
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:
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint & Viva
Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint Syntex and Microsoft Viva.
- Launched (8)
- Rolling out (3)
- In development (10)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Viva: Increased Viva Goals text customization – Support for a wide range of text formatting options with additional capabilities to add tables and hyperlinks to OKR descriptions, check-ins and other updates. . Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117463
- Microsoft Viva: Mobile quick access to Homesite in Viva connections – Feature to improve the discoverability and access of SharePoint (SP) Homesite for customers of SP using Viva connections mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117528
- Microsoft Stream: Playlists in the SharePoint List webpart – This feature will allow you to display playlists on SharePoint pages using the List webpart. The playlist will display video titles and thumbnails, and people with access to files in the playlist can click on the thumbnails to view the videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124808
- Microsoft Stream: Add videos to playlist from OneDrive and SharePoint – For videos stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, this feature will allow you to add videos to playlists. Upon selecting these videos, now users will also have an option to add this to playlists from a modal window that shows the user’s playlists and the recent ones that they have accessed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124944
- Microsoft Viva: Deactivate and delete organisations in Viva Goals – IT admins or Viva Goals admins can deactivate organizations or delete them if required from the Viva Goals Admin portal. They can also configure to automatically deactivate inactive organizations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124979
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the document library (if not already labeled). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93362
- Microsoft Viva: Elevated Teams Integration – Fully featured Viva Goals app in Team, complete with check-ins within the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106126
- Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Planner Integration – Connect Viva Goals projects and key results to Microsoft Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=108865
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Viva Pulse is a feedback tool that empowers managers to get day to day feedback on projects and team dynamics, resulting in quicker action. Using smart templates, research-backed questions, and analytics, Viva Pulse enables teams to use their voice so they can help managers pinpoint what’s working well and which areas to focus on over time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117393
- 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 Stream: Automatic transcriptions for video files uploaded to SharePoint, Yammer, and Office.com – Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124932
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – July 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Share an Update broadcast feature for Viva Goals – With “Share an Update”, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148471
- Microsoft Viva: Additional filters for search results in Viva Learning – Viva learning will be supporting more Filters on Language, Content Type and Source fields in Search results page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118966
Rollout starts – August 2023
- 🆕Microsoft Stream: New “Add to playlist” functionality – We are updating the functionality of the “Add to playlist” feature in Stream. Soon you will be able to add a video to playlists stored in SharePoint sites while viewing the video in the Stream web app. To add a video to a playlist in a SharePoint site you must be a member or owner of the site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145216
- 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152481
- SharePoint: Page sharing – With this feature, users can now share SharePoint pages and news posts individually without having to share the entire site, just like other Microsoft 365 files. All sharing settings at the site and tenant level will be respected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124822
- Microsoft Viva: Share Viva Goals OKRs directly to teams chats/channels – Users can now copy and paste links to OKRs in Teams chats and channels, and the links will automatically be replaced to display a card with OKR details. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117448
Rollout starts – September 2023
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Export APIs – Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146731
- Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management – Admins will have the ability to enable or disable designated Viva Engage features for specific users through the M365 admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117504
Rollout starts – November 2023
- Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482
Rollout starts – January 2024
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (6)
- Rolling out (6)
- In development (14)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Hotline phones – Enables administrators to program Microsoft Teams certified phone devices to directly dial a pre-configured phone number or contact, such as emergency services in a manufacturing plant or help desk in the organization. The hotline can be set up directly through the device settings or the Teams admin center. The device will need to be enabled with a Teams Shared Device License and set to common area phone mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123749
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams – End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100160
- 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
- Microsoft Teams: Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions – With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=113412
- Microsoft Viva: Elevated Teams Integration – Fully featured Viva Goals app in Team, complete with check-ins within the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106126
- Microsoft Teams: New Class & Lecture Meeting Templates – Class and Lecture Meeting Templates help Educators easily set-up highly secure meetings for their classes and lectures! Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109578
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: Customize and edit emails for webinars (Premium) – Customize and edit content for webinar emails including registration confirmation, reminder emails, cancellation notices, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119391
- Microsoft Teams: Updates to Bookings app experience in Teams – The Bookings app in Teams will be updated to match the web version on https://book.ms, ensuring consistent features across all entry points. The current experience in Bookings app in teams is available in the new Virtual appointments app. With this update, features such as Queue, Forms integration & scheduler-initiated SMS reminders for appointments that are available in Bookings app in Teams will be available only on the new Virtual appointments app on Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=120420
- Microsoft Teams: Reporting access and updated policy settings for Webinars in the Teams Admin Center – IT admins can access reports for webinars getting created within their tenant through the Teams Admin Center. There is a new policy setting to control the type of questions organizers can use in a registration form and an updated UX within the Teams Admin Center to configure event policy settings without Powershell. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124764
- Microsoft Teams: Preview and playback of Stream videos inline in Teams chat and channels – Stream videos that are saved in OneDrive and SharePoint are now embedded in chat and channels enabling users to preview and play them directly in Teams without the need to open a browser window. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127596
- Microsoft Loop: Tasks in Loop components sync with Planner and To Do – Tasks added to task lists in Microsoft Loop components in Teams and Outlook will be available in Microsoft Planner and To Do. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124928
- Visio: Visio personal app in Microsoft Teams – Visio will be available as a personal app, or private workspace, in Microsoft Teams. With a private workspace, users will be able to view and edit Visio files in a central location without leaving Teams. When using the Teams desktop app, users will be able to use the Pop out app option to open Visio in a separate window, allowing users to continue using Teams chat, call, collaboration, and meeting capabilities. Note: The launch status was incorrect and has now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109596
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – August 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Allow participants to join public webinars with three concurrent devices – Participants attending an external facing webinar can use up to three concurrent devices to join the event using the same registration join link. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=147098
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Unified fun picker – Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker. Browse and discover all the fun stuff you need, all in one hub of content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=84023
- Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium for GCC-H and DoD – Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure, with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, live translated captions, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and advanced Virtual Appointment experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=132632
- 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: Teams Shared Device license on Teams mobile app for Android – To support mobile and flexible work styles, the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license will be available on the Teams mobile app on Android. This will enable Android phones to be set up as shared devices. Walkie Talkie, call queues, auto attendants, cloud voicemail, call park and all other calling features currently supported for common area phones will be available through the Teams Android app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126706
- Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats – Save time with AI based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95065
Release – September 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript (Premium) – Teams Premium users can now view Live Transcript in their preferred languages during the meeting and choose to show the translated transcript with the original transcript as a reference. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126321
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management now supports Government cloud (GCC) customers – Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management, the multi-OS, multi-brand device management service that is included with the Teams Rooms Pro license, now supports customers using the Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant so they have a complete meeting, collaboration, and Teams Rooms device management solution. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141826
- 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: Join a meeting by digital code for GCC-High and DoD – User can join a meeting by entering a digital code. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=94620
Release – October 2023
- Microsoft Teams: The new Microsoft Teams app – The new Teams has been reimagined from the ground up, delivering up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory. It enables users to collaborate with people across organizational boundaries by seamlessly using Teams across multiple tenants or accounts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122540
- Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975
Release – November 2023
- Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482
Release – December 2023
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs (Premium) – The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125072
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
OneDrive
- Launched (2)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (0)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- N/A
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- OneDrive: Navigation updates in OneDrive for Web – OneDrive for Web will soon support the ability to expand or collapse the left navigation bar. Additionally, OneDrive will have a new command, in the form of a button labeled “+ Add new”, for creating new content and uploading files/folders. This command will be available across Home, My Files, Shared, Favorites, Recycle bin, and all Shared libraries in the Quick Access section. Note: upload functionality will be accessed via the “+ Add new” command. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146068
- OneDrive: Color and font changes in OneDrive for Web – We are introducing minor color, font, and icon changes to user interface on OneDrive for Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146071
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – July 2023
- OneDrive: OneDrive Sync Account Detection – The OneDrive Sync client for work and school will show a one-time message to users who sign into a personal OneDrive account on their work machine. The message will only be shown if the personal OneDrive account is already available in the Windows account manager. The message will provide users a one-click option to configure their personal account with OneDrive. If users choose to enable the feature, then they will be able to see both personal and work/school files in their work/school OneDrive and in File Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146851
Rollout starts – November 2023
- Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Roadmap ID: 115482
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
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 (7)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (29)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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. We apologize for any inconvenience on this late update. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117593
- Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments – Configure DLP rules that display warnings in a popup dialog before sending emails. With this capability, admins can set up rules to provide warnings, require business justifications, or request explicit acknowledgements before sending emails. Furthermore, admins can customize a Compliance URL within a DLP rule, ensuring that end users receive valuable guidance through the popup. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100157
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: End user reporting for suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams – End users will be able to report suspicious Microsoft Teams messages as a security threat just like they do for emails – to help the organization to protect itself from attacks via Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100160
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | Application of a “default label” to an unlabeled file uploaded to a SharePoint Online document library (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, all newly uploaded documents to a document library can “inherit” the configured label for the document library (if not already labeled). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93362
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Within 4 hours option for notifications – We are adding a new Within 4 hours option to end user notifications, allowing users to be able to rely on prompt notification about quarantined items when appropriate. With this feature users can be rest assured that they will be updated frequently once new items lands on their quarantine folder. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93304
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Upcoming Changes to Intra-Org Messages – This change will modify logging and handling of intra-org messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117487
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – New disposition review Progress column for approved items (U.S. Government clouds) – A new progress column in the Disposed items view will display the status of an item approved for disposition. For example, whether an item is Approved but not yet deleted or if it already has been deleted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106105
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification – 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 data match. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124898
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – July 2023
- Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export (U.S. Government clouds) – Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100056
Rollout starts – August 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Granular RBAC for priority user groups – Priority user groups in Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management help admins with the right permissions define the users in your organization who need more sensitive risk scoring. With this update, organizations can also restrict review of activities related to the priority user groups to specific analysts or investigators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156224
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites – Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading data from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153487
- 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
- Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115508
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List domain & addresses block to send inbound emails to admin quarantine – Today, incoming messages from domains or email addresses blocked by the Tenant Allow/Block List are treated as high-confidence spam (marked with SCL:9), which may not properly protect end users. With this change, messages from these blocked senders will be treated as high-confidence phish, and will be delivered to the admin quarantine. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115505
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention – User scoping RBAC – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). The RBAC controls will extend to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal for Information Protection and DLP related events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93417
- Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection (U.S. Government clouds) – Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93275
Rollout starts – September 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence (U.S. Government clouds) – The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117565
- 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. Note: The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106100
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business – With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images in SharePoint Online and OneDrive and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93233
- 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. Note: The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106099
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List Limit per SKU – Today, customers can only create 500 block and 500 allow entries in sender, URL and file category in Tenant allow/block list. Going ahead, customers with MDO P2 or E5 security can create 5000 allows and 10000 blocks in Tenant allow/block list for sender, URL and file category. Spoof in Tenant allow/block list will remain unaffected by this change and all SKUs will have 1024 entries for both allows and blocks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98185
- 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 – October 2023
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation – Tracking and revocation provides admins and end-users greater control over local files. When an end-user protects their local file with an encrypted sensitivity label, they enable the tracking and revocation feature. With this feature, the file owner and admin of the organization can view user access attempts to the file and whether they were successful. If needed, the file owner or admin can revoke access to the file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention – Currently available in public preview, releasing several new long-term retention policies as part of the 10-year Audit Log Retention add-on SKU. These include 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years. These are available for customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144251
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124920
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117587
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124779
Rollout starts – November 2023
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=155926
- 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: Potential high impact user experience enhancements – We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156016
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117352
Rollout starts – February 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156015
Rollout starts – March 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156018
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets – This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117569
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliant Team Meetings – Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. 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=109534
Rollout starts – April 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – New Microsoft Graph APIs for retention labels in SharePoint and OneDrive – Organizations can use Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels on items in SharePoint and OneDrive. This update includes the ability to apply and remove retention labels on items, get information about retention labels applied to items, and lock/unlock labels that classify content as records. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145118


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