Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 19-01-2025

Coming soon to Microsoft Lists: A new admin control in Microsoft PowerShell to hide real-time Microsoft Lists collaborators at the site collection level.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): Available now (since early December 2024).

[How this will affect your organization:]

In MC891238 Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Update on new Microsoft Lists rollout (published September 2024, updated November 2024), we rolled out the ability for users to see who is collaborating with them in real time. Before this rollout and by default, Lists shows real time collaborators next to Filtering and Grouping actions (in the upper right of the screen) and at the list-item level.

After this rollout: Based on customer feedback regarding privacy, admins can run the PowerShell command Set-SPOSite -Identity -HidePeopleWhoHaveListsOpen $false to disable this feature on a per-site collection basis, so users cannot see who is working on the List at the same time.

This admin control to hide collaborators is available by default for admins to configure.

[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:

• Inform your users about this upcoming feature and how it can enhance their workflow.
• Ensure your Teams environment is updated to the latest version to take advantage of this new functionality.
• Review your organization’s policies and permissions related to sharing and accessing List data in Teams.
• Update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Set-SPOSite (Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell) | Microsoft Learn

Coming soon: New recommended comments marked as Relevant for you in some conversations in the home feed of the Microsoft Viva Engage web experience. This feature is designed help users find relevant, meaningful responses in large discussion threads.

The recommended comments feature is available to all users with an Engage license and is not a premium feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420338.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The recommended comments feature enhances the conversation view in feeds, which shows the two most recent comments by default.

When conversations have a large volume of comments and replies relevant to the user, two Relevant to you comments will display as the default feed view. Users can select Show more comments to expand all comments in the thread:

Zoomed-in view of the Relevant to you comments and the Show more comments feature:

Recommended views vary by user and may not appear on all conversation threads. Comments from a user’s leaders or close connections may show more often in the recommended view.

This change is available in the home feed of Engage on the web and on Windows desktop and the Engage app in Teams and Outlook. Conversations in community feeds are not affected by this change.

Network and Engage admins can turn off recommended comments in the Engage admin center. 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 or after the rollout to enable or opt-in to this feature.

You may want to notify your users about this change and consider updating internal training and documentation to reflect this feature enhancement.

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

We will retire the Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch cmdlets in Microsoft Exchange Online starting March 1, 2025, and completing in late March 2025. After the retirement, new records will be written to Search-UnifiedAuditLog and Search-MailboxAuditLog will be accessible only as a historical record.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After the retirement, admins will be able to access Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditlogSearch and make changes and downloads until late June 2025. After late June, Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditlogSearch will become a static record only, and admins will no longer be able to make changes and downloads.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This change will happen automatically by the specified dates. Please notify your users about this change, update your relevant documentation, and share the alternate capability Search-UnifiedAuditLog.

To use the Search-UnifiedAuditLog cmdlet, you must ensure auditing is enabled for your tenant.

Learn more about enabling auditing for your tenant and about the changes to these cmdlets: Microsoft Exchange Online: Search-MailboxAuditLog and New-MailboxAuditLogSearch will retire | Microsoft Community Hub

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Amplify: A new Accessibility assistant tool to help content creators meet accessibility standards when authoring publications. This tool provides checks and brief guidance to help ensure pages are inclusive and accessible to a broad audience. This rollout reflects our ongoing commitment to fostering accessibility and inclusivity in Amplify.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, authors can initiate an accessibility test while editing a publication. Authors can select the Accessibility assistant icon from the right vertical toolbar. The Accessibility assistant will support four web parts: Banner, Text, Image, and Quick Links.

The Accessibility assistant identifies accessibility issues:

The Accessibility assistant guides authors to address accessibility issues in the specific web part:

The Accessibility assistant confirms author has addressed all accessibility issues:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

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

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before or after the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update relevant documentation.

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

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams for iOS: Updates to the week views in the iPad Calendar.

[When this will happen:]

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

General Availability (GCC, 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:]

New features after this rollout:

• The five-day week view (Monday-Friday) will be the new default view. Users can switch to the seven-day week view if desired.
• Week views will sync category colors from desktop and web versions of Microsoft Teams.
• New option to join a meeting from an event card.
• New option for meeting organizers to drag and drop to reschedule a meeting.

The updated week view in the iPad Calendar:

This change will be available by default to users.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before or after the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: What’s New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2024 | Microsoft Community Hub (November 2024)

We are excited to announce new updates to the academies in Microsoft Viva Learning, with powerful new admin features to elevate learning experiences for users and enable organizations to create tailored, engaging academies for their teams. Admins will be able to:

• Group learning paths under multiple layers.
• Add logo and background image
• Customize academy components (Featured set and Learner profile card)

This feature will be available users with a Microsoft Viva Suite or Viva Learning premium license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 334010.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before the rollout, academies have these challenges:

• Content organization is limited to a flat hierarchy.
• Only eight learning paths are visible at a time, with the rest hidden
• Thumbnails, ratings, view counts, and other visual signals for learning paths are absent, reducing discoverability.
• Learning path names are cut off, affecting readability and clarity.

This rollout addresses these challenges. This is how existing academies will look after the rollout:

After the rollout, admins will have enhanced capabilities to:

1. Create multi-layer structures: You can group learning paths under sections and subsections for better organization and navigation:

2. Add branding: Personalize your academies by adding logos and background images to reflect your organization’s identity:

3. Customize academy layout components: Modify components like the Featured set and Learner profile card to maximize content focus and screen space. You can remove the Featured set and Learner profile card:

You can remove only the Learner profile card and keep the Featured set:

Note: Changes to a published academy go live instantly. Please exercise caution when updating or adding layers.

These changes will be available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Learn more: Manage academies in Viva Learning | Microsoft Learn (will be updated on the day the rollout begins)

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.

We are introducing the App Management Unification Impact report, a new tool that offers administrators a comprehensive preview of changes to app and tenant settings before the implementation of the unified management of Microsoft Teams apps (MC796790). This report brings awareness to the expected changes, enabling admins to adjust settings in Teams admin center or Microsoft 365 admin center before unification is applied. The report is available only in tenants that have migrated to Microsoft App Centric management (MC688930).

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The report will be available on the Manage Apps page in the Teams admin center to preview changes to app or tenant settings resulting from the upcoming release of unified app management.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Administrators should run the App Management Unification Impact report from the Manage Apps page in the Teams admin center. This report will display apps and agents listed in the Teams admin center along with their tenant settings and app availability values as well as those in the Integrated Apps page of the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will show the projected unification outcomes for each app and agent, enabling administrators to preview changes resulting from the upcoming release of unified app management (announced in MC796790, roadmap item 393931). The report will use the merge logic previously shared in public documentation. Administrators may need to make changes in either the Teams admin center or Microsoft 365 admin center and coordinate with other departments.