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 (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition now supports hybrid PDFs (text and image) – SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to hybrid PDFs, which contain both images and text. Previously, OCR was limited to image-only PDFs, but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from hybrid documents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419808
• 🆕 OneDrive: Hide people previewing files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This setting will allow administrators to disable the presence feature in the OneDrive and SharePoint file previewing experience on selected sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419814
• SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes – Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375500

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab team prompt publishing – This feature gives commercial customers the ability to publish Copilot prompts to groups within their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391636
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab trending and recommended prompts – With this feature, customers will be able to see which prompts are new or trending within their organization and receive personalized prompt recommendations in Copilot Lab, powered by Microsoft Graph. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400711

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location on bookable desks – The user’s work location can be automatically set to ‘In the office’ upon plug-in to peripherals at a bookable desk. Once IT enables the policy for a tenant or a group, users can opt-in to automatically update their location making it easier to connect with co-workers when they are in the office. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401118
• 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: Voice isolation on MacOS – With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412359
• Microsoft Teams: Room audio auto-detect and pre-select in BYOD meeting rooms – When users connect their laptop to a room’s shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room’s audio and recommends connecting on the pre-join screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (e.g., displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft’s known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room’s audio upon connection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413710
• 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: Refreshed view of all your teams and channels page – A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411779
• 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

⌛ 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
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet – You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381643

Rollout starts – November 2024

•  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 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: Cloud IntelliFrame video feed support extended to Teams Rooms on Android and Teams mobile devices – Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415250
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events – Mesh events allows for even better collaboration for more people by now supporting guest user attendees into the Mesh PC app. 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 the Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest user creation follows the existing process for tenant guest user creation (outside of Mesh). For this release, guest users would require a Teams Premium license, just like regular tenant attendees, to collaborate within Mesh. Guest access for 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: 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: 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages – Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419812
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices – Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416288
• 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: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414513
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

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OneDrive

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

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• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rolling out – October 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Hide people previewing files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This setting will allow administrators to disable the presence feature in the OneDrive and SharePoint file previewing experience on selected sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419814

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken – This adds seven new Copilot adoption metrics to the Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. It also updates the “total actions taken” metric in the Copilot dashboard to include these new Copilot adoption metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418379
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams  – This adds new Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams metric to Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418380
• 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 Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy Nudges to all Copilot SKU users (Seeded and Premium Viva Learning Users) – All Users having Copilot SKU (Viva Learning Seeded and Premium) will be nudged about Copilot Academy through a notification on Teams. Users will also get a monthly recurring notification in Teams about Copilot Academy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409968

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries – With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user’s prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness over the process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419810
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested users license assignment flow – Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested user license assignment flow is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417484
• 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 Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID)  – For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414515
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – AI & Copilot Resources provider – The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412064
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy – Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412065
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with enterprise 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 enterprise data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (e.g. Microsoft 365 App, Edge, Copilot.cloud.microsoft). 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

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope shared or delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat – Scope Copilot queries in emails for shared or delegated mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416062

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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 (2)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 – Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389840
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels – Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Note: The release phase and rollout start month have been updated to show current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174575

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 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 policies 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 – November 2024

•  Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Third party add-in user report can be sent to Microsoft for analysis – Admins and security analysts of organizations who use a third-party reporting add-in in Outlook can configure using user-reported settings to send their user reports to Microsoft for analysis and learning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406167
• 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

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171751

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse – DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses  in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420332
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384871

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Microsoft Fabric – Your organization can now apply sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview Information Protection to Microsoft Fabric workspaces. This new functionality will allow users to manually label Fabric items with their sensitivity level and then apply access control protections based upon the protection policies set by administrators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420331

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