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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 2nd October 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 2 October 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 (4)
  • In development (12)

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2023

Rollout starts – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant – Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174466
  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Admin setting to disable private messages in a Viva Engage (Yammer) network – Admins will have the ability to turn off private message capabilities in their Viva Engage (Yammer) network. Once turned off, users will not see the feature in the frontend.   Once released, this setting is available for admins to use any time. If turning off private messages in existing networks, users will lose access to their messages. All content remains ingested and available via eDiscovery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178016

Rollout starts – January 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights ONA report wizard – A guided workflow will equip analysts with the requisite insights to better diagnose the impact of a change on cross-functional collaboration patterns; the insights surfaced are powered by ONA metrics and are visualized via simple and intuitive network graphs which facilitates the detection of changes in collaboration before/after a large-scale change or transition, such as re-org.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164204

Rollout starts – June 2024

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Teams
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Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (8)
  • Rolling out (3)
  • In development (27)

🍾 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:  Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows – IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on front-of-room (180-degree view) and center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=133727
  • Microsoft Teams: Dashboard for Chat – This feature will update the existing chat details page to provide more information to users and help them easily find content shared in the chat.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114938
  • Microsoft Teams: Enable zooming while viewing screenshare – Users can now zoom in and out while viewing a screenshare in a Teams call and meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116010
  • Microsoft Teams: New capability for users to share apps directly to chats or channels  – This new feature will allow people to share apps from Teams app details page directly to chats or channels.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122536
  • 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: Spatial Audio – Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you’re there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive and focused for everyone.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=107783
  • Microsoft Teams: Export Teams list from Teams Admin Center – Administrators can export Teams list as a CSV file from Teams admin center. Note: GCCH and DoD will not be released at this time, and we will provide a new Roadmap ID when a date is available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85704

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – October 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town Halls – Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123148
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Enabling Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms in the new Microsoft Teams app – Online meeting participants will now be able to experience a meeting with Cloud IntelliFrame in the new Microsoft Teams app. With Cloud IntelliFrame, in-room participants appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether working from home or in the office, participants can gather more context about the physical shared space and are able to see every facial expression and cue, just as if they were there in person. Cloud IntelliFrame is only available with a Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161428
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town halls (Premium) – Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Advanced town hall capabilities as a part of Teams Premium includes capabilities available in town hall plus capacity for up to 20K attendees, first-party eCDN support, additional language support for live translated captions, email customization, and more.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173182
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Scheduling improvements in Shifts app – In the Shifts app, people count, and full names, will show in the calendar view. The most recent filter settings will be saved automatically. Managers will be able to add inline notes in the day view, and notes can also be added using the Graph API.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146855
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Require background blur when no background is selected (Premium) – When enabled, if a user does not have a background image applied their video background will be blurred. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163967
  • Microsoft Teams: Choose which users to notify when publishing a task list – The task publishing experience in Microsoft Teams will soon allow you to choose which users to notify when you publish or unpublish a task list. In response to customer requests, you’ll soon have the ability to choose which members of teams receiving the tasks should get a notification in their Teams activity feed: all owners and members, owners only, or no one. Similarly, you will be able to choose who to notify when unpublishing a task list. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144248
  • 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 – November 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Enabling People Recognition in a Teams Meeting with a desktop client face enrollment process – Users will be able to enroll their face and create a face profile using the new enrollment process in the Teams desktop client. The face profile is used in Teams Rooms meetings where an Intelligent Camera capable of People Recognition is deployed to recognize in-room attendees, and then labels their identity for all meeting participants, both in-room and remote.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161426
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Front Row gallery improvements on Teams Rooms on Windows: Active video speaker promotion – Front Row now promotes pinned or spotlighted participants to the center stage when there is no shared content in the single and dual display mode. For single display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the most recent active speaker video will be promoted to the center. In dual display mode, when no one is pinned, spotlighted or sharing content, the two most recent active speaker videos will be promoted to the center on each screen. If someone is sharing content, the most recent active video speaker will be promoted on the right screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161825
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Support joining a live event as an attendee for Teams Rooms on Windows – Teams Rooms on Windows can now join a live event as an attendee and watch the streaming experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169881
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Management of BYOD (Bring your own device) meeting spaces with Teams Rooms Pro Management – The BYOD (bring your own device) rooms in the Pro Management Portal provides IT admins with a comprehensive overview of their BYOD rooms’ utilization and activities. With this new addition, IT admins will gain valuable insights into how these spaces are being utilized, enabling them to make data driven decisions.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161728
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management – Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164490
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New Shortcuts for Calls in Teams – We are changing the keyboard shortcuts used to initiate calls in Teams to create differentiation from other commonly used shortcuts and reduce accidental calls. The new shortcuts for Windows will be: Alt + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Alt + Shift + V for video calls. For MacOs the new short cuts will be:Option + Shift + A to initiate audio calls, Option + Shift + V for video calls.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164200
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows All-in-one experience – With this update, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170740
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows – This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to  automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170745
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Privacy and CSV import enhancements in Shifts app – In the Shifts app, frontline managers will be able to specify how far in the past their employees can access schedule data. They will also be able to determine whether employees can view each other’s breaks and notes. Finally, managers can import and export scheduling reports, including time-off schedules, open shifts, and assigned shifts.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169705
  • 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: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams. – Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date. 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=127888
  • Microsoft Teams: Hide attendee names in Webinars (Premium) – Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119153
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

Release – December 2023

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Enabling cameras with IntelliFrame and People Recognition experiences in the new Microsoft Teams app – Remote attendees in a hybrid meeting will be able to view multi-stream IntelliFrame video, panoramic room view, and in-room attendees with speaker recognition (including name labels) in the new Teams desktop client.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161427
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Improved View switcher and Front of Room display controls for Teams Rooms on Android – The updated interface for the Teams Rooms on Android View Switcher menu provides end users with more control of the front of room display(s) during a meeting and enables customizations including visibility of the meeting chat and which meeting component is displayed on the left and right panel for Front Row. IT admins can configure the default number of panels and default component on panel(s) using the local device setting.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=159128
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Configure maintenance window for Teams devices – Admins will be able to configure the maintenance window for their Teams devices from within the Teams Admin Center. These time windows will be used for executing any device upkeep operations, including automatic updates. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163600
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Synced updates for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices and paired consoles. – When Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices are updated from the Teams Admin Center, their paired consoles will get updated in tandem, ensuring a seamless experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174344
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
  • Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meeting Recordings – Microsoft Graph meeting recording API allows developers access to Teams meeting recordings once the meeting is completed. Recorded media output is in MP4 audio+video format.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95787

Release – January 2024

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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

  • 🆕 OneDrive: Performance improvements – This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168616
  • 🆕 OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web – The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action. OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168619

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Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

  • Launched (5)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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 Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training for GCCH – Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft 365 Defender for Office is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the GCC High environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124854
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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=161943
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New Credentials SITs (U.S. Government clouds) – The addition of new Credentials Sensitive Information Types (SITs) will allow your company to detect individual credential patterns (access keys, tokens, general passwords, etc.). Additionally, we will be offering a SIT which bundles all individual credential types for more holistic detection. 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=93265
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: New filter option for messages blocked due to file type block – We are introducing a new filter for the ‘Quarantine Reason’ in the Quarantine page (Email). As part of this release, the SecOps can now apply this filter to display only the emails which are blocked when file extension/type of one or more of the attachments matches those configured in the common attachment filter in the Anti-malware policy. Currently these emails are shown under the ‘Malware’ as the Quarantine Reason. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117520

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2023

  •  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: Information Protection – Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments (U.S. Government clouds) – Configure DLP rules that display warnings in a popup dialog before sending emails. With this capability, admins can set up rules to provide warnings, require business justifications, or request explicit acknowledgements before sending emails. Furthermore, admins can customize a Compliance URL within a DLP rule, ensuring that end users receive valuable guidance through the popup. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139511
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages – 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=139460
  • Outlook: Outlook on the web – Phishing/Junk Reporting popups integrated with Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – The popup content displayed while reporting using phishing/junk actions in Outlook on the web can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to customize text and other aspects of phishing/junk pre and post reporting popups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115508
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business  – With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images in SharePoint Online and OneDrive and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image only).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93233
  • 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: 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88860
  • 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 – November 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – customization & preview of email notifications – There are some significant enhancements made to the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification. These improvements provide admins with greater flexibility and control over the end-user notification email: 1. Enhanced Token Support: We have expanded our token library to offer precise and detailed information to your end users. 2. Email Message Customization: You now have the ability to decide whether the matching email messages should be included or excluded in the end-user notification emails. 3. Tailored Email Content: Customize the sender’s display name and email body using HTML formatting, allowing for a personalized touch. 4. Email Preview: Prior to sending email notifications, you can review them to ensure they align perfectly with your requirements. These enhancements empower you to refine your communication and provide a more tailored experience for your end users with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153405
  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements – This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164896
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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=117587

Rollout starts – December 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 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=174662
  • 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

Rollout starts – January 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93268
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93269

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165707

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect managerial harassment – By combining Communication Compliance classifiers with Azure Active Directory organizational hierarchy data, we are able to detect if offensive/inappropriate communications are occurring in a hierarchical imbalance.   Timing: Rollout to public preview will begin in the middle of September and end in October.  What you need to do to prepare: No action needed at this time.   Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146742

Rollout starts – June 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management – With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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=171185
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