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Microsoft Purview
Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:
- Launched (5)
- Rolling out (4)
- In development (16)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Admin email notifications (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, admins will have the ability to manage email notifications through the “Admin notifications” section of the insider risk settings. Admins will be able to control the types of emails they receive, including a daily notification for newly generated high-severity alerts, or weekly emails summarizing policies with unresolved warnings. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124966
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence and anomaly detection in insider risk analytics – With this update, insider risk analytics now includes sequence and anomaly detection indicators, providing more comprehensive and effective insights. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124967
- Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels – Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98146
- Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps on the Web can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Web when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117594
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections options settings enhancements (U.S. Government clouds) – Now eDiscovery admins can define default collection settings, enable eDiscovery managers to customize those defaults for each case and collection, and for each collection the eDiscovery manager can choose from a range of options to ensure the right content is collected per the requirements of the case. These options will include collection of cloud attachments, Teams as conversations, partially indexed items, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109543
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New filter option for messages blocked due to file type block – We are introducing a new filter for the ‘Quarantine Reason’ in the Quarantine page (Email). As part of this release, the SecOps can now apply this filter to display only the emails which are blocked when file extension/type of one or more of the attachments matches those configured in the common attachment filter in the Anti-malware policy. Currently these emails are shown under the ‘Malware’ as the Quarantine Reason. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117520
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Disposition review auto-approval (U.S. Government clouds) – Admins can enable automatic approval of items pending disposition if the reviewer doesn’t act within a specified number of days. Items will advance to the next stage of approval or auto-approved for deletion if in the final stage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124880
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Auditing for Microsoft Project, Planner and Microsoft To Do – Identify data risks and manage regulatory compliance requirements while using Planner, Project and To Do with audit log retention and access to crucial events that help determine scope of compromise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124916
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections: Query builder enhancements (U.S. Government clouds) – Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality and grouping for collection query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100058
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – June 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention support for files shared as cloud attachments or links (U.S. Government clouds) – This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106100
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links (U.S. Government clouds) – Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106099
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Standard) to eDiscovery (Premium) case upgrade tool – This feature release enables users to move their existing eDiscovery (Standard) cases to the eDiscovery (Premium) new case format. Existing search and hold inside the case will be maintained. After upgrade, user has the ability to continue their work in the upgraded case following the eDiscovery (Premium) workflow pipeline. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106106
Rollout starts – July 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for EXO – Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine – We are adding a new column that enables messages delivered to hosted quarantine to be viewed under “Data Loss Prevention” rather than needing to be filtered under transport rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124974
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-Diagnostic tool for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Test-DlpPolicies (U.S. Government clouds) – A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124833
- 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Results on user reported will factor in grading results – With this change, the results shown on user reports coming to Microsoft will start factoring in grading insights. This will help you triage user report more accurately and quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124903
- Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity label required to restrict permissions for labeling-enabled users – Users with sensitivity labels available will no longer be able to restrict permissions without a label in most cases. Entry points to the legacy Set Permissions dialog will redirect to a sensitivity labeling dialog, where users can select an appropriate label to restrict permissions. UX allowing users to remove encryption or permission information without changing the sensitivity label will also be removed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109532
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Tag templates and review set tagging usability enhancements – Streamline your review process with our refined tagging experience, designed to simplify your workflow. Leverage the tenant level tagging templates to easily manage your organization’s tagging needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124962
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups – To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124914
- Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report (U.S. government clouds) – eDiscovery administrators can access an aggregate report for all eDiscovery jobs across the tenant. This provides additional detail on the total number of jobs to ensure limits are not exceeded. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101525
Rollout starts – August 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds) – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138577
- Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection – Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117576
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes – We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124818
Rollout starts – September 2023
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set data minimization – Identify exact duplicates by default – Harness the built-in review set query within eDiscovery (Premium) review sets, specifically designed to pinpoint exact duplicates and encompassing email threads, to systematically reduce your review set data by an average of 30%, eliminating the need to trigger analytics manually post ingestion. Gain full visibility into all hash values utilized in de-duplication and email threading algorithms, ensuring a seamless and efficient review process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124961
Rollout starts – October 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups (U.S. Government clouds) – To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124915
Rollout starts – December 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters – Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124796



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