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 (3)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Topics Adoption Metrics Dashboard – Topics will include a new analytics page, where knowledge managers and admins will have access to a set of metrics that details the health of their adoption. Tenants will have health targets to reach to keep them on track for adopting Viva Topics, as well as recommended actions to perform to drive each metric to healthy.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100028

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant – Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174466

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Groups connected Viva Goals Teams – Users will now save time with a simplified set-up experience for setting up their Viva Goals Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165682
• Microsoft Syntex: Translation – A new service that enables users to translate documents quickly and accurately among dozens of languages based on specific metadata or on-demand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161828

Rollout starts – February 2024

•  Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for external benchmark consent – Improved self service; Admins can give consent to include results for Viva Glint external benchmarks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163980
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Multiple external benchmarks – Organizations can now receive external benchmarks as part of the standard platform for comparison; Ability to enable multiple external benchmarks in reports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163981

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint – Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375490
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update – Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376700
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections – Manage your organization’s brand in the new brand center – We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your Viva Connections desktop, mobile, and tablet experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374861
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections Desktop – Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374866

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188799

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center – We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375495
• 🆕 SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes – Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375500
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Create themes for SharePoint and Viva Connections in brand center – We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374871
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Customize your Viva Connections experiences with fonts and themes – Site owners and operators will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374876

Rollout starts – July 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Engage Community Creation API –The community creation API supports programmatic creation of Microsoft Viva Engage communities via the MS Graph platform. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178311

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Teams

• Launched (11)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Teams Webinar Graph APIs – The Teams Webinar Graph APIs allows users to get webinar data like attendee names, attendance duration, registration, and registrant cancellations. This data can be exported to be used in 3P systems including CRMs, marketing automation tools, LOB and Workflow apps. These APIs are designed to support business-to-business workflows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125072
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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-us/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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127888
• 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152119
• 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169705
• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows All-in-one experience – With this update, Teams Rooms on Windows will support all-in-one and board device form factors, such as the Surface Hub 3. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170740
• Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows – This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to  automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170745
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts – Graph API to access Teams Meetings transcript once the meeting is over. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95788
• Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Transcript (Premium) – Teams Premium users can now view Live Transcript in their preferred languages during the meeting and choose to show the translated transcript with the original transcript as a reference. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126321

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for 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 join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369470

Release – February 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation – Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375177
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service – Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375694
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Private & shared channels links – Need to add your colleague to a channel discussion? Copy the link of a private or a shared channel, a channel post or one of its replies and share it with your partner, so they can join the discussion in one click.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325325
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall – Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the six translated languages available to attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371308
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop – Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376219
• 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. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429
• Microsoft Teams: Tags will be supported in Private Channels – Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people in private channels.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373545
• 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: Together mode and content share layout improvement – With the new layout, Together mode will be displayed under the shared content. The users will be able to see the participants in Together mode and shared content simultaneously in a completely new way. Full Together mode experience is available including raised hands, reactions and name labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181615
• Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall (Premium) – Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select the 10 translated languages available to attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375696
• Microsoft Teams: Join meetings and make calls on Android Auto – Teams on Android Auto lets you easily join meetings from the calendar view, quickly call your speed dial contacts and see your recent calls on your Android phones. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375701

Release – March 2024

•  Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371578
• 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. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185802
• 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=131169
• Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop” – Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature.  When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams. This feature will no longer be rolling out to classic Teams and will only be generally available in the new Teams experience with a revised Rollout Start schedule.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118580

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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Microsoft Purview

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

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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: 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=189639
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Empower end users to report inappropriate messages in Teams – Microsoft Teams users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning messages within Teams chat and channels. These reported messages are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for investigators 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88916

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: Data Loss Prevention – Apply protection at the time of egress on endpoints (U.S. Government clouds) – Extend protection to unclassified files on Windows endpoint by applying restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138591

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template – Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and responses, to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375640
• Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention – messages delivered to hosted Quarantine for Exchange Online is moving to quarantine page in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – The messages delivered to hosted quarantine matching a DLP policy is moving from Exchange transport rule to the Quarantine page in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124975
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role.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=88915

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32 – We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization’s DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370550
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Simulation mode for DLP – With this capability, Admins will be able to try a Microsoft Purview DLP policy, assess its impact, and fine tune the policy as required in an isolated experience. This will help Admins build confidence in the configuration of the policy and reduce the policy enforcement time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173626
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. 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.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146858

Rollout starts – March 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring – With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179883
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93268
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93269

Rollout starts – May 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – App Permissions for Graph API – Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145797

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. 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=376697
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams – We are extending the Object Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams in Microsoft Purview to support images embedded in more file types such as: Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text,  Microsoft Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX , Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323899
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API – Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169083
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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=93324

Rollout starts – August 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

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