Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 04-05-2024

This Microsoft Teams feature update provides a public preview of Microsoft Approvals Graph APIs in the Approvals app. This set of APIs can be used to programmatically create and manage approvals. This new capability makes it easier to hook line of business apps into the Microsoft Approvals Hub.

Approvals app is a way to streamline all of your requests and processes with your team or partners. 

Using these new APIs, developers can now:

• Create new approvals.
• Manage existing approvals.
• Delete approvals. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 393926.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Developers will now be able to use Approvals Graph API’s to programmatically create and manage approvals, making creation and maintenance more efficient within your organization. 

[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: The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places soon will be available in new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Microsoft Outlook for the web. This feature is enabled by default for any users with a qualifying Copilot license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388754.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the rollout, users will see the Copilot app in the left app bar of new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and the web:

[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 as appropriate.

Learn more: What’s New in Copilot | April 2024 – Microsoft Community Hub

Regional operations managers can now send targeted announcements based on additional attributes including location, job code, and department to frontline workers on a time-sensitive basis.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383735. 

[When this will happen:]

Standard Release (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early May 2024 and we expect to finish rollout by early June 2024.  

[How this will affect your organization:]

If your organization has set up the Hierarchy and Deployed Theater Accountability Software (DTAS) configuration on Microsoft Teams and enabled the setting for Regional filtering in Microsoft Viva Connections, regional managers will be able to send out announcements targeted based on additional attributes including job, location, and department to frontline workers.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To take advantage of attribute-based targeting based on the three properties:

1. set up the Hierarchy and DTAS configuration on Microsoft Teams.
   • Read about setting up DTAS and Hierarchy service: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn
   • Learn about creating new attributes in Microsoft Teams: Set up targeted communications for your frontline – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn
2. Turn on the setting for Regional filtering. This setting is available in the section for Manage announcements in Viva Connections or on your home site.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

We recommended that you share information regarding this upcoming feature with the corporate communicators, frontline managers, and admins so they can effectively use this feature.   

Learn more:

• Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn
• Set up targeted communications for your frontline – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn 

• Use announcements in Viva Connections | Microsoft Learn
• Get started with Microsoft 365 for frontline workers – Microsoft 365 for frontline workers | Microsoft Learn

The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.

How does this affect me?

The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release.

What do I need to prepare for this change?

You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your users.

Additional Information

Intune In development

Coming soon for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Enhance your DLP incident management with the new send email notification remediation action and customize email templates in Purview DLP and Defender. Use dynamic variables and tokens to easily create and maintain consistent and efficient email communications, complete with an audit trail.

Utilize these email templates to take actions such as:

• Informing end-users or their managers about incidents, severity, or the analyst’s recommendations.
• Managing remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates.
• Keeping analysts informed about incident updates and assignments.
• Notifying approvers of pending items with ease.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 373310

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability: We will begin rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

1. Go to DLP Settings (on top right on any DLP Overview or Policies or Alerts pages in Microsoft Purview -> Email templates

2. Create an email template. Leverage tokens for email body and subject as much as possible.

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3. You can click on the template name to see the details on the right side.

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4. Go to DLP Alert in Microsoft Purview or Microsoft Defender -> Event -> Actions-> Send email notification -> Create a new template or choose an existing email template -> Preview & send

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5. Click on “Send email” or Save changes & Send email

6. Email recipients will receive an email

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7. You can also find audit trails for below actions in the Audit

a. Template triggered: DLP Info -> Remediation Activity

b. New-CustomDlpEmailTemplate

c. Set-CustomDlpEmailTemplate

d. Remove-CustomDlpEmailTemplate

[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 admins about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.