12-January-2025 Below you will find a collection of news published yesterday. This news consists of Microsoft’s Roadmap when it is updated it will be below with items. Then there will be a section with the message center, if there is anything new there, this will be automatically included. And it contains a piece from blogs that I follow myself and would like to share with you. If I miss something in the blogs that do have an RSS feed, please let me know.
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The blogs of this day are:
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New integration with Adaptive protectionCategory:Microsoft 365 suite Microsoft PurviewNummer:MC791110Status:stayInformed | Updated January 9, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon for Microsoft Purview: We are announcing the public preview of the integration of Adaptive protection with Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) to help you find the right balance to protect against data sabotage while enabling productivity. This new integration leverages DLM features to provide an additional control for Adaptive protection that automatically preserves items deleted by a user with an elevated risk level, so items can be restored if needed. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392839. [When this will happen:] Public preview: We will begin rolling out in late June 2024 (previously early May) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously mid-July). General Availability: We will begin rolling out in mid-March 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously late February). [How this will affect your organization:] After the rollout, and after you enable Adaptive protection for your tenant, the retention label and auto-apply policy for data lifecycle management will be automatically created for you. This policy will automatically include elevated risk users identified by Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management solution. If these users delete content from Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, or Microsoft Exchange, a retention label is automatically applied to that content to retain it for 120 days. Retention labels are automatically applied to unlabeled content deleted by these users. When these users are no longer at the elevated risk level, they are automatically removed from the DLM policy, and the system will no longer keep a copy of content they delete. Any content copies previously retained when the user had an elevated risk level will be kept for the 120 days as specified by the retention label. Unlike other retention labeling scenarios, users do not see the retention label, and you do not need to create or manage the retention label or policy. At this time, you can’t change the retention period or assign different policies based on the different risk levels, or for different locations. The single retention label and auto-labeling policy for your tenant is not visible in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. [What you need to do to prepare:] Learn more: Learn about retention policies & labels to retain or delete | Microsoft Learn If you’re using Adaptive protection and want to automatically retain content deleted by elevated risk users, follow these steps to turn on this new integration.
If you’re not using Adaptive protection already, turn on Adaptive protection and the new feature will be enabled along with Adaptive protection. 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 as appropriate. |
| (Updated) Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in WordCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC866452Status:stayInformed | Updated January 10, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. 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 February 2025 (previously late December). [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: |
| (Updated) Microsoft Word: Copilot will generate an automatic summary when a file opensCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC871010Status:stayInformed | Updated January 10, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. 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 February 2025 (previously late December). [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: |
| (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Separate Copilot retention policies from Teams chatsCategory:Microsoft PurviewNummer:MC926899Status:planForChange | Updated January 10, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Before this rollout, Microsoft Teams chat and Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions are available together to be included or excluded in the Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management policy in the Purview compliance center. After this rollout, admins can have separate policies for Copilot interactions. Also, admins can separate Teams chat from Copilot interactions to create new retention policies for Copilot messages only. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407897. [When this will happen:] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late February 2025 (previously late January). [How this will affect your organization:] Admins will be able to separate existing Teams Chat from Copilot interactions: This feature is available by default for admins to configure from the Data Lifecycle Management Retention policies. Separate Copilot retention policies from Teams chats:
[What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. 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. |
| Microsoft SharePoint: New Accessibility assistant tool for authoring PagesCategory:SharePoint OnlineNummer:MC976819Status:stayInformed | Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: A new Accessibility assistant tool to help content creators meet accessibility standards when authoring SharePoint Pages. This tool provides checks and brief guidance to help ensure pages are inclusive and accessible to a broad audience. This rollout reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering accessibility and inclusivity in SharePoint. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470603. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025. General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by early March 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] After this rollout, authors can initiate an accessibility test while editing a page. Authors can select the Accessibility assistant icon from the right vertical toolbar. The Accessibility assistant will support five web parts: Banner, Text, Image, Hero, and Quick Links. The Accessibility assistant identifies accessibility issues:
The Accessibility assistant guides authors to address accessibility issues in the specific web part:
The Accessibility assistant confirms the author has addressed all accessibility issues:
[What you need to do to prepare:] Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation. This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before or after the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. |
| Microsoft Search: The old Search usage reports will retireCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC976821Status:planForChange | Effective April 1, 2025, the New usage insights toggle on the Insights tab of the Microsoft 365 Search and Intelligence admin portal will be retired, making old search usage reports inaccessible. The new usage reports have improved consistency and are more efficient to maintain. [How this will affect your organization:] The retirement will not affect existing default reports in the Search and Intelligence portal. There are some differences between the new and old reports, including changes in metrics (such as the new reports have no query count or average position) and improvements to the user experience. For consistency, you cannot switch back to the old reports, and we will not address the disparities of the old reports at this time. [What you need to do to prepare:] You will have access to view old reports until March 31, 2025. We encourage you to download any necessary old reports by this date for your records. Also, we invite you to explore our new search usage reports available in the Insights tab and provide your feedback using the feedback icon in the Search and Intelligence portal. Learn more about the new search usage reports: Search Usage Reports | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Viva Engage: Leadership feed available in SharePoint web partCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC976827Status:stayInformed | We have added a new source feed option in the Viva Engage conversations web part, which is called the “leaders” feed. As a result of this change, your site admins will be able to add the following Microsoft Viva Engage feeds to their Microsoft SharePoint site via the conversations web part:
If a site admin chooses to add the “leaders” feed to their SharePoint site, the content the user sees will be dependent on their license status.
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): This feature has completed rollout. This update is available by default. [How this will affect your organization:] When site admins are editing their SharePoint site, they will have the additional “leaders” feed option when they are configuring the currently available conversations web part. There is no impact on any conversation web parts already added to SharePoint sites within your tenant. [What you need to do to prepare:] This change will have no impact on any existing conversations web parts. 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. |
| Viva Engage: Verified AnswersCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC976828Status:stayInformed | We are rolling out the Verified Answers feature in Microsoft Viva Engage. This new functionality empowers community experts and admins to mark answers on questions as “Verified” to provide a reliable indicator of credible and trustworthy information. Only assigned community experts and community administrators have the ability to mark an answer as “Verified.” This ensures that the verification comes from users with recognized expertise and authority within the community. Key Benefits of Verified Answers:
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408165. [When this will happen:] Preview: We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025. General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete in early March 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] The Verified Answers feature is a seeded feature, which means it is available to all users of Viva Engage. [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. |
