables meeting organizers to view meeting engagement data such as total reactions, raised hands, cameras turned on, and more in the ‘Attendance’ tab after a meeting.
ID: 162171 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Whiteboard: Quick start with personalized templates on empty whiteboards
When opening a new blank whiteboard, users will be presented with personalized templates to jumpstart their work.
ID: 164890 Release: Whiteboard – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Whiteboard: Open existing board in Teams with Follow
The ability to open an existing whiteboard in a Teams meeting with the follow feature already initiated. This allows users to share a whiteboard with follow enabled immediately.
ID: 164894 Release: Whiteboard – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – eDiscovery guest reviewer delegated access
This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery Premium review sets within a case. This feature empowers eDiscovery Premium admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk.
ID: 165487 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Conversational bot in meetings now supported in GCC-H
Microsoft Teams is now adding conversational bot and meetings extensibility support for meetings and calls in GCC-H.
ID: 166985 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: October CY2023
OneDrive: Offline mode
This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored.
ID: 168618 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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 option will be available in the auto-labeling policy setup in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and via cmdlet.
ID: 168871 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: Tagging for commercial users in the Microsoft 365 app for web and desktop
Tagging in the Microsoft 365 and web and desktop apps is a new, intuitive way for commercial users to organize their work independent of where files are stored. Find the new ‘Tags’ feature in the ‘My Content’ section of the Microsoft 365 App. This feature is only available to users who have OneDrive provisioned.
ID: 169216 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Identity: Public API for Defender for Identity settings through MS Graph
Microsoft Defender for Identity will expose data and actions for its settings through a set of programmatic APIs as part of Microsoft Graph.
ID: 169876 Release: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Project: Lead-Lag in task dependencies
Set advancement and delay between tasks in your project.
ID: 170142 Release: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Home
Viva Home is the home for the Viva suite on the web. Accessible via microsoft365.com app launcher and app explorer, it provides a single landing destination on the web for Viva users with the goal to help with education, discovery and navigation to licensed Viva modules.
ID: 170772 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score Group Level Aggregates – Attribute Configuration
The new feature enables you to configure which Azure Active Directory attributes can be used to filter Adoption Score data in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
ID: 170780 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Outlook: Scheduling across different time zones
When scheduling a meeting with people in different time zones, the organizer will be prompted with additional insights regarding each participant’s respective time zone. The Scheduling Assistant will now help find a time that works for meeting participants across time zones.
ID: 170783 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft 365: Spain datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability
Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Spain. The Advanced Data Residency add-on (“ADR”) will be available in Spain and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Spain local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.
ID: 170789 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Outlook: Scheduling Assistant settings moving to the toolbar
We are moving the settings for the Scheduling assistant to the toolbar to reduce clicks and a more seamless scheduling experience.
ID: 170792 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard)
The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days. The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year.
ID: 171160 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard)
The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days. The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year.
ID: 171161 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Edge: Edge Updates experience migrates into Browser Essentials
Getting alerts on available Edge Updates will come from Browser Essentials instead of the Settings page for better visibility and experience.
ID: 171229 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Visio: Support for layers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2]
Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now use layers to group a related set of shapes in a drawing and change properties of all the layer members at once.
ID: 171492 Release: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Planner: Planner Personal Plans
Today in Planner, all created plans must be contained by an M365 group or a roster. With the new Personal plan API, plans can be contained by a new type of container, called a user container. For these types of plans, the creator of the plan is the only member and owner.
ID: 171611 Release: Planner – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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: 171717 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Potential high impact user experience enhancements
We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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: 171720 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation
Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a security incident. 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: 171725 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection
Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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: 171735 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level
Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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: 171748 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile
Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile.
ID: 171888 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Bookings: Bookings with me available for customers in government cloud
Bookings with me in Outlook facilitates scheduling meetings between you and others per mutual calendar availability and your specified meeting preferences.
ID: 171912 Release: Bookings – GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reporting improvements (Leverage policy insights)
Communication Compliance message details report will support additional user filter to create and download the report for specific users in the policy. The items per policy report will provide item counts and actions on the items matched in the specified date range.
ID: 172017 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope
Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies.
ID: 172024 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Access: Making 32-bit Access Large Address Aware (LAA)
32-bit Access will become Large Address Aware (LAA) to address 4G of memory, rather than 2G.
ID: 172494 Release: Access – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Outlook: Paste as plain text on iOS
You can now paste as plain text, removing all formatting with ease.
ID: 173186 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions
SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web).
ID: 85619 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links (U.S. Government clouds)
Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message. Note: The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 106099 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention support for files shared as cloud attachments or links (U.S. Government clouds)
This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages. Note: The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 106100 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Amplify Author Publications & Distribute to Multiple Destinations
Viva Amplify enables you to author a publication once, and then choose different destinations such as Outlook, SharePoint and Teams to make it available. Viva Amplify will automatically format your content for different destinations and you can choose to customize the content or layout.
ID: 117416 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Amplify Reporting & Analytics
Measure how effective your campaign and its associated publications are with reports. View aggregate results across campaigns, specific publications, or audiences. Understand reach, impact and interactions.
ID: 117417 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: On-demand recordings in Webinars
Organizers can publish the recording of a webinar and automatically send an email to attendees where they receive a link to watch an on-demand recording of the webinar that is hosted on the event page.
ID: 123052 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Custom Activities Search (U.S. Government clouds)
The Audit Custom Activities Search enables customers to search for specific operations in the audit log. Instead of having to use PowerShell queries to search for a specific activity or select from the events in the Activities drop-down menu, admins can use the custom search bar to search for several audit log events directly.
ID: 124913 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Graph: Connectors in GCCH
Microsoft Graph Connectors that allow to index third-party content into Microsoft Graph to enable intelligent experiences like Microsoft Search will be available in Government Community Cloud High (GCCH). Graph Connectors is already live in GCC. DoD launch is coming soon.
ID: 124991 Release: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: New Teams and Channels layout
Presenting the improved grid layout in Teams which allows easy navigation for classes. Bonus – all top-used EDU apps are now a click away inside the class!
ID: 137357 Release: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom enabled meetings from Teams
If the any organizer creates a Zoom/Google meet/ any third-party meeting application from Outlook or OWA, meeting participants will be able to join that meeting from inside Teams calendar.
ID: 138139 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Channel meeting invitations
Feature allows channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.
ID: 142405 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Storyline per-user control for Viva Engage
This feature will allow admins to designate which users in their Viva Engage network have the ability to create new storyline posts. It gives admins another option for how to support storyline in their network in addition to the current choice of enabling or disabling storyline for all users. This feature will not change who can reply or react to the storyline posts from those users who have been given storyline privileges. That is, all users with access to Viva Engage can reply and react to storyline posts.
ID: 159129 Release: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management now supports Government cloud (GCC) customers
Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management, the multi-OS, multi-brand device management service that is included with the Teams Rooms Pro license, now supports customers using the Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant so they have a complete meeting, collaboration, and Teams Rooms device management solution.
ID: 141826 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Contextual summary support in service-side auto-labeling (U.S. Government clouds)
Contextual summary will be supported in simulation mode for service-side auto-labeling. When reviewing matched items in the Contextual Summary tab, you’ll now be able to easily review what sensitive information type was found as a match in the document.
ID: 124821 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
