Summary
86 items were changed
62 items were added
0 items with multiple changes
9 items were rescheduled
11 items were launched
2 items started rollout
0 items were irrelevant
2 other items
Added items
Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers
Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work.Feature ID: 314380
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Intune
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Android
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
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.Feature ID: 323894
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint 360s
Empower employees to collect 360 feedback for personal growth and development.Feature ID: 324089
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection
Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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.Feature ID: 335856
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements
Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.Feature ID: 366447
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMac
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page
With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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: 370560
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: December CY2023
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for live translation for captions in a town hall
Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translation for captions during a town hall.Feature ID: 371308
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats
Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later.Feature ID: 374335
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Copilot
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: January CY2024
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center
Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.Feature ID: 374390
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSLinuxMac
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings
This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.Feature ID: 374515
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Desktop
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Improved issue details for service health
We are introducing a new version of the service health issue details pane (the surface that appears when you click on a service incident or service advisory to view details). The new version substantially reduces the amount of duplicated text and brings key information forward with improved formatting. This gives you quicker access to the information you need, reducing the time and effort required to get up to speed on service incident details.Feature ID: 374703
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP
With this capability, admins can extend the below 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 thanFeature ID: 374811
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Outlook: To Do in Outlook for Mac
To Do helps you manage your tasks and stay on top of what's next. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac for commercial users.Feature ID: 375179
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Outlook
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Mac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: January CY2024
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Stream: Block downloads for shared videos
Some videos are meant to be viewed but not downloaded. Soon you will be able to share videos more securely with the "Can view, but not download" option. This option will be available in the permission drop down in the Microsoft 365 share dialog for Stream videos. When you select "Can view, but not download," people who access the video you shared will be able watch it, but won't be able to download or copy the video file.Feature ID: 375188
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Stream
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Custom Check-In Templates
Check-In templates will allow team owners and admins to specify a template for check-ins. Goal owners can use these templates when making check-ins on their goals.Feature ID: 375201
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization at Team Level
This feature extends the Goals Terminology Customization capabilities to the team level. Now, team admins can use custom terminology to match their team's Goal nomenclature and structure.Feature ID: 375206
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization in Copilot in Viva Goals
Enhancements to Viva Goals Copilot to better support customized terminology.Feature ID: 375211
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Enable organizational branding in Edge for Business
Enable your organization's branding assets from Entra onto profile-related UI for profiles signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) account. You can add your organization’s details such as name to the profile pill, name and brand color to the profile flyout, and logo to overlay the Edge for Business taskbar icon. This branding can help users more easily differentiate between multiple profiles and browser windows. Default organizational branding can be enabled by admins through the following policies: OrganizationalBrandingOnWorkProfileUIEnabled and OrganizationLogoOverlayOnAppIconEnabled. Admins will need to have 'company branding' assets configured in the Microsoft Entra admin center for branding assets to be applied to this feature. More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-for-business#company-brandingFeature ID: 375261
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Edge
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users
This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the "External" label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label.Feature ID: 375631
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics - Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity
Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity.Feature ID: 118588
Added to roadmap: Thu Feb 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available: December CY2023
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft Loop - a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Loop is an app built for the new era of modern work aimed at redefining the boundaries of creation and collaboration. Microsoft Loop combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications — enabling teams to think, plan, and create together.Feature ID: 122270
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Loop
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Ability to block meeting chat access in external, non-trusted meeting joins.
Public Description: This feature enables IT Admin to block regulated, internal users to access chat when these users attend meetings organized by external non-trusted tenants.Feature ID: 123975
Added to roadmap: Tue Apr 18 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: July CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature)
In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.Feature ID: 135561
Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 08 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOS
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling out
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Engage - Answers in Communities
Introducing Answers for Viva Engage communities: premium license holders can see 'Top related questions' in the question publisher, gain badges for answering questions in communities, and view their activity through Answers Analytics.Feature ID: 152480
Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 03 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb
Release phase(s): Targeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint
With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope.Feature ID: 160009
Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 08 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: February CY2024
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme
A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Rolling Out. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.Feature ID: 161740
Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 10 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 app
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral AvailabilityPreview
Status: Rolling out
Preview Available: July CY2023
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal
With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Launched. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.Feature ID: 162292
Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 11 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Launched
Preview Available: August CY2023
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Support for Advanced classification scanning and protection for Endpoints running on Mac OS
With this capability, admins can now extend Advanced classification support to Mac Endpoints as well. Advance Classification scanning and protection allows the more advanced Microsoft Purview cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them and return the results to the local machines. This means admins can take advantage of classification techniques like fingerprinting, exact data match classification and named entities in their DLP policies. Currently available in GA for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we're introducing the ability to extend Advance Classification support to Mac endpoint devices for Government Clouds.Feature ID: 162667
Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 12 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management
Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels.Feature ID: 164490
Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Teams and Surface Devices
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Respond to a Viva Pulse in email
Respond to a Viva Pulse request inline in email.Feature ID: 164907
Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 23 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Teams and Surface DevicesWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot
With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals.Feature ID: 165689
Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 22 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: December CY2023
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - SharePoint site selection enhancement
With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. 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: 169880
Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Launched
Preview Available: September CY2023
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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: 171717
Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 13 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: January CY2024
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Microsoft Viva: People Search card on Viva Connections
Include this card on your dashboard to facilitate searching for individuals within your organization, learning more about them, and initiating contact.Feature ID: 173078
Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 18 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new roles added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Information Protection, and Privacy Management related role groups.
Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization's landscape. Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with new roles to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups. Additional roles will be added to Microsoft Purview built-in role groups for Compliance Administrator, Information Protection related role groups, and Privacy Management related role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups, it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage additional data types in the future.Feature ID: 184899
Added to roadmap: Sat Oct 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.Feature ID: 185103
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 02 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Outlook: High and Low importance
You can now send email with High or Low importance from Outlook for iOS.Feature ID: 185704
Added to roadmap: Fri Dec 01 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Outlook
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): iOS
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Copilot for Microsoft 365. The report will include two sections: readiness and usage. The readiness section will include insights into your organization's technical eligibility, license assignment, and Microsoft 365 usage metrics to inform Copilot license assignment decisions. The Usage section of the report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, activity insights, and more to follow.Feature ID: 185797
Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 15 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin CenterMicrosoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant manager synchronization
Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user's manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven't made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.Feature ID: 186222
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 23 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Azure Active Directory
Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: December CY2023
Rollout Start: April CY2024
Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results merged inline in "All" vertical for GCC and GCCH
Results from external data sources that are ingested with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the "All" vertical alongside content from Microsoft 365 apps and services for GCC and GCC-High.Feature ID: 189062
Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Search
Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers
Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work.Feature ID: 314380
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Intune
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Android
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
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.Feature ID: 323894
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: May CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint 360s
Empower employees to collect 360 feedback for personal growth and development.Feature ID: 324089
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only)
The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)Feature ID: 329253
Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection
Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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.Feature ID: 335856
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements
Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.Feature ID: 366447
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMac
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Policy wizard enhancements
To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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: 368825
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 14 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: January CY2024
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page
With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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: 370560
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: December CY2023
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for live translation for captions in a town hall
Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translation for captions during a town hall.Feature ID: 371308
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats
Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later.Feature ID: 374335
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Copilot
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: January CY2024
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center
Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.Feature ID: 374390
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSLinuxMac
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings
This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.Feature ID: 374515
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Desktop
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Improved issue details for service health
We are introducing a new version of the service health issue details pane (the surface that appears when you click on a service incident or service advisory to view details). The new version substantially reduces the amount of duplicated text and brings key information forward with improved formatting. This gives you quicker access to the information you need, reducing the time and effort required to get up to speed on service incident details.Feature ID: 374703
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP
With this capability, admins can extend the below 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 thanFeature ID: 374811
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Outlook: To Do in Outlook for Mac
To Do helps you manage your tasks and stay on top of what's next. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac for commercial users.Feature ID: 375179
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Outlook
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Mac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: January CY2024
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Stream: Block downloads for shared videos
Some videos are meant to be viewed but not downloaded. Soon you will be able to share videos more securely with the "Can view, but not download" option. This option will be available in the permission drop down in the Microsoft 365 share dialog for Stream videos. When you select "Can view, but not download," people who access the video you shared will be able watch it, but won't be able to download or copy the video file.Feature ID: 375188
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Stream
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Custom Check-In Templates
Check-In templates will allow team owners and admins to specify a template for check-ins. Goal owners can use these templates when making check-ins on their goals.Feature ID: 375201
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization at Team Level
This feature extends the Goals Terminology Customization capabilities to the team level. Now, team admins can use custom terminology to match their team's Goal nomenclature and structure.Feature ID: 375206
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: March CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization in Copilot in Viva Goals
Enhancements to Viva Goals Copilot to better support customized terminology.Feature ID: 375211
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Edge: Enable organizational branding in Edge for Business
Enable your organization's branding assets from Entra onto profile-related UI for profiles signed in with an Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) account. You can add your organization’s details such as name to the profile pill, name and brand color to the profile flyout, and logo to overlay the Edge for Business taskbar icon. This branding can help users more easily differentiate between multiple profiles and browser windows. Default organizational branding can be enabled by admins through the following policies: OrganizationalBrandingOnWorkProfileUIEnabled and OrganizationLogoOverlayOnAppIconEnabled. Admins will need to have 'company branding' assets configured in the Microsoft Entra admin center for branding assets to be applied to this feature. More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-for-business#company-brandingFeature ID: 375261
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Edge
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users
This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the "External" label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label.Feature ID: 375631
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Windows 365: Disk Encryption with “Bring your own key” support
CloudPC’s can be encrypted using their organizations “bring your own key” if enabledfor their entire Microsoft 365 tenant and meets licensing requirements.Feature ID: 89003
Added to roadmap: Fri Mar 18 2022
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Windows 365
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available: December CY2023
Rollout Start: April CY2024
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Launched items
Microsoft Teams: Ability to block meeting chat access in external, non-trusted meeting joins.
Public Description: This feature enables IT Admin to block regulated, internal users to access chat when these users attend meetings organized by external non-trusted tenants.Feature ID: 123975
Added to roadmap: Tue Apr 18 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): DesktopMac
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: July CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal
With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Launched. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.Feature ID: 162292
Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 11 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available: August CY2023
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Support for Advanced classification scanning and protection for Endpoints running on Mac OS
With this capability, admins can now extend Advanced classification support to Mac Endpoints as well. Advance Classification scanning and protection allows the more advanced Microsoft Purview cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them and return the results to the local machines. This means admins can take advantage of classification techniques like fingerprinting, exact data match classification and named entities in their DLP policies. Currently available in GA for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, we're introducing the ability to extend Advance Classification support to Mac endpoint devices for Government Clouds.Feature ID: 162667
Added to roadmap: Sat Aug 12 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management
Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels.Feature ID: 164490
Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Teams and Surface Devices
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Respond to a Viva Pulse in email
Respond to a Viva Pulse request inline in email.Feature ID: 164907
Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 23 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Teams and Surface DevicesWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In developmentLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - SharePoint site selection enhancement
With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. . 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: 169880
Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 21 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available: September CY2023
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Viva: People Search card on Viva Connections
Include this card on your dashboard to facilitate searching for individuals within your organization, learning more about them, and initiating contact.Feature ID: 173078
Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 18 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: October CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: new roles added for built-in Compliance Administrator, Information Protection, and Privacy Management related role groups.
Microsoft Purview provides a unified solution for managing data security, governance, compliance, and privacy across your organization's landscape. Microsoft Purview built-in role groups are being extended with new roles to prepare for upcoming features and capabilities relevant to those role groups. Additional roles will be added to Microsoft Purview built-in role groups for Compliance Administrator, Information Protection related role groups, and Privacy Management related role groups. This change will not disrupt the current capabilities for these role groups, it will enable admins in these built-in groups to manage additional data types in the future.Feature ID: 184899
Added to roadmap: Sat Oct 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.Feature ID: 185103
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 02 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In developmentLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
We will be introducing a new Usage report covering Copilot for Microsoft 365. The report will include two sections: readiness and usage. The readiness section will include insights into your organization's technical eligibility, license assignment, and Microsoft 365 usage metrics to inform Copilot license assignment decisions. The Usage section of the report will include total enabled and active users, Copilot usage with a breakout per Microsoft 365 app, activity insights, and more to follow.Feature ID: 185797
Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 15 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin CenterMicrosoft Copilot for Microsoft 365
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: November CY2023
Microsoft Search: Microsoft Graph connector results merged inline in "All" vertical for GCC and GCCH
Results from external data sources that are ingested with Microsoft Graph connectors will be displayed in the ""All"" vertical alongside content from Microsoft 365 apps and services for GCC and GCC-High.Feature ID: 189062
Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 28 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Search
Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC High
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: Rolling outLaunched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Rolling out items
Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature)
In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.Feature ID: 135561
Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 08 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOS
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In developmentRolling out
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Microsoft 365 app: Office documents have a new default theme
A new default theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Rolling Out. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.Feature ID: 161740
Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 10 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365 app
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral AvailabilityPreview
Status: In developmentRolling out
Preview Available: July CY2023
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Rescheduled items
Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics - Viva Engage conversations and Q&A appears on Topic Card as Activity
Viva Engage conversations and Q&A which are associated to a topic appear on the Topic Card as new activity.Feature ID: 118588
Added to roadmap: Thu Feb 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available: OctoberDecember CY2023
Rollout Start: January CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Engage - Answers in Communities
Community admins can turn on Answers functionality for their communities. Premium license holders can then see 'related questions' in the question publisher, ask questions using titles and descriptions, and gain badges for answering questions.Introducing Answers for Viva Engage communities: premium license holders can see 'Top related questions' in the question publisher, gain badges for answering questions in communities, and view their activity through Answers Analytics.Feature ID: 152480
Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 03 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb
Release phase(s): Targeted Release
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: OctoberJanuary CY2023CY2024
Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint
With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope.Feature ID: 160009
Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 08 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: DecemberFebruary CY2023CY2024
Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot
With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals.Feature ID: 165689
Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 22 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365Microsoft Viva
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: December CY2023
Rollout Start: DecemberFebruary CY2023CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Administrative units support
Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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: 171717
Added to roadmap: Wed Sep 13 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: NovemberJanuary CY2023CY2024
Rollout Start: June CY2024
Azure Active Directory: Cross-tenant manager synchronization
Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user's manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven't made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings.Feature ID: 186222
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 23 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Azure Active Directory
Cloud instance(s): GCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: In development
Preview Available: JanuaryDecember CY2024CY2023
Rollout Start: April CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only)
The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)Feature ID: 329253
Added to roadmap: Sat Dec 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft Teams
Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): Web
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Policy wizard enhancements
To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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: 368825
Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 14 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
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: January CY2024
Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2024
Windows 365: Disk Encryption with “Bring your own key” support
CloudPC’s can be encrypted using their organizations “bring your own key” if enabledfor their entire Microsoft 365 tenant and meets licensing requirements.Feature ID: 89003
Added to roadmap: Fri Mar 18 2022
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Windows 365
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available: JulyDecember CY2023
Rollout Start: DecemberApril CY2023CY2024
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Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft Loop - a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Loop is an app built for the new era of modern work aimed at redefining the boundaries of creation and collaboration. Microsoft Loop combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications — — enabling teams to think, plan, and create together.Feature ID: 122270
Added to roadmap: Thu Nov 16 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Microsoft 365Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Loop
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb
Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview
Status: Launched
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023
Outlook: High and Low importance
You can now send email with High or Low importance from Outlook for iOS.Feature ID: 185704
Added to roadmap: Fri Dec 01 2023
Last modified: Thu Dec 21 2023
Product(s): Outlook
Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)DoDGCCGCC High
Platform(s): iOS
Release phase(s): General Availability
Status: In development
Preview Available:
Rollout Start: December CY2023