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M365 Roadmap Management
Wondering if others have tips & tricks on how they stay up to date with the M365 Roadmap site?
I find it tedious to stay on top of all the features being announced, switching launch phases, moving target dates, and so on. I was hoping to use the RSS feed in a PowerBI Dashboard or find a solution in Planner similar to syncing the Admin Centre messages, and after some quick searches online could not find an example of anyone doing something similar.
I was hoping any members of this community may be able to shed some light on how they approach the roadmap site and what tools if any they use to manage the constant influx of information?
TIA!
I sign up for TechCommunity messages and get a weekly digest of the changes based on the specific applications I want to look at.
I watch this show regularly: 365 Message Center Show | Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster
I tried the Planner feature of the M365 Admin Center, it is a good option:
Pros: Great if there is a team monitoring the message centerCons: Personally, it was tedious to read the long-text message within the Planner description field. The readbility is better on the M365 Admin Center.
I'd like to know this too. I've asked our MS account manager and they didn't have any suggestions that would help lessen the load. It may help to look at the Admin Center rather than the Roadmap as the AC has updates that are relevant to your tenancy, whereas the Roadmap covers everything (e.g. Education, GCC) some of which will be irrelevant to you. You can also filter them for major updates/feature updates/admin impact. As mentioned already you can sync t to Planner which will add each update as a Task which you can then assign to relevant stakeholders, but it's still a time drain. One day in Jan there were around 70 updates overnight which all need checking and assessing for risk. I triage them daily and pull out any that I think need attention or communication and deal with them, but I'd love a better solution.
Alternative solution: The Admin Center | Messages has a Planner Syncing option. You can schedule the updates or redirect the information to PowerBI for a better solution. However, sometimes, the Roadmap and the Admin Center have different content.
2/6/2025 #traccreations4e
