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 & Viva

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex and Microsoft Viva.

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Restricted Access Control for SharePoint sites and OneDrive sites – New advanced management capability for SharePoint administrators to restrict access to SharePoint sites and OneDrive using Microsoft 365 groups or Security groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163991
•  SharePoint Syntex: Image tagging – Automatically recognize thousands of standard objects and automatically tag the file with recognized items. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88715
•  OneDrive: Updated file sharing experience – OneDrive is updating the unified file sharing experience that appears when you share files in Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream, OneNote, Planner and many other Microsoft 365 apps. The updated sharing dialog will have simpler look and feel. Additionally, when users select “copy link” they will get a clear on-screen confirmation that the link has been copied, and the confirmation will self-dismiss. Roadmap ID: 124933
• Microsoft Syntex: Site Lifecycle Management – Automate tasks across the life cycle of your sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=147976

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics app in Teams – Teams will include an official Viva Topics app, where users can go to quickly access the Topic Center without leaving their Teams environment. It will include new menus for Viva Suite users to navigate between the Viva tools within Teams.   Roadmap ID:118592

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

• Microsoft Syntex: Taxonomy tagging – Customers will be able to turn on Taxonomy tagger in SharePoint document libraries on a pay-as-you-go basis. With Taxonomy tagger turned on, you can automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in the Taxonomy store using AI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152001

Rollout starts – October 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Download Learner’s progress data – Allow admins to download learners progress data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148083
• 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100028
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration – With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164739

Rollout starts – December 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self Service for bulk uploads – Improved self-service; Ability to bulk upload customer permissions for improved access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163976
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights delegate access for leaders – New delegate access allows leaders to empower other individuals to view insights about their organization. Those with delegated access will be able to easily navigate to the leader’s view of organizational insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164209
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved creation, editability, and saved views in review dashboards – Users will save time in preparing for goal review processes with a simplified review dashboard creation and editing experience, and the ability to leverage saved views instead of starting from scratch. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165681

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Update questions for expired surveys – Improved self-service; Update questions associated with an expired survey. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163975

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements – Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123753
• Microsoft Teams: calendar synchronization – You can view changes to your meetings in real time in the Teams calendar on your mobile device.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138326
• Microsoft Teams: Simulcast for Teams on AVD and Citrix VDI – Simulcast support for Teams on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) enables multiple video call streams at the same time, even in the event of low network quality. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99865

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations – New admin policy to control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization. Note: We have updated the timeline in the mc post, and are adjusting the roadmap item to align with the deployment information communicated in Message center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92502
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium) – Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135667
• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Favorite Channels – Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now pin up to 5 favorite channels on the walkie talkie home screen, enabling users to quickly switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap item to align with the deployment information communicated in Message center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99943

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – September 2023

•  Microsoft Teams: Auto Install Approved Apps – Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164494

Release – October 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New calendar views on Teams Rooms on Android – The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 10 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=157123
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows within Channels – Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131293
• Microsoft Teams: Unique join links for external presenters in Webinars – When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links for the webinar. This unique link allows the external presenter to automatically bypass the lobby and join a webinar directly as a presenter role.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123149
• Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium) – Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98414
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows App – All workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131294
• Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store – Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122300
• Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts – Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95788

Release – November 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background (Premium) – Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126123
• Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meeting Recordings – Microsoft Graph meeting recording API allows developers access to Teams meeting recordings once the meeting is completed. Recorded media output is in MP4 audio+video format. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95787
• Microsoft Teams: Resources-specific consent apps – Admins will be allowed to pre-approve apps using resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions, so that users can install them even when RSC is otherwise turned off.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=96980

Release – January 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in TAC – Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in TAC.”  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131169

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OneDrive

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  OneDrive: Updated file sharing experience – OneDrive is updating the unified file sharing experience that appears when you share files in Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream, OneNote, Planner and many other Microsoft 365 apps. The updated sharing dialog will have simpler look and feel. Additionally, when users select “copy link” they will get a clear on-screen confirmation that the link has been copied, and the confirmation will self-dismiss. Roadmap ID: 124933
• OneDrive: New Shared Experience – We are updating the Shared experience in OneDrive for web which can be found in the left nav pane. The new experience will show files and folders shared across various Microsoft 365 apps so that users can find files shared with them over email, chats, and meetings all in one place. In addition, users can identify updates to files by using the activity column, as well as leverage the new filtering pills to quickly find shared files. Roadmap ID: 117426

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• OneDrive: Colored Folders – You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124980

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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Microsoft Purview

Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Named entities sensitive information types (SITs) and policy authoring templates – Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms & conditions. This update adds 52 new SITs representing named entities and 10 enhanced policy templates that can be used in solutions such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and auto-labeling, and cover important regulations, such as US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=82116
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List domain & addresses block to send inbound emails to admin quarantine – Today, incoming messages from domains or email addresses blocked by the Tenant Allow/Block List are treated as high-confidence spam (marked with SCL:9), which may not properly protect end users. With this change, messages from these blocked senders will be treated as high-confidence phish, and will be delivered to the admin quarantine.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115505
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for Teams meeting recordings & videos stored in OneDrive & SharePoint – Enhancements to Teams meeting recording & video files in OneDrive & SharePoint to improve management within eDiscovery workflows. Including collection and review of metadata associated to Teams meeting recordings and video files in OneDrive and SharePoint including transcripts/captions, chapters, and custom thumbnails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106101
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Data leaks by risky users – Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects data leaks by users near a stressor event. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83959

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection – With this capability organizations will be able to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units.  Eg – German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93417

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Advanced Fingerprinting – Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.  This also allows you to detect when a portion of your sensitive document is exposed using partial matching support with Fingerprinting across the compliance solutions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164203
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence | customer managed storage – In the alerts triage & incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165301
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages – Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139460

Rollout starts – October 2023

•  Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124975
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection – With this capability organizations will be able to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units.  Eg – German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165027
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156018
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence (U.S. Government clouds) – The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117565
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – New Microsoft Graph APIs for retention labels in SharePoint and OneDrive – Organizations can use Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels on items in SharePoint and OneDrive. This update includes the ability to apply and remove retention labels on items, get information about retention labels applied to items, and lock/unlock labels that classify content as records.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145118
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources (U.S. Government clouds) – Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93270

Rollout starts – November 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds) – Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117490
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126

Rollout starts – December 2023

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – New predicates for endpoint DLP  – With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning-  Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167332
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164865
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – App Permissions for Graph API – Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method .Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145797

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