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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: SharePoint Hub Analytics for US Government Clouds – View, Viewer, dwell time and content level analytics aggregated at a SharePoint Hub level. These features are an enhancement to the existing site and page level analytics in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187092
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Bring your own content to learning collections with external URL support – Users can add content using external links from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, news articles, etc while creating learning collections.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148467
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Improved error messaging – Improved error messaging during people import process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163986
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Download learner’s progress data – Allow admins to download learners progress data.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148083
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for display logic – Improved self service; Ability to enable if/then questions on surveys and support display logic. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163978
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service for SFTP file transfer – Improved self service for admins to setup SFTP for file transfer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163979
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Add learning to calendar on Viva Learning mobile app – <span>Add to Calendar mobile feature will help learners on the Viva Learning mobile app add learning content to their calendars and block focused time for learning.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118670
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Academies in Viva Learning – Academies in Viva Learning provide a guided learning experience to employees to improve their skills.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95147
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Configure permissions by mail-enabled security group – Admins can configure user permissions for learning content by security groups. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118675
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Configure learning academies – Admins can create and manage learning academies in the Viva Learning Admin tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99167
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Progress tracking for learning paths – Now in Viva Learning, users will be able to track their progress on different courses within the Learning path. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99171
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Employee learning API content sync – Content Sync API, which enables learning content hosted on learning systems to show up across the Viva Learning user experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91125
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Employee learning API learner record sync – Assignments and learner records sync from providers/LMS connected to Viva Learning through the employee learning API.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100200
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Configure permissions by provider – Admins can configure permission settings for Viva Learning content by learning provider, ie. hide all content from a certain connected learning provider from certain users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=102662
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Manage and curate interest inventory for your tenant – Admins can curate interest inventory for their tenant, enabling learners with personalized experience to pursue learning with these interests. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=107778
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Manual course completion – Users can mark a course as complete in Viva learning.&nbsp; Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99523
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – learning path creation – Admins can create learning paths from learning objects in Viva Learning. Learning paths are discoverable, consumable, and shareable by employees at the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98189
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Manage learning providers in Viva Learning admin tab – Learning admins can manage the configured learning providers in Viva Learning admin tab. This feature will provide a detailed sync status as well as sync logs in case of a failed sync. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=100250

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Share an Update to Outlook with Goal Broadcast – With &quot;Share an Update,&quot; leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. &nbsp;We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148471
• Microsoft Viva: Topics in Viva Engage  – Adding topics to posts in Viva Engage will default open for question post types and be aligned with new topic experiences as seen in Answers in Viva. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374596

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Browser-optimized playback for SAP SuccessFactors content – Desktop client content consumption for SuccessFactors content is enhanced with browser optimized playback. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92053
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Weekly active user reporting – Total number of unique users who have launched the Viva Learning personal app in the last 7 days. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=331332

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Drag to order list items – Easily organize your list by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380183

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Date and numeral standardization – All the dates that appear in Viva Learning will match the layout local to the user. This also applies to standardization of numerals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380187
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Search relevance improvements – Improvements to relevancy of search results in Viva Learning including attribute boosting, spell correction, exact match, and personalized results based on interests.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=118965

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals in People Profile Cards – View other users’ OKRs and goals in Viva Goals from their user profile cards in Outlook (when enabled). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117453

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=126123
• Microsoft Teams: Engagement information in Teams Attendance Report (Premium) – Enables meeting organizers to view meeting engagement data such as total reactions, raised hands, cameras turned on, and more in the ‘Attendance’ tab after a meeting.</span>    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162171
• Microsoft Teams: Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings – The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.</span>  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122513

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Extended Real-time telemetry retention for upto 7 days (Premium) – To facilitate meeting quality troubleshooting for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to 7 days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to 7 days. Note: We have updated the release phase and month to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141108
• Microsoft Teams: Live meeting status for mobile – Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.</span>  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98328
• Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium) – &quot;Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat&quot; 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186675

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – January 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams admin center – external domain activity report – The external domain activity report will show Teams administrators which domains their users communicate with. Available for both those with open federation on and those with explicit allow lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370565

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for town halls – The meeting options for a town hall are now accessible within the town hall setup in Teams. Organizers can edit meeting options in an inline window within the scheduling form in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380744
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698

Release – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: View, download and delete OneDrive transcript files in Teams – We are simplifying the storage and management of meeting transcript files by focusing transcript actions such as view, download, and delete to source from one place (OneDrive for Business) instead of two places (OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365720
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Privacy statement customization in Virtual Appointments – Admins can customize the privacy statement shown to attendees joining the appointment to address specific considerations and concerns for their online engagement. Admins can update the content for the privacy statement under the privacy profile in the Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379610
• Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall – Co-organizers can edit town hall 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=377703
• 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179769
• Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars – Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.</span>  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168524

Release – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows – Meeting Chat is now shown by default when joining a Teams meeting with Teams Rooms on Windows in Gallery View, making it easier to see incoming chat messages on the front of room display. IT Admins can configure the default chat experience for a room, and users can make in-meeting changes to show or hide the chat using the touch console. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332424
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: 4K local HDMI content sharing quality for Teams Rooms on Android – Users can see HDMI content in 4K quality on Teams Rooms on Android devices that support 4K HDMI input, when they share content without joining a Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380667
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Android using Teams mobile – Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their mobile device camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. The feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380674
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Give feedback for Teams Rooms on Android – The Help button includes a Give feedback option that lets users share their opinions and ideas about Teams Rooms with Microsoft. We use this feedback to improve the Teams experience. IT admins can enable or disable this feature for users and manage feedback policies using PowerShell. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380683
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Home screen refresh for Teams Rooms on Android – The Teams Rooms on Android home screen matches the look and feel of Teams Rooms on Windows, enabling users to engage with a consistent Teams Rooms interface. The touch console features six action buttons and shows the room calendar on the right side of the home screen. A room tip appears at the bottom left corner of the front of room display for user education. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380687
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: 4K display UI scaling for Teams Rooms on Windows – 4K-enabled displays, including front of room displays and touch boards, are natively supported on the Teams Rooms experience. Additional disclosure: 4K video is not supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380856
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: new Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows – The new Teams app is now supported on Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing all Teams Rooms devices to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video more reliably. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381157
• 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.</span>  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: OneDrive – Share Word Documents with AI summary – Users can now opt to include an AI-generated document summary inside the share dialog when they share a Word document with other users. The document summary is included in the share notification email sent to the recipient(s) giving them more context around the contents of the shared document. This feature is only enabled for customers with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and works only when sharing a Word for the web file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379972
• Outlook: OneDrive for Business Opens in-app for Outlook on the web – Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Previously, the OneDrive button in Outlook opened a new tab for OneDrive; with this change, you will see OneDrive inline for a consistent and fast experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369520

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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 (31)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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 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-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181812
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Export API – The Export function plays an integral role in eDiscovery. After a review set is added, with use of this Export API, organizations can create export jobs and get the download URL to successfully download the export created in a programmatic manner. This API will enable external applications and partners to successfully integrate the eDiscovery export function through scripting. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117508

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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. </div> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165995
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Browsed to generative AI websites indicator – With this update, we are adding a new indicator, “browsed to generative AI sites,” for the risky browser usage policy template, giving visibility into organizational usage of generative AI domains. User information is pseudonymized by default with strong privacy controls in place to protect end user trust. While visiting one of these AI domains may be authorized by an organization, this indicator is designed to help ensure they are correctly accounting for whether and how, these sites may be accessed in 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. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186584

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380184
• 🆕 Exchange: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management – We are Updating the experience for end user allow and block list management of their emails. With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted senders and prevent those emails from showing up in their default quarantine view anymore as well as in their Quarantine notifications. End users will also be able to allow emails from trusted senders and prevent future emails from those senders from landing in quarantine given there are no Admin overrides in place. End users will also have visibility into Admin overrides that led to a Quarantined email message if there is one.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380185
• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Streamlined False positive submission for Quarantined files from OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint – We are providing an easy and robust way  for Admins and security operators to submit and temporary mitigate False positive files that have been Quarantined from the OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint workload. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380186
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence – <span style=””>This update provides two enhancements to app and risky browsing activities that may lead to a data security incident in forensic evidence. Admins with appropriate permissions will no longer need to enable browsing indicators from the insider risk settings page to gain visual insights of these activities. In addition, the feature has been updated with more precise detection when users switch between tabs and windows. This results in more reliable visual evidence insights when context is switched in the browser. 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. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out and has now been corrected. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165996
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165698
• 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.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153651
• 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 &amp; 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 – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in Activity explorer – During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377669
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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=377674
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management.   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=335856
• 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: 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.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173626
• 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. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139461
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. 2nd Note: The status and launch phase were incorrect and are now updated to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156018
• 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. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139460
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117587

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 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 environment. 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=377679
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370535
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167531
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380678
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376999
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop – We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=367053
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The CommunicationCompliance 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.&nbsp;</span><span></span><span style=””>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.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145793

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377000
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182242
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182243
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support – Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.  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=171717

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 4 new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MailItemsAccessed; 2. Send; 3. SearchQueryInitiatedExchange; 4. SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint; The following logs will differ based upon the user’s license. This following additional metadata is added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: Premium Insight 1: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182259

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider Risk Management supports multicloud environments – Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376698
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights – The Communication Compliance homepage will provide 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172016

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