Stay in the loop: November 2020 roadmap updates
Stay informed quickly and easily with this monthly post bringing together the 105 features planned for release in November, the 107 features added in October as well as the ones that caught my attention!

Each month there are tons of features added and planned for release and it is hard to keep track of features even with the new Microsoft 365 roadmap website, RSS feed and downloadable spreadsheet.
This one-stop-shop monthly article makes sense of the clutter and is divided into 3 sections:
- What caught my attention
- What is planned for release this November 2020
- What has been added to the roadmap in October 2020
Do not forget that the most accurate and updated information regarding the upcoming features are found at the Microsoft Roadmap web site.
I hope this will help you easily discover what is coming and maybe help us manage employee and client expectations.
Do you like the picture?
This one was taken during my trip to London / United Kingdom.
What caught my attention?
Here some of the feature planned for release this month that caught my attention.
Microsoft Teams: AI-Based Noise Suppression
From kids screaming to barking dogs, colleagues eating carrots and chips, we have all heard many sounds during our online meeting in the past months! Let us now focus on what people said instead of background noise. Noise suppression will be more than useful in an open environment while working outside next summer! Roadmap ID: 68694

Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status Duration
In the old day, we just had a walk and saw if our co-workers were sitting at the desk. Then disturb him and ask I we can disrupt 😊. The team’s presence status easily let your co-worker know about your availability. Even if most of us do not change these settings manually, this feature will please some like me by letting us define our presence status for a specific time and get reset automatically after. For example, setting Do not disturb for the next 20 minutes to get some job done without being distracted by notification and set a Be right back when we need to leave for a short period like taking a daily walk! Roadmap ID: 68726

Microsoft Teams: New Together Mode Scenes
Let be honest, most of the users out there seen this feature as useless, but we should think twice! Microsoft has proven in a study that these new together modes decrease meeting fatigue. With these new scenes coming, we will sit together in different auditoriums, coffee shops, and more. In your next meeting, adjust well your camera and have a try! It brings a new dimension to meeting and not just useful for giving some high five! Roadmap ID: 68749

Microsoft Teams: Transfer Calls Between Desktop and Mobile
At first, we think of “Well, I’m working from home now, so why would I need this feature?”. Even though we are working from home, we are not always sitting in front of our computer. I have already tried the feature in my tenant, and it works pretty well. Toke my phone and my headset, transfer the call, then get dressed for our fantastic Québec falls weather, got in the car, switch to Bluetooth, and voila! Do not miss a second of your meeting while we need to move and grad kids at school! Roadmap ID: 68776

Microsoft Teams: Windows Native Notifications in Teams
Some of us love and use Windows notification. Teams use their own notification mechanism not yet managed by Windows 10, resulting in annoying and uncontrolled notifications. One of the benefits I see is respecting your Focus Assist Window settings and stopping sending a message inside focus defined slot. I do not use Windows notifications at all, but it looks like it may please some of us. Roadmap ID: 66742

SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
What? No! Really! We are waiting for that out-of-the-box feature since the begging of SharePoint. Cannot wait to see how it has been implemented but based on Microsoft roadmap, let us make the page section show has accordion or tab. The collapsible section will be more than useful for building a sort of short FAQ and Q&A pages! Roadmap ID: 67147
*** Microsoft updated the planned for release to March 2021


What is planned for release this November 2020
Here a list of what’s Microsoft has planned for release this month. Remember that “Planned for release” does not mean you will get the update this month but instead that Microsoft planned to start rolling out and it takes weeks and months prior it gets globally available.
To keep this simple this include all Products, Release Phase, Platform and Cloud Instance. The text has been cut in order to fit on 1 line, then if you are curious about it, click on it to go directly to the roadmap.
- Android On-Demand Chat Translation
- Cortana: Briefing Email support for Spanish
- EOP/ATP Tenant Allow/Block list portal
- Exchange: Block sending to a Distribution Group when it’s on the …
- Forms: Specific User Sharing for Response Collection
- Insider Risk Management solution available for Government clouds
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhanced management capabilities in M…
- Microsoft 365 Admin center: Service Health email notifications fo…
- Microsoft 365 compliance center: Auto-apply retention labels for …
- Microsoft 365 compliance center: Communication Compliance availab…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit - Mail forward and ma…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and re…
- Microsoft Compliance center: CJK or Double-byte character support…
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account Protection
- Microsoft Edge v.87: Kiosk mode privacy features are now availabl…
- Microsoft Edge v.87: Single Sign On (SSO) now available for Azure…
- Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes for…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Auto-classification with sensit…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Exact Data Match will support d…
- Microsoft Search: New image vertical
- Microsoft Search: Use, view, and manage your personal query histo…
- Microsoft Teams - Live Transcription with speaker attribution
- Microsoft Teams - Virtual Breakout Rooms
- Microsoft Teams Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or …
- Microsoft Teams: 1:1 PSTN Call Recording
- Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression
- Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams
- Microsoft Teams: Call Merge
- Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in the Desktop Clie…
- Microsoft Teams: Device management automatic alerting in Teams Ad…
- Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Power BI app for Teams (Preview)
- Microsoft Teams: Ericsson Session Border Controller certification…
- Microsoft Teams: Full screen support in new meetings experience
- Microsoft Teams: Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or…
- Microsoft Teams: Include up to 10,000 users in an org-wide team
- Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participan…
- Microsoft Teams: Large event reporting and analytics improvements…
- Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for 1:1 Calls
- Microsoft Teams: Live Event Presenter for iPad
- Microsoft Teams: Manage your meeting options in-meeting
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat moderation settings
- Microsoft Teams: meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePo…
- Microsoft Teams: Native Teams authentication for PVA bots
- Microsoft Teams: New Calling Experiences
- Microsoft Teams: New Together mode scenes
- Microsoft Teams: Polls in Teams Meetings
- Microsoft Teams: Power BI improved tab/channel experience (Previe…
- Microsoft Teams: Power BI stage view in chat (Preview)
- Microsoft Teams: PVA app for Teams
- Microsoft Teams: Recording 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams R…
- Microsoft Teams: Restricting Sign-In to specific tenants for GCC,…
- Microsoft Teams: Seamlessly make your bot available to your colle…
- Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration
- Microsoft Teams: Survivable Branch Appliance
- Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC
- Microsoft Teams: Theme and icon updates
- Microsoft Teams: Transcription for 1:1 Calls
- Microsoft Teams: Transfer Calls between desktop and mobile
- Microsoft Teams: Updated layout for meetings on iOS
- Microsoft Teams: Updated meeting creation and expiration policies
- Microsoft Teams: Windows native notifications in Teams
- Multiple Number Dialing
- Notifications added to the Yammer Communities App in Teams
- Office 365 ATP Request Release workflow
- Office 365 ATP, Secure by Default: Honoring EOP/ATP detonation ve…
- Office 365 ATP: Customization for Quarantine Notification and Ale…
- Office 365: Microsoft 365 Groups ownership governance experience
- Office 365: Translate in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Office app: Changing update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps …
- One Drive: Create Shared Library
- OneDrive: Exclude specific files from sync
- Outlook for Android: End user options for Delegate permissions
- Outlook for Android: SharePoint News and recorded Teams Meetings
- Outlook for Android: Adds SharePoint news and Teams Meeting recor…
- Outlook for Android: Play My Emails
- Outlook for Android: Text predictions
- Outlook for iOS: End user options to extend Delegate Permissions
- Outlook for iOS: Text predictions
- Outlook for iOS: Play My Emails available in other countries
- Outlook for iOS: Sync contact sub folders as category labels
- Outlook for Mac: Ability to import and save ICS files
- Outlook for Mac: Delegation
- Outlook for Mac: End meetings early and start meetings late
- Outlook for Mac: iCloud account type support
- Outlook for Mac: Natural language search
- Outlook for Mac: Shared Calendars
- Outlook for Mac: Shared Mailboxes
- Outlook for Mac: Support for favorite contacts
- Outlook for Windows: Suggested attachments in Search
- Outlook for Windows: Text Predictions
- Outlook on the web - New tasks experience for GCC
- Outlook: Outlook on the web - Text predictions in English now sup…
- PowerPoint for Mac: Record Slide Show Updates
- Quarantine - Custom Policy and Folder
- SharePoint lists and libraries - configure header, footer and bod…
- SharePoint: SharePoint spaces General Availability
- SharePoint: Active time spent reports on SharePoint Site Usage
- SharePoint: Collapsible sections on modern pages
- SharePoint: Site Performance Page for Site Owners and Editors
- Teams: Microsoft Teams displays
- Windows Virtual Desktop: IT admins can use MSIX app attach from …
- Windows Virtual Desktop: choose the EU geography to store the Win…
- Word: Designer in Word for the web
- Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics
- Yammer: New reactions for post
What has been added to the roadmap in October 2020
Here a list of what’s Microsoft has been added to the roadmap in the past month.
To keep this simple this include all Products, Release Phase, Platform and Cloud Instance. The text has been cut in order to fit on 1 line, then if you are curious about it, click on it to go directly to the roadmap.
- Cortana: Briefing Email support for Spanish
- Excel: Workbook Link Support in Excel for the Web
- Exchange: Block Sending to Groups on BCC Line
- Exchange: Customizable Message Expiration Timeout Interval for Ex…
- Exchange: SMTP MTA Strict Transport Security (MTA-STS) Support
- Exchange: Update to Exchange Online Reply-All Storm Protection
- Microsoft 365 Admin Center: New simplified view for very small bu…
- Microsoft 365 Admin center: Service Health email notifications fo…
- Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit - Mail forward and ma…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit - Mail forward and ma…
- Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit - Optional 10 year au…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit - Processed audit ins…
- Microsoft Compliance Center: Advanced Audit - Search term events …
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced Audit - Search term events …
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and re…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Advanced eDiscovery - Collect and re…
- Microsoft Compliance center: CJK or Double-byte character support…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Double-byte character support
- Microsoft Compliance center: Expanded support to search and expor…
- Microsoft Compliance Center: Insider Risk Management solution ava…
- Microsoft Compliance center: Records Management - Regulatory Rec…
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Priority Account Protection
- Microsoft Edge v.87: Reset your Microsoft Edge sync data in the c…
- Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab pa…
- Microsoft Edge v.87: The new version of the Enterprise new tab pa…
- Microsoft Forms: Progress Bar for multipage Forms and Quizzes for…
- Microsoft Graph: Office 365 Service Communications API availabili…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensi…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Automatic and recommended sensi…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Configure external sharing for …
- Microsoft Information Protection: Data classification analytics
- Microsoft Information Protection: Data-at-Rest Encryption for Mic…
- Microsoft Information Protection: Manual sensitivity labeling ava…
- Microsoft Project: convert the existing Roadmap groups accesses t…
- Microsoft Project: Create attachments on tasks
- Microsoft Project: Export to Excel
- Microsoft Teams Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or …
- Microsoft Teams: "Only Me" Lobby Admin policy
- Microsoft Teams: AI-based noise suppression
- Microsoft Teams: Assignments Grading History in Speed Grader
- Microsoft Teams: Better together for calls on Teams phones
- Microsoft Teams: Branch Office Survivability on Teams phones
- Microsoft Teams: Changes in Incoming IP Video policy (New Audio …
- Microsoft Teams: Create a task from a message in the Desktop Clie…
- Microsoft Teams: Enhanced meeting experiences on Teams phones
- Microsoft Teams: Freehand by Invision available in the popped out…
- Microsoft Teams: Full screen support in new meetings experience
- Microsoft Teams: Improvements to Meeting Notes
- Microsoft Teams: Include computer sound when sharing a Desktop or…
- Microsoft Teams: Include up to 10,000 users in an org-wide team
- Microsoft Teams: Increasing Chat Size from 300 to 1000 Participan…
- Microsoft Teams: inline message translation in DOD
- Microsoft Teams: Live Event Presenter for iPad
- Microsoft Teams: Manage your meeting options in-meeting
- Microsoft Teams: Meet Now from Outlook
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat moderation settings
- Microsoft Teams: Meeting transfers and companion devices
- Microsoft Teams: New Offline Presence Status for Government cloud…
- Microsoft Teams: Out of Office
- Microsoft Teams: Outgoing screen-sharing support on Safari
- Microsoft Teams: Per-Meeting settings for Controlling NDI(Network…
- Microsoft Teams: Polls in Teams Meetings
- Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join for Teams conference phones
- Microsoft Teams: Recording 3x3 gallery view for Microsoft Teams R…
- Microsoft Teams: Remote Provisioning of Teams Android devices fro…
- Microsoft Teams: Restricting Sign-In to specific tenants for GCC,…
- Microsoft Teams: Set Presence Status duration for Government clou…
- Microsoft Teams: Share System Audio on Mac
- Microsoft Teams: Social emotional learning (SEL) sticker pack for…
- Microsoft Teams: Targeted communications in GCC
- Microsoft Teams: Theme and icon updates
- Microsoft Teams: Together mode for GCC-High and DoD
- Microsoft Teams: Updated layout for meetings on iOS
- Microsoft Teams: Updated layouts for meetings on Android
- Microsoft Teams:Focus Mode
- Microsoft To Do: Plan your day better with urgent and important t…
- MyAnalytics: More granular control to opt users in or out of MyAn…
- Office 365: Translate in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Office app: Changing update channel names for Microsoft 365 Apps …
- Office Apps: Action Center
- OneDrive: Sharing links that block download for video files
- Outlook for Android: End user options for Delegate permissions
- Outlook for Android: Favorites for additional customers
- Outlook for Android: Play My Emails
- Outlook for iOS: End user options to extend Delegate Permissions
- Outlook for iOS: Show Weather in Calendar
- Outlook for iOS: Favorites for additional customers
- Outlook for Windows: Editor
- Outlook for Windows: Option to start meetings late
- Outlook for Windows: Search answers for specific people, files, …
- Outlook for Windows: Make all meetings online by default
- Outlook for Windows: Natural language Search in Outlook
- Outlook for Windows: Suggested attachments in Search
- Outlook for Windows: Suggested calendar events
- Outlook for Windows: suggested files
- Outlook: FindTime - Require Attendee Verification and Locking Pol…
- Outlook: Outlook on the web - Favorite people and calendar event …
- Outlook: Outlook on the web - Text predictions in English now sup…
- Outlook: Outlook on the web Project Moca (preview) for World Wide…
- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists - column settings in Grid view
- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists - Support for thousands separator in …
- SharePoint: New leadership connection site template
- Whiteboard: Whiteboard will be available in Microsoft Teams Room…
- Windows Virtual Desktop: IT admins can use MSIX app attach from …
- Yammer: Improvements to hashtags and topics
- Yammer: New inclusive reactions for posts
- Yammer: Suggested communities