Play of the Week

Microsoft Intune will have the ability to temporarily remove apps and config from a single device, and then initiate a restore. This is intended to help solve customers’ challenges external to Intune and quickly restore end user productivity. The feature will be in development for all tenants starting in June 2024.

In Development

Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar

File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar.
ID: 91163 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced sound notification controls

You can change the sound of your notifications to help you stay focused, prioritize quickly and avoid distractions. You can as well make urgent notifications and priority contact notifications more prominent. You can also mute notification sounds when you are busy or in a meeting.
ID: 93487 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft 365 app: Loop generates a workspace after your Teams meeting

A workspace is jumpstarted and actively updated as new materials are shared in Teams to enable ongoing collaboration within Loop.
ID: 141433 Release: Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels

Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand.
ID: 325780 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Highlight and rewrite for draft with Copilot in new Outlook for Windows and web

Similar to Microsoft Word, highlight and rewrite capabilities will allow users to select specific sentences in their email draft and have them rewritten by Copilot. Using highlight and rewrite when drafting with Copilot in Outlook, users will be able to give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and be able to modify tone and length. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 392327 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Changes to version history for Stream videos

Stream (on SharePoint) video files tend to be large and consume considerable space against your OneDrive and SharePoint storage quotas. Currently, when you make changes to video metadata, such as adjustments to the video title, description, transcript, chapters, interactivity, thumbnails, or media settings, those changes trigger a new version (that includes both the video and metadata) to be created and stored in the version history for that file. Each of these versions consumes storage that counts towards your storage quota. To reduce the storage footprint driven by small changes, we are adjusting how Stream (on SharePoint) handles versions. Soon we will release an update to Stream version history. Once released, any changes made to the metadata of Stream files will no longer trigger an entirely new version in the file’s version history. Instead, it will update the metadata of the most current version of the video in version history. If you edit the video itself, then a new version that includes both the video and metadata will be created and stored in the version history. Note: The update to Stream version history applies to Stream videos stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. SharePoint is also introducing new version history limits and controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. These new version history limits and controls will only apply to Stream videos if changes to the video are made from within a SharePoint document library without opening the video in Stream (e.g. a file name change from within a SharePoint doc library). See Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145802 for more information on version history limits and controls.
ID: 395380 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August 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: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Settings page for Viva Engage Communities

Viva Engage Communities Settings are migrating from a modal to a page. Feature-level settings to configure and activate community features will continue to be released on this settings page, allowing for more customization in communities.
ID: 396721 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Device Action – Remove apps and configuration

Intune will have the ability to temporarily remove apps and config from a single device, and then initiate a restore. This is intended to help solve customers’ challenges external to Intune and quickly restore end user productivity.
ID: 397752 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time

You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month.
ID: 397768 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Forms: Add or remove people from the response notification emails

Now form owners can add or remove people from the response notification emails. Currently only the form owner or the group alias is notified when someone responds to a form.
ID: 397770 Release: Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams

Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events.
ID: 398445 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions

Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .CSV file, in order to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a meeting or event.
ID: 398446 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Creation and Registration APIs

Customers now have additional capabilities to manage Webinars, namely the ability to create, update, and delete Webinars, as well as register attendees to existing Webinars using a new set of APIs.
ID: 398448 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements

Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings.
ID: 398458 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Emoji picker in Viva Engage

Enhance your posts in Viva Engage with the integrated emoji picker. No need to memorize shortcuts; just click the emoji icon in the command bar to express yourself with ease.
ID: 398708 Release: Microsoft Viva, Yammer – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments

Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected.
ID: 398711 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new role added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, Purview Administrators role groups

Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization’s landscape. Specific Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with a new role to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups: Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, and Purview Administrators role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups; it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage Purview resources within Purview administrative unit scopes in the future.
ID: 398712 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Behaviors

A new data type in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced Hunting. Behaviors will optimize the alerts queue by enabling security teams to focus on the most relevant alerts in their environment. They will indicate what took place in a descriptive form, attached to the MITRE tactics and techniques that are common measure most organizations follow and test their coverage against. This new data type which sits between the raw data and alert, will enable your security teams to prioritize critical alerts in your environment without having to compromise contextual information provided in a behavior that may be important to an investigation. The behaviors data will also enrich the context of related incidents and only correlate anomalies when relevant. Within Defender for Cloud Apps, we have identified some detections that are better suited as behaviors, and we are transforming them to the new data type to reflect it that can be retrieved via advanced hunting.
ID: 124789 Release: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background

SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful.
ID: 378648 Release: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

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: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Programmatic Desktop Sharing

With desktop sharing (made available OOB), meeting presenters can now screen-share all their meeting apps directly onto the stage for improved collaboration. We are introducing programmatic desktop sharing, which allows developers to enable screensharing specific pieces of app content. Unlike the currently existing share to stage functionality, meeting participants cannot interact with the shared app; they have a view-only mode of the presenter’s app screen similar to screen sharing, but in one click. The shared content is also automatically captured in the meeting recording. This works great for co-consumption scenarios and requires little developer investment.
ID: 389844 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Outlook: Multiple insights and notifications on profile cards

Previously, users were only able to see one insight or notification on their own or on a colleague’s profile card. Now they will be able to see multiple insights through a Show All button. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 395789 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Suggested M365 content in Callouts

This feature is an improvement on the Interactivity feature in Microsoft Stream, where users with edit access can add document and other links to Callouts at specific times in a video. The goal of the improvement is to make creating and editing of interactive videos easier and quicker for editors by suggesting resources to link based on their M365 user activity. If there are no relevant suggestions, this allows them to search for resources to make their videos interactive from within Microsoft Stream.
ID: 396731 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Launched
Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Manage Custom backgrounds in Teams admin center for Teams Rooms on Android devices

This roadmap item is now cancelled and replaced by 380671. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Administrators can upload and set images as custom themes in the Teams admin center for Teams devices, allowing images that reflect their organization’s branding. The feature will first launch for Teams Rooms on Android devices and then gradually release for other device types.
ID: 81537 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document. This is being removed from the roadmap as a duplicate of Roadmap ID 389851.
ID: 380826 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot assisted Loop Page Creation

Collaborate with copilot to go from a blank page to a structured document ready for collaboration as quickly as possible. Start from scratch, or select an existing page or template as the starting point and Copilot can modify it for the task at hand. This item is being removed from the roadmap as a duplicate of ID 141443
ID: 393330 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024