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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Create a new OneNote page in the Assignments “New File” dialog menu
When educators are creating Assignments, or students are attaching work, it’s handy to be able to create a new file on the fly. We will be adding the ability to create a blank OneNote page that can easily be filled out, through the New File dialog.
ID:66580 Tags: Microsoft Teams, OneNote – Education Release: September CY2020
File recommendations
Planner will recommend related files to attach to your tasks
ID:66364 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication compliance availability for government clouds
Communication compliance is an insider risk solution in Microsoft 365 that helps minimize communication risks by helping you detect, capture, and act on inappropriate messages in your organization.
ID:67112 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – GCC, GCC High Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.85: Storage Access API is now available
The Storage Access API allows access to first-party storage in a third-party context when a user has provided a direct intent to allow storage that would otherwise be blocked by the browser’s current configuration.
ID:64301 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Custom Meeting Images
Admins will now be able to add a customer logo to the Teams experience, for display in the lobby and meeting pre-join experience. The logo will be displayed for meetings where the organizer has the Advanced Comms SKU.
ID:67113 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Presenter mode for Microsoft Whiteboard in a Teams meeting
Meeting organizers now have the option to present the contents of their digital whiteboard without meeting participants having the ability to edit the contents.
ID:66568 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: September CY2020
Microsoft To Do: Support for push notifications for shared list activities for work and school accounts
This update adds the ability to create Microsoft To Do push notifications in Work and School accounts just as you can in your Personal account.
ID:67114 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Microsoft Visio: Azure icons in Visio for the web
The latest Azure icons are available in Visio for the web. These icons can be used to accurately create diagrams to represent Azure services and networks.
ID:56627 Tags: Visio – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2020
Office 365: Office.COM UI update
Office.com is being updated to include the catch-up pane. A single place for you to catch up on all activity related to content you shared, or was shared with you. (including comments, @mentions, changes and more)
ID:67088 Tags: Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education, GCC Release: October CY2020
OneDrive: Expiring access for external users for the Government Clouds
Admins and end users can expire shares to external users.
ID:68542 Tags: OneDrive – GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2020
Outlook for Android: SharePoint News and recorded Teams Meetings
Your company Discover feed on the Search landing page will include SharePoint news and access to recently recorded Teams online meetings that are relevant to you.
ID:67561 Tags: Outlook, Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: November CY2020
Outlook for Android: Use your voice to compose an email
Use your voice to start to compose a message to a specific person.
ID:68286 Tags: Outlook, Office app, Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for Android: Use your voice to create a new calendar event
Use your voice to create a new calendar event.
ID:68305 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for Android: Use your voice to initiate a phone or Teams call
Start using your voice in Outlook to connect and call a specific person via their phone or Teams.
ID:68301 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Recommended Office information
The Discover feed of information on the Search home page is changing to Recommended and provides quick access to additional relevant company information based on the Microsoft Graph.
ID:67557 Tags: Outlook, Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to compose an email
Use your voice to start to compose a message to a specific person.
ID:68303 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to create a new calendar event
Use your voice to create a new calendar event.
ID:68302 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to initiate a phone or Teams calls
Start using your voice in Outlook to connect and call a specific person via their phone or Teams.
ID:68304 Tags: Outlook – Education Release: October CY2020
Smart Planner Board backgrounds
Add relevant and unique background images to your Planner board through smart recommendations
ID:66578 Tags: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2020
Students and educators get a notification when a new Class Notebook page is distributed
We are making a new update that will allow any Educator using Page Distribution in the OneNote client to ensure that all students get a notification in Teams after a page is distributed! This notification will work for educators using the Class Notebook Toolbar in OneNote Windows 10, iPad, Web and Mac.
ID:66582 Tags: Microsoft Teams, OneNote – Education Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support salt in the data hashing process to improve data security
Exact Data Match will support salt in the data hashing process to improve data security. Adding a random string, known as a salt, to each data value prior to hashing can make it much more challenging for an attacker to reverse engineer the original values.
ID: 65207 Tags: Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD, All environments Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Update to the format Meeting Invitations for Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams Meetings Invites are getting a formatting update to make meetings easier to join. The new format will support all the same meeting invite customization Teams supports today.
ID: 67094 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC, Germany
Outlook for iOS: SharePoint News and recorded Teams Meetings
Your company Discover feed (soon to be renamed Recommended Roadmap ID 67557) will include SharePoint news and access to recently recorded Teams online meetings that are relevant to you.
ID: 67560 Tags: Office app, Outlook – Education, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Communication Compliance now detects repeat code of conduct violations over time
Communication Compliance will now surface during the investigation flow repeated violations over time such as bullying to help you prioritize remediation actions.
ID: 61067 Tags: Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Education Insights for school leaders
This new Insights app in Microsoft Teams for Education enables leaders to closely track the engagement, online activities and progress of students within their institution or district over time to help uncover and drive better learning outcomes.
ID: 66184 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Edge v. 85: Easier configuration and export of favorites for the “Configure favorites” policy
An admin can navigate to edge:// flags/#edge-favorites-admin-export to enable the ability to export the structure of favorites in a JSON format. This enables a more efficient way of configuring a set of favorites to be provisioned for an organization to be used in the “Configure favorites” enterprise policy.
ID: 66392 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Edge v. 85: Support for Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Added native DLP controls to support Microsoft Endpoint DLP policies to prevent cloud egress, print, save to network or USB for sensitive files.
ID: 66325 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.85: Group Policy support for trusting site+application combos to launch without a confirmation prompt
Group policy support that lets Administrators add site+app combos that are trusted to launch without the confirmation prompt. This adds the ability for Administrators to configure trusted protocol/origin combinations (such as for Microsoft 365 apps) for their end-users to suppress the confirmation prompt when navigating to a URL containing an app protocol.
ID: 66328 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.85: Policies to allow admins to choose which file types to automatically open after downloading
Administrators will be able to set a Policy to allowing a list of extensions to automatically open. This Policy will set those extensions to use the default “automatically open files of this type” list.
ID: 66327 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.85: Policy to allow admins to choose which file types are exempted from file-type security warnings
Starting with Microsoft Edge v. 85, Administrators can specify which file types be exempted from download file-type-based security warnings using a new group policy. This new policy is titled: “ExemptDomainFileTypePairsFromFileTypeDownloadWarnings”
ID: 66329 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Edge v.85: Send to OneNote is now available for Microsoft Edge Collections
In Edge 85, you’ll be able send content to Word, Excel, and OneNote on a Mac, for both MSA and AAD.
ID: 66326 Tags: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: July CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Multi-Window Meetings and Calling experiences
Multi-window experiences are coming to Teams meetings and calling. Users will have the ability to pop out meetings and calling into separate windows to help them optimize their workflow. These experiences can be turned on directly within Teams for PC and Mac clients.
ID: 57294 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Microsoft Teams – Reflect messaging extension
Gives managers, leaders or teachers an easy way to check in with how their team or students are feeling — either in general, or about a specific topic like work-life balance, the status of a project, current events, or a change within the organization. IT administrators will be able to install the Reflect extension from GitHub, and then make it available to employees in their organization in the message extension menu.
ID: 65945 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Assignments user interface improvements for large classes
Improve the speed of viewing and creating assignments for classes of up to 200 students.
ID: 66563 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Cortana in Teams
Cortana is coming to the Teams mobile app, using AI and the Microsoft Graph to provide voice assistance in Teams. To stay connected to your team even when you have your hands full, click the microphone button on the top right and ask Cortana to make a call, join a meeting, send chat messages, share files, and more. These voice assistance experiences are delivered using Cortana enterprise-grade services that meet Microsoft 365 privacy, security and compliance commitments. Cortana will be available in the Teams mobile app on iOS and Android in the coming weeks for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users in the U.S. in English.
ID: 65346 Tags: Cortana, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: June CY2020
Microsoft Teams: GradeSync to OneRoster API
With this API, grades entered in Assignments can be automatically pushed to a OneRoster-compliant school information system (SIS).
ID: 66576 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: Improvements to settings in Assignments
Educators will be able to set defaults for when assignments are due, where notifications of an assignment are posted, and more. Note – settings are class-specific.
ID: 66561 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Microsoft Teams: VDI support for VMWare Horizon
We are delivering an optimized audio, video, and screen sharing media experience for Microsoft Teams for VMWare Horizon for on-premises, cloud, and Azure-hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.
ID: 66206 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
OneNote in Teams – Set Channels to create sections in Collaboration Space or Content Library
With this update, educators will now have the opportunity to elect whether new OneNote sections should be created in a Collaboration Space (which can be edited by students and teachers) or Content Library (editable by teachers but only viewed by students).
ID: 66579 Tags: OneNote, Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
OneNote in Teams “Teacher Only” Section Group enabled by default
Along with the Collaboration Space, Content Library and Student Notebooks, a Teacher-only Section will be enabled by default with each new Course Notebook in Teams for Education.
ID: 66581 Tags: OneNote, Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Roster updates from School Data Sync automatically update the Class Notebook roster
Updates to the School Data Sync roster will now automatically flow to the roster within the OneNote Class Notebook, helping educators save time.
ID: 66577 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Education Release: August CY2020
Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in Norway
ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.
ID: 64542 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2020
Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in France
ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.
ID: 64540 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in Korea
ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.
ID: 64543 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
Windows Virtual Desktop: Latency improvement in United Kingdom (UK)
ITPros have increased choice to pick the region best-suited for them to connect to their virtual machines. End users get optimal experience that is only dependent on the latency between their client and Azure region.
ID: 64539 Tags: Windows Virtual Desktop – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: August CY2020
No cancellations to announce in this week’s update.
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
