21-August-2024 Below you will find a collection of news published yesterday. This news consists of Microsoft’s Roadmap when it is updated it will be below with items. Then there will be a section with the message center, if there is anything new there, this will be automatically included. And it contains a piece from blogs that I follow myself and would like to share with you. If I miss something in the blogs that do have an RSS feed, please let me know.
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Office 365 Roadmap Updated: 2024-08-21
Additions : 3
Updates : 10
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Items from the MessageCenter in Microsoft 365
| (Updated) The Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Viva Insights will become available with Copilot for Microsoft 365Category:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC793652Status:stayInformed | Updated August 20, 2024: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience. In the coming months, the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard will become available to all Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers at no additional cost and will not require a Viva or Viva Insights license. Users will be able to access the dashboard in the Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or the web app. However, Viva or Viva Insights licenses will still be required to access Microsoft Copilot Dashboard advanced features in Viva Insights, advanced insights app. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396346 [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete the rollout by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] As this change begins rolling out, your organization will see the following updates:
For customers who use Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) – to manage user profile data like organization or manager data, the Copilot Dashboard will be automatically available to a limited number of leaders in the organization. Microsoft 365 administrators can manage user access from within the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, including granting or revoking access for individual users. Customers who have purchased less than 25 Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses, Copilot Dashboard will provide limited views across Readiness, Adoption, and Impact pages with metrics aggregated at a tenant level. Customers with 25 or more Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses will have the ability to view detailed breakdown of usage and impact metrics, apply filters to view behaviors for specific groups, and upload and analyze sentiment data. Example view for customers with <25 Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses: Example view for customers >25 Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses:
Users with access to the dashboard will be able to find it under Copilot Dashboard on the navigation panel in Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams or the web app. Microsoft 365 administrators will have the ability to upload Copilot survey results, aggregated at a tenant level. Viva Insights administrators will continue to be able to upload row-level survey results, to enable visibility into how user sentiment differs across teams. Microsoft 365 administrators will have the following settings available in Microsoft Admin Center for set up and enablement: Set up:
Copilot dashboard in M365 settings on Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Manage cohort for non-copilot users: Enablement:
Note: Microsoft 365 Global Administrators should assess the impact of changes to the licensing and exclusions models in their organizations. The Global administrators can learn how to use Microsoft 365 administrator settings for managing the exclusion lists for Microsoft Copilot Dashboard here. [What you need to do to prepare:] Review and assess the impact for your organization. Additionally, you might consider reviewing with your works council and updating your training and documentation as appropriate. For additional information read our Copilot Dashboard general availability announcement blog and technical documentation. |
| (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Office 365 Connectors feature retires starting August 15, 2024Category:Microsoft TeamsNummer:MC808160Status:planForChange | Updated August14, 2024: Updated timing related to Office 365 connector retirement.
The following timelines are unaffected and remain as previously announced in our last update:
[How this will affect your organization:] We will gradually roll out this change in two phases:
[What you need to do to prepare:] This change will happen automatically on the specified dates listed above. No admin action is required. Please notify your users about this change, update relevant documentation as appropriate, and share the Browse and add workflows in Microsoft Teams support article. Learn more about the retirement of Microsoft Office 365 connectors and migrating to Workflows |
| Viva Amplify: Export report dataCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC866440Status:stayInformed | Exporting data from Viva Amplify reports is available in three different ways.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407862
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] After a card is configured as needed, the new “Copy as image” allows for a single click to copy the card as viewed on the report to the local machine’s clipboard. It is then pasted into any desktop or browser application that supports Cut & Paste from the clipboard. If a complete report is needed, rather than a single snapshot of one card, then one of two options are available. Depending on the intended use, the campaign member can select from the “Export Options” dropdown. The .CSV file option generates a file on the local machine containing all the data available for the underlying report. This option is intended for users looking to do further data analysis and manipulation outside of the Amplify Reporting and Analytics experience. The second option, Export to PowerPoint, generates a ready-to-share PowerPoint file, saved to the user’s local machine. The slide content in the presentation are snapshots of each card as configured in the report at the time the user selected the Export functionality. UTC or Local time, channel breakdown and enables or disabled channels, as well as the selected time horizon are all respected per individual card as configured at the time of export. [What you need to do to prepare:] For admins: you might want to inform users and/or update existing internal user training materials and documentation. Use reporting signals in Microsoft Viva Amplify to understand campaign performance |
| Viva Amplify: User signals GraphsCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC866441Status:stayInformed | Amplify Reports and Analytics has introduced new data visualizations in the form of line graphs for both unique viewers and promotions. Both the Unique Viewer count, and the Promotions count now provide historical data that can look back up to 12 months. Furthermore, the graphs allow for further breakdown of the information by publishing endpoint and allow the user to include or exclude endpoints from the graph The new “Copy as image” functionality allows the user to easily copy the card, and it graph to reuse in a document or email. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407862
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] Amplify reports will now present what was previously represented as a single, point-in-time aggregate number, as a historical trend chart. This allows the campaign members to see not only the total impact and reach of their publications, but to better understand when and in which endpoints there are reaching their audiences. The default view of the Unique viewers card appears with the last 7 days as the selected time horizon and the aggregate numbers in the trend chart. But if the campaign member desires to view the data differently, they can select a different time horizon from the dropdown, as well as toggle the “view channel breakdown” to see the data trends for each endpoint. And, they can further customize the view by enable or disable the desired endpoints in the provided legend. The Promotions card defaults to showing the total number of Shares, @mentions, email forwards for the entire history (All time). The campaign member can select different time horizons or enable and disable endpoint to appear using the dropdown and legend after the “View channel breakdown” toggle is switched. Hovering over the graph lines will display a card with specific data for the point in time selected with the mouse hover. The data displayed will reflect the current setting, UTC time, and enabled channels. After a card is configured as needed, the new “Copy as image” allows for a single click to copy the card as viewed on the report to the local machine’s clipboard. It is then pasted into any desktop or browser application that supports Cut & Paste from the clipboard. [What you need to do to prepare:] For admins: you might want to inform users and/or update existing internal user training materials and documentation. Use reporting signals in Microsoft Viva Amplify to understand campaign performance |
| Viva Amplify: UTC toggleCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC866443Status:stayInformed | Often the time zone where a publication is sent from and those of the target audience don’t match. And in many cases different audiences each reside in different time zones, making the data a bit complicated for campaign members to digest. The ability to toggle between the user’s local time and a standardized time zone, UTC, helps the user ensure they are comparing and understanding things in the same way as their colleagues. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407862
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] The UTC toggle, available in the “Edit view” panel is at the report level, either the Campaign report or Publication report, and affects all graphs on the page with a time line across the X axis. Once the toggle is switched to UTC, the cards on the reports will indicate that is it no longer in the user’s local time by displaying that it is UTC next to the “last update” time stamp. [What you need to do to prepare:] For admins: you might want to inform users and/or update existing internal user training materials and documentation. Use reporting signals in Microsoft Viva Amplify to understand campaign performance |
| Viva Amplify: Reactions cardCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC866444Status:stayInformed | Readers’ reactions to publication are tracked and presented in a new visual card, that provides the campaign members to select a time horizon in order to get a more detailed view into how readers are reacting to the content.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407862
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] The default view of the Reactions card is to present All time, all reactions since the publication was published, or since any publication in the campaign has been published. The only configuration available on the Reactions card is the ability to select a time horizon from the provided dropdown. [What you need to do to prepare:] For admins: you might want to inform users and/or update existing internal user training materials. Use reporting signals in Microsoft Viva Amplify to understand campaign performance |
| Viva Amplify: Reports displaying count and percentageCategory:Microsoft VivaNummer:MC866446Status:stayInformed | The default calculation of the audience size, both in the aggregate campaign report and for individual publication reports, has been updated to account for scenarios in which a publication has been sent to an endpoint that is open to all members of an organization. Such publishing scenarios often result in very large audiences, which in turn may cause the denominator in the percentage of Unique Viewers calculation to be confusing to users, even though correct. In cases where an audience is not explicitly defined and is simply “open to all”, the new Amplify reports will show the count rather than the percentage to provide the user a more comprehensible data point at first glance. Example: The total audience is calculated by summing up the members of the groups with rights to see the published item. The user count is obtained by adding the Microsoft Entra ID users with permissions to the published item. This can result in a very large audience which in turn may cause the percentage of unique viewers to appear a very small tenth or hundredth of a percentage point. If 2.4K or 7.3K people of the impacted organization have viewed the publication, a campaign owner or author might naturally expect to see a report indicating they have reached ~30% of their audience. But because the publication was shared beyond the impacted business group, as a general interest story to the company’s intranet, the actual potential audience (everyone with permission to see the publication) is now 521,000 employees worldwide, resulting in the report displaying 0.5% unique viewers. This is not incorrect, but also not particularly meaningful. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407862
[When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): Gradually rolling out to everyone from 8/28. [How this will affect your organization:] When one or more publications are published to an “all company audience” the default view of any report will not show percentages. This will impact certain components on the report pages. In the image above you see that the Campaign Goals control is disabled as a result of not being able to calculate the percentage needed to measure the goal. You also see that the unique views are displayed as a number (2.4K), and each endpoint accounts for the “all company” versus discrete audience scenarios. A percentage is displayed when possible and a number with an information icon when a denominator is not available. It is possible that in certain business scenarios the calculation across the entire available audience is precisely what the campaign members are interested in. In those scenarios you can open the “Edit View” button and toggle the “Include whole organization” switch After the switch is toggled, the Campaign Goal is now visible as well as a percentage of unique viewers of the available target audience which is equal to all ADD users with permissions to the publication. [What you can do to prepare:] For admins: you might want to inform users and/or update existing internal user training materials and documentation. Use reporting signals in Microsoft Viva Amplify to understand campaign performance |
| Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management cumulative exfiltration tuningCategory:Microsoft PurviewNummer:MC866451Status:stayInformed | Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out cumulative exfiltration tuning. With this new feature, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will not be detected and scored if the events have already been detected in a previous Cumulative Exfiltration Activities risk. This change will reduce noise for alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activities.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402195. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and complete by late August 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] With this update, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activities. 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. This feature is enabled by default. [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. You can access the Insider Risk Management solution in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Learn more: Create and manage insider risk management policies. |
| Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in WordCategory:Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)Nummer:MC866452Status:stayInformed | When you open a document, Copilot for Microsoft 365 for Microsoft Word will generate a summary in the window at the top of the Word document. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397096. [When this will happen:] General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024. [How this will affect your organization:] Users will see a new UI between the canvas and the ribbon in Word supporting a summary of the document created by Copilot for Microsoft 365. This UI can be collapsed if the user does not want to see the summary. Fully expanded: Semi-expanded: This new feature is available by default. [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. |
| Power Automate – Use CyberArk credentials in desktop flow connectionsCategory:Microsoft Power AutomateNummer:MC866651Status:stayInformed | We are announcing the ability to use CyberArk credentials in Power Automate desktop flow connections. This feature will reach general availability on September 30, 2024. How does this affect me? Your users will be able to leverage secrets stored in CyberArk (using the Central Credential Provider) to connect to Windows sessions on desktop flow machines. Secrets are not stored in Power Automate but are retrieved during runtime. This feature supports rotating passwords without the need to update the desktop flow connection. What do I need to do to prepare? This message is for awareness and no action is required. For more information on this feature, please visit Create a CyberArk credential. |
