Play of the Week

Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings in Teams. Users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. The feature is rolling out this month for commercial tenants.

In Development

Outlook: Managing document permissions in Outlook for iOS

Now, when you add a OneDrive or SharePoint file to an email, Outlook will notify you if anyone doesn’t yet have permissions so you can update those before sending your email.

ID: 108887 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Use the Egress API to access all “My Learning” records

The Egress API can be used by learners to view their My Learning records and corresponding course details.

ID: 334015 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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. Note: The month and status have been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 369015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New proactive assistance in Copilot

Catch-up is a new experience in Copilot which aims to proactively help users catch up and take action on important updates. It contains a group of cards. Each card has an update related to an important meeting or document. It will work in M365chat and Teams Copilot. It shows up as a tab on the home page.

ID: 388746 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms helps you collect more responses to your surveys or quizzes

Copilot in Forms assists form owners by recommending optimal distribution channels and settings for sending forms or quizzes. This includes leveraging email, social media, and QR codes to maximize the benefits of digital forms and quizzes.

ID: 392844 Release: Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot

Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings.

ID: 394682 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for iPad

OneNote Copilot on iPad is your intelligent assistant, transforming the way you interact with your notes. With simple natural language commands, Copilot helps you understand, summarize, and rewrite notes for enhanced clarity and purpose. It’s designed to work seamlessly on the iPad, offering a contextual chat experience that allows you to accomplish tasks faster than ever. Whether you’re preparing for a meeting or organizing your thoughts, OneNote Copilot on iPad is the perfect partner for boosting productivity and creativity on the go.

ID: 395787 Release: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December 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: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat

The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change.

ID: 396169 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Edit Learning Paths in Viva Learning

Admin will be able to edit learning paths metadata and content. Latest updates will be shown to learner after the LP is edited.

ID: 396286 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Dashboard in Viva Insights to become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365

In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard will become available to all Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers at no additional cost and will not require a Viva or Viva Insights license. Users will be able to access the dashboard in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or the web app.

ID: 396346 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 on mobile

Copilot Lab will allow users to browse and use suggested prompts in Copilot for Microsoft 365 on mobile platforms.

ID: 396557 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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

Microsoft Graph: Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage

The Graph API provides access to Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage insights and analytics, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics.

ID: 396562 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Graph – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Viva Glint Dashboard

Enable managers and leaders to gather additional information and check in on team progress after an org-wide Glint survey. By leveraging a Pulse survey that recommends questions based on the top strengths and opportunities identified in the org-wide Glint survey, managers and leaders can gather a timely understanding of the team’s progress to-date in addressing key focus areas, make mid-point adjustments if needed, and maintain momentum in their efforts to improve engagement and employee experience.

ID: 396563 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

ID: 396570 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

ID: 396571 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv

As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips

ID: 396575 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage change log for leaders and audiences identified

Admins and corporate communicators will be able to see any leaders who were added or removed in Viva Engage, as well as any audiences and removed from a leader in Viva Engage.

ID: 396726 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Calendar split view when surface is set to month view

When viewing multiple calendars in month view, users will be able to select “split view” to see those calendars displayed side by side. This feature will be available in new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396727 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Outlook: Intune policy available for specific primary account in the new Outlook for Windows

This adds Intune policy in the new Outlook for Windows to a specific primary account based on Active Directory Primary SMTP address. This will ease the setup process for new managed devices and guarantee that company policies will always be respected. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 396729 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption

Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content.

ID: 78723 Release: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Slash Commands

User will be able to type slash in Teams compose box and select a command, helping them complete their task quickly.

ID: 120469 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App

Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.

ID: 179769 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium)

Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access 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: 186429 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Security Copilot – Contextual Summarization

Communication Compliance introduces the Security Copilot feature to generate contextual summaries of long messages in the context of the conditions that flagged the messages as potentially risky. Investigators can pinpoint the potentially risky content in the message and understand the premise of the entire message with just one click of a button. In addition to contextual summaries, users can ask additional questions in an open text prompt for deeper insight on the message content.

ID: 388752 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliant Team Meetings

Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase and adding additional cloud instances to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

ID: 109534 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD 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, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 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 – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft 365: Mexico datacenter region and Advanced Data Residency availability

Microsoft 365 will launch a new local cloud region in Mexico. The Advanced Data Residency add-on ("ADR") will be available in Mexico and provide eligible customers with committed data residency in the Mexico local cloud region, prioritized tenant migration services, and expanded coverage of Microsoft 365 workloads and Customer Data.

ID: 149271 Release: Microsoft 365 – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection

Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience.

ID: 373740 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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 Viva: Viva Goals – Add Images to Check-In Notes and Review Dashboards

With this capability, users can attach images to check-in notes and dashboards in Viva Goals to better illustrate their ideas visually.

ID: 375014 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Gain comprehensive summary of Insider Risk Management alerts with Copilot for Security

Copilot for Security is embedded in Insider Risk Management to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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: 389147 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

ID: 389378 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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 – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: May CY2024

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