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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 6th February 2024

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 6 February 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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SharePoint

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

  • Launched (8)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (3)

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists- A new forms experience to collect information – We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124865

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits  –  We are increasing version history limits for SharePoint document libraries. Admins can set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization. Today Site Owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, people will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently adjusts based on a version’s age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set version expiration and count limits on the versions created. And tenant admins will be able set version limits that apply universally to all newly created document libraries in their organization; site owners can then update settings for their document library(ies). Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145802
  • SharePoint: Video Pages – Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124823

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SharePoint
Viva
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Viva

  • Launched (6)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380477

Rollout starts – June 2024

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

SharePoint
Viva
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (27)
  • Rolling out (12)
  • In development (31)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • 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. Note: We have updated the release phase and month to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141108
  • 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: 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: Chat button on missed call activity -Easily stay in touch with your contacts after a missed call. A new chat button is added to your activity feed, enabling to follow up on a missed call and start a chat with just one click.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176318
  • Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels (Premium) – Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. For Teams Premium, users will have additional access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, to generate images for their backgrounds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183785
  • Microsoft Teams: New Shortcuts for Calls in Teams – We are changing the keyboard shortcuts used to initiate calls in Teams to create differentiation from other commonly used shortcuts and reduce accidental calls. The new shortcuts for Windows will be: Alt + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Alt + Shift + V for video calls. For MacOs the new short cuts will be:Option + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Option + Shift + V for video calls.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164200
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes on Teams mobile – Collaborative notes allow meeting 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 ToDo & Planner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=128652
  • Microsoft Teams: Workflows App – workflow capabilities in Teams (powered by Power Automate) will be consolidated under the new Workflows app. Within the Workflows personal app you’ll be able to manage all Teams related workflows. Users will also be able to create and kick off workflows through the Message Extension, a new entry point in addition to Message Actions.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131294
  • Microsoft Teams: On-demand recordings in Webinars – Organizers can publish the recording of a webinar and automatically send an email to attendees where they receive a link to watch an on-demand recording of the webinar that is hosted on the event page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123052
  • Microsoft Teams: New chat experience in Microsoft Edge – When opening web links from Microsoft Teams chats in Microsoft Edge, users will see the web links open side-by-side with their Teams chats, with the Teams chats next in the Edge sidebar.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126334
  • Microsoft Teams: Auto Install Approved Apps – Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164494
  • Microsoft Teams: New Tag Management Settings –This feature will update default tag management settings in the Teams Admin Center to include "Microsoft Default" along with Team owners and members" and "Team owners.” You can update this to your preferred option of "Team owners" or "Team owners and members" at the tenant level and override the default. Note: This change only applies to Public cloud and does not apply to any special Cloud such as GCC, GCCH, DoD, Gallatin, and AirGap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88318
  • Microsoft Teams: Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations – New admin policy to control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization. Note: We have updated the timeline in the mc post, and are adjusting the roadmap item to align with the deployment information communicated in Message center.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92502
  • Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings on Android and iOS – Choose translated captions for a more inclusive meeting experience. Live translated captions will be part of Teams Premium. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98513
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium for GCC-H and DoD – Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure, with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, live translated captions, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and advanced Virtual Appointment experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=132632
  • Microsoft Teams: Preview and playback of Stream videos inline in Teams chat and channels – Stream videos that are saved in OneDrive and SharePoint are now embedded in chat and channels enabling users to preview and play them directly in Teams without the need to open a browser window. 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=127596
  • Microsoft Teams: Hotline phones  – Enables administrators to program Microsoft Teams certified phone devices to directly dial a pre-configured phone number or contact, such as emergency services in a manufacturing plant or help desk in the organization. The hotline can be set up directly through the device settings or the Teams admin center. The device will need to be enabled with a Teams Shared Device License and set to common area phone mode. Note: The launch status 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=123749
  • Microsoft Teams: work hours and location – Set your work location for the day so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration. Click on a user’s avatar or profile photo anywhere in Teams and get an overview of their online status, the next available calendar slot in Outlook, work hours, local time, and work location (remote or office). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125375
  • Microsoft Teams: New channels experience – New channels experience was built with an intuitive design that helps teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience includes updated visuals for channel posts and replies, a conversation view for every post, and a new right pane with the channel’s key information.= Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91683
  • Microsoft Teams: Virtual appointment – a new Teams Meeting type for B2C meetings – Virtual Appointment is a new Teams meeting type tailored for B2C meetings with people outside of your organization. When using the meeting type, guests will get a meeting invitation that includes important appointment details to make joining easy. They can join from any device—no need to install Teams—and experience a comfortable pre-appointment virtual waiting room until you’re ready to begin.  This was incorrectly marked as complete on May 15th, 2023 and has been updated to the correct status of rolling out. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100705
  • Microsoft Teams: Power Automate Connector – Updates App (Microsoft 365) –  Updates App (Microsoft 365) connector enables creation of Power Automate flows which trigger when an update is sent to the flow owner. Currently, the connector supports two triggers, 1) When a new update is received, 2) when a new update tied to a specific request is received.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=104397
  • Microsoft Teams: Targeted In-meeting notification – Send in-meeting notifications to specific people in a meeting via a bot.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101918
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows UI refresh – <span dir=ltr>A vibrant new look and feel for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows consoles and front-of-room displays. To make Teams Rooms even easier to use, there is greater consistency in the user interface across Windows and Android devices. This update includes vivid new ambient screens, new themes, and a refreshed calendar that enables scrolling for full day views, on consoles and front-of-room displays. There are also improved visual cues throughout the experience that make it easier and more intuitive to interact with the console.&nbsp; Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117952
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability for Teams users to manage their Teams third-party app subscriptions from within Teams Client – Ability for Teams users to view and manage in single place all third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased in the Teams app store, without leaving the Teams client. Easily adding more licenses for the purchased subscriptions, cancel, upgrade and downgrade subscriptions and access invoices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92484
  • Microsoft Teams: Multitask with Picture in Picture on iPhone / iPad – The new Picture in Picture mode lets you see your meeting in an adjustable window while using other apps on your mobile device.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89826
  • Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointment Graph API – The Virtual Appointment Graph API allows developers to create and manage Microsoft hosted Teams Virtual Appointments from any application. Virtual Appointments are designed for business to consumer workflows.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=94647
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in One-on-One VOIP Calls – All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams VOIP Calls. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their Teams VOIP Calls.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=96188

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138480
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements – IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119789
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time-zone – When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123963
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting “Recording & Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab – Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript.&nbsp; For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording &amp; Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording &amp; Transcription” tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181918
  • 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
  • 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
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for town halls – The meeting options for a town hall are now accessible within the town hall 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=380744
  • 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: Management of BYOD (Bring your own device) meeting spaces with Teams Rooms Pro Management – The BYOD (bring your own device) rooms in the Pro Management Portal provides IT admins with a comprehensive overview of their BYOD rooms’ utilization and activities. With this new addition, IT admins will gain valuable insights into how these spaces are being utilized, enabling them to make data driven decisions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161728
  • 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: 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: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users – This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the “External” label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375631

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

  • 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: Change background while recording on phone – You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380852
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Optimize for Video setting for screensharing – Provide setting to optimize screen sharing for video clip by reducing the lag and improving the quality of video playback when sharing video clips in Teams meetings Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93483
  • 🆕 Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116819
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: screen recorder on mobile device – You can use Teams on your Android device to record your screen and share it with others in any channel or chat. Just press and hold the camera icon next to the compose box and then tap the screen recorder icon to begin the recording. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380850
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall – Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377303
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join Teams Rooms on Android – IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android to ensure a level of security and privacy. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380747
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Expanded incoming call setting options for Teams Phone Mobile users – Teams Phone Mobile users will now the flexibility to choose whether group calls, calls received as part of a call queue, and meeting nudges are received natively on their mobile phone or in the Teams app. This new capability enables greater flexibility and mobility and allows users to easily move these calls between their native dialer or the Teams app without interruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381428
  • Microsoft Teams for Education: iOS/Android Parent link for School Connection – Allows parents to connect to School Connection in Teams for Education by clicking the iOS/Android mobile link provided by their school’s administration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380745
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation – Organizers can schedule a new webinar 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=375177
  • 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: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall (Premium) – Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the 10 translated languages available to attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375696
  • Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall – Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the six translated languages available to attendees.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371308
  • 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: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191528
  • 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
  • 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

Release – April 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: User reported events in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management – When an end user reports an issue from a Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381430
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows using Teams mobile – Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their native mobile camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. This feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization settings and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381460
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound proximity join admin controls for Teams Rooms on Windows – IT admins can use XML files to enable two proximity join settings for Teams Rooms on Windows: enabling ultrasound signals for a user to accurately find and choose a room to join a meeting from, and whether the Teams Rooms automatically accepts the ring from the user’s laptop to join the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381464
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting – Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the artifacts from the meeting in the meeting chat. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, Collaborative notes, any files that were shared, a link to any Whiteboard that was used, and the meeting details like date and time of the meeting event. For Teams Premium users, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381121
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch Provisioning of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices – Zero touch provisioning is a feature that allows you to deploy Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices without any physical intervention at the site. It leverages Windows Autopilot and auto-login technologies to automate the enrollment and configuration of the devices from the cloud, using the credentials stored in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management. With Zero touch provisioning, you can reduce the deployment time and cost and improve the security and compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380724
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to change language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can change the default app language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows by tapping “More” and then “Language” on the room console. Admins can select up to three languages that users can pick from in the room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380752
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655
  • Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95680
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows – IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101332

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

SharePoint
Viva
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

  • 🆕 OneDrive: New empty state images – You will see new and improved images and text in various views on OneDrive for Web when there are no files associated with those views. These images will appear in new OneDrive accounts that have no stored files, and they may appear in existing OneDrive accounts that have no recent, favorited, shared, or recycled files. As an example, if you have no favorited files, you will see an image of a star with text that reads “Items you favorite will show up here.”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380177
  • 🆕 OneDrive: Media node in OneDrive for Web – We’re adding a Media node to the left nav of OneDrive for Web which will allow commercial customers to easily find all the photo and video content stored in their OneDrive in a single view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382105

Release – May 2024

  • 🆕 OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive – Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381450

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

SharePoint
Viva
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 (9)
  • Rolling out (3 )
  • In development (31)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Gain context around ML model policy matches – Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting.This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. 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=88917
  • Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Gain context around ML model policy matches (U.S. Government clouds) – Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. 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=93196
  • Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – The messages delivered to hosted quarantine is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.&nbsp;</span></span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124975
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Full File Evidence for all workloads in Activity Explorer – This feature grants the user the capability to view the source link of the file associated with the activity flagged in Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186528
  • 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 &quot;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: 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.&nbsp;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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117490
  • 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</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180739
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New fields added to Activity Explorer. – Added Protection Event Type and Protection Type fields in Activity Explorer for sensitivity label applied, sensitivity labels updated, and sensitivity label removed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177294
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New fields added to Activity Explorer – Added Protection Event Type and Protection Type fields in Activity Explorer for sensitivity label applied, sensitivity labels updated, and sensitivity label removed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177293

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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: Data Loss Prevention – customization & preview of email notifications –  There are some significant enhancements made to the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification. These improvements provide admins with greater flexibility and control over the end-user notification email: 1. Enhanced Token Support: We have expanded our token library to offer precise and detailed information to your end users. 2. Email Message Customization: You now have the ability to decide whether the matching email messages should be included or excluded in the end-user notification emails. 3. Tailored Email Content: Customize the sender’s display name and email body using HTML formatting, allowing for a personalized touch. 4. Email Preview: Prior to sending email notifications, you can review them to ensure they align perfectly with your requirements. These enhancements empower you to refine your communication and provide a more tailored experience for your end users with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.</span> </p> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153405
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Copy simulation action in Attack Simulation Training – Using the copy simulation action button, Attack simulation administrators will be able to effortlessly duplicate existing simulations and make necessary edits to introduce fresh and tailored simulation scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381968
  • 🆕 Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in Android applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Android applications when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363449
  • 🆕 Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in iOS applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the iOS applications when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363454
  • 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
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training in DoD – Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the DoD environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185568
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List – <div>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
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can provide intent while submitting – Admins submitting to Microsoft can convey whether they are submitting for a second opinion or they are submitting to convey their confirmation of clean or malicious verdict. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183907

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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=380178
  • 🆕 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=381751
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381760
  • 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

Rollout starts – April 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements to available metadata for search and collection queries – Now eDiscovery admins can use additional metadata to search and collect content within their organization. The additional metadata that will be added for support will include message ID, sensitivity label and more to help enable additional flexibility of search for specific scenarios to enable specific outcomes related to investigations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381452
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Support for Two New Predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the two below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint  – Document Property is – Document name contains words or phrases Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181623

Rollout starts – May 2024

Rollout starts – June 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380721
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate four new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users: MailItemsAccessed, Send, SearchQueryInitiatedExchange, and SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint. The following logs will differ based on the user’s license and additional metadata will be added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380690
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams – We are extending the Object Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft Purview to support images embedded in more file types such as: Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text,  Microsoft Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX , Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323899
  • 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: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users –  Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 4 new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MailItemsAccessed; 2. Send; 3. SearchQueryInitiatedExchange; 4. SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint; The following logs will differ based upon the user’s license. This following additional metadata is added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: Premium Insight 1: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182259
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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 cloud environments have been updated to show the current state.  We apologize for any incovenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124779
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