Weekly summaries

2024-10-08

  • Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components

    Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email.

    Feature ID: 122238

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 19 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024CY2025

  • Outlook: Folder/Subfolder Recursive Search

    Search now returns content stored in the main folder and content stored within all its sub-folders. Note: We have updated the release phase to show the current state. We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause.

    Feature ID: 151025

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jul 20 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word

    Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app.

    Feature ID: 374045

    Added to roadmap: Thu Apr 18 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Word

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentLaunched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365

    High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online.

    Feature ID: 382633

    Added to roadmap: Thu Feb 15 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Exchange

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

    Platform(s):

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: MarchApril CY2024

    Rollout Start: September CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – pin post to leadership corner

    Admins and corporate communicators will be able to pin one post that will show at the top of everyone's leadership corner

    Feature ID: 383733

    Added to roadmap: Sat Feb 17 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection

    Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document.

    Feature ID: 388742

    Added to roadmap: Fri Apr 26 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365Word

    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

  • Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC environment (Premium)

    Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC environment. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license.

    Feature ID: 419811

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • 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.

    Feature ID: 419812

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 04 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberNovember 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: Mon Oct 07 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: November CY2024

  • SharePoint: Updates for font management capabilities

    We are introducing updates that provide capabilities for managing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections. This includes the ability to hide the From Microsoft font packages from Change the look, apply a font package in your site templates, and updated availability for the From Microsoft font packages.

    Feature ID: 420933

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Ability to increase configuration of CPU and GPU device resource utilization limits in Forensic Evidence

    Insider Risk Management Administrators will now be able to increase the CPU and GPU device resource utilization limit for all devices uploading Forensic Evidence clips in their organization. Forensic Evidence will now allow up to 31% CPU and GPU device resource utilization, up from the prior maximum limit of 5%. This enhancement reduces interruptions in the recording and uploading of clips. 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.

    Feature ID: 420940

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Excel: Refresh queries from Authenticated Data Sources in Excel for the Web

    You can now refresh Power Query data from data sources that require authentication in Excel for the Web.

    Feature ID: 65632

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 22 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Excel

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberDecember CY2024

  • Outlook: Reset People Suggestions in Search

    This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows settings. If a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

    Feature ID: 98137

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 20 2022

    Last modified: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

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