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, Clipchamp and Microsoft Viva.

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Create a Viva Pulse from scratch – Build your Viva Pulse from scratch by creating your own questions or choosing from the question library. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164903
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Select Viva Pulse Questions from a Library – Create a Viva Pulse using research-backed questions found by browsing or searching the question library. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164906
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms and structures – Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165684
• Microsoft Viva : Connections Boosted News Notifications – As an enhancement to the existing news notifications in Viva Connections, users will now also receive a news notifications when news is boosted on the organisation’s news site and the news post has an audience target set. The navigational behaviour will be the same as existing news notifications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174470

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites – The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171100
• Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition in OneDrive and SharePoint supports multi-page PDF and TIFF files – Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images. With this update image-only PDF and TIFF files in OneDrive and SharePoint will also benefit from OCR.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124940
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – January 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Teams Channels announcements in Viva Connections – If a Frontline worker (FLW) licensed user is @mentioned in a Teams channel announcement, the announcement will be displayed in Viva Connections so that the user can find all their important updates in a single place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373510
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – New goal sharing experience – Facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goal progress with the enhanced sharing functionality in Viva Goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375220
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity – Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118588
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast –  With “Share an Update,” leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. 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=148471
• Microsoft Viva: Engage Network Analytics – This new analytics capability helps users understand engagement trends across their entire organization. Network analytics provides an at-a-glance overview of your organization’s top usage trends including employee sentiment, cross-community insights and AI-powered summarization to help you stay up-to-date with all the activity that occurs within your company. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168623

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Create Goals Tab in Microsoft Teams Chats and Channels – Users will be able to add Viva Goals as a tab in a Microsoft Teams chat or channel, so that they can see their goals in the flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371197
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Add Images to Check-In Notes and Review Dashboards – With this capability, users can attach images to check-in notes and dashboards in Viva Goals to better illustrate their ideas visually. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375014
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Topics in Viva Engage – Adding topics to posts in Viva Engage will default open for question post types and be aligned with new topic experiences as seen in Answers in Viva. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374596
• SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization – We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. Roadmap ID:124838

Rollout starts – April 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Copilot – Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126123
• Microsoft Teams: Remove items from your activity feed – Users will be able to remove items they no longer need from their activity feed, helping the user stay on top of their notifications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181794
• Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs – 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: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop” – Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature.  When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118580

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams admin center – external domain activity report – The external domain activity report will show Teams administrators which domains their users communicate with. Available for both those with open federation on and those with explicit allow lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370565
• Microsoft Teams: Live meeting status – Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98328
•  Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium) – To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141108
• Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App – Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186553
• Microsoft Teams: Enabling cameras with IntelliFrame and People Recognition experiences in the new Microsoft Teams app – Remote attendees in a hybrid meeting will be able to view multi-stream IntelliFrame video, panoramic room view, and in-room attendees with speaker recognition (including name labels) in the new Teams desktop client.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161427

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Calendar notifications in Teams – Users can now triage the calendar notifications in their Activity Feed and will get notifications for meeting invites, updates, cancellations, and forwards (if the user is the meeting organizer). These notifications will show up as unread in the Activity Feed pane and will display the details when a user clicks on it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=314355
•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels – Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373545
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=329253
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: 3P eCDN support for town halls (Premium) – Admins have the ability to disable Microsoft first party eCDN at a user level within a tenant for users licensed with Teams Premium and switch the users back to using a third-party eCDN as they prefer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371568
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371578
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Tags in Shared Channels – Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people within shared channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373555
• Microsoft Teams: Archive channels – With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123769
• 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: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429

Release – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Room Remote on Desktop for GCC – The Room Remote feature enables touchless meeting experiences by allowing users to control a nearby shared Teams Rooms device (Windows or Android) from their PC companion device with the Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374708

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Add individual file shortcuts in OneDrive for Web – This feature will let you create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved, renamed, or deleted without impacting the source content, and they will show up in OneDrive for Web, Android, iOS, and sync client endpoints. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177873

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Create with Templates – We’re refreshing the file creation experience in OneDrive for Web which you initiate by clicking the “Add new” button. Soon, clicking the “Add new” button in OneDrive will give you the option to create a blank file or choose from a selection a high-quality, beautifully designed Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates to jumpstart your work.

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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 (0)
• In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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=180741
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations – With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167340

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – January 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow – Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372670
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements – To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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=368825

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 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. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out and has now been updated to reflect the current release phase. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117565
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager – The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers. eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180170

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 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=336046
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced file type coverage for DLP on Windows endpoints – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171586

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring – With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. 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=179883

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