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, Clipchamp and Microsoft Viva.

• Launched (10)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Syntex:  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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181409
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178016
• Microsoft Viva: News Card in Viva Connections – Improvements are coming to the Viva Connections Top News Card, which will be rebranded as the “News Card.” These enhancements will introduce greater configurability and the ability to create multiple News Card instances, while the default configuration will remain consistent with the Top News Card. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173074
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse -Microsoft Teams Chat Notifications and Inline Response – Respond to a Viva Pulse request in Microsoft Teams chat in the flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164904
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Customize a Viva Pulse end date – Customize your Viva Pulse end date when sending a pulse. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164905
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights homepage refresh for organizational leaders – Leaders will see a refreshed homepage with content tailored to them. This will include more emphasis on leader specific metrics, actions, and articles. Additionally, leaders can now access filters on the homepage to toggle between teams, time periods, and benchmarks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163971
• SharePoint: Clipchamp for work – Clipchamp for work accounts enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web only for the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124826
• Microsoft Viva: Announcements in Viva Connections – Announcements allow you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152481
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals Export APIs – Customers will be able to export Viva Goals data via public APIs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146731
• Microsoft Viva: Enhanced Controls for OKR and Initiatives Status – Viva Goals offers enhanced status control for OKRs and initiatives. Previously, when setting up an OKR or initiative, progress and status were combined into a single field. With this change, customers can now change status independently of progress, offering greater control and flexibility.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124935

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170772
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176677

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

•  🆕 Microsoft Viva: Updated post type designs in Viva Engage – The design of the praise, poll, and question post types in Viva Engage are changing to a more streamlined format. Users will retain all the same publishing and engagement features as the previous design. We’ve made this change to put more emphasis on user content and help with the experience across surfaces. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=190366
• SharePoint: Clipchamp Premium features – Clipchamp Premium features help users take their content to the next level. With Clipchamp Premium, users can easily apply brand fonts, colors and logos with brand kit, add top-tier assets for commercial use, and export crisp, well-defined visuals as 4K, 30fps, MP4 files and access advanced analytics. Clipchamp Premium features will be available as a standalone SKU, as well as an add-on to the following Microsoft 365 SKUs: Microsoft 365 E3, Microsoft 365 E5, Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and Microsoft 365 Business Premium.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187079
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage Copilot – Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot – With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165689
• Microsoft Syntex: Optical Character Recognition in OneDrive and SharePoint supports multi-page PDF and TIFF files – Currently, OCR is available only for standalone Images. With this update image-only PDF and TIFF files in OneDrive and SharePoint will also benefit from OCR.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124940
• SharePoint: Advanced Video Analytics for Clipchamp Premium – We are building the next set of analytics features that would help video creators to better understand the audience and video viewing patterns. These features would be available as a part of the Clipchamp Premium license.  Views by geolocation: Geolocation shows the views of the video as a percentage of total views from different countries over the last 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days.  Usage by devices: This metric shows the views of the video as a percentage of total views from different devices (desktop, mobile, etc.) over the last 7 days, 30 days, and 90 days.  Average watch time: It represents the total playback minutes of a video across multiple sessions divided by unique sessions. It reflects the average time spent by a user while watching the video over its lifetime. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187081

Rollout starts – January 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Viva: MyTopics for all users in a Topics tenant – If your tenant has completed AI-indexing, a very small subset of topics will now be available to all users, even without an assigned Topics license. Any user in your organization will be able to view their associated “MyTopics” that appear in their “suggested” and “confirmed” connection webparts of Topic Center home, the Topic adaptive card for Viva Connections, and the People Profile card. They can confirm or remove these associations.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191967
• SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables – Accessibility improvements to tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184511

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: New SharePoint Start – New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124824

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕  SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.? Use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with user needs. And all within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124840
• 🆕 Microsoft SharePoint: Resource Specific Consent – Introduction of new .Selected permissions and APIs to support granting applications permissions at all of the levels where it is possible to break inheritance today. This will apply to applications operating in either delegated or app-only mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124842
• 🆕 SharePoint: Application Site Creation without Sites.FullControl.All – Currently an application requires Sites.FullControl.All to create new site collections within a tenant. This work will allow applications to use a new scope, Sites.Create.All, to create new site collections without accessing any existing content. During the site creation process the application can request access to the new site, allowing for provisioning scenarios with reduced tenant permissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124843
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Schedule a Viva Pulse request to be resent – Schedule and resend pulses to get periodic feedback from your team members.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164902

Rollout starts – April 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Improved organization admin settings experience – Simplified organization admin settings page and additional organization management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=190177
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals–Goals Bulk Import Enhancements – Improved bulk import of Goals experience and supporting additional fields with bulk import Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=190178
• Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup – Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188799

Rollout starts – June 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Send a Viva Pulse request to a larger audience – Send pulses to up to 10,000 recipients. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164901

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Teams

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (15)
• In development (26)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95787
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167324
• Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings – Teams now supports an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=107781
• Microsoft Teams: Customization for Watermark (Premium) – Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark will display the viewer’s email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark will be enforced for all meeting attendees.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98414
• Microsoft Teams: SMS Notifications in Virtual Appointments Template (Premium) – External guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including appointment details and the meeting join link so they can join directly from mobile. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a reminder 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This is available in US only at this time.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127901

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180201  
• Microsoft Teams: New Teams meeting templates added to Outlook Teams add-in – New meeting templates for Virtual Appointment, Webinar, and Town hall are available in the Teams meeting dropdown menu in the Calendar tab in Outlook with the Outlook Teams add-in enabled. This allows organizers to set up these broader Teams meeting scenarios directly within Outlook and these will show up on calendars in both Outlook and Teams apps.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181621
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=90585
• Microsoft Teams: Join a meeting by digital code for GCC-High and DoD – User can join a meeting by entering a digital code. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=94620
• Microsoft Teams: Suggested files in chats – Save time with AI-based file suggestions in chat. As an expansion of suggested replies in chats, Teams uses AI to surface files when it detects in the conversation intent to share a file. Now, users will be able to respond to their chat message and attach a file in one click. Note: The Government clouds release has been delayed. We will add a new roadmap item when appropriate. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Additionally, this feature is only available in the new Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95065
• Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams. – Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date. Note: We are updating a release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127888
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141821
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145798
• Microsoft Teams: Additional manager-controlled privacy settings in Shifts – We are releasing additional manager-controlled privacy settings in the Shifts app. Frontline managers will be able to set the level of visibility on Time off reason and notes for frontline workers and they can set how far in the past their employees can view data in schedule view, to manage employees’ views of each other’s breaks and notes.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152119
• Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging – Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167211
• Microsoft Teams: Excel import enhancements in Shifts app – Frontline managers will gain the ability to import an Excel file into Shifts with time off and open shift entities. Complementary, those entities will also be supported when managers export schedules in a compatible format to import.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169705
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows in Chat – Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams chats. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180364
• Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in channels (Premium) – Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. For Teams Premium, users will have additional access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, to generate images for their backgrounds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183785
• Microsoft Teams: Hide attendee names in Webinars (Premium) – Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar or a meeting, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119153
• Microsoft Teams: Priority account chat controls (Premium) – Administrators will be able to manage priority account chat controls using a policy setting. This enables end users to decide how to handle unwanted internal communications. End users will be notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations. If conversations are blocked, all future messages from the sender will no longer be received. Senders can be unblocked at anytime by the users with these policies. This feature is available with a Teams Premium add-on license.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144367

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 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. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486
• Microsoft Teams: Tasks in my area (a Tasks in Teams mobile feature) – In the Tasks app and Microsoft Planner, which helps power the Tasks app in Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work. The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets, so you can focus on tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135561
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background (Premium) – Create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126123

Release – January 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization – We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168523
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Audio flyout and settings in Teams meetings – The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187098
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App – Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186553
• Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience – Making it easier for users to access calling capabilities with a redesigned user experience during calls.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141204
• Microsoft Teams: New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms – The new shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out and view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is extended to the front of the room for others to see and provides the host the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, minimizes the personal information that others in the room can see.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184363
• Information Protection – Changes in Sensitivity labels to control Microsoft Teams shared channels and private team discoverability – Information Protection – Controls while adding/editing Sensitivity labels to manage Microsoft Teams shared channels settings and private team discoverability.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118467
• Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge – Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122139
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429
• Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium) – “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” is a new meeting option that gives meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants in order to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu option or keyboard shortcut, forward messages or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether user can see or use this feature in Meeting Options page. Admin can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates they create. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186675
• Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and set duration for on-demand Virtual Appointments (Premium) – Scheduling administrators and staff managing on-demand appointments can assign specific staff members and set appointment duration to handle on-demand services. This ensures that when an on-demand appointment is requested, there is a designated staff member assigned to the appointment and a defined duration for the appointment is set. The designated staff member also receives a notification to attend the on-demand appointment.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186560

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Control your activity notifications from the activity card – Users will be able to control what shows in their activity feed by clicking on the ellipsis from the activity card, helping them to stay on top of the information that matters most to them.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186571
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138480
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa – This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client.  These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167326
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185802
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191528
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teachers can (manually) update parent data in Parent App – Allow teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179769
• Microsoft Teams: Private Line – With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181616
• Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
• Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps via Admin Policy in the Teams admin center – Admins can now pre-pin meetings apps for users (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in the Teams admin center  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131169

Release – March 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138479
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

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OneDrive

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 2023

• OneDrive: Offline mode – This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168618

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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 (14)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (33)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Out-of-box Advanced Hunting queries for Data Loss Prevention incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender – Organizations can click the “Go Hunt” dropdown from the DLP alert page in Microsoft 365 Defender and select from a list of pre-populated queries for common scenarios such as understanding if a file is shared externally, participants of a Teams meetings, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185708
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protection of password protected, Unscannable and partially scannable documents on SharePoint – Three new predicates for Microsoft Purview DLP for SharePoint to help protect password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable documents.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183514
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exchange Auto-labeling supports non-mail enable security groups – Service side auto-labeling now supports scoping of exchange auto-labeling to non-mail enabled security groups.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184908
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64) – With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) and prevent sensitive data exfiltration through actions such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, printing, and more. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164897
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Updated admin experience for settings – We are improving the admin experience to manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention settings, including the endpoint settings.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181397
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – eDiscovery guest reviewer delegated access – This feature enables secure and convenient external guest reviewer access to eDiscovery Premium review sets within a case.  This feature empowers eDiscovery Premium admins and managers to follow more traditional collaboration practices that will boost confidence and workflow defensibility by allowing outside counsel to cooperate more directly without increasing cost or risk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165487
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164896
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention -Visibility into configuration and policy sync status of endpoint devices – Provide visibility to admins about configuration status and solution health in addition to providing policy update sync status.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162660
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal  – With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162292
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds in policy wizard – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to finetune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146329
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124974
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98185
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93270
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88815

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: – Download File Evidence for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention investigations – With this capability, DLP investigators can download the full file that resulted in the DLP policy match as evidence in SharePoint and OneDrive for Business. The option to download files will be available for DLP alerts in Microsoft Purview compliance portal as well as the DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167340
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117531

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

• 🆕  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Full File Evidence for all workloads in Activity Explorer – This feature grants the user the capability to view the source link of the file associated with the activity flagged in Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186528
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox for Custodians – When adding a Custodian in an eDiscovery (Premium) case, the OneDrive site associated with an inactive mailbox will now be auto populated to be created as a data source. This feature will be available for Custodians added through the Ux only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189639
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177890
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can provide intent while submitting – Admins submitting to Microsoft can convey whether they are submitting for a second opinion or they are submitting to convey their confirmation of clean or malicious verdict. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183907
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List – Tenant allow block list domains & addresses, URL, and file entries will show last used date. This helps admins understand when an entry was last used (either at mailflow or time of click), helping them remove entries which are no longer needed.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183908
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180989
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145793
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153651
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139460
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match to support multi-token corroborative evidence – Exact Data Match (EDM) will support string match detection of multi-token (i.e., fields with multiple words separated by spaces or punctuation) corroborative evidence without requiring mapping Sensitive Information Types (SITs) to multi-token corroborative evidence fields.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124847
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies (U.S. government clouds) – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117353
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection – Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day”. With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared to their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster. 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115493
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New fields added to Activity Explorer. – Added Protection Event Type and Protection Type fields in Activity Explorer for sensitivity label applied, sensitivity labels updated, and sensitivity label removed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177294
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177297
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177301
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer – Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177302
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer – Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177362
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185103
• 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. Note: We have updated the release phase to reflect the current state as we are evaluating this release and have paused the rollout. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126
• 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. Note: We are evaluating this release and have paused the rollout at this time. Thank you for your patience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164210

Rollout starts – January 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention – Updated admin experience for settings – We are improving the admin experience to manage Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention settings including the endpoint settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181812
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – customization & preview of email notifications – There are some significant enhancements made to the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification. These improvements provide admins with greater flexibility and control over the end-user notification email: 1. Enhanced Token Support: We have expanded our token library to offer precise and detailed information to your end users. 2. Email Message Customization: You now have the ability to decide whether the matching email messages should be included or excluded in the end-user notification emails. 3. Tailored Email Content: Customize the sender’s display name and email body using HTML formatting, allowing for a personalized touch. 4. Email Preview: Prior to sending email notifications, you can review them to ensure they align perfectly with your requirements. These enhancements empower you to refine your communication and provide a more tailored experience for your end users with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153405
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139461
• Information Protection – Changes in Sensitivity labels to control Microsoft Teams shared channels and private team discoverability – Information Protection – Controls while adding/editing Sensitivity labels to manage Microsoft Teams shared channels settings and private team discoverability.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds) – Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117490

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions – With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled “Global exclusions” within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185687

Rollout starts – March 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171601
• 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171598
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage – Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144596

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Entity Clusters Identified in Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) – The feature will expand upon the automated investigation and response (AIR) by enabling AIR to automatically remediate malicious entity clusters. AIR currently recommends actions for SecOps to approve or decline and this enhancement will allow customers to enable auto-remediation to allow AIR to act on recommendations and soft delete messages included in a malicious URL or malicious file cluster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186576
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

Rollout starts – July 2024

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

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