Microsoft roadmap roundup – 30th September 2024

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 30 September 2024

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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SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits  –  We are increasing version history limits for SharePoint document libraries. Admins can set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization. Today Site Owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, people will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently adjusts based on a version’s age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set version expiration and count limits on the versions created. And tenant admins will be able set version limits that apply universally to all newly created document libraries in their organization; site owners can then update settings for their document library(ies). Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145802
  • SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature – SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382128

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

Rollout starts – January 2025

  • 🆕 SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint – Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418126

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

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Copilot
    Microsoft Purview

    Teams

    • Launched (4)
    • Rolling out (8)
    • In development (14)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account – When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
    • Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) – If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391639
    • Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients – We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394269
    • Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat – The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396169

      🚂 ROLLING OUT

      •  Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows – Can’t find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382659
      • Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High – Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support,  co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387790
      • Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile – This update allows presenters who were invited using the external presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409228
      • Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95680
      • Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound – With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380681
      • Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through proximity join for Teams Rooms on Windows – When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Room on Windows with a companion device, in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400702
      • 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
      • Microsoft Teams: Native controls on console for OEM camera features  – In Teams Rooms on Windows meeting rooms, you can now directly control camera features provided by OEMs. Controllable features include group framing, active speaker framing, and OEM specific IntelliFrame views composed on the in-room devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409537

        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – October 2024

            • 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

            Rollout starts – November 2024

              • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendees – Allows moderators to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417158
              • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls – Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418117
              • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle – Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418120
              • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings – This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411568
              • Microsoft Teams: Voice and face data export controls – This new feature provides controls for voice and face profile data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own profile 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: 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: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment – Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410985
              • 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: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows – Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402517
              •  Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401120
              • Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery – With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397089

              Rollout starts – December 2024


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

                SharePoint
                Teams
                OneDrive
                Copilot
                Microsoft Purview

                OneDrive

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

                🍾 LAUNCHED

                • N/A

                🚂 ROLLING OUT

                  ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                  • N/A

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

                  SharePoint
                  Teams
                  OneDrive
                  Copilot
                  Microsoft Purview

                  • Launched (1)
                  • Rolling out (2)
                  • In development (7)

                  🍾 LAUNCHED

                    🚂 ROLLING OUT

                      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                      Rollout starts – November 2024

                        Rollout starts – December 2024

                        Rollout starts – January 2025

                        • 🆕 SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint – Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418126

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

                          SharePoint
                          Viva
                          Teams
                          OneDrive
                          Copilot
                          Microsoft Purview

                          Microsoft Purview

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

                          • Launched (4)
                          • Rolling out (0)
                          • In development (16)

                          🍾 LAUNCHED

                            •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only – Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395791
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only – Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407068
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced incident communication with DLP email templates – You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can use these email templates to inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more scenarios like these.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397754
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Maintain label and protection when import data to PowerBI (Web and Desktop) – This feature is for PowerBI creators who import data to PowerBI datasets or PowerBI Desktop files from Excel files applied with sensitivity label and/or Synapse, SQL databases that are classified with sensitivity labels. By default, PowerBI datasets and PBIX files will automatically inherit the sensitivity label from the source if perquisite conditions are met. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115475 

                            🚂 ROLLING OUT

                              • N/A

                              ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                              Rollout starts – September 2024

                                • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access – Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes some minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access polic ies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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=400444
                                • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection – Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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=171735

                                Rollout starts – October 2024

                                • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on only specific email components like email body or attachments. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418131
                                • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406166

                                  Rollout starts – November 2024

                                  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171586
                                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Enrich triage in Communication compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408534

                                    Rollout starts – December 2024

                                    •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415170
                                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375

                                      Rollout starts – January 2025

                                        Rollout starts – February 2025

                                        •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397771
                                        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams – Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.<br> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323894

                                          Rollout starts – March 2025

                                          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416481
                                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156014
                                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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=156015

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