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Soon when working on your mobile device, Outlook will allow you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. Meaning, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder. This update will be rolling out in January 2025 for Commercial and Government clouds.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it
When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow ups to keep the conversation going. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or asking what a particular person said during the meeting.
ID: 325858 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
OneNote: Copilot Pages in OneNote
Access Copilot pages inside OneNote, along with all of your notes.
ID: 464995 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video
The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams.
ID: 469496 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive
Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
ID: 469503 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Outlook: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app for iOS and Android
Outlook will help you compose emails more quickly and efficiently by allowing you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. This means that, while composing an email, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder.
ID: 470304 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Top questions
Top Questions shows community members the most-viewed questions in their community over the last 90 days. It is designed to help people quickly find the most relevant and popular questions in their communities.
ID: 422317 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Managed booking with Copilot
Building on booking suggestions, Copilot’s managed booking feature rebooks room declines for single and recurring meetings, especially when room availability varies week to week. Additionally, Copilot will handle any changes, updates, and conflicts to guarantee a room for your meetings.
ID: 422721 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places
Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, empowering hybrid employees to foster in-office collaboration and leveraging insights into space optimization. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data.
ID: 433684 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Enhanced functionalities to manage SharePoint Embedded Containers through SharePoint Admin Center
The new update empowers the SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to manage their containers better through sorting and filtering capabilities as well as set sensitivity labels on containers. The SPE Admins now also have user role management capabilities to add, reassign, or remove users from various roles of a container.
ID: 468886 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API
Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.
ID: 167531 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Glint
Highlight top issues and potential solutions hidden throughout employee suggestions from survey results; plus, help leaders explore comments using natural-language questions.
ID: 324079 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment
Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters.
ID: 410985 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: November 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
Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame video feed support extended to Teams Rooms on Android and Teams mobile devices
Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows.
ID: 415250 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365: Cloud Update logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users
Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Update service, like enabling Cloud Update or changing a Cloud Update configuration setting, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users.
ID: 420932 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Windows 365, Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign rolling out globally
Previously, the use third-party providers as part of SharePoint eSignature platform were limited to regions supported by Microsoft’s native SharePoint eSignature. With this release, customers can now enjoy the flexibility of using these third-party providers globally, wherever they are supported.
ID: 421194 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Places – Auto update location with Workplace Presence
With Workplace Presence, you can discover coworkers who are in office nearby. Location will be automatically updated to “office” when we detect that an employee is on site, signaled by the connection of their laptop to a known peripheral, e.g. a known or company-managed monitor in a corporate office, or on a bookable desk. Users can enable/disable “Auto-update my location when detected in the office” via the Places settings menu in Teams.
ID: 422716 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Page header enhancements
We’ve made enhancements to the Viva Engage page header for a more streamlined experience. The header now pulls in more relevant content and emphasizes key actions like “Join.” Additionally, we’ve reduced the icon size slightly to prevent overlap with background images, ensuring improved visibility and interaction.
ID: 422731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails