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Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup – 25th September 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 25 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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Teams
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Microsoft Purview

SharePoint & Viva

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex and Microsoft Viva.

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: Improvements to the Page authoring experience – We’re reducing clutter and creating an efficient canvas by moving the “add section” action to be inline and visible on hover, as well as surfacing the layout options in the web part toolbars. Roadmap ID:117377
  •  Microsoft Viva: Connections News Notifications – Mobile users of Viva Connections will receive a push notification from Teams when SharePoint news is published from sites they follow or visit frequently.  They’ll also receive notification if they are @ mentioned in a comment on a news post, or if someone likes or comments on news they have published.  These notifications will honor Teams notification settings including fully disabling them and quiet hours. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98112
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights app in Teams with personal insights for DoD – The Microsoft Viva Insights app in Microsoft Teams will be available in DoD and will show you personalized recommendations that help you do your best work. Roadmap ID: 101522

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

Rollout starts – October 2023

Rollout starts – November 2023

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – April 2024

Rollout starts – June 2024

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (3)
  • Rolling out (8)
  • In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Teams: Primary camera switching for Teams Rooms on Android – Allows in room users to switch the main meeting camera if USB cameras are attached to a Microsoft Teams Room on Android. IT admins have the option to select the default primary camera using device settings. This feature is available for all Teams Rooms licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121376
  • Microsoft Teams: Call Health Panel for VDI – The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view you will get data on your network, audio, screen sharing, and outgoing video quality. These real-time metrics are updated every 15 seconds and are best used to troubleshoot issues that last for at least that long. To view your stats during a call or meeting, select More actions icon at the top of the call window, and then select Call health near the top of the menu.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117858
  • Microsoft Teams: Cameo in PowerPoint Live  – Cameo is a new PowerPoint experience that seamlessly integrates your Teams camera feed into your presentation, letting you customize how and where you want to appear on your slides and offering layout recommendations for optimal viewing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=87725

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Outlook: Apps for Teams meetings available in Classic Outlook for Windows – Now, you can configure or add an app for Teams meetings while scheduling a meeting from Outlook. This app will be ready to use when you chat or join the meeting in Teams.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=96633
  • 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 and Platforms 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: New Teams and Channels layout – Presenting the improved grid layout in Teams which allows easy navigation for classes. Bonus – all top-used EDU apps are now a click away inside the class!  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=137357
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD – Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138550
  • Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements – Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls. 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=123753
  • 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. 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=127496
  • 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. Note: We are updating a 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=101962
  • Microsoft Teams: Export Teams list from Teams Admin Center – Administrators can export Teams list as a csv file from Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85704

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – October 2023

Release – November 2023

Release – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting protection support on Teams Rooms on Android – Teams Rooms on Android devices apply the Teams Premium meeting security features including end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels if the meeting organizer has them turned on.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161423
  • 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: 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: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge – Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122139

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 2023

Release – March 2024

  • OneDrive: Sync admin reports – bulk data export – Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors. Roadmap ID: 88870

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 (5)
  • Rolling out (4)
  • In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. 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. 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=156018
  • 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 – 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 Defender for Office 365: Enabling malware filter bypass for SecOps Mailboxes – We are adding the ability for security admins and security operations (SecOps) teams to triage messages with malware verdicts for their own review and analysis. This update enables malware filter bypass on messages delivered to configured SecOps mailboxes in the advanced delivery policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124818
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Auditing for Microsoft Project, Planner and Microsoft To Do – Identify data risks and manage regulatory compliance requirements while using Planner, Project and To Do with audit log retention and access to crucial events that help determine scope of compromise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124916

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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 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: 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 Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training for GCCH – Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft 365 Defender for Office is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the GCC High environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124854

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Contextual evidence match for endpoint DLP – With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172028 
  • Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Analyze linked content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online – chats and private channels – Communication Compliance policies that detect violations in Microsoft Teams will now analyze the content of documents shared in chats and private channels for potential policy match. 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=88845
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources – Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case. Note: We are updating a 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=88815

Rollout starts – October 2023

  •  🆕 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=164489
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – PowerShell hold removal cmdlet for legacy and orphaned holds – This Cmdlet will be available in the Security & Compliance PowerShell and will enable users to get a list of holds stamped on a location (Mailbox/SPO) and remove a given hold from the location by specifying the ID. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174597
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – PowerShell hold removal cmdlet for legacy and orphaned holds – This Cmdlet will be available in the Security & Compliance PowerShell and will enable users to get a list of holds stamped on a location (Mailbox/SPO) and remove a given hold from the location by specifying the ID. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174604
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create Simulations with Attack Simulation Training Graph API – Introducing the Attack Simulation Training Graph APIs for creating and managing phishing simulations and training campaigns with enhanced control and flexibility. Automate and customize attack scenarios based on real events within your organization to effectively identify vulnerabilities and test security measures. Seamlessly integrate with other security tools to streamline analytics and achieve centralized management for enhanced efficiency. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152722
  • 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 Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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=124779

Rollout starts – November 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – With this update, we are adding several enhancements to DLP capabilities for macOS endpoints including the ability to create groups of USB, Printer, and Network share and apply different restrictions to different groups; support for most restrictive actions against multiple rule matches; and support for Network share exclusion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174658

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 🆕 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167331
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – SharePoint site selection enhancement – With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. 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=169880
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention – Currently available in public preview, releasing several new long-term retention policies as part of the 10-year Audit Log Retention add-on SKU. These include 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years. These are available for customers with the 10-Year Audit Log Retention license.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144251
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – 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 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=115495

Rollout starts – January 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API – Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169083 
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint – Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139457
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Simulation mode for DLP – With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated experience. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173626
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page – A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page — including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary — will be moving to the new reports page.  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=169889

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds in policy wizard – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to finetune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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=146329

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced file type coverage for DLP on Windows endpoints – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171586

Rollout starts – June 2024

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