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2020 CW 44 Microsoft 365 Roadmap changes

from 10/26/2020 to 11/01/2020

64 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Items were changed and 16 Microsoft 365 Roadmap Items were added

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67118 Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhanced management capabilities in Microsoft Defender Antivirus for SMB IT admins New management capabilities that make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to get visibility into how Defender Antivirus is protecting the Windows 10 devices in their organizations. From the Microsoft 365 admin center, IT admins will be able to view active threats in their environment, understand which users and devices are affected by them, which of these were blocked or quarantined, and where a review is needed. These admins will also have oversight from one place to see which devices are running Microsoft Defender Antivirus, if those are up to date, and where action is needed. The new capabilities apply to all Windows 10 devices that are enrolled in Microsoft Intune with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription plan. New management capabilities that make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to get visibility into how Defender Antivirus is protecting the Windows 10 devices in their organizations. From the Microsoft 365 admin center, IT admins will be able to view active threats in their environment, understand which users and devices are affected by them, which of these were blocked or quarantined, and where a review is needed. These admins will also have oversight from one place to see which devices are running Microsoft Defender Antivirus, if those are up to date, and where action is needed. The new capabilities apply to all Windows 10 devices that are enrolled in Microsoft Intune with a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription plan. 10/31/2020
68696 Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in the Desktop Client for Microsoft Teams This personalized, actionable briefing email from Cortana, automatically delivered to your Outlook inbox to help you start the day on track and stay on top of tasks, will support Spanish. Quickly create tasks right from any Microsoft Teams chat or channel conversation without having to switch apps or windows. Select More options on a Teams message to choose 'Create task' and track in the Tasks app in Teams. 10/31/2020
68698 Outlook: Outlook on the web - Favorite people and calendar event browser notifications Some messages result in follow-up actions. With the "create a task from a message" feature in Teams, you'll be able to create a task from a message in group or 1:1 chats or from a channel post or reply. Powered by the new Tasks in Teams experience, this functionality will allow you to choose which individual task list or shared plan you'd like to save the task to. This roadmap item represents the desktop functionality. We will listen to feedback from the desktop experience and will then plan to implement a similar experience for Teams mobile, if feedback indicates that would be valuable. You will be able to receive browser notifications for your favorite people and calendar events from Outlook. You can control in Settings if you want to receive browser notifications for your favorite people, for events, or for both. 09/30/2020
68700 Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for sensitivity labels in Teams and SharePoint sites You will be able to receive browser notifications for your favorite people and calendar events from Outlook. You can control in Settings if you want to receive browser notifications for your favorite people, for events, or for both. With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. This new external sharing control is granular. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ?confidential??restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ?general??allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in. 11/30/2020
68701 Microsoft Teams: Out of Office With this update, you can set controls on external sharing while configuring a Team or site protection policy. This new external sharing control is granular. For example you can set a very restrictive one for a Team or site labeled ?confidential??restricting sharing with people outside the organization or set a very relaxed one for a Team or site labeled ?general??allowing anyone with a link to access without requiring sign-in. Let others know that you are not available by scheduling your Out of Office in Teams. During this time, your presence status will change to "Out of Office" and your status message will be displayed when someone reaches out to you via chat. Additionally, your Outlook calendar and automatic replies will be updated accordingly. 11/30/2020
68703 Office app: Changing update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on iOS, Mac and Android Let others know that you are not available by scheduling your Out of Office in Teams. During this time, your presence status will change to "Out of Office" and your status message will be displayed when someone reaches out to you via chat. Additionally, your Outlook calendar and automatic replies will be updated accordingly. We are changing the update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on iOS, Mac and Android to bring consistency to update channel names across all the platforms Office is available on, and to enable organizations to make better decisions around their servicing strategy. The new update channel names will include Current Channel and Beta Channel. While Insider program remains, we will use Beta Channel and Current Channel (Preview) as the new names for the update channels designed for our early adopter/Insider audience. Only the names of the existing update channels are changing. These update channels still work the same way as they did before. 10/31/2020
68704 Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and review encrypted content attached to local copy in Exchange We are changing the update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise on iOS, Mac and Android to bring consistency to update channel names across all the platforms Office is available on, and to enable organizations to make better decisions around their servicing strategy. The new update channel names will include Current Channel and Beta Channel. While Insider program remains, we will use Beta Channel and Current Channel (Preview) as the new names for the update channels designed for our early adopter/Insider audience. Only the names of the existing update channels are changing. These update channels still work the same way as they did before. Now eDiscovery managers will be able to collect and review content encrypted with Microsoft encryption technologies and attached as a local copy to an email in Exchange from the Advanced eDiscovery solution. 10/31/2020
68935 Microsoft Teams: Recording 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms View up to 9 meeting participants during a Teams meeting in the 3x3 gallery view. View up to nine meeting participants during a Teams meeting recording in the 3x3 gallery view. 10/31/2020
71041 Outlook for iOS: Show Weather in Calendar Stay on top of what's changing in the weather at a glance at your Outlook Calendar across multiple views based on your current location.? Stay on top of what's changing in the weather at a glance at your Outlook Calendar across multiple views based on your current location. 11/30/2020
72353 Outlook for Android: Favorites for additional customers Outlook for Android:? Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. Outlook for Android: ?Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. 09/30/2020
67163 One Drive: Create Shared Library Simplified and streamlined experience for creating new TeamSites from OneDrive web. We?re updating the existing experience of creating new Shared Libraries from OneDrive on the web to make it simpler and easier to create collaborative spaces. 10/31/2020
59929 Microsoft Project: convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new Common Data Service APIs In order to deliver against the Common Data Service (CDS) platform of data usage, we will convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new CDS APIs.? This will allow users to have access to the data within CDS. In order to deliver against the Common Data Service (CDS) platform of data usage, we will convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new CDS APIs. ?This will allow users to have access to the data within CDS. 02/28/2021
60371 Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. ROLL OUT TEMPORARILY PAUSED FOR NOVEMBER 2020.?Your Signature settings are stored in the cloud so your experience is consistent when you access Outlook for Windows on any computer. 11/30/2020
63776 SharePoint: Updates to site header options New options will become available to customize the branding of modern SharePoint sites. Site creators will be able to choose to show or hide the site title and will have additional configuration options for site logo - a square site logo thumbnail or a non-square site logo. Both changes will be reflected in the Site settings Change the look panel. Custom SharePoint branding options are expanding to include new header configurations for modern sites in addition to the header options you are familiar with today. In the Change the look panel, new minimal and extended header layouts will become available along with the option to toggle site title visibility and select an additional square site logo thumbnail image that displays in search results. Additionally, the default site header for new SharePoint sites will be updated to the compact header instead of the standard header for all sites created after the updates launch. 09/30/2020
68840 Exchange: Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection This update will give admins the ability to customize the various thresholds and the reply block duration for their organization in regards to a reply-all storm. Additionally, we will provide insights and reports in the modern Exchange admin center for detected reply-all storms and, ?information about the blocked replies. This update will give admins the ability to customize the various thresholds and the reply block duration for their organization in regards to a reply-all storm. Additionally, we will provide insights and reports in the modern Exchange admin center for detected reply-all storms and, information about the blocked replies. 02/28/2021
68843 Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes for Government Clouds Microsoft Forms now provides a setting on multi-page (multi-section) Forms/Quizzes which, when enabled, will show responders a progress bar. The progress bar is a visual indicator telling the responder how far they are through the survey, e.g. "Page 1 of 3". Note: this feature is off by default on new forms and quizzes. Form owner should choose?to?enable this setting if they want to use it. However,?forms/quizzes already existing at rollout?time?will have the progress bar setting checked. This Progress bar feature still is only shown on multi-page forms, and can be easily disabled by the Form owner in the settings pane for that form/quiz. Microsoft Forms now provides a setting on multi-page (multi-section) Forms/Quizzes which, when enabled, will show responders a progress bar. The progress bar is a visual indicator telling the responder how far they are through the survey, e.g. "Page 1 of 3". Note: this feature is off by default on new forms and quizzes. Form owner should choose to enable this setting if they want to use it. However, forms/quizzes already existing at rollout time will have the progress bar setting checked. This Progress bar feature still is only shown on multi-page forms, and can be easily disabled by the Form owner in the settings pane for that form/quiz. 10/31/2020
72352 Outlook for iOS: Favorites for additional customers Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. ?These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. 09/30/2020
72353 Outlook for Android: Favorites for additional customers Outlook for Android: ?Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. Outlook for Android: Microsoft 365 US Government Community Cloud (GCC) customers with moderate and high security requirements, and the Department of Defense will be able to tag people, folders and groups as favorites. These customers will be able to have the option to set their email notifications based on their preferences including only from their favorite people. 09/30/2020

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57651 Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in EDU and WWMT N/A https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-tags 05/31/2020

Changed Property: RM Release

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67171 Microsoft Teams: Full screen support in new meetings experience October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
73251 Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics November CY2021 November CY2020 10/31/2020
59439 Securing SMTP Authenticated Submissions - Per Mailbox and By Default December CY2020 March CY2021 02/28/2021
63519 SharePoint lists and libraries - configure header, footer and body of a form October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
66866 Microsoft 365 Admin center: Microsoft Productivity Score General Availability November CY2020 October CY2020 09/30/2020
67143 Forms: New Forms Start Page October CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
70112 Outlook for Android: Adds SharePoint news and Teams Meeting recordings to Discover October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
56432 Location choice for Windows Virtual Desktop service data October CY2020 March CY2021 02/28/2021
63945 Windows Virtual Desktop: Migration tool for non-ARM to ARM objects November CY2020 January CY2021 12/31/2020
68132 Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Conflict of interest template November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
68133 Microsoft 365 Compliance Center: Ability to ignore email signature or disclaimer November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
63776 SharePoint: Updates to site header options October CY2020 November CY2020 09/30/2020
66921 Microsoft Teams: Updated meeting creation and expiration policies October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
68717 Microsoft 365 Admin center: Service Health email notifications for specific incidents and advisories October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
68749 Microsoft Teams: New Together mode scenes December CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
60371 Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
63776 SharePoint: Updates to site header options November CY2020 October CY2020 09/30/2020
65383 Microsoft Information Protection: Data loss prevention for Microsoft Teams November CY2020 December CY2020 11/30/2020
65880 Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support data configuration October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
67125 Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensitivity labels in SPO, EXO, OneDrive for gov clouds October CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020
68704 Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and review encrypted content attached to local copy in Exchange December CY2020 November CY2020 10/31/2020

Changed Property: RM Release Phase

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64169 Microsoft Lists - comments - built on SharePoint General Availability,Targeted Release Targeted Release (Entire Organization),General Availability 09/30/2020

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57098 Microsoft Search: Search scoping control In development Launched 11/30/2020
63429 Outlook for Android: Two way synchronization with local Calendar In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
66196 SharePoint: Site Performance Page for Site Owners and Editors Rolling out In development 10/31/2020
67137 SharePoint: new create list experience In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68689 Microsoft 365 compliance center: Auto-apply retention labels for Teams meeting recordings In development Launched 10/31/2020
68699 Outlook: FindTime - Require Attendee Verification and Locking Poll for Attendees In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
59220 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection: Preset security policies for EOP and Office 365 ATP Security Rolling out Launched 05/31/2020
60371 Outlook for Windows: Signature cloud settings In development Rolling out 11/30/2020
64658 Microsoft To Do: Support for Sharing Personal Lists In development Launched 09/30/2020
65636 Microsoft Teams: Simplified Global Notification Settings Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
67111 Microsoft Teams: Organizational branding for line-of-business Teams app catalog In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
67557 Outlook for iOS: Recommended Office information In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
67980 Outlook for iOS: Set Outlook as your default email app with iOS and iPadOS 14 In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68286 Outlook for Android: Use your voice to compose an email In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68293 Outlook for iOS: Watch email complication with unread email badge count In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68302 Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to create a new calendar event In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68303 Outlook for iOS: Use your voice to compose an email In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68305 Outlook for Android: Use your voice to create a new calendar event In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
68773 Microsoft Teams: 6 New Calling Plan Countries In development Launched 09/30/2020
70323 Outlook for iOS: Support Scribble with iPadOS 14 In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
72352 Outlook for iOS: Favorites for additional customers In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
72353 Outlook for Android: Favorites for additional customers In development Rolling out 09/30/2020
62587 Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit - Search term events in Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
62588 Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit - Mail forward and mail send events Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
66717 Microsoft Teams - Large Gallery view (Preview) - see up to 49 participants Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
67109 Microsoft Teams: Incoming video support on Safari Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
67142 Microsoft Teams: Improvements to Meeting Notes Rolling out Launched 09/30/2020
67174 Microsoft Teams: Outgoing screen-sharing support on Safari In development Launched 09/30/2020
64646 Microsoft Information Protection: Double Key Encryption In development Launched 09/30/2020
66925 OneNote: OneNote in Teams for DoD In development Launched 11/30/2020

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68935 Microsoft Teams: Recording 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms Microsoft Teams: 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms Microsoft Teams: Recording 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams Rooms 10/31/2020
57651 Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in EDU and WWMT Targeted communications in Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in EDU and WWMT 05/31/2020
66716 Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC Microsoft Teams - Together mode Microsoft Teams: Together mode 09/30/2020
66716 Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC Microsoft Teams: Together mode Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC 09/30/2020
73251 Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics 10/31/2020

CW44 New Roadmap Items

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68720 Microsoft Graph: Office 365 Service Communications API availability in Microsoft Graph In development General Availability Microsoft Graph,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 02/28/2021
66191 OneDrive: Office offline edit support in iOS In development General Availability DoD,GCC,GCC High,OneDrive,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 09/30/2020
68839 Exchange: Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval for Exchange Online In development General Availability DoD,Education,Exchange,GCC,GCC High,Germany,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020
68840 Exchange: Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection In development General Availability DoD,Education,Exchange,GCC,GCC High,Germany,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 02/28/2021
59929 Microsoft Project: convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses to use the new Common Data Service APIs In development General Availability Microsoft Project,Web,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 02/28/2021
64944 Outlook for Windows: Option to start meetings late In development Monthly Channel (Standard) Outlook,Windows Desktop,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020
68841 Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC In development General Availability GCC,Microsoft Teams 10/31/2020
68843 Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes for Government Clouds In development General Availability DoD,Forms,GCC,GCC High 10/31/2020
68844 Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participants In development General Availability GCC,Microsoft Teams,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 10/31/2020
68846 Microsoft Teams: Live Event Presenter for iPad In development Targeted Release GCC,Microsoft Teams,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 10/31/2020
63662 Microsoft Information Protection: Manual sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Government clouds In development General Availability DoD,GCC,GCC High,Microsoft Information Protection,Office 365 11/30/2020
68847 Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High and DoD In development General Availability DoD,GCC High,Microsoft Teams 10/31/2019
68848 Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Government clouds In development General Availability DoD,GCC,GCC High,Microsoft Information Protection,Office 365 11/30/2020
68849 Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensitivity labeling available in Office apps for Mac for Government clouds In development General Availability DoD,GCC,GCC High,Microsoft Information Protection,Office 365 12/31/2020
68922 Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Microsoft 365 In development Preview General Availability DoD,GCC,GCC High,Microsoft Information Protection,Office 365,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 02/28/2021
73905 Whiteboard: Whiteboard will be available in Microsoft Teams Rooms In development General Availability Microsoft Teams,Whiteboard,Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) 11/30/2020

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