Microsoft roadmap roundup – 11th December 2023

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 11 December 2023

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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Microsoft Purview

SharePoint & Viva

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex, Clipchamp and Microsoft Viva.

  • Launched (2)
  • Rolling out (5)
  • In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Viva: Topic engagement analytics – This update will introduce usage and engagement analytics on topics (views, edits, etc.) to the Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88699
  •  Microsoft Viva: Topics engagement analytics in Topic center – Usage and engagement analytics showing Topics adoption and value will be available to knowledge managers in a new analytics tab in Topic center. Analytics will include Unique users and Usage counts for Topics usage activities all up; Unique users and Usage counts for Topics for consuming, contributing and sharing Topics activities; Usage count details for Topics consumption activities from Topic card, page, search, Topic center cards; Usage count details for Topics for contribution activities like Editing and publishing topics, providing feedback.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118768
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Customizable goal terms and structures – Organizations and teams now have the flexibility to title and structure goals in line with their own goal setting methodology and preferences, beyond the OKR framework. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165684
  • 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
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

Rollout starts – January 2024

Rollout starts – March 2024


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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (5)
  • Rolling out (9)
  • In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams – Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, calls, and more with AI. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter free text questions to quickly synthesize information.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180201
  • Microsoft Teams: New settings available for your frontline manager in Shifts app – In the Shifts app, we are rolling out the ability for frontline manager to control additional functionalities through our Shifts settings page. Frontline managers will gain the ability to enable and disable swap shift request, offer shift request and/or time off requests for their teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179786
  • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management improved search for rooms – The new search for rooms function in the Rooms Pro Management Portal will be available in the room view to allow users to easily search and capture data within small sets of rooms based on specified criteria.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141821
  • Microsoft Teams: 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 Microsoft Teams store now available in GCCH and DOD – Users in GCCH and DOD environment can now experience the newly redesigned Teams store including adding apps for personal use, getting intelligent recommendations – like featured apps, popular apps amongst your colleagues, etc., receiving editorial articles that address common scenarios from apps to get started in Teams to those best for educators, searching apps faster and easier with updated app categories. They can also use “Manage your apps” to update, remove, share or “get more apps”.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174474

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search – Users will be able to narrow down their search results and find what they are looking for faster. Get more precise search results by picking up a specific domain like files, group chat or Teams and channels. You can also search files or group chats by entering a person name.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181285
  • 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181621
  • 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: Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store – IT administrators can already browse and purchase Teams certified devices in the device store in Teams Admin Center. This update will enable IT admins to try and buy Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses from the device store.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180902
  • Microsoft Teams: School Connection for parents in Microsoft Teams (mobile) – The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams mobile empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments, grades, insights from the past month on digital activity, and more. This release will be generally available to all regions except countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa; the GA for those countries will be coming at a later date.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182046
  • 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486
  • 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: Synced updates for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices and paired consoles. – When Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices are updated from the Teams Admin Center, their paired consoles will get updated in tandem, ensuring a seamless experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174344
  • Microsoft Teams: 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

Release – February 2024

  • 🆕  Microsoft Teams: Support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard for Watermark meeting (Premium) – Watermark enabled Microsoft Teams meetings will now support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard to also be watermarked.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100066
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New Admin policy for enabling/disabling tenant users to join externally hosted meetings – As an admin, you can control which meetings your org users can attend – only internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings as well. This can help your org to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187230
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365  in Teams Chat list – The Copilot for Microsoft 365 app is available in the Teams Apps Store for Copilot licensed users. This update will make the Copilot app visible in the Teams Chat list for easy access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=192177
  • 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191528
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings – Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330
  • Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars – Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168524
  • 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: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
  • Microsoft Teams: 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
  • Microsoft Teams: meeting participants time-zone – When scheduling a meeting with people from different time-zones, the user will be prompted with suggested start times and additional insights that correspond to the participants respective time-zone, ensuring a more suitable time for all meeting participants.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123963
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams Connect chat enhancements – IT admins will be able to add external partners with phone-based Teams accounts not managed by an organization to their organization’s extended directory. These external users can have a company curated user profile including location and job role. Users in the organization, who are enabled for Teams external access, can search for these external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats, just like they do with internal users.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119789
  • Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings – Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=114214

Release – April 2024


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SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – December 2023

  • 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 (8)
  • Rolling out (4)
  • In development (20)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  •   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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183514
  • 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183498
  • 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: 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162660
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Extend DLP controls to Firefox browser (U.S. Government clouds) – With this update, you will be able to extend the Microsoft Purview DLP controls to Firefox browsers. DLP admins will be able to set policies to prevent exfiltration of sensitive information through the Firefox browser by preventing actions such as copying data from a sensitive document to another document using the Clipboard, printing a sensitive document, copying to USB removeable media, or copying to a network share.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138590
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure labels independently on files and emails (U.S. Government clouds) – Admins can scope labels to apply to email or files independently. Configure label policy in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to be applicable to emails only, files only or both. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124889
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Restrict egress activities when accessing sensitive websites in Microsoft Edge (U.S. Government clouds) – This capability allows restricting common egress activities as users navigate protected sites or access sensitive content via Microsoft Edge. With this new capability, organizations will be able to designate groups of protected sites and apply different restrictions, and monitor or restrict common egress activities when users visit protected sites with audit, block, and block override controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117574
  • 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115493

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124847
  • 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. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Launched. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162292
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – SharePoint site selection enhancement – With this update, Insider Risk Management admins can add any SharePoint sites as priority content or exclude certain SharePoint sites in Insider Risk Management policies by searching the site names or using the exact URLs. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169880
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exchange Auto-labeling supports non-mail enabled 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184909

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2023

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124920
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117546

Rollout starts – January 2024

  •  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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186528
  • 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

Rollout starts – February 2024

  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Recommended actions for finetuning policies – We are introducing additional recommended actions to provide guidance on fine-tuning your insider risk policies and implementing advanced configurations. These new tasks and journeys will be accessible through the Recommended Actions 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=186580
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155

Rollout starts – March 2024

  •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience – A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189826
  • 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced file type coverage for DLP on Windows endpoints – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171586
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) ML Classifier support – Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167221

Rollout starts – June 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185687
  • 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-us/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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146742
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