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Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 11th September 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 11 September 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 (3)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Get link preview and interact with goals directly within Microsoft Teams chat – This feature gives users the ability to share links to goals as rich adaptive cards, including progress and status. Users get the context they need around goals they’re working towards and can also update them in Microsoft Teams without losing focus or clicking away from the conversation.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117448
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Analytics Enhancements – Enhancements to existing Viva Connections analytics capabilities providing an analytics dashboard for data visualization and additional metrics at a Dashboard card level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124918
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Topics app in Teams – Teams will include an official Viva Topics app, where users can go to quickly access the Topic Center without leaving their Teams environment. It will include new menus for Viva Suite users to navigate between the Viva tools within Teams. Note: The Preview date has been updated to reflect our current anticipated timeline. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118592

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • SharePoint: News in Outlook – With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, we’re also adding 6 templates designed to look great in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124803
  •  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
  • OneDrive: Folder Colors in SharePoint and OneDrive – You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124980
  • 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: Verified Topic badges – Users can now mark published topics as verified and add a specific group of SMEs as editors to the topic. Verification helps readers identify topics with added reliability. Topics that are verified are identified by a special badge and indicate the content is reviewed for accuracy and are regularly updated by assigned editors. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118239
  • Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection – Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117576
  • Microsoft Syntex: Merge and Extract PDFs in OneDrive for Web – Microsoft Syntex: Combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file with the Merge PDFs action, or split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract pages action, in OneDrive for Web.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=151043
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: New location for saved feed items on Viva Connections Mobile – Updating the location for saved feed items to make it easy for users to find the same. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161514
  • Microsoft Viva: Changes to Viva Engage Connector for Topic Name – In support of migrating tenants from using legacy Viva Engage topics to Viva Topics, changes are coming to the Power Automate connector for Viva Engage. The topic name parameter will be deprecated from the connector. Legacy flows will continue to work, but the topic name parameter will not be available for new flows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169199
  • 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: Migrate SharePoint 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate – Provide Microsoft 365 customers with a tool to migrate SharePoint-based workflows to Power Automate. You will be able to migrate SharePoint 2010 (out-of-the-box and SharePoint Designer) workflows and SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint Designer) workflows to Power Automate flows. The feature will be integrated into the SharePoint Migration Tool (SPMT). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=82108

Rollout starts – October 2023

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Copilot – Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609
  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights leader deep-dive reports focus on customers, business operations and agility – There will be a new report for leaders in Viva Insights app in Teams tied to business outcomes. Leaders can view a bundle of relevant metrics and suggested actions. Leaders can further drill down by customizing the filters such as time periods, benchmarks, scopes, view insights breakdown by groups within their organization, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164211

Rollout starts – January 2024

Rollout starts – February 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights secure bridge to Microsoft Fabric – Create custom solutions with unique insights! Microsoft Graph Data Connect provides secure bridge from Viva Insights to Microsoft Fabric, where you can create even deeper views of how workforce behaviors influence the outcomes your care about by combing computed metrics from Viva Insights with additional data sources, such as data warehouse or line of business and custom applications. Create custom views and experiences by embedding calculated metrics – either directly from Viva Insights or enriched metrics – into third-party and bespoke applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164205
  • Microsoft Viva: Follow a topic – Users can now follow topics from experiences across Microsoft 365 and the Viva suite to receive personalized experiences and notifications of activities around topics of interest. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118493

Rollout starts – June 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights custom nudges – Customers and partners to configure custom nudges and recurring nudge workflows. The framework supports custom targeting criteria, UX templates, publication tools, and visibility into impact measures. Supports nudging workflows for a chain of nudges and recurrence for weekly or monthly suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164207

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (6)
  • Rolling out (7)
  • In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • 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: 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: Together Mode Usability Improvements – We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode. Participants in Together Mode will now have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Second, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self preview. Lastly, Together Mode will now display raised hands and reactions within the view.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122127
  • 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
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – New touch and collaboration experiences – New touch and collaboration experiences will include 4K display support to further enhance your meeting experience on large screen devices and the ability to control the room system from both the Front of Room touch display and the touch console for convenience; to get this experience, the“Enable touch controls”setting on the device must be enabled. You will also be able to quickly start collaborating outside of a Teams meeting with the new, one-touch Whiteboard icon on the home screen. Tapping on this will launch the Microsoft Whiteboard app locally, and it will also allow you to start an ad-hoc meeting with your local whiteboard, enabling you to seamlessly switch from local to online collaboration. The“Allow initiate Whiteboard”setting on the device must be enabled to get this experience. When joining from a Teams Rooms device, you’ll start to see incoming chat messages to increase meeting inclusiveness. As a remote meeting participant, you’ll be able to add the PTZ Camera Controls app and control the zoom and orientation of a Teams Rooms camera directly from your desktop during a meeting; to get this experience, the Far end camera control policy must be enabled on the resource accounts.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101948

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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  • 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.   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122540
  • 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: Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access – Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access extends the existing Guest Access functionality to allow a user coming from another Microsoft cloud to participate in rich collaboration experiences across Microsoft Clouds including joining teams, channels, documents, 1:1 and group chat as well as Teams meetings with audio/video, screen share and file share.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145459
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings – Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145460
  • Microsoft Teams: Remove Teams call and meetings details from mobile device call logs – Teams users can now choose if they want to keep or remove their Teams call and meetings history details from their iOS device call log. Users will have the option to determine their preference in the Call settings in the Teams app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152469
  • 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
  • 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. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127596

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – September 2023

Release – October 2023

  •  Microsoft Teams: New calendar views on Teams Rooms on Android – The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 11 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses.   https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=157123
  • 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

Release – November 2023

  •  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: 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
  • Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores – Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122527
  • 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. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed.  We will notify you, via Message Center, when we know more. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95065
  • 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 – December 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: 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. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114214

Release – January 2024

Release – June 2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Workspace Management – Workspace Management is a new feature within Teams Admin      Center that provides an integrated view of Teams devices and peripherals      based on their location, along with relevant insights. This capability provides      IT admins the ability to manage connected devices, and monitor workspace      health, utilization and conformance to standards at any location.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88326

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (0)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • OneDrive: Colored Folders – You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124980
  • OneDrive: New Meetings view that will help you quickly get back to content shared in meetings – So much of our collaboration happens in the context of meetings, yet how many times have you found yourself trying to scroll back and find a meeting recording from a month ago? Or spent time digging through email to find pre-reading material for an upcoming meeting so you can be prepared going in? With this new meetings view in OneDrive, you’ll be able to get back to all of your meeting content with just a few clicks! When you come to meetings view, you’ll first see any meetings in the next week that you might need to prepare for, followed by a list of meetings that have already occurred. This view brings together all content shared both in meeting invites, meeting chat, and meeting recordings all into one place for easy access! Here you’ll see a recurring meeting with multiple meeting recordings, all laid out sequentially so you can catch up on whatever you missed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124885

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

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 (6)
  • Rolling out (4)
  • In development (24)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium): eDiscovery guest reviewer – This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery (Premium) review sets within a case. This feature empowers eDiscovery (Premium) admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98093
  • 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 – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label” – Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition 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 is applied using AIP labelling client.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145116
  • 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. 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=156224
  • 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
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups – To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124914

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints – Extend protection to cold/unclassified files on endpoint devices by just-in-time protection at the time of egress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117493
  • 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 compliance portal: Information Protection – New contextual predicates in service-side auto-labeling – This feature will support adding the following new contextual based predicates to auto-labeling: Document property is; File extension is; Document size equals or is greater than; Document created by (only available in advanced rules in OneDrive and SharePoint locations); Document name contains words or phrases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117536
  • Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection – Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117576

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators – With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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=168841
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations – With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167340
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoint – Protect sensitive text when it is shared through Web forms – This capability extends Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for endpoints’ data protection controls for sensitive files and unsanctioned sites to also include sensitive data that’s shared through text.  (e.g. pasted into a Web survey form). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169079
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Test function for Exact Data Match will include results for configured primary elements – When using the test function in the Compliance portal or in PowerShell to test Exact Data Match (EDM) matches, the resulting EDM matches will be returned along with matches for the Sensitive Information Types (SITs) configured as EDM primary elements to help admins troubleshoot when EDM is not returning expected matches. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169088
  • 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. 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=153487
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Short-Term Retention (U.S. Government clouds) – Releasing a new feature that will enable customers with the Audit Premium SKU to have additional customized short-term retention policies. The new options are 7 days and 30 days.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115502
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers – Highlight the keywords/phrases that contribute significantly to trainable classifier results, so that users can more easily understand the classification of the documents and use these insights to inform creation of DLP policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124815
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Label footers enhancement for emails (U.S. Government clouds) – When labels are configured to add footers, currently the footers accumulate at the very bottom of long email chains. This enhancement now adds footers at the bottom of the most recent reply instead of at the bottom of the whole email thread. Note that this feature supports emails formatted as HTML or PlainText. Support for Rich Text email formats is legacy and will not be improved in Outlook. For emails formatted as Rich Text, label footers will continue to accumulate at the bottom of email threads as before. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124817
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117354
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117531
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium): Enhancements for Teams meeting recordings & videos stored in OneDrive & SharePoint (U.S. government clouds) – Enhancements to Teams meeting recording & video files in OneDrive & SharePoint to improve management within eDiscovery workflows. This includes collection and review of metadata such as transcripts/captions, chapters, and custom thumbnails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117385
  • 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
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) in Exchange Online and Teams DLP – Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared in Exchange Online (EXO), and Teams Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies. Note: We apologize for having stated that this has launched.  Only Public preview has been completed.  GA is expected in August. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88860

Rollout starts – October 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers – Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170738
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files – This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168865
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable document – We are releasing three predicates in the SharePoint DLP area that will provide protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable documents.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138475
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for EXO – Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine – We are adding a new column that enables messages delivered to hosted quarantine to be viewed under “Data Loss Prevention” rather than needing to be filtered under transport rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124974
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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 – November 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – 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=167531
  • Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124975

Rollout starts – December 2023

  •  🆕 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. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167221

Rollout starts – January 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection – Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day.” With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared with their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster.  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=168630

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope – Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect 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 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=168843
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance?provides the tools to help?organizations detect business conduct and?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=169212
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