08-October-2024 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: 2024-10-08
Additions : 4
Updates : 3
More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com
| New Features | Current Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC environment (Premium) | In Development | |||
| Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365 | In Development | |||
| SharePoint: Updates for font management capabilities | In Development | |||
| Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to increase configuration of CPU and GPU device resource utilization limits in Forensic Evidence | In Development | |||
| Updated Features | Current Status | Update Type | ||
| Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word | Launched | Status | ||
| Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – pin post to leadership corner | Rolling Out | Status | ||
| Outlook: Reset People Suggestions in Search | Rolling Out | Status |
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxingCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC697433Status:planForChange | Updated September 30, 2024: Chrome will no longer be rolling out this change to general availability. Users will instead be able to choose whether they would like to enable privacy sandboxing. Read more about their update here: A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web. Our recommendations below still apply if your users are using privacy sandboxing in Chrome. Thank you for your patience. Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort. [When this will happen:] Starting in January 2024 and continuing through the remainder of 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] Teams users who are using Google Chrome with this recent change will start seeing the following experiences:
[What you need to do to prepare:] We are providing this information for your awareness. If your organization accesses Teams in the Chrome browser, some of your users may start being affected by this change. The recommendation is to use to the Teams desktop client. Enterprise administrators can also use the BlockThirdPartyCookies and CookiesAllowedForUrls policies to ensure their users are not impacted, allowing them time to make necessary changes to not rely on this policy or third-party cookies. URLs should be allowed for Teams:
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| (Updated) Microsoft Outlook: Review and update work hours and location in the My Day paneCategory:Exchange Online Microsoft 365 for the web Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC877318Status:stayInformed | Updated September 25, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook: Work hours and location information will be available in the My Day pane in Outlook. Users will be able to update their Work Hours and Location information from My Day and also see who is coming to Office. This message applies to new Outlook for Windows desktop and Outlook for the web. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412618. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early October 2024 (previously mid-September) and expect to complete by early November 2024 (previously late September). General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 (previously early October) and expect to complete by early December 2024 (previously early October). [How this will affect your organization:] Before this rollout, users can review and update their work hours and location information in Outlook Settings > Calendar > Work hours and location. This settings page will remain in place after the rollout. After this rollout, users will also be able to see and update their work hours and location information in the My Day pane in Outlook. Changes to the My Day pane will sync to any other work hours and location settings made in Outlook. My Day pane with prompt to Set up your work location:
My Day pane with work location information, which can be updated:
This feature is on by default. [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. |
| [EDU] Microsoft Teams Assignments Learning Tools Integration (LTI)Category:Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC905759Status:planForChange | The Microsoft Teams Assignments Learning Tools Integration (LTI) app brings Learning Accelerators, Flip camera, Microsoft Forms, Whiteboard, OneNote Pages, MakeCode, and all of the new generative AI features of Teams Assignments to your LTI v1.3 Advantage compliant Learning Management System (LMS). [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): Available now. [How this will affect your organization:] The integration allows you to connect Class Teams and add Teams Assignments right into your LMS assignments list where students can launch and complete them and sync grades and feedback automatically to the LMS gradebook. This new feature is not available by default. It requires admin action. For more information, visit Unlock the power of Microsoft Education in your Learning Management System. [What you need to do to prepare:] This rollout will happen automatically. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate. |
