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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 11th March 2024

Take a look at the this week’s edition of Microsoft 365 Roadmap Roundup 11 March 2024

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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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Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists: Approvals integration – Microsoft Lists templates will begin to leverage integration with the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. When you specify the approver within your list item, the request will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly within the list. Once approved, the list item status is updated. Roadmap ID: 100502

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2024

  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists- A new forms experience to collect information – We are making it easier to collect information with an updated forms experience for Microsoft Lists. Forms look clean, are easy to design, can be easily shared, and respondents are able to fill them out on any device. All form responses appear immediately in your list after recipient clicks the submit button. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124865
  • SharePoint Premium: Enable/Disable Unstructured, Structured and Prebuilt Document Processing – Admins will be able to enable or disable the entire Unstructured, Structured, and Prebuilt Document Processing services. Disabling the service prevents any models of this type from running. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383011

Rollout starts – April 2024

  • 🆕 SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News – We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386904
  • SharePoint: Video Pages – Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application. Roadmap ID:124823

    Rollout starts – May 2024

    • 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
    • Microsoft Syntex: Creators and recipients can view, track, and sign their eSignature requests in Approvals in Teams – This feature will allow users to track their eSignature requests in the Approvals app in Teams. Users will be notified about new requests, updated about ongoing requests, and will be able to initiate signing within their flow of work in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385012

      Rollout starts – June 2024

      • SharePoint: SharePoint Pages – Design Ideas – By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124846
      • SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring – Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time.   Roadmap ID:124853

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        Viva
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        OneDrive
        Copilot
        Microsoft Purview

        Viva

        • Launched (1)
        • Rolling out (0)
        • In development (9)

        🍾 LAUNCHED

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          • N/A

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – March 2024

            Rollout starts – April 2024

            • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant – This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386906
            • Microsoft Viva: Engage Answers Intelligent Importer – This feature will allow users to upload documents and use AI to generate question and answer pairs from that content within Answers and communities on Engage for premium users. Answers Intelligent Importer aims to transform static to dynamic, fostering active engagement and interactive conversations. This approach also facilitates the easy retrieval and reuse of generated answers, preventing them from getting lost within the depths of a document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383049

            Rollout starts – June 2024

            Rollout starts – July 2024

              Rollout starts – November 2024

              • 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Glint – Highlight top issues and potential solutions hidden throughout employee suggestions from survey results; plus, help leaders explore comments using natural-language questions. Find out more:

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                Teams

                • Launched (11)
                • Rolling out (9)
                • In development (15)

                🍾 LAUNCHED

                  🚂 ROLLING OUT

                  •  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: Meeting ID and passcode to join Teams Rooms on Android – IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android to ensure a level of security and privacy. 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=380747
                  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams chat on mobile – Users will be able to easily access Copilot on the Teams mobile app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382800
                  • Microsoft Teams: Open Teams app content in multi-window stageview – Microsoft Teams enables you to open your app content in new multi-window experiences. Unlock multi-tasking workflows for your users inside Teams. Allow them to engage with content and conversation, side-by-side. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383404
                  • Microsoft Teams: 3P eCDN support for town halls (Premium) – Admins have the ability to disable Microsoft first party eCDN at a user level within a tenant for users licensed with Teams Premium and switch the users back to using a third-party eCDN as they prefer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371568
                  • 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: Automatic Targeting based on roles for Frontline – Frontline teams can notify the right set of colleagues on channel posts (e.g. notify colleagues in specific role or department) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365845
                  • Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Generic Wired Headsets on Android – 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: Private Line – With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only. Note: We have updated the cloud instances to reflect the current state. We will create a new roadmap with a new timeline when available.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181616

                  ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                  Release – April 2024

                    • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Citations for Copilot in Teams meetings available on mobile – Now available on mobile, Copilot in Teams responses have a citation number at the end of each Copilot statement that provides detail on the meeting artifact or source that Copilot used to generate the response, like the meeting transcript. Users can select the citation to see which speaker the citation is attributed to, the exact quote from the transcript, as well as the time stamp of the quote in the transcript. Selecting a reference number will open a transcript viewer that displays the source of the response. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=331507
                    • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for delegates and delegators – We’re continuing to provide a more tailored call delegation experience. Call delegators and delegates will now be able to see shared call history records for the shared line. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372115
                    • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls – When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385349
                    • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings now available on mobile after the meeting – In addition to accessing Copilot in Teams during a meeting on mobile devices (available now), you can now access Copilot in Teams and ask questions about eligible meetings after the meeting ends on mobile devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384363
                    • 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: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185802

                    Release – May 2024

                    Release – June 2024

                    Release – July 2024

                      Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

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                      Viva
                      Teams
                      OneDrive
                      Copilot
                      Microsoft Purview

                      OneDrive

                      • Launched (0)
                      • Rolling out (1)
                      • In development (2)

                      🍾 LAUNCHED

                      • N/A

                      🚂 ROLLING OUT

                      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                      Rollout starts – March 2024

                      • OneDrive: Create with Templates – We’re refreshing the file creation experience in OneDrive for Web which you initiate by clicking the “Add new” button. Soon, clicking the “Add new” button in OneDrive will give you the option to create a blank file or choose from a selection a high-quality, beautifully designed Word, Excel and PowerPoint templates to jumpstart your work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363474

                      Rollout starts – April 2024

                      Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

                      SharePoint
                      Viva
                      Teams
                      OneDrive
                      Copilot
                      Microsoft Purview

                      Copilot

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

                      🍾 LAUNCHED

                        🚂 ROLLING OUT

                        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                        Release – March 2024

                        Release – April 2024

                        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings now available on mobile after the meeting – In addition to accessing Copilot in Teams during a meeting on mobile devices (available now), you can now access Copilot in Teams and ask questions about eligible meetings after the meeting ends on mobile devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=324079
                        • Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185802
                        • Microsoft Teams: Citations for Copilot in Teams meetings available on mobile – Now available on mobile, Copilot in Teams responses have a citation number at the end of each Copilot statement that provides detail on the meeting artifact or source that Copilot used to generate the response, like the meeting transcript. Users can select the citation to see which speaker the citation is attributed to, the exact quote from the transcript, as well as the time stamp of the quote in the transcript. Selecting a reference number will open a transcript viewer that displays the source of the response. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=331507

                          Release – November 2024

                            Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

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                            Viva
                            Teams
                            OneDrive
                            Copilot
                            Microsoft Purview

                            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 (7)
                            • Rolling out (4)
                            • In development (19)

                            🍾 LAUNCHED

                            •  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 – recommendations for new policies and policy finetuning – Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards: for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=173161
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New reports page – A new reports page will be available in Insider Risk Management. The three charts available on the alerts page — including total alerts that need review, average time to resolve alerts, and alerts summary — will be moving to the new reports 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=169889
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – customization & preview of email notifications – There are some significant enhancements made to the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification. These improvements provide admins with greater flexibility and control over the end-user notification email: 1. Enhanced Token Support: We have expanded our token library to offer precise and detailed information to your end users. 2. Email Message Customization: You now have the ability to decide whether the matching email messages should be included or excluded in the end-user notification emails. 3. Tailored Email Content: Customize the sender’s display name and email body using HTML formatting, allowing for a personalized touch. 4. Email Preview: Prior to sending email notifications, you can review them to ensure they align perfectly with your requirements. These enhancements empower you to refine your communication and provide a more tailored experience for your end users with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=153405
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Tips revamp on Outlook Win32 desktop (U.S. Government clouds) – Expand the functionality of DLP Policy Tips in Outlook Win32 to support additional top predicates and exceptions, and advanced classification for E5 users. Note: We are adjusting the roadmap release phase to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138577
                            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Compliance Manager – Salesforce & Zoom Connectors – Compliance Manager now integrates with Salesforce and Zoom, empowering customers to continuously monitor their compliance posture across their data estate. Note: We will not be rolling out to Government Clouds at this time.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124884

                              🚂 ROLLING OUT

                              •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369015
                              • 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 Defender for Office 365: Attack Simulation Training in DoD – Attack simulation and training (AST) in the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is an intelligent risk reduction tool, which allows customers to run realistic attack scenarios in their organization, identify vulnerable users, and help drive behavior change through an integrated security awareness training program. It is to be made available in the DoD environment. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185568
                              • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Copy simulation action in Attack Simulation Training – Using the copy simulation action button, Attack simulation administrators will be able to effortlessly duplicate existing simulations and make necessary edits to introduce fresh and tailored simulation scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381968

                                ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                                Rollout starts – March 2024

                                  • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Improved Resume OOB Built-in Trainable Classifier – The new enhanced Resume Classifier is equipped with better technology. It has a higher accuracy and is able to identify resumes that were not previously detected. The classifier has been upgraded to handle challenging False Negative and False Positive cases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384093
                                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable – Document didn’t complete scanning – Document name matches patterns – Document size equals or is greater than Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374811
                                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to app and risky browsing activity evidence –  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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165996
                                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117546

                                  Rollout starts – April 2024

                                  •  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 and rollout start month have 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: 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=181617

                                    Rollout starts – May 2024

                                      • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities – Activities performed by users like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history within the Purview Audit feature will now begin to generate Audit logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385346
                                      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Analytics and Recommendations to understand risks, improve existing policies and improve posture – Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards:  for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383747
                                      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155

                                      Rollout starts – June 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: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380721
                                        • 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: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance 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. 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=145793

                                        Rollout starts – July 2024

                                          Rollout starts – August 2024

                                          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions – With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled "Global exclusions" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185687
                                          • 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
                                          • Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services (U.S. Government clouds) – Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first. 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=93246

                                              Rollout starts – December 2024

                                              •  Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email and associated entities hunting capabilities available through Microsoft Graph Security API – We are introducing email and associated entities hunting capabilities to the Microsoft Graph Security API. Email meta data like email properties (subject, sender, domain etc ), MDO detections, and related entities can now be hunt via the API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122276
                                              • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Email Response actions available through Microsoft Graph Security API – We are introducing email response actions API. Email purge actions like soft delete, hard delete, move to junk etc can be triggered through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93434
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