Play of the Week

The ability to exclude users and groups from policies is coming to Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM). IRM correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Customers can create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. The new feature is coming to all tenants early next year.

In Development

SharePoint: Site ownership policy

Site ownership policy is a one-stop solution to effectively manage ownership needs of all SharePoint sites in your tenant. It helps you to define your organization’s ownership criteria and identify sites that are not compliant. You can further notify predefined set of users of your choice to find the next best site owner or admin. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain ownerless for more than 3 months to prevent risks of data mismanagement.

ID: 396172 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Dynamic internal benchmarks for Advanced Insights

Collaboration norms vary by roles and geographies, and comparing behavioral metrics across groups can draw misleading conclusions if those groups are comprised of different roles. Dynamic internal benchmarks allow the analyst to understand the expected behaviors of a group based on similar employees within the company.

ID: 408543 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Viva: Introduction to metrics and benchmarks in Advanced Insights

This report template for analysts in Advanced Insights provides an introduction to some of the most frequently used Viva Insights metrics, grounding both new and veteran analysts in their definitions, applications, and how their group’s results compare to typical ranges using both internal and external benchmarks.

ID: 408544 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User exclusion

This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM policies. 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: 412942 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2025

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

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID)

For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups.

ID: 414515 Release: Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Offline app boot

This introduces the ability to open or restart the new Outlook for Windows when not connected to the internet. Previously, you needed a connection to the internet to open or restart the new Outlook. Offline access is only supported when the app is already running and then goes offline. Opening and restarting the app while offline will be introduced with this rollout. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 414516 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Detailed error description for LMS setup failures

LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures.

ID: 414517 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Edge: Edge on MacOS now seamlessly opens links in Teams

When you set the default browser to Microsoft Edge on MacOS and enable the feature, web links from the Teams desktop app sent via chats, channels, calendar, and other entry points will seamlessly open automatically in the profile that is signed into Teams app and skips the need to reauthenticate in the browser making it faster and easier to access content. Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “Choose Which Browser Opens Web Links” Microsoft 365 policy.

ID: 414521 Release: Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Manual sync trigger options for provider data

Customers can manually trigger sync for different data types on Manage providers in Viva Learning admin page.

ID: 414522 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Sync provider data from specific dates

We are introducing flexibility on provider setup form where admins can sync data from specific dates for a provider instead of full data sync.

ID: 414523 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

SharePoint: Editorial Card web part in SharePoint Pages and News

We are introducing a Web Part called the Editorial Card to enhance page experiences. This card-like container allows for manual creation tailored to your needs, creating eye-catching content to capture viewers’ attentions.

ID: 414524 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Pop-up enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop

We are expanding the functionality of oversharing pop-ups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled and Message/Attachment is not labeled, File extension is. It will also support a customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels.

ID: 414528 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2024

Planner: Baseline with Task level variance

Capture a Baseline of your plan and view plan and task-level variances to know if the plan is on track or delayed.

ID: 414530 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Outlook: Automatically display auto-mapped calendars

Users will be able to automatically see their auto-mapped calendars when toggling from classic Outlook to the new. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 415168 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024

Microsoft Viva: File and conversation admin settings in Engage admin center

Admins can now manage file and conversation-related settings from the Engage admin center without being routed to the legacy Yammer admin center.

ID: 415169 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024

Microsoft Teams: IntelliFrame video feed on Teams mobile

Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows.

ID: 415250 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024

Rolling Out

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Sort search results by ratings

Users can sort in-app search results by ratings and relevance of the content.

ID: 160731 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Campaign Enhancements – Targeted campaigns and campaigns in the digest.

Corporate communications and campaign managers will now have the capability to effectively promote their campaigns by sending notifications directly to users, ensuring they are promptly informed about new campaigns and can readily participate in them. Additionally, campaigns will be discoverable in the engage digest, enhancing visibility and engagement opportunities.

ID: 382924 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva – 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

Outlook: Swipe in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

The Message List will now support Swipe from Left and Swipe from Right actions on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. As a result, some minor organization changes will also happen for the hover actions. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 394683 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC

Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment.

ID: 395935 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Scheduling Assistant Updates

We are updating the scheduling assistant view to help users have better readability. Some of these changes are in alignment to customer the feedback. These changes will also improve the grid lines, availability view, adding combined availability bar and much more. These updates will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 397769 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for iOS

We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for iOS. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you’re looking for.

ID: 398982 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024

Outlook: Updating Conversation Actions on Outlook for iOS

Currently, when viewing a message, you can access the available actions in the top-right corner. We are updating these actions to be at the bottom of the screen with the ability to customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs. With this update, you will also be able to access all conversation actions from the inbox view by long-pressing a message.

ID: 398983 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Outlook: Open attachments in desktop apps from the new Outlook for Windows

In the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open attachments of all types in their respective desktop app by double clicking them. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 401123 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional support for Teams Live Interpretation

With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the direction they want to provide translation in between the two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear from.

ID: 403103 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Excel: Python in Excel

Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users with access to Excel for Windows will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.

ID: 406770 Release: Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy visibility for users with Copilot SKU and VL Seeded/Premium

Microsoft Copilot Academy will be available for all users with a Copilot for Microsoft License and any of Viva Learning licenses (Seeded or Premium). Admins will also be able to control visibility of Copilot Academy.

ID: 407387 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Outlook: Sort and Filter improvements on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows

Sort and Filter will now be separate buttons in the Message List. This will make it easier to change the Sorted by and the Filtered by values separately. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 407704 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams admins in education will now be able to create and publish custom team templates

Education IT admins can now create team templates from Microsoft Teams admin center. As an admin, you can use templates to easily deploy consistent teams across your organization. With templates, your users can quickly create rich collaboration spaces with predefined settings, channels, and apps.

ID: 408527 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024

Launched

Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for Android

Provides cloud-based Android remote assistance connection.

ID: 109554 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business

With this change Teams meeting recordings will be saved to the meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business instead of to the OneDrive for Business folder of the person who initiated the recording. This improves the compliance of recordings as meeting organizers can then manage access permissions and recording file management.

ID: 116251 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Group chat profile picture

You will have a better way to reflect your team and group chat topic, with custom pictures. Group chat members can upload an image or use pre-selected illustrations and emojis, adding a layer of inclusivity and expression to their chat.

ID: 119305 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Full document fingerprinting

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.

ID: 153080 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: September CY2023

Outlook: Support for offline search without Spotlight dependency

iOS’s offline search implementation relies on Spotlight (Apple’s local search index). In some cases, Intune policy can block the use of Spotlight, which will completely disable offline search for users. We are adding support for offline search even if your company’s Intune policy blocks use of Spotlight.

ID: 153121 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect files on remote / mapped network devices

With this capability organizations can leverage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to protect sensitive content on files stored on remote network shares or mapped network drives with the same protection behavior as a file on a mounted hard drive.

ID: 153398 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Follow a meeting in new Outlook for Windows and web

Follow is a new meeting response (RSVP) option that goes beyond the traditional Accept, Tentative and Decline choices geared towards individuals with high meeting loads and conflicting meetings each day. Follow is the ideal RSVP option for meetings you can’t attend but still want to stay engaged and receive info about. Other attendees will be able to see if you are following a meeting. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Note: This began rolling out in May and not April. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. #newoutlookforwindows

ID: 154557 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Drafts & Scheduled posts supporting POBO (post on behalf of)

Users and their delegates can now save their posts as drafts to be accessed later, and even schedule them to be posted at a later date and time.

ID: 155843 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Granular scoping with role-based access control (RBAC)

IT departments in large organizations are built in a way that some of the day-to-day tasks are delegated to specific people or roles in the organization following the industry standard of least privilege access. Admins have a need to delegate role based permissions to users or analysts in a granular way. In some cases, this delegation is based on function, and in other cases it is based on geography or scope of work. In this release, Audit will provide role based information with Audit search results through the UI.

ID: 163961 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Teams: Require background blur when no background is selected (Premium)

When enabled, if a user does not have a background image applied their video background will be blurred.

ID: 163967 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Advanced Fingerprinting

Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs. This also allows you to detect when a portion of your sensitive document is exposed using partial matching support with Fingerprinting across the compliance solutions.

ID: 164203 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva – AI Topic suggestions in publisher

With the help of AI topic extraction, we can offer suggested topics based on the user’s question. Our AI topic extraction recommends up to 3 topics to add to one’s question based on what they wrote. These can be existing Viva topics or newly generated ones that the user can create and add. The user still must select and add our AI suggested topic since they do not automatically get attached to the question. The user can also still search and add their own topic and choose not to use our AI suggested topics.

ID: 164856 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators

With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. 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: 168841 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: October CY2023

Outlook: Scheduling across different time zones

When scheduling a meeting with people in different time zones, the organizer will be prompted with additional insights regarding each participant’s respective time zone. The Scheduling Assistant will now help find a time that works for meeting participants across time zones.

ID: 170783 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2023

Planner: Planner Personal Plans

Today in Planner, all created plans must be contained by an M365 group or a roster. With the new Personal plan API, plans can be contained by a new type of container, called a user container. For these types of plans, the creator of the plan is the only member and owner.

ID: 171611 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: October CY2023

Bookings: Bookings with me available for customers in government cloud

Bookings with me in Outlook facilitates scheduling meetings between you and others per mutual calendar availability and your specified meeting preferences.

ID: 171912 Release: Bookings – GCC Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Intune: MAM Tunnel – Strict tunnel support for iOS and Android via Edge

Only allow internet traffic via Edge when Tunnel is connected on iOS and Android.

ID: 178920 Release: Microsoft Intune – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2023

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search

Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph.

ID: 374025 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Have follow-up conversations with the team

Get a better understanding of survey results within Viva Pulse reports with team conversations.

ID: 381744 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier

The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases.

ID: 384093 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, DoD, GCC High Tags: March CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs

The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events.

ID: 387128 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

SharePoint: Updating all News Posts to “Made for Email”

Following the positive reception of the “Made for Email” News templates, we are rolling out a change that will make every news post you create “Made for Email” by default. Now, no matter how you create your new News Post, whether it is copying a previous post or using an existing template, you will have access to send that full distribution as an email. With this change, authors will still have access to our full webpart library by selecting “all” webparts in the webpart picker but are defaulted into having additional sending functionality.

ID: 393335 Release: SharePoint – GCC, DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time

You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month.

ID: 397768 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Creation and Registration APIs

Customers now have additional capabilities to manage Webinars, namely the ability to create, update, and delete Webinars, as well as register attendees to existing Webinars using a new set of APIs.

ID: 398448 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024

SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – Page range setting for prebuilt and structured models

This creates a new setting for prebuilt (contract, invoice, and receipt) and structured/freeform models to specify the file pages to be processed.

ID: 398960 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024

Microsoft Teams: Text and UI resizing for Teams Rooms on Windows

IT admins can adjust the size of the text and all other UI elements on the front-of-room display by changing the display scaling settings. Text and UI elements are resized and adjusted for all supported display resolution and scaling combinations (1080p resolution at 100-150% scaling, 4K resolution at 100-300% scaling). This capability is extended to support touch boards.

ID: 400707 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative Exfiltration Tuning

With this update, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will not be detected and scored if the events have already been detected in a previous Cumulative Exfiltration Activity risk. This change will reduce noise for alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activity.

ID: 402195 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: August CY2024

Canceled

Microsoft Viva: Expanded reactions in Viva Engage

We’re expanding the set of reactions available in all instances of Viva Engage. Users will see an additional 24 icons on top of the 6 we already offer. These new icons cover a wide range of emotions and sentiments, helping users express themselves and improve engagement in your network. This has launched and is being removed from the roadmap.

ID: 178015 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2023

Microsoft Viva: Admin setting to disable private messages in a Viva Engage (Yammer) network

Admins will have the ability to turn off private message capabilities in their Viva Engage (Yammer) network. Once turned off, users will not see the feature in the frontend. Once released, this setting is available for admins to use any time. If turning off private messages in existing networks, users will lose access to their messages. All content remains ingested and available via eDiscovery. This item has launched and is being removed from the roadmap.

ID: 178016 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2023

Outlook: Message reminders

This feature is being cancelled as service team has deprecated this feature. When Outlook identifies that a user could have forgotten to respond to or follow up on an email message, it could bring that email back to the top of the inbox, marking it needing an action. A maximum of one email message can be brought to the top of the user’s inbox at a time.

ID: 178351 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64)

This roadmap item is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) which allows them to detect and protect sensitive data in files part of their digital ecosystem. This allows admins to introduce policy controls for scenarios such as when an information worker using a Windows endpoint powered by ARM64 chipset is accessing sensitive files and performing an exfiltration action such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, etc.

ID: 372695 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC High, DoD, GCC Tags: February CY2024

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word

Copilot in Consumer Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life. this feature has been delivered but is not in scope for the commercial roadmap and is being removed to reduce confusion. We apologize for the inconvenience. A new item will be published in the future for the commercial customers.

ID: 373615 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024

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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat support to generate a SWOT analysis

Users can ask for a SWOT analysis or pro/con list of a document or topic that will analyze their document and bring in relevant enterprise and web context to inform the derived analysis. This feature is being removed from the roadmap as it describes a capability of Copilot Chat in Word and not a standalone capability.

ID: 388741 Release: Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: May 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. This feature—Catch up tab which was released to some customers—will be rolled back completely. As a result of this roll back, no Copilot user will see the Catch up tab on the homepage of Copilot. All Copilot users will continue to see “Try These Prompts” as earlier. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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

Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights employee engagement with leader communications report

We are assessing customer feedback to improve this report before fully rolling it out. We apologize for the inconvenience. Leaders will have a new report to help them understand the reach of their communications within their organization, and their employees’ engagement with their sent emails, meetings, and shared files to better understand the effectiveness of different modes of communication.

ID: 399426 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: June CY2024