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Users will soon be able to opt into the new calendar in Microsoft Teams. The new feature will be one unified calendar between new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams and will include the latest innovations like Microsoft Copilot. The update is schedule to roll out in November 2024 for all customers.
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Microsoft Teams: Contact sync to Android-based Teams devices from Teams admin center
IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams devices as speed dial contacts.
ID: 81379 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python
With Copilot, you can use natural language to describe the analysis you want to perform, and it will automatically generate, explain, and insert Python code into your Excel spreadsheet. This integration unlocks powerful analytics via Python for visualizations, cleaning data, machine learning, predictive analytics, and more—without needing to be Python proficient yourself.
ID: 396728 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Adaptive scopes
Ability to target IRM policies using global Adaptive Scopes. Adaptive scopes within IRM policies allow admins to use existing adaptive scopes created on the Microsoft Purview compliance portal within IRM policies, Adaptive scopes can be created using queries to define user groups dynamically. This feature provides more powerful targeting for policies, allowing different settings to be assigned to users based on attributes from Entra ID without the administrative burden of creating and maintaining groups. 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: 409965 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot
Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail’s importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot’s priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 411302 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self-service for custom access data user export
This feature allows Glint admins to export the access data that has been customized for users in the platform.
ID: 412620 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites
Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to.
ID: 413110 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI
Secure sites by identifying sites with “similar files” and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI.
ID: 415167 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A
Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees.
ID: 415413 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, GCC High Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Users can opt-in to try the new calendar in Teams
The new calendar in Teams combines rich productivity features and the latest innovations like Microsoft Copilot, to help users more seamlessly manage their schedules, prepare for and recap meetings, and even identify optimal days for in-office collaboration. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, users will see the ‘New calendar’ toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams. New calendar is off by default, and users can toggle to try the new experience.
ID: 415415 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by end of 2024
Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by 2024 and the new Microsoft Purview portal will provide all existing capabilities and more. The new Purview portal offers a streamlined design and a unified experience, allowing you to discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it resides across your data estate.
ID: 415454 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying or forwarding of live captions, transcript, and recap for meetings (Premium)
We are expanding the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap.
ID: 416072 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2024
Outlook: Sort by category
This adds the ability to sort by category in Outlook for Mac.
ID: 416092 Release: Outlook – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices
Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call.
ID: 416292 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: December CY2024
OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for web and in Teams
Bringing the power of Microsoft Copilot to OneNote for web and in Teams.
ID: 417005 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: RSVP response in meeting invite message for shared calendars
Managers and delegates will be able to see the user who has responded to meeting invites in shared calendars. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 417064 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels
Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel’s home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams.
ID: 417153 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar
This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription.
ID: 417156 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites
Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities.
ID: 417481 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance
This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience.
ID: 417483 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot license optimizer
Microsoft 365 Copilot license optimizer is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users.
ID: 417484 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Exchange: Adding Inbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online
Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding inbound support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers outbound mail. Note: This release (Preview) has been pushed to May to allow us to enhance our service’s security measures. We apologize for any inconveniences.
ID: 63213 Release: Exchange – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience
A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management.
ID: 189826 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Excel, Word, PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows
Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection.
ID: 385345 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC 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 Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings
Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting).
ID: 394670 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality
Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.
ID: 396571 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location on bookable desks
The user’s work location can be automatically set to ‘In the office’ upon plug-in to peripherals at a bookable desk. Once IT enables the policy for a tenant or a group, users can opt-in to automatically update their location making it easier to connect with co-workers when they are in the office.
ID: 401118 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile
With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files.
ID: 407386 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify – Advanced analytics
These updates to Amplify Reports and Analytics provide a series of improvements to the existing experience, such as large audience scenarios to better reflect reach across the enterprise. Viva Amplify reports will now be integrated with Campaign Brief and will also include historical data. This data will be available as graphs on the reports and to download as a CSV. There will also be features for copying charts as images and downloading to PowerPoint. The historical data experience provides unique views, promotions, and reactions for the last 7, 30, 90 days, and the last 12 months.
ID: 407862 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot
A new column will be added to the Readiness section of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report showing suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new column is intended to help admins with licensing decisions by quickly identifying users who are in a strong position to get the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot based on their relevant Microsoft 365 app usage.
ID: 410202 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Planner: Labels in grid view
Labels for your tasks will be shown in grid view in a new Labels column in basic plans. You can get a better overview of your tasks at a glance since you will no longer need to open task details to view labels.
ID: 412623 Release: Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement
With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive 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: 171598 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September 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
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
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
