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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 6th November 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 6 November 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 (7)
  • Rolling out (3)
  • In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – User experience (UX) update – This update improves overall performance of Microsoft Lists and introduces new features, like the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who collaborating with you – and where – in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.     Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124867
  • 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 Syntex: Merge and Extract PDFs in OneDrive for Web – Microsoft Syntex: Combine two or more PDF files into a new PDF file with the Merge PDFs action, or split PDF pages into new PDF files with the Extract pages action, in OneDrive for Web.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=151043
  • Microsoft Stream: Playlists in the SharePoint List webpart –  This feature will allow you to display playlists on SharePoint pages using the List webpart. The playlist will display video titles and thumbnails, and people with access to files in the playlist can click on the thumbnails to view the videos.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124808
  • Microsoft Viva: Drafts & Scheduled posts supporting POBO (post on behalf of) – Users and their delegates can now save their posts as drafts to be accessed later, and even schedule them to be posted at a later date and time.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=155843
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced Planner integration – With the enhanced Viva Goals integration with Microsoft Planner, users can now filter their tasks by buckets and labels, and integrate directly with specific tasks, enabling easier portfolio management and customizability for how your organization structures planning.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164739
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Enhanced progress tracking with ADO Integration – Users can now track progress based on ADO fields such as effort, story points, in addition to the existing item level completion tracking.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165687

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2023

  •  SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates – We are bringing the goodness of List templates to SharePoint document libraries. Creating document libraries will now be a breeze with our ready-made templates with scenario relevant content, structure, metadata, and content types – all to save you time and maintain broader consistency across your content management organization.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124879
  • Microsoft Viva : Connections Boosted News Notifications – As an enhancement to the existing news notifications in Viva Connections, users will now also receive a news notifications when news is boosted on the organisation’s news site and the news post has an audience target set. The navigational behaviour will be the same as existing news notifications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174470

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – February 2024

  • SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News. – The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124827

Rollout starts – March 2024

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Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (9)
  • Rolling out (10)
  • In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  Microsoft Teams: Immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams – Immersive spaces in Teams makes it easier for Teams users to transform their meetings into a 3D experience. With just one click, you can connect with your team in a pre-built immersive space right from the view menu in Teams meetings.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161720
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Manage apps, App details pages, and Custom app management for GCCH & DoD – Teams Admin Center is adding Manage apps and App details pages to GCCH and DoD. Admins can get a list of all apps present for their tenant from manage apps page, review app details, allow and block apps, as well as upload and update custom apps from Teams Admin Center.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138550
  • Microsoft Teams: 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: 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: 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: Incoming webhook connector in GCC-H – Incoming webhook connector can be enabled/uploaded by Tenant admins in GCC-H. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=166986
  • Microsoft Teams: Call delegation feature enhancements – Shared line appearance lets a user choose a delegate to answer or handle calls on their behalf. We are launching a simplified experience for users who have set up call delegation which will be available on the Teams desktop app and Teams phone devices. The new UI will allow delegates to easily switch between the different delegator lines they manage and view call history for the delegator’s line. Delegators will be able to view and join active calls handled by the delegate and grant delegates permission to join active calls. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123753
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Teams Security  – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will provide protection and enhanced security operations (SecOps) experience for Microsoft Teams. These protection capabilities will include automatic remediation of malicious entities and support for end user reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams specific attack insights will be included in the unified investigation and response experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps experience.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117595
  • Microsoft Teams: Pop out shared content into a separate window – Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=86948

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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: Virtual Appointments Analytics updates (Premium) – Tenant admins can see updated analytics with new insights inside the Teams Virtual Appointments app, including average lobby wait times for scheduled vs. on-demand appointments, percentage of appointments completed after scheduled end time, and percentage of appointments with a late start.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161629
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Outlook: Embed Teams Chat in Outlook Web – Teams embedded chat in Outlook web allows users to stay on top of their chats without leaving Outlook.     Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95601
  • Microsoft Teams: Unique join links for external presenters in Webinars – When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links for the webinar. This unique link allows the external presenter to automatically bypass the lobby and join a webinar directly as a presenter role.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123149
  • 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. Note: We have reverted the release phase to show the current state. Thank you for your patience.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122540

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November 2023

Release – December 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie: automatically listen to multiple channels – Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now connect to, up to 5 favorite channels in multi-channel mode, automatically listen to incoming transmission from these favorited channels and initiate easily initiate PTT transmission on these channels.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161725
  • 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: Branded Meetings – Join Launcher Screen with Brand Image and Logo Support (Premium) – The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image uploaded for branded meetings. This is a Teams Premium feature.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164081
  • 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: Unified fun picker – Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker. Browse and discover all the fun stuff you need, all in one hub of content.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=84023
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs – The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125072
  • Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Meetings – The updated Gallery View places everyone in tiles of equal size by default (16:9 ratio) whether their video is on or off. Users can also easily change their gallery size, choose to prioritize tiles with video-on, and remove their tile from the main gallery. When a Microsoft Teams Room joins the meeting, video is optimized by enlarging the size by default and users can re-size via the contextual menu. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118467

Release – January 2024

  •  Microsoft Teams: Archive channels – With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123769
  • 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: Meeting protection support on Teams Rooms on Android – Teams Rooms on Android devices apply the Teams Premium meeting security features including end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels if the meeting organizer has them turned on.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161423
  • Microsoft Teams: New calendar views on Teams Rooms on Android – The calendar on Teams Rooms on Android gets a new look and expanded functionalities. Users can view the calendar for the current and next day. Any available 11 minute or more time slots are shown. A visual indicator (green/purple vertical bar) is added to each time slot for users to easily see whether a room is booked or available. Available in all Teams Rooms licenses.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=157123

Release – February 2024

  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device – Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178013

Release – March 2024

  • Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Note: We are postponing the rollout of this feature at this time, and it will only be available in the new Teams experience. We apologize for any inconvenience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900

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Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

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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 (12)
  • Rolling out (5)
  • In development (20)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •  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: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – New predicates for endpoint DLP  – With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning-  Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167332
  • 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 – 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 Defender for Office 365: Create Simulations with Attack Simulation Training Graph API – Introducing the Attack Simulation Training Graph APIs for creating and managing phishing simulations and training campaigns with enhanced control and flexibility. Automate and customize attack scenarios based on real events within your organization to effectively identify vulnerabilities and test security measures. Seamlessly integrate with other security tools to streamline analytics and achieve centralized management for enhanced efficiency.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152722
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files – This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168865
  • 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: 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 | Information Protection: Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions – SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85619
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data 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
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Teams Security  – Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will provide protection and enhanced security operations (SecOps) experience for Microsoft Teams. These protection capabilities will include automatic remediation of malicious entities and support for end user reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams specific attack insights will be included in the unified investigation and response experience in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps experience.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117595

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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
  • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow/Block List Limit per SKU – Today, customers can only create 500 block and 500 allow entries in sender, URL and file category in Tenant allow/block list. Going ahead, customers with MDO P2 or E5 security can create 5000 allows and 10000 blocks in Tenant allow/block list for sender, URL and file category. Spoof in Tenant allow/block list will remain unaffected by this change and all SKUs will have 1024 entries for both allows and blocks.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98185
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Secure collaboration on labeled and encrypted documents with user-defined permissions (U.S. government clouds) – SharePoint and OneDrive can process labeled documents that are encrypted with custom permissions, also referred to as user-defined permissions. As a result, these documents can be searched, inspected for data loss prevention, and used with eDiscovery. They can also be opened, edited, seamlessly co-authored, and support AutoSave in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps on all platforms (includes Office for the web). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109570
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups (U.S. Government clouds) – To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124915
  • Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2023

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185103
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Matched items in audit logs – With this capability you will get visibility into matched condition and value in Audit Logs as a result of a DLP policy match. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164489
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources (U.S. Government clouds) – 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.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93270

Rollout starts – December 2023

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Contextual evidence match for endpoint DLP – With this update you will be able to see the matched sensitive information type and the context surrounding it (300 characters) as a result of a DLP policy match on your endpoint devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172028
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds) – Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that can’t easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139461
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers – Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the classification of the documents. This would build trust of the users of the OOB classifications and empower them to create DLP policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170738
  • 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: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117425
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117523

Rollout starts – January 2024

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  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content – Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181617
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager – The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers. eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180170
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page – A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page — including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary — will be moving to the new reports page.  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169889
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery Premium-Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content – Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181617
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager – The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers. eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180170
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page – A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page — including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary — will be moving to the new reports page.  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169889

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance?provides the tools to help?organizations detect business conduct and?regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are?opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.?   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146859
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in activity explorer – During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. 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=117609
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Bring your own detections – Allow customers to bring their own user activity indicators from homegrown, SIEM/UEBA platforms, or other line-of-business applications, and leverage them in existing Insider Risk Management playbooks. 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=122278

Rollout starts – May 2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Insider risk insights in DLP alerts – With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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=179880

Rollout starts – June 2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124779
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