SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more.

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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Clipchamp: Work account support in Clipchamp’s desktop app – The updated Clipchamp desktop app introduces work account support and lets users with AAD/Entra ID accounts directly access Clipchamp for work through the desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Users of Clipchamp for work will be able to access the video editor in the app without using a browser. Microsoft 365 administrators can control if their users are able to access both Clipchamp for work and Clipchamp for personal accounts via the app or only Clipchamp for work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387124
• Microsoft Syntex: Advanced Tenant Rename – As part of SharePoint Advanced Management, change your SharePoint domain with greater control. This includes the ability to prioritize up to 4,000 sites for early execution as well as support for tenants with total site counts up to 100,000. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180383
• SharePoint Premium: Enable/Disable Unstructured, Structured and Prebuilt Document Processing – Admins will be able to enable or disable the entire Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing services. Disabling the service prevents any models of this type from running. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383011

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites – The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171100

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 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

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Clipchamp for Education (A3 & A5) – Clipchamp enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web or Windows app for Microsoft 365 A3 and Microsoft 365 A5 SKUs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396288
• SharePoint: Planned release of AI insights – We are planning to provide an LLM-powered data analysis tools that admins can use to gain insights and actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388376
• SharePoint: New SharePoint Start – New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics. Roadmap ID:124824
• 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

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Teams

• Launched (26)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Chat Bubbles during Teams meetings for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – Ability to view chats sent during a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room, calling attention to the chat conversation happening alongside the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85441
• Microsoft Teams: Task lists for each team member, recurring task lists, and top task publishing requests – Task publishing allows an organization to centrally define and distribute tasks across their frontline locations and monitor how that work is going. The task publishing capability will allow users to create recurring task lists that repeat on a selected cadence, to create lists assigned to everyone in a recipient team, to require a Microsoft Forms form as a prerequisite to completion, and to designate an approval as a prerequisite to completion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135562
• Microsoft Teams: Import schedule improvements in Shifts app – Frontline managers importing a schedule from Excel into Shifts will be capable of viewing the import history of their teams. This allows them to monitor the status and outcome of their import at anytime. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381129
• Microsoft Teams: New Admin policy for enabling/disabling tenant users to join externally hosted meetings – As an admin, you can control which meetings your org users can attend – only internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings as well. This can help your org to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187230
• Microsoft Teams: Give feedback for Teams Rooms on Android – The Help button includes a Give feedback option that lets users share their opinions and ideas about Teams Rooms with Microsoft. We use this feedback to improve the Teams experience. IT admins can enable or disable this feature for users and manage feedback policies using PowerShell. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380683
• 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: Open Teams app content in multi-window stageview – Microsoft Teams enables you to open your app content in new multi-window experiences. Unlock multi-tasking workflows for your users inside Teams. Allow them to engage with content and conversation, side-by-side. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383404
• Microsoft Teams: Branded Meetings – Join Launcher Screen with Brand Image and Logo Support (Premium) – The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image uploaded for branded meetings. This is a Teams Premium feature.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164081
• Microsoft Teams: Together mode and content share layout improvement – With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels.  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181615
• 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: Content camera on New Teams Desktop – Support for Content camera on new Teams app experience for Windows and Mac. Content camera enables remote attendees to get a clear view of physical objects like whiteboards, printed documents, books, and more that are in a meeting room. Content camera intelligently detects, crops and frames the in-room object and shares its content with remote meeting participants. Even when a presenter moves in front of it, for example the whiteboard, remote participants will be able to see the content right through them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377670
• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161720
• 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: Private & shared channels links – Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325325
• 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: 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: Live meeting status for mobile – Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98328
• Microsoft Teams: External domain activity report export capability – Export the ‘External domain activity’ report to a csv file in Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382642
• 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: Meeting invite improvements – Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it’s better grouped. Note: We have updated the cloud environments to reflect the current state.  Other government clouds will release at a later time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=366447
• Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels – Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373545
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122139
• Microsoft Teams: Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store – IT administrators can already browse and purchase Teams certified devices in the device store in Teams Admin Center. This update will enable IT admins to try and buy Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses from the device store. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180902
• Microsoft Teams: New Teams meeting templates added to Outlook Teams add-in – Virtual Appointment, Webinar, and Town hall are available in the Teams meeting dropdown menu in the Calendar tab in Outlook with the Outlook Teams add-in enabled. This allows organizers to set up these broader Teams meeting scenarios directly within Outlook and these will show up on calendars in both Outlook and Teams apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181621
• Microsoft Teams: Honor Tenant admin control settings for Microsoft Bookings SMS functionality in the Bookings app in Teams – Tenant admin settings in Bookings admin page in Microsoft Teams Admin center to enable/disable SMS functionality in all Bookings calendars in the tenant. Note: The cloud environments have been updated 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=92851

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in improved presenter window when screen sharing – When sharing the screen or content, the presenter will now be able to better keep track of the participants’ activity during a meeting. The Improved Presenter Window shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), who are active speakers and who raised hands, as well as a preview of the content being shared. Meeting notifications appear in the middle of the screen for better visibility.  This gives presenters increased confidence and awareness of what is happening among participants during a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383653
• Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users – Users can now access applications in group chats with individuals outside their organization, fostering improved collaboration, interactivity, and productivity. The group chat’s host involving external participants can install, remove, or update applications for use by all members. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391640
• Microsoft Teams: Prevent user from sharing content in externally hosted meetings (Premium) – If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person attending the externally hosted meeting can decide in which externally hosted meetings the user can share their content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363424
• Microsoft Teams: Redirect incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call notification – Allows users to easily redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call when receiving calls on a Teams certified phone device.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169887
• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie –  Integrating Apple’s Push to Talk framework on iOS – Teams Walkie-Talkie on iOS will be integrated with Apple’s Push-to-Talk (PTT) framework to enhance communication and convenience of transmitting audio from anywhere on their phone, even when Teams is not in the foreground. It enables audio transmission directly from the lock screen and comes with background runtime optimization for optimal performance while conserving battery life. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388486
• Microsoft Teams: Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams admin center – Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen (including common area phones). Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388490

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Manage Custom backgrounds in Teams admin center for Teams Rooms on Android devices – Administrators can upload and set images as custom themes in the Teams admin center for Teams devices, allowing images that reflect their organization’s branding. The feature will first launch for Teams Rooms on Android devices and then gradually release for other device types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=81537
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot – Introducing a new meeting option that gives meeting organizers the flexibility to manage which attendees have access to meeting artifacts such as transcript, recording, AI-generated recap, and Copilot. Meeting organizers can select from three options: (1) People with existing access, (2) Organizers and Co-organizers, or (3) Specific People. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394688
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel – In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395931
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings – Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394670
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: File Image preview in chats and channels – When you share documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) in chat or channel conversation, you can see a thumbnail image of the file in the thread. This lets you preview the file’s content without opening it and find the file you need quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395936
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center – If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395372
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link – Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325330
• Microsoft Teams: Attach files from SharePoint Sites in the mobile app – Users will be able to browse, multiselect and attach files from SharePoint Sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395375
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium) – The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393229

Release – July 2024

• 🆕  Microsoft Teams: Simplifying the personal app header – Microsoft Teams personal apps will start showing a new simplified header bar on Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients. With this change, the “About” tab and other utility actions will be moved to the overflow menu. In addition, the “Chat” tab will be moved to a right-hand side panel for apps that support it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396166
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts – Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394351
• Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center – App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: ‘Deployed to all users’, ‘Deployed to specific users and groups’, or ‘Deployed to no users’. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394274
• Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls – When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385349

Rollout starts – January 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for town hall – IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for town halls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383530
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars – IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381950

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive – We’re making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395378
• 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
• OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365 – Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387806

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• Microsoft Stream: Copilot in Stream – Copilot in Stream leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to help you quickly get the insights you need from Stream (on SharePoint) videos. With Copilot in Stream you can quickly and effectively summarize any video with a transcript, or ask deep dive questions for topics you need to understand. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188616
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Copilot – Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609
• Planner: Copilot in Planner – Through simple, natural-language prompts, Copilot in the Planner Teams app will help you generate new plans, set goals, track status, and react to changes as projects evolve. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186965

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Loop: Copilot-assisted Loop Page Creation – Collaborate with Copilot to go from a blank page to a structured document ready for collaboration as quickly as possible. Start from scratch or select an existing page or template as the starting point and Copilot can modify it for the task at hand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141443
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy “Curated by Microsoft” content provider support – You can now find resources related to Copilot under the Curated by Microsoft provider. This provider will also power content for Copilot Academy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395377
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights Product Updates – Adding trendlines to show metric movements over past 6-month time periods, before vs after Copilot comparisons, and providing the option to view an estimated dollar value for the existing Copilot assisted hours metric. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396345
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): File reference – PDF and Excel file type support – This introduces the ability for users to reference PDF and Excel files when generating content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373735

Release – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot – Introducing a new meeting option that gives meeting organizers the flexibility to manage which attendees have access to meeting artifacts such as transcript, recording, AI-generated recap, and Copilot. Meeting organizers can select from three options: (1) People with existing access, (2) Organizers and Co-organizers, or (3) Specific People. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394688
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium) – The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393229

Release – July 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
• OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365 – Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387806

Release – October 2024

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection – A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377676

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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 (1)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set data minimization – Identify exact duplicates by default – Harness the built-in review set query within eDiscovery (Premium) review sets, specifically designed to pinpoint exact duplicates and encompassing email threads, to systematically reduce your review set data by an average of 30%, eliminating the need to trigger analytics manually post ingestion. Gain full visibility into all hash values utilized in de-duplication and email threading algorithms, ensuring a seamless and efficient review process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124961

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content – Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181617
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. Note: We have updated the clouds to reflect the current state. Gov clouds will be forthcoming later during Q4 of this calendar year. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181828

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policies support Fingerprinting SITs – Admins can now automatically label files and emails with Fingerprinting SITs via auto-labeling policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396173
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users – Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392839
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints – DLP will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. On inspection, all the files (of supported file format) within the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies. Afterwards, the archive file will get the applicable auditing / enforcement policy applied to it based on the following logic. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393653
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Record opening behavior improvement in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) – When a user opens a file in Office client applications (Word, Excel, & PowerPoint) that has a retention label managing the file as a locked record, it will now open as read-only and immediately not allow any user edits. A message will explain to the user why they cannot edit the file. This improvement brings parity to the behavior already in place for the online versions of these Office applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395791
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators – Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted and FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled. You will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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=388734
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows – Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385345
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380184

Rollout starts – July 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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=377674
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181825
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliant Team Meetings – Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. 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. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase and adding additional cloud instances 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=109534
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails – Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. 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=100513

Rollout starts – August 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
• 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 compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172024
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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=98186

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal – Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383744

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3 – Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394282

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters – Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124796

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