Microsoft roadmap roundup – 20th November 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 20 November 2023

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 (2)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2023

  •  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.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118768
  • Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics – This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88699

Rollout starts – January 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024

Rollout starts – April 2024


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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (3)
  • Rolling out (7)
  • In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect shared channels in GCCH & DoD – Work seamlessly and securely with those inside and outside your organization. With Microsoft Teams shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space – have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180742
  • Microsoft Teams: Workflows within Channels – Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels. Note: This feature is only available within new Teams (T2.1). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131293
  • Microsoft Teams: Choose which users to notify when publishing a task list – The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to choose which users to notify when you publish or unpublish a task list. In response to customer requests, you’ll soon have the ability to choose which members of teams receiving the tasks should get a notification in their Teams activity feed: all owners and members, owners only, or no one. Similarly, you will be able to choose who to notify when unpublishing a task list.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144248

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats – Save time with AI-based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed.  We will notify you, via Message Center, when we know more. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95065
  • Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups – App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=151829
  • Microsoft Teams: Front Row gallery improvements on Teams Rooms on Windows: Active video speaker promotion – Front Row now promotes pinned or spotlighted participants to the center stage when there is no shared content in the single and dual display mode. For single display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the most recent active speaker video will be promoted to the center. In dual display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the two most recent active speaker videos will be promoted to the center on each screen. If someone is sharing content, the most recent active video speaker will be promoted on the right screen.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161825
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management – Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164490
  • Microsoft Teams: Support joining a live event as an attendee for Teams Rooms on Windows – Teams Rooms on Windows can now join a live event as an attendee and watch the streaming experience.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169881
  • Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD – Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations – like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove, share or “get more apps”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174474
  • Microsoft Teams: Click-to-Chat with Teams App Publishers – This feature enables users of Teams Admin Center to quickly and easily open a private Teams chat between themselves and a third-party app publisher to directly ask questions on pricing, compliance or other topics as they consider the deployment and/or purchase of the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182034

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 2023

  •  Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile) – The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182046
  • Microsoft Teams: Synced updates for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices and paired consoles. – When Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices are updated from the Teams Admin Center, their paired consoles will get updated in tandem, ensuring a seamless experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174344
  • Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature) – In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135561
  • 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

Release – January 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation – With Voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advanced noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. Voice isolation is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125387
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms – The new shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out and view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is extended to the front of the room for others to see and provides the host the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, minimizes the personal information that others in the room can see. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184363
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to set the availability by specific date in Shifts – Currently, we solely permit the frontline workers to establish daily recurring availability. With this new feature, we are enabling Frontline workers to set the availability for a specific date/time, in addition to recurring availability.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156952
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings – Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330
  • Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Configure maintenance window for Teams devices – Admins will be able to configure the maintenance window for their Teams devices from within the Teams Admin Center. These time windows will be used for executing any device upkeep operations, including automatic updates.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163600
  • Microsoft Teams: Watermark support for recording playback (Premium) – Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID will be displayed as the watermark during the meeting recording playback. Once a meeting has concluded, users can access the recorded content on both web and mobile platforms to watch the recording with watermarking. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=137654

Release – March 2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Task publishing: Schedule recurring lists in task publishing – The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams is a feature for frontline organizations that have employees distributed across many geographically dispersed locations. The task publishing feature allows an organization to centrally define a set of work, choose the set of frontline locations that should complete that work, create the appropriate tasks for each frontline location, and monitor how that work is going. One of the top feature requests for task publishing has been the ability to create a set of tasks once and set them to automatically repeat at a scheduled cadence. Common examples are daily opening and closing tasks or weekly/monthly site inspections and compliance walks. When this feature is available, you’ll be able to set recurrence on a draft task list, which will allow you to choose the cadence (such as every month on the 15th of the month). You can then publish the list and task publishing will take care of scheduling the publication so that the list publishes automatically at that cadence going forward. We know from a wide range of customer conversations that this will be a big time saver for distributing recurring tasks across frontline organizations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135562

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

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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 (6)
  • Rolling out (7)
  • In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. StreamInvokeGetTranscript; 2. StreamInvokeChannelView; 3. StreamInvokeGettExtTrack; 4. StreamInvokeGetVideo; 5. StreamInvokeGroupView Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180738
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Yammer / Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. ThreadViewed; 2. ThreadAccessFailure; 3. MessageUpdated; 4. FileAccessFailure; 5. MessageCreation; 6. GroupAccessFailure Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180740
  • Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115508
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling – This feature will support adding the following new contextual based predicates to auto-labeling: Document property is; File extension is; Document size equals or is greater than; Document created by (only available in advanced rules in OneDrive and SharePoint locations); Document name contains words or phrases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117536

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2023

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender – Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft 365 Defender and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185708
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185103
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal  – With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162292
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge (U.S. Government clouds) – This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions, and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117574
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies (U.S. government clouds) – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117353

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels – This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186527
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Expand Investigation Pane to Full Screen for Data Loss Preventions alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender – The investigation experience is now improved with a key usability feature to expand the investigation pane to full screen while reviewing the details of a Data Loss Prevention incident or alert in Microsoft 365 Defender.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185813
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, 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=145793
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds) – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138577

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181828
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181825
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance: Enhanced Policy Conditions – Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161829

Rollout starts – June 2024

Rollout starts – December 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians – When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189639
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