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Microsoft Teams rooms devices will support one touch experience for joining third party online meetings, also referred to as the direct guest join. The feature allows for users to use Teams rooms to join meetings hosted at Cisco Webex and Zoom just as easily as you could join meetings hosted in Microsoft Teams. The feature is rolling out for all customers.
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Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat
Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat usage metrics will be included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Usage report. This new feature provides additional usage insights and informs adoption strategy decisions for Microsoft Copilot in your organization.
ID: 377675 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Copilot for Advanced Insights App
Copilot in Viva Insights simplifies the query-building process for analysts by suggesting metrics, filters, and attributes that are relevant to the analysis.
ID: 399924 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only
Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits.
ID: 407068 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights- Copilot for Sales Metrics & PBI Report
Providing Copilot for Sales metrics for Viva Insights analysts in Advanced insights. Copilot for Sales adoption PBI report to provide a starter template to explore Copilot for Sales adoption across the organization.
ID: 410201 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer
A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer.
ID: 410218 Release: OneDrive – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.)
With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn’t complete scanning, document name matches patterns, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, and document name contains words or phrases.
ID: 410523 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for non-touch phones
Quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for non-touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature will enable one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars.
ID: 411577 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Additional formatting options in Outlook for iOS and Android
In response to feedback from you, our customers, we are adding support for even more formatting options when composing in Outlook for iOS or Android! You will be able to choose font size and color, set a default font, as well as clearing and painting formatting.
ID: 411581 Release: Outlook, Microsoft 365 app – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: November CY2024
Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for the web
The new Microsoft Planner app for the web is a single, unified work management experience. Assisted by AI, it brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, and the power of Microsoft Project into a simple, scalable, intelligent solution that spans from individual task management to enterprise and professional project management.
ID: 411777 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in M365 Copilot
The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian?, Croatian?, Estonian?, Greek?, Indonesian?, Latvian?, Lithuanian?, Romanian?, Serbian (Latin)?, Slovak?, Slovenia,? and Vietnamese. They’re also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada).
ID: 411778 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – AI & Copilot Resources provider
The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider.
ID: 412064 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy
Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set.
ID: 412065 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows
When attending a meeting in a Teams Rooms on Windows, users can now start or stop recording without having to join on their companion device. The start/stop recording button will be available as long as the meeting organizer is not a designated resource account. This feature is available Teams Rooms Pro.
ID: 412072 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh
The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content and use whiteboards and other tools together in the virtual environment.
ID: 412076 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection
For users signed in with an Entra account, Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection.
ID: 412356 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Integration of Glint and Pulse results into Copilot Dashboard
Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rollout out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. View results from responses to surveys initiated from Viva Glint or Viva Pulse directly in the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard.
ID: 412358 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS
With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS.
ID: 412359 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: OneDrive in Outlook for Mac
Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in Outlook for Mac, for a consistent and fast experience.
ID: 412617 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage
With the new sync window, you can choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline.
ID: 412619 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Planner: Labels in grid view
Labels for your tasks will be shown in grid view in a new Labels column in basic plans. You can get a better overview of your tasks at a glance since you will no longer need to open task details to view labels.
ID: 412623 Release: Planner – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Education grid view refresh
Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels.
ID: 412934 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Multi-Account Support for Add-Ins and Apps in new Outlook for Windows
Currently, new Outlook for for Windows supports apps and add-ins for the user’s primary account only. We will be enabling apps and add-ins to be supported across all of the accounts added to new Outlook, dynamically switching to the active identity. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412936 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Copy list of attendees to clipboard
Allow users to copy the list of attendees to clipboard from calendar event. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412937 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Outlook: Sort Meeting Attendees
Allow user to sort meeting attendees in the tracking list alphabetically. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412938 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Filter Meeting Attendees
Allow user to filter meeting attendees by name in the tracking list. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412939 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Design Ideas
Authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft Viva Amplify to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart.
ID: 412943 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Outlook: Auto-reading emails with Narrator
This feature will allow users utilizing the Windows Narrator screen reader tool to have messages read aloud automatically after opening the email. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 413429 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – simple document processing model
A prebuilt model that uses OCR and AI to detect the primary language of the file, key-value pairs, tables, selection marks, and barcodes. As with other models, it can be configured to extract this information to specified library columns.
ID: 413430 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages
Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows.
ID: 413431 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Entra: Microsoft Entra ID – Cross-tenant manager synchronization
Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user’s manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven’t made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.
ID: 186222 Release: Microsoft Entra – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: August CY2024
SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Drag to order list items
Easily organize your list in the Microsoft Lists app by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team.
ID: 380183 Release: SharePoint – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Custom background for Teams Rooms on Android
IT admins can upload custom background images on the Teams admin center to reinforce their company brand on their Teams Rooms devices. The main room display, extended room display, and touch console can each have its own specific background image. PNG, JPG, and JPEG, formats are supported. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.
ID: 380671 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August 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: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android
Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode, provided the IT admin has enabled Direct Guest Join meetings for the room. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below.
ID: 392822 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients
We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365.
ID: 394269 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Video templates
Create and highlight videocentric publications, like meeting content or executive messages, with the new video templates in Viva Amplify; this presents videos that are inline, playable, and beautiful.
ID: 398979 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Improved authoring experience
This updates the Viva Amplify editors for both Outlook and Teams distribution channels to improve previewing and editing. These updates will provide improvements to load time and create a coherent audience selection experience across the channels.
ID: 398980 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Text and UI resizing for Teams Rooms on Windows
IT admins can adjust the size of the text and all other UI elements on the front-of-room display by changing the display scaling settings. Text and UI elements are resized and adjusted for all supported display resolution and scaling combinations (1080p resolution at 100-150% scaling, 4K resolution at 100-300% scaling). This capability is extended to support touch boards.
ID: 400707 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled
Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (e.g. sensitivity labels and rights management) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview portals.
ID: 400716 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Use the Alt key to bring up key tips in new Outlook for Windows
Users in new Outlook will now be able to use the Alt key to bring up key tips when using keyboard navigation. This behavior was previously Win+Alt. Other Outlook apps will not be impacted by these changes. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 403109 Release: Outlook – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities
Activities performed by users like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history within the Purview Audit feature will now begin to generate Audit logs.
ID: 385346 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view
Introducing more avatar reactions and personal boundary on avatars.
ID: 399553 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Show/hide discover feed
You will now have the flexibility to show or hide (turn off/turn on) discover feed. Users can access this new toggle from the general settings section.
ID: 399783 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap with AI-generated notes and tasks for GCC environments
Enabling AI-generated notes and tasks within the intelligent meeting recap experience for GCC customers, expanding on the features within intelligent recap that are already available to GCC customers today (personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, chapters, and topics).
ID: 399938 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Message reminders
This feature is being cancelled as service team has deprecated this feature. When Outlook identifies that a user could have forgotten to respond to or follow up on an email message, it could bring that email back to the top of the inbox, marking it needing an action. A maximum of one email message can be brought to the top of the user’s inbox at a time.
ID: 178351 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
