09-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: 2025-01-09
Additions : 1
Updates : 11
More Details At: www.roadmapwatch.com
Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Adaptive protection – Enhancements to risk level settingsCategory:Microsoft 365 suiteNummer:MC789307Status:planForChange | Updated January 7, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon: Admins can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is resolved.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388736 [When this will happen:] Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in early May 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024. General Availability: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2024 (previously mid-December). [How this will affect your organization:] With this new feature, an admin can configure whether they want to expire insider risk levels in adaptive protection when a user’s alert is dismissed, or their case is closed. Today, this expiration happens automatically. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. [What you need to do to prepare:] With this update, admins will see a new option in the Risk levels tab for adaptive protection called Risk level expiration options. This setting is enabled by default, and admins can uncheck this box if they would prefer that risk levels do not expire even when a user’s alert is dismissed or their case is closed. Additional Resources: |
| Microsoft Teams: Filter between active and archived teams in Shifts app schedulesCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC974351Status:stayInformed | Coming soon for the Shifts app in Microsoft Teams: An enhanced All schedules view with a new dropdown filter, enabling you to easily switch between active and archived teams. This feature helps reduce clutter, allowing managers and frontline workers to concentrate on the schedules of active teams. This message applies to Teams on Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422814. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] This change will be available 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. 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. |
| Microsoft SharePoint Online: Re-imagined Hero with the new carousel layout in pages and newsCategory:SharePoint OnlineNummer:MC974354Status:stayInformed | We are introducing a new Carousel layout to make the Hero web part more attractive. This new layout will feature a slideshow and a selection of new styles with imagery, bold text, and a call to action, creating a more engaging page experience. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395214. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will start rolling out in mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025. General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High and DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late-February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] Adding a Hero web part to a page or news post has not changed. This update allows authors to create eye-catching carousel slides in any section type, with up to five slides in Carousel layout, enhancing user engagement and highlighting key content to establish page hierarchy. It offers three new styles and supports Stream videos to make the page more appealing. [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 Teams: Enhanced confidentiality in voicemail greetingsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC974356Status:stayInformed | Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We have enhanced the privacy and security of voicemail greetings for calls. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): Available now. [How this will affect your organization:] If a call recipient does not answer, the caller will be forwarded to the recipient’s voicemail. The greeting will inform the caller that the user is unavailable and prompt the caller to leave a message after the tone. Also, the recipient’s real name will only be announced for internal calls. For external calls, the recipient’s name will be replaced with “the person.” Previously, the recipient’s real name was announced to all callers. Note: This change also applies to Microsoft Skype for Business. This change is on by default. [What you need to do to prepare:] No admin action required after the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation. |
| Microsoft Teams: Edit your display name in meetingsCategory:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC974361Status:planForChange | In Microsoft Teams, while in a live meeting, participants will soon be able to edit their display name for the duration of the meeting. This name change is for the meeting duration only and does not affect a participant’s original name on their People card. This feature is available for participants using the Teams desktop and web apps for both Windows and Mac. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122934. [When this will happen:] Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025. General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025. General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] The feature is off by default for all tenants. Admins can turn it on for their organization in the Teams admin center for all or selected tenant members. These members can then enable the feature in their private scheduled meetings. If turned on for the tenant, a meeting organizer can turn the feature on for their meeting in Meeting options > Let people edit their display name. The feature is OFF by default in Meeting options and has to be enabled by meeting organizer. If turned on for a meeting, participants can join the meeting and then select People at the top of the screen to edit their own display names in the Participants panel. Example: Daniela Mandera can change her name in a meeting to Daniela M. (Before rollout, we will update this post with revised user documentation for changing the name.) Participants who have edited their names will have an (edited) label next to their name in the meeting screens. *Original People card names will display in some meeting features such as calendar invites, the list of people invited to meetings, group chat rosters, and so on. Permanent meeting artifacts (such as the attendance report and transcriptions) will not reflect name changes.
[What you need to do to prepare:] You can turn this feature on for your tenant users to allow the capability in the meetings they organize. You might want to notify your users about this new feature and update your training and documentation as appropriate. |
| Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions encryption support in new Outlook for WindowsCategory:Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC974362Status:stayInformed | We are rolling out fundamental Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) support for primary accounts in new Outlook. With this new feature, new Outlook will start supporting sending and reading signed and encrypted emails. In new Microsoft Outlook, this option is available in Options > More Options. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397891. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We began rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025. General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025. General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025. [How this will affect your organization:] If your organization is not using New Outlook this will not impact you. If your organization does not have S/MIME setup for your users, this will not impact you. If your organization is currently using S/MIME, you will soon see controls to apply S/MIME encryption when signing into new Outlook. Similarly, you will be able to verify, sign, decrypt, and reply to S/MIME emails. [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. Users with S/MIME certificates on their machine or Smart Card will be able to use this new feature in new Outlook. Learn more: Overview of the new Outlook for Windows |
| Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current ChannelCategory:Microsoft 365 appsNummer:MC974427Status:stayInformed | We've released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:
[When this will happen:] We'll be gradually rolling out this update of Microsoft 365 Apps to users on that update channel starting January 7th, 2025 (PST). [How this will affect your organization:] If your Microsoft 365 Apps clients are configured to automatically update from the Office Content Delivery Network (CDN), then no action is required. If you manage updates directly you can now download this latest update and begin deployment. [What you need to do to prepare:] To get more details about this update view the following release notes: |
