Play of the Week

All admins must secure internal data with data loss prevention policies and now Microsoft is making them easier to create. You can duplicate an existing DLP policy and make the changes you need to instead of starting from scratch for every rule. This feature began rolling out to all worldwide commercial tenants in June and we expect it won’t be long until this feature makes its way to GCC and GCCH.

In Development

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab team prompt publishing

This feature gives commercial customers the ability to publish Copilot prompts to groups within their organization.
ID: 391636 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Create EPM rules based on a support approve requests and reporting entries

Admins can now create rules directly from support approval requests and from entries in the elevation report. Previously rules had to be created by hand by entering in all the information about the elevation and how it should be managed.
ID: 399927 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Improved elevation detection

This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.
ID: 399933 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Text Resizing for Teams Rooms on Windows

IT admins can adjust the text size on the front-of-room display by adjusting the display scaling using Windows display scaling settings or XML settings, providing greater accessibility options. Changing the display scaling percentage also affects the size of other UI elements.
ID: 400707 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location on bookable desks

The user’s work location can be automatically set to ‘In the office’ upon plug-in to peripherals at a bookable desk. Once IT enables the policy for a tenant or a group, users can opt-in to automatically update their location making it easier to connect with co-workers when they are in the office.
ID: 401118 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: SharePoint Embed Support for Teams town hall

Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site.
ID: 401120 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Custom background on Teams panels

Administrators can upload and set custom background images for Teams panels through the Teams admin center, enabling them to reflect their organization’s branding. This feature will be available for Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Devices licensed panels.
ID: 402183 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Administrative Units for Teams Administration

We are excited to announce the availability of administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration. AUs are a way to delegate admin roles and delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit. With AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. You can assign the following roles, allowing them to manage only the users, groups & devices within their AU: Teams Administrator Teams Device Administrator Teams Communication Administrator Teams Communication Support Engineer Teams Communication Support Specialist Teams Telephony Administrator
ID: 402186 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Choose custom images as icons for resources in Viva Connections

Operators will be able to add custom images as icons to links located in resources in Viva Connections!
ID: 402188 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Playlist Card on Viva Connections Dashboard

This feature allows tenant admins to create a card for a playlist to be accessed from the Viva Connections Dashboard.
ID: 402190 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers

Microsoft Purview Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is now available for all new onboarding customers. IB v2 has enhanced architecture which enables the following new features: Large-scale segment support: The segment limit in organizations has increased to 5,000. Multi-segment support: Users can be assigned to up to 10 segments. Flexible user discoverability: Organizations can now choose to allow IB-protected users to discover each other while adhering to IB communication and collaboration policies.
ID: 402516 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows

Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see.
ID: 402517 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

OneNote: Windows app – New protected virtual printer

This creates the new virtual printer for OneNote Windows app, built on top of the Microsoft IPP class print driver. This printer will be compliant and functional with Widows Protected Print (WPP) mode.
ID: 402540 Release: OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Planner: New Microsoft Planner App for Teams in GCC

The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner and the power of Project for the web into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management.
ID: 402889 Release: Planner, Microsoft Project – GCC Tags: July CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC

Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.
ID: 93163 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center

Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center
ID: 131169 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers

Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies.
ID: 170738 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Domain/URL Update

To align the URL with the new Viva Engage branding and as part of the unified domain for Microsoft 365 initiative, Viva Engage’s URL schema is being updated. This change includes domains only. A separate roadmap will be created for email sender changes. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
ID: 180352 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams

New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only.
ID: 375418 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes in GCC

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 Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels

If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly.
ID: 384065 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to Copy Rule

With this feature, admins will have capability to reuse existing rules and make slight edits instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This will reduce a lot of manual re-work and boost their productivity.
ID: 384872 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators

Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted and FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled. You will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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: 388734 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: Autofill columns

This allows SharePoint Premium users to add natural language prompts to document library columns to extract or generate metadata from an uploaded file’s contents.
ID: 389375 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

SharePoint: SharePoint Premium content AI Graph API in Beta (formerly known as Syntex)

We are releasing new Graph APIs for SharePoint Premium content AI capabilities in Beta (formerly known as Syntex models). You will be able to build applications using these new Graph API calls: get a Syntex model by its name, get a Syntex model by its ID, apply a Syntex model to document libraries, un-apply a Syntex model from document libraries, list all the applied document libraries of a Syntex model, create a document processing job, and get a document processing job.
ID: 389855 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Outlook: Shortcuts to copy and paste emails (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V) in the new Outlook for Windows and web

Users will be able to copy and paste emails in Outlook using the shortcuts Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, allowing them to quickly transfer emails to the desired folder, streamlining workflow, and enhancing productivity. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 393337 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Restricted SharePoint Search

Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot.
ID: 385352 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Access Copilot directly in classic Outlook for Windows

The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places is now available from within classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar.
ID: 388753 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Canceled

Whiteboard: Voting

*This feature has been deprioritized for the time being as Whiteboard prioritizes other highly requested feature development. As a workaround, Whiteboard has features that accommodate lightweight voting such as sticky note reactions that can be used. This feature will bring a more formalized voting function to Whiteboard. This can be used in order to gather feedback from participants to come to conclusions during various activities. This will have the ability to be anonymous or not.
ID: 117392 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June 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 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024