Play of the Week
Microsoft is introducing an Exchange Web Services (EWS) usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center to provide comprehensive insights into the applications in your tenant that use EWS. The report details specific actions performed by these applications along with their respective call volumes over a selected period. This new report will enhance your ability to understand EWS activity prior to EWS deprecation in Exchange Online. This update is expected in March of 2025.
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Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting
Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date.
ID: 325873 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Event Recap in Town hall and webinar (Premium)
Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizer, co-organizers and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are also available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses.
ID: 371588 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Connections cards in Microsoft 365 Copilots
Microsoft 365 Copilot brings Viva Connections cards to conversations. When a card is relevant for a specific topic, the card will surface in the conversation chat and users will be able to interact with it directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot without interrupting the user’s flow.
ID: 412621 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces
You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user’s PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room.
ID: 417155 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot
Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
ID: 418564 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Analytics
Data Security analytics will serve as a launchpad for administrators, enabling them to swiftly navigate day-to-day tasks. It will provide a comprehensive overview of an organization’s sensitive data landscape, visibility into potential risks, and offer contextual recommendations to strengthen the organization’s data security posture. The Data Security Copilot will serve as an intelligent AI assistant layered on top of data security analytics, supporting tasks related to administration, risk assessment, alert triage, and reporting. 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: 420941 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window
When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes.
ID: 421607 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – AI enabled file summaries on Teams mobile
Quickly get a summary of Word, PPT, and PDF files that were shard with you in chat, without leaving your flow of work. Tap the summary icon on the file, and get a summary generated by Copilot. Now you can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document on a small mobile screen.
ID: 422318 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict access action support for semantic models in Fabric
Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types match your sematic models. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses.
ID: 422501 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Share Recap Notes to Outlook
Meeting organizers and presenters have the capability to share recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to Outlook, facilitating the seamless sending of post meeting follow-up emails.
ID: 423477 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
ID: 423483 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Outlook: Optimized hover actions in the message list on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows
The hover actions in the message list will be modified to be more space efficient and minimize unnecessary mouse travel. This change primarily affects users with the multicolumn (wider) message list. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 429868 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create with Copilot in Excel generates templates and tables
Create with Copilot in Excel helps customers write prompts to generate tailored templates and tables, using multi-turn conversion to refine the table schema, formulas, and visuals.
ID: 429873 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover, acquire, and manage agents through in-app store in Word and PowerPoint
With Copilot extensibility, users can discover, acquire, and manage agents through the unified store. We are excited to introduce the Microsoft 365 unified store to Office documents, enabling users to discover, acquire, and manage agents directly within the in-app store for Word and PowerPoint, with Excel support coming soon.
ID: 433687 Release: Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Data Assessments
Data assessments in Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by creating scoped assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.
ID: 464997 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Copilot with enterprise data protection prompt metric
A new metric counting the prompts submitted through Business Chat (web) or Copilot with enterprise data protection metric will be added to Viva Insights advanced insights and Copilot dashboard.
ID: 467249 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings
Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication.
ID: 468274 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Import and Search function support for Sensitive service domains group
Purview Endpoint DLP improves the management of Sensitive service domains group by allowing you to import a URL group and search a specific URL across all groups.
ID: 468292 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Delayed simultaneous ring setting
For teams with shared call responsibilities, delayed simultaneous ring will ensure calls configure the intended recipient first, instead of notifying everyone the moment a call comes in. This helps reduce noise and minimizes distractions —especially for roles like delegates and customer service teams.
ID: 468866 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Custom Meeting Branding – Support multiple meeting themes per customization policy
Admins can now create and assign multiple meeting themes to a customization policy in the Teams Admin Center. This will allow meeting organizers who are assigned to a customization policy the ability to select from different meeting theme options while scheduling their meetings. Note – this feature requires a Teams Premium license.
ID: 468868 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Edge contextual capabilities in Business Chat work mode
In Business Chat work mode, users can ask Copilot questions about web pages and PDFs opened in the Edge browser using page context, such as “summarize this page”. This feature is currently also available in Business Chat web mode.
ID: 468884 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
SharePoint: Enhanced functionalities to manage SharePoint Embedded Containers through SharePoint Admin Center
The new update empowers the SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to manage their containers better through sorting and filtering capabilities as well as set sensitivity labels on containers. The SPE Admins now also have user role management capabilities to add, reassign, or remove users from various roles of a container.
ID: 468886 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365
Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions.
ID: 468888 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications
You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity.
ID: 469491 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Auto-association of BYOD room devices in the Pro Management portal
Manually associating peripherals to rooms may feel like an endless task if your organization has several bring your own device (BYOD) rooms. IT admins can streamline the process and get enhanced inventory visibility with this feature which utilizes meeting room invite data to intelligently associate peripherals to these spaces.
ID: 469495 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – File Sensitivity Labels in Copilot web grounding chat
Copilot web grounding chat responses will now show content sensitivity labels for prompts in which a user has attached or uploaded a Microsoft 365 file like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Business Chat web mode and Microsoft Copilot chat.
ID: 469497 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
OneDrive: Catch up with Copilot
With Copilot, you will be able to catch up on important updates such as a summary of new “at” mentions that need your attention, new changes made to files you’ve been active in, and quick snippets of new files shared with you. Catch up will be available in OneDrive Web for our commercial customers and requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Catch up will initially work for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
ID: 469498 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings
Select a meeting recording in your OneDrive and ask Copilot to recap the meeting, highlight parts where you were mentioned, or recommend action items and next steps. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
ID: 469500 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
OneDrive: Create a presentation from a Word file
With Copilot, you can create the first draft of your presentation using a Word file in just a single click. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
ID: 469501 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
OneDrive: Convert Copilot response into a Word file
Like a summary or FAQ that Copilot generated for you? Now, with one click, you can convert any Copilot response into a Word document. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web.
ID: 469502 Release: OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Diagnostics in the new portal
We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX.
ID: 469504 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New email scoring capabilities
Insider risk management (IRM) email scoring logic is being updated. With current logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted multiple times, creating noise by increasing the risk score. In the new logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted once, and this new principle is applicable to the email containing multiple unallowed domains or priority content. Once this is rolled out, all the email insights in alerts will display the new count and score. 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: 469505 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forward messages with app cards
Messages containing app cards in chats and channels can now be forwarded. To use, navigate to the more actions menu of any message containing an app card, and select “Forward”.
ID: 469506 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components
You can now forward chat messages containing Loop components, allowing for seamless sharing and real-time collaboration across different chats. To forward a message, navigate to it, click on the ellipsis, and select ‘Forward’ from the menu.
ID: 469507 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Forward messages to and from channels
You can now forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members. To forward a channel message post, channel post reply, or chat message to another channel, 1:1 or group chat, select the message’s ellipsis menu and choose Forward.
ID: 469508 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity, including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts, both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.
ID: 469509 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: New EWS usage report
We are introducing an Exchange Web Services (EWS) usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center that provides comprehensive insights into the applications in your tenant that use EWS. The report provides detailed information on the specific actions performed by these applications along with their respective call volumes over a selected period. This new report enhances your ability to understand EWS activity prior to EWS deprecation in Exchange Online.
ID: 469510 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Outlook: Move emails between accounts in the New Outlook for Windows
We’re excited to announce a new feature in Outlook that makes it easier to manage emails across multiple accounts. All personal accounts in the new Outlook for Windows can seamlessly move emails between all their personal accounts, streamlining organization and productivity. For work or school users, this feature is controlled by a policy managed by administrators. By enabling this policy, admins can grant their users the ability to move emails between accounts in a way that aligns with organizational needs and policies. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 470018 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Outlook: Copilot chat-assisted scheduling
Copilot now helps you schedule simple meetings such as 1:1s and focus time. Just ask Copilot to find some time with someone in your org and it will find the optimal time. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 470019 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Setting to toggle comma as recipient delimiter
By default, Outlook Web and the New Outlook support separating recipients by using either a semicolon or a comma. This new setting allows users to choose if the comma should be used as a recipient separator or instead allowed as part of the contact name. This is helpful for organizations where contacts follow the “Last name, First name” format. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 470020 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Notifications pane batching
Batches are groups of cards in the user’s Notification pane separated by subject. Items from the same email thread, document, sheet, etc. will be grouped into a single batch. #newouotlookforwindows
ID: 470021 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Tips pane entry point moving from Suite Header to Ribbon
The Tips pane’s entry point is moving from the Suite Header (found at the top of the window) to the Help tab of the Ribbon. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 470022 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Google to Entra Identity Sync service
Google to Entra Identity Sync service is a cloud-2-cloud user Identity onboarding and one way synchronization tool from Google workspace to Entra ID. This will be available as part of the M365 Admin center for Google compete customers moving into M365 to create the identities in M365 farm and move Drive and Mail content into Onedrive and Exchange online
ID: 470023 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service
Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service is a 1st party service for migrating Google groups with the M365 Admin center as a new feature, so that Google compete customers moving to M365 would have the ability to automatically create the groups, its members, member conversations and all permissions to M365 Groups without the need to recreate the groups which is the only solution for customers moving from Google.
ID: 470024 Release: Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft 365 admin center: Unified Google Workspace Migration
Offer Microsoft 365 customers a seamless experience for migrating Google Workspace workloads to M365. Through a unified portal page, you can initiate and monitor migration tasks for both Gmail and Google Drive. Additionally, if your Google Workspace tenant has fewer than 1,000 users, you’ll benefit from the newly revamped Gmail migration flow, which simplifies the process and guides you through each step.
ID: 470139 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices
With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.
ID: 171586 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Planner: Portfolio capabilities in Planner
Structure plans into portfolios and get insights on top of your portfolios
ID: 187140 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard
Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard.
ID: 402185 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Using Data Access Governance to understand the tenant’s current permission landscape
SharePoint admins can now use Data Access Governance (DAG) to understand their tenant’s current permission landscape and make better decisions regarding applications based on permissions such as Copilot. DAG now provides a report that will reflect the latest state of permissions in the entire tenant and return sites that have a greater count of permissioned users than the SharePoint admin specified number. This count considers users accessing sites via site membership and users accessing via unique permissions, as well and acts like a potential threshold for oversharing. Along with the permissioned user count, the report also provides information on the number of existing sharing links (Anyone and People-in-your-org) in those sites and enables SharePoint admins to identify potential root causes for oversharing. You can find more details about this report at the link below.
ID: 406552 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Site Access Review offers a way for SharePoint tenants to empower site owners using Data Access Governance
SharePoint admins can use Data Access Governance reports to discover potential oversharing within their tenant. Once discovered, SharePoint admins can now request that site owners review permissions using the specific context of that report from within the report. They can also track all such requests raised from a central location. The site owners will receive a corresponding email and are redirected to a section within the site (site reviews) that clearly enunciates the corresponding data related to sharing and permissions along with the ability to take action. This feature is now available for Data Access Governance – Permissions based reports – count of permissioned user report.
ID: 406553 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Email Auto-advance setting
The Email Auto-advance option is available in Mail settings. This will allow users to choose whether they return to the message list after taking certain actions or if they move to the next message.
ID: 407379 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Fonts in Outlook for iOS and Android
We heard feedback from you, our customers, and are adding support for choosing fonts while you compose in Outlook for iOS and Android. There is also improved support for fonts in the reading pane.
ID: 409969 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Mute conversations
Corporate communicators, network admins, and Engage admins can remove chosen conversation threads from the Engage Home Feed, storylines feed, and email digests. Conversations continue to show in community feeds, user profiles, and search. Muting a conversation does not affect notifications.
ID: 411583 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance
Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within “Content shared with everyone except external users” report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all “Sharing link” reports as well.
ID: 414525 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot on OneNote canvas
Use Copilot right in your workflow by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection.
ID: 417476 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Name pronunciation
You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues’ name pronunciations.
ID: 420329 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot web grounding now available in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook
Ground your Copilot chat conversations with the latest information from the web in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook
ID: 420330 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Choose between Copilot Business Chat with web or work grounding
In Outlook for iOS and Android, you will soon be able to choose whether Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat uses Microsoft 365 Graph (work) or Web grounding via a Work/Web toggle within the chat interface, just like you can at microsoft365.com/chat. Web grounding will be available for all commercial Microsoft 365 customers, while Graph grounding will require a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
ID: 420334 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses
Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging.
ID: 422261 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics
Space analytics in Places provides dashboards for buildings, bookable rooms, and desk pools, providing a unified view of key metrics. Users can pick the space type of their interest and dive deeper to know more about its utilization.
ID: 422719 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Intelligent suggestions in calendar
Intelligent suggestions will appear in the Places card in calendar and the Places people tab when users have actions to complete to organize their day. Users will be prompted to “quick book” rooms for in-person meetings and desks for in-office days. They will also see recommendations to update their work location to ‘Office’ when needed for in-person events.
ID: 422723 Release: Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Work location in scheduling assistant for iOS
You can now view your colleagues’ work locations when scheduling a meeting.
ID: 118956 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall
Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
ID: 377303 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh
The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content. Collaboration tools like whiteboards will be added to the environment as they become available.
ID: 412076 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions
Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app.
ID: 412360 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Team guidance
With team guidance in Places, managers communicate which days their team should plan to be in the office and what the priorities are for each in-office day. Providing a purpose for team days in the office gives you another reason to come into the office.
ID: 422720 Release: Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Whiteboard can be added to Mesh event
We will not release this feature at this time. We are sorry for any inconvenience and will continue to share updated roadmap entries as additional Mesh features and functionality become available. Mesh event participants can now use Microsoft Whiteboard in Mesh 3D environments. This functionality will enable users to collaborate spatially as avatars on a 2D whiteboard present in the virtual space, available on PC and Meta Quest devices. Mesh event attendees can use inking, annotation, and other built-in tools to brainstorm, plan, and share with others on a digital canvas in real time. Copilot integration with Whiteboard helps suggest and organize ideas directly on your canvas while in Mesh.
ID: 412075 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for common area phones
This roadmap item is cancelled and replaced by 81379. We are sorry for any inconvenience. IT admins will be able to manage and add contacts to Teams phone devices deployed in shared spaces through the Teams admin center. This ensures users across the organization can easily call important contacts, such as emergency numbers or help desks.
ID: 416284 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: January CY2025
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