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Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 17th July 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 17 July 2023

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The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and Microsoft Purview. Here’s all the new and updated Microsoft roadmap items from the past week:

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SharePoint & Viva

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva.

  • Launched (6)
  • Rolling out (4)
  • In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

  • 🆕 SharePoint: Visual Refresh – We are introducing updates to the Microsoft Fluent Visual styling of the SharePoint platform that will improve the experience across the SharePoint Authoring Experience and Microsoft Syntex.    Aligning with the latest Microsoft Fluent design system principles includes updated icons with softer edges, a cooler grey palette, and more rounded corners on various UI controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148368
  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Bulk Import Teams in Viva Goals – With the bulk import of teams, administrators and anyone with the permission to create teams will be able to create multiple teams at a time by importing them from an external source using an Excel template. This will also enable creation of organization hierarchy and addition of members into these teams by adding groups, as part of the team creation process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148362
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Analytics Enhancements – Enhancements to existing Viva Connections analytics capabilities providing an analytics dashboard for data visualization and additional metrics at a Dashboard card level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124918
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights manager, leader, and advanced insights available for GCC – Viva Insights is pleased to announce that manager, leader, and advanced insights will be available for GCC June 30, 2023. These premium insights help organizations understand and predict the impact of day-to-day actions to continuously improve the outcomes they care about. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88843

Rollout starts – August 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Diversity Equity and Inclusion report template in Viva Insights – Use this report template to measure the impact and efficacy of your DEI strategy. Companies know how to measure diversity, but often struggle with inclusion and equity measures. This report measures the impact of DEI strategies. Examining coaching time, access to leadership, network composition, engagement drivers, and other career advancement elements. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117435
  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Using Topics in Viva Engage will grant limited access to Viva Topic Names – As part of the Viva Engage (Yammer) transition to the Viva Topics platform, Viva Engage posts (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, topic names will be applied to posts and will grant limited access to the topic for all users with access to the post. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148465
  • Microsoft Stream: New Stream webpart – This new Stream webpart will support configuration of single and multiple videos for Stream (on SharePoint). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124800
  • Microsoft Viva: Auto-categorization coming to meeting category insights in Viva Insights – Users with a Viva Insights license will be able to see what kind of meetings are taking up their time, automatically categorized by Viva Insights based on meeting size, cadence, and people in the meetings. Categories include long and large, recurring, and 1:1 meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117396

Rollout starts – October 2023

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Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (10)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Teams: Primary camera switching for Teams Rooms on Android – Allows in room users to switch the main meeting camera if USB cameras are attached to a Microsoft Teams Room on Android. IT admins have the option to select the default primary camera using device settings. This feature is available for all Teams Rooms licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121376
  • Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android meetings – This feature allows you to add your Android device to an ongoing meeting, making it easy to chat, react, share, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109606
  • Microsoft Teams: Export API Support for Teams Control Messages – Control Messages are system generated messages on Teams client when an activity or event occurs. For example, User A was added User B to a chat and shared all chat history. Export API, a compliance archiving solution for Teams, goes beyond user generated Teams message and provides support to archive Teams control messages. As part of this release, Export API will support member add and member remove messages in the context of Teams, chats, and channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122517
  • Microsoft Teams: Compact chat list – A new chat density setting will enable users to condense their chat list and have more chats visible on the screen. This setting does so by hiding message previews.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126428
  • Microsoft Teams: Live Captions Usability Improvement – The new Caption Settings pane allows for better discovery and easier navigation. Users have the ability to customize the size and color of their font as well as the height and position of the caption window with the option to scroll to review captions of what has been said, up to one minute ago. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=107782
  • Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on certified Teams displays – Virtual front desk is a feature that enables IT admins to interact with and provide personalized assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on a Microsoft Teams display. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123154
  • Microsoft Teams: Active speaker view in meetings – Active speaker is a new view added to Microsoft Teams meetings. It highlights the active speaker while still showing the rest of the participants in the meeting. Users can use this new view through the view switcher in a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116009
  • Microsoft Teams: Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure – Users on Virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. Live transcripts provide way to follow along with what has been said and who said it. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=87571
  • Microsoft Teams: Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams – Customer Lockbox ensures that Microsoft cannot access your content to perform a service operation without your explicit approval. Customer Lockbox brings you into the approval workflow for requests to access your content. Customer Lockbox is already available for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. This update brings the capability to Microsoft Teams as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86190
  • Microsoft Teams: Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work from Home for Teams VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 – This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83555

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: Curriculum Management in Teams – New capabilities are coming to Teams for EDU that allow educators to create and organize course resources including Assignments, Files, Links, Channels, Class Notebook pages, and more. This will be a one stop shop for content creation and organization for your Class Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115512
  • Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop” – Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature.  When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118580
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to block meeting chat access in external, non-trusted meeting joins. – Public Description: This feature enables IT Admin to block regulated, internal users to access chat when these users attend meetings organized by external non-trusted tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123975
  • Microsoft Teams: Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay – You can now easily call your speed dial contacts and get back to your recent calls on Teams on Apple CarPlay with your iPhone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125556
  • Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900
  • Microsoft Teams: Dashboard for Chat – This feature will update the existing chat details page to provide more information to users and help them easily find content shared in the chat.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114938
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Teams Security  – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will provide protection and enhanced security operations (SecOps) experience for Microsoft Teams. These protection capabilities will include automatic remediation of malicious entities and support for end user reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams specific attack insights will be included in the unified investigation and response experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps experience.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117595
  • Microsoft Teams: Give Feedback for GCC and GCCH – Users in GCC and GCCH can give feedback via the Help icon in Teams regarding their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences future features and product updates. From the help icon, click on give feedback to provide verbatims on your product experience.     Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123972

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

  •  🆕Microsoft Teams: On-demand recordings in Webinars – Organizers can publish the recording of a webinar and automatically send an email to attendees where they receive a link to watch an on-demand recording of the webinar that is hosted on the event page.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123052
  • Microsoft Teams: Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows – To support face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows, the desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels.  This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers.  Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=133737

Rollout starts – August 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom enabled meetings from Teams – If the any organizer creates a Zoom/Google meet/ any third-party meeting application from Outlook or OWA, meeting participants will be able to join that meeting from inside Teams calendar.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138139
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Channel meeting invitations – Feature allows channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142405
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium) – To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141108
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Rooms Pro Management – Insights Report – The Insights Report is available in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.  The report summarizes issues, remediation steps taken, time savings, and proactively alerts IT to issues before they become a problem for users. Previously available only via a managed service, now all Teams Rooms Pro customers can take advantage of this report.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122571
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams:  Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows – IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on front-of-room (180-degree view) and center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=133727
  • Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Meeting Rooms on Windows – Cloud IntelliFrame makes non-AI cameras smarter.  With Cloud IntelliFrame, participants in the room appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether working from home or in the office, participants are able to see every facial expression and cue, just as if they were there in person. This feature is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=130219
  • Microsoft 365 app: Key Document Updates – We will be introducing a feature on the Profile Card as a Highlight that tells users when key collaborators have taken some action on key documents when looking at their profile card. Each collaboration network is a cluster of people, text strings and Microsoft 365 items (key item: documents). The actions that you can see the users in this Collab Network take on these key documents are modify, comment, reply, mention, multiple modifications and shared to you. These updates are only visible to other users within the same Collaboration Network i.e. your close collaborators.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145799
  • Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings – Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114214
  • Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts – Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95788

Release – September 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access – Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access extends the existing Guest Access functionality to allow a user coming from another Microsoft cloud to participate in rich collaboration experiences across Microsoft Clouds including joining teams, channels, documents, 1:1 and group chat as well as Teams meetings with audio/video, screen share and file share.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145459
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings – Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145460
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes on Teams mobile – Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=128652
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to rename themselves – Teams meeting participants will be able to rename themselves in order to have flexible representation in different meetings, regardless of their tenant set display name. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

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OneDrive

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  OneDrive: Updated file sharing experience – OneDrive is updating the unified file sharing experience that appears when you share files in Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint, Stream, OneNote, Planner and many other Microsoft 365 apps. The updated sharing dialog will have simpler look and feel. Additionally, when users select “copy link” they will get a clear on-screen confirmation that the link has been copied, and the confirmation will self-dismiss. Roadmap ID: 124933

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

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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 (10)
  • Rolling out (5)
  • In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Increased set of first-party indicators – Insider Risk Management will now recognize an increase set of first party indicators, including Endpoint (Windows 10), Microsoft Teams, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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=83966
  • 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
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Deduplication of signals – A single user activity could generate duplicate signals used to identify insider risks, creating noisy alerts. With this update, signals will be de-duplicated, reducing noise in alerts without losing risk context. 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=115492
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File type exclusion in email attachments – Admins can configure file type exclusions from Insider Risk Management policies, though by default these exclusions do not apply to email attachments. With this update, the file type exclusion will extend to email attachments to help reduce noisy signals. 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=115494
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Bulk import and export of domains – This feature will allow admins to upload or download a CSV file of unallowed, allowed, and third-party domains defined by admins with the right permissions in insider risk settings to fine-tune the detection of activities involving certain domains. 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=124857
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sensitivity label downgrade activities – Insider Risk Management can detect users downgrading sensitivity labels on files or SharePoint sites. 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=124860
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Site URL and keyword exclusions – Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring SharePoint site URLs and keywords exclusions, so activities involving these sites, or file names and email subject lines containing certain keywords won’t generate alerts. 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=124861
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sensitive information type exclusion – Enable admins to reduce signal noise by defining sensitive information type exclusions, so files that contain certain sensitive information types won’t generate alerts. 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=124862
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File path exclusions – Enable admins to reduce signal noise by configuring file path exclusions, so activities around files with specific file paths won’t generate alerts. 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=124863
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect sensitive files that are encrypted, or password protected – With this capability, your DLP policies will be able to detect the presence of, and prevent password protected Microsoft Office, PDF, and archive files on Windows endpoint devices from unauthorized use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124790

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): Jobs report – 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=101518
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC policy handling – We are working on improvements to the way that DMARC policy (reject/quarantine) handling is implemented within both consumer and enterprise services. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117533
  • 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 Defender for Office 365: Teams Security  – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will provide protection and enhanced security operations (SecOps) experience for Microsoft Teams. These protection capabilities will include automatic remediation of malicious entities and support for end user reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams specific attack insights will be included in the unified investigation and response experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps experience.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117595
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export Teams messages as individual messages – Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142092

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification (U.S. Government clouds) – Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact match data. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, 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=146728
  • 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: Insider Risk Management – Peer group anomaly detection – With this update, Insider Risk Management can detect exfiltration anomalies when compared with users in similar groups or roles. Insider Risk Management defines similar user groups by grouping together users who access the same SharePoint Online destinations, who are in the same team, or who have similar job titles as configured in Azure AD. 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=124864
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Integration with Communication Compliance – Enrich Insider Risk Management signals by integrating a Communication Compliance triggering event during policy configuration. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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=93259

Rollout starts – August 2023

  •  Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training for GCCH – Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft 365 Defender for Office is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the GCC High environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124854
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List domain & addresses block to send inbound emails to admin quarantine – Today, domain & addresses block in Tenant Allow/Block List mark inbound emails from those domains and email addresses with SCL:9 thus not effectively shielding end users from malicious messages. With this change, inbound messages from domain & addresses blocked on Tenant Allow/Block List will land in admin quarantine. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115505
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels (U.S. government clouds) – 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. Note: We apologize for having updated this to rolling out in June.  It will launch in August.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109569

Rollout starts – September 2023

  •  Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files – This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85618
  • Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions – SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85619

Rollout starts – October 2023

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions (U.S. government clouds) – SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109570

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146858
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections – Allow customers to bring their own user activity indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks. 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=122278

Rollout starts – January 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level – Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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=124972
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection – Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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=124973

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced recommendations for no-alert policies – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get insights-enhanced recommendations for policies that do not generate alerts on the policy page. The enhancement provides admins with recommended thresholds derived from real-time analytics, making the recommendations highly actionable and enabling the effectiveness of the policy. 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=146861
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds in policy wizard – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to finetune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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=146329

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment – By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, 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=146742
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