Weekly summaries

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 than

    Feature 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-branding

    Feature 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 than

    Feature 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-branding

    Feature 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

Items with multiple changes

    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 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

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        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

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