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 (1)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint Syntex: Contracts Management In-product site template – This template will enable licensed Syntex users to apply a Contracts Management site template directly from the in-product apply a template UX.  This site template include automatic data classification and extraction, a preconfigured content assembly model, templates and preconfigured workflow.  It also includes learning material around how to use and extend this template to customize it for your own use case! Roadmap ID:98138

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license – Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage.  These topics don’t use Viva Topics’ AI, topic cards and pages but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.  With this release, we’re proving a way for knowledge admins to edit, create, and delete these “simple” topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118672
• Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant – This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.  Roadmap ID:99916
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Administration in Microsoft Admin Center – Centralized IT administration of Viva Connections experiences along with home sites within the Microsoft Viva admin experience in Microsoft 365 admin center. Roadmap ID:117421

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals in Live People Cards – Increase transparency by viewing a user’s OKRs from Viva Goals within a Live People Card in Outlook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117453

Rollout starts – September 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Announcements in Viva Connections – Announcements allow you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop. Roadmap ID: 152481
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop – Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps and acts as the home base for Viva experiences in Teams. Roadmap ID: 152560

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Teams

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access – Users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138229

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• PowerPoint: present local files from PowerPoint app to PowerPoint Live in Teams – The “Present in Teams” button in PowerPoint apps has extended its support to present local files to PowerPoint Live in Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117477
• 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: 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

•  Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team – Users can now create up to 1000 channels per team, which allow you to have the channels you need organized in one team.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127496
• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Favorite Channels – Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now pin up to 5 favorite channels on the walkie talkie home screen, enabling users to quickly switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99943
• Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores – Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122527

Rollout starts – August 2023

•  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
• 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: Call delegation feature enhancements – Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123753

Release – September 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Hide attendee names in Webinars (Premium) – Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119153

Release – October 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Mixed grid view in meetings – Mixed grid eases the transition from video on to video off and places everybody in a 16:9 ratio. Users can also change their grid size by choosing one of the predefined options. As the new version of Gallery, this is the default view users will have upon joining meetings. Users can choose to go back to this view through the view switcher as desired. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118467

Release – November 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Location-based routing for Teams on VDI – When making or receiving a PSTN call, location-based routing for Teams on VDI, enables the bypass of toll restrictions based on where the user is located. Such as when the user is not physically located on a corporate network. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98501

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Configure Sync Setting to excluded specific files – This feature will allow you to configure OneDrive Sync Setting to exclude selected files and selected file types from syncing to OneDrive. When available the configuration settings will be located in the OneDrive admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124868

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2023

• 🆕 OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and Document Libraries – Adding files and folders to Favorites is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you get to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Microsoft 365 apps by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience. This release will include support for favoriting additional file types and folders from OneDrive web and Document Libraries. Roadmap ID: 152744

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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 – 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124967
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds by insider risk analytics – With this update, admins can receive recommended thresholds for insider risk policies, including potential data leak and data theft by departing employee policies, by leveraging the insights from insider risk analytics. By using these recommended thresholds, admins can improve the effectiveness of policies and generate an optimal number of alerts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124968
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Analytics email digest – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will receive a monthly email summarizing the latest insider risk analytics insights scanned from the environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124969
• 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: 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 
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Physical access indicators and connectors – This feature allows admins to define priority physical assets. With priority physical assets enabled and the physical badging data connector configured, Insider Risk Management can correlate signals from an organization’s physical control and access systems with other user activities to help make more informed response decisions for alerts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117607
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protect sensitive content on Citrix and Windows Virtual Desktop – With this capability you will be able to protect sensitive information in files stores in virtualized environments such as Windows Virtual Desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109587
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy tips revamp for Outlook for Windows – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook for Windows to support additional top predicates and exceptions for all customers, and also advanced classification for E5 customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109589
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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 Purview | Data Loss Prevention Auto-quarantine sensitive files accessed by unallowed apps (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature enables admins to eliminate multiple DLP alerts and notifications when an automated app or process tries to access or copy a file for which it is unallowed and quarantines the file to a configurable location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100065
• Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: Enhancements to detection and triage – Enhancements to various security detection and triage experiences across Insider Risk Management including the ability to customize alerts during review, use a Sequence-as-a-policy-trigger, and create policies that will only generate alerts on content that is defined as a priority within the policy according to customers’ preferences. This release also includes new security detections for data exfiltration from a device using RDP connection as well as noise reduction from OneDrive/SharePoint Online file sync and download. Note: This update consolidates previously announced features from the following roadmap items: 88898, 88899, 88900, 88902. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98160
• Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict copying sensitive files to Bluetooth on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds) – Microsoft Endpoint DLP provides customers the ability to create and enforce DLP policies that regulate sensitive data to Bluetooth devices using the same DLP policy creation and management solution they currently use to support DLP across Microsoft’s fully unified DLP offering with the experience their users are already familiar with. Apologies for the delay.  Now rolling out this month. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93377
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Data Loss Prevention – Document Fingerprinting support for additional workloads – Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93280

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: Insider Risk Management – OCR support in Insider Risk Management – With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117606
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New Credentials SITs (U.S. Government clouds) – The addition of new Credentials Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93265
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized retention policies for 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On – This feature will enable customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention Add On for Microsoft Purview Audit (Premium) to create additional customized retention policies. The new options are 7 days, 30 days, 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years retention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115501

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized printer groups (U.S. Government clouds) – With this capability, you can create groups of printer devices and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to create authorized or unauthorized groups and allow the “Print” activity to certain groups of printers and block “Print” for others. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124830
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Network location as a condition in DLP policy  (U.S. Government clouds) – With this capability you will be able to use network location as a condition in your DLP policies in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. As an example, you will be able to block copying sensitive content to network shares on personal WiFi but not on Corporate WiFi on VPN. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124831
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Sanctioned and unsanctioned site groups for different sensitive files (U.S. Government clouds) – With this capability you will be able to create groups of service domains and manage restrictions for the groups within the DLP policy. As an example, you will be able to allow ‘upload’ of sensitive data only to corporate SharePoint sites and block elsewhere. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124832
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) ML Classifier support – Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124795
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy – Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117489
• Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP App groups and granular app restriction policies (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature enables admins to define endpoint data loss prevention policies to lock specific apps for different activities and enables more granular restrictions for individual apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100155

Rollout starts – August 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect if a label is not assigned (not labeled as a condition) – U.S. Government clouds – With this capability you will be able to configure specific restrictions for PDF and Office files that are not labeled on the endpoint devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124799
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Increased limits per label for disposition review and proof of disposition (U.S. government clouds) – This feature removes the per label 1,000,000 item limit for items pending disposition review and proof of disposition (reviewed) including record labels.  The tenant limit of 16,000,000 total items pending disposition and disposed still exists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117593
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117531
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List – Support for URL top level domain block – With this change, Microsoft will allow customers to block URL via top level domain block. It will be honored during email mail flow and time of click inside teams and office apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115506

Rollout starts – September 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153651
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint – With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent the exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image only). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106092
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Expanded support to search and export items in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business Recycle Bin – Traditionally, when a site is on hold, the files in the Recycle Bin would be stored in the Preservation Hold library. In cases when a site is not on hold, there is no way to search or export items in the Recycle Bin. The eDiscovery and SharePoint Online teams are making architectural changes that will make the Recycle Bin (both first stage and second stage Recycle Bins) in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business searchable and exportable by eDiscovery Managers. That means organizations can search and export items in the Recycle Bin regardless of whether a site is on hold or not. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=67092

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 – November 2023

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93268

Rollout starts – December 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93267

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Surface existing non-Microsoft DLP policies with the migration assistant – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention migration assistant helps you transfer your non-Microsoft existing DLP policies to the Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort. This tool will automatically detect your policy configurations and create equivalent policies in the Microsoft Purview DLP environment. The v1 of the tool supports conversion of Symantec DLP policies only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109571

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.   Timing: Rollout to public preview will begin in the middle of September and end in October.  What you need to do to prepare: No action needed at this time.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146742

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