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Microsoft Teams is getting ready to introduce three new features: chat with self, chat density and delay delivery that will provide users more control during their work day. Users can use the chat with self feature to send notes, videos and files to themselves. Also, users can use the delay delivery feature to schedule messages and customize the size of their Teams chats using the chat density feature.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Yammer: Communities Expiry Autorenewal
Yammer activity is now included in activity-based automatic renewal of Microsoft 365 Groups. When a user has viewed a post within a Yammer community, the community will automatically renew group expiration.
ID: 82186 Tags: Yammer -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Yammer: New Administrator Role in Azure Active Directory (AAD)
A new role is being added to Azure Active Directory titled, “Yammer Administrator”. Users who are assigned the Yammer Administrator role will be allowed to manage all aspects of the Yammer service.
ID: 82187 Tags: Yammer, Azure Active Directory -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to Threat Explorer and Real-time Detections
We are working towards updating the user experience for Threat Explorer and Real-time detections. As part of this update, we will introduce enhancements like All Email view by Default for Explorer, toggling between chart or grid view, single click data export and more. There is no change in functionality when it comes to core experiences like filtering, export, and this is an update to the user experience.
ID: 82192 Tags: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
OneDrive and Microsoft Stream: Sharing Links that block download for most video and audio files
Users can choose to share most video and audio files with a sharing link that will prevent recipients from being able to download the file. Recipients can still view the file via the web player experiences.
ID: 82193 Tags: OneDrive, Microsoft Stream, SharePoint -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft Graph: ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector
ServiceNow Tickets Graph Connector will index incident tickets from ServiceNow into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.
ID: 86517 Tags: Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Search -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Graph: Confluence On-premises Graph Connector
Confluence On-premises Graph Connector will index content like pages, blogs from Confluence on-premises site into Microsoft Search and allow users to query them from SharePoint, Microsoft Bing, Office .com, Microsoft Teams and Windows Search Box.
ID: 86518 Tags: Microsoft Search, Microsoft Graph -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI – VMware
This feature enables users on VMware on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.
ID: 86858 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for iOS users
For a better hybrid meeting experience, Teams users on their iPhone can use a single tap to join a meeting on both their device and Microsoft Teams Room. Audio on their device will be automatically turned off to ensure echo doesn’t happen. Furthermore, the landing experience on the iPhone will be optimized for engagement activities to make it easier to raise hand or react, chat, see all participants, and more.
ID: 87869 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Chat density
Customize the number of chat messages you see on the screen. Use the compact setting to fit 50 percent more messages on the screen. Comfortable setting keeps the chat display as it is in Teams today.
ID: 88064 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Chat with self
Users can send themselves notes, messages, files and images/videos; helping them stay organized.
ID: 88066 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Delay delivery of chat messages
You can send out a chat message in a time that is convenient to you, and the message will arrive to its destination at the time you scheduled.
ID: 88281 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Enriching the App detailed page with more descriptive App information In Teams admin center
The app detail page will provide greater description for each app, including images and product videos.
ID: 88306 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: New Tag Management Settings
This feature will update default tag management settings in the Teams Admin Center to include ”Team owners and members” and not just “Team owners.” You can still update this to only “Team owners” at the tenant level and override the default.
ID: 88318 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Release: January CY2022
Microsoft Teams: Workspace Management
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 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: February CY2022
Microsoft Teams: New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account setting
A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.
ID: 88430 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Insider risk management – User activity reports
User activity reports allow you to examine activities for specific users for a defined time period without having to assign them temporarily or explicitly to an insider risk management policy. Thisis currently available in public preview. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 88491 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: March CY2022
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery – Hold optimizations
This update provides various service optimizations for Advanced eDiscovery, including service improvements for hold and limits increase.
ID: 70586 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Release: November CY2021
Whiteboard: Whiteboard on Windows revamped
Microsoft Whiteboard provides a freeform intelligent canvas where teams can ideate, create, and collaborate visually via the cloud. The new Whiteboard app for Windows addresses key customer asks around offering a uniform & seamless experience with Whiteboard on other clients & platforms. It also provides highly requested features such as the ability to add shapes & adopts a user-centric approach by focusing on marquee features such as ability to insert templates, images, sticky notes, text boxes & stickers thus, keeping the interface lean & the user experience simple yet effective.
ID: 82094 Tags: Whiteboard -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: November CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Teams data in Content Explorer
With the availability of Teams data in Content Explorer, customers will be able to display Sensitive information and Sensitivity labels detected on Teams data within the Content explorer.
ID: 82185 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery: Case limit enhancements
Advanced eDiscovery is expanding the limits for collection size, review set volume, and export. The limits expansion increases the collection size from 300GB currently to 1TB and expands the review set capacity as well to accommodate large case volumes. Export limits will be increased to 5M documents or 500GB, whichever is smaller. This update will help ensure organizations are able to manage their eDiscovery process across very large data sets effectively with Advanced eDiscovery. This is currently available in public preview.
ID: 85630 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Search: Customize out of box verticals and add verticals for SharePoint content
New support for custom verticals in Microsoft Search allows you to customize out of the box verticals for Microsoft Search and add new verticals based on SharePoint content.
ID: 85657 Tags: Microsoft Search -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Content from camera
“Content from camera” in Teams enables you to share content from physical artefacts such as whiteboards and documents in a high quality and legible way during meetings. All you need is a laptop or PC with an in-built camera or with an attached USB camera. Educators can also share content directly from a document camera.
ID: 86062 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Graph: Taxonomy service Graph APIs
New Graph APIs that allow developers to work directly with Managed Metadata Services, which provides a common taxonomy for tagging and classifying content across Microsoft 365.
ID: 64185 Tags: Microsoft Graph -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
SharePoint Syntex: Modern site-level term store
A modern experience to create and manage site-level taxonomies for your sites.
ID: 85638 Tags: SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Peer5 eCDN support for Teams Live Events
Soon, you will be able to use Peer5 as an eCDN provider for your Teams Live Event network needs.
ID: 85787 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Large gallery view and Together Mode for GCC High
Ability for Teams Rooms to support different video gallery layouts including in large gallery and Together mode, in GCC High clouds.
ID: 85812 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC High Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Starting recording will also start live transcription.
If both recording and policy settings are enabled, turning on recording will also start live transcription.
ID: 85837 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for GCC
Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).
ID: 86064 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for GCC High
Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).
ID: 86066 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC High Release: August CY2021
Microsoft Teams: MacOS native notifications in Teams for DoD
Users can now choose to get Microsoft Teams notifications, either via Teams built-in notifications or via macOS native notifications. When choosing native notifications, Teams inherits the OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action centre triaging and do not disturb (DND).
ID: 86067 Tags: Microsoft Teams -DoD Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86086 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC High
Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.
ID: 86087 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC High Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Safari
Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Safari browser.
ID: 86513 Tags: Microsoft Teams -GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: September CY2021
Microsoft Teams: Anonymous user join policy
Teams meeting policy that controls allowing anonymous users on meeting organizer level.
ID: 87503 Tags: Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Release: November CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Viva Learning Usage Report
This report will help IT admins can understand the activity of every user licensed to use Viva Learning, by looking at their interaction. It also helps IT admins understand the type of features being used within the Learning App.
ID: 88482 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center -Germany, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: November CY2021
Visio: Map your process data and automatically transform it into a Visio diagram
This item is being cancelled and removed from the roadmap but will be republished when the plans solidify in the future. Use the process mapping pane to map your process data and provide custom settings for automatic creation of process flowcharts using the Data Visualizer Excel Add-in.
ID: 49979 Tags: Visio -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 admin center: Global Usage report for Microsoft Teams
This roadmap item has been incorporated into roadmap entry 85540. Please check this roadmap item for future updates. A new report will be made available with both tenant level aggregation and per-team level details to enable admins to get an overall picture of how the organization is using teams within Microsoft Teams.
ID: 70552 Tags: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Teams -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft 365 compliance center: Advanced Audit – Mail attachments event
This item has been delayed, and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. This update adds a new audit event that specifies if a mail attachment was accessed by the user.
ID: 70584 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Azure Active Directory: Password Protection Enforced for all Changes
Currently password updates made through Graph do not have banned password enforcement, along with B2C users and Service Principals. This change will enforce Password Protection for all password creations and changes. This feature has been cancelled.
ID: 72197 Tags: Azure Active Directory -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: October CY2021
Microsoft Project: Different Dependency types in Project for the web
This feature has been postponed. Add Finish-Finish, Start-Start, and Start-Finish dependencies to your tasks in Project for the web.
ID: 82105 Tags: Microsoft Project -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release: December CY2021
Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Insider risk management – Admin email notifications
This item has beendelayed, and will be added back to the roadmap when the schedule is determined. An admin email notification will be sent when the first alert is generated after a new policy is created. This email will be deployed to all admins within the Insider Risk Management, Analyst, and Investigator role groups. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 85577 Tags: Microsoft Compliance center -Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Release:
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
