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Microsoft will soon release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android users. The rebuilt app will provide seamless access to Stream Classic, Stream on SharePoint, and Teams meeting recordings. Also, the app will enhance your video playback and user interface experience. Be on the lookout for this new Microsoft Stream app coming in 2023.
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Microsoft Teams: Group chat invitations from unmanaged users
When using external access for Teams, users receiving a group chat invitation from an unmanaged Teams user will be prompted with the option to acknowledge or leave the group chat.
ID: 95051 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: October 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: Viewing the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results
When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.
ID: 97510 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022
Planner: Grid view for “Assigned to me” and Plan views in Planner Web
Grid (table format) will be the newest view you can use to make it easier to see more tasks and compare columns for better tracking and visibility.
ID: 98104 Tags: Planner – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Project: Sprints and backlogs in Project for the Web
Description: Agile support will be rolling out for Project for the web soon! You can create and prioritize tasks in their backlogs, define sprints and their date boundaries, moves tasks between sprints and their respective backlogs, and then build reports that include backlogs and sprint data.
ID: 98105 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Project: Sprints and backlogs in Project for the Web
Description: Agile support will be rolling out for Project for the web soon! You can create and prioritize tasks in their backlogs, define sprints and their date boundaries, moves tasks between sprints and their respective backlogs, and then build reports that include backlogs and sprint data.
ID: 98105 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Release: September CY2022
Microsoft To Do: Custom background
Now, you can set custom backgrounds from your gallery to your lists on Microsoft To do!
ID: 98120 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft To Do: Apple Watch Support
Now, you can access Microsoft To Do on your Apple Watch. View, add and complete your tasks through your watch.
ID: 98122 Tags: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2023
Viva Insights: Schedule send suggestions (formerly delay delivery plan) available default on in Outlook with admin and user controls
Schedule send suggestions are currently available in the latest versions of Outlook on the web and Outlook for Windows to help schedule email delivery aligned with recipient work hours and minimize interruptions after-hours. With Schedule send suggestions turned on by default, users with Insights by MyAnalytics service plan can get up to two daily schedule send suggestions. Microsoft 365 users with MyAnalytics (Full) service plan or Viva Insights subscription get an unlimited number of inline suggestions for delaying email delivery to their coworkers. A Global admin or an Exchange Online admin role can configure tenant level settings in the Microsoft admin center. Individuals can also turn inline suggestions on or off through their own Settings within the Viva Insights add-in in Outlook.
ID: 98128 Tags: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: User-defined permissions now support domain name restrictions
When you choose a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions, they can now use domain names to restrict file access to specific individuals, or to all individuals from that domain. For example, you can specify “someone@example.com” or “@example.com” and permissions will be restricted based on those parameters.
ID: 98131 Tags: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: URL and attachment allow & block via submissions for government clouds
In government clouds, we honor the data residency commitments aligned with these environments. As a result, submissions are not sent to Microsoft. Admins can still create allow or block rules in the tenant allow/block list for emails via admin email submission. With this change, customers in our government cloud environments will be able to create allow and block entries for URLs and attachments in the Tenant allow block list via admin URL and email attachment submission. The data submitted via the submissions experience will not leave the customer tenant just as is standard for admin email submissions.
ID: 98132 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Automatic management of allow expiration for Tenant allow block list
Allows in the tenant allow block list typically expire after 30 days, meaning legitimate email can continue to be blocked. With this change, Microsoft will automatically extend or remove allow rules based on an assessment of the particular entity.
ID: 98134 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: RTMP-In for Teams Live Events
Produce your Teams Live Events using an external encoder and leverage RTMP-in (Real Time Messaging Protocol-In) to broadcast to your Teams Live Event Attendees.
ID: 98481 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Stream: Revamped Mobile apps for iOS and Android
We will soon release a completely rebuilt Stream mobile app for iOS and Android. The rebuilt app will give you seamless access to Stream (Classic) and Stream (on SharePoint) videos as well as Teams meeting recordings. The app will also provide an enhanced video playback experience as well as an improved user interface. If your users currently have the Stream mobile app installed on phones or tablets, they will automatically receive the app update when it becomes available. Note: The general release of the rebuilt Stream mobile app will lack certain features that may be critical to some users, such as video recording, uploading and offline downloads. As we continue to build out the revamped mobile app, we expect to add these features in 2023.
ID: 98916 Tags: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant blocks via admin submission
Security teams can now block sender email addresses, domains, URLs and email attachments while making admin submission for email, URL and file attachment respectively.
ID: 98920 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Identity: User activity timeline in Microsoft 365 Defender
Using the activity timeline from the Microsoft Defender for Identity portal as inspiration, this release will provide a dedicated tab on the user page in Microsoft 365 Defender that contains a full user activity timeline, detailing all activities and alerts from relevant workloads, associate dot that identity.
ID: 98921 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2022
Microsoft Defender for Identity: User page enhancements in Microsoft 365 Defender
The user page in Microsoft 365 Defender will be subject to a number of enhancements that will provide SecOps with a richer experience when viewing identity information in Microsoft 365 Defender. These include structure alignment to follow other entity pages in Microsoft 365 Defender, new side pane options like Location, Devices, Groups and Alerts, and clearer descriptions of user data on the main view, ensuring quicker identification of any given identity at a glance.
ID: 98922 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Identity – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2022
Microsoft Search: Image Search in Microsoft Search in Bing
Our new Image vertical on Microsoft Search in Bing will provide better search capabilities for images in your organization.
ID: 98925 Tags: Microsoft Search – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in Instant Meetings
All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams Instant Meetings that are started from the Calendar. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their instant meetings.
ID: 99192 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Cameo in PowerPoint Live
Cameo is a new PowerPoint experience that seamlessly integrates your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides and offering layout recommendations for optimal viewing.
ID: 87725 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft Teams: HID Support for VMware
This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.
ID: 90115 Tags: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge
This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions; and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.
ID: 93415 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2022
Microsoft Project: People view in Project for the Web
Visualize and balance your team’s workload in your project through the People view.
ID: 93422 Tags: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: September 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: 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, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 admin center: Health Dashboard
Designed for small and medium-sized organizations, this dashboard pulls together information about the total health of your Microsoft 365 environment, including service status, number of devices that are current with Office updates, critical alerts, and adherence to security best practices.
ID: 93385 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Adobe Sign Integration in Approvals for GCC-High and DoD
This feature is cancelled until further notice.
ID: 81657 Tags: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High Release: December CY2022
Office app: Create Videos on Office mobile app
Item has been delayed and is being rescheduled.
ID: 82197 Tags: Office app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Outlook: View and navigate the organization chart
This is postponed indefinitely.
ID: 84785 Tags: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Leavers classifier
The leavers classifier detects messages that explicitly express intent to leave the organization, which is an early signal that may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. This preview has ended.
ID: 93251 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance – Sexual harassment classifier
The sexual harassment classifier detects explicit instances of sexual harassment as may be outlined in your organization’s policies and code of conduct, such as sexual advances, sexual comments and sexual favors. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. This preview has ended.
ID: 93252 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2022
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
