Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 08-05-2024

Microsoft Viva: We are rolling out an update for Copilot assisted hours in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard. For customers with a Viva or a Viva Insights subscription, the Copilot Dashboard will provide a breakdown of employees’ actions in Copilot that contribute to their company’s total Copilot assisted hours. There is no change to the existing metric calculation. Customers will have the additional ability to view the underlying details for Copilot assisted hours with this change.

[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:]

This change will be defaulted on and will only impact users who have access to the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard and have Viva Insights subscription. There is no impact to admins.

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[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically with no administrator action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate. Learn more about Copilot assisted hours here.

If you have access to the Copilot Dashboard, you can find it in Microsoft Teams for desktop or web.

In Microsoft Viva, we’ve added a new quality report for leaders in Viva Insights, and improved features to help all employees manage their time in meetings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 393935

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May 2024 and expect to complete by late May 2024.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

• Leaders will get a new meeting cost and quality report in the Viva Insights Teams app to help them review how much time their team spends in large and long recurring meetings.
• Users in the Viva Insights Teams app will get an improved Meeting Review card that displays their large and long meetings, offering deeper insights into meeting quality and more comprehensive options to assess, modify, and track these meetings.
• Users will also get nudges when they are organizing large and long recurring meetings in Outlook with recommendations for incrementally reducing the cost of a meeting.
• The Meeting Categories and Meeting Habits cards in Viva Insights will each be streamlined into a single tab, with additional insights integrated into the new Meeting Review card.

Leadership quality report, featuring the meeting review card:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

These features are available to users with a Viva Insights premium license. Upon deployment, features will be activated by default for employees who have the Viva Insights premium license. The meeting cost and quality reports will not be distributed automatically, instead, they will be available to enabled employees through the Viva Insights Teams application.

If you prefer to disable these new features for a portion or for the entirety of your organization, a global admin or Insights admin can use Viva Insights Feature Access Management (VFAM) to manage which users have access to these features. When the feature is disabled using VFAM, leaders will not see the meeting cost and quality report, and individual users will not see cards or nudges to help manage their large and long meetings.

Additional Resources:

• For Admins: Microsoft Viva – Feature access management | Microsoft Learn
• For End-users: Meeting habits in Viva Insights – Microsoft Support

Coming soon: We will be rolling out updates to the in-app feedback (Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature) in Microsoft Teams for Desktop and Teams for the web to add a new Feedback option on the Settings and more menu. As a part of this rollout, Teams for Desktop and Teams for the web will stop using Microsoft Teams feedback policies and switch to Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394269.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early June 2024 and expect to complete by mid-June 2024.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the rollout:

• Tenant impact: Teams for Desktop and Teams for the web will get the new Feedback menu in Settings and more, a refreshed Feedback form, and will start using Microsoft 365 feedback policies to align with other Microsoft 365 apps. This will be a first step towards unifying Teams feedback experiences and policies with the Microsoft 365.
• Admin impact: Tenant admins will temporarily need to keep managing both Teams feedback policies and Microsoft 365 feedback policies for feedback collection and surveys from Microsoft Teams clients.
• User impact: Users will get a familiar Feedback menu and feedback forms consistent with other Microsoft 365 applications. Learn more: Give feedback in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Support (This article is not yet updated. We will update this post before rollout with revised documentation.)

The Settings and more three-dot menu in the upper right corner of Teams.

On the Settings and more menu in Teams, use the Feedback option to report a problem or suggest a feature:

The updated Feedback form in Teams:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

For organizations with Teams for Desktop and Teams for the web, we recommend tenant admins:

1. Review current Teams feedback policies (Manage feedback policies in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn); and then
2. Make sure Microsoft 365 feedback policies (Manage Microsoft feedback for your organization – Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn and Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 – Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn) are updated to reflect your organization’s needs for in-app feedback (Report a problem/Suggest a feature).
3. Understand that Teams for Desktop and Teams for the web will continue to use existing Teams feedback policies for Surveys.

Other versions of Teams

• Classic Teams will keep using existing Teams feedback policies for in-app feedback (Send feedback/Suggest a feature) and Surveys until the classic Teams is retired: End of availability for classic Teams client – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn.
• Teams Mobile will keep using existing Teams feedback policies for in-app feedback (Send feedback/Suggest a feature) and Surveys.

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout, but please review recommended actions above for tenant admins. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: An enhanced content consumption experience in Teams chats and channels. We are about to release a series of features that will help you to identify, consume, and act on content such as files, lists, and SharePoint pages/posts. In this first release in the series, we will roll out file image previews in chats and channels, to help users better identify a file in the conversation stream. When a file (such as a JPG or PNG image file, a Microsoft PowerPoint file, or a PDF) is attached to a message in chat or a channel, users will see a small image of the file without opening the file.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early June 2024 and expect to complete by early June 2024.

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

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

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

General Availability (DoD, USSec, and USNat): We will begin rolling out late July 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Image preview benefits

• Quickly scan for and find the file you need
• Preview part of the file content before opening it
• Save time and bandwidth by avoiding unnecessary file downloads and file opens

To use the new file image previews, users will upload or share a file in a chat or a channel, and then see an image preview of the file content (and its metadata) in the message. Users can also select the image preview to open the file.

When a message has multiple images attached, users will be able to select one image, and then click the right arrow to page between the other attached images.

If the recipient does not have the access to the file or if the file is marked Confidential, image previews will not be shown.

Teams message with image previews for three attached files:

[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.

We will update this comm before rollout with revised documentation.

Through Microsoft Purview | Information Protection, and for greater consistency and reliability, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows will soon display the same Data Loss Prevention policy tips that admins have set in their tenants for files on Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft OneDrive sites.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383018.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

DLP policy tips will no longer be shown when a user is offline.

[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 update any relevant documentation as appropriate

We will update this comm before rollout with revised documentation.

You can access the Information Protection solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: A new way to join teams and channels. This message applies to new Teams for the web and Teams for desktop. It does not apply to Teams for iOS or Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 381734.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

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

General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by early August 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, a team owner could mark a standard channel as Show for members while creating the channel or later from the team management page. These channels appeared automatically in the teams and channels list on the left side of the screen for all team members.

After this rollout:

• A team owner will be able to recommend channels for team members to join. This functionality replaces Show for members.
• When joining a new team, team members will see only the General channel. On the team onboarding page, additional channels may be tagged as Recommended by the team owner. Members can review channel details and opt into channels of interest. This rollout is designed to help team members join the most relevant channels, for a more streamlined experience in Teams.

The view from the Activity stream: A team owner adds a user to team (called Cross team collaboration) and recommends specific channels (Feature crew, General) for the user to show in the teams and channels list:

The view from the teams and channels list: General is the only channel shown when a team owner adds a user to team (called Cross team collaboration) and recommends additional channels (Feature crew, General) for the user to show in the teams and channels list:

[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.

We will update this comm before rollout with revised documentation.

Microsoft Teams Live Events is replaced by a Teams Town Hall that allows users to create live events built on the meeting infrastructure. Town Hall will be backed by new Microsoft Graph application programming interfaces (APIs) that we expect to release at the end of May, 2024. These new Graph Town Hall APIs will help organizations programmatically do the following:

• Get, create, update, publish, and cancel Town Halls.
• Get and list Town Hall sessions.
• Get, list, create, and delete Town Hall presenters.
• Create or update Town Hall presenter profile photos.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 387128

[When will this happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout will begin early July 2024 and is expected to complete mid-August 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Going forward, any user who wants to create a Town Hall using APIs will need to use the new set of Town Hall specific APIs.

[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.

Microsoft Purview: Generative AI (GAI) is being adopted at an unprecedented rate. AI fuels innovation and productivity but also poses risks – organizations are concerned about the risky AI use and sensitive data loss through AI apps. The AI hub is a central location in Microsoft Purview that helps organizations secure data in AI, including Microsoft AI applications such as Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. With this set of capabilities, organizations can safely adopt AI without having to choose between productivity and protection.

Use Cases 

• Viewing insights and analytics into AI activity in your organization.
• Using policies to protect data and prevent data loss in AI prompts.
• Implementing compliance controls to apply optimal data handling and storing policies.

 This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 188510

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft Purview AI hub will be visible within the Microsoft Purview portal and the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and will consist of three tabs (analytics, policies, and activity explorer).

Analytics will display getting started steps, recommendations, and insights into AI usage:

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Policies will display recommendations and policies that have been created by Microsoft Purview AI hub:

Activity explorer will display events related to AI:

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[What you need to do to prepare:]

Get ready for this change by reviewing the admin documentation – Considerations for Microsoft Purview AI Hub