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, Copilot 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 (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (3)

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2024

• SharePoint: Section Background – SharePoint now allows you to add an image or gradient color to the sections of the page from a new set of options, including image settings to ensure readability. With this release, we’re providing authors to make beautiful pages with featured sections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378647

Rollout starts -April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352

Rollout starts – August 2024

• SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits  –  We are increasing version history limits for SharePoint document libraries. Admins can set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization. Today Site Owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, people will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently adjusts based on a version’s age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set version expiration and count limits on the versions created. And tenant admins will be able set version limits that apply universally to all newly created document libraries in their organization; site owners can then update settings for their document library(ies). Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145802

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Viva

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint -Update UI/UX admin experience  – Update UI/UX admin experience for advanced configuration settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383726
• 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 Glint – Self service to set survey deactivation times – Improved self service; Ability to set survey deactivation time Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163985
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to relink surveys – Improved self service; Ability to relink surveys to programs in progress Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163987

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Support multitenancy organization via cross tenant sync – Enables one instance of Viva Glint to be used by employees in multiple M365 tenants Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383731
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Learner Record Sync (LRS) logs – Sync logs in the Viva Learning admin tab with information about assignment and completion-related ingestion errors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384067
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – New enhancements in Workday integration – Admins can now use advance mapping options to link AAD and Workday. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384068
• 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. Note: The release month and status have been updated to show current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180352
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Self service to customize reminders – Ability to customize survey reminders, nudges and other notifications and support additional languages Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163989

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot assisted check-ins for Viva Goals – Unleash the potential of Copilot and effortlessly generate draft check-ins for your OKRs by synthesizing progress, status, and check-in details from associated child items tailored to your preferences through a selection of dynamic check-in templates. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383009
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – M365 Chat Plugin – M365 Copilot Plugin for Viva Goals empowers you to effortlessly search and pull quick summaries of your team’s OKRs right within Teams. Stay ahead of the game by identifying key risks based on the progress and status of your team’s OKRs, all seamlessly integrated into the flow of work. Unleash the potential of combining Viva Goals data with M365 information, providing your team with a holistic view for improved productivity and collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383012
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals—Create Goals Tab in Microsoft Teams Chats and Channels – Users will be able to add Viva Goals as a tab in a Microsoft Teams chat or channel, so that they can see their goals in the flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371197

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Teams

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (9)

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• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Simplifying Meeting Join Experiences on Mobile – We are improving the meeting join experience on mobile by 1) streamlining the meeting join process by reducing the number of steps it takes to join the meeting, particularly for users joining from externally of the organization, 2) users who join without signing in will now have the capability to preset and preview video / audio settings prior to joining the meeting, and 3) simplifying the join process for users with multiple accounts by improving the account switching user experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146741

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Archive channels – With Archive Channels, owners and administrators can archive channels that are no longer in use while preserving their content, including messages, files, and tabs. The archived channel is removed from the active teams and channels list and no more actions will be allowed. If needed, the channel can be restored.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123769
• Microsoft Teams: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa – This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client. These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167326
• Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium) – When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371690
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements – Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it’s better grouped. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=366447
• Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels – We’ve integrated Walkie Talkie in Teams with the dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on specialized headsets to instantly brings up walkie talkie for clear and secure voice communication. In addition to select specialized headsets, Walkie Talkie in Teams will now work with any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headsets on Android. As long as the generic headsets have a control button to play/pause or to accept/decline calls, frontline workers can tap the button to start and stop transmissions on walkie talkie. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369470
• Microsoft Teams: Tags in Shared Channels – Users can now use team tags to @ mention groups of people within shared channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373555

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Use Apple AirPods to mute/unmute yourself in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams now works seamlessly with Apple AirPods to mute or unmute yourself on Mac models running macOS Sonoma. The same functionality already available on iPhone running iOS 17 is now supported on new Teams for Mac. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383529

Release – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Automatic application updates for new Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows devices – In the quest to deliver low-friction deployment and proactive management for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows app now automatically checks for, and installs, new application and Windows updates during the initial setup process, ensuring devices are protected and up to date on day one. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=120405
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels – If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384065
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium) – Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381447
• 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: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191528
• Microsoft Teams: Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps –  admin has the ability to customize Teams apps to align with the company’s brand and enhance their usefulness for employees. By creating and managing multiple customized app instances, it can improve branding, awareness, and user engagement, overcomes the limitations of a single-instance approach and enables greater adaptability to meet the diverse business needs  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178355
• 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: Video clip in channel – You can now use Teams video clip in channel, in addition to chat. Record yourself, your screen, or an audio-only clip and attach the video clip to your channel post or reply. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383740

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OneDrive

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

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• OneDrive: Performance improvements – This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168616
• OneDrive: Offline mode – This feature will allow you to launch OneDrive in your browser and view, sort, rename, move, copy, and delete files even without internet access. Additionally, for locally stored OneDrive files (those that are marked as “always available offline”) you will be able to open and work on these in your browser even if you are offline. All of the changes you make offline will be automatically synced back when Internet connection is restored. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168618
• OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web – The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action. OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168619

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352

Release – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot assisted check-ins for Viva Goals – Unleash the potential of Copilot and effortlessly generate draft check-ins for your OKRs by synthesizing progress, status, and check-in details from associated child items tailored to your preferences through a selection of dynamic check-in templates. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383009
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – M365 Chat Plugin – M365 Copilot Plugin for Viva Goals empowers you to effortlessly search and pull quick summaries of your team’s OKRs right within Teams. Stay ahead of the game by identifying key risks based on the progress and status of your team’s OKRs, all seamlessly integrated into the flow of work. Unleash the potential of combining Viva Goals data with M365 information, providing your team with a holistic view for improved productivity and collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383012

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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 (1)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (27)

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• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117354

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in Android applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Android applications when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363449
• Microsoft Information Protection: Microsoft 365 Apps | Office Apps in iOS applications can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the iOS applications when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363454
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels – Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Note: The release phase has been updated to show current status.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174575
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies (U.S. government clouds) – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117353

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint – Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365059
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Trainable Classifiers in Server Side Auto-labeling – Trainable Classifiers are now available for server side auto-labeling policies in exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint. In addition to the 15 Classifiers that are already available, we have now launched 23 more Trainable Classifier to detect sensitive content such as IP and Trade Secrets, sensitive documents pertaining to important business functions such as Finance, Sales, HR, and Material Non Public Information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384094
• 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 Defender for Office 365: User Submission Automatic Feedback Response –  The user submission automatic feedback response enables organizations to automatically respond to end user submissions of phish based on the verdict from the automated investigation.  This feature is configurable and allows organizations to dictate in which threat scenarios they would like end users to receive feedback emails. Once enabled, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) will automatically respond to end user submissions based on the investigation verdict and the configured settings.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186575

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 – Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383743
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery premium: Enhancements to eDiscovery experience for Microsoft Forms content  – Now admins can search for Microsoft Forms content specifically within their collections, see the full metadata associated to those items including the Form title, and review both the original Form and responses to the Form as related items within both review and export. Simplification and ease of use for managing Forms content via eDiscovery will help reduce the pain points of challenging discovery process and improve the confidence of organizations using Forms for critical tasks that may require eDiscovery capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383748
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, advanced hunting, and custom detection email entity page take action – SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer, advanced hunting, custom detection and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184915
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181828

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator – Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382106
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to Copy Rule  – With this feature, admins will have capability to reuse existing rules and make slight edits instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This will reduce a lot of manual re-work and boost their productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384872

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular trigger throttling – With this update, we are introducing more granular trigger throttling limits to isolate the impact of a surge in noisy trigger volumes and prevent other policies from being affected. This ensures that organizations can receive critical alerts without being throttled by these limits. By default, the throttling limits will be applied as follows: All sensitive triggers, including HR signals, Azure AD leavers, and custom triggers, will be limited to 15,000 per day per trigger. All other triggers will be limited to 5,000 per day per trigger. Additionally, the policy health warning messages will be enhanced to assist admins with appropriate permissions in identifying and addressing noisy triggers effectively. 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=382130
• 🆕 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=383014
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in endpoint – This release will extend OCR support from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and PDF) to images embedded inside the following files and file types: Office files (XLSX, DOCX, PPTX), container files (zip, rar, 7z, and more), and PDF files. Image-only PDF files are already supported, and this this release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381750
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – Improved DLP policy tip reliability – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383018
• 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 four new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users: MailItemsAccessed, Send, SearchQueryInitiatedExchange, and SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint. The following logs will differ based on the user’s license and additional metadata will be added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380690
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376697
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online – 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: 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 . Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182243
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring – With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179883

Rollout starts – July 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171751

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384871
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160008
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165707
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business  – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160010

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience – A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189826

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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=169212

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 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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