Play of the Week

Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared even if you only have a few minutes between meetings. Leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph, Copilot can gather documents and context so everyone is ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web in July 2024.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Slash Commands

User will be able to type slash in Teams compose box and select a command, helping them complete their task quickly.

ID: 120469 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows. This feature was rolled back to address some critical user feedback; we apologize for any inconvenience.

ID: 167892 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Recommended actions for finetuning policies

We are introducing additional recommended actions to provide guidance on fine-tuning your insider risk policies and implementing advanced configurations. These new tasks and journeys will be accessible through the Recommended Actions page. 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. Note: We have updated this Roadmap to reflect the current status. We apologize for any inconveniences.

ID: 186580 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks

With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to shared desks. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal and collect utilization data from these desks for proactive management and planning.

ID: 314430 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts

Introducing a new control for IT administrators to restrict permissions for the download of meeting transcript files (stored in OneDrive for Business) for any users within the tenant. This policy applies to new meeting transcripts across the entire organization. Administrators can exempt people who are members of specified security groups from the policy. This allows admins to specify governance or compliance specialists who should have download access to meeting transcripts. We are also updating the default permissions so that even when the policy is not applied only transcript owners (recording initiator or meeting organizer) will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, while meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition to the tenant-wide policy for download permission, the meeting organizer will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript in Stream.

ID: 332800 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024

Exchange: Adding support for Inbound SMTP DANE with DNSSEC for Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD

We are adding inbound support for SMTP DANE with DNSSEC to Exchange Online GCC-H and DoD. Look for another roadmap item for inbound support in WW and GCC, and one for outbound support of SMTP DANE with DNSSEC.

ID: 361914 Release: Exchange – DoD, GCC High Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

ID: 373720 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): File reference – PDF and Excel file type support

This introduces the ability for users to reference PDF and Excel files when generating content.

ID: 373735 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web

With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you have an upcoming meeting, Copilot proactively shows you a “Prepare” button in your inbox which helps you quickly get context for the meeting providing a summary of the meeting and showing and summarizing relevant files leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 374723 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection

A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default.

ID: 377676 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document.

ID: 380821 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document.

ID: 380826 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow

When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them.

ID: 381734 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Admins and delegates in Viva Engage con close conversations on behalf of others

Admins and delegates in Viva Engage con close conversations on behalf of others. Delegates are only allowed to close conversations on behalf of the delegator.

ID: 382930 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

SharePoint: Planned release of AI insights

We are planning to provide an LLM-powered data analysis tools that admins can use to gain insights and actions.

ID: 388376 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft To Do – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Enhancements to insider risk level settings

With this new feature, an admin can choose whether they want to expire the Adaptive Protection insider risk level. Today, this expiration happens automatically, but you can now choose to keep the Adaptive Protection insider risk level for a user, even if their alert is dismissed or case is closed. 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.

ID: 388736 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security

With Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security, your security teams gain unprecedented visibility across the security data. Microsoft Purview brings user risk and data risk insights to help the SOC with comprehensive and enriched signals to understand the full attack story and impact of a security incident. 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.

ID: 389143 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Gain comprehensive summary of Insider Risk Management alerts with Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security is embedded in Insider Risk Management to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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.

ID: 389147 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

ID: 389839 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators

Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted, FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled, so you will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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.

ID: 389841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion

Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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.

ID: 389842 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium)

If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member.

ID: 391639 Release: Bookings, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users

Users can now access applications in group chats with individuals outside their organization, fostering improved collaboration, interactivity, and productivity. The group chat’s host involving external participants can install, remove, or update applications for use by all members.

ID: 391640 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Forms: Pre-filled link in Microsoft Forms

You can send respondents a form with some fields already filled in. This feature is designed to simplify respondent experience and improve data accuracy.

ID: 391671 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft To Do: Microsoft To Do availability in Outlook on the web

Microsoft To Do will be available from the Outlook on the web app launcher. To Do will replace the tasks module currently available. After this change, you will see To Do in the app launcher instead of tasks.

ID: 391672 Release: Microsoft To Do, Outlook – GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat

Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat by clicking “Upload” in the ContextIQ interface.

ID: 392010 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

SharePoint: Change history reports

Create custom reports to monitor changes made to the SharePoint configuration across various levels of your organization. Review CSV reports of site actions or organization setting changes made within the last 180 days.

ID: 392097 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Whiteboard Copilot – First run experience

Copilot FRE will guide first-time users to discover and leverage the power of Whiteboard Copilot features. ?

ID: 392455 Release: Whiteboard, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization

We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.

ID: 168523 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: In-app Teams devices store experience

With the Teams device store experience inside the Teams app, customers can easily discover and purchase certified Teams devices for personal or shared use cases – headsets, web cameras, desk phones, Teams Rooms, and more. Explore devices in categories, use search or filters to find desired device, and purchase all through the familiar Microsoft Teams interface. We are introducing a new experience for small businesses to purchase devices directly within Teams, businesses in the US and Canada will now be able to complete their purchase without leaving the app

ID: 169201 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Planner: Open and Edit Projects in Planner

Manage your projects along with plans and to-do lists in one simple, familiar experience within the Planner Teams app.

ID: 186966 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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.

ID: 186970 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April 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.

ID: 186971 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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.

ID: 186972 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April 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.

ID: 186973 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for delegates and delegators

We’re continuing to provide a more tailored call delegation experience. Call delegators and delegates will now be able to see shared call history records for the shared line.

ID: 372115 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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.

ID: 376219 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Exchange: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management

We are Updating the experience for end user allow and block list management of their emails. With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted senders and prevent those emails from showing up in their default quarantine view anymore as well as in their Quarantine notifications. End users will also be able to allow emails from trusted senders and prevent future emails from those senders from landing in quarantine given there are no Admin overrides in place. End users will also have visibility into Admin overrides that led to a Quarantined email message if there is one.

ID: 380185 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024

Outlook: Folder tags on items in Search Folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Search Folders will now display a folder tag within the message list, indicating the folder to which each email belongs. This enhancement provides users with quick and easy access to contextual information, improving navigation and organization within their mailbox. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 388915 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Launched
Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices dashboard for device analytics providing health and usage metrics

We are not releasing this feature at this time and apologize for any inconvenience. Health and usage insights surfaced on a dashboard for Teams devices being managed through the Teams admin center including the ability to export and auto share the insights and set alerts on key metrics to be notified when attention is required.

ID: 84533 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Custom Topic Types for Viva Topics

Knowledge Managers can define and edit custom topic types that can offer important context on the nature of the topic entity. New Topic features will not continue in 2024. Please refer to the changes coming to Topics: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/topics/changes-coming-to-topics?view=o365-worldwide

ID: 117437 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience

Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being from the roadmap at this time.

ID: 190177 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Goals Bulk Import Enhancements

Improved bulk import of Goals experience and supporting additional fields with bulk import. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being removed from the roadmap at this time.”

ID: 190178 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024