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 (1)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile – Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171888

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse -Microsoft Teams Chat Notifications and Inline Response – Respond to a Viva Pulse request in Microsoft Teams chat in the flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164904
•  Microsoft Viva: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using SharePoint themes or custom themes. – Viva Connections will offer a new set of theming options to reflect brand colors consistently across desktop, tablet, and mobile experiences. With this new functionality, customers will have the choice to apply existing SharePoint themes or a custom theme to their Connections experience as well as the SharePoint home site hosting the Connections experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180793

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

• 🆕 SharePoint: Clipchamp Premium features – Clipchamp Premium features help users take their content to the next level. With Clipchamp Premium, users can easily apply brand fonts, colors and logos with brand kit, add top-tier assets for commercial use, and export crisp, well-defined visuals as 4K, 30fps, MP4 files and access advanced analytics. Clipchamp Premium features will be available as a standalone SKU, as well as an add-on to the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187079
• 🆕 SharePoint: SharePoint Hub Analytics for US Government Clouds – View, Viewer, dwell time and content level analytics aggregated at a SharePoint Hub level. These features are an enhancement to the existing site and page level analytics in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187092
• 🆕 Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup – Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188799
• Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant – Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174466
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for conditional logic – Improved self service; Ability to enable if/then questions on surveys and support conditional logic.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163978

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks – Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163981

Rollout starts – February 2024

• SharePoint: Scoping Control for SharePoint Online – Scoping control is available for SP page, site, list and library, for users to search faster with specified scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=70792

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows – This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to  automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170745

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes – With the launch of Collaborative notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative notes to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative notes component will generate a Specific People Link (PSL) by default. This link type offers more controlled access than Company Specific Link (CSL). This change also aligns with tenants who have their file-sharing policy set as Specific People. Tenants who previously had Collaborative notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use the feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167328
• Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement – With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181615

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: In-app Teams devices store experience – With the Teams device store experience inside the Teams app, customers can easily discover and purchase certified Teams devices for personal or shared use cases – headsets, web cameras, desk phones, Teams Rooms, and more. Explore devices in categories, use search or filters to find desired device, and purchase all through the familiar Microsoft Teams interface. We are introducing a new experience for small businesses to purchase devices directly within Teams, businesses in the US and Canada will now be able to complete their purchase without leaving the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169201
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments – Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184497
• Microsoft Teams: Branded Meetings – Join Launcher Screen with Brand Image and Logo Support (Premium) – The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image uploaded for branded meetings. This is a Teams Premium feature.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164081

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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 (2)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling (U.S. Government clouds) – 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=117537
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business  – With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images in SharePoint Online and OneDrive and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image only).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93233

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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 – Matched items in audit logs – With this capability you will get visibility into matched condition and value in Audit Logs as a result of a DLP policy match. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164489

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exchange Auto-labeling supports non-mail enabled security groups – Service side auto-labeling now supports scoping of exchange auto-labeling to non-mail enabled security groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184909
• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: User Submission Automatic Feedback Response – The user submission automatic feedback response enables organizations to automatically respond to end user submissions of phish based on the verdict from the automated investigation. This feature is configurable and allows organizations to dictate in which threat scenarios they would like end users to receive feedback emails. Once enabled, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) will automatically respond to end user submissions based on the investigation verdict and the configured settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186575
•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – SharePoint site selection enhancement – With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169880

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – February 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117587

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

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