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Microsoft is adding a feature to enable the deletion of non-empty folders in SharePoint when under a retention policy through the Microsoft preview compliance portal. This feature will ensure folders covered under retention policy and that have been deleted don’t reappear for users who sync a document library offline using OneDrive for business.
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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: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Access Copilot directly in new Outlook for Windows and web
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 Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 388754 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help you create draft quizzes
To help teachers, staff, and information workers save time, Copilot in Forms can now generate ice breakers, fun trivia, quizzes, and assessments with correct answers, which helps users focus more on engagement and interaction with their audience.
ID: 389148 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested app
Users on teams will be notified when their IT Admin unblocks an app that was previously requested by the user.
ID: 389151 Release: 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, when there is low engagement from audience, with the owner’s consent, it will auto-notify unresponded or all participants to pay attention and fill in the forms or quizzes. Also, Copilot smart reminder can remind owners to check the form’s insights when there are sufficient responses to make decisions.
ID: 392845 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
SharePoint: Sensitive information processing model
SharePoint Premium users will now have the capability to apply a prebuilt sensitive information processing model to SharePoint libraries. This model is designed to detect and possibly extract sensitive information from documents upon their library.
ID: 393336 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Syntex – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Loop available in Loop components in Teams and Outlook
People with a Copilot License can now leverage Copilot in Loop when they paste Loop components into the Teams app, Outlook, and Meeting Notes.
ID: 393539 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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 Teams: Approvals Graph API’s
The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manage Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals.
ID: 393926 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Intune: Deploy DMG and unmanaged PKG apps enhancement for macOS
Admins will be able to use “available” assignment type for DMG and unmanaged PKG app types for macOS. This enables end users to browse and install these apps in the Mac Company Portal.
ID: 393933 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Meeting cost and quality insights
Leaders will have a new report showing how their team invests time in meetings and opportunities to review meetings to reclaim time. Individuals will have improved meeting review insights in the Viva Insights app and new in-line nudges in Outlook to encourage them to be thoughtful when creating new high-cost meetings.
ID: 393935 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms
With Microsoft Teams Rooms, participants can be distinguished automatically regardless of what kind of device is capturing audio in a meeting, and their contributions are attributed in the transcript, making meetings more inclusive and productive. Speaker recognition will be enabled for any in-person meeting participant who has completed the simple face and voice enrollment process, and is included on the meeting invitation. They can also see auto-generated meeting action items assigned to them, important decisions, and meeting highlights by using Copilot.
ID: 394668 Release: Microsoft Teams – 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 – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: New RSVP settings in the new Outlook for Windows and web
Two new settings to improve the user experience when responding to meeting invitations: (1) do not delete invitation email after RSVPing and (2) auto-decline if the attendee’s calendar shows as busy. These features will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 394681 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Outlook: Meeting Details in the Reading Pane on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows
When a conversation in Mail is part of a meeting, the Reading Pane will have a new and improved Meeting Details card for a more efficient and modern RSVP flow. This will come to Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 394685 Release: Outlook – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Send updates only to added or removed attendees
When updating meeting attendees, organizers will be prompted with an option to send updates only to added or removed attendees or send updates to all attendees. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 394687 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Enable deletion of non-empty folders in SharePoint for Microsoft 365 and OneDrive for Business when under a retention policy
With this feature, end users can delete non-empty document library folders containing many files on a site managed by a retention policy. Additionally, this feature ensures that folders covered under a Retention policy and that have been deleted don’t reappear for users who sync a document library offline using OneDrive for Business.
ID: 394689 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes
Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy.
ID: 395215 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Attach files from SharePoint Sites in the mobile app
Users will be able to browse, multiselect and attach files from SharePoint Sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app.
ID: 395375 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: View only mode in Viva Engage
Engage admins will have the ability to change users’ access to view only mode. In view only mode, users can access and view content in Engage, but cannot comment, react, or create new posts.
ID: 395690 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives
Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit.
ID: 395793 Release: Outlook – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Optimize for Video setting for screensharing
Provide setting to optimize screen sharing for video clip by reducing the lag and improving the quality of video playback when sharing video clips in Teams meetings
ID: 93483 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Save meeting content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard
Collaborative annotations, available now, enable meeting participants with the Presenter role to enable annotations after sharing their screen. This allows everyone in the meeting to draw, add a note, react, highlight text, and more to share their thoughts right on the content, live with everyone else. Now, participants sharing their screen will have the ability to save content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard, enabling all meeting participants to revisit this content and continue collaborating after the meeting.
ID: 109573 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer
Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session.
ID: 127900 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)
Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin.
ID: 146858 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Stream: Copilot in Stream
Copilot in Stream leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to help you quickly get the insights you need from Stream (on SharePoint) videos. With Copilot in Stream you can quickly and effectively summarize any video with a transcript, or ask deep dive questions for topics you need to understand. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
ID: 188616 Release: Microsoft Stream, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center
Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.
ID: 374390 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: 4K local HDMI content sharing quality for Teams Rooms on Android
Users can see HDMI content in 4K quality on Teams Rooms on Android devices that support 4K HDMI input, when they share content without joining a Teams meeting.
ID: 380667 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Android using Teams mobile
Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their mobile device camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. The feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization and user policies allow it.
ID: 380674 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Give feedback for Teams Rooms on Android
The Help button includes a Give feedback option that lets users share their opinions and ideas about Teams Rooms with Microsoft. We use this feedback to improve the Teams experience. IT admins can enable or disable this feature for users and manage feedback policies using PowerShell.
ID: 380683 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Home screen refresh for Teams Rooms on Android
The Teams Rooms on Android home screen matches the look and feel of Teams Rooms on Windows, enabling users to engage with a consistent Teams Rooms interface. The touch console features six action buttons and shows the room calendar on the right side of the home screen. A room tip appears at the bottom left corner of the front of room display for user education.
ID: 380687 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone
You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel.
ID: 380852 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Teams: A single desktop app for all user types
Microsoft Teams on Windows and Mac will support every type of Teams account (work, school or personal) in a single desktop application.
ID: 383006 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge for Business – Customize organizational branding using Edge Management Service
Admins can customize their organization’s branding assets through Microsoft Edge management service onto Edge for Business. Admins can enable and configure branding onto profile-related UI for profiles signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) account. You can configure your organization’s details such as name to the profile pill; name, logo, and brand color to the profile flyout; and logo to overlay the Edge for Business taskbar icon. This branding can help users more easily differentiate between multiple profiles and browser windows. This Microsoft Edge management service will give admins an enhanced experience to control, preview, and customize assets.
ID: 383013 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100
Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location.
ID: 383743 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Survivable Branch Appliance support for call controls, auto attendants, and call queues
We continue to expand our Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) capabilities. We are adding support for call transfer, forwarding, and the ability to manage call routing settings for calls to a call queue or auto attendant, in the event of an outage. If incoming calls to a call queue or auto attendant are received during an outage, organizations will have the option to choose to redirect these calls to an alternate call queue or auto attendant or to reach a specific user within the site, ensuring that important calls are not missed.
ID: 384066 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: April 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 (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Files Card on Viva Connections
The feature helps organizations add a view of files which were recently accessed, shared or marked favorite by the user. This file view can be added in the form of card on Viva Connections dashboard.
ID: 388496 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Manage spotlight settings in Viva Connections
Elevate your Connections experience with more control over what appears in the spotlight section. Operators will have the ability to pin items, including hyperlinks from any source, onto the spotlight section and select SharePoint sites as additional content sources to dynamically populate the spotlight section.
ID: 392098 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections now available on web
Viva Connections is now available directly on the browser. All the same functionalities that exist in Teams now also surface directly in the browser, providing a consistent experience with other Viva Modules.
ID: 394276 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: May CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Extension requests and feedback
The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins and end users with an enhanced extensions management experience. End users can request access to blocked extensions, and admins can view these requests in the Microsoft Edge management service. Admins can also optionally choose to receive email notifications for these requests to inform them promptly of any new feedback.
ID: 382635 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
Microsoft Edge: v.124 – 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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
