Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 6th June 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 6th June 2023

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (3)
  • Rolling out (6)
  • In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams Admin Center: New widget for unspent Azure consumption commitment – New widget in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) helps admins quickly view unspent Microsoft Azure consumption commitment (MACC) that they can apply when making purchase of Teams apps that are Azure benefit eligible. It will only be available to organizations that have an existing MACC agreement with Microsoft. Roadmap ID:125173
  • Microsoft Teams: Avatars for Microsoft Teams  – Avatars for Microsoft Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions. Roadmap ID:107969
  • Microsoft Teams: Hardware Occupancy Sensor Integration – With supported occupancy sensor hardware, a notification banner is displayed on the Teams panel if the room is occupied when it is available or if the room is not occupied when it is reserved. The room will also be auto checked in when the sensor detects occupancy if check in is enabled. Roadmap ID:101993

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams  – End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams.  Roadmap ID:100160
  • Microsoft Teams: New channels experience – New channels experience, built with an intuitive design that help teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience include: compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page, every post will now have a conversation view and a new right pane with the channel’s key information.   Roadmap ID:91683
  • Microsoft Teams: Expanded view for profile card – With the expanded view of the profile card, users will now be able to see a richer view of a person’s profile, such as their contact data, custom properties, and their LinkedIn information. This expansion also enables the user to view richer organization chart information about the person they are interacting with, without leaving the context they are in. Roadmap ID:109526
  • Microsoft Teams: work hours and location – Set your work location for the day so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration. Click on a user’s avatar or profile photo anywhere in Teams and get an overview of their online status, the next available calendar slot in Outlook, work hours, local time, and work location (remote or office).   Roadmap ID:125375
  • Microsoft Teams: Allowing registered attendees to bypass the lobby in Webinars – Organizers can set a new lobby policy so registered attendees will now automatically bypass the lobby when they join the webinar. Roadmap ID: 125881
  • Microsoft Stream: Timeline markers in Teams meeting recording for when your name was mentioned – We are adding markers (which appear as icons above the video timeline) in Teams meeting recording timelines to indicate when your name was mentioned during the meeting.  The markers are personalized, so that only you will see when your name was mentioned. The markers help you see who mentioned your name and in which context, and to easily jump right to that part of the meeting. This feature is only available for customers enrolled in Microsoft Teams Premium preview or customers who have purchased the Microsoft Teams Premium add-on offering. Roadmap ID:109580

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2023

Rollout starts – July 2023

  • Microsoft Teams: Preview and playback of Stream videos inline in Teams chat and channels – Stream videos that are saved in OneDrive and SharePoint are now embedded in chat and channels enabling users to preview and play them directly in Teams without the need to open a browser window. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127596
  • Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings – Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114214 
  • Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900
  • Microsoft Teams: Hotline phones  – Enables administrators to program Microsoft Teams certified phone devices to directly dial a pre-configured phone number or contact, such as emergency services in a manufacturing plant or help desk in the organization. The hotline can be set up directly through the device settings or the Teams admin center. The device will need to be enabled with a Teams Shared Device License and set to common area phone mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123749
  • Microsoft Teams: USB camera support for Teams Rooms on Android – Enables Android-based USB cameras to be used in Microsoft Teams Rooms as additional or primary cameras. IT admins can set the default primary camera using device settings and users can switch between multiple cameras in a meeting. This feature is available for all Teams Rooms licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121376
  • Microsoft Teams: Customize and edit emails for webinars (Premium) – Customize and edit content for webinar emails including registration confirmation, reminder emails, cancellation notices, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119391

Rollout starts – August 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs (Premium) – The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125072
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Shared Device license on Teams mobile app for Android – To support mobile and flexible work styles, the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license will be available on the Teams mobile app on Android. This will enable Android phones to be set up as shared devices. Walkie Talkie, call queues, auto attendants, cloud voicemail, call park and all other calling features currently supported for common area phones will be available through the Teams Android app.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126706
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: QR code to reserve a room on Teams Panels – This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=129366

Rollout starts – September 2023

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