SharePoint Stuff

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 (4)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: News in Outlook – With the new integration of SharePoint News into Outlook, news authors can preview and send full news posts as emails to their reader’s inbox. To help authors get started, we’re also adding 6 templates designed to look great in Outlook and SharePoint. Finally, with our unified page analytics, authors will be able to see their total page reads across outlook and SharePoint as one number. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124803
• SharePoint: Accessibility Improvements to Page Authoring – To support accessibility best practices, we’ve made some improvements to the Page authoring experience. 1 – Added      functionality to mark images as decorative. Decorative images will be      ignored by assistive technology, including screen readers. This addition      has been made to the following: background image of the Title Region,      images added inline with the Text Web Part, Image Web Part, Image Gallery,      Hero, Call to Action, and Quick Links. 2 – Changed      the heading level 1 to be reserved for the page title in the title area.      Headings can still be added to a page at levels 2-4 using the web parts.      This makes it easier for users of screen readers to understand how your      page is structured. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146063
• Microsoft Viva: Hero Image for Connections Mobile – Hero image which is currently visible to users on desktop will be available to users on mobile and tablet as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160989
•  Microsoft Viva: New location for saved feed items on Viva Connections Mobile – Updating the location for saved feed items to make it easy for users to find the same. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161514

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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
• Microsoft Viva: Amplify Campaign Creation & Management – Create communications campaigns, invite collaborations from colleagues as communicators, reviewers and editors. Set up your campaign brief with key goals and messages. Manage your communications as part of the campaign. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117415
•  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: New landing experience for Viva Connections desktop – Help people in your organization manage their daily flow of work using a customized landing experience in Teams that displays the most important tasks, tools, news, and resources in one central place. The new landing experience offers expanded navigational tools between Viva apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152560

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2023

• Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for SharePoint and OneDrive – With this update, you will be able to turn on OCR for images in SharePoint and OneDrive on a pay-as-you-go basis. The extracted text will be made available to Microsoft Search and Microsoft Purview. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124937
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning Webapp Domain update to “learning.cloud.microsoft” – Viva Learning Webapp will be migrated to a new domain: learning.cloud.microsoft. Links from the previous domain are backwards compatible and supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162293

Rollout starts – November 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections desktop – The refreshed landing experience for Viva Connections introduces several requested new features including branding capabilities, sending announcements, a revamped Resources section, and support for different card sizes. The refreshed landing experience also brings the feed back into the viewport on your Connections page and offers an improved layout to the landing page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176677
• SharePoint: Inline playback for videos in Highlighted content web parts (carousel and filmstrip layouts) – When users click to play a video in the Highlighted content web part (carousel and filmstrip layout) section on a SharePoint Page, the video will play inline. This feature allows users to watch a video without being taken off the SharePoint Page and keeps the video playing while users browse/scroll through other contents on the Page.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98091
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Home – Viva Home is the home for the Viva suite on the web. Accessible via microsoft365.com app launcher and app explorer, it provides a single landing destination on the web for Viva users with the goal to help with education, discovery and navigation to licensed Viva modules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170772
• Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile – Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171888
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Domain/URL Update – To align the URL with the new Viva Engage branding and as part of the unified domain for Microsoft 365 initiative, Viva Engage’s URL schema is being updated. This change includes email sender and domains. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180352
• SharePoint: Video Pages – Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124823

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Teams

• Launched (10)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Remove Teams call and meetings details from mobile device call logs – Teams users can now choose if they want to keep or remove their Teams call and meetings history details from their iOS device call log. Users will have the option to determine their preference in the Call settings in the Teams app.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152469
• Microsoft Teams: Front row gallery improvements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Improvements to the front row experience for Teams Rooms on Windows using Microsoft AI to remove individual backgrounds, adjust video participant size, and apply a unified background design so remote participants appear as if they are in the same room.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95267
• Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows – Spatial Audio – Spatial Audio brings next-generation experiences to Teams Rooms on Windows that have Teams-certified stereo speakers with right and left capabilities. This intelligent audio technology delivers a more natural and inclusive experience for in-room participants making it feel like remote people are in the room with them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122554
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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
• 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: Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile – Introducing ability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98321
• Microsoft Teams: Attach cloud files in chat and channel from Teams Mobile – Introducing the ability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98327
• Microsoft Teams: Compact chat list – A new chat density setting will enable users to condense their chat list and have more chats visible on the screen. This setting does so by hiding message previews.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126428
• Microsoft Teams: Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips in government cloud – Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114155

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts – Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95788
• Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store – Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122300
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – October 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels – Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. Powered by Microsoft Designer, use generative AI to create expressive images.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123501
• Microsoft Teams:  Automatic updates for the Teams app on Android-based Teams devices – Android–based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for any manual intervention. Administrators can manage the automatic updates by organizing devices into update phases or pausing the rollout temporarily, if needed, from Teams Admin Center.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163598

Release – November 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Forward Messages in Teams chats – Forward messages quickly from one chat to another using the right-click menu. You can add additional content to the message to provide context and clarity for the recipient. You can forward messages to 1:1 chats and group chats.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=90585
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Manage Microsoft Surface Hub as a Teams Rooms on Windows device – With the transition of Microsoft Surface Hub devices to the Teams Rooms on Windows platform, Admins can now manage Surface Hub devices as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams Admin Center and Teams Rooms Pro Management (available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168347
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams – Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, and calls, with the ability to ask Copilot any question and discover insights. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter a free text question of your own.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180201
• Microsoft Teams:  Files app updated to OneDrive app experience in Teams – The Files app accessed from left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145798
• Microsoft Teams: Privacy options for frontline managers to control Time off in Shifts app – Frontline Managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers. These settings can be applied at the team level.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152119
• Microsoft Teams: Quickly capture content in Teams mobile – This feature enables you to quickly capture content shared in a Teams meeting on a mobile device and save it in your photo gallery or share in Teams and other apps. We’ll honor privacy choices set in the meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171217
• 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

Release – December 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: 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

Release – January 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975

Release – March 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Location-based routing for Teams on VDI – When making or receiving a PSTN call, location-based routing for Teams on VDI, enables the bypass of toll restrictions based on where the user is located. Such as when the user is not physically located on a corporate network.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98501

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OneDrive

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Recommended Files – We’ll be showing a set of files that have been recommended for you in OneDrive Home so you can quickly get back to the content you care about. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124871
• OneDrive: Favorite/Unfavorite additional file types and folders in OneDrive and Document Libraries – Adding files and folders to Favorites is a great way to mark content of personal importance and can help you get to the content you’re looking for right away. We have made sure that the favorites experience is consistent across Microsoft 365 apps by building on top of the existing pinning and favorites experience. This release will include support for favoriting additional file types and folders from OneDrive web and Document Libraries. Roadmap ID: 152744

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – October 2023

• 🆕 OneDrive: Add individual file shortcuts in OneDrive for Web – This feature will let you create a shortcut to files stored in other people’s OneDrive and document libraries to be able to easily find it within your OneDrive. These file shortcuts can be moved, renamed, or deleted without impacting the source content, and they will show up in OneDrive for Web, Android, iOS, and sync client endpoints. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177873
• 🆕 OneDrive: Admins can configure a group policy to block specific folders from OneDrive Sync – In addition to being able to configure a group policy to exclude specific files or file extensions from Syncing with OneDrive, admins can now exclude folders as well. End-users will be able to see the excluded folders in the Sync configuration applied to them via their OneDrive Advanced Settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178292

Release – November 2023

• 🆕 OneDrive: Access Microsoft Lists, Power BI, Loop and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web – You will be able to easily find and open your Microsoft Lists, Loops, Power BI dashboards and Whiteboard content in OneDrive for Web. If you have recently opened, shared, or favorited one of these files, then it will appear in your Recent, Shared, and Favorites views in OneDrive for Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177877

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Microsoft Purview

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

• Launched (10)
• Rolling out (8)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs – Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124777
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Manage Audit permissions from Purview Compliance Portal – Permissions to search or export the audit log can now be assigned from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177888
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit (Premium) – Customized Retention Policies: Short-Term Retention (U.S. Government clouds) – Releasing a new feature that will enable customers with the Audit Premium SKU to have additional customized short-term retention policies. The new options are 7 days and 30 days.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115502
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export API (U.S. Government clouds) – The Export function plays an integral role in eDiscovery. After a review set is added, with use of this Export API, organizations can create export jobs and get the download URL to successfully download the export created in a programmatic manner. This API will enable external applications and partners to successfully integrate the eDiscovery export function through scripting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117509
• 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: Insider Risk Management – Ability to assign alerts & cases to an owner – With this update, admins will be able to assign a case or alert to other admins, analysts, and investigators, making it easier for colleagues to know which alerts and cases are being worked on. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124925
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Static alert and case IDs (U.S. Government clouds) – Insider Risk Management will provide static alert and case IDs to help admins track and communicate investigation progress with colleagues more easily. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139455
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to assign alerts & cases to an owner (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, admins will be able to assign a case or alert to other admins, analysts, and investigators, making it easier for colleagues to know which alerts and cases are being worked on. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139456
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium): Enhancements for Teams meeting recordings & videos stored in OneDrive & SharePoint (U.S. government clouds) – Enhancements to Teams meeting recording & video files in OneDrive & SharePoint to improve management within eDiscovery workflows. This includes collection and review of metadata such as transcripts/captions, chapters, and custom thumbnails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117385
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: DMARC policy handling – We are working on improvements to the way that DMARC policy (reject/quarantine) handling is implemented within both consumer and enterprise services. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117533

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
• 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
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – new sequence indicators – With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide new sequence indicators that start with activities on devices that may lead to a data security incident, including downgrading/removing file labels, archiving files, and downloading files from unallowed sites. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168841
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites – Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading data from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153487
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Data Sources usability enhancements – This batch of usability enhancements include count of custodial locations in list page, improved hold status messaging in list page, improved error details in the source flyout, downloadable error report for custodian locations and ability to quickly retry holds.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164895
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence – This update provides two enhancements to app and risky browsing activities that may lead to a data security incident in forensic evidence. Admins with appropriate permissions will no longer need to enable browsing indicators from the insider risk settings page to gain visual insights of these activities. In addition, the feature has been updated with more precise detection when users switch between tabs and windows. This results in more reliable visual evidence insights when context is switched in the browser. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165996
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Test function for Exact Data Match will include results for configured primary elements – When using the test function in the Compliance portal or in PowerShell to test Exact Data Match (EDM) matches, the resulting EDM matches will be returned along with matches for the Sensitive Information Types (SITs) configured as EDM primary elements to help admins troubleshoot when EDM is not returning expected matches. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169088

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2023

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ending the Microsoft Purview legacy alerts ingestion into Microsoft 365 Defender portal – To increase the relevance of DLP alerts and incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, we are ending the flow of the following legacy alerts into Microsoft 365 Defender portal: eDiscovery Search started or exported, successful exact data match upload, retention auto-labeling policy simulation completed, unusual volume of DLP policy matches, failed exact data match upload, MIP autolabel simulation completed, unusual volume of external file sharing, and unusual volume of file deletion. These alerts were created as a result of legacy standalone alert policies. For a better experience, we recommend using the alerting toggle in the DLP policy authoring experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177440
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – recommendations for new policies and policy finetuning – Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards: for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173161
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Manage Audit permissions from Purview Compliance Portal – Permissions to search or export the audit log can now be assigned from the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177889

Rollout starts – November 2023

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure labels independently on files and emails (U.S. Government clouds) – Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only or both. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124889
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-New attributes and features for alert and case – With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide additional attributes for alerts and cases to make it easier to understand which alerts and cases should be prioritized. The additional attributes include details, such as the date the last activity was detected and the last working date of departing employees. In addition, admins with appropriate permissions can customize columns and save a preferred combination of filters and columns.   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=179385
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – 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=145797
• 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: 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

Rollout starts – March 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliant Team Meetings – Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance policies can be configured to analyze Microsoft Teams meeting transcripts for potential policy matches. Teams meeting transcripts are only generated when meeting organizers opt in to meeting recording. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA) and business conduct violations, such as inappropriate sharing of sensitive/confidential information, adult content, and using harassing or threatening language. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase and adding additional cloud instances 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=109534

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