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Copilot in OneDrive will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It can handle requests of one file or multiple. It will be available in May for all customers with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: Optimize for Video setting for screensharing

Provide setting to optimize screen sharing for video clip by reducing the lag and improving the quality of video playback when sharing video clips in Teams meetings

ID: 93483 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium)

We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting.

ID: 116819 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva App Bar integration in Viva Learning Webapp

Viva Learning Webapp will have an easy way to switch across other Viva Webapp modules. Note: Rolling this item back to “in development” per our email chain – this item was prematurely updated to launched, and has been reverted to it’s correct status.

ID: 160733 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in Android applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels

PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Android applications when the label is unencrypted.

ID: 363449 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in iOS applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels

PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the iOS applications when the label is unencrypted.

ID: 363454 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.

ID: 377303 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

OneDrive: New empty state images

You will see new and improved images and text in various views on OneDrive for Web when there are no files associated with those views. These images will appear in new OneDrive accounts that have no stored files, and they may appear in existing OneDrive accounts that have no recent, favorited, shared, or recycled files. As an example, if you have no favorited files, you will see an image of a star with text that reads “Items you favorite will show up here.”

ID: 380177 Release: OneDrive – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights

Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption.

ID: 380477 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March 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: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users

Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate four new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users: MailItemsAccessed, Send, SearchQueryInitiatedExchange, and SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint. The following logs will differ based on the user’s license and additional metadata will be added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed.

ID: 380690 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Drag and drop to download attachments and emails in the new Outlook for Windows

Users can drag and drop attachments and emails from the new Outlook for Windows to their desktops or local folders to download them directly to that location.

ID: 380720 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.

ID: 380721 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match

This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated.

ID: 380722 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch Provisioning of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Zero touch provisioning is a feature that allows you to deploy Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices without any physical intervention at the site. It leverages Windows Autopilot and auto-login technologies to automate the enrollment and configuration of the devices from the cloud, using the credentials stored in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management. With Zero touch provisioning, you can reduce the deployment time and cost and improve the security and compliance.

ID: 380724 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams for Education: iOS/Android Parent link for School Connection

Allows parents to connect to School Connection in Teams for Education by clicking the iOS/Android mobile link provided by their school’s administration.

ID: 380745 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join Teams Rooms on Android

IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android to ensure a level of security and privacy. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.

ID: 380747 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to change language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Users can change the default app language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows by tapping “More” and then “Language” on the room console. Admins can select up to three languages that users can pick from in the room.

ID: 380752 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Search: Video Search in Bing, Office.com, SharePoint

Our new Video vertical on Bing, Office.com, and SharePoint will provide better search capabilities for videos in your organization.

ID: 380829 Release: Microsoft Search – GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: screen recorder on mobile device

You can use Teams on your Android device to record your screen and share it with others in any channel or chat. Just press and hold the camera icon next to the compose box and then tap the screen recorder icon to begin the recording.

ID: 380850 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting

Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the artifacts from the meeting in the meeting chat. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, Collaborative notes, any files that were shared, a link to any Whiteboard that was used, and the meeting details like date and time of the meeting event. For Teams Premium users, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks.

ID: 381121 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Expanded incoming call setting options for Teams Phone Mobile users

Teams Phone Mobile users will now the flexibility to choose whether group calls, calls received as part of a call queue, and meeting nudges are received natively on their mobile phone or in the Teams app. This new capability enables greater flexibility and mobility and allows users to easily move these calls between their native dialer or the Teams app without interruption.

ID: 381428 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Moving Managed Site Indicator (Briefcase icon) into the lock icon in the address bar omnibox

The briefcase icon which signals that a page is managed, has been moved into the lock icon within the address bar. If an admin would like to see whether there are protections for a given page, they can click to open the lock icon in the address bar to look for the briefcase icon.

ID: 381451 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

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

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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet

You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…)

ID: 381643 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft To Do: Grid view for tasks in Microsoft To Do

Tasks can now be seen in a grid view in the web version of Microsoft To Do as well as when using To Do in other apps like Microsoft Outlook.

ID: 381749 Release: Microsoft To Do – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes in GCC and GCC-H

Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.

ID: 381757 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Copy simulation action in Attack Simulation Training

Using the copy simulation action button, Attack simulation administrators will be able to effortlessly duplicate existing simulations and make necessary edits to introduce fresh and tailored simulation scenarios.

ID: 381968 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.

ID: 138480 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled”

Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.

ID: 153651 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Groups connected Viva Goals Teams

Users will now save time with a simplified set-up experience for setting up their Viva Goals Teams.
ID: 165682 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024

Launched
Canceled

Power BI: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights

The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard is a new Power BI app from Viva Insights that helps organizational leaders prepare for rollout, and track adoption and impact of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 185698 Release: Power BI, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024