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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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. Roadmap ID:124865
• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Rules packaged into custom List templates – Expand your custom organizational templates by packaging rules into them – alongside the ability to pre-program the list schema (columns), formatting, and more. Roadmap ID: 100500

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Custom image as Section Background – SharePoint lets you customize the sections backgrounds with your own image. We’ve enhanced the focal point and introduced more settings like fill mode, overlay, opacity to help you adhere to accessibility best practices and make sure that your contents are clear and readable with customized background. This gives you more power over the image to make your page beautiful. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378648
• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News – The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages. Roadmap ID:124827

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Programmatic Desktop Sharing – With desktop sharing (made available OOB), meeting presenters can now screen-share all their meeting apps directly onto the stage for improved collaboration. We are introducing programmatic desktop sharing, which allows developers to enable screensharing specific pieces of app content. Unlike the currently existing share to stage functionality, meeting participants cannot interact with the shared app; they have a view-only mode of the presenter’s app screen similar to screen sharing, but in one click. The shared content is also automatically captured in the meeting recording. This works great for co-consumption scenarios and requires little developer investment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=3898447
• Outlook: Multiple insights and notifications on profile cards – Previously, users were only able to see one insight or notification on their own or on a colleague’s profile card. Now they will be able to see multiple insights through a Show All button.  #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395789

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June 2024

• 🆕Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams – New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375418
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center – Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center
  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131169

Release – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions – User can upload their own custom emojis and reactions to personalize their communication. Emojis will be available within the user’s  tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=80659
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar – File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91163
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels – Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325780
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms – Introducing speaker recognition for Teams Rooms on Windows. This feature provides live transcription with speaker identification, creating a unique “voiceprint” for each participant. With speaker recognition, Copilot in Teams can deliver meeting summaries, insights, and action items by attributing contributions to individual speakers. Participants can easily set up a voice profile using the Teams Desktop app. Users’ individual voice signatures are stored securely in your organization’s tenant in the Microsoft Cloud, ensuring accurate capture of every contribution in every meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394668
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time – You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397768
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams – Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398445
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions – Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .CSV file, in order to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a meeting or event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398446
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Creation and Registration APIs – Customers now have additional capabilities to manage Webinars, namely the ability to create, update, and delete Webinars, as well as register attendees to existing Webinars using a new set of APIs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398448
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Enhanced sound notification controls – You can change the sound of your notifications to help you stay focused, prioritize quickly and avoid distractions. You can as well make urgent notifications and priority contact notifications more prominent. You can also mute notification sounds when you are busy or in a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93487
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=329253

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 PowerPoint: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot can create presentations from a PDF file – Copilot in PowerPoint will now be able to support automatically generating a presentation based on a PDF file. This is in addition to the existing support for automatically generating a presentation based on a Word document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396344
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Formula Conditional Formatting – Additional support for complex conditional formats beyond the basic top and bottom or conditional operators. For example, Copilot analyzes two factors when highlighting all rows where the product is bikes and sales is greater than 100. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392454
• 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

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Highlight and rewrite for draft with Copilot in new Outlook for Windows and web – Similar to Microsoft Word, highlight and rewrite capabilities will allow users to select specific sentences in their email draft and have them rewritten by Copilot. Using highlight and rewrite when drafting with Copilot in Outlook, users will be able to give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and be able to modify tone and length. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392327
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time – You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397768

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Microsoft Purview

Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Behaviors – A new data type in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced Hunting. Behaviors will optimize the alerts queue by enabling security teams to focus on the most relevant alerts in their environment. They will indicate what took place in a descriptive form, attached to the MITRE tactics and techniques that are common measure most organizations follow and test their coverage against. This new data type which sits between the raw data and alert, will enable your security teams to prioritize critical alerts in your environment without having to compromise contextual information provided in a behavior that may be important to an investigation. The behaviors data will also enrich the context of related incidents and only correlate anomalies when relevant. Within Defender for Cloud Apps, we have identified some detections that are better suited as behaviors, and we are transforming them to the new data type to reflect it that can be retrieved via advanced hunting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124789

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new role added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, Purview Administrators role groups – Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization’s landscape. Specific Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with a new role to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups: Compliance Administrator, Organization Management, and Purview Administrators role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups; it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage Purview resources within Purview administrative unit scopes in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398712
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments – Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398711

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements – Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398458
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page – This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393934
• 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: 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
  

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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=171598
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies.    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=171601

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