Play of the Week

A new feature is coming to Microsoft Purview compliance portal enabling admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it.

In Development

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders

Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new “Attach cloud files” experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to.

ID: 413109 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quick rewrite, summarize, and to do actions with Copilot on OneNote canvas

Use Copilot in your workflow on the canvas by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or to help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection.

ID: 417475 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

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: OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Email verification for external attendees to join Teams meetings

Meeting organizers can have greater confidence about external attendees joining Teams meetings, this capability enables sending a one-time passcode to the external attendee’s email address for that individual to use during a verification step when joining a Teams meeting.

ID: 418125 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC environment (Premium)

Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC environment. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license.

ID: 419811 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bulk operations summary in the Teams admin center

IT admins can monitor and track the status of all bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center, enabling large-scale management.

ID: 420326 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Ability to give and take control during screensharing on Web

The new update will allow the users to be able to use the give and take control function during screenshare on web similarly to how the users are used to do on the desktop version of the application.

ID: 420327 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: December 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: Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web grounding for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat in Teams and Outlook

Ground conversations in the latest information from the web in Business Chat web mode.

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 Viva: Viva Engage – Recommended comments

Viva Engage will offer a new way to see contributions from close contacts and leaders within conversation threads. In the home feed and More for You feed, users see two comments that are meaningful to them and the overall conversation. Users can see the rest of the conversation with one click. There are no changes to the comment, reply, or reaction experiences with this new feature.

ID: 420338 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365

Use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Business Chat.

ID: 420363 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

SharePoint: Updates for font management capabilities

We are introducing updates that provide capabilities for managing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections. This includes the ability to hide the From Microsoft font packages from Change the look, apply a font package in your site templates, and updated availability for the From Microsoft font packages.

ID: 420933 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Entra compromised user signals in IRM

With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific user. – Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. – Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. – Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. 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: 420938 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to increase configuration of CPU and GPU device resource utilization limits in Forensic Evidence

Insider Risk Management Administrators will now be able to increase the CPU and GPU device resource utilization limit for all devices uploading Forensic Evidence clips in their organization. Forensic Evidence will now allow up to 31% CPU and GPU device resource utilization, up from the prior maximum limit of 5%. This enhancement reduces interruptions in the recording and uploading of clips. 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: 420940 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion

You can now insert a hyperlink to your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialogue box.

ID: 420942 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Stream: Playback support for video encoded in Apple ProRes video codec

Users will be able to play back video hosted on OneDrive and SharePoint that is encoded in the Apple ProRes video codec.

ID: 420943 Release: Microsoft Stream – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Leaders updated via group sync

Currently, leaders are managed in Viva Engage manually. If you wish to add or remove leaders, you need to go to Engage to do so. This feature will allow you to define a group that includes users who should be designated as leaders. As you add or remove people from that group, they will gain or lose privileges accordingly. The manual method will continue to be available.

ID: 420946 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025

Microsoft Teams: Best practice configuration monitoring dashboard in Teams admin center

Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure a smooth collaborative experience on Teams. Best Practices dashboard in Teams admin center allows administrators to monitor and promptly address any non-conformance across their organization.

ID: 421185 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Improved People Search

You can now search for content related to specific people. Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get relevant content suggestions.

ID: 421189 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging

Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.

ID: 421190 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Outlook: Org Explorer available for all M365 commercial users

Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in Outlook for all M365 enterprise users, including Microsoft Viva users.

ID: 421191 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to inherit document library label from container label of a group/site/team

This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it.

ID: 421192 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

SharePoint: eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign rolling out globally

Previously, the use third-party providers as part of SharePoint eSignature platform were limited to regions supported by Microsoft’s native SharePoint eSignature. With this release, customers can now enjoy the flexibility of using these third-party providers globally, wherever they are supported.

ID: 421194 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: AI administrator role

We are introducing a new admin role for AI and Microsoft Copilot administration. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions.

ID: 421360 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Entra – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Outlook: Delivery and read receipts in Outlook mobile

Now you will be able to request both delivery and read receipts while composing an email in Outlook for iOS and Android. You will also easily be able to respond to requests for read receipts on emails you receive and set preferences for future read receipts.

ID: 421361 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024

Rolling Out

Outlook: Reset People Suggestions in Search

This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows settings. If a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

ID: 98137 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Engage content in Workplace Search

As users search in office.com, sharepoint.com, bing at work they will find content from Viva Engage in the search results. We will first start with question posts and then roll out discussion posts from Engage.

ID: 391669 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Apply coaching suggestions for Coaching by Copilot

Apply coaching suggestions will allow users to request a complete rewrite of their email based on feedback from Coaching by Copilot and in one click, accept and rewrite their email with those suggestions.

ID: 392326 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Select specific pieces of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite them

When composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 392327 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars

This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.

ID: 392826 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls

This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams.

ID: 393227 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October 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: September CY2024

OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web

OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it’s in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We’ve added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We’ve also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time.

ID: 395379 Release: OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience

Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI.

ID: 397092 Release: Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Move menu improvements

Two improvements are coming to the move menu on Outlook for iOS and Android. Users will now be able to expand and collapse folders within the move menu and see folder hierarchy when searching in the move menu.

ID: 409957 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Design Ideas

Authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft Viva Amplify to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart.

ID: 412943 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Launched

SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits

We are introducing new version controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. Today, document library owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, tenant and site admins or document library owners will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently expires new and existing version based on their age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set time-based version expiration and count limits on new and existing versions. These controls enable admins to set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization balanced with storage usage considerations. Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive for Business.

ID: 145802 Release: OneDrive, SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities

Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs.

ID: 392841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams

Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events.

ID: 398445 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Teams: Audio zones enable Mesh creators to craft custom audio experiences

We will not release Audio Zones for Mesh Toolkit 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 in Teams. Spatial audio in Mesh provides a realistic recreation of how sound moves in the real world, with the volume of people speaking or media playing getting lower of as you move away from the source of the sound. The introduction of audio zones enables creators to craft custom audio experiences for the intended use of a space with features such as extended audio drop off distances for conversations that happen in a large area, or restricting what audio can enter a given area, to allow smaller groups to have lively conversations without disrupting their neighbors.

ID: 412077 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024