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 (3)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Viva: Enhanced Viva Goals Azure DevOps data integration – This enhanced version of the Viva Goals ADO data integration enables users to directly link work items to projects and Key Results and eliminates the dependency on shared queries. Roadmap ID: 117473
• 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: Meeting category insights coming to the Digest email – The Digest email from Microsoft Viva will include a summary of meeting category insights for users with a Viva Insights subscription, highlighting up to 3 categories in which users spent the most time over the last 4 weeks. Roadmap ID: 98164

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Display connected topics on people profile cards – Profile cards displayed through Outlook will display Topics associated to an individual. Roadmap ID: 88697
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Zapier data integration – The Viva Goals integration with Zapier allows users to automate their key results with progress from over 5000+ apps in the Zapier marketplace. Roadmap ID:117459
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals extension in Azure DevOps – The Viva Goals extension in ADO enables users to view alignment details within ADO Work Items. When a work item is connected to a project in Viva Goals,  they can view  end alignment in the Goals tab. Users can also perform check-ins, create projects, and more without leaving ADO. Roadmap ID:117474
• 🆕 Viva Learning employee learning API: Content sync – Content Sync API, which enables learning content hosted on learning systems to show up across the Viva Learning user experience.   Roadmap ID:91125

Rollout starts – May 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Auto-categorization coming to meeting category insights in Viva Insights – Users with a Viva Insights license will be able to see what kind of meetings are taking up their time, automatically categorized by Viva Insights based on meeting size, cadence, and people in the meetings. Categories include long and large, recurring, and 1:1 meetings. Roadmap ID:117396
• Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation – Feature to allow Viva connections mobile users to browse and reach SharePoint sites by surfacing their hub and site navigation in the VC app. Roadmap ID:117527
• Microsoft Viva: Notifications in Teams activity feed in Viva Goals – User can now receive notifications in the Teams activity feed for Viva Goals check-in reminders, likes and mentions in comments, and nudges to check-in. Roadmap ID:117445
• Microsoft Viva: Bot support for building Viva Connections Cards – developer can leverage the power of Microsoft bot framework to build cards for Viva Connections. Roadmap ID:117419

Rollout starts – June 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals in Live People Cards – Increase transparency by viewing a user’s OKRs from Viva Goals within a Live People Card in Outlook. Roadmap ID:117453
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Workplace integration – Users can receive OKRs updates and check-in reminders within Workplace. Roadmap ID:117461
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Granularity in Viva Goals Permissions- New Tenant IT Admin role – Introducing an additional admin role with the Tenant level IT Admin who has the ability to administer Viva Goals, enable integrations, etc. Roadmap ID:117469

Rollout starts – July 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals OKR views in Sharepoint – Embed OKR lists as URL or HTML i-frame in your organization’s announcement pages on SharePoint.  Roadmap ID:117484

Rollout starts – August 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Custom Views – User can now filter and save custom views to quickly access views that are most relevant. Roadmap ID:117478

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