Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 25-09-2024

Updated September 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below for GCC High and DoD. We apologize for the delay and will provide an updated timing when available. Thank you for your patience.

In 2023, Microsoft Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows released new flexible working hours that allowed users to set different working hours and location (office/remote) for individual workdays. Users could update their daily work location in the calendar and see their coworkers’ work location in the scheduling assistant. We will soon roll out these additional updates:

• Updated daily location menu to help users plan their day and see who else is in the office
• Integrating your work location with your Out of Office time

This message refers to MC553273 (Updated) Outlook on the web – Work Hours and Location (May 2023) and is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383721.

[When this will happen]

Outlook on the web and new Outlook for Windows

• Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late March 2024 and expect to complete by late April 2024. Complete
• General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late March 2024 and expect to complete by late May 2024. Complete
• General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early May 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024. Complete
• General Availability (GCC High, and DoD): We will begin rolling out in early 2025. (We will provide an update once the schedule is set)

[How this will affect your organization:]

Learn more with this blog coming in May 2024: https://aka.ms/NewWHLOutlook (points to support article before blog is ready)

Outlook on the web: daily peek with suggestion:

Outlook on the web: set your out of office location:

[What you need to do to prepare]

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

User support: Learn more about work hours in Outlook – Microsoft Support

In Microsoft Teams, you can add a location to your presence signal to indicate when you’re in the office or a particular office building using Microsoft Places building lookup. 

For more information, see Set your work location in Microsoft Teams.

You can view the work location of other people in your organization from several places in Teams.

• View location from a profile card.

• View location from a one-on-one chat.

• View location from a group chat and see who is also nearby.

For more information, see View other people’s work location.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft Places related features in Teams will let you introduce more flexible work within your organization as an IT administrator. Integrated with Microsoft 365, Teams with Places will help users make informed decisions about their work dynamics, which can lead to increased productivity and enhanced collaboration. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To learn how to enable and configure these features for your organization, review the Deployment guide for Microsoft Places.

The Universal Print anywhere feature offers customers Pull Print queue functionality through Microsoft Universal Print. This feature allows admins to configure one or more virtual printer queues and map any number of registered printers in Universal Print to these virtual printer queues. The goal is to simplify the end-user’s experience as the user only needs to know the one printer for their region/location and can walk up to any physical printer near them to securely release their print jobs.

Universal Print anywhere is initially paired with the Secure release with QR code functionality. Additional secure release options will be made available in the future.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395937.

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC High, GCC): We plan to begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

This is a new feature, and we do not expect any impact on your existing use of Universal Print.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Admins should set aside some test printers that are configured with Secure release with QR code. Additionally, admins should make sure the mobile Microsoft 365 app is installed on their mobile devices through the mobile device’s application store/marketplace and the appropriate organization user account is configured in the Microsoft 365 app.

Coming soon for Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android: Online archive mailboxes is a feature that offers users advanced archiving capabilities in the Mailbox archive. An Outlook online archive mailbox can store older email messages where they won’t occupy space in the user’s primary mailbox. This specialized mailbox appears with your other mailbox folders in Outlook. After this rollout, if you have enabled Mailbox archive for your users, the Online Archive mailbox will appear in the folder list, which users can access by tapping their profile in the top left of their screen.

NOTE: The Online Archive folder is different than the Archive folder. Using the Archive button to move messages to the Archive folder doesn’t reduce your mailbox size. Learn more about the Archive folder: Archive in Outlook for Windows – Microsoft Support.

Before this rollout, users are only able to access their online archive emails in Outlook for iOS and Android through Search. After this rollout, users will be also able to access archived email in the Online Archive folder.

Learn more about the admin policy: Enable archive mailboxes for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn

Learn more about the user experience: Manage email storage with online archive mailboxes – Microsoft Support (will be updated soon)

[When this will happen:]

General Availability | Outlook for iOS (Worldwide GCC, GCC High, DoD): We began rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.

General Availability | Outlook for Android (Worldwide GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out late September 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

For tenants where admins have enabled Mailbox archive for users in the Exchange admin center, users will start seeing Online Archive in their folder list in Outlook mobile.

If admins do not turn on Mailbox archive for a user, this feature is disabled. Learn more in the section called How to enable an archive mailbox in Enable archive mailboxes for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically. You may want to notify your users about their archives appearing in the folder list and update any relevant documentation.

This update allows users to drag and drop emails into the Calendar icon on the left app bar of Microsoft Outlook to create an event. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413716.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this feature update, users will be able to create events by dragging and dropping emails into the Calendar icon on the left app bar of Microsoft Outlook.

This update 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.

• This update moves your profile picture to different positions in the Start menu. There is also a new background color for the left pane on the menu.
• This update addresses an issue in Microsoft Edge. It sometimes stops responding when you use IE mode.​​​​​​​
• This update addresses an issue with media playback. Playback of some media might stop when you use certain surround sound technology.

• Windows 10, version 22H2: KB5043131