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Ever worried about sensitive document exposure? Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention Fingerprinting feature will take your data protection to the next level by converting standard forms into sensitive information types (SITs). This update brings extended support for Fingerprint-based SITs to your favorite Microsoft applications!

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Favorite Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now pin up to 5 favorite channels on the walkie talkie home screen, enabling users to quickly switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

ID: 99943 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal

The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

ID: 124975 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Download Learner’s progress data

Allow admins to download learners progress data.

ID: 148083 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: New calendar views on Teams Rooms on Android

The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 10 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses.

ID: 157123 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Update questions for expired surveys

Improved self-service; Update questions associated with an expired survey.

ID: 163975 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self Service for bulk uploads

Improved self-service; Ability to bulk upload customer permissions for improved access.

ID: 163976 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft 365 admin center: Integrated Apps in M365 admin center for managing apps across M365 suite products

Introducing Integrated Apps in M365 admin center to allow admins to discover, deploy and manage apps across various M365 suite products.

ID: 164079 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Advanced Fingerprinting

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs. This also allows you to detect when a portion of your sensitive document is exposed using partial matching support with Fingerprinting across the compliance solutions.

ID: 164203 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights delegate access for leaders

New delegate access allows leaders to empower other individuals to view insights about their organization. Those with delegated access will be able to easily navigate to the leader’s view of organizational insights.

ID: 164209 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Outlook: Modern Translation in Outlook on the Web

In Outlook, you can translate words, phrases, and full messages when you need them. You can also set Outlook to automatically translate messages you receive in other languages. When you receive an email message in another language, you’ll see a prompt at the top of the message asking if you’d like Outlook to translate it into your preferred language.

ID: 164486 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence | customer managed storage

In the alerts triage & incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity.

ID: 165301 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved creation, editability, and saved views in review dashboards

Users will save time in preparing for goal review processes with a simplified review dashboard creation and editing experience, and the ability to leverage saved views instead of starting from scratch.

ID: 165681 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Outlook: New Outlook – Tidy left navigation options and folder list improvements

The folder list in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Web experience is undergoing some UI changes to make it easier to read and navigate. Links that were previously under folder groups to do things like add new folders are under the context menu instead. Right click on the mailbox folder to create a folder or subfolder, and on search folders to create a new search folder.

ID: 166993 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Ability to hide Favorites from folder list

The Hide Favorites feature allows users to personalize their folder pane by hiding the Favorites section. By default, Favorites will be visible, but with this feature, users have the option to hide the Favorites experience from their view. Once hidden, users can always go back and unhide their Favorites.

ID: 167071 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – New predicates for endpoint DLP

With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning-  Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than.

ID: 167332 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations

New admin policy to control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization. Note: We have updated the timeline in the mc post, and are adjusting the roadmap item to align with the deployment information communicated in Message center.

ID: 92502 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

OneDrive: Colored Folders

You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive.

ID: 124980 Release: SharePoint, OneDrive – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: QR code to reserve a room on Teams Panels

This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.

ID: 129366 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023

Outlook: [Android] Contact Index Field

You can now quickly navigate to a section of your contacts by selecting the letter or character that corresponds to the section you wish to view and interact with. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 135280 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium)

Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.

ID: 135667 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Yammer: Enhanced campaign creation and discovery experiences

Promoting engagement through campaigns within organizations through more robust discovery of campaigns (through visual aids) and supporting the admins for easier and collaborative creation of campaigns.

ID: 167212 Release: Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Named entities sensitive information types (SITs) and policy authoring templates

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 & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

ID: 82116 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: August CY2023

Outlook: Working hours and location

New working hours and location options in Outlook lets people set more flexible working hours each day and specify the location from where they plan to work.

ID: 114511 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List domain & addresses block to send inbound emails to admin quarantine

Today, incoming messages from domains or email addresses blocked by the Tenant Allow/Block List are treated as high-confidence spam (marked with SCL:9), which may not properly protect end users. With this change, messages from these blocked senders will be treated as high-confidence phish, and will be delivered to the admin quarantine.

ID: 115505 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements

Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls.

ID: 123753 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: calendar synchronization

You can view changes to your meetings in real time in the Teams calendar on your mobile device.

ID: 138326 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2023

SharePoint: Restricted Access Control for SharePoint sites and OneDrive sites

New advanced management capability for SharePoint administrators to restrict access to SharePoint sites and OneDrive using Microsoft 365 groups or Security groups.

ID: 163991 Release: SharePoint – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Shifts notification deep link improvements

Frontline workers and managers will be able to take appropriate actions when they receive notifications on key activities. For example, when a manager receives a notification for requests, clicking on notification will take them directly to the request approval page. When frontline workers gets notified of new shift schedule, the message will take them directly to the schedule view.

ID: 138476 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023

Microsoft Edge: v.116 – Microsoft Edge for Business

Microsoft Edge for Business on desktop and mobile aims to address the needs of both end users and IT Pros. It is designed to meet the needs of the evolving security landscape while empowering users to be more productive by enhancing focus. In addition to native enterprise controls that you’re already familiar with in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge for Business includes new visual elements, including an adjusted icon, and optional automatic switching between a personal browser window (activated by Microsoft account MSA login) and a work browser window (activated by Entra ID login). All users who sign into Edge using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) will automatically be transitioned to Microsoft Edge for Business as part of the release.

ID: 144362 Release: Microsoft Edge – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD Tags: August CY2023

Canceled

Microsoft Viva: McKinsey Integration through Data Egress in Insights

Organizational Health Index (OHI) applies analytical rigor to organizational health management. Our quantitative diagnostics and proven recipes for success empower senior leaders to measure and achieve the organizational health required to sustain long-term performance. This integration includes Viva Insights metrics to enhance OHI’s diagnostics and solutions. [This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer scheduled.]

ID: 117411 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Avanade Integration through Data Egress in Insights

Avanade’s employee experience transformation takes the next step by integrating with Viva Insights metrics to unlock deeper understanding and offer new solutions. [This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer scheduled.]

ID: 117412 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023