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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 15th January 2024

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 15 January 2024

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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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Microsoft Purview

SharePoint & Viva

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

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables – Accessibility improvements to tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184511
  • 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187079
  •  Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile for Android – Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile in Android.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180518
  • Microsoft Viva: Bring your own content using external URLs from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections – Users can add content using external links from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148467
  • Microsoft Viva: Configure learning academies – Admins can create and manage learning academies in the Viva Learning Admin tab. Roadmap ID:99167
  • Microsoft Viva: Manage learning providers in Viva Learning Admin tab – Learning admins can manage the configured learning providers in Viva Learning admin tab. This feature will provide a detailed sync status as well as sync logs in case of a failed sync. Roadmap ID:100250
  • Microsoft Viva: App type support in the Store for Viva Connections – Improved filters and badges in the SharePoint Store to support Viva Connections ACEs. Users can easily identify and find adaptive cards that work in Viva Connections Dashboard. Roadmap ID: 98090

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024

Rollout starts – June 2024

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (10)
  • In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience – Making it easier for users to access calling capabilities with a redesigned user experience during calls.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141204
  • Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge – Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.</span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122139
  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified channel creation – We added the option to create a channel directly from the + button in the Teams app, making it easier for the user to create a channel.</span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163363
  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified team create – When creating a team, the new default experience will be ‘create a team from scratch’, making it a simpler and quicker experience.</span></span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163364
  • Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and set duration for on-demand Virtual Appointments (Premium) – Scheduling administrators and staff managing on-demand appointments can assign specific staff members and set appointment duration to handle on-demand services. This ensures that when an on-demand appointment is requested, there is a designated staff member assigned to the appointment and a defined duration for the appointment is set. The designated staff member also receives a notification to attend the on-demand appointment.</span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186560
  • Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat – Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375627
  • Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap now available for Copilot users – Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375760
  • Microsoft Teams: Immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams – Immersive spaces in Teams makes it easier for Teams users to transform their meetings into a 3D experience. With just one click, you can connect with your team in a pre-built immersive space right from the view menu in Teams meetings. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Launched. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.<div> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161720
  • 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.</span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167328
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

Release – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Content camera on New Teams Desktop – This feature it will be available on new Team Teams on Windows and Mac, making whiteboards, printed documents, books, and other physical objects the focus of your Teams meeting. With minimal setup, you can help meeting attendees who aren’t in the room feel more included and engaged in your next class, demo, or brainstorming session.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377670
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall – Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377703
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: External call routing settings – End users will now be able to change their external call routing settings directly from the Teams app, allowing them to decide how incoming PSTN calls are routed. Calls can be redirected based on existing unanswered call settings or sent to voicemail. This new capability provides more flexibility for handling customer communications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372120
  • Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple 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 join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369470
  • Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service – Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email ServiceFind out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375694
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation – Organizers can schedule a new town hall by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376853
  • Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings – This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374515
  • 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 Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138479

Release – March 2024

  • 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. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429

Release – April 2024

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • OneDrive: Performance improvements – This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168616
  • OneDrive: Offline mode – This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168618
  • OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web – The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action. OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168619

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

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 (1)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention –Currently available in public preview, releasing several new long-term retention policies as part of the 10-year Audit Log Retention add-on SKU. These include 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years. These are available for customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144251

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369015
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Enriched Data Loss Prevention Alert Email Notifications for DLP Admins – There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admin upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy details, device details, and more. This will help admins quickly assess the priority of an alert and determine the next steps before navigating to the Microsoft Purview DLP alerts page or Microsoft 365 Defender DLP alerts page.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369645
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ending the Microsoft Purview legacy alerts ingestion into Microsoft 365 Defender portal – To increase the relevance of DLP alerts and incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, we are ending the flow of the following legacy alerts into Microsoft 365 Defender portal: eDiscovery Search started or exported, successful exact data match upload, retention auto-labeling policy simulation completed, unusual volume of DLP policy matches, failed exact data match upload, MIP autolabel simulation completed, unusual volume of external file sharing, unusual volume of file deletion. These alerts were created as a result of legacy standalone alert policies. For a better experience, we recommend using the alerting toggle in the DLP policy authoring experience. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373010
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List – Tenant allow block list domains &amp; addresses, URL, and file entries will show last used date. This helps admins understand when an entry was last used (either at mailflow or time of click), helping them remove entries which are no longer needed. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183908
  • Information Protection – Changes in Sensitivity labels to control Microsoft Teams shared channels and private team discoverability – Information Protection – Controls while adding/editing Sensitivity labels to manage Microsoft Teams shared channels settings and private team discoverability. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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.</span> </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153651
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security &amp; Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117546
  • 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 – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64) – With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) which allows them to detect and protect sensitive data in files part of their digital ecosystem. This allows admins to introduce policy controls for scenarios such as when an information worker using a Windows endpoint powered by ARM64 chipset is accessing sensitive files and performing an exfiltration action such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, etc.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372695
  • 🆕 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=377681
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in a DLP policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage) – With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity.  To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373400

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports – The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377680
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates – You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can utilize these email templates to: inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more similar scenarios. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373310
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy – Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. 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. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=68688

Rollout starts – April 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop – We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=367053
  • 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. Note: We have updated the release phase to reflect the current state as we are evaluating this release and have paused the rollout. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126

Rollout starts – June 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117425
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117523

Rollout starts – September 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for priority content. 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 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=378409
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