SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and Microsoft Purview. Here’s all the new and updated Microsoft roadmap items from the past week:

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SharePoint

Microsoft Viva

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva.

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (25)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Azure Active Directory:  Azure B2B integration with OneDrive and SharePoint – The Azure B2B Integration with OneDrive and SharePoint is now generally available. This integration is currently disabled by default but can be enabled using the SharePoint Online Management Shell.  Additional changes are coming to improve the experience. Roadmap ID:81955

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva Engage:  Storyline Announcements – Official leaders can create ‘announcement’ storyline posts that reach their audience directly in email and Teams notifications.  Post on behalf of another user allows the user to assign a delegate who can post to their storyline on their behalf. Roadmap ID:117498
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva:  Ask me anything events – All users can create moderated Q&A events from their storyline page.  AMAs include question upvoting & sorting, best answer, and optional anonymous submission. Roadmap ID:117499
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Social campaigns in Viva Engage – Corporate communicators can create official hashtags for campaigns that inspire participation and aggregate campaign activity with following, leader sponsorship, theming, and supporting resources. Roadmap ID:117500

Release – March 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: EU Data Residency for Existing Viva Goals customers – Complete EU data residency compliance, migration and housing for existing EU customers. Roadmap ID:117466
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity. Roadmap ID:118588
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Progress tracking for Learning paths – Now in Viva Learning, users will be able to track their progress on different courses within the Learning path. Roadmap ID:99171
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Goals EU Data Residency – With EU Data Residency support, EU-based customers interested in using Viva Goals can have their data stored in EU Data centers. Currently, EU Data Residency is available for new customers. With this change, for existing Viva Goals EU customers, the data will be migrated to EU Data centers.  Roadmap ID:115479
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: GCCH support for Connections – Viva connections will be made available for Government Community Cloud High. Roadmap ID:117429
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: SharePoint content on Office.com and Edge New Tab Page Feed show related Viva Topics – Feed items are highlighted with a Topic Pill when they have relevant SharePoint content allowing the user to further contextualize their Feed. Roadmap ID:118063
• Microsoft Viva: Take action after reflecting on meeting category insights in Viva Insights – Viva Insights customers will be able to take actions such as editing meeting invites or responses directly from the Viva Insights app after reflecting on their meeting category insights to align their time spent in meetings with their goals. Roadmap ID:117374

Release – April 2023

• 🆕 SharePoint: Improvements to custom site template experience – We are updating the experience for when you apply a custom site template, also known as a third -party site template, from your organization. With these updates, you will have more insight into the status updates and site script details for the template as you are applying it to your site. Roadmap ID:117495
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Manage user level information – Admin function to download, retrieval & delete user level information regarding manual course completion tagging. Roadmap ID:118673
• Microsoft Viva: Ability to recommend course to groups – Allows users to use existing user groups while making recommendations.  Roadmap ID:118677
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Adding Viva Goals team members through AAD Groups – With this capability, team admins can add members to teams by selecting AAD Groups (SG, DLs, etc.); This will enable roll outs and deployment across all teams as well as multiple group support at an organizational level. Roadmap ID:117470
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Topics Adoption Metrics Dashboard – Topics will include a new analytics page, where knowledge managers and admins will have access to a set of metrics that details the health of their adoption. Tenants will have health targets to reach to keep them on track for adopting Viva Topics, as well as recommended actions to perform to drive each metric to healthy.  Roadmap ID:100028

Release – May 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Topics bot brings you topic information to your Teams chat – We are introducing an exciting new way to interact with Topics. A new Teams bot for Viva Topics to bring important topic related information, activities and more to users on their Teams chat. Roadmap ID:118488
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Topic level metrics on topic experiences – View the topic level impact, impressions and usage on topic card and page experiences.  Roadmap ID:118491

Release – June 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Microsoft Graph Search API returns Topic – Microsoft Graph Search API returns Topic answer details. Roadmap ID:118591
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Configure permissions by security group – Admins can configure user permissions for learning content by security groups. Roadmap ID:118675
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Increased Viva Goals text customization – Support for a wide range of text formatting options with additional capabilities to add  tables and hyperlinks to OKR descriptions, check-ins and other updates. Roadmap ID:117463
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Trending Topics – Viva Topics brings a new way to discover and learn about important and relevant topics in your organization through the trending topics experiences across M365. Roadmap ID:118489
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Editors cohort for topics – Knowledge managers can now select and assign a group of SMEs to a topic and invite them to validate and contribute to suggested, confirmed and published topics. Roadmap ID:118490
• SharePoint: SharePoint server migration assessment – Before you move any site or list from SharePoint Server on-premises into Microsoft 365, it’s best practice to assess content and plan for the migration. The SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT) will provide content assessment so cloud admins can best understand what content they have, decide what to migrate, and what to remediate. In this update, SPMT supports SharePoint Server migration assessment for versions 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. Roadmap ID:93440
• SharePoint: Migrate SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate – Provide Microsoft 365 customers with a tool to migrate SharePoint-based workflows to Power Automate. You will be able to migrate SharePoint 2010 (out-of-the-box and SharePoint Designer) workflows and SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer) workflows to Power Automate flows. The feature will be integrated into the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT). Roadmap ID:82108

Release – July 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Additional filters for search results in Viva Learning  – Viva learning will be supporting more Filters on Language, Content Type and Source fields in Search results page.  Roadmap ID:118966

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