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Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 18th September 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 18 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 (3)
  • In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Viva: Amplify Author Publications & Distribute to Multiple Destinations – Viva Amplify enables you to author a publication once, and then choose different destinations such as Outlook, SharePoint and Teams to make it available. Viva Amplify will automatically format your content for different destinations and you can choose to customize the content or layout. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117416
  • Microsoft Viva: Amplify Reporting & Analytics – Measure how effective your campaign and its associated publications are with reports. View aggregate results across campaigns, specific publications, or audiences. Understand reach, impact and interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117417
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

  •  Microsoft Syntex: model processing status column – When a model is applied to a document library, a new processing status field is added to inform users if a file has been enqueued and whether it has completed or failed to be processed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161919
  • Microsoft Syntex: Taxonomy tagging – Customers will be able to turn on Taxonomy tagger in SharePoint document libraries on a pay-as-you-go basis. With Taxonomy tagger turned on, you can automatically tag documents that reside on SharePoint libraries with terms configured in the Taxonomy store using AI. Note: This feature will not be available for GCC organizations at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and will communicate new timelines for GCC via Message Center, when appropriate.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152001

Rollout starts – October 2023

Rollout starts – November 2023

Rollout starts – December 2023

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (8)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management now supports Government cloud (GCC) customers – Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management, the multi-OS, multi-brand device management service that is included with the Teams Rooms Pro license, now supports customers using the Microsoft Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant so they have a complete meeting, collaboration, and Teams Rooms device management solution. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141826
  • Microsoft Teams: Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium) – Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to identify audio, video and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they will be notified of for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring will be based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135667
  • Microsoft Teams: Allow participants to join public webinars with three concurrent devices – Participants attending an external facing webinar can use up to three concurrent devices to join the event using the same registration join link. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=147098
  • Microsoft Teams: Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay – You can now easily call your speed dial contacts and get back to your recent calls on Teams on Apple CarPlay with your iPhone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125556
  • Microsoft Teams: Share the system audio from Teams meetings on AVD VDI – Users in a Teams meeting on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) can now share audio while screen sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99189
  • Microsoft Teams: Block anonymous users’ meeting chat read access in addition to current write access – This feature enables IT admins to block anonymous users from accessing the chat in internally hosted meetings by disabling the read access on top of the existing disabled right access. Due to service issues, we have decided to forgo Targeted Release in favor of rolling out straight to Standard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123974
  • Microsoft Teams: New ‘notes’ tab when creating a standard channel – When creating a new standard channel, a new Notes tab will be automatically created. Each Teams team will have a dedicated OneNote workbook and each channel will have its own section, making it easier on the workgroup to add their notes. We will not be rolling out to GCC, GCC-High and DoD at this time and a new Roadmap item will be available for these environments shortly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101962
  • Microsoft Teams: Viva Connections for your Frontline Teams members – Frontline employees with an F license will have an out of box Viva Connections experience tailored to their frontline needs. This experience includes a dashboard with relevant frontline cards such as Tasks, Shifts, Approvals, and Top news.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99706

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Note: We are postponing the rollout of this feature at this time, and it will only be available in the new Teams experience. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900
  • 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. Note: We are updating the roadmap Environments 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=122540
  • Microsoft Teams: On-demand recordings in Webinars – Organizers can publish the recording of a webinar and automatically send an email to attendees where they receive a link to watch an on-demand recording of the webinar that is hosted on the event page.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123052
  • Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom enabled meetings from Teams – If the any organizer creates a Zoom/Google meet/ any third-party meeting application from Outlook or OWA, meeting participants will be able to join that meeting from inside Teams calendar.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138139
  • 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
  • Microsoft Teams: Channel meeting invitations – Feature allows channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=142405
  • 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
  • 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. 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=133737

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – September 2023

  • Microsoft Teams: An improved search experience in chat and channels – A new search experience will allow users to search in a specific chat or channel and reach relevant results faster. The results will appear in the right handrail so you can stay in the flow of your work. Enhancements like highlighted key words will make it easier for user to scan their results. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122550

Release – October 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Conversational bot in meetings now supported in GCC-H – Microsoft Teams is now adding conversational bot and meetings extensibility support for meetings and calls in GCC-H. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=166985
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams AI library – The Teams AI library offers developers a suite of code functionalities designed to ease the integration of Large Language Models, empowering them to build rich, conversational Teams apps. It simplifies the process of creating Bots and Message Extensions, as well as interactions with Adaptive Cards for conversational experiences. Additionally, the Teams AI library also aids the migration of existing Bots, Message Extensions, and Adaptive Card functionalities with seamless integration with Large Language Models. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=130662
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Engagement information in Teams Attendance Report (Premium) – Enables meeting organizers to view meeting engagement data such as total reactions, raised hands, cameras turned on, and more in the ‘Attendance’ tab after a meeting.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162171
  • Microsoft Teams: Watermark support for recording playback (Premium) – Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID will be displayed as the watermark during the meeting recording playback. Once a meeting has concluded, users can access the recorded content on both web and mobile platforms to watch the recording with watermarking. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=137654
  • Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium) – Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98414

Release – November 2023

Release – December 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=157123

Release – March 2024

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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Outlook: Video Capture and Upload to OneDrive – Users will be able to capture a video from their phone while in the Outlook Mobile app, then seamlessly upload it to their email. Uploading the video will leverage OneDrive for Business, allowing users to benefit from increased storage space and large limits for video size and length. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117588

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 2023

  • 🆕 OneDrive: Offline mode – This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168618

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 (12)
  • Rolling out (6)
  • In development (28)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium): Export Teams messages as individual messages – Today with large cases in eDiscovery (Premium), organizations have the ability to export Microsoft Teams conversations. For many organizations, there is a need to export the searched messages as individual messages. With this new feature, you will have an opportunity to choose from exporting individual messages or whole conversations in eDiscovery (Premium). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161535
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Results on user reported will factor in grading results – With this change, the results shown on user reports coming to Microsoft will start factoring in grading insights. This will help you triage user report more accurately and quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124903
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification – Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact data match. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. 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=124898
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policy supports excluding locations (U.S. Government clouds) – Auto-labeling policy supports excluding specific locations in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124908
  • 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
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122287
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection – Cumulative exfiltration detection helps identify data exfiltration risks when a user’s exfiltration activities across all egress channels over the past 30 days exceed organization or peer group norms. A risk score is assigned if the user’s cumulative exfiltration activity is unusual compared with others within the same organization or with the same role. 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=117603
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Admin Units support in Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection – With this capability organizations will be able to delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC) via Azure Active Directory Administrative Units.  Eg – German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93417
  • Microsoft 365 Defender: Enterprise IoT Support (VoIP devices, printers, cameras, smart TVs, digital assistants, etc.) – Microsoft Defender for IoT will be adding capabilities to discover and perform security monitoring for enterprise IoT devices (e.g., VoIP devices, printers, cameras, smart TVs, digital assistants, etc.). Additionally, Microsoft Defender for IoT will be updated to be part of the Microsoft SIEM and XDR offering enabling Defenders to easily secure IoT devices using the tools they already know. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93289
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Integration with Communication Compliance – Enrich Insider Risk Management signals by integrating a Communication Compliance triggering event during policy configuration. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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 help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap item to align with the deployment information communicated in Message center.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93259
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updates to the common attachment filter in the anti-malware policy in government clouds – We are enhancing the common attachments filter (Anti-malware policy) to expand list of available file types and also manage custom file types in the portal.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93431

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions – SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85619
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Cloud attachments support file versions shared as links (U.S. Government clouds) – Previously, cloud attachments worked only for links shared using the attachments button in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Now, cloud attachments will retain files shared as hyperlinks in the body of an email or Teams message. Note:  The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106099
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention support for files shared as cloud attachments or links (U.S. Government clouds) – This update enables organizations to automatically apply retention labels to the version of files shared as cloud attachments, which are live links of SharePoint or OneDrive content that can be shared via emails or Teams messages. Note:  The status and date were incorrect and have been changed to reflect current plans. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106100
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Custom Activities Search (U.S. Government clouds) – 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=124913
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protect sensitive text when it is shared through Web forms – This Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention for endpoint capability extends data protection controls for sensitive files and unsanctioned sites to also include sensitive data that’s shared through text (such as pasted into a Web survey form). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109586
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Automatically turn on auto-labeling policy – Admins can configure their auto-labeling policies to be automatically turned on if there aren’t any changes to the policy within a set number of days from simulation completion. This configuration option will be available in the auto-labeling policy setup in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal and via cmdlet. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168871
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation – Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a 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=171725
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds) – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. 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=138577
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-Diagnostic tool for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Test-DlpPolicies (U.S. Government clouds) – A new diagnostic tool to test the functionality of DLP rules and policies configured for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124833
  • Microsoft Purview 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. 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=109532
  • 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: Insider Risk Management – Activity explorer export limit increase – 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=124858

Rollout starts – October 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds) – Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139461
  • 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: Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153651
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – eDiscovery guest reviewer delegated access – 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=165487
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard) – The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days.  The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171160

Rollout starts – November 2023

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 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 Defender for Identity: Public API for Defender for Identity settings through MS Graph – Microsoft Defender for Identity will expose data and actions for its settings through a set of programmatic APIs as part of Microsoft Graph. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169876
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164864
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative exfiltration detection tuning – With this update, cumulative exfiltration activities will no longer be detected and scored if they have already been identified in a previous cumulative exfiltration alert. This change will reduce unnecessary alerts generated from cumulative exfiltration activities. 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=124971

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection – Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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=171735
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level – Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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=171748
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164865
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detections for obfuscation involving excluded events – This change enhances sequence detection to improve its effectiveness in identifying users who are performing obfuscation activities that may result in a data security incident, such as file renaming, to evade detection. With this improvement, Insider Risk Management can detect sequences that may result in potential data security incidents, even if the obfuscation activities in those sequences involve excluded events, such as an excluded keyword. 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=124970

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reporting improvements (Leverage policy insights) – Communication Compliance message details report will support additional user filter to create and download the report for specific users in the policy. The items per policy report will provide item counts and actions on the items matched in the specified date range. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172017
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172024

Rollout starts – June 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support – Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.  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=17171
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Potential high impact user experience enhancements – We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user.  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=171720
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Potential high impact user experience enhancements – We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user. 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=156016
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