Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 15-06-2024

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

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122527

[When this will happen:]

Standard: Rollout will begin in early Apr 2024 (previously early March) and is expected to be complete by late June 2024 (previously late May).

GCC: Rollout will begin in late May 2024 (previously early May) and is expected to be complete by late June 2024 (previously early June).

GCC High: Rollout will begin in late June 2024 (previously early June) and is expected to be complete by late July 2024 (previously early July).

[How this will affect your organization:]

The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is no action required at this time. You may want to notify your users of this update.

Updated June 13, 2024: This update serves as a reminder regarding the upcoming retirement scheduled for April 2, 2026.

Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams. With our continued investment in SharePoint Framework, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint Add-Ins.

[Key Points:]

• Major: Retirement
• Timeline:
  • Starting July 1st, 2024, SharePoint Add-Ins cannot be installed from the public marketplace, also referred to as store by existing tenants. Installation from a private app catalog stays possible.
  • Starting November 1st, 2024, new tenants will not be able use SharePoint Add-Ins, regardless of their origin (public marketplace, private tenant catalog).
  • Starting April 2nd, 2026, Microsoft will remove the ability use SharePoint Add-Ins for existing tenants.
• Action: Review and assess impact

[How this will affect your organization:]

If your organization still uses SharePoint Add-Ins, they will no longer function after April 2nd, 2026. We recommend customers to port their customizations to SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and ask their solution vendors for updated solutions.

[What you need to do to prepare]

You will want to notify your Add-In users and developers. Update your user training and prepare your help desk.

For admins

• Use the Microsoft 365 Assessment tool to scan your tenants for SharePoint Add-In usage.
• Disable SharePoint Add-Ins on your tenant using SharePoint Online Management Shell
• Review the guidance for migrating from SharePoint Add-Ins to SharePoint Framework.
• There will not be an option to extend SharePoint Add-Ins beyond April 2nd 2026.

New: How to disable SharePoint Add-Ins on your tenant

Admins can disable SharePoint Add-Ins with the Set-SPOTenant SharePoint Management Shell PowerShell command.

Connect-SPOService -Url https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com

Set-SPOTenant -IsSharePointAddInsDisabled $true

After SharePoint Add-Ins are disabled, users will not be able to add SharePoint Add-Ins to their sites, and admins cannot add new SharePoint Add-Ins to the tenant and site collection app catalogs. SharePoint Add-Ins already added to sites will stay available and can still be used by the site’s users.

New: SharePoint Add-Ins will not be available from the public marketplace

After July 1, 2024, users browsing the public marketplace (AppSource) will see SharePoint Add-In, but if they select Get it now, a message will explain that SharePoint Add-Ins are retired and cannot be added. If you still require a specific SharePoint Add-In, contact the Add-In creator to understand the possible options.

Learn more

• Support update for the retirement of SharePoint Add-Ins in Microsoft 365.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption of Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365. This AI assistance category includes a score on a 100-point scale to help track the overall adoption of Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. This score for the AI assistance category will be available in preview and will not impact the overall Adoption Score. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 185700

[When this will happen:]

Preview: We will begin rolling out late November 2023 and expect to complete the rollout by early December 2023.

Worldwide: We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 (previously late June) and expect to complete by mid-November 2024 (previously late July).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Organizations will see a new category in the Adoption Score in Microsoft 365 admin center.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

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

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently in a town hall, an organizer is unable to select which auto-translated captions they would like their attendees to see. Attendees can select from a pre-selected list of translated languages for their captions. With this new update, organizers can now pick up to 6 translated languages from a list of over 40 languages to be shown to the attendees for captions during a town hall. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 371308

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-March 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by early April 2024 (previously late March).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Organizers of a town hall in your tenant will now be able to pick up to 6 languages for the translated captions to be available to their attendees.  

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is no action needed to prepare for this change. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the timing of this change for clarity. Thank you for your patience.

We are retiring the Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling add-in for Office on April 11th, 2024.

[When this will happen:]

The AIP Add-in for Office will be permanently disabled in Office starting in May 2024 and will complete in late December 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

You are receiving this message because your organization owns one or more licenses for Azure Information Protection. To continue using sensitivity labels powered by Microsoft Purview Information Protection in Office applications, you must transition to the built-in labeling experience in Microsoft 365 Apps.

Important retirement milestones are:

• April 2024: Release of Microsoft Purview Information Protection client version 3.0 with the AIP Add-in for Office removed. To continue using the Information Protection Scanner, Viewer and File Labeler, your organization must upgrade and deploy the new package.
• April 11th, 2024:  AIP Unified Labeling add-in is retired and no longer in support. Extensions to continue using the AIP add-in will be granted on a case-to-case basis; please reach out to Microsoft Support or your account team.
• May 1st, 2024: AIP Unified Labeling add-in permanently disabled in Office. AIP Unified Labeling add-in for Office clients will be blocked from using the add-in with version 2.16 or higher. Download of label policy will fail for all clients without extensions to continue using the AIP add-in.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

For detailed migration steps, refer to our playbook: From bolt-on to built-in – Migrate from Azure Information Protection Add-in.

For the announcement and FAQs of the retirement, refer to our blog: Retirement notification for the Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling add-in for Office.

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

Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature provides a new Audit Log Query API for Microsoft Purview that enables you to create applications that programmatically query and retrieve your organization’s audit activity logs.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117587.

[When this will happen:]

Worldwide: Rollout will begin in late June 2024 (previously late May) and is expected to complete by early July 2024 (previously early June).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Admins in your organization with access to search the audit log will be able to programmatically access the audit logs through the new Audit Log Query Graph API.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To access the new Audit Log Query Graph API, register your application with Microsoft Graph and add the relevant Graph permissions.

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

Microsoft Purview Audit enables customers to centrally visualize cloud log data generated across their enterprise, thus helping them effectively respond to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations and compliance obligations. Thousands of user and admin operations performed in dozens of Microsoft 365 services and solutions are captured, recorded, and retained in customers’ unified Microsoft Purview audit logs.

Resources

• Learn about Microsoft Purview Audit
• Access to search the Audit log in Get started with auditing solutions | Microsoft Learn
• Register your application with Microsoft Graph in Use the Microsoft Graph API – Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn
• Learn more about Use the Microsoft Graph API – Microsoft Graph | Microsoft Learn

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We have also specified that the Cloud Policy service includes controls for screenshots and logs submitted with feedback.

We are introducing a feedback button in Microsoft SharePoint Online, consistent with the rest of the Microsoft 365 Suite. Users can submit compliments, problems, or suggestions about SharePoint features and functionality to Microsoft.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 383405.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late March 2024 (previously mid-March) and expect to complete by mid-April 2024 (previously early April).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Your end users will see a feedback icon on their SharePoint sites (pages, document libraries, lists, and the SharePoint start page) accessible from the suite navigation.

Microsoft reviews all feedback submitted by customers and uses this feedback to improve products for users and troubleshooting product issues. The feedback we collect from your users is available in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center if feedback is turned on.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To turn off feedback collection completely or to restrict users from including screenshots or service logs with their feedback, use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center. For more information, see Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 – Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn.

You can search for “feedback” or “survey” in the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 to find and configure the policy settings. 

Learn more

Learn about how to provide feedback to Microsoft – Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn

Manage Microsoft feedback for your organization – Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn

Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 – Deploy Office | Microsoft Learn

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Note: If your organization does not support Macs, you can ignore this message.

Starting April 2024, Outlook for Mac will offer new immersive image themes. This feature will be available in Outlook for Mac for commercial and consumer users. (This feature is not available on Outlook for the web.)

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 189805.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this change, users will see the new image themes available in Settings > General. If the user opts in, Outlook will apply an immersive image theme to the user’s Outlook for Mac interface.

Select one of the new immersive image Themes:

An example of the new theme applied by a user:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

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

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the entire message to provide additional information. Please review the message and thank you for your feedback.

We are beginning the process to standardize all transcript storage to OneDrive, starting with the storage of transcripts for meetings that only have transcription enabled. Previously, meetings with only transcription enabled saved the transcript file to the meeting organizer’s Exchange Online, while meetings with both recording and transcription enabled saved two transcript copies—one that is coupled with the recording saved to OneDrive and another transcript copy saved to the meeting organizer’s Exchange Online. 

Now with this feature, meetings that have only transcription enabled will also save two copies (one in OneDrive and one in Exchange Online), but all meeting transcript entry points in Teams app will point to the OneDrive copy only, no entry points for meeting transcripts will source from the Exchange Online copy. At the same time, meeting transcripts will stop saving in Exchange Online altogether and all transcript storage will be standardized on OneDrive only. 

The rollout of this feature also improves both the experience of meeting organizers to manually delete the transcript, as well as the ability for IT administrators to apply retention policies to the transcripts from meetings that only had transcription enabled. 

A summary of the deletion experience for meeting transcripts is captured in the following table: 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 365720

[When this will happen:]

Targeted release: We will begin rolling out mid-June 2024 (previously mid-May) and expect to complete by early July 2024 (previously late May).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

There is no change to the end user experience for viewing and downloading Teams meeting transcripts. The only change for meeting organizers and co-organizers is for any meetings that are held after this feature rolls out, they can delete all copies of the meeting transcript directly from the Teams app, instead of having to manually delete all copies of the transcript from two places (Teams app and Stream). For IT administrators, they can start applying retention policies for the copy of the transcript saved in OneDrive, including scenarios where a meeting only had transcription enabled. This retention policy won’t affect the copies saved in Exchange Online, to bulk delete transcript files saved in Exchange Online—please refer to this documentation.

We will also update the default transcript permissions. After the rollout, when the new policy is not applied, only meeting organizers and co-organizers will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, and meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams or Microsoft Stream. Regardless of whether the new policy is applied, the meeting organizer will be able to select in Stream the participants who are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript in Stream.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

There is no action needed to prepare for this change. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

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

As previously communicated in MC525660 (Updated) SharePoint: New List Templates with Approvals (March 2023), we are expanding Approvals in lists in Microsoft SharePoint Online.

With this rollout, Approvals will soon be available in any list. Today, two list templates allow for approvals integration: content scheduler with approvals and travel requests with approvals. With this rollout, we’re expanding the ability to enable or disable approvals on any list.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May 2024 (previously mid-April) and expect to complete by late May 2024 (previously early May).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will be able to configure Approvals by going to the Automate dropdown from the command bar in SharePoint Online lists or in the Microsoft Lists app. Approvals will be actioned and available from Microsoft Teams. Note that disabling approvals will only hide the relevant columns and in-progress approvals will still be actionable in Teams. At any time, you can manually add approvals columns back into views.

After Approvals are enabled, a user can create a list item and submit it for approval. By creating an approval request and specifying the approver, the request will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly within the list. Once approved, the list item status is updated.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Inform your users of the new Approvals functionality for lists and include Approvals in Lists – Microsoft Support in your end-user documentation and support process. We will update this message when we have revised Approvals in Lists – Microsoft Support to reflect the rollout.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: The new Meet now experience in Microsoft Teams group chats will start an instant, ringless live discussion with your colleagues, without scheduling a meeting. The Meet now chat is the same as the group chat, to ensure that the content stays in context and to help users find information when they need it. This feature is available in Teams 2.1 (for desktop and the web) and Teams Mobile (Android and iOS).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 128191.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After rollout:

In a group chat, a user can select the new Meet now button to start an instant meeting:

The meeting initiator’s experience after selecting the Meet now button:

Meeting in progress, with the small meeting window expanded:

Users can discover and join ongoing Meet now discussions in group chat in their list of chats and in the top right corner of a group chat:

[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.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: For Microsoft Purview, we will release a tenant-wide Hold report in eDiscovery (Premium).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93268 and Roadmap ID 93269.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 (previously mid-May) and expect to complete by early August 2024 (previously early June).

General Availability (GCC, GCCH, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 (previously mid-June) and expect to complete by early September 2024 (previously early July).

[How this will affect your organization:]

The Hold report in eDiscovery (Premium) will let users with eDiscovery Administrator and eDiscovery Manager permissions access a built-in report with information on all hold policies associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This includes eDiscovery holds associated with eDiscovery (Standard) and eDiscovery (Premium) cases. The Hold report lists all locations that are part of a tenant’s hold policies (whether enabled or disabled). The Hold report currently doesn’t show custodian association for each data source but will show the location.

Your organization must have an organization subscription that supports Purview eDiscovery (Premium) to generate and access the Hold report. eDiscovery Managers can only view Hold reports related to the cases they are a member of.

The Hold report will be available under the Reports tab in eDiscovery (Premium):

Use the Group option to group eDiscovery holds from eDiscovery (Standard) cases using group by Case Type. Use Customize options to select case type options and display Standard or Premium (case type column not shown here):

[What you need to do to prepare:]

• Assess if the rollout will change your organization’s eDiscovery workflow. If so, update internal documentation and provide training to all eDiscovery users in your organization.

Learn more

• Manage holds in eDiscovery (Premium) | Microsoft Learn
• Hold report in eDiscovery (Premium) (preview) | Microsoft Learn

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

In Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Stream, we will release new video page templates for presenting video.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124823.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We began rolling out early May 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD, USSec, USNat): We will begin rolling out early July 2024 (previously early June) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously late June).

[How this will affect your organization:]

In SharePoint, users will see the new video page templates in the site template menu for both Pages and News.

For the first time ever, a user will soon be able to create a page outside of SharePoint for videos stored on a SharePoint site where a user has editing access:

1. In the Stream web app, a user with the required editing access can select the new Create video news post button under the Share dropdown menu.
2. The user can review the new templates and then select Choose template.
3. After selecting Choose template, the user will land on the page draft on the site where the video is stored.
4. The user can create a SharePoint page or news post, highlight the desired video(s), and include related documents.

[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 might want to notify users, update your user training, and prepare your help desk.

Learn more: Create video pages on SharePoint

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

With this feature update, if both the Microsoft 365 app and the standalone apps for Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft PowerPoint are installed on a user’s mobile device, the standalone app will be given preference for opening its respective file type over the Microsoft 365 app.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Currently in Microsoft Outlook for iOS and Android, if users have both the Microsoft 365 app and the standalone apps for Word, Excel, or PowerPoint installed on their device, users will be prompted in Outlook mobile to open the document with the Microsoft 365 app. With this change, the user will instead be prompted to use the standalone app that fits the document type. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Review the app management policies for your organization. If you currently restrict users to only the use of the Microsoft 365 app for document opening and editing, consider allowing the standalone apps for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use as well. You also may want to notify your users about this change and update your training and documentation as appropriate.

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

In Microsoft Purview, audit search provides your organization with access to critical audit log event data, allowing you to gain insight and further investigate user activities. The Microsoft Purview Compliance portal’s audit search UI currently includes several search fields (i.e., date range, activities, workloads, users, etc.) to facilitate the retrieval of relevant logs. With a recent update, we have added four additional fields to the audit search UI.

These four fields are described below:

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 384092.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 (previously late May) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously mid-June).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Security admins in your organization who use audit in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal will be able to use these four additional fields to retrieve relevant audit logs.

[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.

Additional resources

• Search the audit log | Microsoft Learn

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Purview auditing solutions provides an integrated approach to help organizations effectively address security incidents, forensic and internal investigations, and compliance requirements. Thousands of user and admin operations performed in various of Microsoft 365 services and solutions are captured, recorded, and retained in your organization’s unified audit log.

With this release, the Microsoft Purview audit solution will begin to log the activities conducted by security administrators as well.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 385346

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2024 (previously late May) and expect to complete by early July 2024 (previously mid-June).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft Purview auditing solutions will now log activities such as submitting an audit search query, enabling or disabling auditing, creating or modifying audit log retention policies, etc. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

You do not need to take any action to start logging these new audit activities. 

Additional resources:

• Audit log activities | Microsoft Learn 

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: Authors will be able to control their content alignment across adjacent columns to the top, center, or bottom of that section.

These alignments can be found in your section properties for 2-column and 3-column sections. For single column sections, alignment options are unavailable since content will create the minimum amount of vertical space to house it by default, making additional configuration redundant. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 387808

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD, USSec, USNat): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2024 and expect to complete by mid-June 2024 (previously early June).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Authors can now control their content alignment across adjacent columns to either the top, center, or bottom of that section. 

Content Alignment options added in section properties:

Content alignment options unavailable for one column sections:

[What you need to do to prepare]

You do not need to do anything to prepare for this update, but you may want to let your users know about this improvement. 

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places soon will be available in new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Microsoft Outlook for the web. This feature is enabled by default for any users with a qualifying Copilot license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 388754.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the rollout, users will see the Copilot app in the left app bar of new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and the web:

[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.

Learn more: What’s New in Copilot | April 2024 – Microsoft Community Hub

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Purview: We are announcing the public preview of the integration of Adaptive protection with Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) to help you find the right balance to protect against data sabotage while enabling productivity. This new integration leverages DLM features to provide an additional control for Adaptive protection that automatically preserves items deleted by a user with an elevated risk level, so items can be restored if needed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392839.

[When this will happen:]

Public preview: We will begin rolling out in late June 2024 (previously early May) and expect to complete by mid-July 2024 (previously early June).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the rollout, and after you enable Adaptive protection for your tenant, the retention label and auto-apply policy for data lifecycle management will be automatically created for you. This policy will automatically include elevated risk users identified by Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management solution. If these users delete content from Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft OneDrive, or Microsoft Exchange, a retention label is automatically applied to that content to retain it for 120 days. Retention labels are automatically applied to unlabeled content deleted by these users. When these users are no longer at the elevated risk level, they are automatically removed from the DLM policy, and the system will no longer keep a copy of content they delete. Any content copies previously retained when the user had an elevated risk level will be kept for the 120 days as specified by the retention label.

Unlike other retention labeling scenarios, users do not see the retention label, and you do not need to create or manage the retention label or policy. At this time, you can’t change the retention period or assign different policies based on the different risk levels, or for different locations. The single retention label and auto-labeling policy for your tenant is not visible in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Learn more: Learn about retention policies & labels to retain or delete | Microsoft Learn

If you’re using Adaptive protection and want to automatically retain content deleted by elevated risk users, follow these steps to turn on this new integration.

1. Sign in to the Microsoft Purview compliance portal.
2. Navigate to Data lifecycle management > Microsoft 365 > Adaptive protection settings in the top right corner.
3. Turn the setting ON and select Save.

If you’re not using Adaptive protection already, turn on Adaptive protection and the new feature will be enabled along with Adaptive protection.

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.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: When an admin wants to enable user email notifications, policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa. After this rollout, notifications and policy tips will be decoupled, and admins can configure the following rules to enable:

1. Only a user email notification
2. Only a policy tip
3. A user email notification and a policy tip
4. No policy tips or user email notifications

After this rollout, policy tips and user email notifications will align with the behavior currently available with Microsoft Exchange.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394279.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 (previously mid-May) and expect to complete by mid-August 2024 (previously late May).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After rollout, to configure policy tips and user email notifications, you can use PowerShell or Purview | Data Loss Prevention.

In PowerShell

After rollout, use the new parameter called -NotifyUserType with the cmdlets New-DlpComplianceRule and Set-DlpComplianceRule.

Use New-DlpComplianceRule to create a new rule. Use Set-DlpComplianceRule to update an existing rule.

• Default value: NotSet
• To enable a policy tip: PolicyTip
• To enable a user email notification: Email
• To enable a user email notification and a policy tip: Email,PolicyTip

Example 1: New-DlpComplianceRule -Name "PT rule" -Policy "Policy Name" -ContentContainsSensitiveInformation @{Name="India Unique Identification (Aadhaar) Number"} -NotifyUserType PolicyTip -NotifyUser SiteAdmin,LastModifier,Owner

Example 2: Set-DlpComplianceRule -Identity "Rule Name" -NotifyUserType Email

To check that the value is set correctly, check the following and check the parameter value for NotifyUserType:

Get-DlpComplianceRule -Identity "Rule Name" | fl

In Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Before rollout:

After rollout:

DLP examples

Rule 1: Configured to only trigger a user email notification:

Rule 2: Configured to only trigger a policy tip:

Rule 3: Configured to trigger a user email notification and a policy tip:

[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 update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Within Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 users can now leverage the Shifts plugin to get information about their teams’ open shifts, shifts, and scheduled time off. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395783

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Copilot for Microsoft 365 users within Microsoft Teams with the Shifts plugin enabled can now query Copilot for Microsoft 365 about the open shifts, shifts, and scheduled time off on their team. 

They can ask Copilot for Microsoft 365 questions such as the following, drawing from the Shifts app data:

• What are the open shifts for this week?
• When is my next shift?
• When do I have time off?

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To enable the Shifts plugin, follow these steps:

1. In Microsoft 365 admin center, ensure users have a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. 
2. In Microsoft 365 admin center, go to Settings > Integrated Apps > Available Apps > Deploy Shifts for Microsoft Teams.

For more information, see Manage Plugins for Copilot in Integrated Apps. 

In Teams, the end user can enable the Shifts plugin from within Copilot for Microsoft 365 using the plugin flyout. The user will need to authenticate the connection. 

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the content below with updated links for additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to SharePoint Online is a new SharePoint Start experience, featuring a user-friendly approach that reduces the effort required for creating sites and pages. Creators will be able to visit the Start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124824.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The new SharePoint Start preview from SharePoint Home:

The reimagined SharePoint Start page:

Explore the new SharePoint Start page:

After rollout, this feature is on by default. Admins cannot turn it off.

[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:

• Microsoft SharePoint Roadmap Update – May 2024 – Microsoft Community Hub
• Discover content with the SharePoint start page 

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the content below with additional information about controls. Thank you for your patience.

A new sync window feature will be available in Microsoft Outlook. This feature allows you to choose how many days’ worth of emails and attachments you want to download to your device. This way, you can always access your emails and attachments, even when you’re offline.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 189809

[When this will happen:]

We will start rolling out in early June 2024 and expect to complete the rollout by late June 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this feature, users will have access to the following new settings:

• Days of Mail to Sync: Users can select how many days of emails they want to sync to their devices, with options ranging from 1 to 30 days.
• Include Attachments: There is a toggle option to auto-download all attachments received within the selected sync window. For example, if a user sets their sync window to 14 days and turns this toggle on, all attachments received in the past 14 days will be automatically downloaded to their devices.

Microsoft Intune controls available:

• Admins can specify a default sync window.
• Admins can allow or disallow changes to the default sync window.

The keys for these settings are:

• com.microsoft.outlook.Settings.DaysToSync
• com.microsoft.outlook.Settings.DaysToSync.UserChangeAllowed

It is the admin’s responsibility to set a valid value (from 1 to 90).

This is the first version of the sync settings we’ll be releasing. To maintain the best performance of the app, we are initially releasing a limit of a 90-day sync window. We plan to expand this limit as soon as we can confirm that the app performs well in production. Depending on the size of the mailbox, you may encounter some limits when downloading messages and/or attachments, but rest assured, we’re continuously working on improving this feature. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

This feature is available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

To enable and use the sync window feature, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Under the General section, select Accounts. If you have multiple accounts, choose the one that you want to configure.
3. Look for Sync Settings under Data Storage.

This will allow you to customize your sync preferences and ensure you have the emails and attachments you need, even without an internet connection.

Updated June 14, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon to SharePoint Online: To help bring more interest to a page, users will be able to apply a shape over an Image web part or inline image in a Text web part. Shapes include square, circle, triangle, hexagon, pebble, and teardrop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395210.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We began rolling out early late June 2024 (previously May) and expect to complete by late July 2024 (previously early June).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before the rollout, Page authors were not able to apply a shape over an Image web part or inline image in a Text web part.

After the rollout, Page authors will be able to apply a square, circle, triangle, hexagon, pebble, and teardrop shape:

[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.

If your organization does not support iOS devices, you can ignore this message.

Coming soon for Microsoft Outlook for iOS: We will add the ability for users to search Settings to quickly find the desired setting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 398982.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): 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: Users are unable to search Settings.

After the rollout: This change is additive. All other Settings will remain the same. This feature is on by default and accessible to all Outlook iOS 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 to Microsoft Teams: Improvements to how Copilot in Teams understands and responds to time-related queries in chat and channels. With this rollout, Copilot will provide more precise and relevant responses to prompts such as “yesterday,” “last week,” and “last month.” A Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature.

This message applies to Copilot in Teams chat and channels on Desktop, Mac, and the web in new Teams, as well as Teams Mobile (iOS and Android).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397768.

[When this will happen:]

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

Before this rollout, when users asked Copilot about a long time period (such as “Summarize the key action items from March”), Copilot was limited to the last 30 days of data (left side of screenshot). After the rollout, Copilot will be able to detect and respond to the specified time period (such as March). We have also simplified the timestamp (right side of screenshot):

The default state is on, and all Copilot licensed users will have access to the improved feature.

[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.

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

Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: File attachments added to a meeting invitation in Microsoft Outlook for Windows or Outlook for web are now visible for invitees in the calendar in Teams for Desktop and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91163.

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout: Users were not able to view and download meeting invitation attachments in Teams if the invitation was created in Outlook.

After the rollout, all users will be able to review all attachments in Teams meeting invitations.

[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.

• Please review the new feature documentation for the enhanced DLP and Lockbox functionalities, for details.
• Adjust any integrations or tools that rely on the legacy DLP and Lockbox event formats to the new schema.

For Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP), we’ve added enhancements to the device onboarding page. These include:

• Ability to search by IP address to look up devices.
• New filter for ‘Valid user’ available.
• Refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported, which excludes Android devices from showing up in the device onboarding list.
• New properties in the export report.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 393934

[When this will happen:]

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

• You will be able to look up devices using their IP address in the search box (located in the upper right corner of the page) and view their device health status in the device onboarding page. 

• You can filter for valid or invalid devices using the “Valid user” filter to get a list of all the devices that have an invalid user status. When the valid user status is invalid, it means that there was no authenticated user found. Without proper authentication, data classification is impeded. If the status of the valid user status is invalid, follow the provided remediation guidance.

• The device onboarding page has been enhanced to only show devices that can be DLP supported.
• You can get all the device information from the device onboarding page using the export capability. The export report now contains new device properties including:
  • Valid user
  • First onboarded date
  • MDATP device ID
  • Defender engine version
  • Defender Mocamp version
  • Endpoint DLP status
  • Last policy sync time
  • Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded

For more information, see Troubleshooting endpoint data loss prevention configuration and policy sync | Microsoft Learn

[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.

The In development for Microsoft Intune page in our documentation has been updated.

How does this affect me?

The In development page provides a list of features in upcoming releases of Microsoft Intune to assist in your readiness and planning. The list has now been updated. You’ll start seeing these changes in the next month or in a subsequent release.

What do I need to prepare for this change?

You can inform your IT staff and helpdesk of the upcoming changes listed on this page. Plan to update your user guidance, if you feel any of these features would be important to your users.

Additional Information

Intune In development