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- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams We are extending the Object Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft Purview to support images embedded in more file types such as: Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text, Microsoft Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX , Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.- Feature ID: 323899 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): GCC - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.- Feature ID: 325325 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.- Feature ID: 369470 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32 We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization's DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.- Feature ID: 370550 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: January CY2024 - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections - Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences.- Feature ID: 374861 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 374866 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 374871 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Customize your Viva Connections experiences with fonts and themes Site owners and operators will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.- Feature ID: 374876 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.- Feature ID: 375177 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Integration of Auto-Claim Policy for Licensing of Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp in your Tenant We're excited to announce an upcoming feature to enhance our Microsoft 365 offerings with a new, innovative auto-claim policy for Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp. These two applications can be configured as a policy, allowing users with active base offerings like Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Original SKUs to automatically claim a Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 license when needed. As they engage with Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp, a license from your tenant's pre-provisioned Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 SKU will be seamlessly assigned to them. This new feature is designed to simplify admin tasks and requirements.- Feature ID: 375274 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Stream: Pay-as-you-go transcript translations Make your content more inclusive by creating videos that your coworkers can easily view and understand in their primary language. Transcript translations in Stream (on SharePoint) give you the option to translate the transcript and closed captions of your Stream videos into more than 100 supported languages. To enable translations Admins must first setup billing using an Azure subscription, then they must be enable the feature in the M365 Admin center. Once enabled translations are billed via pay-as-you-go meters.More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-syntex-pay-as-you-go-transcript-translations-in-stream-for-sharepoint-2e34ad1b-e213-47ed-a806-5cc0d88751de- Feature ID: 375485 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Stream - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 375490 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 375495 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.- Feature ID: 375500 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Click the To Do icon in the navigation bar to open inline without opening in a separate browser window.- Feature ID: 375602 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCC High - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2024 
- Outlook: Shared Mailboxes as Accounts Shared Mailboxes can be added as Accounts in the new Outlook for Windows. The Shared Mailbox will appear at the Account Level in the Folder list. Access to the Shared Mailbox requires the user's credentials and associated permissions.- Feature ID: 375635 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it's setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization's communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.- Feature ID: 375640 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service- Feature ID: 375694 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall (Premium) Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the 10 translated languages available to attendees.- Feature ID: 375696 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Join meetings and make calls on Android Auto Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones.- Feature ID: 375701 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Android - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Forms: New user onboarding experience Introducing an upgraded onboarding experience tailored for new Forms users, designed to provide a seamless and user-friendly initiation to the platform. Get started effortlessly with our refreshed interface and streamlined features.- Feature ID: 375742 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Forms - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: May CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.- Feature ID: 376219 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Ability to delete indicator variants With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 376697 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: February CY2024 - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details.- Feature ID: 376700 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.- Feature ID: 376853 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Topics Adoption Metrics Dashboard Topics will include a new analytics page, where knowledge managers and admins will have access to a set of metrics that details the health of their adoption. Tenants will have health targets to reach to keep them on track for adopting Viva Topics, as well as recommended actions to perform to drive each metric to healthy.- Feature ID: 100028 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 28 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Launched - Preview Available: September CY2023 - Rollout Start: October CY2023 
- Microsoft Intune: Application management for Microsoft Edge Brings app layer management to Windows.  Supports app configuration and app protection for Microsoft Edge.  Includes app protection Conditional Access and Windows Defender integration.- Feature ID: 103640 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 30 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Intune - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: June CY2023 - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Visio: View and edit shape data in Visio for the web As part of our effort to enable data-linked diagrams in Visio for the web, this feature allows Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers to view and edit shape data fields in the Visio web editor for diagrams originally created in the Visio desktop app. Visio in Microsoft 365 users will be able to view shape data but will not be able to edit the data.- Feature ID: 113915 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 20 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: May CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with "Teams Content Camera on Desktop" Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams. This feature will no longer be rolling out to classic Teams and will only be generally available in the new Teams experience with a revised Rollout Start schedule.- Feature ID: 118580 - Added to roadmap: Sat Mar 04 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.- Feature ID: 118768 - Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 24 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Launched - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time-zone When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.- Feature ID: 123963 - Added to roadmap: Wed Jun 21 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.- Feature ID: 124847 - Added to roadmap: Thu Apr 27 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes.- Feature ID: 124920 - Added to roadmap: Sat May 13 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. - Feature ID: 124975 - Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 29 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.- Feature ID: 125072 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 06 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript (Premium) Teams Premium users can now view Live Transcript in their preferred languages during the meeting and choose to show the translated transcript with the original transcript as a reference.- Feature ID: 126321 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 28 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams. Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date. Note: We are updating a release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.- Feature ID: 127888 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Launched - Preview Available: July CY2023 - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center- Feature ID: 131169 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 01 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds) Extend protection to unclassified files on Windows endpoint by applying restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.- Feature ID: 138591 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 08 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) - App Permissions for Graph API Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.- Feature ID: 145797 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jul 01 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: March CY2024 - Rollout Start: May CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin.- Feature ID: 146858 - Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 12 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts We are releasing additional manager-controlled privacy settings in the Shifts app. Frontline managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers and they can set how far in the past their employees can view data in schedule view, to manage employees' views of each other's breaks and notes.- Feature ID: 152119 - Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 03 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Syntex: Translation A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand.- Feature ID: 161828 - Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 09 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Syntex - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for external benchmark consent Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks.- Feature ID: 163980 - Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 26 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Multiple external benchmarks Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports- Feature ID: 163981 - Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 12 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Whiteboard: Auto-follow when follow session initiated Participants of a whiteboard will automatically start following a user that starts a follow session when it is initiated.- Feature ID: 164892 - Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 25 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Whiteboard - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSTeams and Surface DevicesWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Whiteboard: Open existing board in Teams with Follow The ability to open an existing whiteboard in a Teams meeting with the follow feature already initiated. This allows users to share a whiteboard with follow enabled immediately.- Feature ID: 164894 - Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 12 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Whiteboard - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSTeams and Surface DevicesWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Groups connected Viva Goals Teams Users will now save time with a simplified set-up experience for setting up their Viva Goals Teams.- Feature ID: 165682 - Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 24 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Outlook: From the new Outlook for Windows, open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in desktop apps From the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in their respective desktop apps by double clicking them.- Feature ID: 167891 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 11 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - App Permissions for Graph API Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.- Feature ID: 169083 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 21 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Excel import enhancements in Shifts app Frontline managers will gain the ability to import an Excel file into Shifts with time off and open shift entities. Complementary, those entities will also be supported when managers export schedules in a compatible format to import.- Feature ID: 169705 - Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 26 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows All-in-one experience With this update, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3.- Feature ID: 170740 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 27 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows All-in-one experience With this update, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3.- Feature ID: 170740 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal.- Feature ID: 170745 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Visio: Support for layers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now use layers to group a related set of shapes in a drawing and change properties of all the layer members at once.- Feature ID: 171492 - Added to roadmap: Fri Sep 15 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Simulation mode for DLP With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated experience. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time.- Feature ID: 173626 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 20 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.- Feature ID: 174466 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations - like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove, share or “get more apps”.- Feature ID: 174474 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 25 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCC High - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.- Feature ID: 178311 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: January CY2024 - Rollout Start: July CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Progressive alert scoring With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 179883 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 11 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: February CY2024 - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Visio: Containers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] Containers are a powerful tool for organizing and managing complex diagrams. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use containers in Visio for the web to create professional-looking diagrams that are easy to understand and navigate.- Feature ID: 180322 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 02 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.- Feature ID: 181615 - Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile) The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student's learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date. More info: https://parent.microsoft.com/- Feature ID: 182046 - Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 24 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Outlook: Presence is back to Outlook on the Web Teams Presence will be shown in Compose and read scenarios for recipients, co-recipients, and sender. The bubble indicators will provide contact's status and help you decide the best way to communicate with them.- Feature ID: 184004 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 14 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Outlook: Global Address List updates in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web We are making some adjustments to the GAL search and browse experiences. Users will be asked to type in more characters to refine their search in some cases. There will be some other visual improvements in error messaging. Another way to find recipients is by using the suggestion dropdown picker in the To/Cc/Bcc lines. Note: We have updated the status and release date to reflect the current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.- Feature ID: 185475 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 09 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled "Global exclusions" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 185687 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: March CY2024 - Rollout Start: August CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.- Feature ID: 185802 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 02 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 185802 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 02 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 186429 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 29 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Stream: Video trim feature Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) will soon introduce a video trimming feature which will allow users with edit permissions to trim the start, end and any parts in the middle of a video.  When you trim a video, Stream won’t change the original video file itself. Instead, it just hides the trimmed parts from your viewers.  When you're done trimming you can toggle to the preview mode to see the trimmed video just like your viewers will see. When a video is trimmed the transcript and chapters will be adjusted automatically to reflect only what is shown in the video. People with edit permission will be able to see full original content and edit or delete those trimmed parts. When available this feature can be accessed by opening a video in the Stream web app and taping the edit button.- Feature ID: 186956 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 21 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Stream - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb - Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral AvailabilityPreviewTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Planner: Add premium capabilities to Planner Add premium capabilities like sprint planning, people view, goals, custom fields, and task history to your plans within the Planner Teams app.- Feature ID: 186968 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Planner: Create personal plans in Planner Create personal plans in the new Planner app for Teams. For these types of plans, the creator of the plan is the only member and owner.- Feature ID: 186970 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Planner: Auto population of due tasks in My Day In the Planner Teams app, your tasks will automatically appear in My Day on their due dates. This will help you stay on top of your priorities and stay organized throughout the day.- Feature ID: 186971 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Planner: Manage all your tasks in My Tasks My Tasks within the Planner Teams app shows your tasks across plans, projects, to-do lists and flagged emails so you can quickly triage and track all the work on your plate.- Feature ID: 186972 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Planner: Access all your plans, projects and to do lists in My Plans My Plans within the Planner app in Teams brings together all of your plans, projects and to do lists to help you easily discover and find all your work.- Feature ID: 186973 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.- Feature ID: 188799 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 23 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft 365OneDriveSharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: January CY2024 - Rollout Start: April CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) - Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.- Feature ID: 189639 - Added to roadmap: Sat Nov 18 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams We are extending the Object Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft Purview to support images embedded in more file types such as: Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text, Microsoft Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX , Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.- Feature ID: 323899 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): GCC - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.- Feature ID: 325325 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.- Feature ID: 369470 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32 We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization's DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.- Feature ID: 370550 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: January CY2024 - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the six translated languages available to attendees.- Feature ID: 371308 - Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers.- Feature ID: 371578 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 16 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 371578 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.- Feature ID: 373545 - Added to roadmap: Wed Dec 13 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections - Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences.- Feature ID: 374861 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 374866 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 374871 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Customize your Viva Connections experiences with fonts and themes Site owners and operators will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.- Feature ID: 374876 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.- Feature ID: 375177 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Integration of Auto-Claim Policy for Licensing of Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp in your Tenant We're excited to announce an upcoming feature to enhance our Microsoft 365 offerings with a new, innovative auto-claim policy for Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp. These two applications can be configured as a policy, allowing users with active base offerings like Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Original SKUs to automatically claim a Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 license when needed. As they engage with Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp, a license from your tenant's pre-provisioned Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 SKU will be seamlessly assigned to them. This new feature is designed to simplify admin tasks and requirements.- Feature ID: 375274 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Stream: Pay-as-you-go transcript translations Make your content more inclusive by creating videos that your coworkers can easily view and understand in their primary language. Transcript translations in Stream (on SharePoint) give you the option to translate the transcript and closed captions of your Stream videos into more than 100 supported languages. To enable translations Admins must first setup billing using an Azure subscription, then they must be enable the feature in the M365 Admin center. Once enabled translations are billed via pay-as-you-go meters.More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-syntex-pay-as-you-go-transcript-translations-in-stream-for-sharepoint-2e34ad1b-e213-47ed-a806-5cc0d88751de- Feature ID: 375485 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Stream - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 375490 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences.- Feature ID: 375495 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.- Feature ID: 375500 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): SharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows Use the To Do app without leaving the new Outlook for Windows! Click the To Do icon in the navigation bar to open inline without opening in a separate browser window.- Feature ID: 375602 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCC High - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2024 
- Outlook: Shared Mailboxes as Accounts Shared Mailboxes can be added as Accounts in the new Outlook for Windows. The Shared Mailbox will appear at the Account Level in the Folder list. Access to the Shared Mailbox requires the user's credentials and associated permissions.- Feature ID: 375635 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it's setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization's communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.- Feature ID: 375640 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service- Feature ID: 375694 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall (Premium) Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the 10 translated languages available to attendees.- Feature ID: 375696 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Join meetings and make calls on Android Auto Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones.- Feature ID: 375701 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Android - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Forms: New user onboarding experience Introducing an upgraded onboarding experience tailored for new Forms users, designed to provide a seamless and user-friendly initiation to the platform. Get started effortlessly with our refreshed interface and streamlined features.- Feature ID: 375742 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Forms - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: May CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.- Feature ID: 376219 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Ability to delete indicator variants With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 376697 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: February CY2024 - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details.- Feature ID: 376700 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.- Feature ID: 376853 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Excel: Track tasks with @mentions Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your workbook.- Feature ID: 49291 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jan 26 2021 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Excel - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: October CY2022 
- Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center.- Feature ID: 88699 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 03 2021 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Launched - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 88915 - Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 08 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: June CY2022 - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Empower end users to report inappropriate messages in Teams Microsoft Teams users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning messages within Teams chat and channels. These reported messages are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for investigators to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 88916 - Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 08 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.- Feature ID: 93268 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 03 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: December CY2023 - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.- Feature ID: 93269 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 03 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds) This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 93324 - Added to roadmap: Sat May 21 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: June CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats Save time with AI-based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed. We will add a new roadmap item when appropriate. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Additionally, this feature is only available in the new Teams experience.- Feature ID: 95065 - Added to roadmap: Tue Dec 13 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over. - Feature ID: 95788 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 08 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Developer - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: October CY2023 
Items with multiple changes
Launched items
- Microsoft Viva: Topics Adoption Metrics Dashboard Topics will include a new analytics page, where knowledge managers and admins will have access to a set of metrics that details the health of their adoption. Tenants will have health targets to reach to keep them on track for adopting Viva Topics, as well as recommended actions to perform to drive each metric to healthy.- Feature ID: 100028 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 28 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: September CY2023 - Rollout Start: October CY2023 
- Microsoft Intune: Application management for Microsoft Edge Brings app layer management to Windows.  Supports app configuration and app protection for Microsoft Edge.  Includes app protection Conditional Access and Windows Defender integration.- Feature ID: 103640 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 30 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Intune - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentLaunched - Preview Available: June CY2023 - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Visio: View and edit shape data in Visio for the web As part of our effort to enable data-linked diagrams in Visio for the web, this feature allows Visio Plan 1 and Visio Plan 2 subscribers to view and edit shape data fields in the Visio web editor for diagrams originally created in the Visio desktop app. Visio in Microsoft 365 users will be able to view shape data but will not be able to edit the data.- Feature ID: 113915 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 20 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: May CY2023 
- Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.- Feature ID: 118768 - Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 24 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.- Feature ID: 124847 - Added to roadmap: Thu Apr 27 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.- Feature ID: 125072 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 06 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript (Premium) Teams Premium users can now view Live Transcript in their preferred languages during the meeting and choose to show the translated transcript with the original transcript as a reference.- Feature ID: 126321 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 28 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams. Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date. Note: We are updating a release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.- Feature ID: 127888 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: July CY2023 - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts We are releasing additional manager-controlled privacy settings in the Shifts app. Frontline managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers and they can set how far in the past their employees can view data in schedule view, to manage employees' views of each other's breaks and notes.- Feature ID: 152119 - Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 03 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Whiteboard: Auto-follow when follow session initiated Participants of a whiteboard will automatically start following a user that starts a follow session when it is initiated.- Feature ID: 164892 - Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 25 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): TeamsAndSurfaceDevicesWhiteboard - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWebTeams and Surface Devices - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Whiteboard: Open existing board in Teams with Follow The ability to open an existing whiteboard in a Teams meeting with the follow feature already initiated. This allows users to share a whiteboard with follow enabled immediately.- Feature ID: 164894 - Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 12 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): TeamsAndSurfaceDevicesWhiteboard - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWebTeams and Surface Devices - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Excel import enhancements in Shifts app Frontline managers will gain the ability to import an Excel file into Shifts with time off and open shift entities. Complementary, those entities will also be supported when managers export schedules in a compatible format to import.- Feature ID: 169705 - Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 26 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows All-in-one experience With this update, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3.- Feature ID: 170740 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal.- Feature ID: 170745 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 27 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Visio: Support for layers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license can now use layers to group a related set of shapes in a drawing and change properties of all the layer members at once.- Feature ID: 171492 - Added to roadmap: Fri Sep 15 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: September CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile) The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student's learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date. More info: https://parent.microsoft.com/- Feature ID: 182046 - Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 24 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) - Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.- Feature ID: 189639 - Added to roadmap: Sat Nov 18 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Excel: Track tasks with @mentions Use @mentions in comments to create, assign and track tasks within your workbook.- Feature ID: 49291 - Added to roadmap: Tue Jan 26 2021 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Excel - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: October CY2022 
- Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center.- Feature ID: 88699 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 03 2021 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Empower end users to report inappropriate messages in Teams Microsoft Teams users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning messages within Teams chat and channels. These reported messages are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for investigators to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 88916 - Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 08 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: July CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats Save time with AI-based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed. We will add a new roadmap item when appropriate. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Additionally, this feature is only available in the new Teams experience.- Feature ID: 95065 - Added to roadmap: Tue Dec 13 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.. - Feature ID: 95788 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 08 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Developer - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outLaunched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: October CY2023 
Rolling out items
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes.- Feature ID: 124920 - Added to roadmap: Sat May 13 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentRolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds) Extend protection to unclassified files on Windows endpoint by applying restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress.- Feature ID: 138591 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 08 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentRolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Visio: Containers in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] Containers are a powerful tool for organizing and managing complex diagrams. Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to use containers in Visio for the web to create professional-looking diagrams that are easy to understand and navigate.- Feature ID: 180322 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 02 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Visio - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In developmentRolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2024 
Rescheduled items
- Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with "Teams Content Camera on Desktop" Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams. This feature will no longer be rolling out to classic Teams and will only be generally available in the new Teams experience with a revised Rollout Start schedule.- Feature ID: 118580 - Added to roadmap: Sat Mar 04 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outIn development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: JulyMarch CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention - messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.. - Feature ID: 124975 - Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 29 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center- Feature ID: 131169 - Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 01 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) - App Permissions for Graph API Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.- Feature ID: 145797 - Added to roadmap: Sat Jul 01 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: DecemberMarch CY2023CY2024 - Rollout Start: JanuaryMay CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin.- Feature ID: 146858 - Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 12 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: DecemberFebruary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Syntex: Translation A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand.- Feature ID: 161828 - Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 09 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Syntex - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: OctoberJanuary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for external benchmark consent Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks.- Feature ID: 163980 - Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 26 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: DecemberFebruary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Multiple external benchmarks Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports- Feature ID: 163981 - Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 12 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2024 
- Outlook: From the new Outlook for Windows, open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in desktop apps From the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments in their respective desktop apps by double clicking them.- Feature ID: 167891 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 11 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: OctoberJanuary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - App Permissions for Graph API Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.- Feature ID: 169083 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 21 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: FebruaryJune CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Simulation mode for DLP With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated experience. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time.- Feature ID: 173626 - Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 20 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: November CY2023 - Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.- Feature ID: 178311 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: January CY2024 - Rollout Start: JanuaryJuly CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Progressive alert scoring With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 179883 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 11 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: February CY2024 - Rollout Start: AprilMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.- Feature ID: 181615 - Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2024 
- Outlook: Presence is back to Outlook on the Web Teams Presence will be shown in Compose and read scenarios  for recipients, co-recipients, and sender. . The bubble indicators will provide contact's status and help you decide the best way to communicate with them.- Feature ID: 184004 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 14 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Desktop - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2024 
- Outlook: Global Address List updates in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web We are making some adjustments to the GAL search and browse experiences. Users will be asked to type in more characters to refine their search in some cases. There will be some other visual improvements in error messaging. Another way to find recipients is by using the suggestion dropdown picker in the To/Cc/Bcc lines. Note: We have updated the status and release date to reflect the current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.- Feature ID: 185475 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 09 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Outlook - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Rolling outIn development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: NovemberFebruary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled ""Global exclusions"" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.- Feature ID: 185687 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: FebruaryMarch CY2024 - Rollout Start: JuneAugust CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 185802 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 02 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMac - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Stream: Video trim feature Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) will soon introduce a video trimming feature which will allow users with edit permissions to trim the start, end and any parts in the middle of a video..  When you trim a video, Stream won’t change the original video file itself. Instead, it just hides the trimmed parts from your viewers..  When you're done trimming you can toggle to the preview mode to see the trimmed video just like your viewers will see. When a video is trimmed the transcript and chapters will be adjusted automatically to reflect only what is shown in the video. People with edit permission will be able to see full original content and edit or delete those trimmed parts. When available this feature can be accessed by opening a video in the Stream web app and taping the edit button.- Feature ID: 186956 - Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 21 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Stream - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb - Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral AvailabilityPreviewTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Planner: Add premium capabilities to Planner Add premium capabilities like sprint planning, people view, goals, custom fields, and task history to your plans within the Planner Teams app.- Feature ID: 186968 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Planner: Create personal plans in Planner Create personal plans in the new Planner app for Teams. For these types of plans, the creator of the plan is the only member and owner.- Feature ID: 186970 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Planner: Auto population of due tasks in My Day In the Planner Teams app, your tasks will automatically appear in My Day on their due dates. This will help you stay on top of your priorities and stay organized throughout the day.- Feature ID: 186971 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Planner: Manage all your tasks in My Tasks My Tasks within the Planner Teams app shows your tasks across plans, projects, to-do lists and flagged emails so you can quickly triage and track all the work on your plate.- Feature ID: 186972 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Planner: Access all your plans, projects and to do lists in My Plans My Plans within the Planner app in Teams brings together all of your plans, projects and to do lists to help you easily discover and find all your work.- Feature ID: 186973 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner - Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: March CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.- Feature ID: 188799 - Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 23 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft 365OneDriveSharePoint - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: DecemberJanuary CY2023CY2024 - Rollout Start: April CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 371578 - Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 16 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): AndroidiOS - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview |compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role.Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 88915 - Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 08 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: June CY2022 - Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2023CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.- Feature ID: 93268 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 03 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview - Status: In development - Preview Available: December CY2023 - Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.- Feature ID: 93269 - Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 03 2022 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2024 
- Microsoft Purview |compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds) This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide- Feature ID: 93324 - Added to roadmap: Sat May 21 2022 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: DecemberJune CY2023CY2024 
Irrelevant changes
- Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Groups connected Viva Goals Teams Users will now save time with a simplified set-up experience for setting up their Viva Goals Teams.- Feature ID: 165682 - Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 24 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: January CY2024 
- Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.- Feature ID: 174466 - Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Viva - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): Web - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: Rolling out - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: December CY2023 
Other items
- Microsoft Teams: meetingMeeting participants time-zone When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.- Feature ID: 123963 - Added to roadmap: Wed Jun 21 2023 - Last modified: Thu Jan 04 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations - like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove, share or “get more apps”.- Feature ID: 174474 - Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 25 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): DoDGCC High - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General Availability - Status: Launched - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: November CY2023 
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.- Feature ID: 186429 - Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 29 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People) - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for live translation for captions in a town hall Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translation for captions during a town hall.Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the six translated languages available to attendees.- Feature ID: 371308 - Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023 - Last modified: Fri Jan 05 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) - Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024 
- Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.- Feature ID: 373545 - Added to roadmap: Wed Dec 13 2023 - Last modified: Sat Jan 06 2024 - Product(s): Microsoft Teams - Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)DoDGCCGCC High - Platform(s): DesktopWeb - Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release - Status: In development - Preview Available: - Rollout Start: February CY2024