Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 24-08-2024

Starting in early September 2024, customers will see a new setting in the Microsoft Viva Engage admin center to mute users across their networks. Muting a user removes new posts from that user from the Home feed, Storylines feed, and all email digests.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 396168.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Network, Engage, and Global admins will be able to add or remove a user from mute for network status. The feature can be found in the Engage admin center under the Governance and Compliance tab. All admin activity related to muting users for the network is captured in the user audit log for Engage.

While muted, new ThreadStarters from a user cannot show in discovery surfaces, including the Home feed, Storylines feed, and email digests. Comments and replies from a muted user can show in discovery surfaces.

Muting a user does not affect visibility of ThreadStarters, comments, or replies in community feeds. Users and their content remain visible through search.

Muted users will not see any indication they’ve been muted. Admins can only see who is muted within the admin center. Users do not receive a notification when added or removed from mute status. Customers own all internal communication around the use of the feature.

Admins can mute any user in their network, including guest users. Muting applies per user per network. Up to 1,000 users can be muted simultaneously per network.

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.

Please review the available documentation on Microsoft Support and Microsoft Learn, which will be available publicly after general availability rollout begins in September 2024: Reduce visibility of a user’s posts in Viva Engage (Private Preview) | Microsoft Learn

Coming soon in Microsoft Outlook: Users can copy a list of meeting attendees and their response status (attending, declined, or no response) to their clipboard. This message applies to Outlook for Windows and on the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 412937.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024

General Availability: We will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout: Users can view responses from meeting attendees but not copy them. 

After this rollout: Users can go to Tracking in the meeting invitation to copy a list of meeting attendees and their response status (attending, declined, or no response).

This feature is on by default and available to all Outlook users. 

[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.

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

Coming soon for new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and the web: A new Get diagnostics feature will allow users to submit logs after they open a ticket with Microsoft Support. To submit diagnostic information to a support agent, users will be able to select Get diagnostics in the Help tab, select Upload logs, copy the Support ID that is generated, and then share the Support ID with the support agent.

[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:]

Before this rollout: Users are not able to provide diagnostics to the Microsoft Support after they open a ticket unless the support agent shows them how to provide them.

After this rollout: Users will find the Get diagnostics feature in the Help tab of the Ribbon if you have enabled it.

This new feature is now off by default, but you can turn it on by following the instructions below. In late September, it will be on by default unless you have turned it off before then. Admins can use a Cloud Policy for a Microsoft 365 organization to enable or disable it in their tenant, if needed. When you create a policy, after providing a name and setting a scope, you can search for “new outlook” from the Policies screen to see all available policies for new Outlook for Windows. One of these policies is Configure Get diagnostics, which you can change to Not configured or Enabled.

To disable the new feature after configuring it: In the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to Customization and follow the Cloud Policy steps:

[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

• For admins: Overview of Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365 – Microsoft 365 Apps | Microsoft Learn
• For users: Contact support and provide feedback in new Outlook for Windows – Microsoft Support

Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management will be rolling out minor changes for when it detects a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and more prominently highlighting the reasons for the detection on the Alert page. Also, we will provide additional descriptors for how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 156016 and Roadmap ID 171720.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, the Alerts page had fewer details about why the user was detected as potential high impact user.

After this rollout, The Alert page will have improved accessibility, it will be easier to see the reasons for the detection of a potential high impact user, and admins will have additional descriptors for how the score booster is applied to the user.

This feature is on by default and accessible to all Purview admins with appropriate permissions. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No action is needed to enable these features. You will see the potential high impact user experience enhancements on the alert/case detail pages.

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

• Create and manage insider risk management policies – Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn
• Investigate insider risk management activities – Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Learn
  

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation.

This feature update helps organizations add a Stream Playlist card on Viva Connections Dashboard. The card will show the videos from a playlist that the end user can quickly view from the dashboard.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402190.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

The operator can now add a card to put up a playlist on Viva Connections Dashboard that will list a group of videos to be viewed by end users.

For more information, see Create a Viva Connections dashboard and add cards.

[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.

In Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, We are now auto-enabling extensions (formerly Plugins) upon user installation or Admin deployment. This will help reduce the friction for users having to enable individual extensions in Copilot for Microsoft 365 before use once installed. Users will continue to have the ability to disable (switch OFF) these individual extensions where supported. 

We are also introducing actions support within extensions in Copilot for Microsoft 365 to enable users to complete their workflows directly from Copilot for Microsoft 365. Users can now create, update, or delete records with extensions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 384848.

[When this will happen:] 

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

With this feature update, users will be able to directly use their already installed or admin-deployed extensions within Copilot for Microsoft 365. Admins will not need to educate users about switching extensions ON within Copilot for Microsoft 365 before they start submitting their queries. Apps that users have already consented to will now have additional capabilities such as create, update, and delete records.

You can manage your extension setting for Copilot for Microsoft 365 using Integrated Apps.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Please review and manage the apps with extensions deployed in your tenant since these apps will be auto-enabled in Copilot for Microsoft 365. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.