Weekly summaries

2024-11-21

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Loop workspace sensitivity labels

    Users can apply container-level sensitivity labels to Loop workspaces to prevent oversharing and manage access effectively.

    Feature ID: 111225

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 25 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Information ProtectionMicrosoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Planner: Portfolio capabilities in Planner

    Structure plans into portfolios and get insights on top of your portfolios

    Feature ID: 187140

    Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 15 2023

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Teams and Surface DevicesWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • SharePoint: Site ownership policy

    Site ownership policy is a one-stop solution to effectively manage ownership needs of all SharePoint sites in your tenant. It helps you to define your organization's ownership criteria and identify sites that are not compliant. You can further notify predefined set of users of your choice to find the next best site owner or admin. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain ownerless for more than 3 months to prevent risks of data mismanagement.

    Feature ID: 396172

    Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 04 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for iOS

    We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for iOS. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you're looking for.

    Feature ID: 398982

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 04 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): iOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: August CY2024

  • SharePoint: Using Data Access Governance to understand the tenant's current permission landscape

    SharePoint admins can now use Data Access Governance (DAG) to understand their tenant's current permission landscape and make better decisions regarding applications based on permissions such as Copilot. DAG now provides a report that will reflect the latest state of permissions in the entire tenant and return sites that have a greater count of permissioned users than the SharePoint admin specified number. This count considers users accessing sites via site membership and users accessing via unique permissions, as well and acts like a potential threshold for oversharing. Along with the permissioned user count, the report also provides information on the number of existing sharing links (Anyone and People-in-your-org) in those sites and enables SharePoint admins to identify potential root causes for oversharing. You can find more details about this report at the link below.More info: https://aka.ms/DAGReportOnPermissions

    Feature ID: 406552

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 01 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • SharePoint: Site Access Review offers a way for SharePoint tenants to empower site owners using Data Access Governance

    SharePoint admins can use Data Access Governance reports to discover potential oversharing within their tenant. Once discovered, SharePoint admins can now request that site owners review permissions using the specific context of that report from within the report. They can also track all such requests raised from a central location. The site owners will receive a corresponding email and are redirected to a section within the site (site reviews) that clearly enunciates the corresponding data related to sharing and permissions along with the ability to take action. This feature is now available for Data Access Governance - Permissions based reports - count of permissioned user report.More info: https://aka.ms/DAGSiteAccessReviews

    Feature ID: 406553

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 01 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Viva Pulse templates to measure Copilot readiness, adoption & impact as part of Microsoft 365 Copilot

    Viva Pulse authors can now use new templates specific to M365 Copilot Readiness, Adoption & Impact to measure employee sentiment around their organization's Copilot adoption. These templates will be available as part of your Microsoft365 Copilot subscription as well.

    Feature ID: 407706

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Generate Pulse summary with Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse

    Use Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse to receive an AI-generated summary of your results from a Viva Pulse report. Viva Pulse authors can share it with their team members as well use it to promote transparency.

    Feature ID: 407863

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jul 22 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: SeptemberDecember CY2024

    Rollout Start: DecemberMarch CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization

    With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization.

    Feature ID: 411138

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • 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.

    Feature ID: 412940

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 27 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance

    Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within "Content shared with everyone except external users" report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all "Sharing link" reports as well.

    Feature ID: 414525

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A

    Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees.

    Feature ID: 415413

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 19 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC High

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • 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.

    Feature ID: 418126

    Added to roadmap: Fri Sep 27 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreviewTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Outlook: Choose between Copilot Business Chat with web or work grounding

    In Outlook for iOS and Android, you will soon be able to choose whether Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat uses Microsoft 365 Graph (work) or Web grounding via a Work/Web toggle within the chat interface, just like you can at microsoft365.com/chat. Web grounding will be available for all commercial Microsoft 365 customers, while Graph grounding will require a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

    Feature ID: 420334

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365

    Use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Business Chat.

    Feature ID: 420363

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s):

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: VDI Status Indicator

    This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized', or 'Not Optimized'), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart).

    Feature ID: 423472

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 22 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls

    Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls.

    Feature ID: 468280

    Added to roadmap: Sat Nov 16 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • SharePoint: Enhanced functionalities to manage SharePoint Embedded Containers through SharePoint Admin Center

    The new update empowers the SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to manage their containers better through sorting and filtering capabilities as well as set sensitivity labels on containers. The SPE Admins now also have user role management capabilities to add, reassign, or remove users from various roles of a container.

    Feature ID: 468886

    Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Last modified: Thu Nov 21 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

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