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Microsoft Outlook users will soon be able to view their online archive storage directly within new Outlook. This will make them more aware of approaching storage capacity before their mailbox warning quota limit is reached. The feature will roll out in June 2024 for commercial customers.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels
Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Note: The release phase and rollout start month have been updated to show current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 174575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024
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Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Glint
ID: 324079 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024″
Microsoft Teams: Citations for Copilot in Teams meetings available on mobile
Now available on mobile, Copilot in Teams responses have a citation number at the end of each Copilot statement that provides detail on the meeting artifact or source that Copilot used to generate the response, like the meeting transcript. Users can select the citation to see which speaker the citation is attributed to, the exact quote from the transcript, as well as the time stamp of the quote in the transcript. Selecting a reference number will open a transcript viewer that displays the source of the response.
ID: 331507 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for delegates and delegators
We’re continuing to provide a more tailored call delegation experience. Call delegators and delegates will now be able to see shared call history records for the shared line.
ID: 372115 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound
With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen.
ID: 380681 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Have follow-up conversations with the team
Get a better understanding of survey results within Viva Pulse reports with team conversations.
ID: 381744 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier
The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases.
ID: 384093 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings now available on mobile after the meeting
In addition to accessing Copilot in Teams during a meeting on mobile devices (available now), you can now access Copilot in Teams and ask questions about eligible meetings after the meeting ends on mobile devices.
ID: 384363 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Connections Advanced Analytics
Enhancements to the current analytics module for Viva Connections will include the following: daily data for 90 days, user retention metrics, and monthly aggregates for the last 12 months.
ID: 384851 Release: Microsoft Viva, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Syntex: Creators and recipients can view, track, and sign their eSignature requests in Approvals in Teams
This feature will allow users to track their eSignature requests in the Approvals app in Teams. Users will be notified about new requests, updated about ongoing requests, and will be able to initiate signing within their flow of work in Teams.
ID: 385012 Release: Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities
Activities performed by users like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history within the Purview Audit feature will now begin to generate Audit logs.
ID: 385346 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls
When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context.
ID: 385349 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April 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
Outlook: New “Categorized email” and “Mail from specific people” search folders will be supported in the new Outlook for Windows and web
Search folders are virtual folders that provide a view of all email items that match specific search criteria. We will introduce two new Search Folders: Categorized email search folders let you easily filter emails by assigned categories enhancing inbox organization. Mail from specific people search folders let you automatically collect and organize emails from designated senders or contacts. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 386903 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News
We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section.
ID: 386904 Release: SharePoint – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage navigation model enhancements
Updates on Viva Engage navigation model to bring consistency across web and Teams and Outlook integrations and simplify finding everything Viva Engage has to offer.
ID: 386905 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant
This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.
ID: 386906 Release: Microsoft Viva – DoD, GCC High Tags: April CY2024
Outlook: Open a Teams Meeting chat
For meetings that are created as Teams Meetings, users now have the option to open the Teams Meeting chat directly from the meeting event on their Outlook mobile calendar. Selecting that option will open the chat in Teams or tell the user to get the Teams app.
ID: 387501 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Sidebar Tools App – SpeedTest
This adds a SpeedTest answer by default to the Tools app in the Edge sidebar.
ID: 387772 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training in DoD
Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the DoD environment.
ID: 185568 Release: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – DoD Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Recommended actions for finetuning policies
We are introducing additional recommended actions to provide guidance on fine-tuning your insider risk policies and implementing advanced configurations. These new tasks and journeys will be accessible through the Recommended Actions page. 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: 186580 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Limit Presenter Role Permissions
We are introducing a tenant configuration that admins can apply to limit user actions assigned to presenters in meetings. When enabled, presenters will no longer be able to control attendee mics and cameras, change the role of other participants, lower participants’ hands, and remove participants from the meeting. We want organizers to have control, flexibility, and structure in managing their meetings.
ID: 319398 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange
With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules.
ID: 369015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: 3P eCDN support for town halls (Premium)
Admins have the ability to disable Microsoft first party eCDN at a user level within a tenant for users licensed with Teams Premium and switch the users back to using a third-party eCDN as they prefer.
ID: 371568 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: EML, MSG, and OFT File Support in the new Outlook for Windows
EML, MSG, and OFT files type support will enable users to open “*,eml”, “*.oft”, and “*.msg” files in the new Outlook by dragging-and-dropping them onto the reading pane, or by double-clicking on them, or by using the Open With menu option in File Explorer.
ID: 379606 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Privacy statement customization in Meetings
Admins can customize the privacy statement link shown to attendees joining a Teams Meeting. Admins can update the content for the privacy statement under the privacy profile in the Microsoft Admin Center.
ID: 379610 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: OneDrive for Business available in classic Outlook for Windows
Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in classic Outlook for Windows, for a consistent and fast experience.
ID: 379674 Release: Outlook, OneDrive – 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 High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March 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 – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams chat on mobile
Users will be able to easily access Copilot on the Teams mobile app.
ID: 382800 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Open Teams app content in multi-window stageview
Microsoft Teams enables you to open your app content in new multi-window experiences. Unlock multi-tasking workflows for your users inside Teams. Allow them to engage with content and conversation, side-by-side.
ID: 383404 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: New Outlook for Windows – New location for add-ins and integration with Teams search-based message extensions
We are consolidating all the add-ins into a flyout menu in the ribbon and adding Teams search-based message extensions into this same flyout.
ID: 184668 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Outlook: To Do app opens in the new Outlook for Windows
ID: 190006 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Teams devices dashboard for device analytics providing health and usage metrics
We are not releasing this feature at this time and apologize for any inconvenience. Health and usage insights surfaced on a dashboard for Teams devices being managed through the Teams admin center including the ability to export and auto share the insights and set alerts on key metrics to be notified when attention is required.
ID: 84533 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified integration discoverability and set-up experience
Users will be able to easily find and setup integrations to reduce manual check in work. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being from the roadmap at this time.
ID: 165685 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience
Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being from the roadmap at this time.
ID: 190177 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Goals Bulk Import Enhancements
Improved bulk import of Goals experience and supporting additional fields with bulk import. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being removed from the roadmap at this time.”
ID: 190178 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization at Team Level
This feature extends the Goals Terminology Customization capabilities to the team level. Now, team admins can use custom terminology to match their team’s Goal nomenclature and structure. This feature no longer has a target delivery date and is being removed from the roadmap at this time.
ID: 375206 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails