04-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:
Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2025-01-04
Additions : 2
Updates : 0
More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com
| New Features | Current Status | |||
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| SharePoint: Modifications in the Embedded container type creation cmdlets in PowerShell | In Development | |||
| Minecraft Education: Garden Awakens Update v1.21.5 | In Development | |||
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption communityCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC971030Status:stayInformed | Coming soon to the Microsoft Viva Engage adoption community for Microsoft 365 Copilot, users will receive recommendations of similar questions and answers when composing a question, leveraging the collective knowledge of the Copilot topic across all of Engage to help them find what they’re looking for faster. Additionally, admins will have the ability to remove adoption features from the existing community and apply them to a new or different community. Since general availability in August 2024 (referenced in MC7841560), network admins and corporate communicators can enable a new type of community specifically built to facilitate the rollout and adoption of Copilot in their organizations. This community can bring employees together in a community of practice where employees can ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] When composing a question in the Copilot adoption community, users will soon have access to a new feature that provides a list of recommended similar questions that have been asked and answered across all of Viva Engage. Users will soon be able to quickly navigate to existing answers, contribute to recommended questions, or post a new question, leveraging the collective knowledge across their network to find information faster and more efficiently. Admins who want to remove adoption features from the existing community and apply them to a new or different community can do so by navigating to the ellipses (…) menu on the right side of the community header and selecting Unmark Copilot community. This action will remove all adoption features, including suggested content, suggested members, and the setup checklist, while retaining all other content. This update is available by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] There is no required action for admins before the rollout. If your organization is working on rollout and adoption of Copilot, we recommend reading the support documentation to learn more about this new capability in Viva Engage and connecting with the Copilot change managers in your organization to include this in your rollout and adoption change management plan. Learn more: |
| Microsoft Teams: New transcription policies for town halls and webinarsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC971031Status:planForChange | Before this rollout, for a Microsoft Teams town hall or webinar, the transcription behavior respects the current Teams meeting transcription policies. After this rollout, new transcription policies will be available for town halls and webinars to allow finer control over transcriptions. The policies may be changed in the Teams admin center or with Microsoft PowerShell commands. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473886. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] These new transcription policies for webinars and town halls will determine whether transcription is allowed for a town hall or webinar. Town halls and webinars will no longer respect the Teams Meeting transcription policies. The new policies will be available by default for admins to configure. [What you need to do to prepare:] Before the rollout, we encourage you to use PowerShell commands to update the default values of the transcription policies for webinars and town halls. After the rollout, you can use Teams admin center or PowerShell commands to update the values. Examples of PowerShell commands to set the town hall or webinar policy:
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. Learn more: New-CsTeamsEventsPolicy (MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell) | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Teams: New recording policies for town halls and webinarsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC971032Status:planForChange | Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: New admin policies in the Teams admin center and Microsoft PowerShell that govern the recording behavior for town halls and webinars. Before this rollout, the same policies control the recording behavior for town halls, webinars, and meetings. After this rollout, separate recording policies for town halls and webinars will be available to more finely control event behavior. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473887. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] This change will be available by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] Before the rollout, we encourage you to use PowerShell commands to update the default values of the recording policies for webinars and town halls. After the rollout, you can use Teams admin center or PowerShell commands to update the values. Examples of PowerShell commands to set the town hall or webinar recording policy:
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. Learn more: New-CsTeamsEventsPolicy (MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell) | Microsoft Learn |
| Microsoft Teams: SMS for calling plansCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC971033Status:stayInformed | Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We will roll out SMS chat in calling plans for customers in the United States and Canada. This capability would enable customers to send and receive SMS natively in Teams. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for iOS/Android. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470999. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] Admins can enable SMS for users who have calling plans. Users will start to see PSTN (public switched telephone network) contacts in various search areas to start a SMS chat in Teams. This change will be available by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date. However, to enable numbers with SMS, admin action is required for 10DLC (10-digit long code). We will be enabling the admin experiences and Teams experiences by the specified date. Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation. |
| Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: New secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policiesCategory:Microsoft PurviewNummer:MC971035Status:planForChange | This new feature enables data governance administrators to expedite the permanent deletion of sensitive content from Microsoft Exchange mailboxes, overriding any existing retention settings or eDiscovery holds. This process may be required for security or privacy, such as after a data spillage incident or for compliance and regulatory requirements. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392838. [When this will happen:] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] Priority Cleanup administrators can now set up a Priority Cleanup policy for Exchange to create exceptions to retention principles and e-Discovery holds for specific scenarios. Once administrators are within the Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) Solution on Microsoft Purview, they can visit the Priority Cleanup tab and follow the wizard to set-up this policy. Like auto-apply retention labels, Priority Cleanup supports policy simulation mode, so administrators can check the returned samples in case the policy configuration needs any fine-tuning before enabling the policy. Once set-up, because the deletion by a priority cleanup policy is irreversible and can override existing holds, the process requires multiple approvals, specific roles, and is audited. Thus, respective reviewers must be mandatorily added during policy creation to allow for disposition of items under a retention or e-Discovery hold. [What you need to do to prepare:] Because of the built-in safeguards, the feature itself is enabled by default at the tenant level. However, Priority Cleanup can be turned off on the Priority Cleanup settings page. If you can’t create new Priority Cleanup policies, refer to your Data Lifecycle Management documentation for necessary roles and permissions requirements. A new role permission “Priority cleanup administrator” is now added to Purview role permissions to enable data governance administrators to use this feature. |
| Exposure Management Recommendations RetirementCategory:Microsoft Defender XDRNummer:MC971037Status:planForChange | We will be retiring certain SaaS security posture management (SSPM) recommendations from Exposure Management in the Defender portal. This update is to help ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. [When this will happen:] This will begin rollout in mid-February 2025 and is expected to be complete by mid-March 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates your organization may be using this feature. As part of our efforts to keep recommendations updated and relevant, we will be retiring the following recommendations due to either low security value or change of settings in the applications. Recommendations names:
[What you need to do to prepare:] There’s no action needed to prepare for this change. Your score will be updated accordingly. |
| Dynamics 365 Field Service – Enhance Copilot experiences in the web appCategory:Dynamics 365 AppsNummer:MC971695Status:stayInformed | We are announcing the Enhance Copilot experiences in the web app feature for Dynamics 365 Field Service. This feature introduces usability improvements for Copilot in Field Service to help your team of technicians, dispatchers, and service managers adopt and use these capabilities in their existing workflows. This feature will reach general availability on February 3, 2025. How does this affect me? Once enabled for general availability, your users can tap into enhanced Copilot side pane experiences to quickly get the information they need to be more efficient on the job. Copilot provides direct access to the wealth of data stored within Microsoft Dataverse, including key tables from Field Service like work orders and bookings. This guarantees that field service teams always have the most up-to-date information at their fingertips. What action do I need to take? This message is for awareness and no action is required. If you would like more information on this feature, please visit Enhance Copilot experiences in the web app. |