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In Microsoft Entra, cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user’s manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations with default schema, the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. If you have custom configurations, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings. This feature is available worldwide and in both GCC and GCC High.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Multilayer structuring, customization, and branding for learning academies
This feature set brings new functionality to learning academies. Multi-layer structuring allows users to organize content and learning paths under multiple levels. Branding capabilities include the customization of the academy logo and the background image. Customization allows users to hide or show individual components of an academy like featured sets and learner profile cards.
ID: 334010 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Document library card for Viva Connections Dashboard
This card will help operators add a card which will show all the files inside a directory for quick access.
ID: 408536 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Real-time notifications (Live Activities) for Teams meetings on iOS lock screen
iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1).
ID: 412616 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Work Hours and Location in My Day
Work Hours and Location information will now be available in My Day pane in Outlook when using agenda view. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 412618 Release: Microsoft 365, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: New security and certification information available for apps and extensions
This feature will equip administrators evaluating apps and copilot extensions for deployment with extensive security and related certification data to help those admins more quickly evaluate that an app and/or extension complies with their tenant security requirements. Initially, the information provided will include results from individual M365 certification tests and evidence submitted by ISVs during Microsoft’s audit of their app or copilot extension. Additionally, for non-certified apps, admins will receive details on data handling, security, and compliance as self-attested by the ISV.
ID: 412935 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
SharePoint: Introducing archival and other enforcement actions with inactive site lifecycle management policy
Address inactive content on your tenant with inactive sites policy. Admins can configure policies to Detect inactive sites, send notifications to all site owners, and archive these sites or put them in a read-only state if there is no action from notification recipients.
ID: 412940 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ
When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors.
ID: 413111 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November 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: Voice and Face biometric data export controls
This new feature provides controls for biometric data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own biometric data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators.
ID: 413709 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms
When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities.
ID: 413711 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI)
This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos.
ID: 413712 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events
Attendees can now join Mesh events as a guest in the Microsoft Mesh app on PC. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest access for events in the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update.
ID: 413713 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: October CY2024
Outlook: Drag emails into Calendar icon in the app bar to create an event
Users can drag and drop emails into the Calendar icon on the left app bar of Outlook to create an event. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 413716 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: September CY2024
Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot
Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 372895 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Users can scope suggestions to specific entities in the new Outlook for Windows and Web
Users will be able to scope their search suggestions down to specific entities such as Files, People, Mail etc in order to sort through their suggestions more easily. They will be able to navigate from the suggestion directly to the entity tab in their search results. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 398707 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for Android
We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for Android. 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: 398984 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel support for formula data summaries in rows and cells
Add a single formula to summarize column data into one cell. Today, full column calculations produce a unique result in each row, but this new feature gives you the option to calculate all data in a column together to return one result. You can also create a row with formulas that apply for relevant columns; for example, an “add total sales row” will add a SUM formula underneath every column that has sales data.
ID: 398989 Release: Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups
Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites.
ID: 406554 Release: SharePoint, OneDrive – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Chat with Copilot in Outlook mobile
The same Microsoft Copilot experience available in new Outlook for Windows, web, and classic Outlook soon will be available in Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android through the module switcher.
ID: 407381 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Add links to content in featured set
Global administrators/knowledge administrators can now add links to content sets in Viva Learning. These links can direct users to content stored internally with services like SharePoint and Stream or found online through YouTube, Vimeo, and other sources. The capability to add links to content allows admins to add content found online to featured sets, in addition to formal learning courses from connected providers.
ID: 366437 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Restrict unintentional sharing to unallowed cloud apps and services (macOS)
Ability to restrict unintentional sharing of sensitive items to unallowed cloud apps and services in macOS.
ID: 383739 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), DoD, GCC High Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Security settings in the Microsoft Edge management service
The Microsoft Edge management service will provide admins with a dedicated experience to manage specific settings that help improve the security posture of their managed browser instances.
ID: 395939 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions
Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .csv file to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a town hall or webinar.
ID: 398446 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled
Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (e.g. sensitivity labels and rights management) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview portals.
ID: 400716 Release: Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft 365 app – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Playlist Card on Viva Connections Dashboard
This feature allows tenant admins to create a card for a playlist to be accessed from the Viva Connections Dashboard.
ID: 402190 Release: Microsoft Viva – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva for AI Transformation pre-built campaign in Viva Amplify
Pre-drafted publications, campaign objectives and key messages designed to communicate how to leverage Microsoft Viva for AI transformation.
ID: 407705 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements
This roadmap item is cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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: 368825 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Workspaces now supports adding highlighting
Microsoft Edge Workspaces users are now able to collaborate in a synchronized way by adding highlighting. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We continue to investigate different ways to enhance the Workspaces user experience.
ID: 389852 Release: Microsoft Edge – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Outlook: Add an account to Outlook mobile using a QR code
Microsoft is simplifying how users can add their Microsoft 365 for work or school accounts to Outlook mobile by allowing them to use a QR code instead of typing their username and password. We are cancelling this feature and apologize for any inconvenience.
ID: 406169 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: August CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
