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 (0)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Customer Facing Analytics – The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections. and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment. Roadmap ID:93367
• Microsoft Viva: Topic discovery analytics to show sites processed – This update will provide transparency on topic discovery through analytics, by showing Sites processed for discovery counts in the Microsoft Admin Center. Roadmap ID:100060
• Microsoft Viva: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop – Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps and acts as the home base for Viva experiences in Teams. Roadmap ID: 99917

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Manual course completion – Users can mark a course as complete in Viva learning.  Roadmap ID: 99523

Release – April 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Employee learning API – learner record sync – Assignments and learner records sync from providers/LMS connected to Viva Learning through the employee learning API. Roadmap ID: 100200
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Configure Viva Learning permissions by provider – Admins can configure permission settings for Viva Learning content by learning provider, ie. hide all content from a certain connected learning provider from certain users. Roadmap ID: 102662
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Jira on prem support for Viva Goals – Support for Jira Server and Jira Data Center that allows users to automatically track the progress for objectives and key results (OKRs) along with the work driving those OKRs in Viva Goals. Roadmap ID: 109592
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Expanded Viva Goals Analytics Feature – Viva Goals Analytics now includes actionable insights and recommendations expanded to team admins, OKR Champions, and organization admins. Roadmap ID: 117454
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center – Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback. Roadmap ID: 118768
• Microsoft Viva: Ability to recommend course to groups – Allows users to use existing user groups while making recommendations.  Roadmap ID:118677

Release – June 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Add to Calendar – Add to Calendar feature will help the learners block learning time in their calendar to take up any course at their preferred time. Roadmap ID: 118670
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Search relevance improvements in Viva Learning – Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests. Roadmap ID: 118965

Release – September 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management – Admins will have the ability to enable or disable designated Viva Engage features for specific users through the M365 admin center. Roadmap ID: 117504

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