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Microsoft Purview Information Protection feature will allow users to maintain labeling and protection policies after converting a Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file into a PDF. This new feature will ensure the safety, integrity, and security of the organization’s data.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Word: Create Tasks with @mentions
Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your document.
ID: 64122 Tags: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Unread Toggle on Activity Feed
Unread Toggle will help the user review only unread items on the activity feed easily and efficiently.
ID: 88389 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: November CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in One-on-One 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: 96188 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
SharePoint Syntex: improvements for model discovery and use
Updated experience for the discovery of and access to the list of available models – both in the content center and team sites. This update also allows extract by layout (formerly form processing) models to be reused across libraries and sites.
ID: 98109 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Release: September CY2022
SharePoint Syntex: new model type for free-form documents
A new model type – trained using AI Builder. It is suitable for extracting information from files contained in both fields and paragraphs. This model type is currently in preview.
ID: 98110 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Release: September CY2022
SharePoint Syntex: Contracts Management In-product site template
This template will enable licensed Syntex users to apply a Contracts Management site template directly from the in-product apply a template UX. This site template include automatic data classification and extraction, a preconfigured content assembly model, templates and preconfigured workflow. It also includes learning material around how to use and extend this template to customize it for your own use case!
ID: 98138 Tags: SharePoint Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Viva: New app called Microsoft Viva Sales
Microsoft Viva Sales is a new seller experience application that brings together a seller’s customer relationship management (CRM) system, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams to provide a more streamlined and AI-powered selling experience — right from within the tools they use every day to connect with customers and close deals.
ID: 98147 Tags: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva, Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Viva: Learning – new Admin IA
We are introducing an improved Admin experience for Admins within Viva Learning app so that they can have all Viva Learning specific app controls at a single place.
ID: 98149 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Enhancements to detection and triage
Enhancements to various security detection and triage experiences across Insider Risk Management including the ability to customize alerts during review, use a Sequence-as-a-policy-trigger, and create policies that will only generate alerts on content that is defined as a priority within the policy according to customers’ preferences. This release also includes new security detections for data exfiltration from a device using RDP connection as well as noise reduction from OneDrive/SharePoint Online file sync and download. Note: This update consolidates previously announced features from the following roadmap items: 88898, 88899, 88900, 88902. 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: 98160 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Whiteboard: Loop components
Copy and paste Loop components into your whiteboards to continue working collaboratively together and stay in sync across all your applications.
ID: 98161 Tags: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Support for adaptive policy scopes
Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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 ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 98186 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – List usability enhancements
Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).
ID: 98190 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) List usability enhancements (U.S government clouds)
Various UX and workflow enhancements including the ability to mark an eDiscovery (Premium) case as favorite, user filter/group/sort/search persistence on various list pages (such as cases list), and quickly access common collection operations (such as edit collection query, rerun estimate, and commit collection).
ID: 98192 Tags: – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2022
Microsoft Graph: Connectors in GCC
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 (GCC). GCC-H and DoD launch is coming soon.
ID: 98193 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection Maintain label and protection when creating PDF files from Office apps (U.S. government clouds)
Labels and protection applied on Office documents will be persisted to the output file when converting to PDF in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on PC.
ID: 98194 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Video and audio embed code for use on internal web sites
With this feature users can get an embed code for an audio or video file that is uploaded to or stored in SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, or Yammer. The embed code renders the audio or video source file in a player and can be used on intranets or internal websites. Note: If the user is logged into the internal site or intranet where the embedded player is featured, but is not logged into M365, then they will be asked to login to M365 to view the content. If the user does not have permission to view the content, then a modal will surface in place of the video which will allow the user to request access to the audio or video file.
ID: 98198 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Stream – GCC, DoD Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams calendar – Muti window experience for scheduling form for Government
Currently, it is not possible to work on a file, chat, look into activity while managing time on teams’ calendar. The reason for this is all these are in different apps located in the left app tray. Users have to switch back and forth between these apps to multi-task in calendar and there are times the data/context gets lost while switching between these apps. We have heard this feedback and as a first step towards solving this, scheduling form can now be popped out as a separate window. This scheduling form new window can be seen while creating a new meeting An existing meeting can also be now popped out by clicking on the icon on scheduling form. Our tech wizards have also made some improvements to calendar in this version which makes it faster to load now. In our next versions, we also plan to pop out the complete calendar app as a new window.
ID: 99198 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Firefox Meeting Support for Outgoing Screen Sharing
Extend outgoing screen sharing capabilities for Teams Meetings from the Firefox browser.
ID: 99384 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Variable playback speed support (0.5 – 2x) for all video on OneDrive & SharePoint
This feature allows users to control the playback speed of videos stored OneDrive & SharePoint. Users will be able to slow down or speed up the playback (0.5x -2x) while watching the video. Note: Teams meeting recordings already have this functionality, we are now adding it to all other videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint.
ID: 99914 Tags: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: February CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings
Users will now be able to choose the live captions in the language they prefer, with the help of Microsoft Cognitive Service Speech Translation Capabilities. This will help users fully participate in meetings where the spoken language may not be their most comfortable language to use.
ID: 94843 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Viva: App type support in the Store for Viva Connections
Improved filters and badges in the SharePoint Store to support Viva Connections ACEs. Users can easily identify and find adaptive cards that work in Viva Connections Dashboard.
ID: 98090 Tags: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Exact Data Match to support 10 primary (searchable or indexed) fields
Organizations will be able to configure Exact Data Match (EDM) Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to include up to 10 primary fields (current limit is 5), providing customers more flexibility in configuring EDM.
ID: 98094 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold optimizations
This update provides various service optimizations for eDiscovery (Premium), including service improvements for hold and limits increase.
ID: 70586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Case limit enhancements (US Government clouds)
eDiscovery (Premium) is expanding the limits for collection size, review set volume, and export. The limits expansion increases the collection size from 300GB currently to 1TB and expands the review set capacity as well to accommodate large case volumes. Export limits will be increased to 5M documents or 500GB, whichever is smaller. This update will help ensure organizations are able to manage their eDiscovery process across very large data sets effectively with eDiscovery (Premium).
ID: 85631 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Communication templates and issuing officer settings
Create communication templates and then simply select one to quickly draft your hold notifications. Add attorneys as issuing officers for your organization to send hold notifications on behalf of, without adding them as case members.
ID: 88813 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Release: February CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced import custodians wizard experience
The new import custodian’s wizard empowers eDiscovery managers to quickly validate and remediate any errors in their CSV file before submitting custodian import jobs.
ID: 88814 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Release: February CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Collection of Teams conversation as transcript (US Government clouds)
eDiscovery managers will soon have the flexibility to collect Teams messages as transcript items. Transcripts will aggregate and thread messages in the same Teams conversations into a single HTML file that is available for review and export. Customers will continue to have the ability to collect Teams messages as individual items as offered today.
ID: 88896 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: June CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections and processing enhancement (US Government clouds)
Enhancements to the eDiscovery (Premium) Collections and Processing experience with three core updates, including updates to embedded items handling, a new collection setting to include partially indexed items, and additional document metadata for SharePoint content.
ID: 88923 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: August CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Education Insights – Student Support Card
New AI-based Student Support spotlight in Education Insights helps educators better support students before they fall behind.
ID: 93388 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
SharePoint: New site templates for team sites
We are introducing 3 new SharePoint team site templates dedicated to helping you create sites for your IT helpdesk, crisis communication team, and new employee onboarding team.
ID: 93423 Tags: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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: Parent App
With Parent Connection, educators can see the roster of the parents and guardians for their students (info provided by School Data Sync) and initiate a Teams chat with them by a single click. So now, instead of the twice-yearly parent-teacher conference or sporadic email, educators and guardians can provide more iterative updates back and forth through Teams chat to help manage and track their student’s progress.
ID: 96942 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: LTI apps integration with Schoology LMS
Microsoft Teams and Schoology can help provide seamless experiences to teachers and students, with the integration of Teams Meetings LTI within Schoology’s LMS, educators and students can access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Schoology LMS.
ID: 97149 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September 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: Background Blur and Effects for Citrix
Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Citrix will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.
ID: 97951 Tags: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September 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 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Security Policy Violation template
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Leverage risky browsing activity on known hacking, malware, keylogger, and other risky websites to identify security policy violations by insiders. 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: 82144 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Sequence detector
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Sequence detector will include new Sequences that start with activity on the device, as well as additional obfuscation and exfiltration coverage. 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: 82145 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Recommended Actions
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Enhancements include ability to turn on email notification for key events as well as additional suggestions to maximize value. 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: 88897 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Analytics
This feature update is now being tracked as part of roadmap ID 98160: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to detection and triage. Enhancements to Analytics including ability to leverage Analytics to recommend thresholds for data leak and departing employee data theft policies and inclusions of Sequence detection within Analytics. 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: 88898 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Alert triage improvements
This feature update is now being tracked as part of roadmap ID 98160: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to detection and triage. Various experience improvements based on feedback to accelerate time-to-action including ability to further drill into Sequences within Activity Explorer, new filtering capability as well as enhanced User Activity Timeline view which includes a richer alert history. 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: 88899 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview Information Protection ML Classifier support
This item is redundant with feature 98160 and will be removed from the roadmap.
ID: 88900 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Anomaly-as-a-Policy-Trigger
This feature update is now being tracked as part of roadmap ID 98160: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to detection and triage. Customize a policy to trigger on an anomalous activity (e.g., unusual amount of emails with attachments sent outside the organization). 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: 88902 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to Cumulative exfiltration anomaly detector (CEAD)
This feature update is now being tracked as part of roadmap ID 98160: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to detection and triage. CEAD will include experience enhancements to make it easier to evaluate the risk as well as leverage priority content and document sensitivities to further prioritize alerts. 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: 88908 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Inline video helper for policy attributes in TAC
This item is being postponed indefinitely. Admins will have an option to quickly play a simple video/gif available for a policy attribute to understand the impact of policy control on end user experience and decide whether to enable it or disable it for the users in their org.
ID: 90704 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center | Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Updates are being made to the Insider Risk Management policy wizard. We are splitting our Indicators step of the wizard into two steps (step 1- indicators, step 2- sequence detection, cumulative exfiltration detection, and risk score boosters) to enable an easier experience. 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: 93356 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center | Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Quick Policies
This feature is currently available in public preview. GA is postponed indefinitely and will be announced via roadmap once timing is determined. Get started quickly with Insider Risk Management Quick Policies. We are further enhancing our onboarding experience with an easy one-step to policy creation: from the analytics insights or the “Create your first policy” Recommended Actions task, administrators can now easily create a policy with just a couple clicks. 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: 93357 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
