Play of the Week

Microsoft is adding four new themes to Outlook for Windows and the Outlook Web App. These modern themes will allow users to include more personalization and expressiveness to your email client. The new feature will rollout in November 2024 for all environments.

In Development

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses

Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses hosted at SuccessFactors can be displayed at Viva Learning.

ID: 357562 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot extension usage

See usage of Microsoft 365 Copilot enabled apps (Copilot Extensions) in your organization.

ID: 410246 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Integrated apps and Copilot extensions

The Teams app usage report will be renamed to the Integrated Apps usage report and redesigned with new metrics and charts. These will provide insights into apps enabled for Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Copilot extensions) in your organization. The report will feature two sections: App Usage and User Activity. Insights will be organized by Publishing Type (Line-of-business apps, Microsoft partner apps, and Microsoft apps), Host Product (Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Copilot), and Platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web). Additionally, the report will include views of app and user details.

ID: 410248 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams chat support in Mesh events

Participants in Mesh events on PC and Mac can use Teams chat to communicate with all participants, across all rooms, within a Mesh event. Users can do this in the Microsoft Mesh PC app, the Mesh app in Teams, as well as in the chat message list of the Teams app.

ID: 412079 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Outlook: People module improvements on new Outlook for Windows

In the new Outlook for Windows, the people module offers a streamlined contacts interface with a single view of each person, automatically linking duplicates and enriching them with organizational profiles. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 413114 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Collaborative authoring

Multiple authors can collaborate on a Viva Amplify publication at the same time.

ID: 413115 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Customer Facing Reports via Insights Integration

Org level breakdown of Learning metrics in Viva Insights.

ID: 413717 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope shared or delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat

Scope Copilot queries in emails for shared or delegated mailboxes.

ID: 416062 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices

Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience.

ID: 416288 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024

Outlook: New Modern Themes

Adding four new themes to Outlook for Windows and the Outlook Web App. These themes will bring more personalization and expressiveness to your email client.

ID: 417004 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendees

Allows moderators to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience.

ID: 417158 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls

Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well.

ID: 418117 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Analyst query notification email

We are launching a new feature for a Viva Insights Analyst who will be able to receive a query notification email that provides them with the status of their recently completed query. The notification email will be triggered both for a successful and failed query executed in Advanced Insights (Analyst workbench). Both custom queries and Power BI reports are in the scope of this feature. The Viva Insights Analyst can access the Analyst query notification email from their inbox.

ID: 418128 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Forms: New data sync solution to Excel for the web in Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online

New forms created from Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online will use the new data sync solution.

ID: 418378 Release: Excel, Forms – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken

This adds seven new Copilot adoption metrics to the Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. It also updates the “total actions taken” metric in the Copilot dashboard to include these new Copilot adoption metrics.

ID: 418379 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams

This adds new Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams metric to Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights.

ID: 418380 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition now supports hybrid PDFs (text and image)

SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to hybrid PDFs, which contain both images and text. Previously, OCR was limited to image-only PDFs, but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from hybrid documents.

ID: 419808 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Edge Settings Improvements

Edge Settings is migrating to WebUI2 to boost page responsiveness and introducing a series of minor visual and content upgrades to improve overall usability and utility. This includes optimizing for concise wording of individual settings, simplifying the number of pages and reorganizing content, and creating a cohesive user interface.

ID: 419809 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries

With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user’s prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness over the process.

ID: 419810 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages

Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats.

ID: 419812 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

OneDrive: Hide people previewing files in OneDrive and SharePoint

This setting will allow administrators to disable the presence feature in the OneDrive and SharePoint file previewing experience on selected sites.

ID: 419814 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy tips revamp for New Outlook

Introducing new and improved DLP Policy tips in New Outlook for all E5 users. New DLP will support top DLP predicates and exceptions, all advanced classifiers, and override capabilities for E5 users. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 419815 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Microsoft Fabric

Your organization can now apply sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview Information Protection to Microsoft Fabric workspaces. This new functionality will allow users to manually label Fabric items with their sensitivity level and then apply access control protections based upon the protection policies set by administrators.

ID: 420331 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse

DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content.

ID: 420332 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Edge: Rewrite by Copilot in Edge is being upgraded to include enterprise data protection compliance standards

Rewrite by Copilot in Edge, which lets users edit typed text for tone, format, and length within an open page in Microsoft Edge, is being updated to include enterprise data protection for commercial customers. Once Rewrite is available, users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID will have enterprise data protection when using the feature in Microsoft Edge.

ID: 420335 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Refreshed view of all your teams and channels page

A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.

ID: 411779 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS

With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS.

ID: 412359 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Search – query suggestions

Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you.

ID: 413112 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Room audio auto-detect and pre-select in BYOD meeting rooms

When users connect their laptop to a room’s shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room’s audio and recommends connecting on the pre-join screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (e.g., displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft’s known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room’s audio upon connection.

ID: 413710 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Launched
Canceled

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements to available metadata for search and collection queries

This is cancelled because this is released as part of the new modern ux: 383744. Now eDiscovery admins can use additional metadata to search and collect content within their organization. The additional metadata that will be added for support will include message ID, sensitivity label and more to help enable additional flexibility of search for specific scenarios to enable specific outcomes related to investigations.

ID: 381452 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Notifications management for administrators to configure where Pulse notifications are delivered

Administrators can choose where Pulse notifications are delivered to users from among the three notification delivery methods: email, Teams Chat, and Teams Activity feed. We are cancelling this Roadmap item because it duplicates Roadmap item 408163.

ID: 407638 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024