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

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

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (5)

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• SharePoint: Visual Refresh – We are introducing updates to the Microsoft Fluent Visual styling of the SharePoint platform that will improve the experience across the SharePoint Authoring Experience and Microsoft Syntex.    Aligning with the latest Microsoft Fluent design system principles includes updated icons with softer edges, a cooler grey palette, and more rounded corners on various UI controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=148368

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Updates to file viewer – The OneDrive file viewer offers a quick and easy way to view your files in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, across all your devices. OneDrive is enhancing the user interface and design of the file viewer to make it more useful and intuitive. We are adding a new toolbar, new panes, and collaboration features. Additionally, the file viewer will open files up to 50% faster once these updates launch. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381752
• 🆕 SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature – SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382128
• 🆕 SharePoint: Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration with SharePoint eSignature – SharePoint users who are also Adobe Acrobat sign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by Adobe and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382129
• SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News – The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages. Roadmap ID:124827

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Viva

• Microsoft Viva: Quick View Dark Mode support in Viva Connections mobile app – Users can view their Viva Connections dashboard cards in dark mode on the mobile app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173079
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Enhanced campaign creation and discovery experiences – This promotes engagement through campaigns within organizations through more robust discovery of campaigns (through visual aids) and supports the admins for easier and more collaborative creations of campaigns. Note: The improvements added to campaigns are the sash, having co organizers, and campaigns for communities.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167212
• Microsoft Viva: Bot support for building Viva Connections Cards – developer can leverage the power of Microsoft bot framework to build cards for Viva Connections Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117419
• Microsoft Viva: Leadership Corner in Viva Engage – this space is an employee’s personalized hub to discover (leader discovery & suggested leaders), see content from (leader stories, activity feed, & sponsored campaigns), and engage with (AMAs & AMA history) their leaders. For more on leadership corner in Viva Engage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109575
• Microsoft Viva: Social campaigns in Viva Engage – Corporate communicators can create official hashtags for campaigns that inspire participation and aggregate campaign activity with following, leader sponsorship, theming, and supporting resources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117500
• 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
• Microsoft Viva: New Search Experience in Viva Learning Modals – Search in Modals is enhanced with new User Experience, with filters and many improvements. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160729

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: URL changes to Viva Insights on the web and Viva Insights analyst workbench – The URL for Viva Insights on the web and Viva Insights analyst workbench will be updated as part of a broader effort across Microsoft to transition to a unified domain. The updated URLs are as follows: Viva Insights on the web will be https://insights.cloud.microsoft, and Viva Insights analyst workbench will be https://analysis.insights.cloud.microsoft. Previous URLs will redirect accordingly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381759
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Domain/URL Update – To align the URL with the new Viva Engage branding and as part of the unified domain for Microsoft 365 initiative, Viva Engage’s URL schema is being updated. This change includes domains only. A separate roadmap will be created for email sender changes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180352
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Viva Glint admin role in Microsoft 365 admin center – Glint admin role in MAC Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163984

Rollout starts – April 2024

•  Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – In-app search relevance improvement to increase matching results – Viva Learning in-app Search will be improved to show more relevant and matching results at the top. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=170954
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Language selection for users – Users can select their preferred language within the Viva learning Setting Menu, independent of Teams or Browser language. Preferred language will be persisted across all Viva Learning Surfaces. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162294
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Sort search results by ratings – Users can sort in-app search results by ratings and relevance of the content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160731

Rollout starts – June 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Viva App Bar integration in Viva Learning Webapp – Viva Learning Webapp will have an easy way to switch across other Viva Webapp modules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160733
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Increased synergy between webapp and Teams App – Users will be able to easily switch within Viva Learning Teams app and Webapp. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160736

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Proficiency level content filter – Users can filter content based on the proficiency level of the content – Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=162947

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Teams

• Launched (21)
• Rolling out (14)
• In development (20)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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: 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: Meeting “Recording & Transcription” tab will be replaced by “Recap” tab – Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript.  For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181918
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting options updates for Webinars – The meeting options for a webinar are now accessible within the webinar 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=373420
• Microsoft Teams: Registration Form Updates in Webinars – Organizers can rearrange the sequence of registration form questions that are presented to attendees during the webinar registration process. The questions available for reordering include address, city, state, zip/post code, country/region, job title organization, industry, and custom questions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376970
• 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 Teams: Hide general channel – Alike other channels, now you will be able to hide general channels in your teams, helping you focus on the channels that matter most to you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=324840
• 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: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device – Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178013
• Microsoft Teams: Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings – This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374515
• 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: 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: 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: Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments – Microsoft Graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184497

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Limit Presenter Role Permissions – We are introducing a tenant configuration that admins can apply to limit user actions assigned to presenters in meetings. When enabled, presenters will no longer be able to control attendee mics and cameras, change the role of other participants, lower participants’ hands, and remove participants from the meeting. We want organizers to have control, flexibility, and structure in managing their meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=319398
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars – IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381950
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Inactive teams and inactive domains report export capability – Admins will be able to export the inactive teams and inactive domains reports to a csv file in Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=341083
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: External domain activity report export capability – Export the ‘External domain activity’ report to a csv file in Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382642
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Import schedule improvements in Shifts app – Frontline managers importing a schedule from Excel into Shifts will be capable of viewing the import history of their teams. This allows them to monitor the status and outcome of their import at anytime. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381129
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams – New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375418
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Group chat profile picture – You will have a better way to reflect your team and group chat topic, with custom pictures. Group chat members can upload an image or use pre-selected illustrations and emojis, adding a layer of inclusivity and expression to their chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119305
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone – You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380852
• Microsoft Teams: Privacy statement customization in Meetings – Admins can customize the privacy statement link shown to attendees joining a Teams Meeting. 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: In-app Teams devices store experience – With the Teams device store experience inside the Teams app, customers can easily discover and purchase certified Teams devices for personal or shared use cases – headsets, web cameras, desk phones, Teams Rooms, and more. Explore devices in categories, use search or filters to find desired device, and purchase all through the familiar Microsoft Teams interface. We are introducing a new experience for small businesses to purchase devices directly within Teams, businesses in the US and Canada will now be able to complete their purchase without leaving the app.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169201
• Microsoft Teams: Recurring task lists and top task publishing requests – Task publishing allows an organization to centrally define and distribute tasks across their frontline locations and monitor how that work is going. The task publishing capability will allow users to create recurring task lists that repeat on a selected cadence, to create lists assigned to everyone in a recipient team, to require a Microsoft Forms form as a prerequisite to completion, and to designate an approval as a prerequisite to completion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135562

Release – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: User reported events in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management – When an end user reports an issue from a Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381430
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows 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 native mobile 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. This feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization settings and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381460
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting – Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the artifacts from the meeting in the meeting chat. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, Collaborative notes, any files that were shared, a link to any Whiteboard that was used, and the meeting details like date and time of the meeting event. For Teams Premium users, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381121
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116819
• 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: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

Release – May 2024

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

Release – June 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative notes in GCC – Collaborative notes allow meeting 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 ToDo & Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381757

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OneDrive

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2024

• OneDrive: Media node in OneDrive for Web – We’re adding a Media node to the left nav of OneDrive for Web which will allow commercial customers to easily find all the photo and video content stored in their OneDrive in a single view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382105

Release – March 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Updates to file viewer – The OneDrive file viewer offers a quick and easy way to view your files in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, across all your devices. OneDrive is enhancing the user interface and design of the file viewer to make it more useful and intuitive. We are adding a new toolbar, new panes, and collaboration features. Additionally, the file viewer will open files up to 50% faster once these updates launch. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381752

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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 (4)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (21)

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•  Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Gain context around ML model policy matches – Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting.This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. 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=88917
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Gain context around ML model policy matches (U.S. Government clouds) – Make more informed remediation actions with machine learning (ML) model highlighting. This feature gives investigators greater context around which word or key phrase triggered an ML model policy match and caused a classifier to catch a message. 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=93196
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Leverage advanced classification (U.S. Government clouds) – Communication Compliance policies now support detection of inappropriate sharing of the following sensitive information types: named entities (full names/physical addresses/medical terms), credentials (login credentials/passwords), and exact match data. These new sensitive information types will be accessible to designated administrators during policy configuration. Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly 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=146728
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Apply Purview Message Encryption branding with DLP policy (U.S. Government clouds) – Purview Messaging Encryption supports customized branding templates for encrypted mail sent to external recipients. The functionality is being brought to Data Loss Prevention from Exchange mail flow rule. In addition, DLP policies provide additional configuration to control whether Microsoft 365 external recipients will be able to view the encrypted mail inline using Outlook or the encrypted portal experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117490

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Empower end users to report inappropriate posts and comments in Viva Engage – Microsoft Viva Engage users are empowered to report inappropriate or concerning posts and comments within Viva Engage conversations. These reported posts are then submitted to a Communication Compliance policy for designated investigators with the appropriate role-based access control permissions to review and take action if deemed necessary. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We have updated the release phase to the reflect current state.  Additionally, this began rolling out to GA in December 2023 and did not release to Preview.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=144596
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) Jobs report – access for eDiscovery Manager – The access to the Jobs Report in eDiscovery (Premium) will be extended to eDiscovery Managers. eD Managers will be able to view the tenant wide quota available and list of jobs in the cases they have access to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180170

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements – To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. 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=368825
• Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93275
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Default classification for content matching trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>In the Microsoft Purview compliance center, admins can view items that match trainable classifiers in Content explorer without first needing to create a policy. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93266
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93267

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA – The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383017
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies – Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382607
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Cross policy remediation actions for enhanced remediation experience – Communication Compliance introduces the ability for an investigator to resolve every instance of a message across all policies with one Resolve action. Customers with several active policies may see the same message captured as a policy match in more than 1 policy: Instead of an investigator Resolving the same message multiple times, Cross Policy Remediation allows investigators to resolve every instance of that message at once. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382608
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380178
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Expand investigation pane to full screen for Data Loss Preventions alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender – The investigation experience is now improved with a key usability feature to expand the investigation pane to full screen while reviewing the details of a Data Loss Prevention incident or alert in Microsoft 365 Defender. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381751
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381760
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Enriched Data Loss Prevention Alert Email Notifications for DLP Admins – There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admin upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy details, device details, and more. This will help admins quickly assess the priority of an alert and determine the next steps before navigating to the Microsoft Purview DLP alerts page or Microsoft 365 Defender DLP alerts page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369645
• 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: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The cloud environments have been updated to show the current state.  We apologize for any incovenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124779

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements to available metadata for search and collection queries – Now eDiscovery admins can use additional metadata to search and collect content within their organization. The additional metadata that will be added for support will include message ID, sensitivity label and more to help enable additional flexibility of search for specific scenarios to enable specific outcomes related to investigations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381452
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation – From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164210
• 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 – May 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Insider risk insights in DLP alerts – With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179880
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – This introduces 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, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165402

Rollout starts – June 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams – This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323899
• 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

Release – March 2029

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets – This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117569

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