Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 30-01-2025

Updated January 29, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In Microsoft Purview, Information Protection will introduce a new feature called Protection Policy to create new protection policies for label-based protection. This enhanced protection can be applied to the following services:

• Azure SQL: Databases hosted on Microsoft’s cloud platform.
• Azure Data Lake Gen 2: Large-scale data storage and analytics service.
• Azure Blob Storage: A service for storing large amounts of unstructured data.
• Amazon S3: Amazon’s cloud storage service.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394282

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

During the public preview phase, you can use these label-based protections without any extra cost. However, once this period ends, a pay-as-you-go pricing model will be implemented for continued use of these features.

To create your initial protection policy, go to the Microsoft Purview Portal and navigate to the Information Protection application.

This image shows a protection policy created for data sources within Azure:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Visit the Information Protection app in Microsoft Purview Portal and try to create your first protection policy. Learn more here:

• Authoring and publishing protection policies (preview) | Microsoft Learn) – https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purview/how-to-create-protection-policy

Updated January 29, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Word for the web, Microsoft Excel for the web, and Microsoft PowerPoint for the web: An enhanced File menu, so users can more easily create, open, share, export, and manage files. We have also updated the autosave experience and made file renaming more efficient.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We began rolling out mid-May 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2025 (previously late November).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, we received feedback from users who were overwhelmed and confused by the file menu and found it difficult to find and use critical commands on the menu. It wasn’t clear to users that their files were autosaved on web apps.

To address this user feedback, we have reimagined the File menu and file renaming to be more intuitive and easier to use.

After this rollout, users can use the File menu to:

• Quickly navigate to the folder where their file is saved from the link at the top of the File menu.
• More efficiently find commands for downloading files as PDFs and other formats at File > Export
• Use Create a copy (formerly called Save as) to save a copy of file online or to a local device
• Use the Move File command to move a file to a different folder
• Explore previous versions of the file with File Version History

Also, users can rename a file by selecting the file name in the title bar near the top of the browser window and entering the new file name:

All changes are available by default to users of Microsoft Word for the web, Microsoft Excel for the web, and Microsoft PowerPoint for the web.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified dates with no admin action required before the rollout. Please notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate

Updated January 29, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are changing how you enable or disable the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Microsoft Outlook for the web.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

We’re changing the CASMailbox –OWAEnabled parameter that enables or disables access to user mailboxes using Outlook for the web (formerly known as Outlook Web App or OWA) to block only Outlook for the web and to not affect the behavior of new Outlook for Windows.

You can manage new Outlook for Windows with the CASMailbox-OneWinNativeOutlookEnabled policy.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates one or more users in your organization may be using the New Outlook for Windows.

Note: We will not change any existing value for the settings, but we will change which setting is checked to see if new Outlook for Windows is allowed to run on that computer. Before this rollout, both CASMailbox-OWAEnabled and CASMailboxOneWinNativeOutlookEnabled policies are checked. After this rollout, we will remove the check for CASMailbox-OWAEnabled so you can have the chance to enable new Outlook and still disable Outlook for the web if desired.

[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 about this change and update any relevant documentation.

After this change takes effect, please confirm the CASMailbox OneWinNativeOutlookEnabled policy state for each mailbox. The default value is Enabled.

Learn more

• Enable or disable Outlook on the web access to mailboxes in Exchange Server | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)
• Enable or disable access to the new Outlook for Windows | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)

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Updated January 29, 2025: This promotion is extending to EDU tenants beginning the middle to end of February 2025. 

During a promotional trial period running from January 6, 2025, through June 30, 2025, organizations with 50 or more Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses will automatically receive 10,000 additional queries per month for agents in SharePoint, giving users without Copilot licenses access to create and use agents. We’ve added a new setting that allows admins to disable this trial access using the SharePoint Online Management Shell. View the Trial Agreement details

[When this will happen:]

The promotion will go into effect January 6, 2025, and remain active until June 30, 2025. At the beginning of December 2024, admins can disable trial access at any point during the promotional period, via the SharePoint Online Management Shell. Tenants that are eligible for the promotion will see a message bar on the Copilot Admin page in the Admin Center.

[What you need to prepare:]

Starting the beginning of December, Global administrators or SharePoint admins can use the SharePoint Online Management Shell to manage access to the trial for users without Copilot licenses.

This can be done by updating to the latest version of the SharePoint Online Management Shell and running the following commands:

• To opt out and disable access to the trial use the Set-SPOCopilotPromoOptInStatus cmdlet.
• To confirm trial settings, use the Get-SPOCopilotPromoOptInStatus cmdlet.
• To re-enable access to the trial, use the Set-SPOCopilotPromoOptInStatus cmdlet.

Ensure that you have the latest version of SharePoint PowerShell installed to run these cmdlets effectively.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Once the trial promotion is available, your unlicensed users will be able to view and interact directly with agents in SharePoint. They will receive a notification about their promotional access and be encouraged to start exploring the feature.

Any time these users interact with agents, it will count toward your organization’s monthly trial use of 10,000 queries. Once the maximum number of queries is reached, users will be notified that the service is temporarily unavailable and prompted to try again next month.

Unused queries will not roll over to the following month. If you need more queries, you can get them by adding additional Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. After the trial ends on June 30, 2025, users without an M365 Copilot License will no longer be able to create or use the agents. However, agents created and used during the trial promotion will remain available, and no historical data will be lost.

Additional information:

• Learn more about the agents in SharePoint promotion
• Learn more about Copilot in SharePoint

Updated January 29, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The same Messages search vertical at microsoft365.com will soon be available for organization-wide search in Microsoft SharePoint. Search verticals are tabs on the search result page that show results of a specific type or from select sources. For example, the Files vertical shows results classified as files and makes it easy for users who are looking to find documents.

[When this will happen:]

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

This feature will be on by default.

If you have disabled the Messages search vertical for microsoft365.com, the Messages search vertical will also be disabled in SharePoint. Learn more: Manage search verticals | Microsoft Learn

Before this rollout: Default vertical experience without the Messages vertical:

After this rollout: New default vertical experience with the Messages vertical:

[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.

Updated January 29, 2025: We have updated the content. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Outlook for iOS/Android: New built-in report buttons in version > 4.2446. Admins can control the appearance and behavior of these buttons that allow users to report emails as phishing / junk / not junk from the User Reported setting page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (security.microsoft.com). Admins can also customize where messages get reported to (reporting mailbox, Microsoft, or both) and what the user sees both before and after reporting messages from these buttons.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 371383.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): We began rolling out in early December 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Information to keep in mind:

• Microsoft OWA (Outlook on the Web) and the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows have had this functionality since November 2022. This rollout to iOS/Android does not change or affect that functionality.
• Classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows client has had this functionality in current channel since August 2024. Learn more: MC841229 (Updated) Classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows: New reporting buttons integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (published July 2024, updated October 2024).
• Microsoft Outlook for Mac released this functionality in September 2024.
• If you have turned off the reporting feature in the Microsoft 365 Defender User reported settings page or are using a third-party add-in, the report buttons in Outlook for Android/iOS won’t be visible.
• The Microsoft reporting add-in (the Microsoft report message add-in and Microsoft phishing add-in) will be supported till further notice. The future goal is to have a consistent button reporting experience across all Outlook platforms. If you are using Microsoft reporting add-ins in Outlook for iOS/Android, your users will see two reporting experiences: one from the built-in Outlook buttons (added by this rollout) and one from the add-in. Both options will behave the same for users (except for the newly customizable pop-ups) and the reported messages will end up in the same place, causing minimal disruption.
• The selections you make on the user reported settings page will determine the reporting experience for your users (whether they choose the add-in or built-in reporting option in Outlook). Either option will report to the same place (Microsoft, custom mailbox, or both) based on your User reported settings.
• Like OWA and new Outlook for Windows, the built-in reporting button in Outlook for iOS/Android supports reporting from shared and delegate mailboxes.

This change is 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.

No action is required form you after this rollout because your current settings in the User reported settings page will not be changed.

Learn more

• Report phishing and suspicious emails in Outlook for admins – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)
• User reported settings – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)

Updated Jan 28, 2025: As communicated back in December 2024, we are confirming the general availability below.

Microsoft is making it easier for Administrators to deploy new Outlook for organizations that are ready for it. 

New installations of Microsoft 365 desktop client apps on Windows devices will include new Outlook in addition to classic Outlook. There is no change to existing installations.

[When this will happen:]

General availability (Worldwide): This change will be available with Version 2502.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Administrators can configure new Microsoft 365 deployments to control which apps are included before using custom configs to do installations. Classic Outlook and new Outlook are turned on in the new default configuration, and new Outlook will be added as “on” for existing configurations unless administrators edit to exclude it. In case new Outlook is not needed yet, administrators need to specifically edit their configurations to exclude the new Outlook app in the configuration before new installations. 

If administrators have blocked the “try the new Outlook” toggle in classic Outlook, that policy will not be affected by these configuration changes or installs of new Outlook. If users install new Outlook alongside classic, they will see new Outlook in the apps list in the Start menu and can use it side by side the classic app if desired.

In case new Outlook was installed and is not needed later, Administrators can continue to remove new Outlook at any time after it has been installed: Control the installation and use of new Outlook.

More details are available in the updated associated documentation here: Deployment overview for new Outlook for Windows.

1. Sign in to your tenant account.
   PowerShell: Add-PowerAppsAccount -Endpoint “prod” -TenantID <Tenant_ID>
2. Retrieve and store your tenant settings in TenantSettings.
   PowerShell: $tenantSettings = Get-TenantSettings
3. Set the powerPlatform.powerAutomate.disableFlowRunResubmission flag to False, to allow flow run resubmissions for cloud flows initialized by instant triggers.
   Powershell: tenantSettings.powerPlatform.powerAutomate.disableFlowRunResubmission= $False
   Set-TenantSettings -RequestBody $tenantSettings

Updated January 29, 2025: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Teams Live Event scheduling is now natively available in the new Teams client. Previously, event organizers were redirected to a web-based scheduling flow, which has now been brought into the New Teams client. This allows organizers to create, edit, and manage event resources all within the newest Teams experience. This is available across desktop, Mac, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and Cloud Video Interop (CVI).

[When this will happen:]

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

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

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

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

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

This scheduling flow change will not impact Teams Live Event scheduling functionality for IT admins or Teams Live Event users.

This feature will be updated 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.

For more information, see What are Microsoft Teams live events.

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management (IRM) admins will be able to select Data Loss Prevention (DLP) alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin and analysts can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to DLP.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 475057.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Admins will be able to enable this indicator in IRM’s global settings for policy indicators. When enabled, this indicator can be selected in the Data Theft by departing users, Data leaks, Data leaks by risky users, Data leaks by priority users, and Risky AI Usage policy templates.

Using the indicator

1. In Settings > Insider Risk Management > Policy indicators > Built-in Indicators: Open the Data loss prevention (DLP) alerts indicators (preview) drop-down menu. Select Add DLP policies and choose the DLP policies to bring into IRM. Check the box for Generating alerts from selected DLP policies. Save the changes. Note: This indicator will not work if no DLP policies are added and if the checkbox is not selected.

2. To use in a policy: In the policy wizard for Data theft by departing users, Data leaks, Data leaks by risky users, Data leaks by priority users, and Risky AI usage policy templates, configure the policies as applicable until you get to the Indicators page. Open the Data loss prevention (DLP) alerts indicators (preview) drop-down menu and check the box for Generating alerts from selected DLP policies. Configure the rest of the policy as applicable.

3. Example of an alert generated by this indicator:

The indicator will be 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. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your admins about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: Configure policy indicators in insider risk management | Microsoft Learn (will be updated before rollout)

The Integrated apps page in the Microsoft 365 admin center provides IT admins with tools to manage agents. With this rollout, we are introducing a new Shared Agent management section, enabling IT admins to gain visibility into individually shared agents and take actions such as blocking agents to ensure compliance and security. 

[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:]

Global admins, global readers, AI admins, Exchange admins, and Azure Application admins will see this new Shared Agent management feature in the Integrated apps page in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

This update will:

• Provide an inventory of shared agents searchable by agent name.
• Enable admins to block shared agents, making them inaccessible across the tenant.

These changes will be available by default and require no additional configurations.

[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.

Learn more: Manage agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Integrated Apps (to be updated before rollout).

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• Notes from the work order and bookings
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• Work order service tasks
• Asset information and work order history

• This update improves the previews that show when your cursor hovers over apps on the taskbar. The update also improves their animations.
• An icon will appear in the system tray when you use an app that supports Windows Studio Effects. This only occurs on a device that has a neural processing unit (NPU).
• In File Explorer, when you right-click items in the left pane, the “New Folder” command appears on the context menu.
• You can now share directly to apps that support sharing in Windows. Just right-click local files in File Explorer or on the desktop.
• This update adds a new keyboard shortcut in the Magnifier app: CTRL+ALT+Minus sign. Use it to quickly switch between the current zoom and 1X zoom.

• Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2: KB5050092