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Microsoft is developing a feature to block a malicious user from sending messages to victims or an entire organization. The ability is schedule for release in October for customers worldwide.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image generation in Copilot chat
Create images using natural language to visualize concepts and ideas within the flow of work in Copilot for Microsoft 365.
ID: 409561 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Prompt suggestions in Copilot chat
Get started in Copilot chat quickly with automatic prompt suggestions that enhance your productivity by providing relevant and context-aware prompts based on your previous interactions.
ID: 409962 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Alert Spotlighting
On the alert list page, high priority alerts will be spotlighted to help analysts prioritize the most important alerts first. Alerts are spotlighted based on predefined rules which are common across all tenants across all industries. Alert Spotlighting feature was developed to assist admins in prioritizing alerts to be triaged. Every generated alert has a risk score, a list of activities performed, tags, and triggers. The Alert Spotlighting feature uses this information to decide whether an alert can be spotlighted. Based on a detailed study of alert triage patterns across tenants, we have developed a rule-based algorithm to spotlight alerts that would be of importance to admins, based on historical volume analysis. 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: 409967 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: December CY2024
SharePoint: Enhancing SharePoint document translation with glossary feature
We’re thrilled to announce the addition of a glossary capability to our SharePoint AI content document translation model. This feature delivers precise, industry-specific translations, fostering unparalleled clarity and consistency for your documents. Experience effortless integration and user-friendly operation within your existing SharePoint libraries.
ID: 410212 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – Update to Microsoft Syntex translation
The document translation service enables users to create translated copies quickly and easily while preserving the original format and structure of the file. We’re updating the service to allow creating translated copies in up to 10 languages with a single request. This update will be available for both manual and rule-based requests.
ID: 410213 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints
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: 410247 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints
With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.
ID: 410397 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Pinned ability to always see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location
This introduces an “always on” ability to see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location. This information will be pinned (available) on the top-right corner of the Calendar surface in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 410986 Release: Exchange, Outlook, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization
With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization.
ID: 411138 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Amplify editor
The superpowers of Copilot will be directly available to you in the Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you’ve written. Additionally, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications.
ID: 411300 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio control for language interpretation
New user setting that enables meeting participants using language interpretation to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio.
ID: 411569 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap support for ad-hoc meetings and calls
Intelligent recap is available for ad-hoc meetings and calls, like those started from ‘Meet now’ and started from chat. Now, Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends.
ID: 411573 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Mute conversations
Corporate communicators, network admins, and Engage admins can remove chosen conversation threads from the Engage Home Feed, storylines feed, and email digests. Conversations continue to show in community feeds, user profiles, and search. Muting a conversation does not affect notifications.
ID: 411583 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: All your teams and channels view
A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.
ID: 411779 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Immersive Inline Play update
Current Learning Content details and Player page will be combined to give a more immersive consumption experience for users in Viva Learning. The update will impact all content details pages.
ID: 412066 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Whiteboard can be added to Mesh event
Mesh event participants can now use Microsoft Whiteboard in Mesh 3D environments. This functionality will enable users to collaborate spatially as avatars on a 2D whiteboard present in the virtual space, available on PC and Meta Quest devices. Mesh event attendees can use inking, annotation, and other built-in tools to brainstorm, plan, and share with others on a digital canvas in real time. Copilot integration with Whiteboard helps suggest and organize ideas directly on your canvas while in Mesh.
ID: 412075 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Audio zones enable Mesh creators to craft custom audio experiences
Spatial audio in Mesh provides a realistic recreation of how sound moves in the real world, with the volume of people speaking or media playing getting lower of as you move away from the source of the sound. The introduction of audio zones enables creators to craft custom audio experiences for the intended use of a space with features such as extended audio drop off distances for conversations that happen in a large area, or restricting what audio can enter a given area, to allow smaller groups to have lively conversations without disrupting their neighbors.
ID: 412077 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events
Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement.
ID: 412078 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Teams chat support in Mesh events
Participants in Mesh events on PC and Mac can use Teams chat to communicate with all participants, across all rooms, within a Mesh event. Users can do this in the Microsoft Mesh PC app, the Mesh app in Teams, as well as in the chat message list of the Teams app.
ID: 412079 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions
Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app.
ID: 412360 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Junk/Phishing reporting actions integrated with Microsoft Defender in classic Outlook for Windows
The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in classic Outlook for Windows can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk.
ID: 371388 Release: Outlook, Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time
You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month.
ID: 397768 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions
Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .CSV file, in order to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a meeting or event.
ID: 398446 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Summarize text columns
Copilot can analyze columns of text to give you summaries of the information. For example, Copilot will find the main themes in survey responses from open-ended questions.
ID: 399425 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Planner: Resize columns in Grid view
Introducing column resize control in Microsoft Planner. Now you can tailor your view by adjusting column widths, giving you the flexibility to focus on the details that matter most.
ID: 407859 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements
This roadmap item is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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: 368825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Workspaces now supports adding highlighting
Microsoft Edge Workspaces users are now able to collaborate in a synchronized way by adding highlighting. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We continue to investigate different ways to enhance the Workspaces user experience.
ID: 389852 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
