Play of the Week

More options are coming to work location sharing, including the option of not sharing any location information to other users in the organization. The three supported location sharing options will now be “No location shared,” “Only general location shared, Office or Remote,” and “Detailed location shared such as building or desk location information.” The location sharing option will be used across Outlook, Places, and Teams experiences.

In Development

Outlook: Pinned ability to always see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location

This introduces an “always on” ability to see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location. This information will be pinned (available) on the top-right corner of the Calendar surface in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 410986 Release: Microsoft 365, Exchange, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Setup wizard UX improvements for Workday integration

The Workday setup wizard will be modular and more intuitive going forward.

ID: 414527 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc

The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.

ID: 415448 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc

The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.

ID: 415449 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report – Business Chat

The Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will be updated to include usage of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (web) along with the existing usage data for Business Chat (work). It will also include enabled users and active users adoption information for new entry points Edge and Microsoft 365 App for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

ID: 415468 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments

Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 416076 Release: Outlook – GCC Tags: October CY2024

OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web

With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files.

ID: 416077 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, OneDrive – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: October CY2024

SharePoint: Copilot agents in SharePoint

SharePoint users can create a Copilot agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these Copilot agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams.

ID: 416297 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook

Delegate access for mailbox and folders can be granted from the new Outlook app. Users will be able to view the permissions granted for a mailboxes and folders. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 417063 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2025

Outlook: Calendar in the inbox (CITI) card for shared calendar meeting invites

Delegates will be able to see the shared calendar event details, including the principal calendar, in the CITI card in the top drawer in meeting invite messages. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 417478 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP

With this capability, admins can extend the condition ‘Document Property is’ to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint.

ID: 417482 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle

Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption.

ID: 418120 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: November CY2024

SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint

Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise.

ID: 418126 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Outlook: New work location sharing options

This updates the work location sharing options to include the option of not sharing any location information to other users in the organization. The three supported location sharing options will now be “No location shared,” “Only general location shared (Office or Remote),” and “Detailed location shared (Building or desk location information).” The location sharing option will be respected when showing a user’s location information coming from Work Hours and Location across Outlook, Places, and Teams experiences. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 418127 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook, Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on only specific email components like email body or attachments. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components.

ID: 418131 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Edit image with Designer

Discover advanced AI-powered image editing in Microsoft Edge with Designer. Easily personalize your images by erasing objects, adding text, enhancing visuals with auto crop, removing or blurring the background, and more, all without leaving your browser. Start editing by right clicking an image in your browser and selecting “Edit image with Designer.” Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “ImageEditorServiceEnabled” policy.

ID: 418132 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Intune: MacOS user certs to be deployed in user keychain

We are now announcing a significant enhancement in MacOS: the ability to store certificates in the user keychain. Previously, certificates were automatically stored in the device keychain, regardless of user or device type.

ID: 418382 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: November CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – User-level mute

The mute user feature will allow users to remove other users’ posts from their feeds and digests. Users cannot mute designated leaders. Muting a user does not block notifications or at-mentions from that user. Admins can turn this feature on or off for the entire network.

ID: 418565 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January 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: 418566 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Rolling Out

Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.

ID: 95680 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024

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

Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound

With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen.

ID: 380681 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows

Can’t find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs.

ID: 382659 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High

Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support, co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration.

ID: 387790 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby

Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.

ID: 392836 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Topic Subscription notification

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

ID: 395940 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: September 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: Microsoft 365 app, Excel – GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word

The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone.

ID: 399923 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through proximity join for Teams Rooms on Windows

When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Room on Windows with a companion device, in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms.

ID: 400702 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Windows

The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.

ID: 400706 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add brand images in M365 Copilot from SharePoint organization asset libraries

Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand.

ID: 406170 Release: Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile

This update allows presenters who were invited using the external presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams client.

ID: 409228 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Native controls on console for OEM camera features

In Teams Rooms on Windows meeting rooms, you can now directly control camera features provided by OEMs. Controllable features include group framing, active speaker framing, and OEM specific IntelliFrame views composed on the in-room devices.

ID: 409537 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: September CY2024

OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer

A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer.

ID: 410218 Release: OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

OneDrive: Sync – Shared Item Delete and Local Mass Delete Confirmation Dialogs

We are shipping an items delete confirmation that will trigger when the user is about to delete shared items. This UI format will also replace the existing mass delete experience. These confirmations will occur when files are deleted from File Explorer when the user is running OneDrive and not paused.

ID: 415705 Release: OneDrive – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Checking feedback policy across all accounts

Currently, when we determine whether a user is entitled to submit feedback, we only look at the feedback policy for their primary (global) account. Going forward, we are going to make the feedback policy check more restrictive which is more secure. We’ll be looking at feedback policies for all users’ accounts and basing their eligibility off the most restrictive policy value found. For example, if any of the users’ accounts have Feedback disabled by a policy, we won’t show the Feedback button in the Help tab of the ribbon for any of their accounts. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 416296 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates

Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32.

ID: 376999 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account

When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source.

ID: 383019 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium)

If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member.

ID: 391639 Release: Bookings, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only

Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits.

ID: 395791 Release: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only

Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits.

ID: 407068 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image generation in Copilot chat

Create images using natural language to visualize concepts and ideas within the flow of work in Copilot for Microsoft 365.

ID: 409561 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Canceled