
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:
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint & Viva
Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex and Microsoft Viva.
- Launched (3)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (12)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint enabled under Viva Admin – Viva Glint Admin enabled under Viva Admin. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163983
- OneDrive: Folder Colors in SharePoint and OneDrive – You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124980
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights web app in GCC-H – A new web interface for the Viva Insights app will be discoverable via the web and the Microsoft 365 app launcher. This will offer an additional way to access the personal productivity and wellbeing experiences in the Viva Insights app in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=106095
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – October 2023
- Microsoft Syntex is available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants – With this release, Syntex capabilities such as document processing, image tagging, taxonomy tagging, content assembly, and OCR are available in the non-primary region of multi-geo tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181409
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for conditional logic – Improved self service; Ability to enable if/then questions on surveys and support conditional logic. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163978
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for SFTP file transfer – Improved self service for admins to setup SFTP for file transfer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163979
Rollout starts – November 2023
- Microsoft Viva: Apply brand colors across all Connections endpoints using SharePoint themes or custom themes. – Viva Connections will offer a new set of theming options to reflect brand colors consistently across desktop, tablet, and mobile experiences. With this new functionality, customers will have the choice to apply existing SharePoint themes or a custom theme to their Connections experience as well as the SharePoint home site hosting the Connections experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180793
- 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 – December 2023
- Microsoft Viva: Search in Viva Connections Mobile for Android – Adding a search entry point and a new tailored experience for Viva connections users on mobile in Android. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180518
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Update questions for expired surveys – Improved self-service; Update questions associated with an expired survey. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163975
- Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Groups connected Viva Goals Teams – Users will now save time with a simplified set-up experience for setting up their Viva Goals Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165682
Rollout starts – January 2024
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders – Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163989
Rollout starts – March 2024
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to set survey deactivation times – Improved self service; Ability to set survey deactivation time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163985
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self Service for bulk uploads – Improved self-service; Ability to bulk upload customer permissions for improved access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163976
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to relink surveys – Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163987
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (7)
- Rolling out (5)
- In development (15)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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: Teams device management for Department of Defense (DoD) customers in the Teams Admin Center – DoD customers can manage their Teams devices from the Teams Admin Center giving Admins control of the entire lifecycle for their Teams devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139464
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access – Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access extends the existing Guest Access functionality to allow a user coming from another Microsoft cloud to participate in rich collaboration experiences across Microsoft Clouds including joining teams, channels, documents, 1:1 and group chat as well as Teams meetings with audio/video, screen share and file share. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145459
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings – Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145460
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Shared Device license on Teams mobile app for Android – To support mobile and flexible work styles, the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license will be available on the Teams mobile app on Android. This will enable Android phones to be set up as shared devices. Walkie Talkie, call queues, auto attendants, cloud voicemail, call park and all other calling features currently supported for common area phones will be available through the Teams Android app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126706
- Microsoft Teams: Pronouns available on the profile card – Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86382
- Microsoft Teams: Disable or Enable all Attendees’ Video for DoD – Ability in DoD to disable and enable videos for all attendees before or during a Microsoft Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91665
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: Ratings and Reviews for apps in Teams store – Customers can now view and provide ratings and review for apps in Teams store. Note: GCC 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=122300
- Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes on Teams mobile – Collaborative notes allow meeting attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=128652
- Microsoft Teams: Engagement information in Teams Attendance Report (Premium) – Enables meeting organizers to view meeting engagement data such as total reactions, raised hands, cameras turned on, and more in the ‘Attendance’ tab after a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162171
- Microsoft Teams: Conversational bot in meetings now supported in GCC-H and DoD – Microsoft Teams is now adding conversational bot and meetings extensibility support for meetings and calls in GCC-H and DoD. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=166985
- 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – November 2023
- Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box – A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486
- Microsoft Teams: Loop components in Teams channels – Co-create and collaborate using Loop components in channels. Share a Loop component like a table, a list or a paragraph, so anyone in the channel can view and edit it. Available in classic and new Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123491
- Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management improved search for rooms – The new search for rooms function in the Rooms Pro Management Portal will be available in the room view to allow users to easily search and capture data within small sets of rooms based on specified criteria. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141821
- Microsoft Teams: Workflows Message Extension: New Default Actions – The Microsoft Teams Workflows Message Extension will include new default actions to assist user collaboration. These actions will simplify collaboration within a conversation by enabling users to kick off common workflows and post adaptive cards to conversations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167324
- Microsoft Teams: Chat button on missed call activity – Easily stay in touch with your contacts after a missed call. A new chat button is added to your activity feed, enabling you to follow up on a missed call and start a chat with just one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176318
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect shared channels in GCCH & DoD – Work seamlessly and securely with those inside and outside your organization. With Microsoft Teams shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space – have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180742
- Microsoft Teams: Desktop to web browser join experience for attendees in Virtual Appointments – Schedulers can enable the ‘have attendees join from a web browser’ setting so that attendees joining the virtual appointment on desktop will be routed to the Teams web browser experience. This allows attendees to have access to engagement features including raise hand and live reactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165485
- 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: 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: 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 – December 2023
- 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
Release – January 2024
- Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium) – To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141108
- Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone – When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123963
- Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements – IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119789
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
OneDrive
- Launched (2)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (0)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- OneDrive: New Meetings view that will help you quickly get back to content shared in meetings – So much of our collaboration happens in the context of meetings, yet how many times have you found yourself trying to scroll back and find a meeting recording from a month ago? Or spent time digging through email to find pre-reading material for an upcoming meeting so you can be prepared going in? With this new meetings view in OneDrive, you’ll be able to get back to all of your meeting content with just a few clicks! When you come to meetings view, you’ll first see any meetings in the next week that you might need to prepare for, followed by a list of meetings that have already occurred. This view brings together all content shared both in meeting invites, meeting chat, and meeting recordings all into one place for easy access! Here you’ll see a recurring meeting with multiple meeting recordings, all laid out sequentially so you can catch up on whatever you missed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124885
- OneDrive: Colored Folders – You’ve asked for ways to personalize and customize your OneDrive and we’re delivering. Soon you’ll have the option to create colored folders or change the color of existing folders on OneDrive for Web. Colored folders give you at-a-glance signals to help you locate your content while adding a touch of personality to your OneDrive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124980
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
- N/A
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview
Microsoft Purview
Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:
- Launched (14)
- Rolling out (6)
- In development (7)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Detect files that are not labeled – U.S. Government clouds – With this capability you will be able to configure specific restrictions for PDF and Office files that are not labeled on the endpoint devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124799
- 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: Data Loss Prevention – Detect AIP labelled files (pfile) using the condition “content contains sensitivity label” – Data Loss Prevention policy supports a condition “content contains sensitivity label” to detect if a file contains certain label. Today, office (DOCX, PPTX, XLSX) and PDF files are supported. This feature will support files other than Office and PDF also where MIP label with protection (.PFILE) is applied using AIP labelling client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164212
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft Purview: Test function for Exact Data Match will include results for configured primary elements – When using the test function in the Compliance portal or in PowerShell to test Exact Data Match (EDM) matches, the resulting EDM matches will be returned along with matches for the Sensitive Information Types (SITs) configured as EDM primary elements to help admins troubleshoot when EDM is not returning expected matches. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169088
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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
- Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) Collections enhancement – Collect to Export – Now admins will be able to directly export a report or results of a Collection without adding to review set first. This will streamline processes for organizations who require ability to conduct analysis on item reports of relevant content and those who need to quickly get data from Microsoft 365 into the hands of audit or regulators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100055
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- 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: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence (U.S. Government clouds) – The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. 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=117565
- 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 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: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint – With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply DLP policies to prevent the exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. 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=106092
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – October 2023
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – File Registration – When a sensitivity label is used to encrypt an Office file, it is automatically registered for tracking, and previously label-protected Office files are registered the next time they are opened in an updated client. This only applies to local files. Compliance administrators can track and revoke access to registered Office files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164208
Rollout starts – November 2023
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. StreamInvokeGetTranscript; 2. StreamInvokeChannelView; 3. StreamInvokeGettExtTrack; 4. StreamInvokeGetVideo; 5. StreamInvokeGroupView Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180738
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Yammer / Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. ThreadViewed; 2. ThreadAccessFailure; 3. MessageUpdated; 4. FileAccessFailure; 5. MessageCreation; 6. GroupAccessFailure Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180740
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Advanced Fingerprinting – Document Fingerprinting in Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) converts a standard form into a sensitive information type (SIT), which you can use in the rules of your DLP policies. This update extends support for Fingerprint-based SITs to additional workloads, including SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Endpoint and enables admins to adjust threshold while creating Fingerprint SITs. This also allows you to detect when a portion of your sensitive document is exposed using partial matching support with Fingerprinting across the compliance solutions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164203
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation – From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164210
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for EXO – Deliver the message to the hosted quarantine – We are adding a new column that enables messages delivered to hosted quarantine to be viewed under “Data Loss Prevention” rather than needing to be filtered under transport rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124974
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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: Audit – New Stream Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Stream. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 5 new Microsoft Stream events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. StreamInvokeGetTranscript; 2. StreamInvokeChannelView; 3. StreamInvokeGetTextTrack; 4. StreamInvokeGetVideo; 5. StreamInvokeGroupView Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180739
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Yammer / Viva Engage Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security events for Microsoft Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer). As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 6 new Microsoft Viva Engage events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. ThreadViewed; 2. ThreadAccessFailure; 3. MessageUpdated; 4. FileAccessFailure; 5. MessageCreation; 6. GroupAccessFailure Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180741
- Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124975
Rollout starts – January 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention – 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 retention license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176165
Rollout starts – February 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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=171598
- Microsoft Defender for Identity: Public API for Defender for Identity settings through MS Graph – Microsoft Defender for Identity will expose data and actions for its settings through a set of programmatic APIs as part of Microsoft Graph. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169876
Rollout starts – April 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring – With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. 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=179883

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