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: Agents in SharePoint – SharePoint users can create an agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2025

• SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries – SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420336

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar – This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417156
• 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: 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: 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Separate policies to control transcription for Town halls and Webinars – Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473886
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Separate recording policies for Town halls and Webinars – Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable recordings. Previously, the recording policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the recording policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473887
• Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video – The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469496
•  Microsoft Teams: Share Recap Notes to Outlook (Premium) – Meeting organizers and presenters have the capability to share recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to Outlook, facilitating the seamless sending of post meeting follow-up emails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423477
• Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429538
• Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0) – We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422813

Release – March 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Queues App to add Monitor Whisper Barge and Takeover – Authorized users will be able to enter into a monitoring session with selected agents for private coaching. They can listen to customer calls, whisper to the agents for private message, even barge into or takeover the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473884
• Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support – Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472913

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Offline mode – This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168618

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2025

• OneDrive: Sync admin reports – bulk data export – Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88870

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• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380477
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Integration of Glint and Pulse results into Copilot Dashboard – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rollout out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. View results from responses to surveys initiated from Viva Glint or Viva Pulse directly in the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412358

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Prompt suggestions in Copilot chat – Get started in Copilot chat quickly with automatic prompt suggestions that enhance your productivity by providing relevant and context-aware prompts based on your previous interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409962
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights- Copilot for Sales Metrics & PBI Report – Providing Copilot for Sales metrics for Viva Insights analysts in Advanced insights. Copilot for Sales adoption PBI report to provide a starter template to explore Copilot for Sales adoption across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410201
•  SharePoint: Agents in SharePoint – SharePoint users can create an agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot on OneNote canvas – Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal non-shared OneNote notebooks directly on the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417476
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot for Advanced Insights App – Copilot in Viva Insights simplifies the query-building process for analysts by suggesting metrics, filters, and attributes that are relevant to the analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399924

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create with Copilot in Excel generates templates and tables – Create with Copilot in Excel helps customers write prompts to generate tailored templates and tables, using multi-turn conversion to refine the table schema, formulas, and visuals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=429873
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Questions surfacing in Copilot results – Viva Engage questions from communities, storyline, and Answers will surface in Copilot results. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408166
•  Word: Chat with Copilot about selected text – Start a chat with Copilot while text in your document is selected, and Copilot’s response will be scoped to what you have selected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473441
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhancements to Copilot admin page – The Copilot page in the Microsoft 365 admin center is the dedicated place for tools, insights, and resources for Copilot administration. The Copilot page will be updated with enhancements to the Overview section and we will be introducing a new Health section. The Overview section will be updated to include key success metrics and insights such as the active user rate, AI assistance score, Copilot assisted hours, and user sentiment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472918
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enrichment of Messages in Business Chat – This feature is designed to enhance your communication experience by making it easier to understand and interact with your chat messages in Business Chat. With this feature, you will see cards and hoverable experiences that provide additional details of the chat without leaving your current view. This means you can quickly grasp the context of your conversations and find the information you need more efficiently. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472915
• Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – ?In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718
• 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
• Word: Choose the level of detail for summaries when documents are opened – If you like brevity or more depth in the summaries that Copilot generates when you open a document, you can now specify your preference as brief, standard, or detailed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473445

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Clipchamp Copilot video creator – Create a video draft on any topic by providing a prompt. Clipchamp will create a video using stock video and music with an AI-generated voiceover on the topic. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471441
• Word: Choose the level of detail for summaries when documents are opened – If you like brevity or more depth in the summaries that Copilot generates when you open a document, you can now specify your preference as brief, standard, or detailed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473462

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Custom agent Power BI report in Viva Insights analyst workbench – Custom agent adoption metrics and insights report in Viva Insights analyst workbench. Scope includes custom agents created in Copilot Studio, insights are aggregated on the agent-level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472020

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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 (5)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – Improved DLP policy tip reliability – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383018
•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience – A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189826
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template – Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and response to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used in Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422328
• 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: Cloud Policy service audit logs for policy changes – Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394280

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the condition ‘Document Property is’ to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417482
• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387502

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal – Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383744
•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot – Copilot for Security in DLP can summarize DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more.    DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain deeper level view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472031
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on the SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. With the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/ remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app, or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device).  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=473431
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.) – With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn’t complete scanning, document name matches patterns, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, and document name contains words or phrases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473455
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance – This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417483
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139461

Release – March 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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=122280

Release – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR – With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=422730

Release – June 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155

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