Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 12-09-2024

Updated September 11, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users can soon find all of their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker in Microsoft Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84023

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in early December 2023 (previously late November) and expect to complete rollout by late January 2024 (previously mid-December).

Worldwide: We will begin rolling out in early April 2024 (previously mid-March) and expect to complete rollout by late July 2024.

GCC, GCC High, DoD: We will begin rolling out in late July 2024 (previously early June) and expect to complete rollout by late September 2024 (previously late August).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users can find emojis, GIFs, and stickers combined in one menu under the smiley face icon. All the fun content will remain as normal for users to add in their messages.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is nothing you need to do to prepare.

Updated September 11, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below for DoD organizations. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message on meeting right pane for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167211

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-November and expect to complete by late November.

Worldwide: We will begin rolling out early December and expect to complete by mid-December.

GCC: We will begin rolling out early January and expect to complete by mid-January.

GCC High: We will begin rolling out mid-January and expect to complete by late January.

DoD: We will begin rolling out early February and expect to complete by late September 2024 (previously late August).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Once available, users will begin to understand why they cannot access certain chats during meetings.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is no action needed to prepare for this change.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We’re introducing the ability to record and insert Stream video recordings in Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185369

[When this will happen:]

Standard Release: We will begin rolling in late October 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by late November 2024 (previously late September).

[How this will affect your organization:]

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.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

A new policy controls the ability to record Stream videos, including webcam and screen recordings, within supported applications.

The policy specifically applies to Outlook on the Web, the new Outlook for Windows, and the Loop application.

If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, users can record themselves and/or their screen, enabling them to create Stream videos within the supported Microsoft 365 applications.

If you disable this policy setting, users can’t record and create Stream videos within the supported Microsoft 365 applications.

Note: This policy setting is exclusive to Outlook on the Web, the new Outlook for Windows, and the Loop application. It does not apply to the Stream Web Application.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance is introducing enhanced policy conditions that enable empowering precise detection, custom logic, and seamless testing for compliance needs.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161829

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late April 2024 and expect to complete by mid-May 2024.

General Availability Worldwide: We will begin rolling out late May 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024 (previously late August).

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the rollout, three updates will enhance policy conditions in Communication Compliance:

• Our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts.
• With new support for the OR operator, you can combine multiple conditions in the same policy. This will help you to create compound conditions with AND, OR, and NOT operators to achieve complex scenarios for your unique compliance requirements.
• To make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we are introducing 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.

The new condition features are in the same position in the Compliance Portal as before the rollout:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

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.

You can access the Communication Compliance solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Learn about communication compliance | Microsoft Learn

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline for this change and provided a link to additional information. Thank you for your patience.

This notice is regarding changes coming to the Teams administrator permissions that are used to create Teams Phone Resource Accounts for: Auto Attendants, Call Queues and certified Teams Call Center applications. This change could affect users with “Teams Administrator”, “Teams Communications Administrator” or the “Teams Telephony Administrator” role.

Currently, the underlying Team service’s permission is used to create Resource Accounts in M365. After this change, the ability to create Resource Accounts will leverage the Microsoft 365 admin role’s permission to create user accounts instead of the underlying service’s permission.

The “Teams Administrator”, “Teams Communications Administrator” and “Teams Telephony Administrator” roles will not have user creation permissions so this change may result in disruption in your organization’s ability to create these Resource Accounts.

Organizations that utilize those Teams roles will require Administrators with user creation permission such as Microsoft 365 Global Admin or User Admin to create and manage these Resource Accounts.

[When this will happen:]

We will begin rolling out in early October 2024 (previously early September) and expect to complete by late October of 2024 (previously late September).  

[How this will affect your organization:]

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates that your organization is using Teams Phone and may have Resource Accounts created for the Teams Auto Attendant, Teams Call Queue, or a Certified Teams Call Center application.

Administrators who do not have a Microsoft 365 Admin role which contains permissions to create and manage users will no longer be able to create or modify Resource Accounts when this change is implemented.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Evaluate if your Teams Voice Administrators who are creating Teams Resource Accounts currently have Microsoft 365 user creation and management permissions. If they do not, make the process changes within your organization for how Resource Accounts will be created and managed after this change.

Upcoming changes for creating and managing Teams Phone resource accounts 

For more information, please see the “Assign permissions for managing a resource account” in the Manage resource accounts for service numbers – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn document

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: Admins can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is resolved.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388736

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in early May 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.

General Availability: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024 (previously late August).

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this new feature, an admin can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is closed. Today, this expiration happens automatically.

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. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

With this update, admins will see a new option in the Risk levels tab for adaptive protection called Risk level expiration options. This setting is enabled by default, and admins can uncheck this box if they would prefer that risk levels do not expire even when a user’s alert is dismissed or their case is closed. 

Additional Resources: 

• Help dynamically mitigate risks with adaptive protection (preview) | Microsoft Learn  

 Updated September 11, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Through Microsoft Purview | Information Protection, and for greater consistency and reliability, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows will soon display the same Data Loss Prevention policy tips that admins have set in their tenants for files on Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft OneDrive sites.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383018.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early June 2024 and expect to complete by mid-June 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024 (previously mid-September).

[How this will affect your organization:]

DLP policy tips will no longer be shown when a user is offline.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to update any relevant documentation as appropriate

We will update this comm before rollout with revised documentation.

You can access the Information Protection solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

As users search in office.com, sharepoint.com, or Microsoft Bing at Work, they will get results from Microsoft Viva Engage that they have access to. The results show up as interleaved results on the search page. This is currently limited to only question posts from public Communities, Storylines, and Answers. This new feature is available by default.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 391669.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability: We will begin rolling out late September 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by late October 2024 (previously late September). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Below is an example of search results (available to all users):

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the Public Preview rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

For Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP), we’ve added enhancements to the device onboarding page. These include:

• Ability to search by IP address to look up devices.
• New filter for ‘Valid user’ available.
• Refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported, which excludes Android devices from showing up in the device onboarding list.
• New properties in the export report.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 393934

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 (previously late June) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously early July).

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC-High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024 (previously late August).

[How this will affect your organization:]

• You will be able to look up devices using their IP address in the search box (located in the upper right corner of the page) and view their device health status in the device onboarding page. 

• You can filter for valid or invalid devices using the “Valid user” filter to get a list of all the devices that have an invalid user status. When the valid user status is invalid, it means that there was no authenticated user found. Without proper authentication, data classification is impeded. If the status of the valid user status is invalid, follow the provided remediation guidance.

• The device onboarding page has been enhanced to only show devices that can be DLP supported.
• You can get all the device information from the device onboarding page using the export capability. The export report now contains new device properties including:
  • Valid user
  • First onboarded date
  • MDATP device ID
  • Defender engine version
  • Defender Mocamp version
  • Endpoint DLP status
  • Last policy sync time
  • Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded

For more information, see Troubleshooting endpoint data loss prevention configuration and policy sync | Microsoft Learn

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated September 11, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

When joining a meeting in Teams Room on Windows with a companion device (laptop or mobile), in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join. This update includes additional UI elements to create visual clarity of the in-room participants who are together.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 400702

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid- September 2024 (previously early September) and expect to complete by late September 2024 (previously mid-September).

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late October 2024 (late September). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

This update is available by default if the companion device has enabled the Bluetooth setting and the Teams Room device has any one of the following XML <SkypeSettings> configuration settings enabled:

• <BluetoothAdvertisementEnabled>true</BluetoothAdvertisementEnabled>
• <UltrasoundAdvertisementEnabled>true</UltrasoundAdvertisementEnabled>
• <RoomQRcodeEnabled>true</RoomQRcodeEnabled>

On the roster, in-room participants will automatically be grouped under the room node. The two scenarios in which in-room participants can be ungrouped from the room node are:

• Raised hand: For raised hand, we continue to follow the sequential order of raised hands. Therefore, in-room participants who use their companion device to raise their hand will be broken up and ordered accordingly.
• Role assignment: For changes in roles (Presenters/Attendees), in-room participants can be broken up and placed in the appropriate category on the roster.

In both scenarios, the room information will be listed below the participant’s name.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated September 11, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the translation direction between 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.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 403103.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early September 2024 (previously early August) and expect to complete by mid-September 2024 (previously mid-August).

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete by late September 2024 (previously late August).

General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 (previously late September) and expect to complete by early November 2024 (previously early October).

[How this will affect your organization:]

The new bidirectional capability allows tenants to hire fewer interpreters to do live translation in Teams meetings, reducing the operation costs for tenants.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Using a Microsoft SharePoint organization asset library as a tenant-based brand asset source, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word is now able to search and download brand-approved images, logos, icons, and illustrations directly from the chat experience. This new feature enables an on-brand Copilot for Microsoft 365 experience and provides a new creative content source beyond the licensed stock images already available today.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 406170.

[When this will happen:] 

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by mid-October 2024 (previously late September).

[How this will affect your organization:]

To use this feature in Copilot for Microsoft 365, tenants can either use existing SharePoint image-based organization asset libraries or create new ones. Tenant admins will need to use a new cmdlet in the management shell to identify the targeted organization asset library and provide consent for Copilot for Microsoft 365 to search from the library. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

In advance, tenant admins should proactively reach out to their brand team to identify brand content for use in Copilot for Microsoft 365. This content and associated metadata will need to be migrated to the identified organization asset library. Content should include associated image tags and metadata in order for Copilot for Microsoft 365 to provide accurate and relevant search results. If your tenant is already using organization asset libraries with approved content already present, the only admin action will be running the new cmdlet in the management shell that sets the drive ID.

To learn more about Microsoft’s own review of this product with its works councils, please consider reading: https://aka.ms/Copilot/MSWorksCouncilsArticle. 

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the content with an End User documentation link. Thank you for your patience.

When you open a document, Copilot for Microsoft 365 for Microsoft Word will generate a summary in the window at the top of the Word document. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397096.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will see a new UI between the canvas and the ribbon in Word supporting a summary of the document created by Copilot for Microsoft 365. This UI can be collapsed if the user does not want to see the summary.

Fully expanded:

Semi-expanded:

This new feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

End User documentation:

• Create a summary of your document with Copilot – Microsoft Support

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the content with an End User documentation link. Thank you for your patience.

Note: A Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature.

Coming soon to Microsoft Word: When you open a document, Microsoft 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.

This message applies to Word for Windows and Mac desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 399921.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this release: Copilot in Word does not provide a summary when a file is opened.

After this rollout, the Copilot in Word summary will appear at the top of the document. The user can collapse the summary if desired.

Copilot in Word summary with the View more button:

Copilot in Word summary fully expanded:

This feature is on by default and available to all Word users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.

End User Documentation:

•  Create a summary of your document with Copilot – Microsoft Support

Updated September 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

A new Microsoft Purview compliance portal introduces a pivotal communications enhancement that integrates Insider Risk Management (IRM) alerts within Communication Compliance (CC) triage flows, providing a holistic approach to compliance risk assessment. This integration empowers investigators with enriched insights by correlating communication alerts with a user’s risk profile and activity history from IRM directly in a CC triage flow. This synergy between IRM and CC facilitates a more nuanced and informed decision-making process during investigations. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408534.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late September 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by mid-October 2024 (previously mid-September)

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 (previously mid-September) and expect to complete by late October 2024 (previously late September).

[How this will affect your organization:]

The integration of IRM context into CC is a significant stride towards enhancing the efficacy of compliance investigations. This will allow investigators to view a user’s risk profile and history alongside communication alerts, enabling a more informed and efficient triage process.

The insider risk severity (Low, Medium, or High) determined by activity detected in IRM policies helps to prioritize and respond to user activity accordingly. A new user activity timeline will show messages and activities from IRM in one screen, simplifying the review process.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To use this feature, please connect with IRM administrators to enable Data sharing from IRM settings. If you don’t turn this setting on, you will see Insider risk activity not available.

We've released updates to the following update channels for Microsoft 365 Apps:

• Current Channel
• Monthly Enterprise Channel
• Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
• Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

[When this will happen:]

We'll be gradually rolling out these updates of Microsoft 365 Apps to users on those update channels starting September 10th, 2024 (PST).

[How this will affect your organization:]

If your Microsoft 365 Apps clients are configured to automatically update from the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN), then no action is required.

If you manage updates directly you can now download these latest updates and begin deployment.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To get more details about these updates view the following release notes:

• Current Channel
• Monthly Enterprise Channel
• Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview)
• Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel

The new Microsoft Planner for the web (https://planner.cloud.microsoft) brings together the simplicity of Microsoft To Do, the collaboration of Planner, the power of Microsoft Project, and the intelligence of Copilot for Microsoft 365 into a simple, scalable solution that spans individual task management to professional project management.

With this rollout, we will update the existing web version of Planner to the new Planner. The new Planner for the web will match Planner in Teams to enable your users to seamlessly switch between Teams and web.

A Microsoft 365 license is required to use the new Planner. While final pricing for Copilot in Planner (preview) has not been announced, if you have a Project Plan 3 license, Project Plan 5 license, or a premium Planner trial license, you can preview Copilot in Planner capabilities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 411777.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late November 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

The following features will not be available at launch but will be available by early 2025:

• Open plans associated with a Loop task list
• Board view in the Assigned to me view
• Add Assigned to me tasks or a plan to an external calendar with an iCalendar link. NOTE: Existing iCalendar links will continue to work. New iCalendar link creation is not supported, and existing iCalendar links cannot be disabled while this feature is not available.
• Undoing the deletion of a task

As part of our efforts to simplify Planner, these existing features are not available in the new Planner due to low usage:

• Charts for pinned plans in Planner Hub
• While you were away notifications
• Activity log of a task’s creation, assignments, and completion date in the task comments.
• Links to group members, Microsoft Outlook conversations, and Microsoft OneNote notebook (you can still access these links in Outlook)
• Menu option to Leave plan
• Suggested attachments
• Charts view and Schedule view on the Assigned to me page
• Customized backgrounds for plans

Planner will also now support Targeted release. For organizations that opt in to Targeted release, your organization will be the first to see the latest Planner updates and can help shape the product by providing early feedback. Planner does not support individuals opted into Targeted release. Learn more about Targeted release.

Lastly, after the new Planner for the web is rolled out, users can still access Project for the web. For this rollout, we will merge notification settings in the new Planner and Project for the web. Users will see identical notification options in the two apps, and the settings they choose will be reflected across both apps. Until a user reviews their notification settings, we will maintain what the user had set before the notifications are merged.

The new Planner for the web:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

• The new Planner is on by default for users with the required licenses. This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change.
• Please review our Planner blog announcement to update any internal documentation. We will update Planner help documentation in the coming weeks.
• Supporting adoption resources: The new Microsoft Planner

The Microsoft Purview Message Encryption portal provides access to encrypted messages sent from your organization’s users to external recipients. The cloud.microsoft domain was provisioned in early 2023 to provide a unified, trusted, and dedicated DNS domain space to host Microsoft’s first-party authenticated SaaS products and experiences. With this rollout, selected Microsoft products and scenarios will transition to a similar static.microsoft domain, in parallel with the previous domains. As part of this transition, the design of the portal (fonts, colors, controls, and more) will be adjusted to align with Purview branding and domain change.

Microsoft Purview Message Encryption portal (https://MessageEncryption.purview.static.microsoft)

A full list of products and scenarios already being delivered on the static.microsoft domain can be found at Unified cloud.microsoft domain for Microsoft 365 apps – Microsoft 365 Enterprise | Microsoft Learn.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users that receive encrypted messages that have a link to open the mail in the encrypted message portal will be redirected to applications under static.microsoft domains gradually and automatically. No specific user action is required. Links to the previous domains are backwards compatible and will continue to be supported. Users may notice that the new application domains are lacking the .com extension, which is by design, because .microsoft is Microsoft’s own top-level domain. This exclusivity allows for additional security and protection against spoofing.

This change is on by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

• Educate users to recognize and expect static.microsoft as a key domain for Microsoft cloud experiences. Users can learn more about the .microsoft domain in What is cloud.microsoft? – Microsoft Support
• If your organizational websites, tools, or other materials reference the old URL outlook.office365.com/Encryption, those links will be automatically redirected. It would be good practice to update those assets and any documentation with screenshots to avoid user confusion.
• Admins should ensure that connections to *.static.microsoft are not blocked from their clients and enterprise networks. This recommendation should require no action if you are following standard Microsoft network guidance on domains and service endpoints

Microsoft Teams for Education now has a 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, and channels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412934.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will now have additional options on their class/team tiles to directly get to assignments, classwork, and channels.

This new feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no admin action required. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams:

• An updated view of all teams on one Your teams page.
• An updated Manage Team > Channels page, helping team owners and team members to filter, search and manage channels in the team from one page. Team members will be able to navigate to the list of channels from the Your teams page with a single click.

This message applies to Teams on Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and on the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 411779.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.

General Availability (GCC, GCCH, DoD): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by early December 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, Team owners and members can hover on the team name on the left side of Teams, select the three dots, and go to Manage team to individually manage the team and its channels. Team owners and members can see all the teams they belong to from the Your teams page. Selecting a team on the Manage teams page takes Team owners and members to the team’s General channel.

The Manage team page with the Channels tab open: Access this page from the three dots next to the team name in the left panel in Teams:

The Your teams page shows all teams you belong to. Access this page from the three dots in the upper right corner of the left panel in Teams:

After this rollout:

• Team owners and members will be able to view their teams from the Your teams page, and access channels in each team. To navigate to the Your teams page, select Your teams and channels from the three dots in the top right corner of the left panel.

• Team owners and members can select a team name to review the channels in the team and choose channels of interest to show in Teams:

• Team owners and members can search and sort on the Your Teams page or hide all channels. When all channels of a team are hidden, the team will not show in the Teams and channels list on the left side of Teams.
• Team owners and members can also view the channels in the team from the Manage Team > Channels page, and show channels of interest by filtering, sorting, and searching for channels in the team from one page.

These features will be on by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your Team owners and members about this change and update any relevant documentation.