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Digital signage is coming to Teams Rooms. Users will be able to view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. There will be integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems. This feature will available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers and is expected to roll out in August 2024.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated coaching by Copilot experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web
The new coaching by Copilot experience allows you to apply the coaching suggestions given by Copilot by requesting to rewrite the email message based on the feedback received when using coaching by Copilot. With this update, you can accept and make Copilot rewrite the email in one click based on those coaching suggestions. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 392326 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Word: Open PDF document in Word iOS
Open PDF documents in Word iOS and convert PDF documents to Word documents for rich editing.
ID: 398012 Release: Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Video templates
Create and highlight videocentric publications, like meeting content or executive messages, with the new video templates in Viva Amplify; this presents videos that are inline, playable, and beautiful.
ID: 398979 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Custom chart and PivotTable creation
You can now ask for more specific charts and PivotTables, including specifying the x and y axis of charts.
ID: 399423 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Summarize text columns
Copilot can analyze columns of text to give you summaries of the information. For example, Copilot will find the main themes in survey responses from open-ended questions.
ID: 399425 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights Hybrid Workplace Report
The new Viva Insights Hybrid workplace report helps leaders understand the experience of hybrid, remote, and onsite employees at their companies. The report identifies when and how employees are working in a hybrid work environment, and how the employee experience might differ depending on whether an employee works onsite, remote, or hybrid. The report is available in the Insights Teams app or Insights web app for leaders in organizations that have hybrid workplace data available.
ID: 400446 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Digital signage on Teams Rooms on Windows
Users can view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. Admins can remotely configure tenant-wide and room-specific digital signage settings at scale from Teams Rooms Pro Management. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems are supported, initial partners are Appspace and XOGO. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers.
ID: 400700 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through proximity join for Teams Rooms on Windows
When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Room on Windows with a companion device, in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms.
ID: 400702 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms
Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform’s in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license.
ID: 400703 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Room video tile re-sizing based on people count for Teams Rooms on Windows
Using people count information, the room video tile is dynamically re-sized in Gallery view. If there is only one user in the room, the video tile will be the same size as the remote participant tile. If there is more than one user in the room, the room video tile will be 4x the size of the remote participant tile. Admins will be available to turn on/off the people count capability.
ID: 400706 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Save Prompt, Share Prompt, and Try in App release
With this feature, users of Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote will be able to save prompts that they have created to Copilot Lab and share them with their coworkers. Also, users on the Copilot Lab website who find a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote prompt that they like will be able to launch Copilot and run that prompt with a single click of the new “Try in Copilot” button.
ID: 400710 Release: Windows 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft 365, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Excel, Windows – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Forms: Try the new streamlined and modernized experience in Forms to create your next form
Enjoy a simpler, modernized interface on Forms. Toggle between upgraded templates as you create your form and then view insights and suggested actions when the responses come in.
ID: 400715 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled
Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (e.g. sensitivity labels and rights management) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview portals.
ID: 400716 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Information Protection – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels
Dynamic watermarking is a new sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
ID: 400717 Release: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Open attachments in desktop apps from the new Outlook for Windows
In the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open attachments of all types in their respective desktop app by double clicking them. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 401123 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats
When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, Teams standard and shared channel charts are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users or security groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat.
ID: 401126 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats
When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, Teams standard and shared channel charts are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users or security groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat.
ID: 401127 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024
Outlook: Pin favorites at the top in the New Outlook for Windows and Web
Easily access your most-used folders by pinning them at the top of your Left Nav Bar in the New Outlook for Windows and Web. This feature streamlines navigation, ensuring your important folders are always within reach. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 401341 Release: Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center
Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account.
ID: 179897 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings
Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned.
ID: 373655 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Show online archive storage in the new Outlook for Windows and Web
With this latest update, users can now easily view their online archive storage directly within the Outlook application. By displaying online archive storage information, users can proactively manage their email storage and make informed decisions about archiving, cleaning, and their regular and archived folders. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 386902 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Workflows – Easier discoverability of Workflows templates
Users will be able to discover which Workflows template was used when they receive a Workflows card in chats and channels. Teams Workflow cards posted from a template will now include a link to the template used. Users will be able to open the workflow template and create their own automated Teams workflows to save them time when completing routine tasks.
ID: 393923 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel chat helper
Customers can get more conversational answers to a broader range of Excel-related questions and prompts from Copilot. For example, the customer can ask how to accomplish a task and Copilot will respond with helpful steps that may include formulas to copy and use. In some cases, Copilot may explain a formula error and supply the corrected formula plus additional guidance to ensure the formula works properly.
ID: 394275 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: RSVP improvements in event context menu in new Outlook for Windows and web
Changes to the event’s right-click context menu will make it easier to respond to meeting invitations from the Calendar surface. All RSVP options will be on the first level of the menu. There will be also separate options to respond to either all events in the series or just the current instance. This update will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newOutlookforWindows
ID: 394680 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Copilot works on any selection
Copilot will enable the edit box on any worksheet regardless of selection. Copilot will reason over the nearest table or data range to the customer’s selected grid area on the same worksheet.
ID: 396560 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Support for Data Ranges Resembling Tables
Copilot can now reason over data ranges with a single row of headers on top, even when they’re not Excel tables.
ID: 396561 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Official Communities Discovery
Official Communities are discoverable in the Communities Discovery page. Under Recommended Communities, there is an Official Communities section which highlights the communities that have been verified by the network admins.
ID: 396722 Release: Microsoft Viva – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms Smart Reminder to gain higher engagement from audience
Copilot smart reminder will monitor and proactively share engagement and submission status to a form’s owner in order to suggest follow-up actions. For example, if engagement is low, forms owners can leverage Copilot to send reminders for forms or quizzes quickly. Also, Copilot smart reminder can remind owners to check the insights when there are sufficient responses to make decisions.
ID: 392845 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Closed captioning support in Teams Walkie Talkie
Walkie Talkie users can now view captions on the walkie talkie home screen, for transmissions being received.
ID: 396558 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails