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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups – Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406554

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Introducing archival and other enforcement actions with inactive site lifecycle management policy – Address inactive content on your tenant with inactive sites policy. Admins can configure policies to Detect inactive sites, send notifications to all site owners, and archive these sites or put them in a read-only state if there is no action from notification recipients. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412940

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Teams

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions – Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .csv file to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a town hall or webinar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398446
• Microsoft Teams: Private Line on Teams Phone Devices – Teams phone devices will support Private line, a new functionality for Teams Phone that allows you to enable a private second phone number for a select set of users so they can receive inbound calls directly, by passing delegates, admins, or assistants. Calls to the private line are distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396769
• Microsoft Teams: People app on Teams Phone Devices – An updated People app on Teams phone devices will provide a simplified and faster experience to help users manage contacts easily. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396773
• Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent recording meeting policy support on Teams Phone Devices – When explicit consent recording meeting policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of participants on Teams phone devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396777
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Windows – The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400706

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Voice and Face biometric data export controls – This new feature provides controls for biometric data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own biometric data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413709
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms – When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413711
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events – Attendees can now join Mesh events as a guest in the Microsoft Mesh app on PC. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest access for events in the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413713
• Microsoft Teams: New security and certification information available for apps and extensions – This feature will equip administrators evaluating apps and copilot extensions for deployment with extensive security and related certification data to help those admins more quickly evaluate that an app and/or extension complies with their tenant security requirements. Initially, the information provided will include results from individual M365 certification tests and evidence submitted by ISVs during Microsoft’s audit of their app or copilot extension. Additionally, for non-certified apps, admins will receive details on data handling, security, and compliance as self-attested by the ISV. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412935
• Microsoft Teams: Search – query suggestions – Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413112
• Microsoft Teams: Real-time notifications (Live Activities) for Teams meetings on iOS lock screen – iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412616
• Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh – The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content. Collaboration tools like whiteboards will be added to the environment as they become available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412076
• Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events – Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement.  Additionally, event hosts will now be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412078
• Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars (Premium) – This feature will now allow event organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars. These labels are visible to organizers when creating an event instance once selected, and notify organizers if the details of the event being created are not valid for the selected sensitivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409226
• Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard – Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402185
• Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms – Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform’s in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400703
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls – This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393227
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars – This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392826

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413712

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Outlook: OneDrive for Business available in classic Outlook for Windows – Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in classic Outlook for Windows, for a consistent and fast experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379674

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups – Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406554

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web – OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it’s in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We’ve added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We’ve also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395379
• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407386

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot – Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372895
• Excel: Formula data summaries in rows and cells – Add a single formula to summarize column data into one cell. Today, full column calculations produce a unique result in each row, but this new feature gives you the option to calculate all data in a column together to return one result. You can also create a row with formulas that apply for relevant columns; for example, an “add total sales row” will add a SUM formula underneath every column that has sales data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398989

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in M365 Copilot – The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenia, and Vietnamese. They’re also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411778
• Microsoft Graph: Graph API – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396562
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot – A new column will be added to the Readiness section of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report showing suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new column is intended to help admins with licensing decisions by quickly identifying users who are in a strong position to get the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot based on their relevant Microsoft 365 app usage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410202

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ – When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413111

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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 (3)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Restrict unintentional sharing to unallowed cloud apps and services (macOS) – Ability to restrict unintentional sharing of sensitive items to unallowed cloud apps and services in macOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383739
• Microsoft 365 app: Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled – Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (e.g. sensitivity labels and rights management) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview portals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400716
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93267

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407386

Rollout starts – October 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages – Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413431
• 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389842
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions – With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled & within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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=185687
• Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint – With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160009
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) trainable classifiers – Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167221

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates – We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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=409966

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