Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 14-11-2024

Updated November 12, 2024: We have updated the content and rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Today, users can see Outlook contacts created with their Entra ID (AAD) account in Teams, but contacts created in Teams are not available in Outlook. To provide a consistent experience we are making changes to allow Teams contacts, created with a user’s Entra ID (AAD) account, to be visible in Outlook as well.

Upcoming changes to contacts in Teams and Outlook:

Currently, Teams and Outlook maintain separate contact lists for enterprise users. Based on your feedback, we plan to introduce a unified contact experience, ensuring a consistent contacts experience across Outlook and Teams. In future, changes to contacts in users’ organization (Entra ID) account in Teams will reflect in Outlook and vice versa. 

What’s Happened so far: 

• We have completed one round of migration of all Teams contacts to Outlook in January 2024. 
• As a result, users may see more contacts in Outlook, namely those created in Teams and potentially Skype for Business contacts (if enabled). 
• Existing Outlook contacts may also be enriched with additional details from corresponding Teams contacts. 
• Teams users can see Outlook contacts but cannot edit them inside Teams. 

What’s Coming: 

Users will gradually upgrade to the new unified experience from December 2024. The new experience will be enabled for each user across all endpoints (Desktop, Mobile, Devices etc.) simultaneously. Once the new experience is enabled for a user, they will see same set of contacts in Outlook and Teams. Any change in Outlook will reflect in Teams and vice versa. 

All Teams contact changes (creations and edits) made since January will be included in the unified store. During creations, a small set of users may see duplicate contacts in the unified store. To help users navigate the transition, category label ‘Teams Conflict’ will be applied to duplicate contacts. This label will help users see any conflicts (duplicates or inconsistencies) that need their attention. 

[When this will happen:]

This activity is expected to be completed for all active users by April 2025 tentatively. Once this activity is complete, users will work with a single contact list across Teams and Outlook. 

[How this will affect your organization]

Once this change is complete, users will be able to see created contacts across both Outlook and Teams and vice versa.

[What you need to do to prepare]

Action Required: Update your organisation documentation and training materials to reflect the upcoming changes for the new unified contact experience.

You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate. If users wish to retain a snapshot of their existing contacts in Outlook, please encourage users to back-up their existing contacts using the export capability in Outlook.

Updated November 13, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon, Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out public preview of granular trigger throttling limits.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 382130.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late October 2024 (previously late August) and expect to complete by late January 2025 (previously late October).

General Availability: We will begin rolling out early March 2025 (previously late December) and expect to complete by late March 2025 (previously late January).

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this update, we are introducing more granular trigger throttling limits to isolate the impact of a surge in noisy trigger volumes and prevent other policies from being affected. This ensures that organizations can receive critical alerts without being throttled by these limits. By default, these throttling limits will be applied:

• All sensitive triggers, including HR signals, Azure AD leavers, and custom triggers, will be limited to 15,000 per day per trigger.
• All other triggers will be limited to 5,000 per day per trigger.

Additionally, the policy health warning messages will be enhanced to assist admins with appropriate permissions in effectively identifying and addressing noisy triggers.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No action is needed from you to prepare for this rollout. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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.

You can access the Insider Risk Management solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

Learn more: Insider risk management | Microsoft Learn

Updated November 13, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In Microsoft Defender XDR, on the Settings > Identities page, we will retire the Alert notifications page starting mid-January 2025 (previously mid-November). We expect to complete by mid-January 2025 (previously mid-November).

[How this will affect your organization:]

As an alternative, please use the Incident email notifications page in Microsoft Defender XDR settings to create and manage all new and existing notification rules. This update will help streamline and enhance your notification experience in the Defender XDR portal.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To ensure uninterrupted notifications, it is essential to transfer all existing notification settings to the Email Notifications page under Defender XDR settings. Please note that if incidents notifications are not set up through the XDR page, you will no longer receive alerts emails notifications after the deprecation date.

Learn more: Get incident notifications by email in Microsoft Defender XDR – Microsoft Defender XDR | Microsoft Learn.

Updated November 13, 2024: We will be shipping to preview without the admin toggle however an admin toggle will be available before general availability. If there are concerns or your organisation wants to opt out, please raise an incident to address this. 

Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams: A name pronunciation feature on the profile card in Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. This new feature helps promote diversity by giving working colleagues relevant information about each other. Names are a crucial part of a person’s identity. The incorrect pronunciation of a person’s name can lead to anxiety and offense in some cases. Correctly pronouncing a person’s name helps to create an inclusive environment.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420329.

Pronunciation data is stored in each user’s mailbox until the user deletes the recording. Learn more: Data Residency for Exchange Online – Microsoft 365 Enterprise | Microsoft Learn

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, new Outlook for Windows desktop, and new Outlook for web.

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, users can record and share the correct pronunciation of their name on their profile card. With a click, users can play and listen to name pronunciations recorded by their colleagues.

To open a profile card in Outlook, double-click a name in the To or From field in any sent or received email.

To open your profile card in Teams, select your profile photo in the upper right corner of the screen, and then select your name.

To listen to a colleague’s recorded pronunciation, select the speaker icon on their profile card:

To record the pronunciation of a name, open your profile card in Outlook or Teams, and select the microphone icon:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This feature is off by default. As an admin, you can enable the feature in Microsoft Graph using these instructions: namePronunciationSettings resource type – Microsoft Graph beta | Microsoft Learn

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.

You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

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Updated November 13, 2024: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to the Microsoft 365 admin center: Tenant restrictions v2 enables tenants to enhance security by limiting what users can access when they use an external account to sign in from your networks or devices. The Tenant restrictions v2 settings, included with cross-tenant access settings, are designed to address the security of cross-company exchange.

Authentication plane protection is supported by Microsoft Entra ID. This rollout enables data plane protection for the Microsoft 365 admin center. Learn more: Configure tenant restrictions – Microsoft Entra ID – Microsoft Entra External ID | Microsoft Learn

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout: Admins are not able to limit what users can access when they use the Microsoft 365 admin center with an external account to sign in from their networks or devices.

After this rollout

• Tenant restriction v2 (TRv2) can be used to prevent data exfiltration using a foreign identity.
• TRv2 works by sending special signals to Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Account, and other Microsoft resources.
• Tenant restrictions v2 settings will be off by default and available for admins to enable them.

[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.

Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization.

To take advantage of TRv2 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, create a cross-tenant access setting. Learn more: Configure tenant restrictions – Microsoft Entra ID – Microsoft Entra External ID | Microsoft Learn

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams town halls: For organizers with a Teams Premium license, we are expanding the limit from 20,000 maximum concurrent attendees to 50,000 maximum. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content for participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features such as chat and reactions will be disabled for all attendees. This message applies to Teams town halls on Windows desktop, on the web, and on iOS/Android. This feature is available for town hall organizers with an active Teams Premium license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 429538.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

To get started, organizers in your tenant should contact the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) to get support for audiences of up to 50,000 concurrent attendees.

This change will be available to organizers who contact the LEAP program.

[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.

No other changes in town hall functionality are associated with this rollout. If organizers do not want or need to host events with a maximum capacity greater than 20,000, there will be no impact to your organization.

Learn more

• Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption
• Plan for Teams town halls – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout begins)

We are committed to continuously improving the Microsoft Teams experience and are excited to bring this new capability to our customers.

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture.  A new Microsoft Defender for Identity posture recommendation will be added: “Prevent Certificate Enrollment with arbitrary Application Policies (ESC15)”. 

Your score will be updated accordingly. 

[When this will happen:]

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

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

Please note that in order to provide the recommendation as quickly as possible, it will be introduced to your environment at the earliest opportunity rather than on the regular monthly schedule. 

[How this will affect your organization:]

We are adding a new Microsoft Defender for Identity posture recommendation that will be added as Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions: “Prevent Certificate Enrollment with arbitrary Application Policies (ESC15)”. 

This new security posture report is related to Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) that analyze the configurations of different AD CS components and guide remediation, if necessary.

This update is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There’s no action needed to prepare for this change. Your score will be updated accordingly. Microsoft recommends reviewing the improvement actions listed in Microsoft Secure Score. We will continue to add suggested security improvement actions on an ongoing basis.

Coming soon: Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management will introduce a central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. New Alerts and Cases operational reports will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts and cases generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. Users with the admin, analyst, or investigator role will be able to access the new Alerts and Cases operational reports.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420939.

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

To access the Alerts and Cases reports

1. In Insider Risk Management, go the new Reports page at https://purview.microsoft.com/insiderriskmgmt/reportingpage
2. Select Alerts or Cases
3. To drill deeper into each report, select View details

Access the new unified Reports page at https://purview.microsoft.com/insiderriskmgmt/reportingpage:

To view new reports, Select Alerts or Cases on the Reports page:

Photo2- Example of an Alerts report:

This feature is available by default to be configured by admins, analysts, or investigators.

[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 admins and investigators about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Learn about insider risk management | Microsoft Learn

Before rollout, we will update this post with revised documentation.

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.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) functionality for all town halls. This new feature will allow town hall attendees on Windows desktop or the web to interact with a live streaming town hall in the same way they would interact with recorded content. DVR functionality in the town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back in a town hall, navigate to any previous timestamp, and other abilities, making it more convenient to interact with a town hall more and easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for Teams town halls from all organizers, regardless of the license assigned to the organizer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422804.

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, the DVR controls will appear when attendees hover their mouse over the content being presented in the town hall. Attendees can:

• Pause, play, and skip 10 seconds forward or backward
• Control the volume of the content with the volume control
• Jump to any point in time, starting from the beginning of the event
• Catch up with the content and join the live event by selecting the Watch Live button next to the volume control

The DVR controls are at the bottom of the Teams window when the Q&A page is open on the right side:

We are committed to continuously improving the Microsoft Teams experience and are excited to bring this new capability to our customers.

This feature 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. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Plan for Teams town halls – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)

Coming soon: We’re adding support when sharing screens with Microsoft Mesh in Microsoft Teams immersive events. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in an immersive event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. This message applies to Mesh on Windows desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423475.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The Share content screen in a Mesh event will have an Include sound option, which includes system audio when sharing content.

This change will be available by default for users to enable.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No new admin work or action is required in order to use this new capability.

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.

Coming soon: We are pleased to inform you that Microsoft 365 Copilot will have access to question posts in Microsoft Viva Engage public communities, including Answers, to assist in delivering pertinent responses to users’ inquiries. This message applies to Copilot on the web and Copilot on iOS/Android. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to use this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408166.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, users can ask Copilot questions about Viva Engage content and Copilot will respond. The Engage content that Copilot can reference is limited to Question posts from public communities, Answers, and Storylines.

In early 2025, we will gradually expand the Engage content sources to include Discussion posts from public communities and Storylines, followed by private communities.

This change will be available by default.

Viva Engage content in M365 Copilot:

[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.