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 (2)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (27)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Mobile app support for Android tablet devices – People will be able to use Microsoft Lists for Android on their Android-based tablets – to capture, track and collaborate on information, while on the go. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98196
• Microsoft Viva: Auto-categorization coming to meeting category insights in Viva Insights – Users with a Viva Insights license will be able to see what kind of meetings are taking up their time, automatically categorized by Viva Insights based on meeting size, cadence, and people in the meetings. Categories include long and large, recurring, and 1:1 meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117396

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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
• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – User experience (UX) update – This update improves overall performance of Microsoft Lists and introduces new features, like the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who collaborating with you – and where – in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124867
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 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
• SharePoint: Clipchamp for work – Clipchamp for work accounts enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web only for the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124826

Rollout starts – September 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for conditional logic – Improved self service; Ability to enable if/then questions on surveys and support conditional logic. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163978
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Improved Phased Target Feature to Reflect Child Objectives and Key Results – Customers who want to factor seasonality into tracking progress can now set expected targets for specific time periods at the child key objective and key result level and see the progress reflected in the parent objective or key result. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164766
• Microsoft Viva: Storyline per-user control for Viva Engage – This feature will allow admins to designate which users in their Viva Engage network have the ability to create new storyline posts. It gives admins another option for how to support storyline in their network in addition to the current choice of enabling or disabling storyline for all users. This feature will not change who can reply or react to the storyline posts from those users who have been given storyline privileges. That is, all users with access to Viva Engage can reply and react to storyline posts.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=159129
• Microsoft Viva: Topics setup and configuration updates – Viva Topics setup and configuration will be updated to make it streamlined and easier to setup with fewer required steps.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118773
• Microsoft Viva: Export Viva Goals OKR view to PowerPoint – New feature allows users export a list and create a slide for each OKR in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117483
• Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics – This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88699

Rollout starts – October 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva – AI Topic suggestions in publisher – With the help of AI topic extraction, we can offer suggested topics based on the user’s question. Our AI topic extraction recommends up to 3 topics to add to one’s question based on what they wrote. These can be existing Viva topics or newly generated ones that the user can create and add. The user still must select and add our AI suggested topic since they do not automatically get attached to the question. The user can also still search and add their own topic and choose not to use our AI suggested topics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164856
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Respond to a Viva Pulse in email – Respond to a Viva Pulse request inline in email. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164907

Rollout starts – December 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for SFTP file transfer – Improved self service for admins to setup SFTP for file transfer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163979
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for external benchmark consent – Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163980
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for schema setup – Improved self service; Admins can configure, view, and manage derived dashboard, survey locale, and time zone values for their employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163982
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Improved error messaging – Improved error messaging during people import process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163986
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified Goal Creation – Users can save time in adding or creating Goals with the new simplified creation experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165697
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Automated organization, team member, and default admin set-up for new users with M365 groups – New users will now save time with a simplified onboarding experience for setting up organizations, team members, and admins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165682
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms and structures – Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165684
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Select Viva Pulse Questions from a Library – Create a Viva Pulse using research-backed questions found by browsing or searching the question library. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164906
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Simplified integration discoverability and set-up experience – Users will be able to easily find and setup integrations to reduce manual check in work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165685
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva:  Viva Glint enabled under Viva Admin – Viva Glint Admin enabled under Viva Admin.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163983
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to relink surveys – Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163987
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Send a Viva Pulse request to a larger audience – Send pulses to up to 10,000 recipients. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164901
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Schedule a Viva Pulse request to be resent – Schedule and resend pulses to get periodic feedback from your team members. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164902
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot – With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165689
• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists –  Commenting (iOS) – Bringing web commenting experience to Lists iOS mobile app. Add/delete a comment on list items to collaborate and share better. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=70705

Rollout starts – January 2024

• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists- A new forms experience to collect information – We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124865

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights flexible data model – Add any contextual data about your business using seamless data ingress and a flexible data model to support outcome-driven scenarios, such as sales or developer productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164206

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Teams

• Launched (20)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Teams: Teacher-led announcements for parents. – The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124683
• 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: Shifts: Notifications improvements – Several improvements to notifications for open and assigned shifts, including notifications will be sent to impacted team members only, schedule owners will have more control on who get the notifications, improved information for end user in the notification (such as location and department information), and consistent notifications across all platforms (desktop, web, iOS, Android).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135383
• Microsoft Teams: Shifts notification deep link improvements – Frontline workers and managers will be able to take appropriate actions when they receive notifications on key activities. For example, when a manager receives a notification for requests, clicking on notification will take them directly to the request approval page. When frontline workers gets notified of new shift schedule, the message will take them directly to the schedule view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138476
• Microsoft Teams: Express yourself in Teams meetings on VDI – While in a Teams meeting on a virtual desktop, you can express yourself using emojis that will appear to all participants to help make Teams meetings more inclusive, engaging, and fun. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118470
• 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: 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: 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: Richer suggestions in search – Users will be able to see more and richer suggestions while running a search query in the Teams mobile app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142407
• Microsoft Teams: Enable quick and easy navigation from message search result to location in chat – When users click one message result from TM Search, they will be navigated quickly to the location in chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142408
• Microsoft Teams: Extended Directory People search in Teams mobile app for iOS – Users will see external people from Extended Directory in the Teams mobile app search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142409
• Microsoft Teams: Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment for GCC-High – Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85436
• Microsoft Teams: Global sign in and sign out – Teams iOS app will support Global sign-in and sign-out tosimplify the experience for Frontline Workers. Employees can now use any devicefrom the shared device pool to sign in with their credentials and sign out ofit at the end of the shift. This will remove all their personal and company information from the device. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85736
• Microsoft Teams: App search improvement in Teams store – Improvements to search in Teams app store allows users to find the right apps and workflows quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122521
• Microsoft Teams: Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users – To adapt to changing environments, Teams users need to make adjustments to their call queue/auto attendant greetings and announcements. This is required more frequently than what the IT helpdesk can typically handle. Introducing user managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Now, authorized users, as identified by Teams tenant admins, can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant without leaving Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116739
• Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings – Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=97888
• Microsoft Teams: Delete Chats – With Delete Chats, users can permanently delete entire conversations from their view. This does not affect what any other users in the chat see.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=90723
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Companion Device Experience Enhancement – Optimize Video Gallery for in-room participants – When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop running Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Teams Room and laptops will be optimized to display only remote attendees.  (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=96212
• Microsoft Teams: Honor Tenant admin control settings for Microsoft Bookings SMS functionality in the Bookings app in Teams – Tenant admin settings in Bookings admin page in Microsoft Teams Admin center to enable/disable SMS functionality in all Bookings calendars in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92851
• Microsoft Teams: Usability improvements to informational messages in meetings for Android –         Notification drawer for in-meeting informational   messages, so users can preview, collapse and clear all notifications with one   tap.        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86958

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Front row gallery improvements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Improvements to the front row experience for Teams Rooms on Windows using Microsoft AI to remove individual backgrounds, adjust video participant size, and apply a unified background design so remote participants appear as if they are in the same room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95267
• Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Spatial Audio – Spatial Audio brings next-generation experiences to Teams Rooms on Windows that have Teams-certified stereo speakers with right and left capabilities. This intelligent audio technology delivers a more natural and inclusive experience for in-room participants making it feel like remote people are in the room with them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122554
• 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: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams. – Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127888
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2023

•  Microsoft Teams: Workflows within Channels – Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131293
• Microsoft Teams: calendar synchronization – You can view changes to your meetings in real time in the Teams calendar on your mobile device.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138326
• Microsoft Teams: Auto Install Approved Apps – Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164494

Release – September 2023

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: App centric management in Teams Admin Center to manage the Apps access for tenants, end-users, and groups – App centric management introduces new admin settings to control who in the tenant can install Teams apps. First, admins can set a default value for new apps that are published to Teams app store. Second, admins can edit the availability of an app to ‘All users can install’, ‘Specific users and groups can install’, or ‘No user can install’. This feature evolves the existing app permission policies and provides admins with the ability to manage access to the app individually. The app permission policies for existing customers are migrated to maintain existing app availability in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=151829
• Microsoft Teams: Real-time calendar sync and updates with Outlook – Any changes you make to your calendar in Outlook, will be reflected in real-time in your Teams calendar and vice-versa. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138248

Release – October 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
• 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 – November 2023

•  Microsoft Teams: Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations – New admin policy to control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92502
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Relocating sync command in OneDrive’s My files view to settings – We are relocating the command for Sync in My Files to the settings gear. All functionality remains the same, but with a new entry point. Roadmap ID: 124902

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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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 (11)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: Simulation mode for automatically applied retention labels (U.S. government clouds) – Records Management admins will be able to simulate the results of an auto-apply retention label policy. This feature allows admins to test the policy before deploying it in production. It will work with the Sensitive Information Type (SIT) and KQL properties policy types. Note: We apologize for having updated this to rolling out in June.  It will launch in August.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109569
• 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
• 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. 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=124795
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – This update provides several DLP capabilities for macOS, including support for Bluetooth, ability to customize notifications, auto-quarantine, tamper protection, ability to create app groups and granular app restrictions policies, and support for Japanese language.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109585
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – New alerts report (U.S. Government clouds) – The new alerts report summarizes alert status to help you readily identify the number of alerts with “Needs Review” status that still require action. 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=122281
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Custom Activities Search – The Audit Custom Activities Search enables customers to search for specific operations in the audit log. Instead of having to use PowerShell queries to search for a specific activity or select from the events in the Activities drop-down menu, admins can use the custom search bar to search for several audit log events directly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124912
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Collections: Query builder enhancements – Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) query builder experience to add functionality and grouping for collection query building experiences. This enhancement will help build complex queries from scratch, validate them, and help to ensure correct content is being returned with the query inputs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100057
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Extend sensitivity labels to meetings (U.S. Government clouds) – Extend sensitivity labels to Outlook appointments, invites, and Teams online meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117507
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier – The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117486
• Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Restrict copying sensitive files to remote desktop (RDP) sessions (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, you will be able to create Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies to regulate the sharing of sensitive data over an RDP session. DLP controls for RDP include support for deploying DLP policies in Audit mode, Block with Override mode, and Block mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93428
• Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview Information Protection- Downgrade justification dialog warns users to avoid adding sensitive information in the plaintext justification – A reminder was added to the “Others” option of the label removal justification dialog to remind users not to enter sensitive information in the justification they provide.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93412

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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 compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Peer group anomaly detection – With this update, Insider Risk Management can detect exfiltration anomalies when compared with users in similar groups or roles. Insider Risk Management defines similar user groups by grouping together users who access the same SharePoint Online destinations, who are in the same team, or who have similar job titles as configured in Azure AD. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124864
• Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration – Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing customers to assess their compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services with resource-level testing and cloud-specific guidance. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have 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=102404

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation – From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164210
• 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: Information Protection – Configure inheritance of attachment labels to email messages (U.S. Government clouds) – Configure label policies for email messages with attachments to inherit labels that match the highest classification of those attachments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124887
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure labels independently on files and emails (U.S. Government clouds) – Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only or both. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124889

Rollout starts – September 2023

• 🆕 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=164895
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs (U.S. Government clouds) – Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. 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=139455
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to assign alerts & cases to an owner (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, admins will be able to assign a case or alert to other admins, analysts, and investigators, making it easier for colleagues to know which alerts and cases are being worked on. 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=139456
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence – This update provides two enhancements to app and risky browsing activities that may lead to a data security incident in forensic evidence. Admins with appropriate permissions will no longer need to enable browsing indicators from the insider risk settings page to gain visual insights of these activities. In addition, the feature has been updated with more precise detection when users switch between tabs and windows. This results in more reliable visual evidence insights when context is switched in the browser. 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 based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. 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=165996
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments (U.S. Government clouds) – 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=139511
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Sensitivity label required to restrict permissions for labeling-enabled users – Users with sensitivity labels available will no longer be able to restrict permissions without a label in most cases. Entry points to the legacy Set Permissions dialog will redirect to a sensitivity labeling dialog, where users can select an appropriate label to restrict permissions. UX allowing users to remove encryption or permission information without changing the sensitivity label will also be removed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109532
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence – Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124847
• 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
• 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 – October 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Granular scoping with role-based access control (RBAC) – IT departments in large organizations are built in a way that some of the day-to-day tasks are delegated to specific people or roles in the organization following the industry standard of least privilege access. Admins have a need to delegate role based permissions to users or analysts in a granular way. In some cases, this delegation is based on function, and in other cases it is based on geography or scope of work. In this release, Audit will provide role based information with Audit search results through the UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163961
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage – Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. 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=144596
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase (U.S. Government clouds) – The activity explorer’s export limit will increase from 10K to 100K records. This update will benefit organizations that prefer exporting user activity insights to a CSV file, as they now can filter, sort, or pivot a bigger data set more conveniently. 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=124859

Rollout starts – November 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels – Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165995

Rollout starts – March 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification (U.S. Government clouds) – Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact match data. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146728

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