eDJ has imported and flagged the Microsoft Roadmap to highlight releases with potential eDiscovery impact. New features and updated status will be updated on a monthly schedule as time allows. This list is only intended to direct peers to the actual Roadmap and share the eDJ perspective on potential impact. Always verify any information against the live M365 Roadmap.
Impact column is eDJ’s opinion of feature’s relative 1 (Minor) to 5 (High Risk) eDiscovery impact. Default table filter is for only items with eDiscovery impact released recently. Clear the filters to see all of the public Microsoft Roadmap items available since August 2023.
eDJ column gives very brief comment and perspective on that eDiscovery impact and potential solutions.
I am working on getting the dates to sort/filter properly, so please have patience.
| Feature | Feature ID | Impact | eDJ | Description | Details | Tags - Product | Tags - Release phase | Release | Last Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400703 | 400,703 | Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms | Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform's in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 334050 | 334,050 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Bulk export of learner completion records | Learner Completion Record bulk export is an extension of an existing feature to download Learner record by username. Bulk export empowers enterprises to download learner records of multiple users in one go using the M365 groups. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 185687 | 185,687 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions | With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled "Global exclusions" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 167531 | 167,531 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 171751 | 171,751 | 4 | Potential high value for corporate legal teams in scoping legal holds and discovery request terms. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Review set query report | Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 |
| 411777 | 411,777 | Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for the web | We apologize for any inconvenience; this roadmap item should have included GCC as was communicated in the associated Message center post. 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. | Planner, Microsoft Project | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 383656 | 383,656 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Notifications and Nudges in Teams | Users can receive survey notifications and nudges in Teams | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 409228 | 409,228 | Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile | This update allows presenters who were invited using the external presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams client. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 405118 | 405,118 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer | With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 89975 | 89,975 | 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. |
Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release (Entire Organization), General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 410985 | 410,985 | 1 | I wonder when the first FOIA request for meeting recaps will hit a government agency… | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment | Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 |
| 383740 | 383,740 | Microsoft Teams: Video clip in channel | You can now use Teams video clip in channel, in addition to chat. Record yourself, your screen, or an audio-only clip and attach the video clip to your channel post or reply. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 470304 | 470,304 | Outlook: Minimize the compose window to multitask in the Outlook app for iOS and Android | Outlook will help you compose emails more quickly and efficiently by allowing you to minimize your draft emails and quickly access them again from the message list or calendar view. This means that, while composing an email, you can easily get information you need from your calendar or other emails and easily get back into the draft you are working on without ever having to go to the Draft folder. | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 398711 | 398,711 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments | Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 420932 | 420,932 | Microsoft 365: Cloud Update logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users | Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Update service, like enabling Cloud Update or changing a Cloud Update configuration setting, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Windows 365, Microsoft 365 | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 422731 | 422,731 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 469496 | 469,496 | Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video | The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 324079 | 324,079 | Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Glint | Highlight top issues and potential solutions hidden throughout employee suggestions from survey results; plus, help leaders explore comments using natural-language questions. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 413429 | 413,429 | Outlook: Auto-reading emails with Narrator | This feature will allow users utilizing the Windows Narrator screen reader tool to have messages read aloud automatically after opening the email. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 433684 | 433,684 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places | Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, empowering hybrid employees to foster in-office collaboration and leveraging insights into space optimization. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data. | Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 422717 | 422,717 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Workplace check-in with Workplace Presence | With Workplace Presence, employees will have the ability to check in to the office in Outlook, Teams, and Places to confirm their work plans, receive check-in reminders, and view others nearby and who planned to come in. #newoutlookforwindows | Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 469503 | 469,503 | OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive | Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. | OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 409962 | 409,962 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Prompt suggestions in Copilot chat | Get started in Copilot chat quickly with automatic prompt suggestions that enhance your productivity by providing relevant and context-aware prompts based on your previous interactions. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 422716 | 422,716 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Places - Auto update location with Workplace Presence | With Workplace Presence, you can discover coworkers who are in office nearby. Location will be automatically updated to “office” when we detect that an employee is on site, signaled by the connection of their laptop to a known peripheral, e.g. a known or company-managed monitor in a corporate office, or on a bookable desk. Users can enable/disable “Auto-update my location when detected in the office” via the Places settings menu in Teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 468277 | 468,277 | Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows | The updated Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows arranges all participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes video on the meeting stage, offers additional layout options, optimizes for single and dual displays, and provides a unified meeting experience across both Teams Rooms and desktop. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 470018 | 470,018 | Outlook: Move emails between accounts in the New Outlook for Windows | We’re excited to announce a new feature in Outlook that makes it easier to manage emails across multiple accounts. All personal accounts in the new Outlook for Windows can seamlessly move emails between all their personal accounts, streamlining organization and productivity. For work or school users, this feature is controlled by a policy managed by administrators. By enabling this policy, admins can grant their users the ability to move emails between accounts in a way that aligns with organizational needs and policies. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 422317 | 422,317 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 421194 | 421,194 | SharePoint: eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign rolling out globally | Previously, the use third-party providers as part of SharePoint eSignature platform were limited to regions supported by Microsoft's native SharePoint eSignature. With this release, customers can now enjoy the flexibility of using these third-party providers globally, wherever they are supported. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 467246 | 467,246 | Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-Window Support | Teams now supports multiple windows on iPad. Effortlessly organize your Split View experience with two Teams windows to easily navigate across meetings, chats, and more. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 468886 | 468,886 | SharePoint: Enhanced functionalities to manage SharePoint Embedded Containers through SharePoint Admin Center | The new update empowers the SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to manage their containers better through sorting and filtering capabilities as well as set sensitivity labels on containers. The SPE Admins now also have user role management capabilities to add, reassign, or remove users from various roles of a container. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/27/2024 | ||
| 391636 | 391,636 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab - Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team | Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Lab. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, Whiteboard, Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 410248 | 410,248 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - Integrated apps and Copilot extensions | The Teams app usage report will be renamed to the Integrated Apps usage report and redesigned with new metrics and charts. These will provide insights into apps enabled for Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 apps, and Microsoft 365 Copilot (Copilot extensions) in your organization. The report will feature two sections: App Usage and User Activity. Insights will be organized by Publishing Type (Line-of-business apps, Microsoft partner apps, and Microsoft apps), Host Product (Teams, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Copilot), and Platform (Desktop, Mobile, Web). Additionally, the report will include views of app and user details. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 163985 | 163,985 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Set survey be closed at a specific time. | Allowing Glint Admins to close an active survey at a specific time instead of the default end-of-day (12:00 AM). | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 397891 | 397,891 | Outlook: Support S/MIME in the new Outlook for Windows | New Outlook for Windows will support S/MIME (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail extensions) signing and encryption. All new and existing S/MIME configurations will work without any explicit action from admins. The feature was already available for Web and now we are extending its availability to New Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 384848 | 384,848 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com | After further review, we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 163987 | 163,987 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service to relink surveys | Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 65632 | 65,632 | Excel: Refresh queries from Authenticated Data Sources in Excel for the Web | You can now refresh Power Query data from data sources that require authentication in Excel for the Web. |
Excel | General Availability, Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 413110 | 413,110 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites | Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 374723 | 374,723 | Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web | With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you open an upcoming meeting that has a summary available, click on "Prepare" and get a detailed briefing of your meeting leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 391672 | 391,672 | Microsoft To Do: Microsoft To Do availability in Outlook on the web | Microsoft To Do will be available from the Outlook on the web app launcher. To Do will replace the tasks module currently available. After this change, you will see To Do in the app launcher instead of tasks. | Microsoft To Do, Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 374335 | 374,335 | Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats | Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Preview, General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 464996 | 464,996 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation | Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include - stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action. Currently this feature is only available for OneDrive and SharePoint workloads. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 371588 | 371,588 | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Event Recap in Town hall and webinar (Premium) | Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizer, co-organizers and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are also available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 325858 | 325,858 | Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it | When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow ups to keep the conversation going. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or asking what a particular person said during the meeting. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 186204 | 186,204 | Visio: Edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] | Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to edit legacy .vsd files in Visio for the web by creating an exact copy (except macros) and saving it in the latest .vsdx format. | Visio | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 469495 | 469,495 | Microsoft Teams: Auto-association of BYOD room devices in the Pro Management portal | Manually associating peripherals to rooms may feel like an endless task if your organization has several bring your own device (BYOD) rooms. IT admins can streamline the process and get enhanced inventory visibility with this feature which utilizes meeting room invite data to intelligently associate peripherals to these spaces. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 394282 | 394,282 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3 | Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 422721 | 422,721 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Managed booking with Copilot | Building on booking suggestions, Copilot's managed booking feature rebooks room declines for single and recurring meetings, especially when room availability varies week to week. Additionally, Copilot will handle any changes, updates, and conflicts to guarantee a room for your meetings. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams, Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 469509 | 469,509 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: ?Data Security Posture Management for AI? | Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity, including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts, both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 470021 | 470,021 | Outlook: Notifications pane batching | Batches are groups of cards in the user's Notification pane separated by subject. Items from the same email thread, document, sheet, etc. will be grouped into a single batch. #newouotlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 417484 | 417,484 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested users license assignment flow | Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested user license assignment flow is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 464995 | 464,995 | 2 | Copilot pages are highly useful and eDJ expects to see them in discovery and important workflows for key decision makers. | OneNote: Copilot Pages in OneNote | Access Copilot pages inside OneNote, along with all of your notes. | OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 |
| 416072 | 416,072 | Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying or forwarding of live captions, transcript, and recap for meetings (Premium) | We are expanding the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 423477 | 423,477 | Microsoft Teams: Share Recap Notes to Outlook | Meeting organizers and presenters have the capability to share recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to Outlook, facilitating the seamless sending of post meeting follow-up emails. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 2/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 468274 | 468,274 | Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings | Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 415250 | 415,250 | Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame video feed support extended to Teams Rooms on Android and Teams mobile devices | Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 469506 | 469,506 | Microsoft Teams: Forward messages with app cards | Messages containing app cards in chats and channels can now be forwarded. To use, navigate to the more actions menu of any message containing an app card, and select "Forward". | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/26/2024 | ||
| 395788 | 395,788 | Outlook: Chat with Copilot in Outlook for Mac | The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get in the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (work mode) and in other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar. | Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 412076 | 412,076 | Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh | The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content. Collaboration tools like whiteboards will be added to the environment as they become available. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 412075 | 412,075 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Whiteboard can be added to Mesh event | We will not release this feature at this time. We are sorry for any inconvenience and will continue to share updated roadmap entries as additional Mesh features and functionality become available. Mesh event participants can now use Microsoft Whiteboard in Mesh 3D environments. This functionality will enable users to collaborate spatially as avatars on a 2D whiteboard present in the virtual space, available on PC and Meta Quest devices. Mesh event attendees can use inking, annotation, and other built-in tools to brainstorm, plan, and share with others on a digital canvas in real time. Copilot integration with Whiteboard helps suggest and organize ideas directly on your canvas while in Mesh. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 2/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 377303 | 377,303 | Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall | Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 411302 | 411,302 | Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot | Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail's importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot's priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 6/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 384092 | 384,092 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - New filters in Audit Search | Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 392842 | 392,842 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - New filters in Audit Search | Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 400711 | 400,711 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab - New and trending prompts | Keep track of new and trending prompts in your organization in Copilot Lab. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Edge, Whiteboard, Word, Outlook, Excel, SharePoint, OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 399919 | 399,919 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts | On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 414526 | 414,526 | SharePoint: Auto-run Data Access Governance (DAG) reports | You can now schedule to run your DAG reports automatically every 28 days and also receive notification when the auto-run completes. | SharePoint | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 399918 | 399,918 | Word: Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts | On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 388913 | 388,913 | 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 | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 400710 | 400,710 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab - Share a prompt with a coworker | Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Lab, inspiring your co-workers to acheive more with Copilot. | Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, Windows 365 | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 413109 | 413,109 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders | Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new "Attach cloud files" experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 185700 | 185,700 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category | We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365. |
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 81379 | 81,379 | Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for Teams Phone devices in Teams admin center | IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams devices as speed dial contacts. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 412360 | 412,360 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions | Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 380722 | 380,722 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match | This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 413115 | 413,115 | 1 | Collaborative content complicates 'custodianship' of potential evidence. Viva announcements are a common relevant data location for EEOC and other HR related matters. | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Collaborative authoring | Multiple authors can collaborate on a Viva Amplify publication at the same time. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Targeted Release | 4/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 |
| 171586 | 171,586 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices | With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 409957 | 409,957 | Outlook: Move menu improvements | Two improvements are coming to the move menu on Outlook for iOS and Android. Users will now be able to expand and collapse folders within the move menu and see folder hierarchy when searching in the move menu. | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470023 | 470,023 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Google to Entra Identity Sync service | Google to Entra Identity Sync service is a cloud-2-cloud user Identity onboarding and one way synchronization tool from Google workspace to Entra ID. This will be available as part of the M365 Admin center for Google compete customers moving into M365 to create the identities in M365 farm and move Drive and Mail content into Onedrive and Exchange online | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 469505 | 469,505 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - New email scoring capabilities | Insider risk management (IRM) email scoring logic is being updated. With current logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted multiple times, creating noise by increasing the risk score. In the new logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted once, and this new principle is applicable to the email containing multiple unallowed domains or priority content. Once this is rolled out, all the email insights in alerts will display the new count and score. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 469491 | 469,491 | Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications | You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 468292 | 468,292 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Import and Search function support for Sensitive service domains group | Purview Endpoint DLP improves the management of Sensitive service domains group by allowing you to import a URL group and search a specific URL across all groups. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 413111 | 413,111 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ | When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470022 | 470,022 | Outlook: Tips pane entry point moving from Suite Header to Ribbon | The Tips pane's entry point is moving from the Suite Header (found at the top of the window) to the Help tab of the Ribbon. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470020 | 470,020 | Outlook: Setting to toggle comma as recipient delimiter | By default, Outlook Web and the New Outlook support separating recipients by using either a semicolon or a comma. This new setting allows users to choose if the comma should be used as a recipient separator or instead allowed as part of the contact name. This is helpful for organizations where contacts follow the "Last name, First name" format. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 469507 | 469,507 | Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components | You can now forward chat messages containing Loop components, allowing for seamless sharing and real-time collaboration across different chats. To forward a message, navigate to it, click on the ellipsis, and select ‘Forward’ from the menu. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 396289 | 396,289 | Microsoft Edge: AI theme generator | Microsoft Edge will include an AI theme generator, that allows users to input a text prompt and generate a series of images to preview as browser themes. Applying the theme includes setting the generated image on the Edge new tab page, and applying the image's dominant color to the browser frame. Admins can restrict access to this feature using the AIGenThemesEnabled policy. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 469504 | 469,504 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Diagnostics in the new portal | We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 401125 | 401,125 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - New ChatGPT Enterprise connector to discover and bring prompts and responses into the scope of Purview features | Using the unified Purview portal, organizations will be able to establish a connection to their ChatGPT Enterprise workspaces to discover, collect, and store contents of interactions of users with ChatGPT Enterprise into the scope of Purview capabilities and policies. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470139 | 470,139 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Unified Google Workspace Migration | Offer Microsoft 365 customers a seamless experience for migrating Google Workspace workloads to M365. Through a unified portal page, you can initiate and monitor migration tasks for both Gmail and Google Drive. Additionally, if your Google Workspace tenant has fewer than 1,000 users, you'll benefit from the newly revamped Gmail migration flow, which simplifies the process and guides you through each step. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 468868 | 468,868 | Microsoft Teams: Custom Meeting Branding - Support multiple meeting themes per customization policy | Admins can now create and assign multiple meeting themes to a customization policy in the Teams Admin Center. This will allow meeting organizers who are assigned to a customization policy the ability to select from different meeting theme options while scheduling their meetings. Note - this feature requires a Teams Premium license. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 2/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470024 | 470,024 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service | Google Groups to M365 Modern Groups Migration Service is a 1st party service for migrating Google groups with the M365 Admin center as a new feature, so that Google compete customers moving to M365 would have the ability to automatically create the groups, its members, member conversations and all permissions to M365 Groups without the need to recreate the groups which is the only solution for customers moving from Google. | Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center | Preview, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 469508 | 469,508 | Microsoft Teams: Forward messages to and from channels | You can now forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members. To forward a channel message post, channel post reply, or chat message to another channel, 1:1 or group chat, select the message’s ellipsis menu and choose Forward. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 417481 | 417,481 | SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites | Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application's permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. | SharePoint | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 407379 | 407,379 | Outlook: Email Auto-advance setting | The Email Auto-advance option is available in Mail settings. This will allow users to choose whether they return to the message list after taking certain actions or if they move to the next message. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 422719 | 422,719 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Space analytics | Space analytics in Places provides dashboards for buildings, bookable rooms, and desk pools, providing a unified view of key metrics. Users can pick the space type of their interest and dive deeper to know more about its utilization. | Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 418130 | 418,130 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Custom question benchmark mapping | Viva Glint survey creators will be able to associate a custom question with a Viva Glint benchmark to leverage the benchmark in the reporting UI. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 371383 | 371,383 | Outlook: Outlook Mobile - Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender | The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android 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. | Outlook, Exchange, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | General Availability, Current Channel | 10/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 420326 | 420,326 | Microsoft Teams: Bulk operations summary in the Teams admin center | IT admins can monitor and track the status of all bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center, enabling large-scale management. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 420329 | 420,329 | Microsoft Teams: Name pronunciation | You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues' name pronunciations. | Outlook, Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 470019 | 470,019 | Outlook: Copilot chat-assisted scheduling | Copilot now helps you schedule simple meetings such as 1:1s and focus time. Just ask Copilot to find some time with someone in your org and it will find the optimal time. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 423475 | 423,475 | Microsoft Teams: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events | We're adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they'd like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 422718 | 422,718 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Space analytics with Copilot | ?In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. | Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 416284 | 416,284 | Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for common area phones | This roadmap item is cancelled and replaced by 81379. We are sorry for any inconvenience. IT admins will be able to manage and add contacts to Teams phone devices deployed in shared spaces through the Teams admin center. This ensures users across the organization can easily call important contacts, such as emergency numbers or help desks. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 371388 | 371,388 | Outlook: Junk/Phishing reporting actions integrated with Microsoft Defender in classic Outlook for Windows | The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in classic Outlook for Windows 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. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange, Outlook | Current Channel, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 416065 | 416,065 | SharePoint: SharePoint Advanced Management - Restricted content discoverability | This is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities which allows SharePoint admins to restrict content discoverability in organization-wide search and Copilot experiences. | SharePoint | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 421604 | 421,604 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 422807 | 422,807 | Microsoft Teams: Automatically set workplace presence to the building level in Teams | When you connect to peripherals in a bring your own device (BYOD) room or at a bookable desk, your workplace presence in Teams will automatically be set to the building level (if you and your admin have given permission), simplifying coordination with others and enabling AI-assisted booking in the future. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 180781 | 180,781 | Visio: Infinite Canvas in Visio for the web | Infinite canvas in Visio for the web is an expansive digital canvas designed to remove spatial limitations. It will allow users to stretch their creative boundaries by providing the room they need to capture, organize, and visualize ideas without constraints. | Visio | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 423482 | 423,482 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Share prompts with others in Business Chat and Copilot Lab | Easily share a prompt with others in the form of a link. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 429868 | 429,868 | Outlook: Optimized hover actions in the message list on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows | The hover actions in the message list will be modified to be more space efficient and minimize unnecessary mouse travel. This change primarily affects users with the multicolumn (wider) message list. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 11/22/2024 | ||
| 398982 | 398,982 | Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for iOS | We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for iOS. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you're looking for. | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 187140 | 187,140 | Planner: Portfolio capabilities in Planner | Structure plans into portfolios and get insights on top of your portfolios | Microsoft Project, Planner | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 396172 | 396,172 | SharePoint: Site ownership policy | Site ownership policy is a one-stop solution to effectively manage ownership needs of all SharePoint sites in your tenant. It helps you to define your organization's ownership criteria and identify sites that are not compliant. You can further notify predefined set of users of your choice to find the next best site owner or admin. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain ownerless for more than 3 months to prevent risks of data mismanagement. | SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 111225 | 111,225 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Loop workspace sensitivity labels | Users can apply container-level sensitivity labels to Loop workspaces to prevent oversharing and manage access effectively. | Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 414525 | 414,525 | SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance | Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within "Content shared with everyone except external users" report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all "Sharing link" reports as well. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 411138 | 411,138 | Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization | With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 406553 | 406,553 | SharePoint: Site Access Review offers a way for SharePoint tenants to empower site owners using Data Access Governance | SharePoint admins can use Data Access Governance reports to discover potential oversharing within their tenant. Once discovered, SharePoint admins can now request that site owners review permissions using the specific context of that report from within the report. They can also track all such requests raised from a central location. The site owners will receive a corresponding email and are redirected to a section within the site (site reviews) that clearly enunciates the corresponding data related to sharing and permissions along with the ability to take action. This feature is now available for Data Access Governance - Permissions based reports - count of permissioned user report. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 415413 | 415,413 | Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A | Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 407863 | 407,863 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Generate Pulse summary with Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse | Use Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse to receive an AI-generated summary of your results from a Viva Pulse report. Viva Pulse authors can share it with their team members as well use it to promote transparency. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 468280 | 468,280 | Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls | Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 423472 | 423,472 | Microsoft Teams: VDI Status Indicator | This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized', or 'Not Optimized'), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart). | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 420363 | 420,363 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Business Chat. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 420334 | 420,334 | Outlook: Choose between Copilot Business Chat with web or work grounding | In Outlook for iOS and Android, you will soon be able to choose whether Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat uses Microsoft 365 Graph (work) or Web grounding via a Work/Web toggle within the chat interface, just like you can at microsoft365.com/chat. Web grounding will be available for all commercial Microsoft 365 customers, while Graph grounding will require a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 407706 | 407,706 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Viva Pulse templates to measure Copilot readiness, adoption & impact as part of Microsoft 365 Copilot | Viva Pulse authors can now use new templates specific to M365 Copilot Readiness, Adoption & Impact to measure employee sentiment around their organization's Copilot adoption. These templates will be available as part of your Microsoft365 Copilot subscription as well. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 412940 | 412,940 | SharePoint: Introducing archival and other enforcement actions with inactive site lifecycle management policy | Address inactive content on your tenant with inactive sites policy. Admins can configure policies to Detect inactive sites, send notifications to all site owners, and archive these sites or put them in a read-only state if there is no action from notification recipients. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 418126 | 418,126 | SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint | Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise. | SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 406552 | 406,552 | SharePoint: Using Data Access Governance to understand the tenant's current permission landscape | SharePoint admins can now use Data Access Governance (DAG) to understand their tenant's current permission landscape and make better decisions regarding applications based on permissions such as Copilot. DAG now provides a report that will reflect the latest state of permissions in the entire tenant and return sites that have a greater count of permissioned users than the SharePoint admin specified number. This count considers users accessing sites via site membership and users accessing via unique permissions, as well and acts like a potential threshold for oversharing. Along with the permissioned user count, the report also provides information on the number of existing sharing links (Anyone and People-in-your-org) in those sites and enables SharePoint admins to identify potential root causes for oversharing. You can find more details about this report at the link below. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/21/2024 | ||
| 411583 | 411,583 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Mute conversations | Corporate communicators, network admins, and Engage admins can remove chosen conversation threads from the Engage Home Feed, storylines feed, and email digests. Conversations continue to show in community feeds, user profiles, and search. Muting a conversation does not affect notifications. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 414527 | 414,527 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Setup wizard UX improvements for Workday integration | The Workday setup wizard will be modular and more intuitive going forward. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 414523 | 414,523 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Sync provider data from a specific date range | We are introducing flexibility on provider setup form where admins can sync data from specific dates for a provider instead of full data sync. | Microsoft Viva | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 382130 | 382,130 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Granular trigger throttling | With this update, we are introducing more granular trigger throttling limits to isolate the impact of a surge in noisy trigger volumes and prevent other policies from being affected. This ensures that organizations can receive critical alerts without being throttled by these limits. By default, the throttling limits will be applied as follows: All sensitive triggers, including HR signals, Azure AD leavers, and custom triggers, will be limited to 15,000 per day per trigger. All other triggers will be limited to 5,000 per day per trigger. Additionally, the policy health warning messages will be enhanced to assist admins with appropriate permissions in identifying and addressing noisy triggers effectively. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 409969 | 409,969 | Outlook: Fonts in Outlook for iOS and Android | We heard feedback from you, our customers, and are adding support for choosing fonts while you compose in Outlook for iOS and Android. There is also improved support for fonts in the reading pane. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 394682 | 394,682 | 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. | Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 384067 | 384,067 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs | Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors. | Microsoft Viva | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 160009 | 160,009 | Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint | With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 414522 | 414,522 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Manual sync trigger options for provider data | Customers can manually trigger sync for different data types on Manage providers in Viva Learning admin page. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 469498 | 469,498 | OneDrive: Catch up with Copilot | With Copilot, you will be able to catch up on important updates such as a summary of new "at" mentions that need your attention, new changes made to files you've been active in, and quick snippets of new files shared with you. Catch up will be available in OneDrive Web for our commercial customers and requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Catch up will initially work for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 469500 | 469,500 | 2 | eDJ recommends reviewing usage policies and providing users with Copilot clear directives on Copilot generated meeting recaps, tasks, etc. to ensure that this new content is accurate and managed by retention schedule. | OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings | Select a meeting recording in your OneDrive and ask Copilot to recap the meeting, highlight parts where you were mentioned, or recommend action items and next steps. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. | OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 |
| 469510 | 469,510 | Microsoft 365 admin center: New EWS usage report | We are introducing an Exchange Web Services (EWS) usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center that provides comprehensive insights into the applications in your tenant that use EWS. The report provides detailed information on the specific actions performed by these applications along with their respective call volumes over a selected period. This new report enhances your ability to understand EWS activity prior to EWS deprecation in Exchange Online. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 384068 | 384,068 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Custom user mapping for learner record sync (LRS) | Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 469501 | 469,501 | OneDrive: Create a presentation from a Word file | With Copilot, you can create the first draft of your presentation using a Word file in just a single click. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 417476 | 417,476 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot on OneNote canvas | Use Copilot right in your workflow by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection. | OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Current Channel | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 325873 | 325,873 | Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting | Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., 'What was the feedback per slide?'), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., 'Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Targeted Release, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 467445 | 467,445 | Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing | Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 2/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 420330 | 420,330 | 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 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 469502 | 469,502 | 3 | With a one-click ability to create Word documents from Copilot prompt responses, how does counsel or the custodian know and prove the real source of documents? | OneDrive: Convert Copilot response into a Word file | Like a summary or FAQ that Copilot generated for you? Now, with one click, you can convert any Copilot response into a Word document. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. | OneDrive, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 |
| 422334 | 422,334 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 423476 | 423,476 | Microsoft Teams: Configure External access policies in TAC | External access policies can be managed in Teams admin center. These policies were previously only supported in PowerShell, and we are bringing the same capabilities into the Teams admin center user experience. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 429537 | 429,537 | Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only) | This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user's local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 469497 | 469,497 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – File Sensitivity Labels in Copilot web grounding chat | Copilot web grounding chat responses will now show content sensitivity labels for prompts in which a user has attached or uploaded a Microsoft 365 file like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Business Chat web mode and Microsoft Copilot chat. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 402192 | 402,192 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video creation in Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp | Clipchamp brings video creation skills to Visual Creator in Copilot. Type your prompt and Clipchamp will write a bespoke script, source high quality stock footage, and assemble a video project with music, voiceover, text overlays and transitions. Open your video project draft in Clipchamp app to continue editing, export and share. Great for informational videos, video messaging, how-to, demo and video presentations. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Clipchamp | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 421607 | 421,607 | Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window | When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 397090 | 397,090 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security | Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 429873 | 429,873 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create with Copilot in Excel generates templates and tables | Create with Copilot in Excel helps customers write prompts to generate tailored templates and tables, using multi-turn conversion to refine the table schema, formulas, and visuals. | Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 464988 | 464,988 | Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats | Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 468884 | 468,884 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat - Edge contextual capabilities in Business Chat work mode | In Business Chat work mode, users can ask Copilot questions about web pages and PDFs opened in the Edge browser using page context, such as “summarize this page". This feature is currently also available in Business Chat web mode. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/20/2024 | ||
| 383744 | 383,744 | 5 | The new Portal is available in Preview mode in many/most tenants already. Given that they plan to end of life the current UI end of year, this puts pressure on companies to test and adapt their workflows. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal | Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. New search features include the ability to conduct precise searches using identifier (message ID), sensitivity labels, audit log, or evidence file. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 |
| 118956 | 118,956 | Outlook: Work location in scheduling assistant for iOS | You can now view your colleagues' work locations when scheduling a meeting. |
Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 109560 | 109,560 | Microsoft Intune: iOS app multiple managed accounts | Allows people to use a single device with multiple managed accounts to access company information through Teams iOS app, with Outlook to follow. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 10/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 407380 | 407,380 | Outlook: Use Copilot to select and rewrite specific pieces of text in an email in classic Outlook for Windows | In classic Outlook for Windows, when composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length. | Outlook | Current Channel, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 122934 | 122,934 | Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name | Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. |
Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 2/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 402185 | 402,185 | Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard | Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 423483 | 423,483 | 3 | Excellent potential tool to keep high value/sensitive content excluded from business tenant Copilot responses that may break security/privacy | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels | Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 |
| 422318 | 422,318 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – AI enabled file summaries on Teams mobile | Quickly get a summary of Word, PPT, and PDF files that were shard with you in chat, without leaving your flow of work. Tap the summary icon on the file, and get a summary generated by Copilot. Now you can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document on a small mobile screen. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 422501 | 422,501 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Restrict access action support for semantic models in Fabric | Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types match your sematic models. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 464997 | 464,997 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Data Assessments | Data assessments in Microsoft Purview AI Hub provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by creating scoped assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Preview, General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 468866 | 468,866 | Microsoft Teams: Delayed simultaneous ring setting | For teams with shared call responsibilities, delayed simultaneous ring will ensure calls configure the intended recipient first, instead of notifying everyone the moment a call comes in. This helps reduce noise and minimizes distractions —especially for roles like delegates and customer service teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 417155 | 417,155 | Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces | You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user's PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 422723 | 422,723 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Intelligent suggestions in calendar | Intelligent suggestions will appear in the Places card in calendar and the Places people tab when users have actions to complete to organize their day. Users will be prompted to "quick book" rooms for in-person meetings and desks for in-office days. They will also see recommendations to update their work location to ‘Office’ when needed for in-person events. | Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 422720 | 422,720 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places - Team guidance | With team guidance in Places, managers communicate which days their team should plan to be in the office and what the priorities are for each in-office day. Providing a purpose for team days in the office gives you another reason to come into the office. | Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 464984 | 464,984 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot general availability for GCC | Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection for the GCC environment is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 GCC users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). For users signed in with a Microsoft Entra account, Copilot offers enterprise data protection (EDP) and a simplified, ad-free user interface designed for work, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements. This will help protect sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 412621 | 412,621 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Connections cards in Microsoft 365 Copilots | Microsoft 365 Copilot brings Viva Connections cards to conversations. When a card is relevant for a specific topic, the card will surface in the conversation chat and users will be able to interact with it directly from Microsoft 365 Copilot without interrupting the user's flow. | SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 420941 | 420,941 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Data Security Analytics | Data Security analytics will serve as a launchpad for administrators, enabling them to swiftly navigate day-to-day tasks. It will provide a comprehensive overview of an organization’s sensitive data landscape, visibility into potential risks, and offer contextual recommendations to strengthen the organization's data security posture. The Data Security Copilot will serve as an intelligent AI assistant layered on top of data security analytics, supporting tasks related to administration, risk assessment, alert triage, and reporting. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 464175 | 464,175 | Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams | With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon. | Microsoft Teams, Planner | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 420940 | 420,940 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Ability to increase configuration of CPU and GPU device resource utilization limits in Forensic Evidence | Insider Risk Management Administrators will now be able to increase the CPU and GPU device resource utilization limit for all devices uploading Forensic Evidence clips in their organization. Forensic Evidence will now allow up to 31% CPU and GPU device resource utilization, up from the prior maximum limit of 5%. This enhancement reduces interruptions in the recording and uploading of clips. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 423478 | 423,478 | Microsoft Teams: Town halls now available in GCC-High | Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 423479 | 423,479 | Microsoft Teams: Town halls in GCC-High (Premium) | Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 422261 | 422,261 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 467249 | 467,249 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - New Copilot with enterprise data protection prompt metric | A new metric counting the prompts submitted through Business Chat (web) or Copilot with enterprise data protection metric will be added to Viva Insights advanced insights and Copilot dashboard. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 418564 | 418,564 | Microsoft Teams: Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot | Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 433687 | 433,687 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover, acquire, and manage agents through in-app store in Word and PowerPoint | With Copilot extensibility, users can discover, acquire, and manage agents through the unified store. We are excited to introduce the Microsoft 365 unified store to Office documents, enabling users to discover, acquire, and manage agents directly within the in-app store for Word and PowerPoint, with Excel support coming soon. | PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 468888 | 468,888 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Apply sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions in Office for the web in Microsoft 365 | Office for the web in Microsoft 365 supports the application of sensitivity labels with user-defined permissions. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Information Protection | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/19/2024 | ||
| 408185 | 408,185 | Microsoft Intune: Resource performance report for Windows physical PCs | The resource performance scores and insights for physical devices help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve user experience while balancing hardware costs. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 406909 | 406,909 | Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 401117 | 401,117 | Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge | The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 413712 | 413,712 | Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) | This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 167211 | 167,211 | Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging | Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience. |
Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People) | 11/1/2023 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 168626 | 168,626 | Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Analytics | Updates to community analytics will allow community admins to better understand engagement trends, reach and the top conversations that occur within their communities. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 410988 | 410,988 | Microsoft Forms: New data sync solution replaces old data sync solution for syncing forms responses to Excel | Forms is introducing a new data sync solution with higher reliability to sync forms responses data to Excel. The older version of live data sync will be replaced by the newer solution. | Excel, Forms | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 401116 | 401,116 | Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only) | The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 124890 | 124,890 | Microsoft Intune: On demand remediations - single device | Remediations are script packages that can detect and fix common support issues on a user's device before they even realize there's a problem. These remediations can help reduce support calls. On demand remediations enables admins to execute a remediation on demand and as soon as possible on a single device. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 411568 | 411,568 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings | This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 399933 | 399,933 | Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Improved elevation detection | This improvement expands the types of elevation actions in Windows that EPM can detect and control elevation for. | Microsoft Intune | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 469031 | 469,031 | 5 | Expanded, standardized export options and capabilities in the new eDiscovery hub for Standard and Premium customers. See the blog on the new Hub for details. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS | With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com. Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for eDiscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs - same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. For Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Additionally, customers will experience a faster export capability in the new portal driven through enhancements in backend architecture and optimized partition. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 |
| 468887 | 468,887 | Microsoft Intune: Intune Suite - Automated device enrollment without user affinity for visionOS and tvOS | Support for visionOS and tvOS through automated device enrollment for userless enrollment with Microsoft Intune Suite. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468891 | 468,891 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Admin Controls for recording options | Admin controls will be updated for enterprise customers to better manage the new unified video experience, onboarding new admin policies to enable/disable camera, screen record, and audio record. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468289 | 468,289 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Unified video branded start page | This creates a unified Clipchamp and Stream start page that serves as a single video destination of creation, consumption, and discovery. | Microsoft Clipchamp, Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 419812 | 419,812 | Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages | Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 422804 | 422,804 | Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on desktop and web | Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via desktop or web. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 423474 | 423,474 | Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations | Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 469035 | 469,035 | Outlook: "None" color category for Mail and Calendar in the New Outlook for Windows and Web | We’ve introduced a new "None" color category for Mail and Calendar in the New Outlook for Windows and Web. This update provides more flexibility and customization in categorizing your emails and calendar events. By selecting the "None" option, users can now choose to have items without a designated color, allowing for cleaner organization and more control over which items stand out visually. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468890 | 468,890 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp | We are introducing a novel and streamlined method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your Clipchamp projects by leveraging the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline. We are looking into making video editing more productive by providing a more intuitive and straightforward editing experience. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability, Targeted Release | 3/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468282 | 468,282 | 4 | For any new M365 tenants (say after M&A) the default meeting transcription policy is now to allow users to create transcripts. | Microsoft Teams: Default enable transcription policy for new tenants | We are updating the default policy for Transcription from “off” to “on” for any new tenant. This change doesn’t mean that every meeting will automatically have transcription enabled, but it will allow users to turn on transcription if needed. This adjustment aligns the default Transcription policy with that of Recording, supporting broader adoption of Transcription and all AI features. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 |
| 429646 | 429,646 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat - Teams Chats in ContextIQ | Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 383952 | 383,952 | Microsoft Intune: macOS Platform SSO Support | Enable logging in on a managed Mac using your Entra ID password. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability, Preview | 8/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 415239 | 415,239 | Microsoft Teams: 3x3 video gallery on dual displays for Teams Rooms on Android | Dual display rooms are now capable of presenting up to 18 videos (3x3 on each screen) when no content is being shared during meetings. This enhancement ensures a uniform experience across both Windows and Android Teams Rooms devices. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 469034 | 469,034 | Microsoft Intune: Resource performance report for Windows physical PCs for GCCH | The resource performance scores and insights for physical devices are aimed to help IT admins make CPU/RAM asset management and purchase decisions that improve the user experience while balancing hardware costs. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468892 | 468,892 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Sharing a portion of a video as a clip | Clipchamp allows authors and viewers alike to share a portion of a video without changing the original media. Using draggable handles on the playback timeline, a link containing the desired clip start and end is put on the clipboard for easy sharing. Opening this link will play only the specified clip, and viewers can easily pop out to view the full video if desired. This will allow users to share the most relevant portion of their content. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 325330 | 325,330 | Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link | Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 415247 | 415,247 | Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for Report a problem | Admins can designate an email address for receiving ‘Report a problem’ submissions from users in Teams Rooms on Android. The email address can be set through device settings and the Teams admin center. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 415243 | 415,243 | Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android | Admins can switch the screens of Teams Rooms on Android devices in dual display mode remotely, correcting front-of-room display issues without physical support. The screen swap control is accessible in device settings and the Teams admin center. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 415245 | 415,245 | Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android | Users can rate how likely they are to recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms from 1 to 5 as well as provide additional comments on Teams Rooms on Android devices. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 429872 | 429,872 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Notify users about hidden content matches in Communication Compliance | This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 468867 | 468,867 | Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within GCCH | Users within GCCH will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/16/2024 | ||
| 408533 | 408,533 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 406947 | 406,947 | Outlook: Calendar grid keyboard navigation via arrow keys in new Outlook for Windows and web | When focused on the calendar grid, you will be able to navigate the time slots on the calendar via left/right/up/down arrow keys in day, week, and work week views. #newoutlookforwindows While rolling out this feature, we detected an issue specifically affecting Outlook on the Web in the Safari browser. Because of this, we have opted to roll back the existing progression to temporarily remove support for Safari. We have now restarted the rollout and support for Safari is planned to be added by mid-2025. | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 189809 | 189,809 | Outlook: Choose how many days of emails sync to your device for offline usage | With the new sync window, you can choose how many days' worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device so you can always access them even while offline. |
Outlook | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 410201 | 410,201 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights- Copilot for Sales Metrics & PBI Report | Providing Copilot for Sales metrics for Viva Insights analysts in Advanced insights. Copilot for Sales adoption PBI report to provide a starter template to explore Copilot for Sales adoption across the organization. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 395215 | 395,215 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes | Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 412078 | 412,078 | Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events | Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement. Additionally, event hosts will now be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 417483 | 417,483 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance | This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 420942 | 420,942 | Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion | You can now insert a hyperlink in your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialog box. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 467252 | 467,252 | Outlook: Reset people suggestions in Outlook search for GCC, GCC High, and DoD | This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through settings in the Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. When a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. This feature is already available in worldwide multitenant and will now be available for customers in GCC, GCC High, and DoD #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 393333 | 393,333 | OneDrive: Sync admin reports - GCC | We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment. | OneDrive | General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 422808 | 422,808 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 469032 | 469,032 | Microsoft Intune: New enrollment policies experience for iOS/iPadOS ADE | These enrollment policies for iOS/iPadOS contains enrollment time grouping, improved UI, and removes automatic deployment of the Company Portal app and deprecated settings. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 415170 | 415,170 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context | Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/15/2024 | ||
| 413713 | 413,713 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events | Mesh events allows for even better collaboration for more people by now supporting guest user attendees into the Mesh PC app. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to the Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest user creation follows the existing process for tenant guest user creation (outside of Mesh). For this release, guest users would require a Teams Premium license, just like regular tenant attendees, to collaborate within Mesh. Guest access for the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 400715 | 400,715 | Forms: Try the new streamlined and modernized experience in Forms to create your next form | Enjoy a simpler, modernized interface on Forms. Toggle between upgraded templates as you create your form and then view insights and suggested actions when the responses come in. | Forms | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 412065 | 412,065 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy | Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 414528 | 414,528 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Oversharing Pop-up enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop | We are expanding the functionality of oversharing pop-ups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled and Message/Attachment is not labeled, File extension is. It will also support a customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 412064 | 412,064 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - AI & Copilot Resources provider | The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 419815 | 419,815 | Outlook: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Policy tips revamp for New Outlook | Introducing new and improved DLP Policy tips in New Outlook for all E5 users. New DLP will support top DLP predicates and exceptions, all advanced classifiers, and override capabilities for E5 users. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 383534 | 383,534 | Microsoft Edge: Extending support for viewing MIP Protected PDF Files to different sovereignties (including GCCH) | Sovereign cloud customers (including GCCH) will be able to open MIP protected PDF content in Microsoft Edge. This change will be available in the Microsoft Edge built-in PDF reader powered by Adobe Acrobat and the legacy Microsoft Edge PDF engine. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 422812 | 422,812 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 381425 | 381,425 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows Devices support for presenters in town halls | Presenters can join and present from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) Windows device in a town hall. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 402540 | 402,540 | OneNote: Windows app - New protected virtual printer | This creates the new virtual printer for OneNote Windows app, built on top of the Microsoft IPP class print driver. This printer will be compliant and functional with Widows Protected Print (WPP) mode. | OneNote | Current Channel, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 468290 | 468,290 | Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar | The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections. | Microsoft Viva, SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 421191 | 421,191 | Outlook: Org Explorer available for all M365 commercial users | Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in Outlook for all M365 enterprise users, including Microsoft Viva users. | Outlook, Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 468295 | 468,295 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Template creation in Commercial | Users can create their own Clipchamp templates for personal use or distribution across an organization via brand kits. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 467446 | 467,446 | Microsoft Teams: Authentication token modernization for Android-based Microsoft Teams devices | All Android-based Microsoft Teams devices including Teams phone devices, non-touch phones, Teams displays and Teams Panels will use IC3 tokens instead of legacy Skype tokens for authentication. Admins can enable 'Block Legacy Authentication' to update their authentication tokens when available. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 468293 | 468,293 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Advanced editing from camera | This aligns the capture experience in camera and editor by enabling a seamless switch to the Clipchamp editor to make videos more appealing and impactful using advanced edit capabilities. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 417156 | 417,156 | Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar | This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 417064 | 417,064 | Outlook: RSVP response in meeting invite message for shared calendars | Managers and delegates will be able to see the user who has responded to meeting invites in shared calendars. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/14/2024 | ||
| 406555 | 406,555 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to search for answers from the web | Use Copilot in Excel to search for answers from the web and add it to your Excel workbook. | Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 151025 | 151,025 | Outlook: Folder/Subfolder Recursive Search | Search in Outlook on the Web and the new Outlook for Windows will now return content stored in the main folder and content stored within all its sub-folders. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 87307 | 87,307 | Microsoft 365: The new look of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word Web | Excel, PowerPoint, and Word web have a refreshed look that provides a simpler, more coherent experience that lets you focus more easily on your work. |
Excel, PowerPoint, Word | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2023 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 181825 | 181,825 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements | This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 4/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 377676 | 377,676 | Microsoft 365 admin center: New usage reports for Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection | The new report for Copilot (enterprise data protection) will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users of per app. The report will initially be limited to Copilot usage in the Microsoft 365 App and Microsoft Edge by users with a Microsoft 365 license. In the future, the report will include more apps. Admins can view usage insights as totals and can view trends for the last 7, 30, 90, or 180 days. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 411577 | 411,577 | Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for non-touch phones | Quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for non-touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature will enable one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 375510 | 375,510 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel - Graph Grounded Chat | Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel | General Availability, Current Channel | 1/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 420939 | 420,939 | 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. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 382656 | 382,656 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Remove learning objects shown in In-progress section | Users can remove learning objects shown in the In-progress section. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 415249 | 415,249 | 3 | The new UI promises usability, favorites and more. However, custodians may not remember which channel the chat was associated with and generally put a larger burden on legal teams to untangle chats | Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience | The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 |
| 422259 | 422,259 | Microsoft Teams: Customize who receives shift request notifications | To streamline your workflow and reduce notifications, we've enhanced our notification system so that shift request alerts are now exclusively sent to schedule group owners, and not all owners of a team. This targeted approach ensures that the right people receive the necessary updates, helping team owners maintain focus. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 407639 | 407,639 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Pulse series for continuous feedback supporting AI transformations and change management | New Pulse series templates are being introduced that are tailored to supporting continuous feedback scenarios for high value use cases such as change management. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 381734 | 381,734 | Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow | When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 6/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 464208 | 464,208 | Microsoft Edge: Feature usage data sync | Edge Sync, which enables users to synchronize their Edge user data across multiple devices, is now launching a new sync data category called Feature Usage. This new category will allow users to synchronize data regarding their utilization of Edge features across all their devices. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 416297 | 416,297 | SharePoint: Copilot agents in SharePoint | SharePoint users can create a Copilot agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these Copilot agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 415415 | 415,415 | Microsoft Teams: Users can opt-in to try the new calendar in Teams | The new calendar in Teams combines rich productivity features and the latest innovations, like Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Places, to help users collaborate seamlessly from anywhere. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, users will see the "New calendar" toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams. New calendar is off by default, and users can toggle to try the new experience. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 467447 | 467,447 | Microsoft Teams: Schedule messages in channels | Like in chat, you can now schedule send messages in channels. You can optimize the timing of your messages based on the recipient's work hours, out-of-office time, etc, and ensuring your messages are delivered at the most suitable time. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 382655 | 382,655 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Remove recommendations in Recommended to You | This gives users the ability to remove the recommendations which they do not need in the Recommended to you section. | Microsoft Viva | Preview, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 429538 | 429,538 | Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000 | Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 429869 | 429,869 | Outlook: Drag and drop to download attachments and emails for GCC | Users can drag and drop attachments and emails from the new Outlook for Windows to their desktops or local folders to download them directly to that location. A feature that is already available in world-wide multitenant will now be available for customers in GCC. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 418131 | 418,131 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates | Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: "Message contains" and "Attachment contains" with a focus on DLP evaluation on only specific email components like email body or attachments. Unlike the broader "Content contains" predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/13/2024 | ||
| 139457 | 139,457 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint | Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 8/1/2025 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 145793 | 145,793 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance | The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 392848 | 392,848 | 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. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 412935 | 412,935 | Microsoft Teams: New security and certification information available for apps and extensions | This feature will equip administrators evaluating apps and copilot extensions for deployment with extensive security and related certification data to help those admins more quickly evaluate that an app and/or extension complies with their tenant security requirements. Initially, the information provided will include results from individual M365 certification tests and evidence submitted by ISVs during Microsoft's audit of their app or copilot extension. Additionally, for non-certified apps, admins will receive details on data handling, security, and compliance as self-attested by the ISV. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 394670 | 394,670 | Microsoft Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings | Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting). | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 164872 | 164,872 | Whiteboard: Microsoft Forms Poll Loop component live copy/paste | The ability to copy/paste existing Microsoft Forms Poll Loop components into Whiteboard and vice versa. | Whiteboard | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 429870 | 429,870 | Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard filter and other dashboard enhancements | Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include the following: supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates; and synchronized date ranges across the Readiness and Adoption pages for consistency and ease of analysis. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 399467 | 399,467 | Outlook: First phase of PST support in new Outlook for Windows | The first phase PST (a.k.a. Outlook Data File) support in the new Outlook for Windows provides read-only access to Mail items within *.pst files. Users will be able to open *.pst files, read their emails within *.pst files, and search *.pst files for emails. All Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks data saved in the *.pst files are still there, but they cannot be accessed in this preview. Next releases will expand PST support capabilities. | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 464206 | 464,206 | Outlook: Add emails as attachments while composing an email on Outlook for iOS and Android | Now while you are composing in Outlook for iOS or Android, you can use the same attach option you already know to select and attach emails to your mail. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 466740 | 466,740 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot | Copilot for Security in DLP is capable of summarizing DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more. DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain a deeper view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/12/2024 | ||
| 397769 | 397,769 | Outlook: Scheduling Assistant Updates | We are updating the scheduling assistant view to help users have better readability. Some of these changes are in alignment to customer the feedback. These changes will also improve the grid lines, availability view, adding combined availability bar and much more. These updates will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 397089 | 397,089 | Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery | With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they've previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 397755 | 397,755 | Microsoft 365 app: Retention Labels are available for Loop pages and components | Organizations that rely on Microsoft's records management capabilities in Purview can now include Loop content in their workflows with Retention Labels on Loop pages and components. There's an in-app experience when a label is applied or a record is locked. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 117579 | 117,579 | Outlook: Labeling email from attachment's label in Outlook on the web and New Outlook | Outlook on the web and New Outlook will match the highest sensitivity label from attachments on email. Admins can configure this either using the cmdlet set-label policy advanced setting or the Compliance portal to configure the label policy (Roadmap 100158). Customers will automatically see or will be recommended that an email gets the higher label from an attachment's label. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 3/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 188510 | 188,510 | 1 | Monitoring of generative activity may be important to understand and validate discovered content. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview | Update: Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts - both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Preview, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 |
| 402517 | 402,517 | Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows | Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 413114 | 413,114 | Outlook: People Hub improvements in new Outlook for Windows | In new Outlook for Windows, the People Hub offers a streamlined contacts interface with a single view of each person, automatically linking duplicates and enriching them with organizational profiles. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 392838 | 392,838 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies | The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 165301 | 165,301 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence | customer managed storage | In the alerts triage & incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 163976 | 163,976 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Self service for bulk custom access | This feature will allow a Glint Admin to apply custom access in bulk through Roles | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 466737 | 466,737 | Microsoft Teams: Math Progress | Accelerate student math skills with Microsoft Teams: Math Progress. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 415468 | 415,468 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report - Business Chat | The Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center will be updated to include usage of Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (web) along with the existing usage data for Business Chat (work). It will also include enabled users and active users adoption information for new entry points Edge and Microsoft 365 App for Microsoft 365 Copilot. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 396727 | 396,727 | Outlook: Calendar split view when surface is set to month view | When viewing multiple calendars in month view, users will be able to select "split view" to see those calendars displayed side by side. This feature will be available in new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 421616 | 421,616 | 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. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 394687 | 394,687 | Outlook: Send updates only to added or removed attendees | When updating meeting attendees, organizers will be prompted with an option to send updates only to added or removed attendees or send updates to all attendees. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 412358 | 412,358 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Integration of Glint and Pulse results into Copilot Dashboard | Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rollout out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. View results from responses to surveys initiated from Viva Glint or Viva Pulse directly in the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 421192 | 421,192 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Enable admins to inherit document library label from container label of a group/site/team | This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 7/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 407636 | 407,636 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Pulse administrators can export Pulse data | Viva Pulse administrators can now search for and export a user's Pulse report, user level, and tenant-level data to a .xlsx file. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 423485 | 423,485 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Data export for Viva Glint and Viva Insights data | This feature will allow Viva Insights Analyst to download a CSV file containing Viva Glint survey results joined with Viva Insights organizational data. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 467448 | 467,448 | Planner: Increased number of tasks and dependencies per premium plan in Microsoft Planner | Create and manage up to 3,000 tasks and 2,000 dependencies within a Microsoft Planner premium plan. | Planner, Microsoft Project | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 467254 | 467,254 | 3 | Finally getting capability to set mass default sensitivity labels based on SharePoint library locations vs. older policy scopes. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files. | This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 |
| 422814 | 422,814 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 467247 | 467,247 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview supports inheriting sensitivity labels from shared files to Teams meetings (Premium) | For Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium customers, we are making it easier to leverage sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help set the right protection settings to meetings. Admins can now set a label inheritance policy for meeting, so that when an attendee shares a file that has a higher sensitivity than the meeting itself in meeting chat or via Live share, the meeting's sensitivity can be updated either automatically or via a recommendation to the organizer, to match with the sensitivity of the shared file. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/8/2024 | ||
| 409961 | 409,961 | Microsoft Viva: Copilot dashboard access can be granted using Entra groups | In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard access can be granted by Global admins using Microsoft Entra ID (AAD) Groups. This will reduce the manual effort of the admins. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 380183 | 380,183 | SharePoint: Microsoft Lists - Drag to order list items | Easily organize your list in the Microsoft Lists app by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 413709 | 413,709 | Microsoft Teams: Voice and face data export controls | This new feature provides controls for voice and face profile data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own profile data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 395379 | 395,379 | OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web | OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it's in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We've added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you're looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We've also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time. | OneDrive | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 389842 | 389,842 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Granular exclusion | Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 413716 | 413,716 | Outlook: Drag emails into Calendar icon in the app bar to create an event | Users can drag and drop emails into the Calendar icon on the left app bar of Outlook to create an event. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 380477 | 380,477 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights | Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 385345 | 385,345 | Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows | Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 412620 | 412,620 | Microsoft Viva: Viva-Glint - Self service for custom access data user export | This feature allows Glint admins to export the access data that has been customized for users in the platform. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 381758 | 381,758 | Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web | Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams. | Visio | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 399551 | 399,551 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails | In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group "Free public domains" will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 396171 | 396,171 | Microsoft Excel: Extending support for Insights Services to GCC sovereign cloud | GCC sovereign cloud customers will be able to use features in Excel run by Insights Services, including Analyze Data found on the Home tab. | Excel, Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 180769 | 180,769 | Visio: Define Shape Data in Visio for the web [Visio Plan 1, Plan 2] | Users with a Visio Plan 1 or Visio Plan 2 license will be able to harness the full potential of shape data in Visio for the web. This powerful feature enables users to create custom data fields and associate them with shapes, simplifying the process of tracking and analyzing information in their diagrams. |
Visio | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 408163 | 408,163 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Notifications management for administrators to configure where Pulse notifications are delivered | Pulse administrators can configure where Pulse notifications are delivered. This applies to Viva Pulse on the web and in the Viva app in Microsoft Teams. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 418128 | 418,128 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 467251 | 467,251 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Edit and schedule polls | Users can schedule a poll for publication in Engage. Users can also edit a poll prior to publication, though once published, a poll is not editable. This change brings the edit and schedule capability to polls, like all other post types in Engage (discussion, question, praise, and article). | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 467255 | 467,255 | 1 | Nice to see Tasks getting some Planner capabilities. For custodians whom use Tasks/Planner, this ESI is highly valuable when timing and intent are in scope. | Planner: Board view in My Tasks | Board view in My Tasks offers a visual representation of your tasks similar to a kanban board, making it easier to track progress and manage your workload. See all your tasks at a glance and move them between columns to update their progress. You can group tasks by Plan, Progress, Due Date, and Priority, allowing you to tailor the board to your specific needs. Board view is available in addition to the existing grid view in My Tasks. | Planner | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 |
| 415169 | 415,169 | Microsoft Viva: File and conversation admin settings in Engage admin center | Admins can now manage file and conversation-related settings from the Engage admin center without being routed to the legacy Yammer admin center. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 467250 | 467,250 | Outlook: Custom account icons in Outlook Mobile | Soon, you'll be able to choose a custom icon so that it's easier to tell your accounts apart while using Outlook on iOS and Android. | Outlook | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 418127 | 418,127 | Outlook: New work location sharing options | This updates the work location sharing options to include the option of not sharing any location information to other users in the organization. The three supported location sharing options will now be "No location shared," "Only general location shared (Office or Remote)," and "Detailed location shared (Building or desk location information)." The location sharing option will be respected when showing a user's location information coming from Work Hours and Location across Outlook, Places, and Teams experiences. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook, Exchange, Microsoft 365 | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 466738 | 466,738 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports - New Outlook for Windows | The Microsoft 365 apps usage report will include usage metrics for the new Outlook for Windows. This feature allows organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. The report provides detailed metrics on the number of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 416078 | 416,078 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip & oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates | Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: "Message contains" and "Attachment contains" with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components (like email body or attachments) only. Unlike the broader "Content contains" predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 422502 | 422,502 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 467248 | 467,248 | Outlook: Optional connected experiences privacy setting | This rollout introduces the privacy setting for "Allow the use of additional optional connected experiences in Office" in Outlook on the web which is available in other Office apps today. The setting is found under Settings > General > Privacy and data > Privacy settings. | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 409534 | 409,534 | Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows | Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 419808 | 419,808 | SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition now supports hybrid PDFs (text and image) | SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to hybrid PDFs, which contain both images and text. Previously, OCR was limited to image-only PDFs, but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from hybrid documents. | SharePoint | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/7/2024 | ||
| 415097 | 415,097 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC general availability | Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 377674 | 377,674 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud | Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 374375 | 374,375 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Save filters for Activity Explorer | Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 412939 | 412,939 | Outlook: Search Meeting Attendees | Allow user to search meeting attendees by name in the tracking list. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 396781 | 396,781 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Improved Report PDF Exports | PDFs exported from Glint Reports are improved to be easily printable, searchable, and readable. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 421190 | 421,190 | Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging | Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 383724 | 383,724 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Access to M365 header | Solution displays M365 header in Viva Glint to improve discoverability of other M365 apps | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 464998 | 464,998 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types | Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the 'File extension is' or 'File type is' rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 422816 | 422,816 | Outlook: Sync folder order | The order of folders in Outlook mobile will now sync to match the folder order on other Outlook apps. | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 420333 | 420,333 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage) | With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 4/1/2025 | 11/6/2024 | ||
| 413112 | 413,112 | Microsoft Teams: Search - query suggestions | Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 400700 | 400,700 | Microsoft Teams: Digital signage on Teams Rooms on Windows | Users can view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. Admins can remotely configure tenant-wide and room-specific digital signage settings at scale from Teams Rooms Pro Management. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems are supported, initial partners are Appspace and XOGO. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 393936 | 393,936 | Outlook: Entry point change - apps when reading emails moved to the ribbon | The Apps flyout and entry point for pinned apps will be moved to the Home tab in the Ribbon in the New Outlook and Outlook for Web. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 121269 | 121,269 | Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms | Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 421189 | 421,189 | Microsoft Teams: Improved People Search | You can now search for content related to specific people. Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get relevant content suggestions. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 420938 | 420,938 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 417161 | 417,161 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Just-in-time support on MacOS | You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 466739 | 466,739 | Microsoft Viva: Connections insights and recommendations digest | This creates a periodic digest email to editors of Viva Connections, informing them of the analytics summary of their Connections experience and recommendations to improve engagement. | Microsoft Viva, SharePoint | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 413430 | 413,430 | SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – simple document processing model | A prebuilt model that uses OCR and AI to detect the primary language of the file, key-value pairs, tables, selection marks, and barcodes. As with other models, it can be configured to extract this information to specified library columns. | SharePoint | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 422730 | 422,730 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - IRM alerts in XDR | With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 466742 | 466,742 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Downgrade/remove sensitivity label | This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator - Downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. But with the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device). 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 11/5/2024 | ||
| 401120 | 401,120 | Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall | Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 117576 | 117,576 | Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection | Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. |
Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft 365 app, Outlook, Excel, Exchange, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, Azure Information Protection | Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel, Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview), Current Channel (Preview), Current Channel | 8/1/2023 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 411569 | 411,569 | Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio control for language interpretation | New user setting that enables meeting participants using language interpretation to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 464207 | 464,207 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - Admin ability to assign Delegates | Admins (Global administrators or Insights administrators) will now be able to assign or remove delegates for a Manager in Viva Insights via PowerShell. Previously, only Managers could assign delegates. Now, this ability provides delegate access in Insights to admins, allowing for ease and flexibility. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 466743 | 466,743 | Excel: Forms data sync support in Excel desktop | Users can get up-to-date form responses data in Excel desktop. Users can also create a new form from Excel desktop with a data sync connection to the Excel workbook. | Forms, Excel | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 419811 | 419,811 | Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC, GCC High and DoD environments (Premium) | Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC, GCC High and DoD environments. 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 429876 | 429,876 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage | Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 416076 | 416,076 | Outlook: Pick a local folder for saving attachments | Users are now able to pick a folder when saving an attachment in the new Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 418117 | 418,117 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 11/1/2024 | ||
| 412072 | 412,072 | Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows | When attending a meeting using a Teams Rooms on Windows device, users can now start or stop recording without having to join on their companion device. The start/stop recording button will be available on the Teams Rooms on Windows device for all in-tenant meetings. This feature requires the Teams Rooms Pro license. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 179897 | 179,897 | Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center | Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account. |
Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 399931 | 399,931 | Microsoft Intune: New design for Windows Company Portal app | With the updated design, users will see improvements in user experience for the Home, Devices, and Downloads & updates pages. The new design is more intuitive and highlights areas where users need to take action. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability, Preview | 10/1/2024 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 464999 | 464,999 | Microsoft Viva: Power Apps card for Viva Connections | This card allows you to bring your Power Apps and Cards on the dashboard for quick access. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 423088 | 423,088 | Microsoft Teams: Live transcription on Teams Rooms on Windows | You can control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes each speaker's name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, the translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 423089 | 423,089 | Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows | While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 465000 | 465,000 | Outlook: Name pronunciation on profile card in Outlook web and Outlook desktop | You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues' name pronunciations. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 422722 | 422,722 | Outlook: Microsoft Places - Individual desk booking | With the addition of individual desk booking via Places Finder, employees can view individual desks, filter by sections, and book a specific desk. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/31/2024 | ||
| 414521 | 414,521 | Microsoft Edge: Edge on MacOS now seamlessly opens links in Teams | When you set the default browser to Microsoft Edge on MacOS and enable the feature, web links from the Teams desktop app sent via chats, channels, calendar, and other entry points will seamlessly open automatically in the profile that is signed into Teams app and skips the need to reauthenticate in the browser making it faster and easier to access content. Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the "Choose Which Browser Opens Web Links" Microsoft 365 policy. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 412937 | 412,937 | Outlook: Copy list of attendees to clipboard | Allow users to copy the list of attendees to clipboard from calendar event. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 401123 | 401,123 | Outlook: Open attachments in desktop apps from the new Outlook for Windows | In the new Outlook for Windows, users can now open attachments of all types in their respective desktop app by double clicking them. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 392836 | 392,836 | Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants' ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby | Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 398956 | 398,956 | Microsoft Teams: Show Chat info in Microsoft Teams | Chat users can have access to contextual information including members, pinned messages, shared files and links, and entry point to contextual search from this canvas. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 7/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 412938 | 412,938 | Outlook: Sort Meeting Attendees | Allow user to sort meeting attendees in the tracking list alphabetically. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 412936 | 412,936 | 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 | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 185369 | 185,369 | Outlook: Stream video recordings in the new Outlook for Windows and web | We're introducing the ability to record and insert Stream video recordings in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. Soon you will be able to record a video of yourself, your screen or both, directly from Outlook and insert the recording in your email. |
Outlook, Microsoft Stream | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 411573 | 411,573 | 2 | AI generated notes/tasks for ad-hoc Teams calls raises the risk that the meeting organizer will not review/correct the content. | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap support for ad-hoc meetings and calls | Intelligent recap is available for ad-hoc meetings and calls, like those started from ‘Meet now’ and started from chat. Now, Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 |
| 421615 | 421,615 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - User accessible recycle bin for Loop workspaces | When users delete a Loop workspace, owners can restore it from a recycle bin in Loop. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 464205 | 464,205 | Outlook: Additional features on the profile card in Outlook Mobile | Reachability panel, hybrid location, and pronouns (read only) will be available on the Outlook profile card in iOS and Android. Events panel will be replaced with the calendar in Outlook mobile. | Outlook | Preview, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 429875 | 429,875 | OneDrive: Office Files on Hold | If a tenant has the (EnableHoldTheFile) GPO enabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then end users can open the file in Office to merge changes. If a tenant has the GPO disabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then OneDrive automatically creates a copy of the file in conflict. When tenants have this GPO disabled, it leads to end users potentially having to manually merge hundreds of conflicts because OneDrive automatically forks a file instead of allowing the users to have the option to merge conflicts in Office. The proposal no longer allows tenants to disable this GPO thus not automatically forking a file when in conflict for end users. | OneDrive | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 421188 | 421,188 | Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared | Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 464174 | 464,174 | Microsoft Viva: Ability to request delegate access in Viva Insights | Viva Insights users will now be able request delegate access from a Manager in the Insights Teams or Web app. Previously, Managers could assign delegates, but potential delegates could not request access from a Manager. This request access update will allow for increased ease & flexibility of providing delegate access in Insights. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 421612 | 421,612 | 1 | Departing user workflows are an essential part of your overall governance process and Loop's collaborative nature add complications to preservation | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces | Manage retention and deletion workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces like Copilot Pages when users leave the organization. Notify and provide temporary access to other employees or administrators to save important data before deletion policies take effect. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 |
| 421614 | 421,614 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Loop guest sharing via Entra B2B configuration for organizations with sensitivity labels | Enable B2B guest sharing for Loop workspaces, pages, and components, subject to administrator policy. This allows sharing with people outside your tenant and now includes organizations that utilize sensitivity labels. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 421613 | 421,613 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin management tasks enabled for all Loop workspaces | Admins can manage membership, ownership, deletion, and restoration of Loop workspaces in the SharePoint Embedded admin center or PowerShell. These changes are visible within the Loop experience. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/30/2024 | ||
| 162943 | 162,943 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Spell check in Viva Learning search | User queries will be spell checked and corrected for all in-app Search. |
Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 397750 | 397,750 | Microsoft Intune: Guided upgrade of applications | Enterprise Application Management enables you to easily update previously provisioned EAM applications with a securely hosted enterprise catalog. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 380681 | 380,681 | Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound | With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user's companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 95680 | 95,680 | Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows | With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 397885 | 397,885 | 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 379980 | 379,980 | Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium) | The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 394351 | 394,351 | Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts | Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 381643 | 381,643 | Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet | You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (...) | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 375287 | 375,287 | Microsoft Stream: Video reactions | This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature. This feature was incorrectly updated to a status of rolling out upon preview availability. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 414513 | 414,513 | Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network | Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 2/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 314380 | 314,380 | Microsoft Intune: Work hour access controls for Front Line Workers | Allows IT admins to establish no Teams notifications or access when workers clock out of work. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 406907 | 406,907 | 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 413711 | 413,711 | Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms | When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 409537 | 409,537 | Microsoft Teams: Native controls on console for OEM camera features | In Teams Rooms on Windows meeting rooms, you can now directly control camera features provided by OEMs. Controllable features include group framing, active speaker framing, and OEM specific IntelliFrame views composed on the in-room devices. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 421617 | 421,617 | Microsoft Viva: MySites card for Viva Connections Dashboard | This card will help operators add a card on the Viva Connections Dashboard which will provide quick access to the frequently accessed and followed sites by the end user. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 429874 | 429,874 | OneDrive: Enable OCSI for Tenants | If a tenant has the (EnableAllOcsiClients) GPO enabled, Office and OneDrive are able to communicate smoothly. Right now, tenants have the option to disable the GPO, and when they disable the GPO, it becomes difficult to ensure that all internal versions of Office files are kept up to date so that features like autosave, version history, real time user collab, and merging in the case of conflicts can work. | OneDrive | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 429871 | 429,871 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (customer managed storage) | In the alerts triage and incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464989 | 464,989 | Microsoft 365: Create Dynamic rule-based backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup | Create backup policies for your SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange data based on distribution lists and security groups memberships, and have the tool automatically update these policies based on dynamic membership changes. | Microsoft 365 | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 418119 | 418,119 | Microsoft Teams: Notes powered by Loop now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD | Teams Notes, powered by Loop, is now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments. Teams Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464990 | 464,990 | Microsoft 365: Create full-workload backup policies for Microsoft 365 Backup | Automatically backup all Exchange or OneDrive users and/or SharePoint sites in the tenant and have the tool automatically add new users/sites to the backup policy. | Microsoft 365 | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464992 | 464,992 | Microsoft 365: Dedicated Backup Administrator Role for Microsoft 365 Backup | Use a dedicated Backup Administrator role to manage your M365 Backup administration tasks. | Microsoft 365 | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464993 | 464,993 | Microsoft 365: Multi-admin change notifications for Microsoft 365 Backup | Set of pre-defined administrators can be configured to receive email notifications for any potentially damaging changes to the backup settings or actions taken to ensure proper oversight of the tool in the organization. | Microsoft 365 | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464994 | 464,994 | Microsoft 365: Protection unit-level offboarding for Microsoft 365 Backup | Ability to permanently delete, after appropriate grace period, protection units from the backups. A protection unit is defined as a OneDrive Account, SharePoint site, or Exchange Online shared or user mailbox being protected in the Backup tool. | Microsoft 365 | Preview, General Availability | 7/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 422728 | 422,728 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Microsoft 365 Groups for Managing New Loop workspaces | When creating a new Loop workspace, users can specify an existing Microsoft 365 Group to manage the workspace's lifetime, governance, and compliance, similar to SharePoint Team sites. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 422725 | 422,725 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Require Existing Microsoft 365 Group for New Loop workspaces | Ensure new Loop workspaces are connected to and managed by an existing Microsoft 365 Group, similar to SharePoint Team sites. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 464991 | 464,991 | Microsoft 365: Perform granular file-level restore using Microsoft 365 Backup | Perform file-level browse/search and then restore using Microsoft 365 Backup. With this enhancement you will be able to browse for files across in a site from available daily restore points and apply filters to narrow results, restore at the original location by overwriting existing content or to a new place by creating a copy of the content. | Microsoft 365 | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 10/29/2024 | ||
| 383725 | 383,725 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Access to Viva App Bar | Viva Glint displays Viva App Bar for improved discoverability of other Viva Apps. This feature has been removed from the roadmap to create a more consistent user experience for all Viva Glint users. | Microsoft Viva | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/28/2024 | ||
| 172028 | 172,028 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Contextual evidence match for endpoint DLP | With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/28/2024 | ||
| 170954 | 170,954 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - In-app search relevance improvement to increase matching results | Viva Learning in-app Search will be improved to show more relevant and matching results at the top. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/28/2024 | ||
| 169876 | 169,876 | Microsoft Defender for Identity: Public API for Defender for Identity settings through MS Graph | Microsoft Defender for Identity will expose data and actions for its settings through a set of programmatic APIs as part of Microsoft Graph. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Defender for Identity | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2024 | 10/28/2024 | ||
| 396562 | 396,562 | 3 | Copilot activities are already surfaced in Purview eDiscovery. Graph will enable Pshell, custom apps and partner apps to access this new information. | Microsoft Graph: Graph API - Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage | Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Graph | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 |
| 98091 | 98,091 | SharePoint: Inline playback for videos in Highlighted content web parts (carousel and filmstrip layouts) | When users click to play a video in the Highlighted content web part (carousel and filmstrip layout) section on a SharePoint Page, the video will play inline. This feature allows users to watch a video without being taken off the SharePoint Page and keeps the video playing while users browse/scroll through other contents on the Page. We have adjusted our priorities to focus on delivering experience improvements that better align with customer needs and as a result, this feature has been removed from our public roadmap for now. | Microsoft Stream, SharePoint, Office 365 | General Availability | 11/1/2023 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 100513 | 100,513 | Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails | Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 374871 | 374,871 | Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center | We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences. | Microsoft Viva | Targeted Release, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 398016 | 398,016 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Edit questions associated to live surveys | Allow Glint Admins to edit select fields of a question that is associated to live surveys. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 412943 | 412,943 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Design Ideas | Authors can now use Design Ideas in Microsoft Viva Amplify to rearrange and reformat their image section, text section, and banner webpart. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 394280 | 394,280 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Policy service audit logs for policy changes | Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 172024 | 172,024 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Adaptive policy scope | Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 399932 | 399,932 | Microsoft Intune: SCEP certificate delivery | Intune solution for our customers as well as external partners to deliver SCEP certificates with the right security precautions to devices to mitigate the KDC issue. | Microsoft Intune | Preview, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 379673 | 379,673 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange | With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 410774 | 410,774 | Microsoft Teams: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership | With our Deploy Teams at Scale tool on the Teams Admin Center, you can deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed alongside any manual changes made by your team owners. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 93246 | 93,246 | Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (U.S. Government clouds) | Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 98186 | 98,186 | Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Support for adaptive policy scopes | Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to define user scopes for policies based on criteria such as geography, group, or other Azure Active Directory attributes. With adaptive policy scopes, policies are automatically updated to include users that match defined risk criteria rather than requiring admins to repeatedly update static lists of users to include in the policy scope. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC and FINRA obligations), such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language and sharing of adult content. Communication Compliance enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 384090 | 384,090 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 410246 | 410,246 | 2 | Admin console and Power BI utilization reports are an underutilized resource for eDiscovery scoping. Adding Copilot metrics helps understand if the service is being active used by custodians or departments. | Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot usage report - Admins can view line of business agent usage | Admins can view line of business Copilot agent usage in their tenant from the Microsoft 365 admin center. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 |
| 398993 | 398,993 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Ability to send dual- and triple-language surveys in emails | Microsoft Viva Glint now supports sending survey emails in multiple languages within a single mailer. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 413710 | 413,710 | Microsoft Teams: Room audio auto-detect and pre-select in BYOD meeting rooms | When users connect their laptop to a room's shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room's audio and recommends connecting on the pre-join screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (e.g., displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft's known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room's audio upon connection. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 68688 | 68,688 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Ability to set a retention period for a policy | Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 323766 | 323,766 | Microsoft Teams: Skin tone setting and reactions | In Teams settings, users have the option to select their preferred skin tone. This preference will be applied to all emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings, allowing users to express themselves more authentically in conversations. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 387796 | 387,796 | Microsoft Stream: First Run Experience | First-time users of Microsoft Stream will see informational modals that explain what Stream is and its basic functionality. Users will be able to close these modals at any step. When the tenant acquires new premium functionalities, such as Copilot in Stream, more modals will be displayed explaining the new functionalities. We have adjusted our priorities to focus on delivering experience improvements that better align with customer needs and as a result, this feature has been removed from our public roadmap for now. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 402194 | 402,194 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails | Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit 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 explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 418132 | 418,132 | Microsoft Edge: Edit image with Designer | Discover advanced AI-powered image editing in Microsoft Edge with Designer. Easily personalize your images by erasing objects, adding text, enhancing visuals with auto crop, removing or blurring the background, and more, all without leaving your browser. Start editing by right clicking an image in your browser and selecting "Edit image with Designer." Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “ImageEditorServiceEnabled” policy. Note: We have made the decision to cancel this planned release. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 416450 | 416,450 | 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 | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 423484 | 423,484 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Policy Scoping changes in Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive | Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 429877 | 429,877 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Admins have transparency on granular metadata for agents | Admins have transparency on granular metadata (data source, custom actions) for agents. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 422813 | 422,813 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/25/2024 | ||
| 410396 | 410,396 | Microsoft Viva: Import HRIS data in Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center | Customers will be able to use various connectors to HRIS tools to import HRIS data into Viva Glint from Microsoft Admin Center. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 164889 | 164,889 | Whiteboard: Email notifications for @ mentions in comments on a whiteboard | The ability for @mentions within comments on a whiteboard to trigger an email notification to the user, with a link back to the @mention. |
Whiteboard | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 375490 | 375,490 | SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint | Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. | SharePoint | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 398707 | 398,707 | Outlook: Users can scope suggestions to specific entities in the new Outlook for Windows and Web | Users will be able to scope their search suggestions down to specific entities such as Files, People, Mail etc in order to sort through their suggestions more easily. They will be able to navigate from the suggestion directly to the entity tab in their search results. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 383531 | 383,531 | Microsoft Stream: New Stream app in Teams chat/channel’s tab | The Stream app that is accessed from the chat/channels ‘+’ icon to add a tab will be updated with the new Stream (on SharePoint) experience that will enable users to pin and watch a video or playlist from new Stream. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 397753 | 397,753 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes | Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 63213 | 63,213 | Exchange: Adding Inbound Support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online | Microsoft is committed to providing world-class email security solutions and the support for the latest Internet standards in order to provide advanced email protection for our customers. With this change we are adding inbound support for DNSSEC/DANE for SMTP to Exchange Online. Look for another roadmap item which covers outbound mail. Note: This release (Preview) has been pushed to May to allow us to enhance our service’s security measures. We apologize for any inconveniences. | Exchange | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 180180 | 180,180 | Excel: Copilot in Excel | Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data in Excel tables by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting portions of data. |
Excel, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 393925 | 393,925 | Microsoft 365 Apps: Availability of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Government GCC | The Cloud policy service will begin rolling out for Microsoft 365 GCC customers late June 2024. The Cloud Policy service allows Microsoft 365 administrators to configure policies for Microsoft 365 apps and assign these policies using Microsoft 365 or Entra ID groups. Once configured, these policies are automatically enforced as users sign in and use Microsoft 365 apps. The initial release will support policies for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on Windows and future updates will bring support for additional applications and platforms. For additional information about the Cloud Policy service, refer to Overview of the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 382129 | 382,129 | SharePoint: Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration with SharePoint eSignature | SharePoint users who are also Adobe Acrobat sign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by Adobe and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. | SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 375188 | 375,188 | Microsoft Stream: Block downloads for shared videos | Some videos are meant to be viewed but not downloaded. Soon you will be able to share videos more securely with the "Can view, but not download" option. This option will be available in the permission drop down in the Microsoft 365 share dialog for Stream videos. When you select "Can view, but not download," people who access the video you shared will be able watch it, but won't be able to download or copy the video file. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 1/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 394281 | 394,281 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Risky AI usage | With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 375742 | 375,742 | Microsoft Forms: New user onboarding experience | Introducing an upgraded onboarding experience tailored for new Forms users, designed to provide a seamless and user-friendly initiation to the platform. Get started effortlessly with our refreshed interface and streamlined features. | Forms | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 164888 | 164,888 | Whiteboard: @ mentions within comments | The ability to @ mention users within comments on a whiteboard, with the associated in-app indicators to inform users of an @ mention. |
Whiteboard | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 406910 | 406,910 | Microsoft Stream: Seek bar thumbnails for Teams meeting recordings | This feature adds seek bar (preview) thumbnails to Microsoft Stream's video player. The thumbnails provide a preview of the video content when hovering over the player's seek bar at a certain timestamp. Currently, it will only be made available for Teams meeting recordings. | Microsoft Stream | Targeted Release, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 418566 | 418,566 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Diagnostics in the new portal | We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 422727 | 422,727 | 5 | This will force companies to acknowledge Loop and set it as a default hold target like OneDrive and user Mailbox. | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – New personal Loop workspace | The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. All governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes apply the same way they would to a user's OneDrive. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 |
| 416093 | 416,093 | Microsoft Edge: Elevating top settings and improving settings page navigability | To make finding browser settings more efficient, Microsoft Edge is introducing three navigation improvements to Edge Settings. We are making no changes to the functionality of any setting and all settings will remain on the same page as they are today but will be behind clickable sections. The first is introducing quick access to the most used actions on the landing page of Edge Settings. Second, each densely populated page—Privacy, search, and services; Appearance; Cookies and site permissions; System and performance—will feature quick access to its most used actions. Third, for these same pages, each section will now click-through to its respective sub-settings (similar to a table of contents). | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 | ||
| 417158 | 417,158 | 2 | I wonder where the individual replies are stored. | Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendees | Allows moderators to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 |
| 335856 | 335,856 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection | Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 408534 | 408,534 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Enrich triage in Communication compliance with Insider Risk context | Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders along with a more comprehensive view of the sender's risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 374866 | 374,866 | Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop | Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we've heard you. We're bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. | Microsoft Viva | Targeted Release, Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 171735 | 171,735 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection - Multi-policy selection | Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the "Risk levels for Adaptive Protection" settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 374861 | 374,861 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections - Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center | We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 408541 | 408,541 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint - Admins enabled to make bulk employee ID updates | This feature will enable Viva Glint service admins to make bulk employee ID updates in the web app. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 117546 | 117,546 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - New cmdlet for Content Explorer | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 117531 | 117,531 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 398458 | 398,458 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements | Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 392096 | 392,096 | Planner: Increased number of tasks per premium plan in Microsoft Planner | Create and manage up to 1,500 tasks within a Microsoft Planner premium plan (formerly known as a Project for the web project). | Microsoft Project, Planner | General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 409540 | 409,540 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Bulk upload for Priority User Groups | Insider Risk Management Priority user groups will now support bulk upload capabilities. An IRM administrator will be able to upload a CSV of UPNs that they would like to add to a new or existing priority user group. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 375495 | 375,495 | SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center | We're bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 406166 | 406,166 | 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. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 409968 | 409,968 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Copilot Academy Nudges to all Copilot SKU users (Seeded and Premium Viva Learning Users) | All Users having Copilot SKU (Viva Learning Seeded and Premium) will be nudged about Copilot Academy through a notification on Teams. Users will also get a monthly recurring notification in Teams about Copilot Academy. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 382128 | 382,128 | SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature | SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. | SharePoint Syntex, SharePoint | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 124838 | 124,838 | SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization | We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. | SharePoint | Preview, Targeted Release (Entire Organization), General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 160733 | 160,733 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Viva App Bar integration in Viva Learning Webapp | Viva Learning Webapp will have an easy way to switch across other Viva Webapp modules. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 362124 | 362,124 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Promote members to owners in Loop workspaces | Loop workspaces support multiple owners, allowing end users to promote members to owners. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422729 | 422,729 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Ideas Workspace Functions as a Shared Loop workspace | Loop Ideas workspaces are tenant-managed like SharePoint Communication sites. They appear with existing Loop workspaces, with all features such as adding members and organizing pages | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422324 | 422,324 | OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone) | With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422323 | 422,323 | OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android) | With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively. | OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422322 | 422,322 | OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (Android) | With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422321 | 422,321 | OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (Android) | Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively. Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity. | OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422320 | 422,320 | OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (iPhone) | Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively. Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 422815 | 422,815 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections experience for Homesite customers | This feature sets the Home site as the default for the Viva Connections experience in Teams desktop. Once implemented, users will be able to access their organization's Home site through the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. This change will only apply to customers who have not yet configured a Viva Connections experience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/22/2024 | ||
| 409226 | 409,226 | Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars (Premium) | This feature will now allow event organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars. These labels are visible to organizers when creating an event instance once selected, and notify organizers if the details of the event being created are not valid for the selected sensitivity. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 410202 | 410,202 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot | A new column will be added to the Readiness section of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report showing suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new column is intended to help admins with licensing decisions by quickly identifying users who are in a strong position to get the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot based on their relevant Microsoft 365 app usage. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 124840 | 124,840 | 3 | Indeed, Copilot is slowly evolving and eDiscovery needs to understand how to differentiate GenAI vs. user content. | SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint | Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content. Get assistance drafting your content when creating new pages. Adjust the tone, expand meeting bullets into structured text, or get help making your message more concise. All within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), SharePoint | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 |
| 381450 | 381,450 | OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive | Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneDrive | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 397883 | 397,883 | Microsoft Teams: Channel cards | Channel cards will provide you quick overview of key information about what is happening within the channel, including who is in the channel and the purpose of the channel. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 398984 | 398,984 | Outlook: Adding search to settings on Outlook for Android | We recently rolled out updated settings on Outlook for Android. To make the settings experience even better, we are now adding the ability to search within settings so that you can find exactly what you're looking for. | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 412934 | 412,934 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 422328 | 422,328 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template | Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and response to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used in Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it's setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization's communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 420933 | 420,933 | SharePoint: Updates for font management capabilities | We are introducing updates that provide capabilities for managing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections. This includes the ability to hide the From Microsoft font packages from Change the look, apply a font package in your site templates, and updated availability for the From Microsoft font packages. | SharePoint | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 422307 | 422,307 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Context IQ menu in Business Chat | Updates to Copilot Context IQ menu provides an intuitive and seamless interaction improving reliability and performance. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 422503 | 422,503 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Administrative units support | Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/21/2024 | ||
| 400706 | 400,706 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/18/2024 | ||
| 412359 | 412,359 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/18/2024 | ||
| 387790 | 387,790 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/18/2024 | ||
| 412618 | 412,618 | 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 | Microsoft 365, Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 396570 | 396,570 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 161739 | 161,739 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People), General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 398981 | 398,981 | 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. | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 98124 | 98,124 | 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 | Outlook | Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 9/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 378775 | 378,775 | 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 | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 423047 | 423,047 | 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 | Outlook | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 416449 | 416,449 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 422817 | 422,817 | Outlook: Insert signature into calendar events | Users can manually insert a signature into a calendar event like they can in the classic outlook. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 416069 | 416,069 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 422315 | 422,315 | 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. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 420327 | 420,327 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 10/17/2024 | ||
| 406770 | 406,770 | 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. | Excel | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 178311 | 178,311 | Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API | The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform. |
Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 7/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 371393 | 371,393 | 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. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Outlook, Exchange | Current Channel, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 396571 | 396,571 | 2 | It will be interesting to test this functionality to see whether it includes inactive (departed) users and associated aliases. | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 |
| 410218 | 410,218 | OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer | A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer. | OneDrive | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 393653 | 393,653 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 389368 | 389,368 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 377703 | 377,703 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 397889 | 397,889 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 413431 | 413,431 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 395937 | 395,937 | 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. | Universal Print | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 397094 | 397,094 | 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. | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 412623 | 412,623 | 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. | Planner | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 117587 | 117,587 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 10/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 168524 | 168,524 | Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars | Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer. |
Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People), General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 422329 | 422,329 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 421611 | 421,611 | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin usage reports for Loop | View and monitor Loop usage in the tenant through existing M365 admin usage dashboards. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 416644 | 416,644 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/16/2024 | ||
| 402186 | 402,186 | 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 | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 375500 | 375,500 | 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. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 414516 | 414,516 | 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 | Outlook | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 382106 | 382,106 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Preview, General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 124824 | 124,824 | 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 | SharePoint | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 411300 | 411,300 | 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. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 415453 | 415,453 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 415452 | 415,452 | 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. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 417060 | 417,060 | 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. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), PowerPoint | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 422316 | 422,316 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 420336 | 420,336 | 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. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 10/15/2024 | ||
| 408529 | 408,529 | 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). | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 410397 | 410,397 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 408169 | 408,169 | 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 165402 | 165,402 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 336046 | 336,046 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 84023 | 84,023 | 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. |
Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People) | 12/1/2023 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 93324 | 93,324 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 399934 | 399,934 | 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 123486 | 123,486 | 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. |
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 12/1/2023 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 395935 | 395,935 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 389839 | 389,839 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 382107 | 382,107 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 178921 | 178,921 | 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. |
Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 7/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 399928 | 399,928 | 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. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 377680 | 377,680 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 168843 | 168,843 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 383017 | 383,017 | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 418120 | 418,120 | 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. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 415467 | 415,467 | 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 | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/14/2024 | ||
| 181623 | 181,623 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Support for Two New Predicates on Endpoint DLP | With this capability, admins can extend the two below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint - Document Property is - Document name contains words or phrases | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 4/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 392826 | 392,826 | Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars | This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 396286 | 396,286 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Edit Learning Paths in Viva Learning | Admin will be able to edit learning paths metadata and content. Latest updates will be shown to learner after the LP is edited. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 412942 | 412,942 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - User exclusion | This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM policies. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 393227 | 393,227 | Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls | This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 407897 | 407,897 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats | Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 1/1/2025 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 375631 | 375,631 | Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users | This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the "External" label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 421361 | 421,361 | Outlook: Delivery and read receipts in Outlook mobile | Now you will be able to request both delivery and read receipts while composing an email in Outlook for iOS and Android. You will also easily be able to respond to requests for read receipts on emails you receive and set preferences for future read receipts. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 421185 | 421,185 | Microsoft Teams: Best practice configuration monitoring dashboard in Teams admin center | Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure a smooth collaborative experience on Teams. Best Practices dashboard in Teams admin center allows administrators to monitor and promptly address any non-conformance across their organization. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/11/2024 | ||
| 412617 | 412,617 | Outlook: OneDrive in Outlook for Mac | Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Users can find and use the OneDrive app in Outlook for Mac, for a consistent and fast experience. | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release, Preview, Current Channel | 11/1/2024 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 376845 | 376,845 | Microsoft Stream: Stream Web App Recap Button | This feature allows a user to move from the Stream Web App to the equivalent meeting recording on Microsoft Teams (in the Recap tab). Watching the meeting in Microsoft Teams provides additional meeting information such as Speakers and Topics. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability, Targeted Release | 3/1/2024 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 392327 | 392,327 | Outlook: Select specific pieces of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite them | When composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length. #newoutlookforwindows | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 397092 | 397,092 | Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience | Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI. | Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Current Channel | 9/1/2024 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 392457 | 392,457 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label | Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2025 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 421360 | 421,360 | Microsoft 365 admin center: AI administrator role | We are introducing a new admin role for AI and Microsoft Copilot administration. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Entra | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/10/2024 | ||
| 392841 | 392,841 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit - New logs for Audit activities | Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 393934 | 393,934 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Enhancements to the device onboarding page | This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new "Valid user" filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded). | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 392326 | 392,326 | Outlook: Apply coaching suggestions for Coaching by Copilot | Apply coaching suggestions will allow users to request a complete rewrite of their email based on feedback from Coaching by Copilot and in one click, accept and rewrite their email with those suggestions. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 377000 | 377,000 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates | Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: "Message contains" and "Attachment contains" with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader "Content contains" predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 8/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 391669 | 391,669 | Microsoft Viva: Engage content in Workplace Search | As users search in office.com, sharepoint.com, bing at work they will find content from Viva Engage in the search results. We will first start with question posts and then roll out discussion posts from Engage. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 410198 | 410,198 | Microsoft Viva: Connections News Notifications in Gov Clouds | With this release, existing news notifications in Viva Connections will now be available in GCC, GCCH and DoD. News notifications are delivered via Microsoft Teams in the desktop, mobile, and web environments in the following scenarios: News is published to a SharePoint team or communication site a user follows or by someone a user works closely with. News is boosted. Someone comments on a new News post. Someone "Likes" a News post. Someone is @mentioned in a comment on a news post. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 407381 | 407,381 | Outlook: Chat with Copilot in Outlook mobile | The same Microsoft Copilot experience available in new Outlook for Windows, web, and classic Outlook soon will be available in Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android through the module switcher. | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 388733 | 388,733 | Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management - Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management | With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 375485 | 375,485 | Microsoft Stream: Pay-as-you-go transcript translations | Make your content more inclusive by creating videos that your coworkers can easily view and understand in their primary language. Transcript translations in Stream (on SharePoint) give you the option to translate the transcript and closed captions of your Stream videos into more than 100 supported languages. To enable translations Admins must first setup billing using an Azure subscription, then they must be enable the feature in the M365 Admin center. Once enabled translations are billed via pay-as-you-go meters. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 403109 | 403,109 | Outlook: Use the Alt key to bring up key tips in new Outlook for Windows | Users in new Outlook will now be able to use the Alt key to bring up key tips when using keyboard navigation. This behavior was previously Win+Alt. Other Outlook apps will not be impacted by these changes. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 398445 | 398,445 | Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams | Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 380184 | 380,184 | 3 | While HTML versions of Loop components will ease reviewer burden, users should be given the option to select export format. Export in HTML format may not suffice for criminal/regulatory investigations | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content | Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/9/2024 |
| 418125 | 418,125 | Microsoft Teams: Email verification for external attendees to join Teams meetings | Meeting organizers can have greater confidence about external attendees joining Teams meetings, this capability enables sending a one-time passcode to the external attendee’s email address for that individual to use during a verification step when joining a Teams meeting. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 417475 | 417,475 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quick rewrite, summarize, and to do actions with Copilot on OneNote canvas | Use Copilot in your workflow on the canvas by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or to help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), OneNote | Current Channel, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 420943 | 420,943 | Microsoft Stream: Playback support for video encoded in Apple ProRes video codec | Users will be able to play back video hosted on OneDrive and SharePoint that is encoded in the Apple ProRes video codec. | Microsoft Stream | Targeted Release, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 420946 | 420,946 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Leaders updated via group sync | Currently, leaders are managed in Viva Engage manually. If you wish to add or remove leaders, you need to go to Engage to do so. This feature will allow you to define a group that includes users who should be designated as leaders. As you add or remove people from that group, they will gain or lose privileges accordingly. The manual method will continue to be available. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/9/2024 | ||
| 395378 | 395,378 | OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive | We're making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user. | OneDrive | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 395931 | 395,931 | Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel | In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 124827 | 124,827 | SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News. | The content pane is a new place for relevant panes that help authors create their publications. With the introduction of this centralized location, a new toolbox will help authors quickly browse and add content to create rich and engaging pages. The content pane will include additional panes such as configuration tools, design ideas, etc. Within Viva Amplify, the content pane is also used to host the distribution channel selection, writing guidance, and audience selection. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release, Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People) | 7/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 145802 | 145,802 | SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits | We are introducing new version controls that help tenant and site admins or document library owners reduce the storage footprint driven by low value file versions. Today, document library owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, tenant and site admins or document library owners will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently expires new and existing version based on their age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set time-based version expiration and count limits on new and existing versions. These controls enable admins to set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization balanced with storage usage considerations. Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive for Business. | SharePoint, OneDrive | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 186956 | 186,956 | Microsoft Stream: Video trim feature | Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) will soon introduce a video trimming feature which will allow users with edit permissions to trim the start, end and any parts in the middle of a video. When you trim a video, Stream won’t change the original video file itself. Instead, it just hides the trimmed parts from your viewers. When you're done trimming you can toggle to the preview mode to see the trimmed video just like your viewers will see. When a video is trimmed the transcript and chapters will be adjusted automatically to reflect only what is shown in the video. People with edit permission will be able to see full original content and edit or delete those trimmed parts. When available this feature can be accessed by opening a video in the Stream web app and taping the edit button. |
Microsoft Stream | Preview, Targeted Release, General Availability, Current Channel | 4/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 161829 | 161,829 | 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 5/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 387795 | 387,795 | Microsoft Stream: Delete option in Stream Web App | Stream is adding a delete option to the Stream Web App. If a user has editing permissions to a video in Stream, they will be able to delete a video directly from the Stream Web App by clicking the delete button on the command bar and confirming the action. The video file will be sent to the Recycle Bin of the OneDrive or SharePoint page the video was hosted on and any access to the video will lead to a page informing the user that the video has been removed. | Microsoft Stream | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 416282 | 416,282 | Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams phone devices | Queues app on Teams phone devices enhances call management capabilities by allowing agents to handle incoming calls, view call queues, and manage call history directly from their Teams phone devices, improving efficiency and ensuring effortless communication for agents. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 420338 | 420,338 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Recommended comments | Viva Engage will offer a new way to see contributions from close contacts and leaders within conversation threads. In the home feed and More for You feed, users see two comments that are meaningful to them and the overall conversation. Users can see the rest of the conversation with one click. There are no changes to the comment, reply, or reaction experiences with this new feature. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 416292 | 416,292 | Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices | Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 416288 | 416,288 | Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices | Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/8/2024 | ||
| 382633 | 382,633 | Exchange: High Volume Email for Microsoft 365 | High Volume Email is a new service for line of business applications and other high-volume SMTP scenarios that enables you to send internal messages beyond the current limits of Exchange Online. | Exchange | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2025 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 383733 | 383,733 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – pin post to leadership corner | Admins and corporate communicators will be able to pin one post that will show at the top of everyone's leadership corner | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 388742 | 388,742 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection | Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 374045 | 374,045 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word | Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 122238 | 122,238 | Outlook: Actionable card based Loop components | Add a Microsoft 365 app that supports link unfurling with an actionable card-based Loop component, and Outlook will show the component when inserting supported links in your email messages. You will be able to choose between the new embedded card or a link when sending email. |
Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2025 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 98137 | 98,137 | Outlook: Reset People Suggestions in Search | This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows settings. If a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/7/2024 | ||
| 411778 | 411,778 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in M365 Copilot | The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenia, and Vietnamese. They're also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada). | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 394349 | 394,349 | Access: Modern Chart Improvements | A top ask from customers is to modernize Access charts and to support better data visualization in Access. To satisfy this user request, we are integrating a new charting package called “Ivy” into Access. Ivy is a charting package written by the Office DVX team that is currently used in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. | Access | Current Channel | 8/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 384871 | 384,871 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Review set query report | Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 413717 | 413,717 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Customer Facing Reports via Insights Integration | Org level breakdown of Learning metrics in Viva Insights. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 414515 | 414,515 | Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard - Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID) | For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 400444 | 400,444 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access | Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes some minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 415705 | 415,705 | OneDrive: Sync - Shared Item Delete and Local Mass Delete Confirmation Dialogs | We are shipping an items delete confirmation that will trigger when the user is about to delete shared items. This UI format will also replace the existing mass delete experience. These confirmations will occur when files are deleted from File Explorer when the user is running OneDrive and not paused. | OneDrive | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 420331 | 420,331 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Microsoft Fabric | Your organization can now apply sensitivity labels in Microsoft Purview Information Protection to Microsoft Fabric workspaces. This new functionality will allow users to manually label Fabric items with their sensitivity level and then apply access control protections based upon the protection policies set by administrators. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 420332 | 420,332 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse | DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 419810 | 419,810 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries | With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user's prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness over the process. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/4/2024 | ||
| 394685 | 394,685 | Outlook: Meeting Details in the Reading Pane on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows | When a conversation in Mail is part of a meeting, the Reading Pane will have a new and improved Meeting Details card for a more efficient and modern RSVP flow. This will come to Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 389840 | 389,840 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 | Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 406167 | 406,167 | Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Third party add-in user report can be sent to Microsoft for analysis | Admins and security analysts of organizations who use a third-party reporting add-in in Outlook can configure using user-reported settings to send their user reports to Microsoft for analysis and learning. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 396173 | 396,173 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Auto-labeling policies support Fingerprinting SITs | Admins can now automatically label files and emails with Fingerprinting SITs via auto-labeling policies. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 411779 | 411,779 | Microsoft Teams: Refreshed view of all your teams and channels page | A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 357562 | 357,562 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses | Private thumbnail using SharePoint links for courses hosted at SuccessFactors can be displayed at Viva Learning. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 419814 | 419,814 | OneDrive: Hide people previewing files in OneDrive and SharePoint | This setting will allow administrators to disable the presence feature in the OneDrive and SharePoint file previewing experience on selected sites. | SharePoint, OneDrive | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 420335 | 420,335 | Microsoft Edge: Rewrite by Copilot in Edge is being upgraded to include enterprise data protection compliance standards | Rewrite by Copilot in Edge, which lets users edit typed text for tone, format, and length within an open page in Microsoft Edge, is being updated to include enterprise data protection for commercial customers. Once Rewrite is available, users signed in with a Microsoft Entra ID will have enterprise data protection when using the feature in Microsoft Edge. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 416062 | 416,062 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope shared or delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat | Scope Copilot queries in emails for shared or delegated mailboxes. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 418379 | 418,379 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken | This adds seven new Copilot adoption metrics to the Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. It also updates the "total actions taken" metric in the Copilot dashboard to include these new Copilot adoption metrics. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/3/2024 | ||
| 401118 | 401,118 | Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location on bookable desks | The user's work location can be automatically set to 'In the office' upon plug-in to peripherals at a bookable desk. Once IT enables the policy for a tenant or a group, users can opt-in to automatically update their location making it easier to connect with co-workers when they are in the office. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 407862 | 407,862 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Advanced analytics | These updates to Amplify Reports and Analytics provide a series of improvements to the existing experience, such as large audience scenarios to better reflect reach across the enterprise. Viva Amplify reports will now be integrated with Campaign Brief and will also include historical data. This data will be available as graphs on the reports and to download as a CSV. There will also be features for copying charts as images and downloading to PowerPoint. The historical data experience provides unique views, promotions, and reactions for the last 7, 30, 90 days, and the last 12 months. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 409234 | 409,234 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Copy a publication within a campaign | Gone are the days where you must rewrite or manually copy and paste content from an old publication to a newly drafted one to reuse it. Soon in Viva Amplify, you will be able to copy a publication within an existing campaign with just a few clicks. This new feature streamlines the content creation process, enabling communicators to easily reuse existing content across SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, including all channel-specific customizations and related audiences, saving you time and effort. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 174575 | 174,575 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels | Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Note: The release phase and rollout start month have been updated to show current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 409233 | 409,233 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Required approval | Coming soon, you'll be able to require approval at the campaign level for all your Amplify publications. The require approval feature brings compliance, accountability, and workflows to Lightweight Approvals in Amplify. By enabling required approval for a campaign, stakeholders can ensure that all campaign content adheres to organizational standards and receive the necessary approval before publishing, thus minimizing risks and errors. You can require approval at the campaign level so that all Amplify publications within the campaign go through the approval process before the content is published. This is an optional setting that a user can choose to apply to a campaign. By requiring approval, organizations can apply a significant level of quality and security to their content, ensuring every piece of content aligns perfectly with their standards and expectations before it is published. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 419809 | 419,809 | Microsoft Edge: Edge Settings Improvements | Edge Settings is migrating to WebUI2 to boost page responsiveness and introducing a series of minor visual and content upgrades to improve overall usability and utility. This includes optimizing for concise wording of individual settings, simplifying the number of pages and reorganizing content, and creating a cohesive user interface. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 418380 | 418,380 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights - New Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams | This adds new Business Chat prompts submitted through Teams metric to Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 418378 | 418,378 | Microsoft Forms: New data sync solution to Excel for the web in Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online | New forms created from Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint Online will use the new data sync solution. | Excel, Forms | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 10/1/2024 | ||
| 394269 | 394,269 | Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients | We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 375602 | 375,602 | Outlook: To Do app opens in the Classic Outlook for Windows | We are updating the tittle and description to highlight that this feature is coming to the Classic Outlook for Windows, we apologize for the inconvenience it might have caused. Use the To Do app without leaving the Classic Outlook for Windows! Click the To Do icon in the navigation bar to open inline without opening in a separate browser window. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 396169 | 396,169 | Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat | The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 7/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 186968 | 186,968 | Planner: Add premium capabilities to Planner | Add premium capabilities like sprint planning, people view, goals, custom fields, and task history to your plans within the Planner Teams app. | Planner, Microsoft Project | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 417004 | 417,004 | Outlook: New Modern Themes | Adding four new themes to Outlook for Windows and the Outlook Web App. These themes will bring more personalization and expressiveness to your email client. | Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 417478 | 417,478 | Outlook: Meeting details card for shared and delegated calendar invites | Delegates will be able to see the shared calendar event details, including the principal calendar, in the meeting details card on meeting invite messages. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 9/30/2024 | ||
| 400702 | 400,702 | Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through proximity join for Teams Rooms on Windows | When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Room on Windows with a companion device, in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/27/2024 | ||
| 418565 | 418,565 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - User-level mute | The mute user feature will allow users to remove other users' posts from their feeds and digests. Users cannot mute designated leaders. Muting a user does not block notifications or at-mentions from that user. Admins can turn this feature on or off for the entire network. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/27/2024 | ||
| 115475 | 115,475 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - | Maintain label and protection when import data to PowerBI (Web and Desktop) | This feature is for PowerBI creators who import data to PowerBI datasets or PowerBI Desktop files from Excel files applied with sensitivity label and/or Synapse, SQL databases that are classified with sensitivity labels. By default, PowerBI datasets and PBIX files will automatically inherit the sensitivity label from the source if perquisite conditions are met. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, Power BI, Excel | General Availability | 7/1/2023 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 397754 | 397,754 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Enhanced incident communication with DLP email templates | You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can use these email templates to inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst's recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more scenarios like these. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 399923 | 399,923 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word | The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 323894 | 323,894 | 2 | Extension of automatic OCR to Exchange/Teams sources | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams | Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 9/26/2024 |
| 406170 | 406,170 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add brand images in M365 Copilot from SharePoint organization asset libraries | Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand. | Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 382659 | 382,659 | Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows | Can't find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 395791 | 395,791 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Open locked records as read only | Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. | Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, Current Channel | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 407068 | 407,068 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Open locked records as read only | Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 391639 | 391,639 | Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) | If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. | Bookings, Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 416296 | 416,296 | Outlook: Checking feedback policy across all accounts | Currently, when we determine whether a user is entitled to submit feedback, we only look at the feedback policy for their primary (global) account. Going forward, we are going to make the feedback policy check more restrictive which is more secure. We'll be looking at feedback policies for all users' accounts and basing their eligibility off the most restrictive policy value found. For example, if any of the users' accounts have Feedback disabled by a policy, we won't show the Feedback button in the Help tab of the ribbon for any of their accounts. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 415449 | 415,449 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc | The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 415448 | 415,448 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc | The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 418382 | 418,382 | Microsoft Intune: MacOS user certs to be deployed in user keychain | We are now announcing a significant enhancement in MacOS: the ability to store certificates in the user keychain. Previously, certificates were automatically stored in the device keychain, regardless of user or device type. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/26/2024 | ||
| 156014 | 156,014 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning | With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 156015 | 156,015 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning | With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 403108 | 403,108 | Outlook: Go to folder shortcut in the new Outlook for Windows and web | When focused on the folder pane, users can now press CTRL + Y to quickly navigate to a folder. Simply press the first letter of the folder name to move focus directly to that folder. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 396168 | 396,168 | Microsoft Viva: Mute user for network | With this feature, Engage admins can remove specific users' posts from the Engage home feed, storylines feed, and all email digests. Selected users are not notified about this change. Engage admins may find this feature helps to moderate the visibility of content in the network. Mute user for network is part of a suite of moderation features in Engage, including view-only mode, close conversations, and more. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 394681 | 394,681 | Outlook: New RSVP settings in the new Outlook for Windows and web | Two new settings to improve the user experience when responding to meeting invitations: (1) do not delete invitation email after RSVPing and (2) auto-decline if the attendee's calendar shows as busy. These features will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 395940 | 395,940 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage - Topic Subscription notification | This feature allows users to subscribe to notifications for Viva Engage topics they follow. Users will receive a Viva Engage bell notification when a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to or when the topic is added to an existing post. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 410986 | 410,986 | Outlook: Pinned ability to always see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location | This roadmap item was released earlier than expected and unfortunately, we missed making this update. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. This introduces an "always on" ability to see who is in the office based on Work Hours and Location. This information will be pinned (available) on the top-right corner of the Calendar surface in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows | Microsoft 365, Outlook, Exchange | General Availability, Targeted Release | 8/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 406948 | 406,948 | Outlook: Replace quick compose pop-up with inline appointment creation in new Outlook for Windows and web | When single clicking on an empty time slot on the calendar surface, the quick compose pop-up will no longer be shown - instead, you will be able to create an appointment by typing directly in the time slot on the calendar grid, just as you can in classic Outlook for Windows. There will be no change to double click behavior, the full compose form will still open as it does today. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 383535 | 383,535 | Outlook: Redesigned Message Bars on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows | Infobars on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows are redesigned to be more effective at conveying relevant information and communicating possible actions. They are also dismissible in the Compose form. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 397771 | 397,771 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Save filters for Activity Explorer | This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 2/1/2025 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 383019 | 383,019 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account | When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 396729 | 396,729 | Outlook: Intune policy available for specific primary account in the new Outlook for Windows | This adds Intune policy in the new Outlook for Windows to a specific primary account based on Active Directory Primary SMTP address. This will ease the setup process for new managed devices and guarantee that company policies will always be respected. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 417063 | 417,063 | Outlook: Grant mail delegate sharing permissions from the new Outlook | Delegate access for mailbox and folders can be granted from the new Outlook app. Users will be able to view the permissions granted for a mailboxes and folders. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 7/1/2025 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 416481 | 416,481 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices | With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/24/2024 | ||
| 376999 | 376,999 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates | Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: "Message contains" and "Attachment contains" with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader "Content contains" predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 328282 | 328,282 | Outlook: Newsletters | Newsletters in Outlook enable customers to create, distribute, and track success for their internal email newsletters. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and the web. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, Preview | 11/1/2025 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 375274 | 375,274 | Microsoft 365 admin center: Integration of Auto-Claim Policy for Licensing of Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp in your Tenant | We're excited to announce an upcoming feature to enhance our Microsoft 365 offerings with a new, innovative auto-claim policy for Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp. These two applications can be configured as a policy, allowing users with active base offerings like Microsoft 365 E3/E5 Original SKUs to automatically claim a Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 license when needed. As they engage with Microsoft Loop and Microsoft Clipchamp, a license from your tenant's pre-provisioned Microsoft 365 Extra Features E3/E5 SKU will be seamlessly assigned to them. This new feature is designed to simplify admin tasks and requirements. | Microsoft 365 Admin Center | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 410247 | 410,247 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints | Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 409561 | 409,561 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image generation in Copilot chat | Create images using natural language to visualize concepts and ideas within the flow of work in Copilot for Microsoft 365. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 367053 | 367,053 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop | We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 416077 | 416,077 | OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web | With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, OneDrive | General Availability, Targeted Release | 10/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 417482 | 417,482 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP | With this capability, admins can extend the condition 'Document Property is' to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/23/2024 | ||
| 395372 | 395,372 | Microsoft Teams: Teams devices - Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center | If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/20/2024 | ||
| 410523 | 410,523 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.) | With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn't complete scanning, document name matches patterns, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, and document name contains words or phrases. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 9/20/2024 | ||
| 417005 | 417,005 | OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for web and in Teams | Bringing the power of Microsoft Copilot to OneNote for web and in Teams. | OneNote, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/20/2024 | ||
| 416092 | 416,092 | Outlook: Sort by category | This adds the ability to sort by category in Outlook for Mac. | Outlook | Preview, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/20/2024 | ||
| 415451 | 415,451 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI Hub - UX enhancements | The UX for Microsoft Purview AI Hub will have enhancements so that more recommendations can be displayed and triaged. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/20/2024 | ||
| 396575 | 396,575 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv | As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 408527 | 408,527 | Microsoft Teams: Teams admins in education will now be able to create and publish custom team templates | Education IT admins can now create team templates from Microsoft Teams admin center. As an admin, you can use templates to easily deploy consistent teams across your organization. With templates, your users can quickly create rich collaboration spaces with predefined settings, channels, and apps. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 394279 | 394,279 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive | As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 380721 | 380,721 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match | This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 124846 | 124,846 | SharePoint: SharePoint Pages - Design Ideas | By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions. |
SharePoint | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 401124 | 401,124 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts | Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/19/2024 | ||
| 415454 | 415,454 | 5 | ALERT - While I believe this deadline will have to be pushed by customer outcry, peers should immediately evaluate the new Portal and how to adapt their workflows. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by end of 2024 | Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by 2024 and the new Microsoft Purview portal will provide all existing capabilities and more. The new Purview portal offers a streamlined design and a unified experience, allowing you to discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it resides across your data estate. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/19/2024 |
| 381750 | 381,750 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint | This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2025 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 383726 | 383,726 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience | Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 406165 | 406,165 | Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create allow directly in Tenant Allow/Block List | Admins can create an allow inside the Tenant Allow/Block List to override bulk, spam, and regular confidence phish verdicts directly. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Exchange | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 406913 | 406,913 | Outlook: Org Explorer in Outlook for Mac | Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will now also be available in Outlook for Mac. | Outlook, Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 124843 | 124,843 | SharePoint: Application Site Creation without Sites.FullControl.All | Currently an application requires Sites.FullControl.All to create new site collections within a tenant. This work will allow applications to use a new scope, Sites.Create.All, to create new site collections without accessing any existing content. During the site creation process the application can request access to the new site, allowing for provisioning scenarios with reduced tenant permissions. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 11/1/2024 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 407386 | 407,386 | OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile | With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal, OneDrive, Microsoft Information Protection | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 189826 | 189,826 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Modernized user-defined permissions experience | A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management. | Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Current Channel, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 9/18/2024 | ||
| 381953 | 381,953 | Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL | We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 407638 | 407,638 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Notifications management for administrators to configure where Pulse notifications are delivered | Administrators can choose where Pulse notifications are delivered to users from among the three notification delivery methods: email, Teams Chat, and Teams Activity feed. We are cancelling this Roadmap item because it duplicates Roadmap item 408163. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 156016 | 156,016 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Potential high impact user experience enhancements | We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 8/1/2024 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 171598 | 171,598 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Policy deletion enhancement | With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 402516 | 402,516 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers | Microsoft Purview Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is now available for all new onboarding customers. IB v2 has enhanced architecture which enables the following new features: Large-scale segment support: The segment limit in organizations has increased to 5,000. Multi-segment support: Users can be assigned to up to 10 segments. Flexible user discoverability: Organizations can now choose to allow IB-protected users to discover each other while adhering to IB communication and collaboration policies. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 124915 | 124,915 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups (U.S. Government clouds) | To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 10/1/2023 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 171720 | 171,720 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Potential high impact user experience enhancements | We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 417153 | 417,153 | Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels | Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel's home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/17/2024 | ||
| 171601 | 171,601 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Policy deletion enhancement | With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 403099 | 403,099 | Outlook: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts available in Microsoft Outlook | Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the meeting artifacts in the calendar for the new Outlook in Windows and web. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, and any files that were shared. For users with access to intelligent meeting recap, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap in Microsoft Teams, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks directly within Microsoft Outlook. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 387807 | 387,807 | OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with Text | This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes, when those files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Users can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”. | OneDrive, SharePoint | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 415167 | 415,167 | SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI | Secure sites by identifying sites with "similar files" and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI. | SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 399427 | 399,427 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage and navigation refresh for organizational leaders | Homepage and left-hand navigation will be updated to highlight the value of recently released reports. In addition, a new library page will be introduced where users can filter on metrics by sub-organizations, time periods and peer benchmarks and access all of their available reports. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 398990 | 398,990 | SharePoint: eSignature sequential signing | Sequential signing enables the creator of an eSignature request to specify the sequence of recipients. The document is first signed by the initial recipient in the sequence, then forwarded to the subsequent recipient for their signature. This process continues in the designated order until every recipient has added their signature. Once everyone has signed, the signed document is made available to all involved. | SharePoint | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 399927 | 399,927 | Microsoft Intune: Create EPM rules based on a support approve requests and reporting entries | Admins can now create rules directly from support approval requests and from entries in the elevation report. Previously rules had to be created by hand by entering in all the information about the elevation and how it should be managed. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 414517 | 414,517 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Detailed error description for LMS setup failures | LMS setup form will now have detailed error description for LMS setup failures. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 396728 | 396,728 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python | With Copilot, you can use natural language to describe the analysis you want to perform, and it will automatically generate, explain, and insert Python code into your Excel spreadsheet. This integration unlocks powerful analytics via Python for visualizations, cleaning data, machine learning, predictive analytics, and more—without needing to be Python proficient yourself. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Excel | General Availability, Preview | 11/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 409965 | 409,965 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Adaptive scopes | Ability to target IRM policies using global Adaptive Scopes. Adaptive scopes within IRM policies allow admins to use existing adaptive scopes created on the Microsoft Purview compliance portal within IRM policies, Adaptive scopes can be created using queries to define user groups dynamically. This feature provides more powerful targeting for policies, allowing different settings to be assigned to users based on attributes from Entra ID without the administrative burden of creating and maintaining groups. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 396345 | 396,345 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Viva – Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights Product Updates | Adding trendlines to show metric movements over past 6-month time periods, before vs after Copilot comparisons, and providing the option to view an estimated dollar value for the existing Copilot assisted hours metric. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/16/2024 | ||
| 389857 | 389,857 | Microsoft Intune: Managed device attestation for iOS/iPadOS and macOS device enrollment and ADE | Intune is bringing ACME and managed device attestation support for eligible Apple devices to GA. This includes device enrollment and ADE enrollments, including AC2. This applies to new enrollments with device enrollment (BYOD) and new enrollments with ADE or Apple Configurator tool. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 399939 | 399,939 | Microsoft Edge: Copilot summarization notification | The feature displays an Omnibox notification when users enter into a reading mode eligible page in Edge and offers them the option to open Copilot in the sidebar to generate a summary of the content. | Microsoft Edge | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 399930 | 399,930 | Microsoft Intune: Revoke and Delete Cloud PKI Certification Authorities | You can now revoke and delete Cloud PKI certification authorities. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 399926 | 399,926 | Microsoft Intune: Remote Help for macOS (GCC) | GCC customers can now use Remote Help on macOS devices. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 398980 | 398,980 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Improved authoring experience | This updates the Viva Amplify editors for both Outlook and Teams distribution channels to improve previewing and editing. These updates will provide improvements to load time and create a coherent audience selection experience across the channels. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 393933 | 393,933 | Microsoft Intune: Deploy DMG and unmanaged PKG apps enhancement for macOS | Admins will be able to use "available" assignment type for DMG and unmanaged PKG app types for macOS. This enables end users to browse and install these apps in the Mac Company Portal. | Microsoft Intune | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 378649 | 378,649 | Microsoft Intune: Windows enrollment attestation | Physical Windows devices will be attested at enrollment that enrollment credentials are stored in the hardware of the device. Administrators can view device attestations in the new Device attestation status report and manually force attestation from that report. | Microsoft Intune | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 397096 | 397,096 | Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word | When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 91163 | 91,163 | Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar | File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 7/1/2024 | 9/13/2024 | ||
| 386900 | 386,900 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity label grouping modernization | To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels). | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 329253 | 329,253 | Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only) | The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only) | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 93269 | 93,269 | 4 | Since legal holds are the primary usage case for Purview eDiscovery customers, having hold reports and aggregated data could have high value depending on actual implementation. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) | Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 |
| 402183 | 402,183 | Microsoft Teams: Custom background on Teams panels | Administrators can upload and set custom background images for Teams panels through the Teams admin center, enabling them to reflect their organization's branding. This feature will be available for Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Devices licensed panels. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 399921 | 399,921 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word | When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 401126 | 401,126 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats | When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 93268 | 93,268 | 4 | Aggregated hold reports in Purview is great news. Unfortunately they do not include metrics or detailed custodial/source information.-update- not seeing the reports in the new eDiscovery portal yet. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports | Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 5/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 |
| 386901 | 386,901 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Sensitivity label grouping modernization | To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels). | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 7/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 409967 | 409,967 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Alert Spotlighting | On the alert list page, high priority alerts will be spotlighted to help analysts prioritize the most important alerts first. Alerts are spotlighted based on predefined rules which are common across all tenants across all industries. Alert Spotlighting feature was developed to assist admins in prioritizing alerts to be triaged. Every generated alert has a risk score, a list of activities performed, tags, and triggers. The Alert Spotlighting feature uses this information to decide whether an alert can be spotlighted. Based on a detailed study of alert triage patterns across tenants, we have developed a rule-based algorithm to spotlight alerts that would be of importance to admins, based on historical volume analysis. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 388369 | 388,369 | Microsoft Viva: Revamped Resources on mobile and tablet | The Resources section on Viva Connections mobile and tablet will show content from the recently revamped Resources section on Viva Connections desktop. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 413708 | 413,708 | Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment defaulting to 'On' | The new policy gives IT admins enhanced flexibility with distinct settings for voice and face enrollment. This adjustment provides greater control over managing these features, allowing organizations to tailor to their needs. Voice and face enrollment will be enabled by default, enabling voice isolation and speaker recognition in meeting rooms and enhancing intelligent meeting recaps and Copilot for meetings. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 410366 | 410,366 | Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams | With this new feature, users on the new VDI solution for Teams can blur their background, choose a Teams virtual background, or replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the "Video effects and Settings" option. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 4/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 410245 | 410,245 | Microsoft 365: Multi-Geo In-Region Routing | Multi-Geo In-Region Routing (IRR) enables customers to control the routing of inbound emails to comply with regional data regulations. IRR ensures emails sent to users within specific geo-regions are processed and stored in their respective region. By directing emails to Accepted Domains that are associated with specific geo-regions and users located in those same geo-regions, IRR ensures that emails are fully processed and stored in the user's region. This keeps data within the user’s Preferred Data Location (PDL), enhancing data sovereignty and compliance. | Microsoft 365, Exchange | Preview, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 416091 | 416,091 | Outlook: Sort by Flag option | We are adding support for sort by flag status, flag due date and flag start date. | Outlook | Preview, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 416299 | 416,299 | Microsoft Project: Project for the web and Roadmap for GCCH | Project for the web and Roadmap features are rolling out to Project GGCH customers. | Microsoft Project | General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 9/12/2024 | ||
| 98121 | 98,121 | Microsoft To Do: Multi-account support | Now, you can add multiple accounts to Microsoft To Do on your iOS device. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft To Do | General Availability | 6/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 186222 | 186,222 | Microsoft Entra: Microsoft Entra ID - Cross-tenant manager synchronization | Cross-tenant synchronization will support provisioning a user's manager across tenants. For existing synchronization configurations that use the default schema (where you haven't made any customizations to the attribute mappings or scoping rules), the manager will start to provision automatically for new users. For existing synchronization configurations that do not use the default schema, you can add the manager attribute to your attribute mappings. | Microsoft Entra | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 72183 | 72,183 | Microsoft Viva: Resolve topic name similarities | Allows users to select a topic among several when they share similar or matching names (disambiguation). This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 7/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 398976 | 398,976 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard delegation | Users can delegate access to the Copilot Dashboard to others within their company. Admins can set policies to manage access to the delegation feature. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 100254 | 100,254 | Microsoft Viva: Topics in Teams Channels | Earlier this year, we rolled out new Viva Topics integrations with Microsoft Teams. To widen the reach of Topics into the areas team members work, Viva Topics will expand from chats in Teams to channels in Teams, allowing users to mention topics and see topic cards within a given channel. This addition to the Teams integration will make the Topics experience more intuitive and approachable, allowing you to interact with topics in the spaces you are used to collaborating with team members. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 381744 | 381,744 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Have follow-up conversations with the team | Get a better understanding of survey results within Viva Pulse reports with team conversations. This item was updated incorrectly and has been corrected. We apologize for the inconvenience. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 100713 | 100,713 | 3 | Potential increase in external shared ESI, which can be important in some cases. Need to retain shared status for privilege determination. See Feature #70718 | OneDrive: Sharing Experiences - simplifying external sharing | Respecting the Admin settings, we want to simplify the journey for end-users to share with someone who is external to the organization to improve collaboration. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | OneDrive | General Availability | 5/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 |
| 398977 | 398,977 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Introducing content pane | The content pane is a new place for relevant panes that help authors create their publications. With the introduction of this centralized location, a new toolbox will help authors quickly browse and add content to create rich and engaging pages. The content pane will include additional panes such as configuration tools and design ideas. Within Viva Amplify, the content pane is used to host the distribution channel selection, writing guidance, and audience selection. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 82108 | 82,108 | SharePoint: Migrate SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate | Provide Microsoft 365 customers with a tool to migrate SharePoint-based workflows to Power Automate. You will be able to migrate SharePoint 2010 (out-of-the-box and SharePoint Designer) workflows and SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer) workflows to Power Automate flows. The feature will be integrated into the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT). This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | SharePoint | Targeted Release, Preview | 9/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 100722 | 100,722 | Microsoft Graph: Cloud Site List Management Graph APIs | New Graph APIs that allow admins in organizations to create, manage, and publish their site lists for Internet Explorer mode in the cloud. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for any inconvenience. | Microsoft Graph | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 407861 | 407,861 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse - Share open text responses in shared reports | Viva Pulse authors can now choose to share open text responses as part of their shared reports. Authors can also preview their shared reports and choose to update the visibility of open text responses at any point in time. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 398992 | 398,992 | Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand kit - Extended elements and tenant-wide rollout | Brand kit enables anyone to create and share brand asset collections including colors, fonts, and logos to easily apply brand elements while creating. This release adds support for images, backgrounds, stickers, video, and audio asset types. An organization's official assets can now be rolled out tenant-wide via SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL). Brand kit creation, sharing, and manual usage is being made generally available to all Clipchamp for work accounts for users with standard access. | Microsoft Clipchamp | General Availability, Targeted Release | 7/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 386904 | 386,904 | SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News | We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 6/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 372895 | 372,895 | Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot | Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that's ready for you to review and send. When you click on "Schedule with Copilot" a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 8/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 117526 | 117,526 | Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tagging support for groups | Today, only individual users are able to be added to the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 user tag feature. With this release, organizations will be able to tag groups so that group members will be added to or removed from tags automatically on an ongoing basis. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. | Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2023 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 416075 | 416,075 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint and Viva Insights Integration for Sentiment and Collaboration Data | This integration will allow HR users and analysts combine sentiment and collaboration data together into the rhythm of their business to better understand their people’s full work experience. Integrating Viva Glint employee survey scores with Viva Insights data helps identify opportunities and strengths to meet organizational goals. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/10/2024 | ||
| 85620 | 85,620 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - | API to set label on files in SharePoint online in bulk | This is a “set-label” API that third parties and ISVs can use to labels many files across SharePoint via scripting or programmatic manner. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 8/1/2023 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 381447 | 381,447 | Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium) | Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 160731 | 160,731 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Sort search results by ratings | Users can sort in-app search results by ratings and relevance of the content. |
Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 412616 | 412,616 | Microsoft Teams: Real-time notifications (Live Activities) for Teams meetings on iOS lock screen | iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1). | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 146859 | 146,859 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios | Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 392822 | 392,822 | Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android | Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode, provided the IT admin has enabled Direct Guest Join meetings for the room. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 407387 | 407,387 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - Copilot Academy visibility for users with Copilot SKU and VL Seeded/Premium | Microsoft Copilot Academy will be available for all users with a Copilot for Microsoft License and any of Viva Learning licenses (Seeded or Premium). Admins will also be able to control visibility of Copilot Academy. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 88915 | 88,915 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour | 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2024 | 9/9/2024 | ||
| 408544 | 408,544 | Microsoft Viva: Introduction to metrics and benchmarks in Advanced Insights | This report template for analysts in Advanced Insights provides an introduction to some of the most frequently used Viva Insights metrics, grounding both new and veteran analysts in their definitions, applications, and how their group's results compare to typical ranges using both internal and external benchmarks. | Microsoft Viva | Targeted Release, Preview, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/6/2024 | ||
| 124973 | 124,973 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection - Multi-policy selection | Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the "Risk levels for Adaptive Protection" settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/6/2024 | ||
| 408543 | 408,543 | Microsoft Viva: Dynamic internal benchmarks for Advanced Insights | Collaboration norms vary by roles and geographies, and comparing behavioral metrics across groups can draw misleading conclusions if those groups are comprised of different roles. Dynamic internal benchmarks allow the analyst to understand the expected behaviors of a group based on similar employees within the company. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability, Preview, Targeted Release | 1/1/2025 | 9/6/2024 | ||
| 414524 | 414,524 | SharePoint: Editorial Card web part in SharePoint Pages and News | We are introducing a Web Part called the Editorial Card to enhance page experiences. This card-like container allows for manual creation tailored to your needs, creating eye-catching content to capture viewers’ attentions. | SharePoint | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 9/6/2024 | ||
| 392456 | 392,456 | 1 | While retention labels are generally not critical ESI metadata, I can see edge cases where bulk replacement of a retention class across a tenant could result in unexpected or explained data expiry. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label | Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 9/1/2025 | 9/6/2024 |
| 414530 | 414,530 | Planner: Baseline with Task level variance | Capture a Baseline of your plan and view plan and task-level variances to know if the plan is on track or delayed. | Microsoft Project, Planner | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/6/2024 | ||
| 179883 | 179,883 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Progressive alert scoring | With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. 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. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 88537 | 88,537 | Outlook: Support for AppleScript in the New Outlook for Mac | AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the MacOS and many of its applications. We will add support for this feature in the new Outlook for Mac. |
Outlook | General Availability, Current Channel (Preview), Current Channel | 12/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 117523 | 117,523 | 1 | The Power Automate integration opens the door for complex disposition workflows of highly sensitive and regulated content. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) | Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization), General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 |
| 389143 | 389,143 | Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management - Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security | With Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security, your security teams gain unprecedented visibility across the security data. Microsoft Purview brings user risk and data risk insights to help the SOC with comprehensive and enriched signals to understand the full attack story and impact of a security incident. 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. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 412079 | 412,079 | Microsoft Teams: Teams chat support in Mesh events | Participants in Mesh events on PC and Mac can use Teams chat to communicate with all participants, across all rooms, within a Mesh event. Users can do this in the Microsoft Mesh PC app, the Mesh app in Teams, as well as in the chat message list of the Teams app. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 117425 | 117,425 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) | We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 398960 | 398,960 | SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex - Page range setting for prebuilt and structured models | This creates a new setting for prebuilt (contract, invoice, and receipt) and structured/freeform models to specify the file pages to be processed. | SharePoint | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 394683 | 394,683 | Outlook: Swipe in the Message List on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows | The Message List will now support Swipe from Left and Swipe from Right actions on Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. As a result, some minor organization changes will also happen for the hover actions. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 389147 | 389,147 | Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management - Gain comprehensive summary of Insider Risk Management alerts with Copilot for Security | Copilot for Security is embedded in Insider Risk Management to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 408171 | 408,171 | Outlook: Ability to add apps to meetings | With this update, customers will be able to add apps to their meetings, similar to how they can do that in classic Outlook for Windows. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook, Exchange | General Availability, Targeted Release | 12/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 392839 | 392,839 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management - Automatic data preservation for high-risk users | Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 407704 | 407,704 | Outlook: Sort and Filter improvements on Outlook on the Web and New Outlook for Windows | Sort and Filter will now be separate buttons in the Message List. This will make it easier to change the Sorted by and the Filtered by values separately. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 393335 | 393,335 | SharePoint: Updating all News Posts to "Made for Email" | Following the positive reception of the "Made for Email" News templates, we are rolling out a change that will make every news post you create "Made for Email" by default. Now, no matter how you create your new News Post, whether it is copying a previous post or using an existing template, you will have access to send that full distribution as an email. With this change, authors will still have access to our full webpart library by selecting "all" webparts in the webpart picker but are defaulted into having additional sending functionality. | SharePoint | Preview, Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 374811 | 374,811 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP | With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint - Document is unscannable - Document didn't complete scanning - Document name matches patterns - Document size equals or is greater than | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 11/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 154557 | 154,557 | Outlook: Follow a meeting in new Outlook for Windows and web | Follow is a new meeting response (RSVP) option that goes beyond the traditional Accept, Tentative and Decline choices geared towards individuals with high meeting loads and conflicting meetings each day. Follow is the ideal RSVP option for meetings you can't attend but still want to stay engaged and receive info about. Other attendees will be able to see if you are following a meeting. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web. Note: This began rolling out in May and not April. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | General Availability, Targeted Release | 4/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 395793 | 395,793 | Outlook: Support for Auto-Expanding Archives | Auto-Expanding Archives are a component that provides customers the ability to grow their mailbox archives over the normal 100 GB quota limit. | Outlook | General Availability | 7/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 374025 | 374,025 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search | Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That's the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 189804 | 189,804 | Outlook: Message Recall | Exchange Online's Cloud-based Message Recall feature will be coming to Outlook for Mac. | Outlook | Current Channel, Current Channel (Preview) | 7/1/2025 | 9/5/2024 | ||
| 365059 | 365,059 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint | Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 12/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 389148 | 389,148 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help you create draft quizzes | To help teachers, staff, and information workers save time, Copilot in Forms can now generate ice breakers, fun trivia, quizzes, and assessments with correct answers, which helps users focus more on engagement and interaction with their audience. | Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 398983 | 398,983 | Outlook: Updating Conversation Actions on Outlook for iOS | 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. With this update, you will also be able to access all conversation actions from the inbox view by long-pressing a message. | Outlook | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 366697 | 366,697 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Enhanced Classification Support for Thai language in Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive | In our continued efforts to enhance classification capabilities, we have added a new feature, Word-Breaker, to our existing Thai Language support in Classification. Words in Thai language sentences do not have spaces between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on the right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy across all cloud locations (Exchange, Teams, One Drive, SharePoint). | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 403103 | 403,103 | Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional support for Teams Live Interpretation | With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the direction they want to provide translation in between the two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear from. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 9/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 388746 | 388,746 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New proactive assistance in Copilot | Catch-up is a new experience in Copilot which aims to proactively help users catch up and take action on important updates. It contains a group of cards. Each card has an update related to an important meeting or document. It will work in M365chat and Teams Copilot. It shows up as a tab on the home page. This feature—Catch up tab which was released to some customers—will be rolled back completely. As a result of this roll back, no Copilot user will see the Catch up tab on the homepage of Copilot. All Copilot users will continue to see "Try These Prompts" as earlier. We apologize for the inconvenience. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 7/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 388741 | 388,741 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat support to generate a SWOT analysis | Users can ask for a SWOT analysis or pro/con list of a document or topic that will analyze their document and bring in relevant enterprise and web context to inform the derived analysis. This feature is being removed from the roadmap as it describes a capability of Copilot Chat in Word and not a standalone capability. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Word | General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 392844 | 392,844 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms helps you collect more responses to your surveys or quizzes | Copilot in Forms assists form owners by recommending optimal distribution channels and settings for sending forms or quizzes. This includes leveraging email, social media, and QR codes to maximize the benefits of digital forms and quizzes. | Forms, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 323899 | 323,899 | 2 | Continued expansion of default OCR on M365 content will improve the basic index quality for search. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online | This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 9/4/2024 |
| 415168 | 415,168 | Outlook: Automatically display auto-mapped calendars | Users will be able to automatically see their auto-mapped calendars when toggling from classic Outlook to the new. #newoutlookforwindows | Outlook | Targeted Release, General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 397095 | 397,095 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference data from the Microsoft cloud when drafting with Copilot in Word | Draft with Copilot will allow users to explicitly add and reference specific mails, meetings, and people. Draft with Copilot will support attaching rich content from the Microsoft cloud—including emails and meetings—resulting in content that's more contextually relevant. | Word, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 370560 | 370,560 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page | With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 2/1/2025 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 165707 | 165,707 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams | Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 400707 | 400,707 | Microsoft Teams: Text and UI resizing for Teams Rooms on Windows | IT admins can adjust the size of the text and all other UI elements on the front-of-room display by changing the display scaling settings. Text and UI elements are resized and adjusted for all supported display resolution and scaling combinations (1080p resolution at 100-150% scaling, 4K resolution at 100-300% scaling). This capability is extended to support touch boards. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 160010 | 160,010 | 3 | Users should be aware that Purview currently does not run OCR on embedded images within PDFs, Office or container files. Only stand alone images. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business | Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF). | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 3/1/2025 | 9/4/2024 |
| 402195 | 402,195 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Cumulative Exfiltration Tuning | With this update, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will not be detected and scored if the events have already been detected in a previous Cumulative Exfiltration Activity risk. This change will reduce noise for alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activity. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 382924 | 382,924 | Microsoft Viva: Campaign Enhancements - Targeted campaigns and campaigns in the digest. | Corporate communications and campaign managers will now have the capability to effectively promote their campaigns by sending notifications directly to users, ensuring they are promptly informed about new campaigns and can readily participate in them. Additionally, campaigns will be discoverable in the engage digest, enhancing visibility and engagement opportunities. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva | Targeted Release, General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/4/2024 | ||
| 83964 | 83,964 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Security policy violations by risky users | Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls. |
Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 6/1/2025 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 412077 | 412,077 | Microsoft Teams: Audio zones enable Mesh creators to craft custom audio experiences | Spatial audio in Mesh provides a realistic recreation of how sound moves in the real world, with the volume of people speaking or media playing getting lower of as you move away from the source of the sound. The introduction of audio zones enables creators to craft custom audio experiences for the intended use of a space with features such as extended audio drop off distances for conversations that happen in a large area, or restricting what audio can enter a given area, to allow smaller groups to have lively conversations without disrupting their neighbors. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 399426 | 399,426 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights employee engagement with leader communications report | We are assessing customer feedback to improve this report before fully rolling it out. We apologize for the inconvenience. Leaders will have a new report to help them understand the reach of their communications within their organization, and their employees’ engagement with their sent emails, meetings, and shared files to better understand the effectiveness of different modes of communication. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 408172 | 408,172 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements | Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 9/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 384093 | 384,093 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier | The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 381452 | 381,452 | 2 | There are many scenarios where search by MSGID would add value. I would hope that Sensitivity Label is a metadata facet available in review for segregation of exports. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery - Enhancements to available metadata for search and collection queries | This is cancelled because this is released as part of the new modern ux: 383744. Now eDiscovery admins can use additional metadata to search and collect content within their organization. The additional metadata that will be added for support will include message ID, sensitivity label and more to help enable additional flexibility of search for specific scenarios to enable specific outcomes related to investigations. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | Preview, General Availability | 10/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 |
| 116251 | 116,251 | 5 | While this may have reached many tenants some time back, it is important to know that meeting recording are stored in the organizer's OneDrive under the Recordings folder. | Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business | With this change Teams meeting recordings will be saved to the meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business instead of to the OneDrive for Business folder of the person who initiated the recording. This improves the compliance of recordings as meeting organizers can then manage access permissions and recording file management. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 6/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 |
| 397768 | 397,768 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time | You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 387128 | 387,128 | Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs | The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 119305 | 119,305 | Microsoft Teams: Group chat profile picture | You will have a better way to reflect your team and group chat topic, with custom pictures. Group chat members can upload an image or use pre-selected illustrations and emojis, adding a layer of inclusivity and expression to their chat. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 376698 | 376,698 | Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Information Protection and Insider Risk Management support multicloud environments | Microsoft Purview Information Protection extends its sensitivity labels and protection policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create label-based protection policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope, and which users or groups are allowed to access data with a certain sensitivity label and Purview will automatically enforce the policy and block unauthorized access to sensitive data. Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. 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. Note: We have updated the cloud environments to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | Microsoft Purview compliance portal | General Availability, Preview | 6/1/2025 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 398448 | 398,448 | Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Creation and Registration APIs | Customers now have additional capabilities to manage Webinars, namely the ability to create, update, and delete Webinars, as well as register attendees to existing Webinars using a new set of APIs. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 8/1/2024 | 9/3/2024 | ||
| 185802 | 185,802 | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) | Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release (Entire Organization), Targeted Release (Select People) | 6/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 190937 | 190,937 | Outlook: Draft by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows | Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot can now help you draft new messages or replies. | Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Current Channel | 3/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 186429 | 186,429 | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) | Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization), General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 192177 | 192,177 | Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams Chat list | The Copilot for Microsoft 365 app is available in the Teams Apps Store for Copilot licensed users. This update will make the Copilot app visible in the Teams Chat list for easy access. | Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 2/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 375211 | 375,211 | Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Goal Customization in Copilot in Viva Goals | Enhancements to Viva Goals Copilot to better support customized terminology. | Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 375760 | 375,760 | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap now available for Copilot users | Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 1/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 190927 | 190,927 | Outlook: Coaching by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows | Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | Current Channel | 2/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 371578 | 371,578 | Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) | Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 180900 | 180,900 | 3 | LLM driven email summarization may have impact on content and search/review depending on implementation. Looking for whether and how the generated content is stored. Stay tuned. | Outlook: Classic Outlook for Windows - Summarize by Copilot | Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot can summarize email threads and extract key points. |
Outlook, Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | Current Channel | 11/1/2023 | 4/1/2024 |
| 373655 | 373,655 | Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings | Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 180185 | 180,185 | Outlook: Copilot in Outlook | Copilot in Outlook helps you stay on top of your inbox and create impactful communication in a fraction of the time. Copilot can now summarize an email thread and quickly jump to the source of the summarized content, suggest action items, and draft new messages or replies. Copilot also coaches you on how to best get your message across and you can adjust the tone and length of your message. These features will be available in Outlook for Mac, web, iOS, Android, and the new Outlook for Windows. |
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Outlook | General Availability | 11/1/2023 | 4/1/2024 | ||
| 180204 | 180,204 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Chat | Your single destination to take on any task. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, and other apps, to help you draft content, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. It's available via multiple surfaces, including microsoft365.com, Teams, and Bing. |
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability | 11/1/2023 | 3/30/2024 | ||
| 95921 | 95,921 | Microsoft Teams: Text prediction for Teams mobile | When you compose or reply to a message in Teams, Editor Text Predictions anticipates your writing and suggests a suitable word or phrase inline. This saves time and helps you reduce typos. This item is being removed from the roadmap as it is no longer applicable. We apologize for the delay in updating this information. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 9/1/2022 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 177877 | 177,877 | OneDrive: Access Microsoft Lists, Power BI, Loop and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web | You will be able to easily find and open your Microsoft Lists, Loops, Power BI dashboards and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web. If you have recently opened, shared, or favorited one of these files, then it will appear in your Recent, Shared, and Favorites views in OneDrive for Web. |
OneDrive | General Availability, Targeted Release | 11/1/2023 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 378407 | 378,407 | Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant | This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources. | Microsoft Viva | General Availability | 2/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 379975 | 379,975 | Bookings: Bookings in GCC High and DoD | With this update, Bookings will be available to customers in GCC High and DoD environments. | Bookings | General Availability | 3/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 135562 | 135,562 | Microsoft Teams: Task lists for each team member, recurring task lists, and top task publishing requests | Task publishing allows an organization to centrally define and distribute tasks across their frontline locations and monitor how that work is going. The task publishing capability will allow users to create recurring task lists that repeat on a selected cadence, to create lists assigned to everyone in a recipient team, to require a Microsoft Forms form as a prerequisite to completion, and to designate an approval as a prerequisite to completion. | Microsoft Teams, Planner | General Availability, Targeted Release (Select People), Targeted Release (Entire Organization) | 3/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 179769 | 179,769 | Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App | Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app. | Microsoft Teams | Targeted Release, General Availability | 5/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 186965 | 186,965 | Planner: Copilot in Planner | Through simple, natural-language prompts, Copilot in the Planner Teams app will help you generate new plans, set goals, track status, and react to changes as projects evolve. | Microsoft Project, Planner | General Availability | 4/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 186540 | 186,540 | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GA for enterprise secure AI controls in the Microsoft Edge management service | Enterprise secure AI controls are now available in the Microsoft Edge management service. This feature provides a new dedicated space for admins to manage all AI-related policies in the Edge browser. This will help enhance security and productivity for managed users and devices. | Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) | General Availability, Preview | 3/1/2024 | 3/29/2024 | ||
| 116819 | 116,819 | Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) | We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability, Targeted Release |