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Organizational messages will allow enterprises to connect with their organization through customized messages, enabling them to engage directly within the Microsoft product experiences they use every day. In the Microsoft 365 admin center, admins will be able to their tenant’s messages, create new messages, and review delivery reports. The feature is expected to be released in June 2024.
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Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use a weblink to reference files in Copilot in Word
Users can copy and paste a link of a supported file into the Draft with Copilot UI as a reference instead of searching for it in the file reference menu.
ID: 367083 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Add new questions to Question Library as Pulse admin
Pulse admins can create new questions that become available in their users’ Question Library.
ID: 381965 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Word: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Start a new document using up to three files
No need to start from scratch. Copilot can create your new document based on three different Word or PowerPoint files. In “Draft with Copilot,” select Reference a file and choose up to three files that Copilot should use when creating the new document. Or, in “Compose,” type “/” and the name of the file you’d like to use. You can only use files you have permission to access in your organization’s SharePoint or OneDrive.
ID: 388859 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100
Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location.
ID: 389840 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List
Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List.
ID: 389853 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel support for complex formula columns from multiple tables
Utilize complex formulas such as XLOOKUP and SUMIF to create formula columns bringing together data from multiple tables.
ID: 391637 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Copilot supports generating multiple formula columns from a single prompt
Users can ask Copilot to generate multiple formula columns suggestions at once, from a single prompt, such as “split the name into first name and last name.”
ID: 391638 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage content in Workplace Search
As users search in office.com, sharepoint.com, bing at work they will find content from Viva Engage in the search results. We will first start with question posts and then roll out discussion posts from Engage.
ID: 391669 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files to ground prompts in Copilot with Graph-grounded chat
Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files for grounding prompts in Copilot.
ID: 392011 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Planner: Increased number of tasks per premium plan in Microsoft Planner
Create and manage up to 1,500 tasks within a Microsoft Planner premium plan (formerly known as a Project for the web project).
ID: 392096 Release: Microsoft Project – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Activity Explorer – Limiting sensitive data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role
With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data.
ID: 392099 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community
We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement.
ID: 392100 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in webinars
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
ID: 392328 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Copilot deployment kits in Viva Amplify
Prepare for and launch Copilot in your organization using our new deployment kit in Viva Amplify. This is a set of pre-written and formatted publications that will educate users on how to use Copilot, all of the M365 endpoints, and develop their AI skills. This is a tested set of communications that the Microsoft team used internally to ensure the right messages are reaching your end users and preparing them for Copilot.
ID: 392453 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label
Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes.
ID: 392456 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars
This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.
ID: 392826 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints
In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images.
ID: 392840 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities
Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs.
ID: 392841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints
DLP will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. On inspection, all the files (of supported file format) within the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies. After, the archive file will get the applicable auditing/enforcement policy applied to it.
ID: 392846 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: Organizational messages
Organizational messages allows enterprises to connect with their organization through customized messages, enabling them to engage directly within the Microsoft product experiences they use every day, like Windows Spotlight. Starting Spring 2024, Organizational messages will be found under the “Reports” section within the Microsoft 365 admin center and will include features for admins to centrally manage their tenant’s messages, create new messages, and review delivery reports.
ID: 392847 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs
Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When a user navigates back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded. This can be managed through the AutoDiscardSleepingTabsEnabled policy. This policy will be enabled if the SleepingTabsEnabled policy is enabled.
ID: 392848 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls
This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.
ID: 393227 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage Admins/ Global admins do not require license to manage Viva Engage
Provide Engage admins and Global admins the ability to manage Viva Engage without a licensed account.
ID: 393230 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores
Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores.
ID: 122527 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal
Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.
ID: 152126 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation
From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed.
ID: 164210 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Word, PowerPoint, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal
ID: 177890 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: April CY2024
Outlook: Presence is back to Outlook on the Web
ID: 184004 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – Search tasks using Microsoft To Do
Search across your tasks lists using the Microsoft To Do module in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 383016 Release: Outlook, Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage Answers Intelligent Importer
This feature will allow users to upload documents and use AI to generate question and answer pairs from that content within Answers and communities on Engage for premium users. Answers Intelligent Importer aims to transform static to dynamic, fostering active engagement and interactive conversations. This approach also facilitates the easy retrieval and reuse of generated answers, preventing them from getting lost within the depths of a document.
ID: 383049 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – New device properties in device onboarding page
Added new device details to provide more insights on the device health. This includes OS build, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, sensitive data activity, Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded, valid user, server DLP status, and first onboarded date.
ID: 383737 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Stream: Playlist support for Stream web part in SharePoint
The Stream web part, used when adding video to SharePoint pages and sites, will soon support embedding playlists from the same site in grid and theater layouts.
ID: 386907 Release: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports
ID: 93268 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to recommend courses to groups
Allows users to use existing user groups while making recommendations.
ID: 118677 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Question level permissions
Enable question level permissions for survey takers
ID: 383723 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Workspace Management
We are not releasing this feature at this time and apologize for any inconvenience. Workspace Management is a new feature within Teams Admin Center that provides an integrated view of Teams devices and peripherals based on their location, along with relevant insights. This capability provides IT admins the ability to manage connected devices, and monitor workspace health, utilization and conformance to standards at any location.
ID: 88326 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Working hours and location
Roadmap item 378774 was an accidentally created duplicate entry. It is being moved to cancelled. All updates for this feature will be posted through roadmap item 383721.
ID: 378774 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: April CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
