Play of the Week
Staying ahead of the game with Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal’s Information Protection Keyword Highlight Support feature. This feature allows users to gain deeper insights into document classification by highlighting keywords and phrases that have a significant impact on the results generated by trainable classifiers. Users will have a more comprehensive understanding of how documents are classified, enabling them to make informed decisions when creating Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Be on the lookout for this feature rolling out this month.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Controlled-content meeting template (Premium)
We are launching an out-of-the-box template that can be useful when meeting with external participants. The controlled-content meeting template has preset defaults for meeting options to provide tight controls over lobby bypass, who can present, allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting, and who can record.
ID: 91286 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023
SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates
We are bringing the goodness of List templates to SharePoint document libraries. Creating document libraries will now be a breeze with our ready-made templates with scenario relevant content, structure, metadata, and content types – all to save you time and maintain broader consistency across your content management organization.
ID: 124879 Release: SharePoint – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint
Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.
ID: 139457 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: New Search Experience in Viva Learning Modals
Search in Modals is enhanced with new User Experience, with filters and many improvements.
ID: 160729 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Sort Search results by Ratings in Viva Learning
Users can sort in-app search results by ratings and relevance of the content.
ID: 160731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva App Bar integration in Viva Learning Webapp
Viva Learning Webapp will have easy way to switch across other Viva Webapp modules
ID: 160733 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Increased synergy of Viva Learning Webapp and Teams App
Users will be able to easily switch within Viva Learning Teams app and Webapp.
ID: 160736 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Meeting protection support on Teams Rooms on Android
Teams Rooms on Android devices apply the Teams Premium meeting security features including end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels if the meeting organizer has them turned on.
ID: 161423 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning Webapp Domain update to “learning.cloud.microsoft”
Viva Learning Webapp will be migrated to a new domain: learning.cloud.microsoft. Links from the previous domain are backwards compatible and supported.
ID: 162293 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Language Selection for Users in Viva Learning
Users can select their preferred language within the Viva learning Setting Menu, independent of Teams or Browser language. Preferred language will be persisted across all Viva Learning Surfaces.
ID: 162294 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Spell Check in Viva Learning Search
User queries will be spell checked and corrected for all in-app Search.
ID: 162943 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Level Filter in Viva Learning
Users can filter content based on the proficiency level of the content—Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
ID: 162947 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Standardization of Viva Learning Webapp Links
Webapp links will have user-friendly and easily addressable links to pages.
ID: 163368 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Automatic updates for the Teams app on Android-based Teams devices
Android-based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for any manual intervention. Administrators can manage the automatic updates by organizing devices into update phases or pausing the rollout temporarily, if needed, from Teams Admin Center.
ID: 163598 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Branded Meetings – Join Launcher Screen with Brand Image and Logo Support (Premium)
The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image uploaded for branded meetings. This is a Teams Premium feature.
ID: 164081 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Matched items in audit logs
With this capability you will get visibility into matched condition and value in Audit Logs as a result of a DLP policy match.
ID: 164489 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Incoming webhook connector in GCC-H
Incoming webhook connector can be enabled/uploaded by Tenant admins in GCC-H.
ID: 166986 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging
Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience.
ID: 167211 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration
Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing customers to assess their compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services with resource-level testing and cloud-specific guidance.
ID: 167331 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Engage Network Analytics
This new analytics capability helps users understand engagement trends across their entire organization. Network analytics provides an at-a-glance overview of your organization’s top usage trends including employee sentiment, cross-community insights and AI-powered summarization to help you stay up-to-date with all the activity that occurs within your company.
ID: 168623 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Analytics
Updates to community analytics will allow community admins to better understand engagement trends, reach and the top conversations that occur within their communities.
ID: 168626 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Windows 365: Administrator to control one-way clipboard redirection
Enables admin to control copy/paste unidirectionally for providing more secure data access.
ID: 168634 Release: Windows 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API
Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.
ID: 169083 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Outlook: New feedback experience
The feedback entry point for Outlook for Web will be moving from the bottom of the Help pane to the Help tab of the ribbon, for ease of discovery. A streamlined experience, diagnostics log collection and the ability to add screenshots and video make it easier and quicker for users to describe their feedback and helps Microsoft act on it. Also, users can search for information related to their feedback, including updates on features under development, workarounds for problems and how-to from Help. This change obeys the general Feedback policy.
ID: 169101 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – SharePoint site selection enhancement
With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. 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: 169880 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page
A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page — including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary — will be moving to the new reports page. 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: 169889 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Support-approved elevation for Endpoint Privilege Management
Enables elevation requests requested by an end user and approved by the support team.
ID: 170774 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Search relevance Improvement in Viva Learning
Viva Learning in-app Search will be improved to show more relevant and matching results at the top.
ID: 170954 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Outlook: Dictation Support
Dictation lets you use speech-to-text to author messages in Outlook with a microphone and reliable internet connection. It’s a quick and easy way to draft emails, send replies, and capture the tone you’re going for.
ID: 171199 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced file type coverage for DLP on Windows endpoints
With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.
ID: 171586 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: Expand and Collapse Folders
Stay organized and navigate easily by expanding or collapsing your nested mail folders using the chevron button at the right of the folder row.
ID: 171602 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Expand and Collapse Folders
Stay organized and navigate easily by expanding or collapsing your nested mail folders using the chevron button at the right of the folder row.
ID: 171603 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Outlook: Notifications for @mentions in mail and documents
Now you’ll receive a notification when you’re @mentioned in an email, document, or loop. To view your notifications, tap the bell icon to the upper right of the message list.
ID: 171607 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report
Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.
ID: 171751 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Contextual evidence match for endpoint DLP
With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices.
ID: 172028 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Viva: News Card in Viva Connections
Improvements are coming to the Viva Connections Top News Card, which will be rebranded as the “News Card.” These enhancements will introduce greater configurability and the ability to create multiple News Card instances, while the default configuration will remain consistent with the Top News Card.
ID: 173074 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: People Search card on Viva Connections
Include this card on your dashboard to facilitate searching for individuals within your organization, learning more about them, and initiating contact.
ID: 173078 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Quick View Dark Mode support in Viva Connections mobile app
Users can view their Viva Connections dashboard cards in dark mode on the mobile app.
ID: 173079 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Simulation mode for DLP
With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated experience. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time.
ID: 173626 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage AMA – Private events, multiple hosts, and organizers
An AMA event can now be private and can now also have multiple organizers.
ID: 174141 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Viva : Connections Boosted News Notifications
As an enhancement to the existing news notifications in Viva Connections, users will now also receive a news notifications when news is boosted on the organisation’s news site and the news post has an audience target set. The navigational behaviour will be the same as existing news notifications.
ID: 174470 Release: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – PowerShell hold removal cmdlet for legacy and orphaned holds
This Cmdlet will be available in the Security & Compliance PowerShell and will enable users to get a list of holds stamped on a location (Mailbox/SPO) and remove a given hold from the location by specifying the ID.
ID: 174597 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – PowerShell hold removal cmdlet for legacy and orphaned holds
This Cmdlet will be available in the Security & Compliance PowerShell and will enable users to get a list of holds stamped on a location (Mailbox/SPO) and remove a given hold from the location by specifying the ID.
ID: 174604 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints
With this update, we are adding several enhancements to DLP capabilities for macOS endpoints including the ability to create groups of USB, Printer, and Network share and apply different restrictions to different groups; support for most restrictive actions against multiple rule matches; and support for Network share exclusion.
ID: 174658 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: New sensitivity bar in Microsoft 365 apps on Mac for viewing and applying sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview
Sensitivity bar provides a more prominent and contextual user experience for viewing and applying sensitivity labels in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook on Mac.
ID: 176222 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Outlook: Apps for Teams meetings available in Classic Outlook for Windows
Now, you can configure or add an app for Teams meetings while scheduling a meeting from Outlook. This app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting in Teams.
ID: 96633 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List – Support for URL top level domain block
With this change, Microsoft will allow customers to block URL via top level domain block. It will be honored during email mail flow and time of click inside teams and office apps.
ID: 115506 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers
Highlight the keywords/phrases that contribute significantly to trainable classifier results, so that users can more easily understand the classification of the documents and use these insights to inform creation of DLP policies.
ID: 124815 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training for GCCH
Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft 365 Defender for Office is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the GCC High environment.
ID: 124854 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer
Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Note: We are postponing the rollout of this feature at this time, and it will only be available in the new Teams experience. We apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 127900 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD
Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center.
ID: 138550 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2023
Outlook: Inking in New Outlook for Windows and web
On a touch-enabled device, add a canvas to your message and draw with your finger, a digital pen, or a mouse. Select from different pen styles and edit your drawing to freely express yourself.
ID: 151810 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme
A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights.
ID: 161740 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Planner: Planner component in Microsoft Loop
Users of Planner and Loop will be able to bring their plans into Loop-enabled apps as a Planner component. Using the power of Loop, you’ll be able to view and edit a plan with Planner’s board view in context with your other work. The component will first be available in the Loop app. Support for other Loop-enabled apps will follow.
ID: 161955 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Teams Premium
A new report within Microsoft 365 admin center Usage reports for Teams Premium.
ID: 163426 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Granular scoping with role-based access control (RBAC)
IT departments in large organizations are built in a way that some of the day-to-day tasks are delegated to specific people or roles in the organization following the industry standard of least privilege access. Admins have a need to delegate role based permissions to users or analysts in a granular way. In some cases, this delegation is based on function, and in other cases it is based on geography or scope of work. In this release, Audit will provide role based information with Audit search results through the UI.
ID: 163961 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies
Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit.
ID: 117354 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Label footers enhancement for emails (U.S. Government clouds)
When labels are configured to add footers, currently the footers accumulate at the very bottom of long email chains. This enhancement now adds footers at the bottom of the most recent reply instead of at the bottom of the whole email thread. Note that this feature supports emails formatted as HTML or PlainText. Support for Rich Text email formats is legacy and will not be improved in Outlook. For emails formatted as Rich Text, label footers will continue to accumulate at the bottom of email threads as before.
ID: 124817 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase
With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 156018 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s
The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manager Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals. Approvals Graph APIs are currently in Private Preview.
ID: 94653 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Resources-specific consent apps
Admins will be allowed to pre-approve apps using resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions, so that users can install them even when RSC is otherwise turned off.
ID: 96980 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2023
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
