Play of the Week

Administrators will soon be able to upload and set images as custom themes in the Teams admin center for Android devices, allowing images that reflect their organization’s branding. Other device types will be added in the future. This feature will be rolling out in June 2024 for commercial, GCC, GCCH, and DoD customers.

In Development

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

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), DoD, GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Loop: Workspace Links

Quickly request access to a workspace by clicking on a Workspace Link.

ID: 141270 Release: – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Loop: 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.

ID: 141443 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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 High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Manage Graph providers in Admin tab

This feature will enable admins to manage graph providers in Admin tab such as adding permission, deleting providers

ID: 334025 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE

Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool.

ID: 389857 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users

Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.

ID: 392839 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints

DLP will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. On inspection, all the files (of supported file format) within the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies. Afterwards, the archive file will get the applicable auditing / enforcement policy applied to it based on the following logic.

ID: 393653 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3

Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources.

ID: 394282 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts

Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile.

ID: 394351 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings

Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting).

ID: 394670 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC 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

Universal Print: Mobile print on Android phones

Integration of Universal Print with the Microsoft 365 mobile app will enable users to add work/school printers to their Android phones. Once the printers are installed on the phone, the user can print to them from any phone app that has a print action.

ID: 395216 Release: Universal Print – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center

If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center.

ID: 395372 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy “Curated by Microsoft” content provider support

You can now find resources related to Copilot under the Curated by Microsoft provider. This provider will also power content for Copilot Academy.

ID: 395377 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive

We’re making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user.

ID: 395378 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365

Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company data it’s able to access.

ID: 395783 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Record opening behavior improvement in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint)

When a user opens a file in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) that has a retention label managing the file as a locked record, it will now open as read-only and immediately not allow any user edits. A message will explain to the user why they cannot edit the file. This improvement brings parity to the behavior already in place for the online versions of these Office applications.

ID: 395791 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel

In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order.

ID: 395931 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC 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

Universal Print: Pull Print queues

Pull Print enables IT Pros to offer their end users a simplified view of the print solution. Specifically, IT Pros can set up virtualized printer(s) per location or region so that end users only need to know the name of one printer. Those users can securely release their own print jobs at any printer at that location or region, depending on the setup.

ID: 395937 Release: Universal Print – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Security protection controls in the Microsoft Edge management service

The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins with a dedicated experience to manage specific settings that help improve the security posture of their managed browser instances.

ID: 395939 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Topic Subscription notification

This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users would receive a Teams and Engage bell notification whenever a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or the topic is added to an existing post.

ID: 395940 Release: Yammer, Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Simplifying the personal app header

Microsoft Teams personal apps will start showing a new simplified header bar on Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients. With this change, the “About” tab and other utility actions will be moved to the overflow menu. In addition, the “Chat” tab will be moved to a right-hand side panel for apps that support it.

ID: 396166 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Mute user for network

With this feature, Engage admins can remove specific users’ posts from the Engage home feed, storylines feed, and all email digests. Selected users are not notified about this change. Engage admins may find this feature helps to moderate the visibility of content in the network. Mute user for network is part of a suite of moderation features in Engage, including view-only mode, close conversations, and more.

ID: 396168 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC sovereign cloud

GCC sovereign cloud customers will be able to use features in Excel run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data found on the Home tab.

ID: 396171 Release: Excel, Microsoft 365 app – GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policies support Fingerprinting SITs

Admins can now automatically label files and emails with Fingerprinting SITs via auto-labeling policies.

ID: 396173 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Create goals from multiple M365 documents with Copilot

Users will be able to add more than one file from Context IQ suggestions as references in their prompts to Copilot for generating goals.

ID: 396287 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Clipchamp: Clipchamp for Education (A3 & A5)

Clipchamp enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web or Windows app for Microsoft 365 A3 and Microsoft 365 A5 SKUs.

ID: 396288 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator

Microsoft Edge will include an AI theme generator, that allows users to input a text prompt and generate a series of images to preview as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image on the Edge new tab page, and applying the image’s dominant color to the browser frame. Admins can restrict access to this feature using the AIGenThemesEnabled policy.

ID: 396289 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights Product Updates

Adding trendlines to show metric movements over past 6-month time periods, before vs after Copilot comparisons, and providing the option to view an estimated dollar value for the existing Copilot assisted hours metric.

ID: 396345 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Redirect incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call notification

Allows users to easily redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call when receiving calls on a Teams certified phone device.

ID: 169887 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content

>Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.

ID: 181617 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Prevent user from sharing content in externally hosted meetings (Premium)

If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person attending the externally hosted meeting can decide in which externally hosted meetings the user can share their content.

ID: 363424 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in improved presenter window when screen sharing

When sharing the screen or content, the presenter will now be able to better keep track of the participants’ activity during a meeting. The Improved Presenter Window shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), who are active speakers and who raised hands, as well as a preview of the content being shared. Meeting notifications appear in the middle of the screen for better visibility. This gives presenters increased confidence and awareness of what is happening among participants during a meeting.

ID: 383653 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May 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), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie – Integrating Apple’s Push to Talk framework on iOS

Teams Walkie-Talkie on iOS will be integrated with Apple’s Push-to-Talk (PTT) framework to enhance communication and convenience of transmitting audio from anywhere on their phone, even when Teams is not in the foreground. It enables audio transmission directly from the lock screen and comes with background runtime optimization for optimal performance while conserving battery life.

ID: 388486 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams admin center

Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen (including common area phones). Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center.

ID: 388490 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users

Users can now access applications in group chats with individuals outside their organization, fostering improved collaboration, interactivity, and productivity. The group chat’s host involving external participants can install, remove, or update applications for use by all members.

ID: 391640 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Planner: Increased number of tasks per premium plan in Microsoft Planner

Create and manage up to 1,500 tasks within a Microsoft Planner premium plan (formerly known as a Project for the web project).

ID: 392096 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Ability to customize surveys & team conversations

Microsoft Viva Glint now offers the capability to personalize surveys and team conversations. Additionally, users can customize their logo and sender domain.

ID: 163989 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Clipchamp: Work account support in Clipchamp’s desktop app

The updated Clipchamp desktop app introduces work account support and lets users with AAD/Entra ID accounts directly access Clipchamp for work through the desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Users of Clipchamp for work will be able to access the video editor in the app without using a browser. Microsoft 365 administrators can control if their users are able to access both Clipchamp for work and Clipchamp for personal accounts via the app or only Clipchamp for work.

ID: 387124 Release: Microsoft Clipchamp – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Stream: Site-level video analytics dashboard

This dashboard gives access to aggregated analytics for videos on a SharePoint site. This feature will go live in late January for customers enrolled in the private preview of Stream advanced video analytics. Customers interested in applying to join the private preview may submit an application via the URL associated with this roadmap item. We expect the dashboard to enter general availability in June. The metrics on this dashboard are divided into the following sections: First, the Lifetime Video report contains 3 metrics for videos on the SharePoint site—Total Views, Unique Viewers, and Average Watch Rate. Second, Video Traffic report shows views and viewer patterns across the last 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days. Third, Video Usage shows views by device and geolocation. Fourth, Top 20 Videos shows a list of the most popular videos on the SharePoint site in the last week. Note: To better align our features with customer needs, the Microsoft Stream advanced video analytics feature has been canceled to prioritize other key areas of development.

ID: 376846 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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