Weekly summaries

Summary

204 items were changed

127 items were added

2 items with multiple changes

36 items were rescheduled

20 items were launched

12 items started rollout

3 items were irrelevant

4 other items

Added items

  • Microsoft Viva: Copilot for leaders in Viva Insights

    Empower leaders to ask questions about their organization and how their team is doing through responses that leverage Viva Insights behavioral metrics and organizational context data.

    Feature ID: 415452

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: March CY2025

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Skills and AI transformation scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights

    Enable leaders to ask questions about skills their team possess based on user-confirmed skills and Viva AI engine. Furthermore, they can dive deeper with dynamically curated reports. Along with this, they will have the ability to learn about AI adoption and impact on their team with Microsoft Copilot features.

    Feature ID: 415453

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: March CY2025

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved template support when you create a presentation with Copilot

    Once you update your template(s) to PowerPoint's best practices, your templates will work even better with Copilot. You'll get beautiful on-brand slides every time you open your optimized template and create a presentation with Copilot.

    Feature ID: 417060

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): PowerPoint

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries

    SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column.

    Feature ID: 420336

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities

    Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. Permissions for accessing analytics and user activity reports have not changed. 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: 420939

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: December CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Usage reports for bookable desks in the Pro Management portal

    With a Teams Shared Device license assigned to a desk pool, admins can view valuable analytics for these spaces including number of peripherals, usage, reservations, and occupancy under 'Reports' in the portal.

    Feature ID: 421604

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopTeams and Surface Devices

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin usage reports for Loop

    View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.

    Feature ID: 421611

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: March CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces

    This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group's geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator's preferred data location.

    Feature ID: 421616

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses

    Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging.

    Feature ID: 422261

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat - Copilot agents available in Business Chat web mode

    In Business Chat web mode, discover and use Copilot agents available for your organization. Agents are custom grounded chats that include specific knowledge sources from work and web.

    Feature ID: 422315

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s):

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Admin units support for SharePoint Online

    Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.

    Feature ID: 422316

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Top questions

    Top Questions shows community members the most-viewed questions in their community over the last 90 days. It is designed to help people quickly find the most relevant and popular questions in their communities.

    Feature ID: 422317

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Detect workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages

    Communication Compliance introduces the ability to identify and flag potential workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages. Investigators now have an extra indication to decide what risk exists in user-reported messages and can configure an Inappropriate Content policy to proactively identify similar inappropriate content moving forward. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 422329

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses?

    In Communication Compliance, we're introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety's Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 422334

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Edge: Authorized group setting in Microsoft Edge for Business

    The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for "Printer groups," "Removable USB device groups," and "Network share groups" in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance.

    Feature ID: 422502

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft EdgeMicrosoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Page header enhancements

    We’ve made enhancements to the Viva Engage page header for a more streamlined experience. The header now pulls in more relevant content and emphasizes key actions like "Join." Additionally, we’ve reduced the icon size slightly to prevent overlap with background images, ensuring improved visibility and interaction.

    Feature ID: 422731

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Admin Center – Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting

    We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active.

    Feature ID: 422808

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    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: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Improved reporting – Additional report fields in the Time Clock export

    We’ve expanded the functionality of the time clock export report by adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to analyze and manage workforce activities.

    Feature ID: 422812

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0)

    We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike.

    Feature ID: 422813

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Archived Teams' schedules no longer visible

    We've improved the schedule view by hiding archived teams' schedules. This reduces clutter, allowing you to focus on active teams and their schedules.

    Feature ID: 422814

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Outlook: Sync folder order

    The order of folders in Outlook mobile will now sync to match the folder order on other Outlook apps.

    Feature ID: 422816

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events

    Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 422817

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Mail Merge (Advanced) on Outlook on the Web and new Outlook for Windows

    Mail Merge (Basic) will be improved upon to allow fields to be replaced by values per email address. When Mail Merge (Advanced) is launched, not only will every recipient receive their own email with only their email address in the recipients list, but the emails can further be personalized to include content such as their name. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 423047

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: April CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

    We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

    Feature ID: 117531

    Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 24 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: March CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API

    Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

    Feature ID: 117587

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 03 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: January CY2024

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Work location in scheduling assistant for iOS

    You can now view your colleagues' work locations when scheduling a meeting.

    Feature ID: 118956

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 21 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box

    A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only.

    Feature ID: 123486

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 12 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: Launched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2023

  • SharePoint: New SharePoint Start

    New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it's now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics

    Feature ID: 124824

    Added to roadmap: Tue May 02 2023

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status

    Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.

    Feature ID: 161739

    Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 25 2023

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Teams Premium

    After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. A new report within Microsoft 365 admin center Usage reports for Teams Premium.

    Feature ID: 163426

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 17 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Cancelled

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2023

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

    This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users.

    Feature ID: 165402

    Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 18 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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 CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars

    Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

    Feature ID: 168524

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Recommended policy scope

    Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 168843

    Added to roadmap: Fri Sep 08 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API

    The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.

    Feature ID: 178311

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available: January CY2024

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel - Gateway Scaling

    Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5,000 to over 20,000 per server.

    Feature ID: 178921

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements

    This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.

    Feature ID: 181825

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 16 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enhanced Policy Conditions

    Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we've introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

    Feature ID: 336046

    Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 14 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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 CY2025

  • Outlook: Outlook for Mac - Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender

    The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for Mac can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users' report phishing or junk.

    Feature ID: 371393

    Added to roadmap: Wed Mar 20 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft Defender for Office 365Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes

    Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

    Feature ID: 375500

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Schedule reports

    The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.

    Feature ID: 377680

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall

    Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

    Feature ID: 377703

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 11 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: January CY2025

  • Outlook: Organize and reorder folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

    Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 378775

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 18 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

    Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

    Feature ID: 382106

    Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 27 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: Launched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: March CY2024

    Rollout Start: May CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

    Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

    Feature ID: 382107

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 15 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

    The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management.

    Feature ID: 383017

    Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 09 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com

    Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills.

    Feature ID: 384848

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 22 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: March CY2024

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High

    Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support, co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration.

    Feature ID: 387790

    Added to roadmap: Tue Mar 26 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC High

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Outlook: Add Shared Folders to Favorites in the new Outlook for Windows and web

    Customers will have the ability to add shared folders to their favorites. This enhancement offers users increased flexibility and convenience, allowing easy and quick access to important shared content directly from their Favorites list. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 388913

    Added to roadmap: Tue Mar 26 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings

    The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting.

    Feature ID: 389368

    Added to roadmap: Mon Mar 25 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

    Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

    Feature ID: 389839

    Added to roadmap: Fri Apr 05 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Edge: Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs

    Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When a user navigates back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded. This can be managed through the AutoDiscardSleepingTabsEnabled policy. This policy will be enabled if the SleepingTabsEnabled policy is enabled.

    Feature ID: 392848

    Added to roadmap: Wed Apr 10 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints

    Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for endpoints will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. After inspection, all supported file types in the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies and the defined enforcement action will be enforced on the file.

    Feature ID: 393653

    Added to roadmap: Mon May 06 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: September CY2024

  • Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot

    Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings.

    Feature ID: 394682

    Added to roadmap: Tue May 14 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot

    Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings.

    Feature ID: 394682

    Added to roadmap: Tue May 14 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC

    Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment.

    Feature ID: 395935

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 06 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Universal Print: Pull Print queues

    Pull Print enables IT Pros to offer their end users a simplified view of the print solution. Specifically, IT Pros can set up virtualized printer(s) per location or region so that end users only need to know the name of one printer. Those users can securely release their own print jobs at any printer at that location or region, depending on the setup.

    Feature ID: 395937

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 09 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Universal Print

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

    Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

    Feature ID: 396570

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 16 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

    Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

    Feature ID: 396571

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: September CY2024

  • Outlook: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through the new Outlook for Windows

    When users are in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint apps, and they want to share a file that is saved locally in their device (not stored in a cloud location), the new Outlook for Windows will show up as a share target and they will be able to easily email the file. #newoutlookforwindows. This roadmap status was updated to "Rolling out" error and has been corrected to "In development." We apologize for any inconvenience.

    Feature ID: 397094

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jun 03 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Simplified App Control policy creation experience (curated workflow)

    Configure an App Control policy with built-in toggles in the console that expose all App Control for Business capabilities.

    Feature ID: 397885

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 04 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

    The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations. 

    Feature ID: 397889

    Added to roadmap: Fri May 24 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: August CY2024

  • Outlook: Updated conversation actions on Outlook for Android

    Currently, when viewing a message, you can access the available actions in the top-right corner. We are updating these actions to be at the bottom of the screen with the ability to customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.

    Feature ID: 398981

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 04 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Android

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop

    With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.

    Feature ID: 399928

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 03 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Improved elevation detection

    This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.

    Feature ID: 399933

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 28 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: August CY2024

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying allowable command arguments

    Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying a list of allowable command parameters, ensuring elevation for only the allowed or mandatory arguments.

    Feature ID: 399934

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jul 08 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Windows

    The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant's size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.

    Feature ID: 400706

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 18 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Administrative Units for Teams Administration

    We are excited to announce the availability of administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration. AUs are a way to delegate admin roles and delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit. With AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. You can assign the following roles, allowing them to manage only the users, groups & devices within their AU: Teams Administrator Teams Device Administrator Teams Communication Administrator Teams Communication Support Engineer Teams Communication Support Specialist Teams Telephony Administrator

    Feature ID: 402186

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jun 26 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: August CY2024

  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List

    Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List.

    Feature ID: 406166

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft Defender for Office 365

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Excel: Python in Excel

    Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users with access to Excel for Windows will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.

    Feature ID: 406770

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jul 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Excel

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available: August CY2023

    Rollout Start: August CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment

    Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment (ADE) ensures targeted apps and policies can get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup. ETG will only be part of new iOS/iPadOS enrollment policies. Admins can add a static Entra ID group into the enrollment policy, so devices will be part of that group upon enrollment, reducing latency of targeted policies and apps.

    Feature ID: 406907

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): iOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2025

  • Microsoft Intune: Security Baselines for HoloLens 2

    These security baselines represent Microsoft’s best practice guidelines and experience from deploying and supporting HoloLens 2 devices to customers across various industries.

    Feature ID: 406909

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jul 11 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Enhanced device inventory for Windows devices

    Gain more inventory information about your Windows devices. Choose which device properties you want to collect from which device and then view that information for your devices.

    Feature ID: 408169

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 01 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready

    Intelligent meeting recap users will receive a notification in Teams Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready. Clicking on the notification in Activity feed will take users right to the intelligent meeting recap experience, which will be visible to the right of the Activity feed. Users can configure their notification settings in Teams settings > Notifications and activity > Apps > Meeting Recap to control where the notification is surfaced (Activity and banner, Activity only, Off) as well as which meetings have notifications enabled (for only meetings with RSVP selection of “Follow,” or all other meetings, or both).

    Feature ID: 408529

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 26 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions

    Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.

    Feature ID: 408533

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jul 23 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer

    A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer.

    Feature ID: 410218

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): OneDrive

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints

    With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.

    Feature ID: 410397

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 13 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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 CY2025

    Rollout Start: March CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Amplify editor

    The superpowers of Microsoft 365 Copilot will be directly available to you in the Viva Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you've written. Also, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications.

    Feature ID: 411300

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Amplify editor

    The superpowers of Microsoft 365 Copilot will be directly available to you in the Viva Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you've written. Also, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications.

    Feature ID: 411300

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 12 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for the web

    The new Microsoft Planner app for the web is a single, unified work management experience. Assisted by AI, it brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, and the power of Microsoft Project into a simple, scalable, intelligent solution that spans from individual task management to enterprise and professional project management.

    Feature ID: 411777

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 19 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS

    With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS.

    Feature ID: 412359

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 20 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Work Hours and Location in My Day

    Work Hours and Location information will now be available in My Day pane in Outlook when using agenda view. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 412618

    Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 28 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Planner: Labels in grid view

    Labels for your tasks will be shown in grid view in a new Labels column in basic plans. You can get a better overview of your tasks at a glance since you will no longer need to open task details to view labels.

    Feature ID: 412623

    Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 21 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Planner

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Education grid view refresh

    Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels.

    Feature ID: 412934

    Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 23 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Multi-Account Support for Add-Ins and Apps in new Outlook for Windows

    Currently, new Outlook for for Windows supports apps and add-ins for the user's primary account only. We will be enabling apps and add-ins to be supported across all of the accounts added to new Outlook, dynamically switching to the active identity. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 412936

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages

    Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online's Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows.

    Feature ID: 413431

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Offline app boot

    This introduces the ability to open or restart the new Outlook for Windows when not connected to the internet. Previously, you needed a connection to the internet to open or restart the new Outlook. Offline access is only supported when the app is already running and then goes offline. Opening and restarting the app while offline will be introduced with this rollout. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 414516

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 03 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Copilot for leaders in Viva Insights

    Empower leaders to ask questions about their organization and how their team is doing through responses that leverage Viva Insights behavioral metrics and organizational context data.

    Feature ID: 415452

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: March CY2025

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Skills and AI transformation scenarios for Leaders in Viva Insights

    Enable leaders to ask questions about skills their team possess based on user-confirmed skills and Viva AI engine. Furthermore, they can dive deeper with dynamically curated reports. Along with this, they will have the ability to learn about AI adoption and impact on their team with Microsoft Copilot features.

    Feature ID: 415453

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: March CY2025

    Rollout Start: June CY2025

  • Outlook: Updates to mail sharing functionality with Cloud Policy Service when setting "Turn off sharing recommendation"

    Updates to the office Cloud Policy Service setting "Turn off sharing recommendation" will disable the ability for users to share folders with individual users. Currently, the policy blocked users' ability to update default and anonymous permission levels for shared folders. This functionality will remain and will not be changed. The current policy and how it works with calendar sharing will not be impacted by this change and will remain as implemented. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 415467

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Teams menu bar icon with Presence on Mac

    Introduction of a Menu Bar icon with a flyout for common workflows that reduces clicks and simplifies checking for at-a-glance information like the presence status.

    Feature ID: 416069

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Unified Create button in Viva Engage

    This feature brings a new way for users to create posts, communities etc. through a centralized creation button in Viva Engage. Currently, Engage users need to go to different locations in the application for different creation types - a post, community, etc. Starting in October 2024, a Viva Engage user will be able to create the different types of content already enabled for them, using a centralized creation button. This new feature eases the process of creation and helps users quickly discover the various creation options they are licensed to use.

    Feature ID: 416449

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Categorize single items in conversation view in new Outlook for Windows and Web

    This functionality will allow users to categorize individual emails within the conversation view, enhancing organization and tracking. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 416450

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: A new reactions look and feel in Viva Engage

    Viva Engage will feature a new look and feel for reactions in conversations. Users will see a more interactive style, showing others' reactions as clickable pills across the conversation card. This design brings Engage reactions more in line with other Microsoft 365 products, including Teams. There are no changes to the number of icons available in Engage with this new design. Users will see this change in Engage web and Teams and Outlook apps. Mobile apps and other integrated surfaces will follow.

    Feature ID: 416644

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved template support when you create a presentation with Copilot

    Once you update your template(s) to PowerPoint's best practices, your templates will work even better with Copilot. You'll get beautiful on-brand slides every time you open your optimized template and create a presentation with Copilot.

    Feature ID: 417060

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): PowerPoint

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls (Premium)

    Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer role to deploy this feature within town hall instances.

    Feature ID: 418117

    Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 30 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOS

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle

    Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption.

    Feature ID: 418120

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 24 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Teams and Surface Devices

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Analyst query notification email

    We are launching a new feature for a Viva Insights Analyst who will be able to receive a query notification email that provides them with the status of their recently completed query. The notification email will be triggered both for a successful and failed query executed in Advanced Insights (Analyst workbench). Both custom queries and Power BI reports are in the scope of this feature. The Viva Insights Analyst can access the Analyst query notification email from their inbox.

    Feature ID: 418128

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 03 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    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: November CY2024

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

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

    Feature ID: 419811

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to take control during screensharing on Web

    This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the "Take control" function to request control while another person is screen-sharing.

    Feature ID: 420327

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot web grounding now available in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook

    Ground your Copilot chat conversations with the latest information from the web in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook

    Feature ID: 420330

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s):

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

    Platform(s): DesktopTeams and Surface DevicesWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries

    SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column.

    Feature ID: 420336

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Entra compromised user signals in IRM

    With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections - Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections - Compromise risk associated with a specific user. - Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. - Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. - Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. 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.More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-protection/concept-identity-protection-risks

    Feature ID: 420938

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities

    Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. Permissions for accessing analytics and user activity reports have not changed. 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: 420939

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: December CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Usage reports for bookable desks in the Pro Management portal

    With a Teams Shared Device license assigned to a desk pool, admins can view valuable analytics for these spaces including number of peripherals, usage, reservations, and occupancy under 'Reports' in the portal.

    Feature ID: 421604

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopTeams and Surface Devices

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin usage reports for Loop

    View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards.

    Feature ID: 421611

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: March CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Multi-geo support for shared Loop workspaces

    This ensures data storage for shared Loop workspaces is in the correct geo. M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the group's geo, while non-M365 group-owned workspaces are created in the creator's preferred data location.

    Feature ID: 421616

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses

    Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging.

    Feature ID: 422261

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses

    Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging.

    Feature ID: 422261

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat - Copilot agents available in Business Chat web mode

    In Business Chat web mode, discover and use Copilot agents available for your organization. Agents are custom grounded chats that include specific knowledge sources from work and web.

    Feature ID: 422315

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s):

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Admin units support for SharePoint Online

    Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.

    Feature ID: 422316

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Top questions

    Top Questions shows community members the most-viewed questions in their community over the last 90 days. It is designed to help people quickly find the most relevant and popular questions in their communities.

    Feature ID: 422317

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Detect workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages

    Communication Compliance introduces the ability to identify and flag potential workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages. Investigators now have an extra indication to decide what risk exists in user-reported messages and can configure an Inappropriate Content policy to proactively identify similar inappropriate content moving forward. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 422329

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses?

    In Communication Compliance, we're introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety's Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 422334

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Edge: Authorized group setting in Microsoft Edge for Business

    The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for "Printer groups," "Removable USB device groups," and "Network share groups" in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance.

    Feature ID: 422502

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft EdgeMicrosoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Page header enhancements

    We’ve made enhancements to the Viva Engage page header for a more streamlined experience. The header now pulls in more relevant content and emphasizes key actions like "Join." Additionally, we’ve reduced the icon size slightly to prevent overlap with background images, ensuring improved visibility and interaction.

    Feature ID: 422731

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    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: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Admin Center – Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting

    We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active.

    Feature ID: 422808

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    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 CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Admin Center – Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting

    We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active.

    Feature ID: 422808

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    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: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Improved reporting – Additional report fields in the Time Clock export

    We’ve expanded the functionality of the time clock export report by adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to analyze and manage workforce activities.

    Feature ID: 422812

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0)

    We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike.

    Feature ID: 422813

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Archived Teams' schedules no longer visible

    We've improved the schedule view by hiding archived teams' schedules. This reduces clutter, allowing you to focus on active teams and their schedules.

    Feature ID: 422814

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Outlook: Sync folder order

    The order of folders in Outlook mobile will now sync to match the folder order on other Outlook apps.

    Feature ID: 422816

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events

    Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 422817

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Mail Merge (Advanced) on Outlook on the Web and new Outlook for Windows

    Mail Merge (Basic) will be improved upon to allow fields to be replaced by values per email address. When Mail Merge (Advanced) is launched, not only will every recipient receive their own email with only their email address in the recipients list, but the emails can further be personalized to include content such as their name. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 423047

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: April CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Unified fun picker

    Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker. Browse and discover all the fun stuff you need, all in one hub of content.

    Feature ID: 84023

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 26 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: Launched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2023

  • Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations

    All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

    Feature ID: 89975

    Added to roadmap: Wed May 24 2023

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

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

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

    This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide

    Feature ID: 93324

    Added to roadmap: Fri May 20 2022

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Contact deduplication on New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

    People are at the center of our lives, and we start every digital connection via contacts. Hence, a clean, up-to-date contact list is critical for better collaboration and productivity. We are happy to announce that cleaning up duplicate contacts just got a lot easier with the de-duplication feature on New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

    Feature ID: 98124

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 19 2022

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): Targeted Release (Entire Organization)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

Items with multiple changes

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com

    Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills.

    Feature ID: 384848

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 22 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: March CY2024

    Rollout Start: DecemberSeptember CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Amplify editor

    The superpowers of Microsoft 365 Copilot will be directly available to you in the Viva Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you've written. AdditionallyAlso, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications.

    Feature ID: 411300

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 12 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentLaunched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberOctober CY2024

Launched items

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API

    Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.

    Feature ID: 117587

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 03 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentLaunched

    Preview Available: January CY2024

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box

    A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only.

    Feature ID: 123486

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 12 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2023

  • SharePoint: New SharePoint Start

    New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it's now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics

    Feature ID: 124824

    Added to roadmap: Tue May 02 2023

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API

    The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform.

    Feature ID: 178311

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 28 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentLaunched

    Preview Available: January CY2024

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Outlook: Outlook for Mac - Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender

    The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for Mac can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users' report phishing or junk.

    Feature ID: 371393

    Added to roadmap: Wed Mar 20 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft Defender for Office 365Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): Current ChannelGeneral Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

    The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management.

    Feature ID: 383017

    Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 09 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High

    Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support, co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration.

    Feature ID: 387790

    Added to roadmap: Tue Mar 26 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC High

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings

    The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting.

    Feature ID: 389368

    Added to roadmap: Mon Mar 25 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints

    Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for endpoints will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. After inspection, all supported file types in the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies and the defined enforcement action will be enforced on the file.

    Feature ID: 393653

    Added to roadmap: Mon May 06 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC

    Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment.

    Feature ID: 395935

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jun 06 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

    Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

    Feature ID: 396570

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 16 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: July CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality

    Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.

    Feature ID: 396571

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 16 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA

    The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations. 

    Feature ID: 397889

    Added to roadmap: Fri May 24 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: August CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Windows

    The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant's size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature.

    Feature ID: 400706

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 18 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Administrative Units for Teams Administration

    We are excited to announce the availability of administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration. AUs are a way to delegate admin roles and delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit. With AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. You can assign the following roles, allowing them to manage only the users, groups & devices within their AU: Teams Administrator Teams Device Administrator Teams Communication Administrator Teams Communication Support Engineer Teams Communication Support Specialist Teams Telephony Administrator

    Feature ID: 402186

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jun 26 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: August CY2024

  • Excel: Python in Excel

    Python in Excel allows you to bring the capabilities of Python directly into the Excel grid. As a part of this feature, users with access to Excel for Windows will be able to add Python formulas directly into their workbooks without any installation required. These Python formulas will be run by Excel in a secure container on the Microsoft Cloud with enterprise-level security as a compliant Microsoft 365 connected experience.

    Feature ID: 406770

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jul 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Excel

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available: August CY2023

    Rollout Start: August CY2024

  • OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer

    A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer.

    Feature ID: 410218

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): OneDrive

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS

    With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS.

    Feature ID: 412359

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 20 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Planner: Labels in grid view

    Labels for your tasks will be shown in grid view in a new Labels column in basic plans. You can get a better overview of your tasks at a glance since you will no longer need to open task details to view labels.

    Feature ID: 412623

    Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 21 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Planner

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Unified fun picker

    Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker. Browse and discover all the fun stuff you need, all in one hub of content.

    Feature ID: 84023

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 26 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2023

Rolling out items

  • SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes

    Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own.

    Feature ID: 375500

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 04 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): SharePoint

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint local files through the new Outlook for Windows

    When users are in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint apps, and they want to share a file that is saved locally in their device (not stored in a cloud location), the new Outlook for Windows will show up as a share target and they will be able to easily email the file. #newoutlookforwindows. This roadmap status was updated to "Rolling out" error and has been corrected to "In development." We apologize for any inconvenience.

    Feature ID: 397094

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jun 03 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List

    Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List.

    Feature ID: 406166

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): ExchangeMicrosoft Defender for Office 365

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready

    Intelligent meeting recap users will receive a notification in Teams Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready. Clicking on the notification in Activity feed will take users right to the intelligent meeting recap experience, which will be visible to the right of the Activity feed. Users can configure their notification settings in Teams settings > Notifications and activity > Apps > Meeting Recap to control where the notification is surfaced (Activity and banner, Activity only, Off) as well as which meetings have notifications enabled (for only meetings with RSVP selection of “Follow,” or all other meetings, or both).

    Feature ID: 408529

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 26 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for the web

    The new Microsoft Planner app for the web is a single, unified work management experience. Assisted by AI, it brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, and the power of Microsoft Project into a simple, scalable, intelligent solution that spans from individual task management to enterprise and professional project management.

    Feature ID: 411777

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 19 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft ProjectPlanner

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Education grid view refresh

    Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels.

    Feature ID: 412934

    Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 23 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages

    Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online's Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows.

    Feature ID: 413431

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Offline app boot

    This introduces the ability to open or restart the new Outlook for Windows when not connected to the internet. Previously, you needed a connection to the internet to open or restart the new Outlook. Offline access is only supported when the app is already running and then goes offline. Opening and restarting the app while offline will be introduced with this rollout. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 414516

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 03 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Outlook: Updates to mail sharing functionality with Cloud Policy Service when setting "Turn off sharing recommendation"

    Updates to the office Cloud Policy Service setting "Turn off sharing recommendation" will disable the ability for users to share folders with individual users. Currently, the policy blocked users' ability to update default and anonymous permission levels for shared folders. This functionality will remain and will not be changed. The current policy and how it works with calendar sharing will not be impacted by this change and will remain as implemented. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 415467

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Teams menu bar icon with Presence on Mac

    Introduction of a Menu Bar icon with a flyout for common workflows that reduces clicks and simplifies checking for at-a-glance information like the presence status.

    Feature ID: 416069

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Unified Create button in Viva Engage

    This feature brings a new way for users to create posts, communities etc. through a centralized creation button in Viva Engage. Currently, Engage users need to go to different locations in the application for different creation types - a post, community, etc. Starting in October 2024, a Viva Engage user will be able to create the different types of content already enabled for them, using a centralized creation button. This new feature eases the process of creation and helps users quickly discover the various creation options they are licensed to use.

    Feature ID: 416449

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

  • Microsoft Viva: A new reactions look and feel in Viva Engage

    Viva Engage will feature a new look and feel for reactions in conversations. Users will see a more interactive style, showing others' reactions as clickable pills across the conversation card. This design brings Engage reactions more in line with other Microsoft 365 products, including Teams. There are no changes to the number of icons available in Engage with this new design. Users will see this change in Engage web and Teams and Outlook apps. Mobile apps and other integrated surfaces will follow.

    Feature ID: 416644

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024

Rescheduled items

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds)

    We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer.

    Feature ID: 117531

    Added to roadmap: Fri Feb 24 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: OctoberMarch CY2024CY2025

  • Outlook: Work location in scheduling assistant for iOS

    You can now view your colleagues' work locations when scheduling a meeting.

    Feature ID: 118956

    Added to roadmap: Mon Aug 21 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status

    Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.

    Feature ID: 161739

    Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 25 2023

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - User scoping role-based access control (RBAC)

    This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users.

    Feature ID: 165402

    Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 18 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: DecemberJune CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars

    Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

    Feature ID: 168524

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release (Entire Organization)Targeted Release (Select People)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Recommended policy scope

    Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

    Feature ID: 168843

    Added to roadmap: Fri Sep 08 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberJune CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Intune: Microsoft Tunnel - Gateway Scaling

    Increase the number of clients supported per Tunnel gateway server from 5,000 to over 20,000 per server.

    Feature ID: 178921

    Added to roadmap: Fri Oct 20 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberJuly CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements

    This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.

    Feature ID: 181825

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 16 2023

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: OctoberNovember CY2024

    Rollout Start: NovemberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enhanced Policy Conditions

    Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we've introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.

    Feature ID: 336046

    Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 14 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: DecemberJune CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Schedule reports

    The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.

    Feature ID: 377680

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: AugustNovember CY2024

    Rollout Start: SeptemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall

    Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.

    Feature ID: 377703

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 11 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    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: DecemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Outlook: Organize and reorder folders in the new Outlook for Windows and web

    Users can arrange folders in any desired order effortlessly by dragging and dropping the folders in the position that they want. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 378775

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jan 18 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

    Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

    Feature ID: 382107

    Added to roadmap: Mon Apr 15 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberJune CY2024CY2025

  • Outlook: Add Shared Folders to Favorites in the new Outlook for Windows and web

    Customers will have the ability to add shared folders to their favorites. This enhancement offers users increased flexibility and convenience, allowing easy and quick access to important shared content directly from their Favorites list. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 388913

    Added to roadmap: Tue Mar 26 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints

    Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification.

    Feature ID: 389839

    Added to roadmap: Fri Apr 05 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Edge: Auto-discarding Sleeping Tabs

    Tabs that have been sleeping for a long time will be discarded to save memory. When a user navigates back to a discarded tab, the tab will need to be reloaded. This can be managed through the AutoDiscardSleepingTabsEnabled policy. This policy will be enabled if the SleepingTabsEnabled policy is enabled.

    Feature ID: 392848

    Added to roadmap: Wed Apr 10 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot

    Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings.

    Feature ID: 394682

    Added to roadmap: Tue May 14 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): AndroidiOSDesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • Universal Print: Pull Print queues

    Pull Print enables IT Pros to offer their end users a simplified view of the print solution. Specifically, IT Pros can set up virtualized printer(s) per location or region so that end users only need to know the name of one printer. Those users can securely release their own print jobs at any printer at that location or region, depending on the setup.

    Feature ID: 395937

    Added to roadmap: Thu May 09 2024

    Last modified: Wed Oct 16 2024

    Product(s): Universal Print

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: OctoberNovember CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Intune: Simplified App Control policy creation experience (curated workflow)

    Configure an App Control policy with built-in toggles in the console that expose all App Control for Business capabilities.

    Feature ID: 397885

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 04 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024CY2025

  • Outlook: Updated conversation actions on Outlook for Android

    Currently, when viewing a message, you can access the available actions in the top-right corner. We are updating these actions to be at the bottom of the screen with the ability to customize the order and placement of the actions to suit your needs.

    Feature ID: 398981

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 04 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Android

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management on single session Azure Virtual Desktop

    With this release, you can use Endpoint Privilege Management elevation rules and policy to more easily manage standard users on Azure Virtual Desktop.

    Feature ID: 399928

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jul 03 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Improved elevation detection

    This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for.

    Feature ID: 399933

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jun 28 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: August CY2024

    Rollout Start: SeptemberOctober CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying allowable command arguments

    Endpoint Privilege Management rules support specifying a list of allowable command parameters, ensuring elevation for only the allowed or mandatory arguments.

    Feature ID: 399934

    Added to roadmap: Mon Jul 08 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: SeptemberDecember CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment

    Enrollment time grouping for iOS/iPadOS automated device enrollment (ADE) ensures targeted apps and policies can get to devices faster and reduce latency of device setup. ETG will only be part of new iOS/iPadOS enrollment policies. Admins can add a static Entra ID group into the enrollment policy, so devices will be part of that group upon enrollment, reducing latency of targeted policies and apps.

    Feature ID: 406907

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jul 12 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): iOS

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: October CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Intune: Security Baselines for HoloLens 2

    These security baselines represent Microsoft’s best practice guidelines and experience from deploying and supporting HoloLens 2 devices to customers across various industries.

    Feature ID: 406909

    Added to roadmap: Thu Jul 11 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Intune: Enhanced device inventory for Windows devices

    Gain more inventory information about your Windows devices. Choose which device properties you want to collect from which device and then view that information for your devices.

    Feature ID: 408169

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 01 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Intune

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions

    Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.

    Feature ID: 408533

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jul 23 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    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: November CY2024

    Rollout Start: DecemberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints

    With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well.

    Feature ID: 410397

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 13 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: NovemberFebruary CY2024CY2025

    Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2025

  • Outlook: Work Hours and Location in My Day

    Work Hours and Location information will now be available in My Day pane in Outlook when using agenda view. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 412618

    Added to roadmap: Wed Aug 28 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Outlook: Multi-Account Support for Add-Ins and Apps in new Outlook for Windows

    Currently, new Outlook for for Windows supports apps and add-ins for the user's primary account only. We will be enabling apps and add-ins to be supported across all of the accounts added to new Outlook, dynamically switching to the active identity. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 412936

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 22 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreviewTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberOctober CY2024

  • Outlook: Categorize single items in conversation view in new Outlook for Windows and Web

    This functionality will allow users to categorize individual emails within the conversation view, enhancing organization and tracking. #newoutlookforwindows

    Feature ID: 416450

    Added to roadmap: Thu Sep 12 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: OctoberNovember CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle

    Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption.

    Feature ID: 418120

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 24 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Teams and Surface Devices

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Analyst query notification email

    We are launching a new feature for a Viva Insights Analyst who will be able to receive a query notification email that provides them with the status of their recently completed query. The notification email will be triggered both for a successful and failed query executed in Advanced Insights (Analyst workbench). Both custom queries and Power BI reports are in the scope of this feature. The Viva Insights Analyst can access the Analyst query notification email from their inbox.

    Feature ID: 418128

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 03 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    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: OctoberNovember CY2024

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

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

    Feature ID: 419811

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 07 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: NovemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations

    All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.

    Feature ID: 89975

    Added to roadmap: Wed May 24 2023

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): DesktopMac

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

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: DecemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds)

    This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/communication-compliance-investigate-remediate?view=o365-worldwide

    Feature ID: 93324

    Added to roadmap: Fri May 20 2022

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    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: OctoberDecember CY2024

Irrelevant changes

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator

    Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.

    Feature ID: 382106

    Added to roadmap: Tue Feb 27 2024

    Last modified: Tue Oct 15 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: Launched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: March CY2024

    Rollout Start: May CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Entra compromised user signals in IRM

    With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections - Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections - Compromise risk associated with a specific user. - Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. - Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. - Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. 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.More info: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/id-protection/concept-identity-protection-risks

    Feature ID: 420938

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Fri Oct 18 2024

    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: October CY2024

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Outlook: Contact deduplication on New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

    People are at the center of our lives, and we start every digital connection via contacts. Hence, a clean, up-to-date contact list is critical for better collaboration and productivity. We are happy to announce that cleaning up duplicate contacts just got a lot easier with the de-duplication feature on New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the Web

    Feature ID: 98124

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 19 2022

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Outlook

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): Targeted Release (Entire Organization)

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2024

Other items

  • Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Teams Premium

    After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. A new report within Microsoft 365 admin center Usage reports for Teams Premium.

    Feature ID: 163426

    Added to roadmap: Thu Aug 17 2023

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outCancelled

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: September CY2023

  • Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls (Premium)

    Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer role to deploy this feature within town hall instances.

    Feature ID: 418117

    Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 30 2024

    Last modified: Mon Oct 14 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOS

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to give and take control during screensharing on Web

    The new update will allow the users to be able to use the give and take control function during screenshare on web similarly to how the users are used to do on the desktop version of the application.This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the "Take control" function to request control while another person is screen-sharing.

    Feature ID: 420327

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

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

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web grounding for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat in Teams and OutlookMicrosoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot web grounding now available in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook

    Ground conversations in the latest information from the web in Business Chat web mode.Ground your Copilot chat conversations with the latest information from the web in the Copilot app in Teams and Outlook

    Feature ID: 420330

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Thu Oct 17 2024

    Product(s):

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

    Platform(s): DesktopTeams and Surface DevicesWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: November CY2024

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