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 (2)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Home – Viva Home is the home for the Viva suite on the web. Accessible via microsoft365.com app launcher and app explorer, it provides a single landing destination on the web for Viva users with the goal to help with education, discovery and navigation to licensed Viva modules.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170772
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Syntex: Translation – A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161828

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Browser optimized playback for SuccessFactors content – Desktop client content consumption for SuccessFactors content is enhanced with browser optimized playback. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92053

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Section Background – SharePoint now allows you to add an image or gradient color to the sections of the page from a new set of options, including image settings to ensure readability. With this release, we’re providing authors to make beautiful pages with featured sections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378647
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Code Snippets in Viva Engage – Users will be able to add code snippets to their posts, discussions, replies, questions, polls, and praises on Viva Engage. Additionally, if customers are licensed for Answers in Viva Engage, this feature will also be available when asking questions on Answers. To add code snippets, locate the new button on the publisher toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378778
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders – Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163989

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Connected actions – Viva Pulse integration into Viva Insights Leader deep dive reports – Leaders can send Viva Pulse surveys tailored to new out-of-the-box reports from the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams at anytime to add additional context to workplace metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378430

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background – SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378648
• Microsoft Viva: Ability to recommend course to groups – Allows users to use existing user groups while making recommendations.  Roadmap ID:118677

Rollout starts – June 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Search relevance improvements in Viva Learning – Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests. Roadmap ID: 118965

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Teams

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (7)
• In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Expanded view for profile card – With the expanded view of the profile card, users will now be able to see a richer view of a person’s profile, such as their contact data, custom properties, and their LinkedIn information. This expansion also enables the user to view richer organization chart information about the person they are interacting with, without leaving the context they are in. Note: The launch state was incorrect and has 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=109526

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Meetings – The updated Gallery View places everyone in tiles of equal size by default (16:9 ratio) whether their video is on or off. Users can also easily change their gallery size, choose to prioritize tiles with video-on, and remove their tile from the main gallery. When a Microsoft Teams Room joins the meeting, video is optimized by enlarging the size by default and users can re-size via the contextual menu. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118467
• 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: 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-us/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
• Microsoft Teams: Discover feed for channels – Users can access a personalized feed based on important updates in the channels they are a part of. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187084
• Microsoft Teams: Control your activity notifications from the activity card – Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186571
• Microsoft Teams: Audio and video flyout and settings in Teams meetings – The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187098

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Hide general channel – Alike other channels, now you will be able to hide general channels in your teams, helping you focus on the channels that matter most to you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=324840
• Microsoft Teams: Automatic Targeting based on roles for Frontline – Frontline teams can notify the right set of colleagues on channel posts (e.g. notify colleagues in specific role or department). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365845
• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels – We’ve integrated Walkie Talkie in Teams with the dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on specialized headsets to instantly brings up walkie talkie for clear and secure voice communication. In addition to select specialized headsets, Walkie Talkie in Teams will now work with any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headsets on Android. As long as the generic headsets have a control button to play/pause or to accept/decline calls, frontline workers can tap the button to start and stop transmissions on walkie talkie. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369470
• Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium) – When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371690
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for Webinars – The meeting options for a webinar are now accessible within the webinar setup in Teams. Organizers can edit meeting options in an inline window within the scheduling form in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373420
• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
• Microsoft Teams: Registration Form Updates in Webinars – Organizers can rearrange the sequence of registration form questions that are presented to attendees during the webinar registration process. The questions available for reordering include address, city, state, zip/post code, country/region, job title organization, industry, and custom questions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376970

Release – March 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop – Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376219
• 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. 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=371578
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are 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=185802
• 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

• 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

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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 (0)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117490
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments (U.S. Government clouds) – Configure DLP rules that display warnings in a popup dialog before sending emails. With this capability, admins can set up rules to provide warnings, require business justifications, or request explicit acknowledgements before sending emails. Furthermore, admins can customize a Compliance URL within a DLP rule, ensuring that end users receive valuable guidance through the popup. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139511

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

• 🆕 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=368895
• 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 – February 2024

• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive – In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=366697
• 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

Rollout starts – April 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=379673

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. Roadmap ID:122280

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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=379477

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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=156014
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156015

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