Search

2020 CW 46 Microsoft 365 Roadmap changes

from 11/09/2020 to 11/15/2020

251 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Items were changed and 10 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Items were added

Changes

Changed Property: RM Description

RM ID RM Title Old Value New Value check before
68704 Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and review encrypted content attached to local copy in Exchange Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and attached as a local copy to an email in Exchange from the Advanced eDiscovery solution. Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and attached as a local copy to an email in Exchange using content search, core or advanced eDiscovery. 10/31/2020
66151 Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts When viewing a pinned post in an event page, the conversation will be collapsed by default to all for new comments in the event feed to be displayed. Users can expand the conversations at any time. Adding the ability to collapse pinned posts in Yammer. Users can expand the conversations at any time.?When viewing a pinned post in a community, the conversation will be collapsed after the newest activity on it has been seen. Users can expand the conversations at any time. When viewing a pinned post in an event page, the conversation will be collapsed by default to all for new comments in the event feed to be displayed. 11/30/2020
67166 OneDrive: Sharing links that block download for video files Block Download?support?is now extended for video files. {This item is being removed. We are working refining the feature and date, and will provide a new roadmap item in the future} Block Download?support?is now extended for video files. 10/31/2020
26842 SharePoint: Home sites A Home site is the top of your intranet - the landing page that reflects your branding and brings your organization together with rich experiences. Microsoft is helping you build and launch a successful home site, built on the familiar communication sites platform, with great looking and highly functional out-of-box experiences. This SharePoint home sites feature lets you designate a communication site as the ?home site? for your intranet. This site will then be more the SharePoint mobile app. It will also automatically be set up for organization-wide search and as a source of authoritative news. A Home site is the top of your intranet - the landing page that reflects your branding and brings your organization together with rich experiences. Microsoft is helping you build and launch a successful home site, built on the familiar communication sites platform, with great looking and highly functional out-of-box experiences. This SharePoint home sites feature lets you designate a communication site as the ???home site??? for your intranet. This site will then be more the SharePoint mobile app. It will also automatically be set up for organization-wide search and as a source of authoritative news. 05/31/2020
26948 Outlook for Windows: Shared calendar improvements Introducing a new service backed model for sharing calendars with other Office 365 subscribers that improves performance and reliability and keeps all calendars in sync. ? Introducing a new service backed model for sharing calendars with other Office 365 subscribers that improves performance and reliability and keeps all calendars in sync. ?? 08/31/2019
27264 Outlook for Windows: Most relevant Search results on top Intelligent technology generates the most relevant results and presents it at the top of the list without duplicating results that are sorted by date.? Intelligent technology generates the most relevant results and presents it at the top of the list without duplicating results that are sorted by date.?? 08/31/2019
27266 Outlook for Windows: Suggested people in Search Suggestions of relevant people are provided while typing your Search query. ? Suggestions of relevant people are provided while typing your Search query. ?? 08/31/2019
27473 Outlook for Windows: Drag and drop emails into a Group Drag a single email or an entire thread to a Group in Outlook.? Drag a single email or an entire thread to a Group in Outlook.?? 02/29/2020
30686 SharePoint and Teams: folder in site visibly connected to channel Now it?s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel & chat associated to it ? right from within the SharePoint user interface. Now it???s easy to tell which folders within your library have an associated Teams channel & chat associated to it ??? right from within the SharePoint user interface. 05/31/2019
43628 New templates for Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERD) now available in Visio for the web With the introduction of ER diagrams to Visio for the web, you can now visually show how different entities relate to one another within a system. With this release, we're also bringing in support for the requested Crow?s Foot and Chen?s Notation. With the introduction of ER diagrams to Visio for the web, you can now visually show how different entities relate to one another within a system. With this release, we're also bringing in support for the requested Crow???s Foot and Chen???s Notation. 05/31/2020
43873 New connection experience in Visio for the web Visio Plan 1 and Plan 2 users can now create connectors from any point on a diagram shape to any desired point on the same shape or another shape?and create multiple parallel connectors from a shape?s edge. With an intuitive interface, users can move the connection point on a shape to allow better alignment of connectors and also create as many connection points on a shape as needed. Visio Plan 1 and Plan 2 users can now create connectors from any point on a diagram shape to any desired point on the same shape or another shape???and create multiple parallel connectors from a shape???s edge. With an intuitive interface, users can move the connection point on a shape to allow better alignment of connectors and also create as many connection points on a shape as needed. 02/29/2020
49429 Microsoft Planner: Copy a plan within an existing Group or Teams You will be able to select an existing group or team that you?d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan. You will be able to select an existing group or team that you???d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan. 06/30/2020
49443 Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics To better protect your data, the first step in the journey is for you to get a holistic understanding of the sensitive data in your digital estate and related user activities. The data classification capabilities in Microsoft 365 compliance center enable you to do that and take the next step towards establishing appropriate policies to better protect your sensitive data (e.g., by applying sensitivity labels and policies). Overview tab which shows you at a glance the locations of your digital content and most common sensitive information types and labels present. Importantly you don?t need to establish any policy to understand these details. Content Explorer tab provides you a richer understanding of your data at risk and visibility into amount and types of sensitive data in a document, including an integrated viewer displaying the full content in documents or emails. You can also filter by label or sensitive type to get a detailed view of locations where the sensitive data is stored. Activity Explorer tab provides a better understanding of activities related to your sensitive data and labels, such as label downgrades or external sharing that could expose your content to risk. It helps you investigate events that could be leading towards data leak scenarios (e.g., bulk label downgrades before sharing externally). Understanding these activities gives you the ability to identify the right policies for protection or data loss prevention (DLP) to ensure that your most sensitive data is secure. To better protect your data, the first step in the journey is for you to get a holistic understanding of the sensitive data in your digital estate and related user activities. The data classification capabilities in Microsoft 365 compliance center enable you to do that and take the next step towards establishing appropriate policies to better protect your sensitive data (e.g., by applying sensitivity labels and policies). Overview tab which shows you at a glance the locations of your digital content and most common sensitive information types and labels present. Importantly you don???t need to establish any policy to understand these details. Content Explorer tab provides you a richer understanding of your data at risk and visibility into amount and types of sensitive data in a document, including an integrated viewer displaying the full content in documents or emails. You can also filter by label or sensitive type to get a detailed view of locations where the sensitive data is stored. Activity Explorer tab provides a better understanding of activities related to your sensitive data and labels, such as label downgrades or external sharing that could expose your content to risk. It helps you investigate events that could be leading towards data leak scenarios (e.g., bulk label downgrades before sharing externally). Understanding these activities gives you the ability to identify the right policies for protection or data loss prevention (DLP) to ensure that your most sensitive data is secure. 05/31/2020
49979 Map your process data and automatically transform it into a Visio diagram Use the process mapping pane to map your process data and provide custom settings for automatic creation of? process flowcharts using the Data Visualizer Excel Add-in. Use the process mapping pane to map your process data and provide custom settings for automatic creation of?? process flowcharts using the Data Visualizer Excel Add-in. 05/31/2021
50005 Enabling Modern Auth for Managed Tenants We?re constantly improving the security of Office 365 products and services. Modern Authentication is one of the best ways of ensuring that your clients can take advantage of authentication features like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and third-party SAML identity providers. All new Office 365 tenants created on or after August 1, 2017 have Modern Authentication enabled by default in Exchange Online for all clients. We're making a change so that Modern Authentication will be enabled for the Windows Outlook client and Skype for Business client in all managed (non-federated) tenants that were created before to August 1, 2017. Those tenants already have Modern Authentication enabled for Outlook mobile, Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the Web, so there are no changes to any of those clients. We???re constantly improving the security of Office 365 products and services. Modern Authentication is one of the best ways of ensuring that your clients can take advantage of authentication features like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and third-party SAML identity providers. All new Office 365 tenants created on or after August 1, 2017 have Modern Authentication enabled by default in Exchange Online for all clients. We're making a change so that Modern Authentication will be enabled for the Windows Outlook client and Skype for Business client in all managed (non-federated) tenants that were created before to August 1, 2017. Those tenants already have Modern Authentication enabled for Outlook mobile, Outlook for Mac and Outlook on the Web, so there are no changes to any of those clients. 02/29/2020
50544 Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails Play My Emails on the go to get time back in your day. Cortana provides a voice forward, intelligent experience for reading new email in your focused inbox when you?re on the move or when your hands are busy doing other things. A new experience includes an optional touch interface designed to easily take action on important new emails or offers the option to respond with your voice. Play My Emails on the go to get time back in your day. Cortana provides a voice forward, intelligent experience for reading new email in your focused inbox when you???re on the move or when your hands are busy doing other things. A new experience includes an optional touch interface designed to easily take action on important new emails or offers the option to respond with your voice. 11/30/2019
51121 PowerPoint: Live Presentations in PowerPoint Live Presentations enables every audience member to view your presentation on their own device, like their laptop, tablet, or phone. Each audience member can turn on live captioning and choose subtitles from more than 60 languages. They can even navigate between slides, so they don?t miss a single, important detail from your presentation. The audience is engaged throughout your presentation by sending reactions in real-time. And after your presentation, the audience can provide specific feedback on the content and delivery of the presentation, which you can use to improve your presentation skills over time. Live Presentations enables every audience member to view your presentation on their own device, like their laptop, tablet, or phone. Each audience member can turn on live captioning and choose subtitles from more than 60 languages. They can even navigate between slides, so they don???t miss a single, important detail from your presentation. The audience is engaged throughout your presentation by sending reactions in real-time. And after your presentation, the audience can provide specific feedback on the content and delivery of the presentation, which you can use to improve your presentation skills over time. 05/31/2020
51723 Teams Education - Gradebook Now teachers can view and grade all assignments for a class directly from the channel Assignments tab. The new gradebook is a straightforward way to organize and track each class? assignments. In addition, the gradebook enables teachers to see a single student?s progress across all their assignments. Now teachers can view and grade all assignments for a class directly from the channel Assignments tab. The new gradebook is a straightforward way to organize and track each class??? assignments. In addition, the gradebook enables teachers to see a single student???s progress across all their assignments. 02/29/2020
52554 Customize All Company community branding Customize the All Company feed to bring your organization?s unique branding and culture into the default Yammer community. One of the top UserVoice requests, new All Company capabilities like cover photos and read-only conversations mean you can use this prominent community to land key messaging, welcome new members, promote company-wide initiatives, or even just reinforce company values in the only community that all Yammer users belong to. Customize the All Company feed to bring your organization???s unique branding and culture into the default Yammer community. One of the top UserVoice requests, new All Company capabilities like cover photos and read-only conversations mean you can use this prominent community to land key messaging, welcome new members, promote company-wide initiatives, or even just reinforce company values in the only community that all Yammer users belong to. 06/30/2020
52555 Community cover photos in Yammer This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?New community branding gives you the power to style your community your way. Upload a cover photo to show off your community?s identity, share a campaign, or publicize a community event. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??New community branding gives you the power to style your community your way. Upload a cover photo to show off your community???s identity, share a campaign, or publicize a community event. 08/31/2020
52556 Close a conversation in Yammer This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?Along with pinning, we?re also giving community managers the ability to close conversations. Use this to share messages as read-only, steer feedback to an alternative location, or prevent further responses to discussions. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??Along with pinning, we???re also giving community managers the ability to close conversations. Use this to share messages as read-only, steer feedback to an alternative location, or prevent further responses to discussions. 08/31/2020
52644 Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect We?re updating and Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect. We are aiming to improve page loading performance for our office.com and portal.office.com users by removing any special redirection from portal.office.com and simply land users on the new and improved office.com experience. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. We???re updating and Improving performance for office.com users by removing portal.office.com redirect. We are aiming to improve page loading performance for our office.com and portal.office.com users by removing any special redirection from portal.office.com and simply land users on the new and improved office.com experience. We'll begin rolling this feature out soon. 08/31/2019
53667 Outlook for Android: Delegate permissions Delegates can access and manage messages within an owner?s inbox folder. Delegates can access and manage messages within an owner???s inbox folder. 02/29/2020
53698 Office 365 license activation changes In August, we will start rolling out changes to Office 365 licensing technology to make it more reliable and resilient. These changes will help simplify activation management and streamline the Office activation experience for users. Users will still sign-in to activate Office on their devices, and if single sign-on is enabled, Office will automatically pick up the credentials and activate Office. As part of your subscription, users can still install and activate Office 365 apps on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five smartphones. Previously, users who reached this limit were prompted to deactivate an existing install before activating Office on a new device. Going forward, Office will automatically sign the user out of the user?s least recently used device when the user exceeds the limit, eliminating unnecessary friction. In August, we?ll start slowly rolling out these changes to commercial customers on Monthly Channel. No additional action is required on your part. In August, we will start rolling out changes to Office 365 licensing technology to make it more reliable and resilient. These changes will help simplify activation management and streamline the Office activation experience for users. Users will still sign-in to activate Office on their devices, and if single sign-on is enabled, Office will automatically pick up the credentials and activate Office. As part of your subscription, users can still install and activate Office 365 apps on up to five PCs or Macs, five tablets, and five smartphones. Previously, users who reached this limit were prompted to deactivate an existing install before activating Office on a new device. Going forward, Office will automatically sign the user out of the user???s least recently used device when the user exceeds the limit, eliminating unnecessary friction. In August, we???ll start slowly rolling out these changes to commercial customers on Monthly Channel. No additional action is required on your part. 08/31/2019
53941 Teams: Microsoft Teams displays A new category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that features an ambient touchscreen and a hands-free experience powered by Cortana.?These devices seamlessly integrate with your PC, providing easy access to Teams chat, meetings, calling, calendar, and files.?With natural language, users can ask Cortana to join and present in meetings, dictate replies to a Teams chat, and more. A new category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that features an ambient touchscreen and a hands-free experience powered by Cortana.??These devices seamlessly integrate with your PC, providing easy access to Teams chat, meetings, calling, calendar, and files.??With natural language, users can ask Cortana to join and present in meetings, dictate replies to a Teams chat, and more. 10/31/2020
53960 Add an image of your diagram to other documents Copy your entire diagram?or a subset of it?and paste it as an image in your process documentation, presentation, or other documents you are working on. Copy your entire diagram???or a subset of it???and paste it as an image in your process documentation, presentation, or other documents you are working on. 05/31/2020
54113 Converting Pending Users to Active Users We?re excited to share that we will be soon making "active" as the default state for new users when you deploy Yammer in your organizations or when new users join your organization. We???re excited to share that we will be soon making "active" as the default state for new users when you deploy Yammer in your organizations or when new users join your organization. 08/31/2019
54364 Microsoft Teams - enhanced scheduling form We?re updating Microsoft Teams with an improved scheduling experience. The existing scheduling form will be updated with multiple new features, including: improved scheduling assistant, time zone picker, availability status on people and locations, option to add required and optional attendees, and more. We???re updating Microsoft Teams with an improved scheduling experience. The existing scheduling form will be updated with multiple new features, including: improved scheduling assistant, time zone picker, availability status on people and locations, option to add required and optional attendees, and more. 02/29/2020
54434 Create users with templates in the Microsoft 365 admin center We are adding support for templates in user management in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Templates allow you to quickly create many users by saving and reusing the shared settings for these users. You can save values for roles, licenses assigned, contact information, location, and more. When you use the template to create a new user, they will automatically get the saved value for these settings. Example: I have a large group of engineers starting in Redmond. I know that they will all be users with no admin role, Microsoft 365 Business, be located in the United States, be Engineer 1, be in the engineering department, and be in the Redmond office. I can save all of these values to a ?Redmond engineer? template. When I go to create the users, I can use this template to prepopulate all these values. Templates will be rolling out slowly over starting in the beginning of September. We will be looking at expanding the scenarios and functionality for templates over the next few months. We are adding support for templates in user management in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Templates allow you to quickly create many users by saving and reusing the shared settings for these users. You can save values for roles, licenses assigned, contact information, location, and more. When you use the template to create a new user, they will automatically get the saved value for these settings. Example: I have a large group of engineers starting in Redmond. I know that they will all be users with no admin role, Microsoft 365 Business, be located in the United States, be Engineer 1, be in the engineering department, and be in the Redmond office. I can save all of these values to a ???Redmond engineer??? template. When I go to create the users, I can use this template to prepopulate all these values. Templates will be rolling out slowly over starting in the beginning of September. We will be looking at expanding the scenarios and functionality for templates over the next few months. 08/31/2019
54805 Outlook for iOS: Rich text options Access text formatting options when creating or replying to an email on your iPhone and iPad such as?fonts, font sizes, bold/italics/underline, links and bullet lists. Access text formatting options when creating or replying to an email on your iPhone and iPad such as??fonts, font sizes, bold/italics/underline, links and bullet lists. 02/29/2020
54813 Security Policy Advisor is now available Security Policy Advisor is a service that offers an easier, more effective way to manage your security policies. It provides custom policy recommendations, supported with rich data insights into how these policies would impact your group?s use of features in Office?allowing you to make decisions with full information. Security Policy Advisor is a service that offers an easier, more effective way to manage your security policies. It provides custom policy recommendations, supported with rich data insights into how these policies would impact your group???s use of features in Office???allowing you to make decisions with full information. 08/31/2019
54970 Outlook on the web - personal calendar affects work availability Outlook is making it easier for you to manage and protect your time across your work and personal life. As noted in Roadmap Item 54015, Outlook on the web allows you to connect your personal calendar so that you can view both your work and personal calendars in one place. Once you add your personal calendar, you will have the option to make it block time in your work availability. Don?t worry though: when others see your work availability (free/busy), your personal events will only appear as free or busy. Details of personal events, such as title and location, won?t ever be shown regardless of how you share your work calendar. This feature is currently in private preview. Outlook is making it easier for you to manage and protect your time across your work and personal life. As noted in Roadmap Item 54015, Outlook on the web allows you to connect your personal calendar so that you can view both your work and personal calendars in one place. Once you add your personal calendar, you will have the option to make it block time in your work availability. Don???t worry though: when others see your work availability (free/busy), your personal events will only appear as free or busy. Details of personal events, such as title and location, won???t ever be shown regardless of how you share your work calendar. This feature is currently in private preview. 05/31/2020
55023 Exchange Online: Improvements to Accelerate Replication of Changes to Azure Active Directory We?re updating Exchange Online to accelerate replication of changes to Azure Active Directory. With this change, modifications to Exchange properties will be written immediately to AAD reducing the replication time. We???re updating Exchange Online to accelerate replication of changes to Azure Active Directory. With this change, modifications to Exchange properties will be written immediately to AAD reducing the replication time. 11/30/2019
55523 Google Cloud Platform connector for Microsoft Cloud App Security When a customer?s configures, we provide visibility into discovered resources such as resource type, traffic, upload, users and network. We are also adding GCP into the existing Security Configuration assessment that we provide for AWS and Azure. When a customer???s configures, we provide visibility into discovered resources such as resource type, traffic, upload, users and network. We are also adding GCP into the existing Security Configuration assessment that we provide for AWS and Azure. 11/30/2019
55725 Visio: Improvements to Visio for the web when working on multiple pages Multi-page operations is easier in Visio for the web. You can now drag pages and position them anywhere in your file. There is also a page navigation list, which will give you an one-shot view of all the pages in the current file and can be used to navigate non-sequentially through the pages. ?Also, you can create a copy of any existing page or insert a blank page anywhere in your file. Multi-page operations is easier in Visio for the web. You can now drag pages and position them anywhere in your file. There is also a page navigation list, which will give you an one-shot view of all the pages in the current file and can be used to navigate non-sequentially through the pages. ??Also, you can create a copy of any existing page or insert a blank page anywhere in your file. 06/30/2020
56183 File hover card - conversations This new file hover card feature, alongside file details and actions like ?Inside Look? and ?Activity,? will show relevant emails, meetings and Teams conversations to the individual reviewing the file hover card information. So, when someone sends an email, a Teams message, or a meeting invitation that references a file from SharePoint or OneDrive, that conversation is displayed in the file hover card with a link to the conversation(s). This new file hover card feature, alongside file details and actions like ???Inside Look??? and ???Activity,??? will show relevant emails, meetings and Teams conversations to the individual reviewing the file hover card information. So, when someone sends an email, a Teams message, or a meeting invitation that references a file from SharePoint or OneDrive, that conversation is displayed in the file hover card with a link to the conversation(s). 05/31/2020
56508 New profile cards in both web and mobile Office 365 applications Profile cards, sometimes referred to as a contact card or people card, help facilitate collaboration with colleagues and external contacts. With this update, when you hover over a person?s name or image in an Office 365 web or mobile app, the profile card expands to reveal contact information, organizational relationships, and any documents a person has been working on that you have permissions to view. In Outlook.com, the profile card will also display recent email conversation. Profile cards, sometimes referred to as a contact card or people card, help facilitate collaboration with colleagues and external contacts. With this update, when you hover over a person???s name or image in an Office 365 web or mobile app, the profile card expands to reveal contact information, organizational relationships, and any documents a person has been working on that you have permissions to view. In Outlook.com, the profile card will also display recent email conversation. 11/30/2019
56794 Longer-term retention on audit logs Log retention for up to one year to meet investigation requirements and customize retention policies per an organization?s requirements Log retention for up to one year to meet investigation requirements and customize retention policies per an organization???s requirements 11/30/2019
57063 Semantic search in Microsoft Search With intelligent, natural language search capabilities in Microsoft Search, you will experience improved search accuracy as the search engine can now understand intent and contextualize the meaning of the terms typed ? leading to more relevant search results. With intelligent, natural language search capabilities in Microsoft Search, you will experience improved search accuracy as the search engine can now understand intent and contextualize the meaning of the terms typed ??? leading to more relevant search results. 11/30/2020
57067 Microsoft Search: People search on attributes People search on attributes available in Bing makes it easy for people to query someone?s name + title, for example, without having to remember their entire name and correct spelling. People search on attributes available in Bing makes it easy for people to query someone???s name + title, for example, without having to remember their entire name and correct spelling. 11/30/2019
57141 Power BI: Excel data types from Power BI Using data types in Excel, you can quickly retrieve data from featured tables in Power BI and load it in the Excel grid. Discover available tables in Excel?s data types gallery and analyze your data in a familiar and simple way. Using data types in Excel, you can quickly retrieve data from featured tables in Power BI and load it in the Excel grid. Discover available tables in Excel???s data types gallery and analyze your data in a familiar and simple way. 08/31/2020
57157 Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Android GA Walkie Talkie is a push-to-talk experience that enables clear, instant and secure voice communication over the cloud, turning employee- or company-owned Android smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie.? This native built-in app in Teams reduces the number of devices employees must carry and helps lower costs for IT. Customers who currently use analog radio devices would no longer need to worry about static, crosstalk or eavesdropping from outsiders nor the limited range of radio as Walkie Talkie works over WIFI or cellular data. And for Firstline teams not yet enabled with a push-to-talk experience, Walkie Talkie in Teams enables instant team communication with pre-configured channels set to have the right conversation with the right people. Walkie Talkie is a push-to-talk experience that enables clear, instant and secure voice communication over the cloud, turning employee- or company-owned Android smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie.?? This native built-in app in Teams reduces the number of devices employees must carry and helps lower costs for IT. Customers who currently use analog radio devices would no longer need to worry about static, crosstalk or eavesdropping from outsiders nor the limited range of radio as Walkie Talkie works over WIFI or cellular data. And for Firstline teams not yet enabled with a push-to-talk experience, Walkie Talkie in Teams enables instant team communication with pre-configured channels set to have the right conversation with the right people. 08/31/2020
57213 Microsoft Teams: Tasks in Teams Tasks for Information Workers in Teams?Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you?re on desktop or mobile. Tasks for Information Workers in Teams???Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you???re on desktop or mobile. 06/30/2020
57275 Microsoft Teams - Sensitivity Labels Regulate who can access teams in your organization. Sensitivity labels created in?the security and compliance admin center can now be used to control the privacy and guest access settings of the team. Users can select the appropriate label when creating a new team. Regulate who can access teams in your organization. Sensitivity labels created in??the security and compliance admin center can now be used to control the privacy and guest access settings of the team. Users can select the appropriate label when creating a new team. 05/31/2020
57301 Noise Suppression in Stream Videos Noise suppression eliminates distracting background noise in recorded videos uploaded to Stream, so you focus on the person speaking, not what?s happening around them. Noise suppression eliminates distracting background noise in recorded videos uploaded to Stream, so you focus on the person speaking, not what???s happening around them. 05/31/2020
57305 SharePoint lists - Conditional formatting rule builder with new rich-text capabilities You will have the ability to use If/Then logic to format rows and columns based on attributes like numerical, date, etc. to apply color formatting across SharePoint lists and libraries. You, too, will have greater flexibility for how your text appears within your items by using the enhanced rich text editor ? to bold, color, underline, etc. more closely to how you wish your text to appear. You will have the ability to use If/Then logic to format rows and columns based on attributes like numerical, date, etc. to apply color formatting across SharePoint lists and libraries. You, too, will have greater flexibility for how your text appears within your items by using the enhanced rich text editor ??? to bold, color, underline, etc. more closely to how you wish your text to appear. 02/29/2020
57308 SharePoint: SharePoint Administration - Migration manager The migration manager, now a key part of the SharePoint admin center (preview), helps orchestrate and simplify management of large-scale migrations. Admins can add and manage multiple migration machines to centrally orchestrate all migration activities. The new task view in the SharePoint admin center provides one location to create and monitor progress. For each task, there is a task detail pane to download reports and change settings for individual tasks ? all centrally managed within the SharePoint admin experience. The migration manager, now a key part of the SharePoint admin center (preview), helps orchestrate and simplify management of large-scale migrations. Admins can add and manage multiple migration machines to centrally orchestrate all migration activities. The new task view in the SharePoint admin center provides one location to create and monitor progress. For each task, there is a task detail pane to download reports and change settings for individual tasks ??? all centrally managed within the SharePoint admin experience. 05/31/2020
57312 Microsoft Information Protection: Auto classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive We?re excited to announce Auto Classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online. As you may already know sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection. You can apply a sensitivity label to important documents and associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. You can already use sensitivity labels by allowing users to manually classify emails and documents by applying these labels based on their assessment of the content and their interpretation of the organizational guidelines. However, users can sometimes forget to apply labels or apply them inaccurately. With this preview, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input. We???re excited to announce Auto Classification with sensitivity labels in OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Exchange Online. As you may already know sensitivity labels are central to Microsoft Information Protection. You can apply a sensitivity label to important documents and associate it with protection policies and actions like encryption and visual marking. You can already use sensitivity labels by allowing users to manually classify emails and documents by applying these labels based on their assessment of the content and their interpretation of the organizational guidelines. However, users can sometimes forget to apply labels or apply them inaccurately. With this preview, you can start using sensitivity labels at scale for documents stored on OneDrive and SharePoint Online, and for emails in transit in Exchange Online automatically without manual user input. 05/31/2020
57314 SharePoint admin - Improved edit panel to manage site settings We are releasing a new panel experience which will make it easier to view and manage more site properties, like how you would edit from within the site itself ? through an edit pane that overlays the page you are working from. Select a site you wish to manage, and in the edit pane you will see several panels. The General panel displays a lot of the main site characteristics ? and this is where you can rename the site name and URL. The Activity panel showcases site usage for file and people insights. The Permissions panel enables management of site admins, owners, members and visitors. The Policies panel provides visibility and access to manage site policies like external sharing, sensitivity labels and more. And finally, the Hub panel lets you know if the site is a hub site or associated to one. We are releasing a new panel experience which will make it easier to view and manage more site properties, like how you would edit from within the site itself ??? through an edit pane that overlays the page you are working from. Select a site you wish to manage, and in the edit pane you will see several panels. The General panel displays a lot of the main site characteristics ??? and this is where you can rename the site name and URL. The Activity panel showcases site usage for file and people insights. The Permissions panel enables management of site admins, owners, members and visitors. The Policies panel provides visibility and access to manage site policies like external sharing, sensitivity labels and more. And finally, the Hub panel lets you know if the site is a hub site or associated to one. 02/29/2020
57315 SharePoint admin - Modern term store Use the updated term store to create and manage terms and term sets in SharePoint to enter data consistently. The new experience, within the SharePoint admin center, makes it easier to manage your company?s taxonomy and content types. Use the updated term store to create and manage terms and term sets in SharePoint to enter data consistently. The new experience, within the SharePoint admin center, makes it easier to manage your company???s taxonomy and content types. 05/31/2020
57316 SharePoint admin - Increased site collection limit: 2,000,000 site collections per tenant You know that thing we said about increased limits over time that match Microsoft 365 customer usage?? Well, here?s another. We know you may bring a lot of sites as you transition from on-premises, and then IT-managed self-service roll out in the cloud ? this equates to a lot of sites to support everything from collaborative team sites, cross-company portals and document centers across disciplines. So, today, we announced support of a single tenant having up to 2,000,000 site collections across their Office 365 tenant. That?s up from the previous limit of 500,000. You know that thing we said about increased limits over time that match Microsoft 365 customer usage???? Well, here???s another. We know you may bring a lot of sites as you transition from on-premises, and then IT-managed self-service roll out in the cloud ??? this equates to a lot of sites to support everything from collaborative team sites, cross-company portals and document centers across disciplines. So, today, we announced support of a single tenant having up to 2,000,000 site collections across their Office 365 tenant. That???s up from the previous limit of 500,000. 02/29/2020
57318 SharePoint admin - New SharePoint admin center home page When you first land in the SharePoint admin center, we want it to be both familiar and useful at a glance. The idea is to provide a familiar experience, taking a similar design approach as the Microsoft admin center. You?ll see more and more cards and graphs appear over time ? so you can see insights on files, usage security, recommendations, training and so on. Better see what?s happening, and then take the appropriate action. When you first land in the SharePoint admin center, we want it to be both familiar and useful at a glance. The idea is to provide a familiar experience, taking a similar design approach as the Microsoft admin center. You???ll see more and more cards and graphs appear over time ??? so you can see insights on files, usage security, recommendations, training and so on. Better see what???s happening, and then take the appropriate action. 10/31/2020
58033 Microsoft Teams - New location for New Chat button, Recent, and Contacts tabs in Chat app We?re changing the location of New Chat button, and moving the Contacts and Recent view options to a drop down in the Chat list header, as opposed to standalone tabs. The New Chat button will now be located at the top of the chats list. We???re changing the location of New Chat button, and moving the Contacts and Recent view options to a drop down in the Chat list header, as opposed to standalone tabs. The New Chat button will now be located at the top of the chats list. 02/29/2020
58277 Class Insights in Teams An adaptive interface designed to support teaching and learning, the Insights dashboard in Microsoft Teams turns data about student activity into digestible graphs and visuals. Get at-a-glance analysis on student grades, contributions to class discussion, time management, and more. Insights does more than just surface data ?it helps tell the story of your class?s daily, weekly, and monthly engagement in learning, giving you actionable views along the way. An adaptive interface designed to support teaching and learning, the Insights dashboard in Microsoft Teams turns data about student activity into digestible graphs and visuals. Get at-a-glance analysis on student grades, contributions to class discussion, time management, and more. Insights does more than just surface data ???it helps tell the story of your class???s daily, weekly, and monthly engagement in learning, giving you actionable views along the way. 05/31/2020
58736 Outlook for Android: Play My Emails Play My Emails on the go to get time back in your day with a voice forward, intelligent experience for reading new email in your focused inbox when you?re on the move or when your hands are busy doing other things. The optional touch interface is designed to allow you to easily take action on important new emails and offers the option to respond with your voice. Available to eligible accounts in the United States. Play My Emails on the go to get time back in your day with a voice forward, intelligent experience for reading new email in your focused inbox when you???re on the move or when your hands are busy doing other things. The optional touch interface is designed to allow you to easily take action on important new emails and offers the option to respond with your voice. Available to eligible accounts in the United States. 07/31/2020
58771 Visio: The Visio?Data Visualizer add-in for Excel is now generally available At Ignite 2019, we released for public preview the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, a new way to create data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel. The add-in is now available to all Office 365 subscribers?no Visio subscription is required. At Ignite 2019, we released for public preview the Visio Data Visualizer add-in for Excel, a new way to create data-driven Visio diagrams directly in Excel. The add-in is now available to all Office 365 subscribers???no Visio subscription is required. 10/31/2020
59001 Office 365 Message Encryption: updates to enhance authenticity of OME emails We are rolling out a series of updates to Office 365 Message Encryption aimed at creating a more authentic OME email experience. The capabilities rolled out in this update include the following: OME customers using the branding template will be able to send OME emails with updated email layout, reflecting their organization?s brand. OME customers will be able to upload their organization?s privacy documentation to the OME emails. We are rolling out a series of updates to Office 365 Message Encryption aimed at creating a more authentic OME email experience. The capabilities rolled out in this update include the following: OME customers using the branding template will be able to send OME emails with updated email layout, reflecting their organization???s brand. OME customers will be able to upload their organization???s privacy documentation to the OME emails. 02/29/2020
59220 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Preset security policies for EOP and Office 365 ATP Security Although we empower security administrators to customize their security settings, we are introducing two recommended security levels in Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: standard and strict. Each customer's environment and needs are different, but we believe that these levels of mail filtering configurations will help prevent unwanted mail from reaching employee inboxes in most situations.?We will be automatically updating profiles for our smaller customers who want us to manage these settings for them, but for others, we want to enable the admins to easily configure these for their users.?Preset security policies will allow admins to take these settings and apply them to a defined set of users on one place. To get more information on the recommended settings, visit our documentation today! Although we empower security administrators to customize their security settings, we are introducing two recommended security levels in Exchange Online Protection and Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: standard and strict. Each customer's environment and needs are different, but we believe that these levels of mail filtering configurations will help prevent unwanted mail from reaching employee inboxes in most situations.??We will be automatically updating profiles for our smaller customers who want us to manage these settings for them, but for others, we want to enable the admins to easily configure these for their users.??Preset security policies will allow admins to take these settings and apply them to a defined set of users on one place. To get more information on the recommended settings, visit our documentation today! 05/31/2020
59282 New Publisher for Yammer Web App This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?We are expanding the use of announcements so you can have the same reach with polls, questions, or praise. We?re making improvements for gifs, videos, link previews, and file attachments to make sharing content simple. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??We are expanding the use of announcements so you can have the same reach with polls, questions, or praise. We???re making improvements for gifs, videos, link previews, and file attachments to make sharing content simple. 08/31/2020
59283 Attach recently used files in Yammer This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?When attaching files to a Yammer post, we'll display your three most recent files using the Office graph. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??When attaching files to a Yammer post, we'll display your three most recent files using the Office graph. 08/31/2020
59319 New Yammer Home Feed This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?A new, personalized discovery feed powered by AI connects you with conversations from across the organization and prioritizes the conversations that are most relevant to you. We?ve overhauled conversation styling and added colorful framing and iconography that distinguishes questions and best answers. New treatments for praise and polls also show beautifully in the feed whether you?re on a mobile app or in the browser. The Feed is powered by machine learning and designed to help you keep a finger on the pulse of the company and discover trending conversations. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??A new, personalized discovery feed powered by AI connects you with conversations from across the organization and prioritizes the conversations that are most relevant to you. We???ve overhauled conversation styling and added colorful framing and iconography that distinguishes questions and best answers. New treatments for praise and polls also show beautifully in the feed whether you???re on a mobile app or in the browser. The Feed is powered by machine learning and designed to help you keep a finger on the pulse of the company and discover trending conversations. 07/31/2020
59345 Renaming of Groups to Communities in Yammer This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.?Community is the driving force of Yammer, and to better reflect the purpose and role of Yammer within Microsoft 365, we?re renaming Yammer groups to communities This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??Community is the driving force of Yammer, and to better reflect the purpose and role of Yammer within Microsoft 365, we???re renaming Yammer groups to communities 08/31/2020
59346 Pin your favorite communities in Yammer This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.??Pin your favorite Yammer communities to the left navigation bar for fast access. This feature will soon be leaving Preview as part of the New Yammer. Please see Roadmap Item 65410 for more details.????Pin your favorite Yammer communities to the left navigation bar for fast access. 08/31/2020
59369 Microsoft Teams: Third-party single sign-on (SSO) for apps in Teams End users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) for supported Teams apps on both desktop and mobile. After they?re signed into Teams, users won?t have to sign in again on apps that integrate with single sign-on for both desktop and mobile. Developers will also enjoy a simplified authentication process through a single API call. End users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) for supported Teams apps on both desktop and mobile. After they???re signed into Teams, users won???t have to sign in again on apps that integrate with single sign-on for both desktop and mobile. Developers will also enjoy a simplified authentication process through a single API call. 05/31/2020
59840 Outlook on the web - view and edit Sticky Notes From Outlook on the web, view and edit the notes you create in Outlook for Windows and Sticky Notes right in the ?Notes? folder, now with a new look. If you sign in with the same account across apps, your notes will sync across them like Sticky Notes for Windows 10, OneNote for iPhone and Android Phone, and Microsoft Launcher for Android Phone. From Outlook on the web, view and edit the notes you create in Outlook for Windows and Sticky Notes right in the ???Notes??? folder, now with a new look. If you sign in with the same account across apps, your notes will sync across them like Sticky Notes for Windows 10, OneNote for iPhone and Android Phone, and Microsoft Launcher for Android Phone. 02/29/2020
60010 Office What's New management is generally available Each release of Office includes new and improved features. The What?s New content in the Office desktop apps highlights an editorially curated list of new features being released for that application, with a short description, and often a picture or a video to help customers learn how to use the feature. This content is created by the team that is releasing the feature. Historically, Microsoft has chosen which set of features are promoted to end users in the What?s New section of Help. The Office What?s New management feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center puts you in control by allowing your organization to decide which features are shown to or hidden from end users in the Office desktop app. It gives you visibility into new content for each release version and channel, along with the capability to hide or show each feature?s What?s New content. Each release of Office includes new and improved features. The What???s New content in the Office desktop apps highlights an editorially curated list of new features being released for that application, with a short description, and often a picture or a video to help customers learn how to use the feature. This content is created by the team that is releasing the feature. Historically, Microsoft has chosen which set of features are promoted to end users in the What???s New section of Help. The Office What???s New management feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center puts you in control by allowing your organization to decide which features are shown to or hidden from end users in the Office desktop app. It gives you visibility into new content for each release version and channel, along with the capability to hide or show each feature???s What???s New content. 02/29/2020
60191 Forms: New Admin YouTube Toggle Existing Toggle within Admin center to control Bing Image search is being changed to control Bing Image search AND YouTube videos. It will appear and function as follows. Header: Grant Access Label: Include Bing search and YouTube videos Description: Allow users in your organization to add images from Bing and YouTube videos to Forms. Note: If unchecked, previously added images from Bing will remain, but any previously added YouTube videos will be converted into a YouTube link that will launch outside of Forms. In app functionality ? If unchecked, Form designers will no longer be able to add new YouTube videos to Forms, and will see a warning. However, they can continue to add Stream videos. Previously added YouTube videos will be converted to links that launch outside of forms (for both Form designers, and Form responders). Existing Toggle within Admin center to control Bing Image search is being changed to control Bing Image search AND YouTube videos. It will appear and function as follows. Header: Grant Access Label: Include Bing search and YouTube videos Description: Allow users in your organization to add images from Bing and YouTube videos to Forms. Note: If unchecked, previously added images from Bing will remain, but any previously added YouTube videos will be converted into a YouTube link that will launch outside of Forms. In app functionality ??? If unchecked, Form designers will no longer be able to add new YouTube videos to Forms, and will see a warning. However, they can continue to add Stream videos. Previously added YouTube videos will be converted to links that launch outside of forms (for both Form designers, and Form responders). 02/29/2020
60371 Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings ROLL OUT TEMPORARILY PAUSED FOR NOVEMBER 2020.?Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. ROLL OUT TEMPORARILY PAUSED FOR NOVEMBER 2020.??Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. 11/30/2020
60592 SharePoint: Default site theme color is changing from blue to teal SharePoint?s new teal theme will automatically update new and existing communication sites and team sites. Group connected team sites, and sites that have been customized, will not be impacted. Moving forward, new sites will automatically default to the new teal theme. The new teal theme can be changed to the former blue theme at any time in the Change the look panel. SharePoint???s new teal theme will automatically update new and existing communication sites and team sites. Group connected team sites, and sites that have been customized, will not be impacted. Moving forward, new sites will automatically default to the new teal theme. The new teal theme can be changed to the former blue theme at any time in the Change the look panel. 05/31/2020
60604 Microsoft Search: Acronyms answers are rolling out to Microsoft Search Did you know that 2-3% of search queries entered by employees are related to acronyms? The new Acronyms feature in Microsoft Search helps you navigate your company?s often-confusing alphabet soup. I Now when you come across an acronym you may not recognize, a simple search on Bing will reveal common definitions from public sources?and your organization?s unique definitions with Microsoft Search. Did you know that 2-3% of search queries entered by employees are related to acronyms? The new Acronyms feature in Microsoft Search helps you navigate your company???s often-confusing alphabet soup. I Now when you come across an acronym you may not recognize, a simple search on Bing will reveal common definitions from public sources???and your organization???s unique definitions with Microsoft Search. 02/29/2020
60606 Updated Feature: Update to Security and Compliance center link in Admin center For users who do not have M365 E3/E5, we?re updating the link to ?Security and Compliance Center? in the Microsoft 365 admin center. It will split into two separate links for Security and Compliance. For users who do not have M365 E3/E5, we???re updating the link to ???Security and Compliance Center??? in the Microsoft 365 admin center. It will split into two separate links for Security and Compliance. 02/29/2020
60827 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Secure by Default - Honoring EOP/ATP detonation verdicts We see lots of cases where configuration of our protection stack has enabled malicious content to be inadvertently delivered to end users. We?re working on a few features that will help address this problem. Our first phase includes Honoring detonation verdicts. All too frequently, URLs and files that have been flagged as malicious are allowed through to the inbox due to transport rules and domain allows. We?re updating our filters to ensure that malicious files and URLs are not delivered regardless of configuration, unless manually overridden. We see lots of cases where configuration of our protection stack has enabled malicious content to be inadvertently delivered to end users. We???re working on a few features that will help address this problem. Our first phase includes Honoring detonation verdicts. All too frequently, URLs and files that have been flagged as malicious are allowed through to the inbox due to transport rules and domain allows. We???re updating our filters to ensure that malicious files and URLs are not delivered regardless of configuration, unless manually overridden. 11/30/2020
60975 New organization switcher in the Microsoft 365 admin center Today, we are announcing a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center called the Organization Switcher, the first of many changes coming for admins who manage multiple organizations. The Organization Switcher allows you to seamlessly switch between organizations that you manage. Today?s release supports admins that are the partner of record (Associated Partner) for a Microsoft 365 organization. Today, we are announcing a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center called the Organization Switcher, the first of many changes coming for admins who manage multiple organizations. The Organization Switcher allows you to seamlessly switch between organizations that you manage. Today???s release supports admins that are the partner of record (Associated Partner) for a Microsoft 365 organization. 02/29/2020
61064 Power Apps can read context from Microsoft Teams Custom apps built using Microsoft Power Apps?can now read context from the Microsoft Teams channels that they are added to. App makers can now build?or update?their apps to enable custom dynamic?experiences based on the channel in which the app has been?added. Custom apps built using Microsoft Power Apps??can now read context from the Microsoft Teams channels that they are added to. App makers can now build??or update??their apps to enable custom dynamic??experiences based on the channel in which the app has been??added. 02/29/2020
61180 Microsoft Teams for Firstline Workers: Off Shift Access Control V1 Off shift access ?is a new setting that can be enabled by IT administrators to provide a notification to Firstline Workers when they access the Teams app on their personal device outside payable hours. The users then need to provide consent to the notification before being able to access their app. Off shift access ??is a new setting that can be enabled by IT administrators to provide a notification to Firstline Workers when they access the Teams app on their personal device outside payable hours. The users then need to provide consent to the notification before being able to access their app. 10/31/2020
61185 Microsoft Teams: Bulk policy assignment Policies allow?administrators to?efficiently?control the Teams features available?to their users, now?administrators?can?apply?policies?in?a batch?for?up to 50K users. Policies allow??administrators to??efficiently??control the Teams features available??to their users, now??administrators??can??apply??policies??in??a batch??for??up to 50K users. 07/31/2020
61190 SharePoint: Mover migration - worldwide availability We?re pleased to announce Mover is now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide. Since Microsoft announced the acquisition of Mover, our migration specialists have been working hard to bring the migration service, including admin-led and self-service offerings, to more customers as demand to move content to the cloud continues to grow. Mover supports migration from over a dozen cloud service providers ? including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Google Drive ? into OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling seamless file collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps and services, including the Office apps and Microsoft Teams. Mover helps make it easier than ever for customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365 ? for free. We???re pleased to announce Mover is now available to Microsoft 365 customers worldwide. Since Microsoft announced the acquisition of Mover, our migration specialists have been working hard to bring the migration service, including admin-led and self-service offerings, to more customers as demand to move content to the cloud continues to grow. Mover supports migration from over a dozen cloud service providers ??? including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Google Drive ??? into OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling seamless file collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps and services, including the Office apps and Microsoft Teams. Mover helps make it easier than ever for customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365 ??? for free. 02/29/2020
61356 PDFs and scans included in ?Recent View? Now, in your ?Recent list?, uploaded scans and recently viewed PDFs will automatically surface at the top. Now, in your ???Recent list???, uploaded scans and recently viewed PDFs will automatically surface at the top. 02/29/2020
61432 Visio: While you were away and catch-up highlights Know who edited your shared document since your last visit, and see what?s changed. Know who edited your shared document since your last visit, and see what???s changed. 11/30/2020
61502 Microsoft Graph: Profile Card Customization through Microsoft Graph Beta Profile Card Customization through Microsoft Graph Beta allows you to add custom information to a person?s profile card through the Microsoft Graph Beta. This allows an administrator to customize people?s profile cards by adding properties according to your business needs. Profile Card Customization through Microsoft Graph Beta allows you to add custom information to a person???s profile card through the Microsoft Graph Beta. This allows an administrator to customize people???s profile cards by adding properties according to your business needs. 06/30/2020
61746 Microsoft Authenticator App FullScreen Account Pages You can now click anywhere on your account tile in the Microsoft Authenticator app to switch to a fullscreen view and see your One-Time Password code. Additionally, you?ll be able to enable passwordless phone sign-in if your organization has requested you to turn that feature on. All other regular actions, such as approving a notification, adding a new account, or interacting with settings, will remain unchanged. You can now click anywhere on your account tile in the Microsoft Authenticator app to switch to a fullscreen view and see your One-Time Password code. Additionally, you???ll be able to enable passwordless phone sign-in if your organization has requested you to turn that feature on. All other regular actions, such as approving a notification, adding a new account, or interacting with settings, will remain unchanged. 02/29/2020
62446 Device Management support for Collaboration Bars We are adding support for managing Collaboration Bars in Teams Admin Center. Admin users will have the capability to manage ?Collaboration Bar? devices from Teams Admin Center. Also, to accommodate newer device types, we have re-aligned the interface under the Devices tab. The arrangement is done to ensure the revised UI is simpler to navigate and extensible. Now, the left pane will show all the device types: Phones, Teams Rooms, Collaboration Bars. IT admins will be able to create configuration profiles for individual device types. Phones will be further classified into desk phones, common area phones, and conference phones, and shown separately in the UI. We are adding support for managing Collaboration Bars in Teams Admin Center. Admin users will have the capability to manage ???Collaboration Bar??? devices from Teams Admin Center. Also, to accommodate newer device types, we have re-aligned the interface under the Devices tab. The arrangement is done to ensure the revised UI is simpler to navigate and extensible. Now, the left pane will show all the device types: Phones, Teams Rooms, Collaboration Bars. IT admins will be able to create configuration profiles for individual device types. Phones will be further classified into desk phones, common area phones, and conference phones, and shown separately in the UI. 02/29/2020
62559 Microsoft Search in Windows 10 Microsoft Search will be available through the Windows 10 search box.? Microsoft Search is an enterprise search experience that increases productivity and saves time by delivering more relevant search results for your organization. Microsoft Search will be available through the Windows 10 search box.?? Microsoft Search is an enterprise search experience that increases productivity and saves time by delivering more relevant search results for your organization. 11/30/2020
63034 Email notification updates in Yammer We?ll be updating email notifications in Yammer to ensure you see important messages. We believe announcements from your communities and mentions of you on Yammer are important for you to see and get work done, and now we'll make sure you never miss them in Outlook. We???ll be updating email notifications in Yammer to ensure you see important messages. We believe announcements from your communities and mentions of you on Yammer are important for you to see and get work done, and now we'll make sure you never miss them in Outlook. 05/31/2020
63163 Yammer App for Microsoft Teams Stay connected to what?s happening across your organization with new the Yammer app for Teams, which brings the full experience of Yammer right into your hub for teamwork. You can participate in conversations, watch live and on-demand events, and browse your communities just as you would in Yammer, helping you stay up to date with your communities while still having access to your projects, chats, and meetings. The new Yammer App in Teams can be pinned directly into the Teams navigation rail for quick access. Stay connected to what???s happening across your organization with new the Yammer app for Teams, which brings the full experience of Yammer right into your hub for teamwork. You can participate in conversations, watch live and on-demand events, and browse your communities just as you would in Yammer, helping you stay up to date with your communities while still having access to your projects, chats, and meetings. The new Yammer App in Teams can be pinned directly into the Teams navigation rail for quick access. 05/31/2020
63193 Microsoft Teams - screen share from chat policy governance Screen share from chat allows you to immediately start sharing your screen in a 1-1 chat or group chat. This entry point was previously governed by the AllowPrivateCalling policy. If this policy was disabled, users weren?t able to screen share from chat. The option to start a screen share from chat will now be governed by the ScreenSharingMode policy. Screen share from chat allows you to immediately start sharing your screen in a 1-1 chat or group chat. This entry point was previously governed by the AllowPrivateCalling policy. If this policy was disabled, users weren???t able to screen share from chat. The option to start a screen share from chat will now be governed by the ScreenSharingMode policy. 08/31/2020
63220 Updates to recipient experience for ?specific people? links We are updating the recipient experience for ?specific people? links to make it more streamlined for people in your organization. When users in your organization receive a ?specific people? link to files or folders on OneDrive or SharePoint they will no longer see a page telling them to click ?Next? to sign in We are updating the recipient experience for ???specific people??? links to make it more streamlined for people in your organization. When users in your organization receive a ???specific people??? link to files or folders on OneDrive or SharePoint they will no longer see a page telling them to click ???Next??? to sign in 05/31/2020
63257 SharePoint: Improved SharePoint page/news publishing experience A pre-publish panel enforces that authors supply missing required properties before they can publish a page or a news post.?Additional improvements related to required properties in the pages library take effect. A pre-publish panel enforces that authors supply missing required properties before they can publish a page or a news post.??Additional improvements related to required properties in the pages library take effect. 10/31/2020
63276 Microsoft Teams - share system audio in live events With share system audio in live events, your live event attendees will be able to hear the audio of the content that you are sharing on your screen. This feature works just like share system audio in Teams Meetings. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user?s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear. Note: This feature will only be available for Presenters/Producers in a live event joining from the Windows Desktop Teams client. We will be rolling this out starting in late April and rollout will complete within a week from the initial rollout date, with feature support in GCC, GCCH, and DoD environments following within 30 days. With share system audio in live events, your live event attendees will be able to hear the audio of the content that you are sharing on your screen. This feature works just like share system audio in Teams Meetings. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user???s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear. Note: This feature will only be available for Presenters/Producers in a live event joining from the Windows Desktop Teams client. We will be rolling this out starting in late April and rollout will complete within a week from the initial rollout date, with feature support in GCC, GCCH, and DoD environments following within 30 days. 05/31/2020
63577 Microsoft Teams: Group chat with up to 250 people Sometimes you need to kick off a big project chat with a large group, or organize an ad-hoc discussion with staff at an event, but it is unnecessary to start a new team; perhaps you don?t all work together on a regular basis, or maybe you need a communication channel with a large group of people at an event. Group chats will be able to accommodate up to 250 users. Sometimes you need to kick off a big project chat with a large group, or organize an ad-hoc discussion with staff at an event, but it is unnecessary to start a new team; perhaps you don???t all work together on a regular basis, or maybe you need a communication channel with a large group of people at an event. Group chats will be able to accommodate up to 250 users. 05/31/2020
63584 Yammer: The New Yammer (Public Preview) Yammer is being rebuilt from the ground up and will become Microsoft?s first application to fully leverage the Fluent Design system ? resulting in a fast, modern, interface for web and mobile. But it?s not just a new look ? we?re adding dozens of new features to Yammer that deliver top customer requests to help leaders and communities share, communicate, and discover like never before. The new mobile experience is fully rolled out and now the web experience is available for public preview. Yammer is being rebuilt from the ground up and will become Microsoft???s first application to fully leverage the Fluent Design system ??? resulting in a fast, modern, interface for web and mobile. But it???s not just a new look ??? we???re adding dozens of new features to Yammer that deliver top customer requests to help leaders and communities share, communicate, and discover like never before. The new mobile experience is fully rolled out and now the web experience is available for public preview. 05/31/2020
63585 Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: Changes to Channel Names The Microsoft 365 servicing model keeps evolving. As part of that evolution the following Channels will be renamed: "Semi-Annual Channel? will become ?Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel?, ?Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)" will become ?Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)?, ?Monthly Channel (Standard)? will become ?Current Channel?, ?Monthly Channel (Targeted)? will become ?Current Channel (Preview)?. The Microsoft 365 servicing model keeps evolving. As part of that evolution the following Channels will be renamed: "Semi-Annual Channel??? will become ???Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel???, ???Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted)" will become ???Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)???, ???Monthly Channel (Standard)??? will become ???Current Channel???, ???Monthly Channel (Targeted)??? will become ???Current Channel (Preview)???. 05/31/2020
63591 New update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Introducing ?the ?Monthly Enterprise Channel? as a new update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.?This new channel is designed to help customers seeking to stay up to date with feature updates, such as real-time collaboration and AI capabilities, while benefiting from predictable servicing cadence.?This channel is also recommended for admins who look for additional insights and controls to better manage their complex environments. Introducing ??the ???Monthly Enterprise Channel??? as a new update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise.??This new channel is designed to help customers seeking to stay up to date with feature updates, such as real-time collaboration and AI capabilities, while benefiting from predictable servicing cadence.??This channel is also recommended for admins who look for additional insights and controls to better manage their complex environments. 05/31/2020
63644 Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for the Web Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ?delete that? or ?start list?. You can even dictate a ?smiley face?. Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ???delete that??? or ???start list???. You can even dictate a ???smiley face???. 07/31/2020
63645 Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for iOS Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ?delete that? or ?start list?. You can even dictate a ?smiley face?. Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ???delete that??? or ???start list???. You can even dictate a ???smiley face???. 07/31/2020
63646 Word: Voice Commands in Dictation for Word for Android Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ?delete that? or ?start list?. You can even dictate a ?smiley face?. Dictation enables you to use the power of your voice to conquer the blank page. Now you can use additional Voice Commands to structure, edit, and format your content using Dictation. Commands are based on the way people naturally speak so that you can capture your ideas easily. Try saying ???delete that??? or ???start list???. You can even dictate a ???smiley face???. 07/31/2020
63657 AIP scanner for on-premises available for Government clouds Azure Information Protection: Azure Information Protection Scanner helps you manage and protect your on-premises data. The scanner can be configured to periodically scan your on premises repositories such as File Servers and on-premises SharePoint servers to discover, label and protect sensitive data based on company policies. This is particularly important in scenarios where you?re planning data migration from on-premises to cloud storage or working towards meeting regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR. Azure Information Protection: Azure Information Protection Scanner helps you manage and protect your on-premises data. The scanner can be configured to periodically scan your on premises repositories such as File Servers and on-premises SharePoint servers to discover, label and protect sensitive data based on company policies. This is particularly important in scenarios where you???re planning data migration from on-premises to cloud storage or working towards meeting regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR. 08/31/2020
63660 AIP Unified Labeling client for Windows available for Government clouds The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client for Windows is a downloadable client for organizations that use sensitivity labels to classify and protect documents and emails. This client also has a viewer for organizations that don?t have their own information protection infrastructure but want to consume content that has been protected by other organizations that use a Rights Management service from Microsoft. The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client for Windows is a downloadable client for organizations that use sensitivity labels to classify and protect documents and emails. This client also has a viewer for organizations that don???t have their own information protection infrastructure but want to consume content that has been protected by other organizations that use a Rights Management service from Microsoft. 06/30/2020
63733 Microsoft Graph: [IDENTITY AND ACCESS] Publisher Verification (Preview) App developers will be able to prove their authenticity byassociating their verified organizational identity with their app registration. After this is complete, admins and end users will be able to see a ?verified? badge on the consent screen andother UX surfaces. Publisher Verification status will also be used by tenantadmins to set policies that control what apps users can consent to, and it willbe factored into Microsoft?s risk evaluation of an app. All new multi-tenantapps created after Build will be required to be Publisher Verified in order tobe user consentable in any tenant. App developers will be able to prove their authenticity byassociating their verified organizational identity with their app registration. After this is complete, admins and end users will be able to see a ???verified??? badge on the consent screen andother UX surfaces. Publisher Verification status will also be used by tenantadmins to set policies that control what apps users can consent to, and it willbe factored into Microsoft???s risk evaluation of an app. All new multi-tenantapps created after Build will be required to be Publisher Verified in order tobe user consentable in any tenant. 05/31/2020
63757 Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: New Tenants will default to the "Current Channel". Current channel is designed for broad deployment of feature updates as soon as it is production ready.? Current channel?is fully compliant, supported, and updates every month (with addition security and quality updates).?Existing tenants will remain in the channel that they have already selected. Current channel is designed for broad deployment of feature updates as soon as it is production ready.?? Current channel??is fully compliant, supported, and updates every month (with addition security and quality updates).??Existing tenants will remain in the channel that they have already selected. 05/31/2020
64019 Office 365: Updated Office.com Home Page We are updating the layout and navigation of Office.com and the Office App in Windows 10 to improve the usability based upon customer feedback. ?Users will find their documents front-and-center, and will be able to access their applications within a more organized page structure. We are updating the layout and navigation of Office.com and the Office App in Windows 10 to improve the usability based upon customer feedback. ??Users will find their documents front-and-center, and will be able to access their applications within a more organized page structure. 05/31/2020
64035 Advanced eDiscovery: New feature to bulk-import custodians to a case There are situations where a legal case or investigation can have hundreds of custodians. To help you manage large cases, we?re announcing a new feature that lets eDiscovery admins bulk-import custodians to an Advanced eDiscovery case. Instead of having to manually add each custodian to a case, the bulk-import feature lets you upload a CSV file with information about each custodian and their data sources. Advanced eDiscovery validates the custodians and then imports them to a case. There are situations where a legal case or investigation can have hundreds of custodians. To help you manage large cases, we???re announcing a new feature that lets eDiscovery admins bulk-import custodians to an Advanced eDiscovery case. Instead of having to manually add each custodian to a case, the bulk-import feature lets you upload a CSV file with information about each custodian and their data sources. Advanced eDiscovery validates the custodians and then imports them to a case. 08/31/2020
64036 Advanced eDiscovery: Non Custodial Data Sources We?re launching a new feature that lets eDiscovery admins add data sources to a case (and place them on hold) without having to associate a data source with a custodian. This provides more flexibility in situations where a data source (such as a SharePoint site) doesn?t map directly to a specific custodian. When you add a data source to a case, it?s indexed and can be quickly searched when collecting data for a case. We???re launching a new feature that lets eDiscovery admins add data sources to a case (and place them on hold) without having to associate a data source with a custodian. This provides more flexibility in situations where a data source (such as a SharePoint site) doesn???t map directly to a specific custodian. When you add a data source to a case, it???s indexed and can be quickly searched when collecting data for a case. 05/31/2020
64092 Azure Active Directory: Enabling basic formatting on the sign-in page text component in Company Branding Today, the sign-in page text component of Company Branding only supports plaintext. We?re updating the Company Branding functionality feature on the Azure AD/Microsoft 365 login experience to allow adding hyperlinks and simple formatting (bolding, underline and italics). Today, the sign-in page text component of Company Branding only supports plaintext. We???re updating the Company Branding functionality feature on the Azure AD/Microsoft 365 login experience to allow adding hyperlinks and simple formatting (bolding, underline and italics). 05/31/2020
64160 Microsoft Lists - home page - built on SharePoint The Microsoft Lists home page is your home for all your lists across Microsoft 365. You can start a list easily from scratch or with ready-made templates. Create new lists and access ones recommended to you, plus see all your favorited and recent lists ? on the web. People will see the new Lists app icon in the Microsoft 365 app launcher that will then take them to the Microsoft Lists home page. The Microsoft Lists home page is your home for all your lists across Microsoft 365. You can start a list easily from scratch or with ready-made templates. Create new lists and access ones recommended to you, plus see all your favorited and recent lists ??? on the web. People will see the new Lists app icon in the Microsoft 365 app launcher that will then take them to the Microsoft Lists home page. 06/30/2020
64171 SharePoint lists and libraries - Create all column types directly within Quick Edit Users will now have the ability to create all column types directly from Quick Edit. We are replacing the legacy column creation in Quick Edit with the modern column creation. users will also be able to Edit their columns? settings directly in Quick Edit. For more details on the modern column creation and column settings visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-column-in-a-sharepoint-list-or-library-2b0361ae-1bd3-41a3-8329-269e5f81cfa2 Users will now have the ability to create all column types directly from Quick Edit. We are replacing the legacy column creation in Quick Edit with the modern column creation. users will also be able to Edit their columns??? settings directly in Quick Edit. For more details on the modern column creation and column settings visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-column-in-a-sharepoint-list-or-library-2b0361ae-1bd3-41a3-8329-269e5f81cfa2 06/30/2020
64187 Insider Risk Management solution available for Government clouds The following Insider Risk Management features will be rolling out to Government clouds:?Office indicators (Teams, SharePoint sites, email messaging) ? Used to determine a risk score for a user;?Data theft by departing users and general data leaks policies ? Used to define risk activities that you want to detect and investigate;?Ability to access and investigate insider risk management alerts;?Ability to investigate insider risk management cases with content explorer;?Ability to action on insider risk management cases with notice templates and escalate for investigation for Advanced eDiscover The following Insider Risk Management features will be rolling out to Government clouds:??Office indicators (Teams, SharePoint sites, email messaging) ??? Used to determine a risk score for a user;??Data theft by departing users and general data leaks policies ??? Used to define risk activities that you want to detect and investigate;??Ability to access and investigate insider risk management alerts;??Ability to investigate insider risk management cases with content explorer;??Ability to action on insider risk management cases with notice templates and escalate for investigation for Advanced eDiscover 10/31/2020
64190 Microsoft Teams for Firstline Worker - Shifts in GCC Microsoft Teams: ?Shifts (1st party schedule management app within Teams) is available for GCC. Microsoft Teams: ??Shifts (1st party schedule management app within Teams) is available for GCC. 05/31/2020
64224 Microsoft Edge v.83: Updates will now roll out gradually Going forward, updates for Microsoft Edge will be rolled out?to our?users gradually over a period of a few days. This allows us to protect more of you from accidental buggy updates, thereby improving your experience. As a user?you will continue to get seamless auto-updates. If you are an enterprise that isn't?enrolled for?auto-updates you will not be impacted by this change. Going forward, updates for Microsoft Edge will be rolled out??to our??users gradually over a period of a few days. This allows us to protect more of you from accidental buggy updates, thereby improving your experience. As a user??you will continue to get seamless auto-updates. If you are an enterprise that isn't??enrolled for??auto-updates you will not be impacted by this change. 05/31/2020
64232 SharePoint lists - Create a new list item via a form in Quick Edit Users will see the ?New? button on their command bar in lists when they are in Quick Edit to create new items via the default form. Users will see the ???New??? button on their command bar in lists when they are in Quick Edit to create new items via the default form. 06/30/2020
64301 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. 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. 08/31/2020
64337 Office What's New management card available for Microsoft 365 admin center Global or Office Apps administrators can select which new items to display in their end-users' Office desktop applications' ?What's New? section of Help. The Office What's New Management card will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. Global or Office Apps administrators can select which new items to display in their end-users' Office desktop applications' ???What's New??? section of Help. The Office What's New Management card will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. 05/31/2020
64478 Microsoft 365 Admin center: "Integrated apps" in the Microsoft 365 admin center Settings page changed to "User consent to apps" We?re changing the name for the ?Integrated apps? setting on the Settings Org settings page in the Services tab to better reflect what policies admins can manage in the setting. We???re changing the name for the ???Integrated apps??? setting on the Settings Org settings page in the Services tab to better reflect what policies admins can manage in the setting. 05/31/2020
64479 Microsoft 365 Groups can now be shown or hidden in Outlook and the Address Book using Microsoft Graph Microsoft 365 Groups now supports more flexible methods of hiding and showing groups in any Outlook client or the address book. Two new properties have been introduced to the Group Resource Type in Microsoft Graph: hideFromOutlookClients and hideFromAddressLists. ??The default value for both properties is false, and they are only retrieved when using $select. ?Setting the hideFromOutlookClients property to True will prevent the group from showing in the Outlook left-hand navigation. The group name won't resolve during the creation of a new message in Outlook. Additionally, the hideFromAddressLists property will also be set to True to prevent the group from showing in the Global Address List (GAL). If hideFromOutlookClients is changed to False, hideFromAddressLists will also be changed to False. ?Setting hideFromAddressLists by itself will control whether the group is hidden or shown in the Global Address List (GAL), but will have no impact on whether the group shows in the Outlook left-hand navigation or resolves during the creation of a new message. Changing the value of hideFromAddressLists will not change the value of hideFromOutlookClients. Microsoft 365 Groups now supports more flexible methods of hiding and showing groups in any Outlook client or the address book. Two new properties have been introduced to the Group Resource Type in Microsoft Graph: hideFromOutlookClients and hideFromAddressLists. ????The default value for both properties is false, and they are only retrieved when using $select. ??Setting the hideFromOutlookClients property to True will prevent the group from showing in the Outlook left-hand navigation. The group name won't resolve during the creation of a new message in Outlook. Additionally, the hideFromAddressLists property will also be set to True to prevent the group from showing in the Global Address List (GAL). If hideFromOutlookClients is changed to False, hideFromAddressLists will also be changed to False. ??Setting hideFromAddressLists by itself will control whether the group is hidden or shown in the Global Address List (GAL), but will have no impact on whether the group shows in the Outlook left-hand navigation or resolves during the creation of a new message. Changing the value of hideFromAddressLists will not change the value of hideFromOutlookClients. 05/31/2020
64570 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Detonation details We?re working to reveal more of the details that led to a malicious verdict when URLs or files are detonated in Office 365 ATP. In addition to the detonation chain (the series of detonations that were necessary to reach a verdict for this entity), we?ll also share a detonation summary, with details such as detonation time range, verdict of the file or URL, related entities (other entities called or used during the detonation), screenshots, and more. We???re working to reveal more of the details that led to a malicious verdict when URLs or files are detonated in Office 365 ATP. In addition to the detonation chain (the series of detonations that were necessary to reach a verdict for this entity), we???ll also share a detonation summary, with details such as detonation time range, verdict of the file or URL, related entities (other entities called or used during the detonation), screenshots, and more. 11/30/2020
64678 Safe Documents is available worldwide With Safe Documents, we?re bringing the power of the Intelligent Security Graph down to the desktop to verify that documents are safe at the endpoint itself. Although Protected View helps secure documents originating outside the organization, too often users would exit this sandbox without great consideration and leave their networks vulnerable. Bringing a minimal trust approach to the Office 365 ProPlus clients, Safe Documents automatically checks the document against known risks and threat profiles before allowing to open. Users are not asked to decide on their own whether a document can be trusted; they can simply focus on the work to be done. This seamless connection between the desktop and the cloud both simplifies the user workflow and helps to keep the network more secure. And with every malicious attack contained, the entire Intelligent Security Graph becomes stronger, benefiting everyone. With Safe Documents, we???re bringing the power of the Intelligent Security Graph down to the desktop to verify that documents are safe at the endpoint itself. Although Protected View helps secure documents originating outside the organization, too often users would exit this sandbox without great consideration and leave their networks vulnerable. Bringing a minimal trust approach to the Office 365 ProPlus clients, Safe Documents automatically checks the document against known risks and threat profiles before allowing to open. Users are not asked to decide on their own whether a document can be trusted; they can simply focus on the work to be done. This seamless connection between the desktop and the cloud both simplifies the user workflow and helps to keep the network more secure. And with every malicious attack contained, the entire Intelligent Security Graph becomes stronger, benefiting everyone. 05/31/2020
64867 SharePoint lists and libraries - Fixed row height in Quick Edit When in Quick Edit, you will see a new layout option ?Fixed Height? within the view drop-down menu. This layout will adjust the height of all rows in the list or library to the same height to optimize the vertical spacing. When in Quick Edit, you will see a new layout option ???Fixed Height??? within the view drop-down menu. This layout will adjust the height of all rows in the list or library to the same height to optimize the vertical spacing. 08/31/2020
64871 Microsoft Lists - visual updates for Quick Edit When in Quick Edit, we are introducing a number of new and refined user interface updates. You'll see new grid lines, an improved on-hover experience when using your mouse around the grid, themed color bars on the side of list items - including error messaging, a ?Create New Item? button at the bottom of quick edit for creating new items inline, and updated column header drop-downs. When in Quick Edit, we are introducing a number of new and refined user interface updates. You'll see new grid lines, an improved on-hover experience when using your mouse around the grid, themed color bars on the side of list items - including error messaging, a ???Create New Item??? button at the bottom of quick edit for creating new items inline, and updated column header drop-downs. 08/31/2020
64872 SharePoint lists and libraries - Improved Image columns Upload a new image ? including mobile camera support. You can add a new Image column to lists and libraries. When creating or editing items in that list or library, you can upload an image for that list item of file. Upload a new image ??? including mobile camera support. You can add a new Image column to lists and libraries. When creating or editing items in that list or library, you can upload an image for that list item of file. 09/30/2020
64906 Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage Report in DoD tenants A set of usage reports will be available for DoD tenants. ?The reports that will be available are: Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint user activity, Email activity, Email app usage, Office activation report, Mailbox usage report, OneDrive for Business user activity report, Microsoft Teams user activity report, Microsoft Teams device usage report, Microsoft 365 active users report. A set of usage reports will be available for DoD tenants. ??The reports that will be available are: Microsoft 365 Groups, SharePoint user activity, Email activity, Email app usage, Office activation report, Mailbox usage report, OneDrive for Business user activity report, Microsoft Teams user activity report, Microsoft Teams device usage report, Microsoft 365 active users report. 06/30/2020
64912 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Enhancements to the Threat Protection Status Report The additions to the Threat Protection Status Report will ?help educate customers about the effect their configurations have on their security posture. We're adding an Override Allows view on the Threat Protection Status report to show customers threats that were allowed in due to configurations they've made, allowing customers to evaluate the effectiveness of their configuration and address any unintentional gaps in their protection. The additions to the Threat Protection Status Report will ??help educate customers about the effect their configurations have on their security posture. We're adding an Override Allows view on the Threat Protection Status report to show customers threats that were allowed in due to configurations they've made, allowing customers to evaluate the effectiveness of their configuration and address any unintentional gaps in their protection. 09/30/2020
65072 SharePoint: SharePoint spaces 360? image annotations and tours 360? tour web part in SharePoint spaces allows creation of immersive virtual tours for SharePoint sites. 360?? tour web part in SharePoint spaces allows creation of immersive virtual tours for SharePoint sites. 06/30/2020
65207 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. 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. 08/31/2020
65351 OneDrive: OneDrive Sync Help Pane on Mac Users will be able to getHelp and Troubleshooting content within Sync Client. To open OneDrive HelpPane the user will need to open the Activity Center, then through the ?Help& Settings? menu option select ?Get Help?. ForOneDrive for business, tenant admins have control over enabling or disabling the option to contact Microsoft Support by setting the user preferences on their Mac machines. Users will be able to getHelp and Troubleshooting content within Sync Client. To open OneDrive HelpPane the user will need to open the Activity Center, then through the ???Help& Settings??? menu option select ???Get Help???. ForOneDrive for business, tenant admins have control over enabling or disabling the option to contact Microsoft Support by setting the user preferences on their Mac machines. 06/30/2020
65385 Microsoft Planner: Tasks for Information Workers in Teams Tasks for Information Workers in Teams?Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you?re on desktop or mobile. Tasks for Information Workers in Teams???Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you???re on desktop or mobile. 06/30/2020
65420 Access: SQL Date & Time Extended Data Type Integration To enhance syntax compatibility with SQL, and to increase the accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates/times, we are implementing a new ?Date & Time Extended? data type into Access. This additional date & time type is directly compatible with SQL?s DateTime2 data type, and it will include a larger date range (0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31), and higher-specified time precision (nanoseconds). The current DateTime data type will continue to operate as-is. To enhance syntax compatibility with SQL, and to increase the accuracy and level of detail in records that include dates/times, we are implementing a new ???Date & Time Extended??? data type into Access. This additional date & time type is directly compatible with SQL???s DateTime2 data type, and it will include a larger date range (0001-01-01 through 9999-12-31), and higher-specified time precision (nanoseconds). The current DateTime data type will continue to operate as-is. 10/31/2020
65534 Yammer: Change a regular conversation post into a question Community managers can turn a regular conversation into a question, if the person creating the post didn?t use the Question type when creating it. This can be helpful when you want to use the question and answer features for this post, such as marking a best answer and enabling people to view this in unanswered questions if people haven?t responded. Community managers can turn a regular conversation into a question, if the person creating the post didn???t use the Question type when creating it. This can be helpful when you want to use the question and answer features for this post, such as marking a best answer and enabling people to view this in unanswered questions if people haven???t responded. 06/30/2020
65588 Word: Transcription in Word for the web with automatically individualized speakers Transcription now separates out speakers as ?Speaker 1?, ?Speaker 2?, etc.! Whether you are a researcher, reporter, lawyer, teacher or anyone else who records and transcribes audio, you know how much time and effort it takes. Transcription in Word for the web enables you to easily record audio and transcribe directly in Word for the web. Transcription allows you to playback timestamped audio and you can quickly pull the whole transcript or specific quotes into your Word document. Transcription now separates out speakers as ???Speaker 1???, ???Speaker 2???, etc.! Whether you are a researcher, reporter, lawyer, teacher or anyone else who records and transcribes audio, you know how much time and effort it takes. Transcription in Word for the web enables you to easily record audio and transcribe directly in Word for the web. Transcription allows you to playback timestamped audio and you can quickly pull the whole transcript or specific quotes into your Word document. 07/31/2020
65645 Outlook for Mac - book a physical workspace You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in ?a way similar to conference room booking. You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in ??a way similar to conference room booking. 06/30/2020
65646 Outlook on the web - book a physical workspace You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in ?a way similar to conference room booking. You will be able to use your Calendar in Outlook to reserve a physical workspace at your office location in ??a way similar to conference room booking. 06/30/2020
65912 OneDrive: Mute comment notifications We?re adding the option to turn off comment notifications for individual files. We???re adding the option to turn off comment notifications for individual files. 08/31/2020
65942 Microsoft Teams - Together mode Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you?re sitting in the same room with everyone else. Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you???re sitting in the same room with everyone else. 09/30/2020
65949 Microsoft Teams - Live Captions with speaker attribution Teams already provides live captions as a way to follow along with what is being said in the meeting, we?re also adding speaker attribution so captions will specify who is speaking. Teams already provides live captions as a way to follow along with what is being said in the meeting, we???re also adding speaker attribution so captions will specify who is speaking. 09/30/2020
65951 Microsoft Teams - Large meeting support Hold interactive meetings with more attendees?up to 1,000. Hold interactive meetings with more attendees???up to 1,000. 11/30/2020
65953 Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Whiteboard updates Whiteboard in Teams will soon be updated with new features including sticky notes, pen and ink, and drag and drop capabilities. These features enable team members who don?t have access to a touchscreen or Surface Hub to participate in whiteboarding sessions during Teams meetings Whiteboard in Teams will soon be updated with new features including sticky notes, pen and ink, and drag and drop capabilities. These features enable team members who don???t have access to a touchscreen or Surface Hub to participate in whiteboarding sessions during Teams meetings 09/30/2020
65963 Microsoft Teams: Coordinated Meetings with Surface Hub and Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows Using any one of our meeting join capabilities, both devices join the meeting simultaneously. During the meeting, users can maximize screen real estate by using the front of room displays to show attendees in the meeting gallery, while the Surface Hub is used to show content or to conduct a collaborative whiteboarding session.? While one device manages the audio and video, the other joins automatically muted to avoid any distracting audio feedback or howling. Using any one of our meeting join capabilities, both devices join the meeting simultaneously. During the meeting, users can maximize screen real estate by using the front of room displays to show attendees in the meeting gallery, while the Surface Hub is used to show content or to conduct a collaborative whiteboarding session.?? While one device manages the audio and video, the other joins automatically muted to avoid any distracting audio feedback or howling. 07/31/2020
65968 Microsoft Planner: Copy a plan within an existing Group or Teams You will be able to select an existing group or team that you?d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan. You will be able to select an existing group or team that you???d like to copy an existing plan into. You will also be able to select what should be copied over from the original plan. 06/30/2020
66151 Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts Adding the ability to collapse pinned posts in Yammer. Users can expand the conversations at any time.?When viewing a pinned post in a community, the conversation will be collapsed after the newest activity on it has been seen. Users can expand the conversations at any time. When viewing a pinned post in an event page, the conversation will be collapsed by default to all for new comments in the event feed to be displayed. Adding the ability to collapse pinned posts in Yammer. Users can expand the conversations at any time.??When viewing a pinned post in a community, the conversation will be collapsed after the newest activity on it has been seen. Users can expand the conversations at any time. When viewing a pinned post in an event page, the conversation will be collapsed by default to all for new comments in the event feed to be displayed. 11/30/2020
66156 AIP scanner for on-premises available for DoD Azure Information Protection: Azure Information Protection Scanner helps you manage and protect your on-premises data. The scanner can be configured to periodically scan your on premises repositories such as File Servers and on-premises SharePoint servers to discover, label and protect sensitive data based on company policies. This is particularly important in scenarios where you?re planning data migration from on-premises to cloud storage or working towards meeting regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR. Azure Information Protection: Azure Information Protection Scanner helps you manage and protect your on-premises data. The scanner can be configured to periodically scan your on premises repositories such as File Servers and on-premises SharePoint servers to discover, label and protect sensitive data based on company policies. This is particularly important in scenarios where you???re planning data migration from on-premises to cloud storage or working towards meeting regulatory and compliance requirements such as GDPR. 08/31/2020
66158 AIP Unified Labeling client for Windows available for Government clouds (DoD) The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client for Windows is a downloadable client for organizations that use sensitivity labels to classify and protect documents and emails. This client also has a viewer for organizations that don?t have their own information protection infrastructure but want to consume content that has been protected by other organizations that use a Rights Management service from Microsoft. The Azure Information Protection unified labeling client for Windows is a downloadable client for organizations that use sensitivity labels to classify and protect documents and emails. This client also has a viewer for organizations that don???t have their own information protection infrastructure but want to consume content that has been protected by other organizations that use a Rights Management service from Microsoft. 08/31/2020
66163 Microsoft Teams: Updates to Teams usage reports in the in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center and the Teams Admin Center Usage reports in the Microsoft 365 Center and Teams Admin Center will be updated to align with one another and ensure they are consistent with how Teams ?active user? is already defined in Microsoft?s financial reporting and public disclosures. IN THE MICROSOFT 365 ADMIN CENTER:?The Teams card on the usage reports home page will be updated to show calls and meetings data;?New columns will be added to the user details table to the Teams User activity report;?New fields will be added to the existing Graph APIs and data in the API will reflect the definition of active users;?The Office 365 Active User and Microsoft 365 Apps usage report will have updated data for Teams based on the updated definition. IN THE TEAMS ADMIN CENTER:?Renaming and adding fields in the usage reports. Usage reports in the Microsoft 365 Center and Teams Admin Center will be updated to align with one another and ensure they are consistent with how Teams ???active user??? is already defined in Microsoft???s financial reporting and public disclosures. IN THE MICROSOFT 365 ADMIN CENTER:??The Teams card on the usage reports home page will be updated to show calls and meetings data;??New columns will be added to the user details table to the Teams User activity report;??New fields will be added to the existing Graph APIs and data in the API will reflect the definition of active users;??The Office 365 Active User and Microsoft 365 Apps usage report will have updated data for Teams based on the updated definition. IN THE TEAMS ADMIN CENTER:??Renaming and adding fields in the usage reports. 08/31/2020
66184 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. 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. 07/31/2020
66185 Advanced eDiscovery: Supporting linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online (modern attachments) To help streamline discovery of linked content, Advanced eDiscovery natively groups linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online in the same family as the original Outlook email or Teams and Yammer chat message?streamlining the process of collecting, reviewing, and exporting the related content without additional configuration. To help streamline discovery of linked content, Advanced eDiscovery natively groups linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online in the same family as the original Outlook email or Teams and Yammer chat message???streamlining the process of collecting, reviewing, and exporting the related content without additional configuration. 08/31/2020
66204 OneNote: OneNote Feed in OneNote Online, OneNote 2016 and OneNote for Windows 10 The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in OneNote and Outlook including your Sticky Notes, recent OneNote pages, and Samsung Notes for Samsung users who are syncing to OneNote. You can easily share your notes by dragging and dropping notes into OneNote pages or your emails. Have a thought you want to capture? You can create a new Sticky Note right in your OneNote feed.?The OneNote feed is available in Outlook.com, Outlook on the web, OneNote, OneNote for the web, and OneNote for Windows 10. The OneNote feed allows you to easily access your notes in OneNote and Outlook including your Sticky Notes, recent OneNote pages, and Samsung Notes for Samsung users who are syncing to OneNote. You can easily share your notes by dragging and dropping notes into OneNote pages or your emails. Have a thought you want to capture? You can create a new Sticky Note right in your OneNote feed.??The OneNote feed is available in Outlook.com, Outlook on the web, OneNote, OneNote for the web, and OneNote for Windows 10. 09/30/2020
66207 Azure Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Government F3 GCC High and DOD environments are now backfilled with Azure Information Protection P1 This announcement is to confirm that starting 9/1/2020 we?re launching Azure Information Protection (AIP P1) in Microsoft 365 Government F3 SKUs for the GCC High and DoD environments. Azure Information Protection P1 cloud-based solution that enables organizations to classify and protect documents and emails by applying labels. For more information on how to take leverage these capabilities please reference our product documentation here. This announcement is to confirm that starting 9/1/2020 we???re launching Azure Information Protection (AIP P1) in Microsoft 365 Government F3 SKUs for the GCC High and DoD environments. Azure Information Protection P1 cloud-based solution that enables organizations to classify and protect documents and emails by applying labels. For more information on how to take leverage these capabilities please reference our product documentation here. 09/30/2020
66326 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. In Edge 85, you???ll be able send content to Word, Excel, and OneNote on a Mac, for both MSA and AAD. 06/30/2020
66328 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. 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. 06/30/2020
66392 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. 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. 06/30/2020
66407 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Oakdale in Teams Select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions that include Power Apps and Power Automate are expanding with the introduction of Microsoft Project Oakdale? a built-in, flexible datastore supporting relational, image and file data with a one-click experience for deploying solutions natively in Teams. With Project Oakdale, Power Apps capabilities included in select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses will expand to provide an integrated app studio for users to build and deploy custom apps within Teams. Similarly, Power Virtual Agents capabilities are being introduced to Teams. Users will now be able to build and deploy custom chatbots in Project Oakdale environments directly within Teams. New Power Automate capabilities will also be available in Teams, including the ability to trigger flows directly from Teams messages. Select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscriptions that include Power Apps and Power Automate are expanding with the introduction of Microsoft Project Oakdale??? a built-in, flexible datastore supporting relational, image and file data with a one-click experience for deploying solutions natively in Teams. With Project Oakdale, Power Apps capabilities included in select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 licenses will expand to provide an integrated app studio for users to build and deploy custom apps within Teams. Similarly, Power Virtual Agents capabilities are being introduced to Teams. Users will now be able to build and deploy custom chatbots in Project Oakdale environments directly within Teams. New Power Automate capabilities will also be available in Teams, including the ability to trigger flows directly from Teams messages. 08/31/2020
66569 Microsoft Teams: Early Class Access API This API provides administrators with:1) Control to decide whether new class teams will be ?locked? for early educator access or immediately available for student access. 2.) Visibility into which newly-created classes have or have not been activated by educators.3.) The ability to activate classes on behalf of their educators. This API provides administrators with:1) Control to decide whether new class teams will be ???locked??? for early educator access or immediately available for student access. 2.) Visibility into which newly-created classes have or have not been activated by educators.3.) The ability to activate classes on behalf of their educators. 07/31/2020
66570 Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led team creation This feature allows admins to create Office365 groups for classes based on the student and teacher roster information but gives educators the choice of whether or not they want a team to be created for their class. This grants them more flexibility and prevents class teams from being automatically created and turned on if they aren?t needed. This feature allows admins to create Office365 groups for classes based on the student and teacher roster information but gives educators the choice of whether or not they want a team to be created for their class. This grants them more flexibility and prevents class teams from being automatically created and turned on if they aren???t needed. 07/31/2020
66580 Microsoft Teams: 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. 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. 08/31/2020
66584 Microsoft Teams: SharePoint home site app With the new home site app, you can bring your intranet directly into Teams. The app?s icon and name match your company brand and enable employees to discover, navigate and consume your top sites in Teams. The home site app gives employees a window into the rest of the company intranet by using the same global navigation as the SharePoint app bar. With the new home site app, you can bring your intranet directly into Teams. The app???s icon and name match your company brand and enable employees to discover, navigate and consume your top sites in Teams. The home site app gives employees a window into the rest of the company intranet by using the same global navigation as the SharePoint app bar. 02/28/2021
66716 Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you?re sitting in the same room with everyone else. Together mode uses of AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you???re sitting in the same room with everyone else. 10/31/2020
66772 Whiteboard: Email summary in Windows 10 Email a summary of your board?to collaborators. The summary is automatically generated based on any templates?in?your whiteboard. Email a summary of your board??to collaborators. The summary is automatically generated based on any templates??in??your whiteboard. 06/30/2020
67096 Exchange: Block sending to a Distribution Group when it?s on the BCC line The high message traffic on some groups can lead to Inbox clutter and noise, especially when many members use Reply All to respond on the thread. To reduce the noise many people will create an Inbox Rule to move incoming group messages to a specific folder. Some well-intended senders will put the group on the Bcc line so recipients can?t Reply All to the whole group. But Inbox Rules doesn?t evaluate any recipient on the Bcc line, so doing so effectively breaks the rule so the message ends up in the Inbox, thus contributing to the inbox clutter the user was trying to avoid. When this feature ships we?ll enable the ability for group and distribution list owners and admins to block sending to a group if the group is put on the Bcc line. If a user puts such a group on the Bcc line and sends the message, it?ll be rejected with a non-delivery report (NDR) saying Bcc?ing this group isn?t allowed. The high message traffic on some groups can lead to Inbox clutter and noise, especially when many members use Reply All to respond on the thread. To reduce the noise many people will create an Inbox Rule to move incoming group messages to a specific folder. Some well-intended senders will put the group on the Bcc line so recipients can???t Reply All to the whole group. But Inbox Rules doesn???t evaluate any recipient on the Bcc line, so doing so effectively breaks the rule so the message ends up in the Inbox, thus contributing to the inbox clutter the user was trying to avoid. When this feature ships we???ll enable the ability for group and distribution list owners and admins to block sending to a group if the group is put on the Bcc line. If a user puts such a group on the Bcc line and sends the message, it???ll be rejected with a non-delivery report (NDR) saying Bcc???ing this group isn???t allowed. 10/31/2020
67099 Forms: Print a blank Form This new feature allows form?designer to print a blank form/quiz to responder, who cannot fill the online form, to finish the form. This new feature allows form??designer to print a blank form/quiz to responder, who cannot fill the online form, to finish the form. 08/31/2020
67101 Office 365: Application Guard for Office Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users? computer and data. To help protect your users, Office can open files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard, a secure container that's isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization. When Office opens files in Application Guard, users can securely read, edit, print, and save those files without having to re-open files outside the container. This functionality is available as a Preview to organizations with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 Security license or Users (in the above enterprise) who use Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Beta Channel Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users??? computer and data. To help protect your users, Office can open files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard, a secure container that's isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization. When Office opens files in Application Guard, users can securely read, edit, print, and save those files without having to re-open files outside the container. This functionality is available as a Preview to organizations with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 Security license or Users (in the above enterprise) who use Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Beta Channel 11/30/2020
67111 Microsoft Teams: Organizational branding for line-of-business Teams app catalog IT Admins will be able to customize their Teams line-of-business app catalog using their organization's branding. This will enhance?the?user experience for end users and increase organic discovery and use of an organization's line-of-business apps. IT Admins will be able to customize their Teams line-of-business app catalog using their organization's branding. This will enhance??the??user experience for end users and increase organic discovery and use of an organization's line-of-business apps. 09/30/2020
67130 Microsoft 365 admin center: New Microsoft 365 admin center multi-tenant management experiences These?experiences?are for Microsoft 365 admins that manage multiple tenants. They include a tenant switcher, assessing the health and status of multiple tenants, performing repetitive tasks against multiple tenants, and understanding configuration differences between multiple tenants. These??experiences??are for Microsoft 365 admins that manage multiple tenants. They include a tenant switcher, assessing the health and status of multiple tenants, performing repetitive tasks against multiple tenants, and understanding configuration differences between multiple tenants. 08/31/2020
67131 SharePoint: Organization Chart Webpart This webpart allows?page?authors to generate an organization chart based off of an individual. The page author will have the option to determine how many levels up this org chart goes. This webpart allows??page??authors to generate an organization chart based off of an individual. The page author will have the option to determine how many levels up this org chart goes. 09/30/2020
67137 SharePoint: new create list experience With the introduction of Microsoft Lists, we introduced a new user interface when creating lists from the Lists home page and within Teams. You'll now see this new experience when creating a new list from within a SharePoint site. Click New List and you?ll see the updated experience to create lists. With the introduction of Microsoft Lists, we introduced a new user interface when creating lists from the Lists home page and within Teams. You'll now see this new experience when creating a new list from within a SharePoint site. Click New List and you???ll see the updated experience to create lists. 09/30/2020
67141 Microsoft Teams: spotlight an individual video participant for all attendees in a Teams meeting for GCC and GCC High We are delivering the?ability?for presenters to lock on an individual video feed for all attendees to see during a Teams meeting. Once selected, the individual identified as the spotlight will be the main video shown to all participants. This applies to PC, Mac, mobile, and Microsoft Teams room systems. We are delivering the??ability??for presenters to lock on an individual video feed for all attendees to see during a Teams meeting. Once selected, the individual identified as the spotlight will be the main video shown to all participants. This applies to PC, Mac, mobile, and Microsoft Teams room systems. 09/30/2020
67146 SharePoint: Text web parts automatically added to new sections in modern pages We'll now add test web?parts?automatically for you when you add new sections to a modern page. We'll now add test web??parts??automatically for you when you add new sections to a modern page. 10/31/2020
67147 SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages You?ll have the ability to show page sections in an accordion view (collapsed or expanded) or as tabs. The accordion view will be collapsed by default, but can be set to show expanded. You???ll have the ability to show page sections in an accordion view (collapsed or expanded) or as tabs. The accordion view will be collapsed by default, but can be set to show expanded. 10/31/2020
67149 Microsoft Project: Export to Excel Export?your project grid into an Excel spreadsheet. Share this information with colleagues so you can analyze your Project data. Export??your project grid into an Excel spreadsheet. Share this information with colleagues so you can analyze your Project data. 11/30/2020
67153 Microsoft 365 admin center: Network Connectivity in the Microsoft 365 admin center The Network Connectivity category within Admin Center allows you to see a network assessment that evaluates the impact of your network design on Microsoft 365 user experience in a 0 ? 100 scale. This is calculated based on network attributes which have been proven through support cases to affect user experience the most. The network assessment is best evaluated at a specific office location, but an organization wide network assessment is also provided. In addition, specific network insights are provided which identify network design improvements that could be made to align with the published network connectivity principles and improve network performance. The Network Connectivity category within Admin Center allows you to see a network assessment that evaluates the impact of your network design on Microsoft 365 user experience in a 0 ??? 100 scale. This is calculated based on network attributes which have been proven through support cases to affect user experience the most. The network assessment is best evaluated at a specific office location, but an organization wide network assessment is also provided. In addition, specific network insights are provided which identify network design improvements that could be made to align with the published network connectivity principles and improve network performance. 03/31/2021
67157 Forms: Specific User Sharing for Response Collection With this?update, Microsoft Forms owners will now be able to send out a survey to collect responses from specific users or security groups. (You now have the new option in the "Send to Collect Responses" dropdown menu to select that "Specific people in my organization can respond.") With this??update, Microsoft Forms owners will now be able to send out a survey to collect responses from specific users or security groups. (You now have the new option in the "Send to Collect Responses" dropdown menu to select that "Specific people in my organization can respond.") 10/31/2020
67161 Exchange: Microsoft 365 cross-tenant SMTP domain sharing in private preview We are?adding?the ability for an SMTP domain to be shared across multiple Exchange Online tenants. This is particularly beneficial for organizations that undergo mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as it allows users in more than one tenant to to receive email for the same email domain. We are??adding??the ability for an SMTP domain to be shared across multiple Exchange Online tenants. This is particularly beneficial for organizations that undergo mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as it allows users in more than one tenant to to receive email for the same email domain. 12/31/2020
67163 One Drive: Create Shared Library We?re updating the existing experience of creating new Shared Libraries from OneDrive on the web to make it simpler and easier to create collaborative spaces. We???re updating the existing experience of creating new Shared Libraries from OneDrive on the web to make it simpler and easier to create collaborative spaces. 10/31/2020
67164 SharePoint: new experience to add content types to lists and libraries Custom content?types that are available to your SharePoint sites can easily be added to lists & libraries that allow multiple content types. In those SharePoint lists & libraries that allow multiple content types, a new ?Content type? option will be available in the ?Add column? menu. Custom content??types that are available to your SharePoint sites can easily be added to lists & libraries that allow multiple content types. In those SharePoint lists & libraries that allow multiple content types, a new ???Content type??? option will be available in the ???Add column??? menu. 10/31/2020
67166 OneDrive: Sharing links that block download for video files {This item is being removed. We are working refining the feature and date, and will provide a new roadmap item in the future} Block Download?support?is now extended for video files. {This item is being removed. We are working refining the feature and date, and will provide a new roadmap item in the future} Block Download??support??is now extended for video files. 10/31/2020
67167 MyAnalytics: More granular control to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features Two new PowerShell cmdlets to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features:?Get-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig and?Set-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig.?These new cmdlets will provide more granular control over Privacy Mode and enablement of particular features, Two new PowerShell cmdlets to opt users in or out of MyAnalytics features:??Get-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig and??Set-MyAnalyticsFeatureConfig.??These new cmdlets will provide more granular control over Privacy Mode and enablement of particular features, 10/31/2020
67177 Exchange: SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) Support MTA-STS (RFC8461) helps thwart such attacks by providing a mechanism for setting domain policies that specify whether the receiving domain supports TLS and what to do when TLS can?t be negotiated, for example stop the transmission. MTA-STS (RFC8461) helps thwart such attacks by providing a mechanism for setting domain policies that specify whether the receiving domain supports TLS and what to do when TLS can???t be negotiated, for example stop the transmission. 11/30/2020
68130 Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Translate content during investigation Leverage Microsoft translator in Communication Compliance to automatically translate messages that are not in the investigator?s preferred language. Leverage Microsoft translator in Communication Compliance to automatically translate messages that are not in the investigator???s preferred language. 11/30/2020
68690 Microsoft 365 compliance center: Auto-apply retention labels leveraging document understanding Easily assign a?retention?label created in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to a document understanding model that you created, leveraging the document classification in Project Cortex for dual purposes? business processes and compliance. Easily assign a??retention??label created in the Microsoft 365 compliance center to a document understanding model that you created, leveraging the document classification in Project Cortex for dual purposes??? business processes and compliance. 10/31/2020
68691 Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab page (NTP) integrates productivity with customizable, work relevant feed content. The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable ?My Feed? with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you. The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable ???My Feed??? with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you. 09/30/2020
68694 Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression AI-based, real-time noise suppression, will be added to Microsoft Teams. This feature will automatically remove unwelcome background noise during your meetings. AI-based noise suppression works by analyzing an individual?s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out the noise and retain only the speech signal. This is an update to the existing noise suppression. Users will now have have control over how much noise suppression they want. The ?High? setting is new and will suppress more background noise. AI-based, real-time noise suppression, will be added to Microsoft Teams. This feature will automatically remove unwelcome background noise during your meetings. AI-based noise suppression works by analyzing an individual???s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out the noise and retain only the speech signal. This is an update to the existing noise suppression. Users will now have have control over how much noise suppression they want. The ???High??? setting is new and will suppress more background noise. 10/31/2020
68700 Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for sensitivity labels in Teams and SharePoint sites With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. This new external sharing control is granular. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ?confidential??restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ?general??allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in. With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. This new external sharing control is granular. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ???confidential??????restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ???general??????allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in. 11/30/2020
68713 Microsoft Compliance center: CJK or Double-byte character support for Advanced eDiscovery This update adds?support for adding CJK or Double-byte characters to Advanced eDiscovery review sets. This update adds??support for adding CJK or Double-byte characters to Advanced eDiscovery review sets. 10/31/2020
68714 SharePoint: Microsoft Lists - column settings in Grid view The capabilities?when?in Lists "Grid" view (previously Quick Edit) will now allow people to pin a column to the filter's pane, format the column, show/hide columns, and hide their column(s). You used to have to exit out of Grid edit to accomplish these common tasks. The capabilities??when??in Lists "Grid" view (previously Quick Edit) will now allow people to pin a column to the filter's pane, format the column, show/hide columns, and hide their column(s). You used to have to exit out of Grid edit to accomplish these common tasks. 10/31/2020
68721 Microsoft Teams: Theme and icon updates We're updating the Teams?default?and dark theme background colors and icon set to align with the overall Microsoft 365 design vision. We're updating the Teams??default??and dark theme background colors and icon set to align with the overall Microsoft 365 design vision. 10/31/2020
68727 Microsoft Teams: New Offline Presence Status Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence to ?Offline?. This will allow them to have full access to Teams while signaling to colleagues that they are unavailable. Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence to ???Offline???. This will allow them to have full access to Teams while signaling to colleagues that they are unavailable. 09/30/2020
68732 Microsoft Teams: Customer Key support (Preview) Microsoft?helps?keep Teams data safe by encrypting it while at rest in Microsoft datacenters. Now we are extending this capability to enable?customers to add a layer of encryption using their own keys for Teams, similar to Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive. Microsoft??helps??keep Teams data safe by encrypting it while at rest in Microsoft datacenters. Now we are extending this capability to enable??customers to add a layer of encryption using their own keys for Teams, similar to Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive. 11/30/2020
68735 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams panels This new category of devices can be mounted outside a meeting space to streamline space management, providing users with the ability to view space and meeting details, reserve a space, view upcoming reservations and easily identify current availability status. Users can also view the building floor plan and book another room using the ?Nearby Rooms? feature. This new category of devices can be mounted outside a meeting space to streamline space management, providing users with the ability to view space and meeting details, reserve a space, view upcoming reservations and easily identify current availability status. Users can also view the building floor plan and book another room using the ???Nearby Rooms??? feature. 02/28/2021
68736 Microsoft Teams: Direct guest join for Zoom and WebEx Meetings Now Teams Rooms and Zoom Room devices can connect to each other?s web meeting experience via embedded web technologies. This is intended to reduce the friction you experience when trying to join calls from external partners or clients who may not be using the same meeting service. Now Teams Rooms and Zoom Room devices can connect to each other???s web meeting experience via embedded web technologies. This is intended to reduce the friction you experience when trying to join calls from external partners or clients who may not be using the same meeting service. 09/30/2020
68739 Microsoft Teams: Teams casting for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows For quick ad-hoc sessions that don?t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room running on Windows, and display content from their mobile phone. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365. For quick ad-hoc sessions that don???t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room running on Windows, and display content from their mobile phone. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365. 11/30/2020
68743 Microsoft Teams: Teams casting for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android For quick ad-hoc sessions that don?t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room running on Android, and display content from their mobile phone. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365. For quick ad-hoc sessions that don???t necessarily require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room running on Android, and display content from their mobile phone. Users can broadcast their screen and cast content stored on locally on their device or accessible via Office 365. 11/30/2020
68754 Microsoft Teams: Manage Teams?displays in Team Admin Center We?are?adding?the Teams Display,?one more?device category that?can be now managed within Teams Admin Center. We??are??adding??the Teams Display,??one more??device category that??can be now managed within Teams Admin Center. 10/31/2020
68755 Microsoft Teams: Device management?automatic alerting?in Teams Admin Center Device management?automatic alerting? provides more efficiency in ?identifying?devices?issues by triggering notifications that can be turned into an immediate correction action. Device management??automatic alerting?? provides more efficiency in ??identifying??devices??issues by triggering notifications that can be turned into an immediate correction action. 10/31/2020
68756 Microsoft Teams: Delegate device management admin role?in Teams Admin Center The device?admin role? can?only?view and manage?the?devices section in Teams Admin Center. This will allow?Global?Admins?to restrict and control the permission of managing other Teams Admin Functions. The device??admin role?? can??only??view and manage??the??devices section in Teams Admin Center. This will allow??Global??Admins??to restrict and control the permission of managing other Teams Admin Functions. 08/31/2020
68759 Microsoft Teams: Graph API permissions Administrators will be able to?grant consent to Graph API permissions, on behalf of the entire tenant, they will be able to see granular permissions and provide resource-specific consent, simplifying?app?management procedure all in one place. Administrators will be able to??grant consent to Graph API permissions, on behalf of the entire tenant, they will be able to see granular permissions and provide resource-specific consent, simplifying??app??management procedure all in one place. 08/31/2020
68760 Microsoft Teams: Large event?reporting and analytics improvements?in Teams Admin Center Data management capabilities?for large event?reporting,?such as search, filter, pagination, and exporting?of the data for better analysis. Data management capabilities??for large event??reporting,??such as search, filter, pagination, and exporting??of the data for better analysis. 10/31/2020
68765 Microsoft Teams: Native Teams authentication for PVA bots Maker can customize?bots to provide personal content knowing which user is interacting with the bot. Contextual awareness of user - knows that "John Smith" is asking the question to the bot. Maker can customize??bots to provide personal content knowing which user is interacting with the bot. Contextual awareness of user - knows that "John Smith" is asking the question to the bot. 10/31/2020
68782 Microsoft Search: Personal query history As you start typing in the search box, you will see suggested searches and results based on your previous activity in Microsoft 365 and based on content that?s trending in your organization. Personal query history will show the queries you have previously used. These personal query suggestions are served from your personal search history. Personal query suggestions are a quick way to get back to results you've found before. You just need to remember the beginning of a query, after you've typed just a few characters the query is suggested for you. As you start typing in the search box, you will see suggested searches and results based on your previous activity in Microsoft 365 and based on content that???s trending in your organization. Personal query history will show the queries you have previously used. These personal query suggestions are served from your personal search history. Personal query suggestions are a quick way to get back to results you've found before. You just need to remember the beginning of a query, after you've typed just a few characters the query is suggested for you. 11/30/2020
68801 Microsoft Search: Smart Find (Find-in-Document) in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Search your document like you search the web. We?re utilizing well-established web search technologies, such as query and document understanding, and adding deep learning based natural language models. This allows us to handle a much broader set of search queries beyond ?exact match.? Typos: When there is a misspelling in the query, search can now show related matches. For example, technincian vs. technician. Forms of words: When there are different forms of the word in document and query. For example: tech, technology, technologies?; or USA, U.S.A, United States, United States of America; or newborn, new born, new-born, etc. Synonyms: For example: citation, quotation, quote, reference might be all the candidates for a term that you are searching for inside the document. A multi-word query: A single word query might lead to too many search results. A modern semantic search can often yield better results. For example: as a query of Oil Price, the content having Price of Oil, Prices of the Oil, Cost of Oil can offer related matches from within the document content. Search your document like you search the web. We???re utilizing well-established web search technologies, such as query and document understanding, and adding deep learning based natural language models. This allows us to handle a much broader set of search queries beyond ???exact match.??? Typos: When there is a misspelling in the query, search can now show related matches. For example, technincian vs. technician. Forms of words: When there are different forms of the word in document and query. For example: tech, technology, technologies???; or USA, U.S.A, United States, United States of America; or newborn, new born, new-born, etc. Synonyms: For example: citation, quotation, quote, reference might be all the candidates for a term that you are searching for inside the document. A multi-word query: A single word query might lead to too many search results. A modern semantic search can often yield better results. For example: as a query of Oil Price, the content having Price of Oil, Prices of the Oil, Cost of Oil can offer related matches from within the document content. 11/30/2020
68802 Microsoft Search: Q&A in Microsoft Word With the recent breakthroughs in deep learning techniques, you can now go beyond the common search term-based queries. The result is answers to your questions based on the document content. This opens a whole new way of finding knowledge. When you?re looking at a water quality report, you can answer questions like ?where does the city water originate from? How to reduce the amount of lead in water?? With the recent breakthroughs in deep learning techniques, you can now go beyond the common search term-based queries. The result is answers to your questions based on the document content. This opens a whole new way of finding knowledge. When you???re looking at a water quality report, you can answer questions like ???where does the city water originate from? How to reduce the amount of lead in water???? 11/30/2020
68812 SharePoint admin center - updated homepage dashboard When you first land in the SharePoint admin center, we want it to be both familiar and useful at a glance. The idea is to provide a familiar experience, taking a similar design approach as the Microsoft admin center. You?ll see more and more cards and graphs appear over time ? so you can see insights on files, usage security, recommendations, training and so on. Better see what?s happening, and then take the appropriate action. When you first land in the SharePoint admin center, we want it to be both familiar and useful at a glance. The idea is to provide a familiar experience, taking a similar design approach as the Microsoft admin center. You???ll see more and more cards and graphs appear over time ??? so you can see insights on files, usage security, recommendations, training and so on. Better see what???s happening, and then take the appropriate action. 11/30/2020
68816 SharePoint admin center - Migration Manager: Box migrations (public preview) With our recent Mover acquisition, we are excited to expand our capabilities to allow moving content from third-party cloud storage providers starting with Box.com. When you?re ready to move your content, click on the Migrate tab in the SharePoint admin center to start scan discovery, assessment, and migrate. You'll get detailed reports and the rest in a seamless transition of files and folders to Microsoft 365. With our recent Mover acquisition, we are excited to expand our capabilities to allow moving content from third-party cloud storage providers starting with Box.com. When you???re ready to move your content, click on the Migrate tab in the SharePoint admin center to start scan discovery, assessment, and migrate. You'll get detailed reports and the rest in a seamless transition of files and folders to Microsoft 365. 11/30/2020
68839 Exchange: Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval for Exchange Online We?re introducing the ability for email admins to customize the message expiration timeout interval to less than 24 hours. We???re introducing the ability for email admins to customize the message expiration timeout interval to less than 24 hours. 11/30/2020
68842 OneDrive: iOS - Bookmarks for PDF viewing Users of OneDrive for iOS will be able to Bookmark, or "Tag", PDF pages that they want to come back to later.? Users of OneDrive for iOS will be able to Bookmark, or "Tag", PDF pages that they want to come back to later.?? 10/31/2020
68845 Microsoft Teams: Additional settings for multiple Accounts and Organizations Microsoft Teams: Additional settings for multiple Accounts and Organizations.?We're adding support within Teams desktop to be able to add one personal account, along with one work/school account, change their profile picture, and switch between accounts and orgs through Settings. Microsoft Teams: Additional settings for multiple Accounts and Organizations.??We're adding support within Teams desktop to be able to add one personal account, along with one work/school account, change their profile picture, and switch between accounts and orgs through Settings. 10/31/2020
68847 Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High and DoD Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you?re sitting in the same room with everyone else. Together mode uses AI segmentation technology in meetings to digitally place participants in a shared background, making it feel like you???re sitting in the same room with everyone else. 10/31/2020
68854 Microsoft Compliance Center: Microsoft 365 compliance center - Audit retention dashboard (preview) Create and?manage?audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Create and??manage??audit log retention policies within the new Audit retention dashboard in the Microsoft 365 compliance center. 11/30/2020
68855 OneDrive: iOS - Page rotation for PDF viewing You can now?rotate?page orientation while viewing PDF documents in OneDrive. Any changes made are saved to OneDrive. You can now??rotate??page orientation while viewing PDF documents in OneDrive. Any changes made are saved to OneDrive. 12/31/2020
68856 Microsoft Forms: Confirm Phishing Option Available for IT Admins When managing Microsoft Forms, IT admins now have two options in response to possible phishing: you can either click ?unblock? or ?confirm phishing?, a new option that is now available. When managing Microsoft Forms, IT admins now have two options in response to possible phishing: you can either click ???unblock??? or ???confirm phishing???, a new option that is now available. 10/31/2020
68862 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Defender for Office 365 - Evaluation Mode We're introducing?Evaluation Mode in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 - the most effective way to evaluate the filtering efficacy of Defender for Office 365 using real-world email in your production environment. The feature can be configured by all customers that have Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes, and provides a report that quantifies the messages that would have been blocked by Defender for Office 365 had the policies taken action. With Evaluation Mode, messages are scanned and evaluated without requiring a change to your MX record. We're introducing??Evaluation Mode in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 - the most effective way to evaluate the filtering efficacy of Defender for Office 365 using real-world email in your production environment. The feature can be configured by all customers that have Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes, and provides a report that quantifies the messages that would have been blocked by Defender for Office 365 had the policies taken action. With Evaluation Mode, messages are scanned and evaluated without requiring a change to your MX record. 11/30/2020
68865 Microsoft Teams: EHR connector for virtual visits in healthcare The Microsoft Teams EHR connector let's patients schedule and join the virtual visit from within their electronic health record (EHR) system?s patient portal. Providers can schedule and launch the visits from within the EHR provider portal. Integration with Epic is currently supported by the Microsoft Teams EHR connector, with other EHR systems coming soon. The Microsoft Teams EHR connector let's patients schedule and join the virtual visit from within their electronic health record (EHR) system???s patient portal. Providers can schedule and launch the visits from within the EHR provider portal. Integration with Epic is currently supported by the Microsoft Teams EHR connector, with other EHR systems coming soon. 11/30/2020
68922 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview) Data at rest encryption for Microsoft 365 provides customer key based encryption across multiple M365 workloads. Tenant administrators can configure a single data encryption policy using customer managed keys and assign it to the tenant. Doing so will start encrypting all new data across the following workloads (and more workloads coming soon) from the point of creation of these policies: "Microsoft Teams Files ? Teams Chat Messages (1:1 chats, group chats, meeting chats and channel conversations)", "Teams Media Messages (images, code snippets, videos, wiki images)", "Teams Chat Notifications" and, "Chat Suggestions by Cortana Exchange Online (includes existing data)" Data at rest encryption for Microsoft 365 provides customer key based encryption across multiple M365 workloads. Tenant administrators can configure a single data encryption policy using customer managed keys and assign it to the tenant. Doing so will start encrypting all new data across the following workloads (and more workloads coming soon) from the point of creation of these policies: "Microsoft Teams Files ?? Teams Chat Messages (1:1 chats, group chats, meeting chats and channel conversations)", "Teams Media Messages (images, code snippets, videos, wiki images)", "Teams Chat Notifications" and, "Chat Suggestions by Cortana Exchange Online (includes existing data)" 11/30/2020
68929 Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Effective Controls for Apps As an Admin, we want to empower you to make informed IT decisions and make you the hero for your organization. Our new features, such as Channel Management, Skip/Rollback, and What?s New in Office, will help you increase your end-users? satisfaction & productivity by easily managing devices on a monthly cadence, and provide you with effective controls and actionable insights. As an Admin, we want to empower you to make informed IT decisions and make you the hero for your organization. Our new features, such as Channel Management, Skip/Rollback, and What???s New in Office, will help you increase your end-users??? satisfaction & productivity by easily managing devices on a monthly cadence, and provide you with effective controls and actionable insights. 12/31/2020
68933 Office Apps: Action Center Conduct quick actions to Office devices such as changing the Office Apps update channel or version. ?You can target a single device or a group of devices via Azure AD groups. Conduct quick actions to Office devices such as changing the Office Apps update channel or version. ??You can target a single device or a group of devices via Azure AD groups. 12/31/2020
68939 Microsoft Teams: New Offline Presence Status for Government clouds Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence to ?Offline?. This will allow them to have full access to Teams while signaling to colleagues that they are unavailable. Teams users will soon have the ability to change their presence to ???Offline???. This will allow them to have full access to Teams while signaling to colleagues that they are unavailable. 11/30/2020
68940 Microsoft Teams: "Only Me" Lobby Admin policy IT Admins can apply a policy that sets the default value for "Who can bypass the meeting lobby" meeting option to ?Only Me,? or any of the other available options. IT Admins can apply a policy that sets the default value for "Who can bypass the meeting lobby" meeting option to ???Only Me,??? or any of the other available options. 08/31/2020
68941 Microsoft Teams: Share System Audio on Mac This will allow Mac desktop users to include audio when sharing their Desktop or Window during a Teams meeting. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user?s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear. This will allow Mac desktop users to include audio when sharing their Desktop or Window during a Teams meeting. Once enabled, any audio that is playing on the user???s machine will be shared in the live event for participants to hear. 10/31/2020
68950 Microsoft Teams: Tasks in Teams in GCC Tasks for Information Workers in Teams?Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you?re on desktop or mobile. Tasks for Information Workers in Teams???Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you???re on desktop or mobile. 12/31/2020
68951 Microsoft Planner: Tasks for Information Workers in Teams in GCC Tasks for Information Workers in Teams?Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you?re on desktop or mobile. Tasks for Information Workers in Teams???Tasks in Teams gives you a new unified view of your personal and team tasks, powered by Planner and To Do. It consolidates your tasks across Microsoft To Do, Planner and Outlook. Smart lists like Assigned to me bring tasks together across different task lists, whether you???re on desktop or mobile. 12/31/2020
69104 Microsoft Edge v. 86: Version Rollback Rollback lets administrators quicker revert to a known working version of Microsoft Edge if there?s an issue in the latest version of Microsoft Edge. Rollback lets administrators quicker revert to a known working version of Microsoft Edge if there???s an issue in the latest version of Microsoft Edge. 09/30/2020
70321 Yammer: Default to the New Yammer experience on web The new default setting shows the opt-in toggle for new Yammer to all users. Global admins and Yammer Verified Network admins of existing networks can still control how your organization rolls out the new Yammer experience under the ?New Yammer? tab in Yammer Admin settings. The new default setting shows the opt-in toggle for new Yammer to all users. Global admins and Yammer Verified Network admins of existing networks can still control how your organization rolls out the new Yammer experience under the ???New Yammer??? tab in Yammer Admin settings. 09/30/2020
71476 Excel: Workbook Link Support in Excel for the Web Workbook link support in now available in Excel for the Web. This feature was previously only supported in Excel for Windows and Mac. (aka ?External Links?) Workbook link support in now available in Excel for the Web. This feature was previously only supported in Excel for Windows and Mac. (aka ???External Links???) 09/30/2020
72354 Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab page (NTP) integrates productivity with customizable, work relevant feed content. The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable ?My Feed? with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you. The new enterprise NTP blends the Office 365 productivity page we offer to users signed in with their work or school account with personalized, work-relevant company & industry feeds, organized in a single page. So not only will you recognize the familiar Office 365 content and Microsoft Search for Business powered by Bing, you can now also easily flip to a customizable ???My Feed??? with content and modules that are relevant to you, your company, or your industry, as well as a selection of other feeds that your organization has made available to you. 09/30/2020

Changed Property: RM Release

RM ID RM Title Old Value New Value check before
62449 Office 365 ATP Request Release workflow November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
62450 Quarantine - Custom Policy and Folder November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
66757 Whiteboard: Additional content types December CY2020 February CY2021 01/31/2021
68745 Microsoft Teams: Support for breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android December CY2020 March CY2021 02/28/2021
68820 Outlook for Mac: Delegation November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68821 Outlook for Mac: Ability to import and save ICS files November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68823 Outlook for Mac: Shared Calendars November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68824 Outlook for Mac: Shared Mailboxes November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68825 Outlook for Mac: End meetings early and start meetings late November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68826 Outlook for Mac: Natural language search November CY2020 October CY2020 09/30/2020
68845 Microsoft Teams: Additional settings for multiple Accounts and Organizations December CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
68696 Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in the Desktop Client for Microsoft Teams November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
65909 OneDrive: Sync admin reports (Public Preview) December CY2020 March CY2021 02/28/2021
65967 Microsoft Teams - Live Transcription with speaker attribution November CY2020 February CY2021 01/31/2021
66188 OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68841 Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
66189 OneDrive: "At a glance" in sharing emails January CY2021 November CY2020 10/31/2020
66194 Multiple Number Dialing November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
66459 Teams: Updated functionality for downloading participant reports in Teams meetings September CY2020 February CY2021 01/31/2021
66183 SharePoint: Share a page to Yammer November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68922 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview) March CY2021 December CY2020 11/30/2020

Changed Property: RM Release Phase

RM ID RM Title Old Value New Value check before
65909 OneDrive: Sync admin reports (Public Preview) General Availability Preview,General Availability 02/28/2021
66189 OneDrive: "At a glance" in sharing emails General Availability Targeted Release (Entire Organization),General Availability 10/31/2020
68922 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview) Preview,General Availability Preview 11/30/2020

Changed Property: RM Status

RM ID RM Title Old Value New Value check before
67132 Microsoft Compliance Center: Microsoft Compliance Manager general availability In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
68704 Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and review encrypted content attached to local copy in Exchange In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
68826 Outlook for Mac: Natural language search In development Launched 09/30/2020
44590 Outlook for Windows: Default permissions for sharing links Rolling out Launched 05/31/2020
66469 Microsoft 365 Admin center: Introducing additional message tags in Admin Center Message Center Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
67126 Outlook: Outlook on the web - Suggested replies now available in Chinese (People's Republic of China) In development Launched 10/31/2020
68717 Microsoft 365 Admin center: Service Health email notifications for specific incidents and advisories In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
67114 Microsoft To Do: Support for push notifications for shared list activities for work and school accounts In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
67166 OneDrive: Sharing links that block download for video files In development Cancelled 10/31/2020
68834 Microsoft Teams: Updated layout for meetings on iOS In development Launched 10/31/2020
68836 Microsoft Teams: Per-Meeting settings for Controlling NDI(Network Device Interface)-Out In development Launched 10/31/2020
70073 Yammer: Updated UX the Yammer tab for Microsoft Teams In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
73388 Microsoft Teams: Manage your meeting options in-meeting In development Launched 10/31/2020
53941 Teams: Microsoft Teams displays In development Launched 10/31/2020
66459 Teams: Updated functionality for downloading participant reports in Teams meetings Launched In development 01/31/2021
67171 Microsoft Teams: Full screen support in new meetings experience In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
68721 Microsoft Teams: Theme and icon updates In development Rolling out 10/31/2020
68852 Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) In development Launched 10/31/2020

Changed Property: RM Title

RM ID RM Title Old Value New Value check before
66151 Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts on live event page Yammer: Collapsed pinned posts 11/30/2020
65909 OneDrive: Sync admin reports (Public Preview) OneDrive: Sync admin reports OneDrive: Sync admin reports (Public Preview) 02/28/2021
68864 Microsoft Search: Bookmark recommendations in Microsoft Search Microsoft Search: Bookmark recommendation in Microsoft Search Microsoft Search: Bookmark recommendations in Microsoft Search 10/31/2020
68922 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview) Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 (Preview) 11/30/2020
68784 Microsoft Search: Connector results on All vertical Microsoft Search: Connector results on All vertical Microsoft Search: Connector results on All vertical 11/30/2020

CW46 New Roadmap Items

RM ID RM Title RM Status RM Release RM Tags check before
68949 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Updates to Automated Investigations Rolling out General Availability GCC,Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 10/31/2020
68950 Microsoft Teams: Tasks in Teams in GCC In development General Availability GCC,Microsoft Teams,Microsoft To Do,Planner 12/31/2020
68951 Microsoft Planner: Tasks for Information Workers in Teams in GCC In development General Availability GCC,Microsoft Teams,Microsoft To Do,Planner 12/31/2020
68859 Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection: Network protection for macOS In development Preview Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020
68861 Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the "Create a Microsoft Team from SharePoint" experience In development General Availability Targeted Release Microsoft Teams,SharePoint,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 10/31/2020
68862 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Defender for Office 365 - Evaluation Mode In development General Availability Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020
68863 Microsoft Graph: New privacy controls for Microsoft Graph-based insights In development Preview GCC,Microsoft Graph 10/31/2020
68864 Microsoft Search: Bookmark recommendations in Microsoft Search In development Preview Microsoft Search,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 10/31/2020
68865 Microsoft Teams: EHR connector for virtual visits in healthcare In development General Availability Microsoft Teams,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020
68866 Microsoft Teams: Linux Client available in GCC-High In development General Availability GCC High,Microsoft Teams 10/31/2020

Share to MS Teams

Login to your account

Welcome Back, We Missed You!