
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:
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Viva
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint
Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.
- Launched (0)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (4)
🍾 LAUNCHED
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🚂 ROLLING OUT
- 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. Roadmap ID:124865
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – March 2024
- 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: SharePoint Premium Content Query – Columns in new libraries are queryable – With this update, columns in newly created libraries by licensed users are all made available to content query. Also, users can trigger an action to make all columns in existing libraries available to content query. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387773
Rollout starts – May 2024
- Microsoft Clipchamp: Work account support in Clipchamp’s desktop app – The updated Clipchamp desktop app introduces work account support and lets users with AAD/Entra ID accounts directly access Clipchamp for work through the desktop app for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Users of Clipchamp for work will be able to access the video editor in the app without using a browser. Microsoft 365 administrators can control if their users are able to access both Clipchamp for work and Clipchamp for personal accounts via the app or only Clipchamp for work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387124
Rollout starts – July 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Image background removal in Clipchamp – You can remove a background from your image and photos using AI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388485
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Viva
- Launched (4)
- Rolling out (3)
- In development (10)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot – With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165689
- Microsoft Viva: Browser optimized playback for SuccessFactors content – Desktop client content consumption for SuccessFactors content is enhanced with browser optimized playback. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=92053
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Glint – Update questions for expired surveys – Improved self-service; Update questions associated with an expired survey. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163975
- Outlook: Org Explorer – Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182237
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Viva: Answers in Viva content in Workplace Search – Users searching from Microsoft Search surfaces will be able to find content from Answers in Viva that match their search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182258
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage question post update – Viva Engage is updating its questions to include two parts: a required field for the main question and an optional larger field for extra details. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376700
- Microsoft Viva: Code Snippets in Viva Engage – Users will be able to add code snippets to their posts, discussions, replies, questions, polls, and praises on Viva Engage. Additionally, if customers are licensed for Answers in Viva Engage, this feature will also be available when asking questions on Answers. To add code snippets, locate the new button on the publisher toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=378778
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – April 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Files Card on Viva Connections – The feature helps organizations add a view of files which were recently accessed, shared or marked favorite by the user. This file view can be added in the form of card on Viva Connections dashboard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388496
- Microsoft Viva : Connections Analytics for multiple Connections experiences – With this feature, customers using multiple Viva Connections experiences in their tenants will see analytics aggregated at each experience level. There will be no change in how the analytics module is accessed or any metrics provided. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=187086
- Microsoft Viva: Connections Advanced Analytics – Enhancements to the current analytics module for Viva Connections will include the following: daily data for 90 days, user retention metrics, and monthly aggregates for the last 12 months. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384851
- 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
Rollout starts – June 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Analytics in GCC – The customer facing analytics module will allow customers to understand the usage metrics for their instance of Viva Connections and will help them gauge the health of their VC deployment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388367
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Dashboard personalization on tablet in Viva Connections – Customize your dashboard by adding, removing, or reordering the dashboard cards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388368
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Revamped Resources on mobile and tablet – The Resources section on Viva Connections mobile and tablet will show content from the recently revamped Resources section on Viva Connections desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388369
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights manager, leader, and advanced insights available for GCC – Viva Insights is pleased to announce that manager, leader, and advanced insights will be available for GCC June 30, 2023. These premium insights help organizations understand and predict the impact of day-to-day actions to continuously improve the outcomes they care about. Roadmap ID:88843
- Microsoft Viva: Increased synergy of Viva Learning 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 – Copilot in Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning acts as a virtual learning companion, assisting users throughout their learning journey and providing personalized guidance, recommendations, and ability to take actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372245
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (6)
- Rolling out (6)
- In development (14)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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: Deploy your frontline operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138480
- Microsoft Teams: External call routing settings – End users will now be able to change their external call routing settings directly from the Teams app, allowing them to decide how incoming PSTN calls are routed. Calls can be redirected based on existing unanswered call settings or sent to voicemail. This new capability provides more flexibility for handling customer communications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372120
- Microsoft Teams: Support joining a live event as an attendee for Teams Rooms on Windows – Teams Rooms on Windows can now join a live event as an attendee and watch the streaming experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169881
- Microsoft Teams: Customize and edit emails for webinars (Premium) – Customize and edit content for webinar emails including registration confirmation, reminder emails, cancellation notices, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=119391
- Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Bulk suppression of rooms enrolled in Managed Services – Workflow to turn off all signals for rooms and specify when the signals need to be turned back on. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93201
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation – With Voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advanced noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. Voice isolation is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125387
- Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage Shifts for your frontline teams in the Teams Admin Center – Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138479
- 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: 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: 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
- Microsoft Teams: Content camera on New Teams Desktop – Support for Content camera on new Teams app experience for Windows and Mac. Content camera enables remote attendees to get a clear view of physical objects like whiteboards, printed documents, books, and more that are in a meeting room. Content camera intelligently detects, crops and frames the in-room object and shares its content with remote meeting participants. Even when a presenter moves in front of it, for example the whiteboard, remote participants will be able to see the content right through them.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377670
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Release – April 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent message translation in chats – When you get a message in a different language, you will see translation suggested to help you understand it better. In the settings, you can select which languages you don’t want to translate, and whether to translate messages automatically.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99841
- 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: Optimize for Video setting for screensharing – Provide setting to optimize screen sharing for video clip by reducing the lag and improving the quality of video playback when sharing video clips in Teams meetingsFind out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93483
- Microsoft Teams: Give feedback for Teams Rooms on Android – The Help button includes a Give feedback option that lets users share their opinions and ideas about Teams Rooms with Microsoft. We use this feedback to improve the Teams experience. IT admins can enable or disable this feature for users and manage feedback policies using PowerShell.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380683
Release – May 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams admin center – Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen (including common area phones). Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388490
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Advanced calling and contact management support on non-touch phones – On non-touch phones users can use advanced calling features such as park/unpark calls, busy on busy, auto restart, and manage contacts and contact groups.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388494
- Microsoft Teams: Save meeting content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard – Collaborative annotations, available now, enable meeting participants with the Presenter role to enable annotations after sharing their screen. This allows everyone in the meeting to draw, add a note, react, highlight text, and more to share their thoughts right on the content, live with everyone else. Now, participants sharing their screen will have the ability to save content with collaborative annotations as a Whiteboard, enabling all meeting participants to revisit this content and continue collaborating after the meeting.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109573
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie – Integrating Apple’s Push to Talk framework on iOS – Teams Walkie-Talkie on iOS will be integrated with Apple’s Push-to-Talk (PTT) framework to enhance communication and convenience of transmitting audio from anywhere on their phone, even when Teams is not in the foreground. It enables audio transmission directly from the lock screen and comes with background runtime optimization for optimal performance while conserving battery life.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388486
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Town Hall Graph APIs – The Teams town hall Graph APIs allow users to create, update, and delete town hall events.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387128
- Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in improved presenter window when screen sharing – When sharing the screen or content, the presenter will now be able to better keep track of the participants’ activity during a meeting. The Improved Presenter Window shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), who are active speakers and who raised hands, as well as a preview of the content being shared. Meeting notifications appear in the middle of the screen for better visibility. This gives presenters increased confidence and awareness of what is happening among participants during a meeting.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383653
- Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meeting chat will take the meeting transcript into account – When you ask Copilot in the meeting chat a question, it will use the chat and transcript content as the source.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
- Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
- 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 – June 2024
- 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
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
OneDrive
- Launched (0)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (3)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- N/A
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – March 2024
- 🆕 OneDrive: View hidden files and folders in ‘Shared with you’ view – This feature allows you to view files and folders you have hidden in the “Shared with you” view in OneDrive for Web. You can quickly access files and folders you have hidden by clicking on the ‘Hidden’ button in the filter bar. You can also ‘Unhide’ files and bring them back to the ‘Shared with you’ view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388381
Rollout starts – April 2024
- OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365 – Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387806
- 🆕 OneDrive: Recurring meetings in Meetings view – The upcoming update to the OneDrive Meetings view will display your recurring meetings in chronological order, providing easy access to all related files, past recordings, and details like the meeting owner, attendees, time, and location. This feature helps you prepare for future meetings by allowing you to quickly access pre-read materials and review recordings or content from past meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388382
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 (3)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (6)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – Copilot – With Copilot in Viva Goals, user will be able to leverage AI in creating goals, summaries, and making updates in Viva Goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165689
- 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 Copilot for Microsoft 365: Copilot in Forms empowers you to create and customize forms with ease and speed – Copilot in Forms is a new feature that enables users to create forms and customize themes with ease and speed. With this feature, you can describe the form you need in natural language, and Copilot will generate a form based on your description. You can preview the form and refine it as needed. After that, you can get suggested themes to uplift your form that encourages more engagement from the audience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375324
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – March 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Microsoft Copilot with graph grounded chat in the Microsoft 365 mobile app – Microsoft 365 mobile app users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license will be able to receive answers grounded in their organizational graph data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384868
Rollout starts – April 2024
- OneDrive: Copilot integration with the file viewer in Microsoft 365 – Copilot in OneDrive will soon be available from the file viewer in Microsoft 365 for customers with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Clicking on the Copilot icon in the file viewer will open the Copilot chat panel which will allow you to summarize or get information from your files in OneDrive or SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387806
Rollout starts – May 2024
- Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meeting chat will take the meeting transcript into account – When you ask Copilot in the meeting chat a question, it will use the chat and transcript content as the source.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
Release – June 2024
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category – We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185700
- 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 – September 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning acts as a virtual learning companion, assisting users throughout their learning journey and providing personalized guidance, recommendations, and ability to take actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372245
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
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 (2)
- Rolling out (1)
- In development (15)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can provide intent while submitting – Admins submitting to Microsoft can convey whether they are submitting for a second opinion or they are submitting to convey their confirmation of clean or malicious verdict.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183907
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – April 2024
- Exchange: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management – We are Updating the experience for end user allow and block list management of their emails. With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted senders and prevent those emails from showing up in their default quarantine view anymore as well as in their Quarantine notifications. End users will also be able to allow emails from trusted senders and prevent future emails from those senders from landing in quarantine given there are no Admin overrides in place. End users will also have visibility into Admin overrides that led to a Quarantined email message if there is one. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380185
- Microsoft 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: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93268
Rollout starts – May 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows – Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385345
- 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 compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117587
Rollout starts – June 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention-Improving DLP Policy tip text for matched recipients in Outlook win32 – We are updating the DLP Policy tip text in Outlook windows desktop client that appears when end users attempt to send a sensitive email to recipients who are not authorized by your organization’s DLP policies. Users will soon receive a more gentle policy tip nudge to review recipients and content before sending email.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370550
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167531
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) ML Classifier support – <div>Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. </div>Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167221
Rollout starts – July 2024
- 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 – September 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386900
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171586
Rollout starts – October 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386901
Rollout starts – November 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-Insider risk context in Microsoft Defender user entity page – With this update, any SOC analyst with the required customer-determined permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the user entity investigation experience in Microsoft Defender. This feature can help SOC analysts gain insider risk context for a specific user 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=370560
Rollout starts – December 2024
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Information Protection and Insider Risk Management support multicloud environments – Microsoft Purview Information Protection extends its sensitivity labels and protection policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create label-based protection policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope, and which users or groups are allowed to access data with a certain sensitivity label and Purview will automatically enforce the policy and block unauthorized access to sensitive data. Insider Risk Management extends its detection into multicloud environments by offering ready-to-use risk indicators in Azure, AWS, and SaaS apps including Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376698


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