Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 05-06-2024

In late August 2024, the Intune Company Portal app for Windows will be updated with a new, modernized design, offering an improved user experience while maintaining the same functionality. Read the blog to learn more: New look for Intune Company Portal app for Windows

[How this will affect your organization:]

This is a user interface (UI) update only, there is no change in functionality. Users with automatic updates enabled will see the new design automatically once it is released to the Microsoft Store. If automatic updates are not configured, users will see the new design once they have manually updated the app.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Review the blog: New look for Intune Company Portal app for Windows. Update your IT admin and user documentation to reflect the new design, as needed.

Note: A preview version is available in the Microsoft Download Center for testing purposes only and will be removed when the Company Portal update is released in late August 2024. 

Coming soon: Microsoft Teams personal apps will have a new simplified design at the top of the screen in Teams desktop and web clients. With this change, the About tab and other utility actions like Refresh for each app will be moved to the three-dot menu at the top of the screen.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396166.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

This rollout is for new Teams for Desktop, Web, and Mac. This rollout is not for Teams iOS or Android.

Before the rollout, the top of the screen for personal apps in Teams was cluttered with the About tab and other utility actions.

After the rollout, some applications will no longer have any tabs in the header bar, reducing overall complexity and visual clutter.

An example of a personal app with the new design:

This new design is enabled by default for users of new Teams for Desktop, Web, and Mac.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates 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.

In Microsoft Purview, we are improving how users can open locked records in Microsoft Office client applications (Microsoft: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). Previously, when an end user opened a file that was a locked record, they could edit it and press the Save button, but SharePoint and OneDrive would reject the save and display an error. To avoid this confusion, locked records will now open as read-only and prevent end users from making changes. A message will explain to the end user why they cannot make changes to the file.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395791

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability: We will begin rolling out in late July and expect to complete it by late August.

[How this will affect your organization:]

This feature improves the end user experience when opening locked records in Office client applications. Now, an end user will see in advance that the file is designated as a locked record and cannot be modified, ensuring that the end user does not spend time editing a file that cannot be saved. This improvement brings parity to the behavior already in place for the online versions of Office applications (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No action is necessary to prepare for this update.

Coming soon to new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web: We have improved how suggested times are shown when scheduling a meeting. To make it easier for a meeting organizer to find a suitable meeting time based on everyone’s availability, we redesigned the suggestion times tiles to be more intuitive. Suggested times are now accessed from the new Find a time menu. This message applies to new Outlook for Windows and the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396574.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before the rollout: All users were shown suggested times when creating a meeting invite.

After the rollout: When creating a meeting invite, users can select Find a time to see suggested times:

Reviewing the suggested times:

After rollout, this feature will be on by default for supported accounts.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates 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.

Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: When updating meeting attendees, organizers will be prompted to send updates only to added or removed attendees or to send updates to all attendees. This message applies to Outlook for the web and New Outlook for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394687.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before the rollout, organizers who updated meeting attendees were not prompted with Send options.

After the rollout, the default state is on and this feature will be available to all users.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates 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.

Coming soon for Microsoft PowerPoint Copilot: The Create presentation from file feature will be able to support Microsoft Word documents with a protected or encrypted sensitivity label. A Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, users who attempt to create a new presentation based on an encrypted Word document will see an error message asking them to try again with an unprotected file.

After this rollout, users will be able to create a new presentation based on an encrypted Word document. To ensure that there are no gaps in document protections, when a new presentation is created from a protected Word document, the newly created presentation will inherit the Word document’s sensitivity label, if it is higher than the new presentation.

If a source Word document has been protected with Double-key Encryption (DKE) or has restricted Extract privileges, PowerPoint Copilot will respect these protections and will not create a new presentation based on the source file.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates 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

• Create a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint – Microsoft Support
• Frequently Asked Questions about Copilot in PowerPoint – Microsoft Support

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