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Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 21st August 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 21 August 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/ Microsoft Syntex and Microsoft Viva.

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (20)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Syntex:  Rule to set content type when a file is added to a library based on its file name – This rule will provide the capability to set a content type to any file that is uploaded to a SharePoint Library using the file name of the file or file extension or file path of the targeted library. A Microsoft Syntex seat license or a Syntex azure subscription needs to be enabled to the tenant to be able to see this rule for users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165699
  • Microsoft Syntex: model processing status column – When a model is applied to a document library, a new processing status field is added to inform users if a file has been enqueued and whether it has completed or failed to be processed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161919
  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Create a list from CSV – You can now import from a CSV file to create a list with it. The Export to CSV feature is also augmented with schema, so when you import, your source and destination lists will look identitical, down to all the custom formatting, choice pills, richtext based editing etc. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100501

Rollout starts – September 2023

  • 🆕 SharePoint: Accessibility Improvements to Page Authoring – To support accessibility best practices, we’ve made some improvements to the Page authoring experience. 1 – Added functionality to mark images as decorative. Decorative images will be ignored by assistive technology, including screen readers. This addition has been made to the following: background image of the Title Region,      images added inline with the Text Web Part, Image Web Part, Image Gallery, Hero, Call to Action, and Quick Links. 2 – Changed      the heading level 1 to be reserved for the page title in the title area.      Headings can still be added to a page at levels 2-4 using the web parts. This makes it easier for users of screen readers to understand how your page is structured. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146063
  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration – With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164739
  • 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

Rollout starts – October 2023

Rollout starts – November 2023

  • SharePoint: Video Pages – Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124823

Rollout starts – December 2023

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (3)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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: Allow meeting apps to show an indicator on their icon to signal new activity – This feature enables meeting applications to display an indicator on their icon, encouraging users to participate in new in-app activities during a meeting. The application has the option to show the indicator to selected attendees or to all participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122539
  • 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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: Prompt Walkie Talkie first time users to connect to a single channel – 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. We are releasing a new change where new users can now easily determine a channel to connect to start collaborating with colleagues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=129970
  • 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 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: 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 Teams: Collaborative Stageview – With Collaborative Stageview, app content opens in a new Teams window where users can engage with content and chat with other team members, side-by-side. Collab Stage lets users share links and collaborate on content, right from within Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93769
  • Microsoft Teams: group chat messages links – Users will be able to share a link to a specific message in a group chat, enabling the group chat members to quickly navigate to a message and find information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122522
  • Microsoft Teams: Expanded view for profile card – With the expanded view of the profile card, users will now be able to see a richer view of a person’s profile, such as their contact data, custom properties, and their LinkedIn information. This expansion also enables the user to view richer organization chart information about the person they are interacting with, without leaving the context they are in. Note: The launch state 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=109526

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2023

  •  Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium) – Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135667
  • Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone – When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123963
  • 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: New Tag Management Settings – This feature will update default tag management settings in the Teams Admin Center to include ”Microsoft Default” along with Team owners and members” and “Team owners.” You can update this to your preferred option of “Team owners” or “Team owners and members” at the tenant level and override the default.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88318

Release – September 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Unique join links for external presenters in Webinars – When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links for the webinar. This unique link allows the external presenter to automatically bypass the lobby and join a webinar directly as a presenter role.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123149
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD – Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138550
  • Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium) – Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98414
  • Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background (Premium) – Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects. 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=126123
  • 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: 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

    Release – October 2023

    •  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Watermark support for recording playback (Premium) – Watermark support available for One Player when meeting is recorded with Watermark enabled in Teams meeting. Users should be able to record the meeting when watermark is enabled. Once the meeting is concluded, users can conveniently access the recorded content in One Player, both on the web and mobile platforms. The One Player provides a seamless playback experience with each participants seeing their own email address as watermark, allowing users to review the meeting recording. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=137654
    • 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: 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: SMS Notifications in Virtual Appointments Template (Premium) – External guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including appointment details and the meeting join link so they can join directly from mobile. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a reminder 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This is available in US only at this time.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127901
    • Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

    Release – November 2023

    •  Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements – IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119789

    Release – December 2024

    Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Microsoft Purview

    OneDrive

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

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • OneDrive: Sharing experience  –  Manage Access settings – We will be updating the “Manage Access” experience which will offer you additional controls for how recipients access files you’ve shared. “Shared with” list would be an entry point to Manage Access settings. Feature ID:83726

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • OneDrive: Easily get to files shared by people with the new People view in OneDrive Web – Sometimes it can be hard to remember the name of a file or exactly when it was shared, but you know who shared it with you. Because of this, we’ve created an entirely new way to get back to your shared files both internal and external – organized by the people you work with! This view presents the people you have recently collaborated with, along with all the files that have been shared with you by each person. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124876

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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    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 (11)
    • Rolling out (3)
    • In development (20)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Historical versions for Government clouds – Now eDiscovery admins can designate specific SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business sites to enable for historical versions functionality. This capability will enable organizations to quickly search across not only the current version of documents, but all the versions of the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88817
    • 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
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of devices – Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109584
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized network share paths (U.S. Government clouds) – With this capability, you will be able to create groups of network share paths and designate restrictive actions for each group within your DLP policy in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124829
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips (U.S. Government clouds) – Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124849
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence – Admins can access the file that resulted in the DLP restrictions with the DLP alert experience. This level of visibility will help analyze the amount of content that triggered the DLP violation, assess severity, and inform remediation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109583
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Authorized USB devices (U.S. Government clouds) – With this capability, you can create groups of USB 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 of USB devices based on serial numbers and allow ‘copy’ of documents to certain groups of USB devices and block ‘copy’ for others. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124828
    • 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: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhanced support for Teams video clips – Now eDiscovery admins collecting Teams video clips will see the teams video clip as a separate video recording file attached to the Teams conversation where it was shared. This will enable review and export as mp4 files to help admins better understand the content and context of the video clips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124848

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection – 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 compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds) – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138577
    • Microsoft 365 Defender: Vulnerability Management – Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management offers continuous discovery, intelligent risk-based prioritization, and built-in remediation to help security and IT teams prioritize and address critical vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Add-On is available for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109581

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    Rollout starts – August 2023

    •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – This introduces 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, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165402
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – File Registration – When a sensitivity label is used to encrypt an Office file, it is automatically registered for tracking, and previously label-protected Office files are registered the next time they are opened in an updated client. This only applies to local files. Compliance administrators can track and revoke access to registered Office files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164208
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Matched items in audit logs – With this capability you will get visibility into matched condition and value in Audit Logs as a result of a DLP policy match. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117488
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-Diagnostic tool for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Test-DlpPolicies (U.S. Government clouds) – A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124833
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion – Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to 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=115499

    Rollout starts – September 2023

    •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion – Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to 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=164871
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label” – Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition “content contains sensitivity label” to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported. This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164212
    • Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126
    • 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 Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – 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=117546

    Rollout starts – October 2023

    •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection – With this capability organizations will be able to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units.  Eg – German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165027
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements – This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164896
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention -Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of endpoint devices – Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162660
    • 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. 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. Note: The launch dates were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Note: The launch state 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=117606

    Rollout starts – November 2023

    •  🆕 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=164864
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered – With this update, PDF files with sensitivity label (and encryption) can be reasoned over in SharePoint Online, searched, or eDiscovered. Additionally, labels can be applied to the existing PDF files hosted in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85617

    Rollout starts – December 2023

    •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: [OCR] [ODSP] OCR Support for embedded images on SPOD – Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images.   Aim is to Support OCR for images embedded in:  1. Hybrid PDF file – PDF files with both images and searchable text 2. Office files – DOCX, PPTX, XLSX 3. Container files – zip, rar, 7z, etc. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160010
    • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – 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=164865
    • Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to set a retention period for a policy – Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. 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=68688

    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.   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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