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Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. This update will be available in August 2024.

In Development

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video drafting in Copilot powered by Clipchamp

Clipchamp brings video creation skills to Copilot. Type your prompt and Clipchamp will write a bespoke script, source high quality stock footage, and assemble a video project with music, voiceover, text overlays and transitions. Open your video project draft in the Clipchamp app to continue to edit, export, and share. This feature is great for informational videos, video messaging, how-to videos, demos, and video presentations.

ID: 402192 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails

Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

ID: 402194 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

SharePoint: Using Data Access Governance to understand the tenant’s current permission landscape

SharePoint admins can now use Data Access Governance (DAG) to understand their tenant’s current permission landscape and make better decisions regarding applications based on permissions such as Copilot. DAG now provides a report that will reflect the latest state of permissions in the entire tenant and return sites that have a greater count of permissioned users than the SharePoint admin specified number. This count considers users accessing sites via site membership and users accessing via unique permissions, as well and acts like a potential threshold for oversharing. Along with the permissioned user count, the report also provides information on the number of existing sharing links (Anyone and People-in-your-org) in those sites and enables SharePoint admins to identify potential root causes for oversharing. You can find more details about this report at the link below.

ID: 406552 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

SharePoint: Site Access Review offers a way for SharePoint tenants to empower site owners using Data Access Governance

SharePoint admins can use Data Access Governance reports to discover potential oversharing within their tenant. Once discovered, SharePoint admins can now request that site owners review permissions using the specific context of that report from within the report. They can also track all such requests raised from a central location. The site owners will receive a corresponding email and are redirected to a section within the site (site reviews) that clearly enunciates the corresponding data related to sharing and permissions along with the ability to take action. This feature is now available for Data Access Governance – Permissions based reports – count of permissioned user report.

ID: 406553 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats

Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats.

ID: 407897 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Enhanced device inventory for Windows devices

Gain more inventory information about your Windows devices. Choose which device properties you want to collect from which device and then view that information for your devices.

ID: 408169 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: List-based Forms card for Viva Connections Dashboard

This feature will allow operators to add a card for any form/survey created for data collection on the Viva Connections Dashboard for attention and quick action.

ID: 408537 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Copy a publication within a campaign

Gone are the days where you must rewrite or manually copy and paste content from an old publication to a newly drafted one to reuse it. Soon in Viva Amplify, you will be able to copy a publication within an existing campaign with just a few clicks. This new feature streamlines the content creation process, enabling communicators to easily reuse existing content across SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, including all channel-specific customizations and related audiences, saving you time and effort.

ID: 409234 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Use the Egress API to provide learner access to “My Learning” records

The Egress API can be used by learners to view their My Learning records and corresponding course details.

ID: 409235 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot assisted catch up on important work related to goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps users in finding and catching up on documents, meetings, chats, emails, and work related to all or a subset of the goals in view

ID: 409963 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot assisted summarization and catch up on goals

Copilot in Viva Goals helps you save time by generating a comprehensive summary with tone, length of your preference for one or more goals in the view, allowing you to quickly catch up on and share your goal status and progress with leaders, stakeholders, and your team

ID: 409964 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates

We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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: 409966 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy Nudges to all Copilot SKU users (Seeded and Premium Viva Learning Users)

All Users having Copilot SKU (Viva Learning Seeded and Premium) will be nudged about Copilot Academy through a notification on Teams. Users will also get a monthly recurring notification in Teams about Copilot Academy.

ID: 409968 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: Fonts in Outlook for iOS and Android

We heard feedback from you, our customers, and are adding support for choosing fonts while you compose in Outlook for iOS and Android. There is also improved support for fonts in the reading pane.

ID: 409969 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Calendar support in Online Archive

Add calendar support in Online Archive.

ID: 410249 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2025

Rolling Out

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, advanced hunting, and custom detection email entity page take action

SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer, advanced hunting, custom detection and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action.

ID: 184915 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium)

Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen.

ID: 381447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive

Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

ID: 381450 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs

The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events.

ID: 387128 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New proactive assistance in Copilot

Catch-up is a new experience in Copilot which aims to proactively help users catch up and take action on important updates. It contains a group of cards. Each card has an update related to an important meeting or document. It will work in M365chat and Teams Copilot. It shows up as a tab on the home page.

ID: 388746 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Changes to version history for Stream videos

Stream (on SharePoint) video files tend to be large and consume considerable space against your OneDrive and SharePoint storage quotas. Currently, when you make changes to video metadata, such as adjustments to the video title, description, transcript, chapters, interactivity, thumbnails, or media settings, those changes trigger a new version (that includes both the video and metadata) to be created and stored in the version history for that file. Each of these versions consumes storage that counts towards your storage quota. To reduce the storage footprint driven by small changes, we are adjusting how Stream (on SharePoint) handles versions. Soon we will release an update to Stream version history. Once released, any changes made to the metadata of Stream files will no longer trigger an entirely new version in the file’s version history. Instead, it will update the metadata of the most current version of the video in version history. If you edit the video itself, then a new version that includes both the video and metadata will be created and stored in the version history. Note: The update to Stream version history applies to Stream videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. SharePoint is also introducing new version history limits and controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. These new version history limits and controls will only apply to Stream videos if changes to the video are made from within a SharePoint document library without opening the video in Stream (e.g. a file name change from within a SharePoint doc library). See Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145802 for more information on version history limits and controls.

ID: 395380 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat

The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change.

ID: 396169 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Time Suggestions Update

We are improving how suggested times are shown when scheduling a meeting. We are removing the automatically shown suggested times and instead you will need to enable a switch – Find a time – if you want to see suggested times. If you enable the toggle, the new availability view on time suggestion tiles will make it easier to find a suitable time with more clarity on everyone’s availability. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396574 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: School Connection – Providing access to parents via their phone number

The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams (mobile) empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. This release enables a parent/guardian to get access to their child’s profile in School Connection if they login to Teams (mobile) with their phone number and the school has registered that phone number as a parent/guardian contact. Additionally, a parent/guardian will easily get access to their child’s profile if the phone number or email address that is registered by the school is saved as a login information in their Microsoft account. Learn more about School Connection at the link below.

ID: 398447 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Creation and Registration APIs

Customers now have additional capabilities to manage Webinars, namely the ability to create, update, and delete Webinars, as well as register attendees to existing Webinars using a new set of APIs.

ID: 398448 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property

This cmdlet allows users to verify the compliance boundary property of a specific OneDrive site, ensuring that the value is correctly configured. If the property is not set or if the site is in arbitration, users can use this cmdlet to assign the property value for the site for compliance boundary to take effect.

ID: 398451 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Show Chat info in Microsoft Teams

Chat users can have access to contextual information including members, pinned messages, shared files and links, and entry point to contextual search from this canvas.

ID: 398956 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July 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

Launched

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD

All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD.

ID: 389854 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Dashboard in Viva Insights to become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365

In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard will become available to all Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers at no additional cost and will not require a Viva or Viva Insights license. Users will be able to access the dashboard in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or the web app.

ID: 396346 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Message result suggestions when typing to search

You will now see message result suggestions when formulating a query. You can also narrow down search results to “messages” helping you quickly find Teams message content most relevant for you.

ID: 398955 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinar presenter orderability on event page

Users can now customize the list of presenters in the webinar event page via drag and drop functionality. This option can be found under the “Presenter Bio” section of the webinar set-up dialog box.

ID: 399465 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees.

ID: 399552 Release: Microsoft Graph, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Define criteria for validating responses to open-text questions in Microsoft Forms

Now you can set specific requirements for answers to open-text questions. You can ensure the answer is an email address, URL, contains certain keywords, must be number or text, etc.

ID: 400503 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment

By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Microsoft Entra ID organizational hierarchy data, customers will be able to monitor offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance, where customers may wish to explore potential root causes of conflict in their respective organizations. This feature is currently in back under review and not being scheduled at this time.

ID: 146742 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound proximity join admin controls for Teams Rooms on Windows

This roadmap item is cancelled and replaced by 380681. We are sorry for any inconvenience. IT admins can use XML files to enable two proximity join settings for Teams Rooms on Windows: enabling ultrasound signals for a user to accurately find and choose a room to join a meeting from, and whether the Teams Rooms automatically accepts the ring from the user’s laptop to join the meeting.

ID: 381464 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word

When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. This item has been removed because it is a duplicate of Roadmap ID 399921.

ID: 394277 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word

When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. This item is being removed because it is a duplicate of Roadmap ID 399921.

ID: 399922 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024