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Soon you will be able to find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web. Microsoft is adding new filters for file types and the date a file was created or modified. The update is expected this month for all customers.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word
Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word.
ID: 319970 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web
OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it’s in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We’ve added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We’ve also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time.
ID: 395379 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Microsoft Copilot available in Outlook for Mac
The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get in the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (work mode) and in other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar.
ID: 395788 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference data from the Microsoft cloud when drafting with Copilot in Word
Draft with Copilot will allow users to explicitly add and reference specific mails, chats, meetings, and people. Draft with Copilot will support attaching rich content from the Microsoft cloud—including emails and meetings—resulting in content that’s more contextually relevant.
ID: 397095 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Retention Labels are available for Loop pages and components
Organizations that rely on Microsoft’s records management capabilities in Purview can now include Loop content in their workflows with Retention Labels on Loop pages and components. There’s an in-app experience when a label is applied or a record is locked.
ID: 397755 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer
This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later.
ID: 397771 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Scoped and targeted device clean up rule
This enables IT admins to clean up inactive devices from their tenant by providing capabilities of running these rules at a platform level.
ID: 397886 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: New profile view with Org Chart and files
This creates a new and expanded profile view that includes an Org Chart and files.
ID: 398450 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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 Clipchamp: Brand kit – Extended elements and tenant-wide rollout
Brand kit enables anyone to create and share brand asset collections including colors, fonts, and logos to easily apply brand elements while creating. This release adds support for images, backgrounds, stickers, video, and audio asset types. An organization’s official assets can now be rolled out tenant-wide via SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL). Brand kit creation, sharing, and manual usage is being made generally available to all Clipchamp for work accounts for users with standard access.
ID: 398992 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Longer documents can be summarized in chat
Copilot in Word will be able to completely summarize documents that it could only partially summarize before. The upper limit is increasing to about four times more words.
ID: 399413 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June 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 Purview compliance portal: Planner –Data eDiscovery in Microsoft Purview
Conduct a content search for eDiscovery and legal hold on Planner tasks in Microsoft Purview. The Planner data available for eDiscovery includes tasks shared with groups, along with the comments and attachments associated with those tasks.
ID: 399550 Release: Planner, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Turn On/Off notifications for a post
Users will now be able to opt in/opt-out from receiving notifications for a post in a channel.
ID: 399782 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July 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: July CY2024
Word: Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word
Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word.
ID: 399784 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Word: Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word
Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word.
ID: 399785 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Word: Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts
On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document.
ID: 399918 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts
On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document.
ID: 399919 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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.
ID: 399921 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word
The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone.
ID: 399923 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word
Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word.
ID: 399925 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for macOS (GCC)
GCC customers can now use Remote Help on macOS devices.
ID: 399926 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Intune: SCEP certificate delivery
Intune solution for our customers as well as external partners to deliver SCEP certificates with the right security precautions to devices to mitigate the KDC issue.
ID: 399932 Release: Microsoft Intune – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap with AI-generated notes and tasks for GCC environments
Enabling AI-generated notes and tasks within the intelligent meeting recap experience for GCC customers, expanding on the features within intelligent recap that are already available to GCC customers today (personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, chapters, and topics).
ID: 399938 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Copilot summarization notification
The feature displays an Omnibox notification when users enter into a reading mode eligible page in Edge and offers them the option to open Copilot in the sidebar to generate a summary of the content.
ID: 399939 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Adaptive Scopes operator support
Microsoft Purview adaptive scopes will be enhanced to include query support for “contains” and “not contains”. For more information on adaptive scopes, see the link below.
ID: 399940 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access
Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes some minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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: 400444 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Outlook: Managing document permissions in Outlook for iOS
Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.
ID: 108887 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: 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 eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from three options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters, or (3) No one. This way meeting organizers will be able to manage which roles can initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. This functionality will be available to Teams Premium and Copilot for M365 licensed users.
ID: 116819 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Organize folders in your sidebar
Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want.
ID: 178349 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium)
Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
ID: 185802 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks
With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to shared desks. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal and collect utilization data from these desks for proactive management and planning.
ID: 314430 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link
Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request.
ID: 325330 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts
Introducing a new control for IT administrators to restrict permissions for the download of meeting transcript files (stored in OneDrive for Business) for any users within the tenant. This policy applies to new meeting transcripts across the entire organization. Administrators can exempt people who are members of specified security groups from the policy. This allows admins to specify governance or compliance specialists who should have download access to meeting transcripts. Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity.
ID: 332800 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the view, download, and delete experience of Teams meeting transcript files
We are streamlining the storage of meeting transcript files. Starting with this feature, all meeting transcript entry points in Teams app will point to the OneDrive for Business copy only. The rollout of this feature also improves the delete experience of the transcript for meeting organizers. Now, when a meeting organizer or co-organizer deletes the transcript in Microsoft Teams app, this will delete both copies of the transcript (from OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online) at the same time. If the meeting organizer deletes the transcript from Stream, only the copy in OneDrive for Business will be deleted. We also update the default permissions so that meeting organizer and co-organizers will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, while meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition, the recording/transcript file owner will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript. At the same time, meeting transcripts will stop saving in Exchange Online altogether and all transcript storage will be standardized on OneDrive for Business. Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity.
ID: 365720 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow
When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them.
ID: 381734 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings
The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting.
ID: 389368 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Webinar – Disable social share for attendees
Disable the ability for attendees to share the webinar event page to social networking sites for public events post-registration.
ID: 393225 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium)
The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled.
ID: 393229 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot
Introducing a new meeting option that gives meeting organizers the flexibility to manage which attendees have access to meeting artifacts such as transcript, recording, AI-generated recap, and Copilot. Meeting organizers can select from three options: (1) People with existing access, (2) Organizers and Co-organizers, or (3) Specific People.
ID: 394688 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: File Image preview in chats and channels
When you share documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) in chat or channel conversation, you can see a thumbnail image of the file in the thread. This lets you preview the file’s content without opening it and find the file you need quickly.
ID: 395936 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Calendar split view when surface is set to month view
When viewing multiple calendars in month view, users will be able to select “split view” to see those calendars displayed side by side. This feature will be available in new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 396727 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Import navigational links from SharePoint into Resources in Viva Connections
On the desktop experience for Viva Connections, operators will be able to effortlessly import SharePoint links from their home site navigation and global navigation directly into the Resources section.
ID: 397890 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Schedule a Viva Pulse request to be resent
Schedule and resend pulses to get periodic feedback from your team members.
ID: 164902 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates
You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can utilize these email templates to: inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more similar scenarios.
ID: 373310 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Regional announcements for FLW users in Viva Connections
Create and share time sensitive messages in Viva Connections and target your FLW users based on attributes including job, description and title. You can view these announcements on Viva Connections desktop, mobile and tablet.
ID: 383735 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
PowerPoint: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot can create presentations from a PDF file
Copilot in PowerPoint will now be able to support automatically generating a presentation based on a PDF file. This is in addition to the existing support for automatically generating a presentation based on a Word document.
ID: 396344 Release: PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
