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 more.

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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Planned release of AI insights – We are planning to provide an LLM-powered data analysis tools that admins can use to gain insights and actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388376

Rollout starts – May 2024

• SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.? Use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with user needs. And all within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124840
• SharePoint: DocuSign Integration with SharePoint eSignature – SharePoint users who are also DocuSign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by DocuSign and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382128
• 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

Rollout starts – September 2024

• SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization – We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. Roadmap ID:124838
• SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint – Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375490

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Teams

• Launched (10)
• Rolling out (17)
• 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: 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: 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: Room Remote on Desktop for GCC – The Room Remote feature enables touchless meeting experiences by allowing users to control a nearby shared Teams Rooms device (Windows or Android) from their PC companion device with the Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374708
• 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: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams Chat list – The Copilot for Microsoft 365 app is available in the Teams Apps Store for Copilot licensed users. This update will make the Copilot app visible in the Teams Chat list for easy access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=192177
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap now available for Copilot users – Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375760
• Microsoft Teams: Azure protected voicemail on Teams App – Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on the Teams App and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186553
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Microsoft Teams – Copilot in Microsoft Teams helps users stay organized and on top of all their information in chat, meetings, calls, and more with AI. Use one of the suggested prompts or enter free text questions to quickly synthesize information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180201
• Microsoft Teams: Join a meeting by digital code for GCC-High and DoD – User can join a meeting by entering a digital code. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=94620

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Meeting Options Categorization – We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168523
• 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: 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: Admin setting for uploading files using drag-drop – Admin will be able to control the default content app for local files uploaded using drag-drop in chat and channels. OneDrive / SharePoint are the existing default locations for uploads using drag-drop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376219
• Microsoft Teams: Task lists for each team member, recurring task lists, and top task publishing requests – Task publishing allows an organization to centrally define and distribute tasks across their frontline locations and monitor how that work is going. The task publishing capability will allow users to create recurring task lists that repeat on a selected cadence, to create lists assigned to everyone in a recipient team, to require a Microsoft Forms form as a prerequisite to completion, and to designate an approval as a prerequisite to completion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=135562
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. 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=371578
• Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box – A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486

⌛ 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

Release – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts – Introducing a new control for IT administrators to restrict permissions for the download of meeting transcript files (stored in OneDrive for Business) for any users within the tenant. This policy applies to new meeting transcripts across the entire organization. Administrators can exempt people who are members of specified security groups from the policy. This allows admins to specify governance or compliance specialists who should have download access to meeting transcripts. We are also updating the default permissions so that even when the policy is not applied only transcript owners (recording initiator or meeting organizer) will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, while meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition to the tenant-wide policy for download permission, the meeting organizer will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript in Stream. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332800
• 🆕 Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) – If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391639
• 🆕Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) – If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391639
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users – Users can now access applications in group chats with individuals outside their organization, fostering improved collaboration, interactivity, and productivity. The group chat’s host involving external participants can install, remove, or update applications for use by all members. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391640
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow – When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381734
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): 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: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116819
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429
• Microsoft Teams: 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

Release – June 2024

•  Microsoft Teams: Webinars in GCC-High – Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support,  co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387790
• Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall – Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377303
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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

• OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive – Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381450

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Outlook: Video Capture and Upload to OneDrive – Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors. Roadmap ID: 88870

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Outlook: Draft by Copilot in classic Outlook for Windows – Copilot combines the power of LLMs and Outlook data to help you do more. Copilot can now help you draft new messages or replies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=190937
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap on Teams Mobile (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available on Teams for iOS and Android, so users can access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions, and easily browse the meeting recording by speakers. 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=371578
• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: OneDrive – Share Word Documents with AI summary – Users can now opt to include an AI-generated document summary inside the share dialog when they share a Word document with other users. The document summary is included in the share notification email sent to the recipient(s) giving them more context around the contents of the shared document. This feature is only enabled for customers with a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and works only when sharing a Word for the web file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379972
• Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box – A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Whiteboard Copilot – First run experience  – Copilot FRE will guide first-time users to discover and leverage the power of Whiteboard Copilot features. ? Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392455
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security – With Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security, your security teams gain unprecedented visibility across the security data. Microsoft Purview brings user risk and data risk insights to help the SOC with comprehensive and enriched signals to understand the full attack story and impact of a security incident. 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=389143
• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Interact with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web – Interact with Copilot in Outlook, ask questions, or provide instructions directly inside Outlook. Users can type and receive responses from Copilot in a right-hand side panel that can be opened by the user by clicking on the Copilot icon in the top nav bar. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388495
• Microsoft Stream: First Run Experience – First-time users of Microsoft Stream will see informational modals that explain what Stream is and its basic functionality. Users will be able to close these modals at any step. When the tenant acquires new premium functionalities, such as Copilot in Stream, more modals will be displayed explaining the new functionalities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387796
• 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
• 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
• Planner: Copilot in Planner – Through simple, natural-language prompts, Copilot in the Planner Teams app will help you generate new plans, set goals, track status, and react to changes as projects evolve. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186965
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot in Viva Engage – Viva Engage Copilot leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to provide you with personalized assistance to create engaging communications that support your professional goals.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): File reference – PDF and Excel file type support – This introduces the ability for users to reference PDF and Excel files when generating content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373735
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Gain comprehensive summary of Insider Risk Management alerts with Copilot for Security – Copilot for Security is embedded in Insider Risk Management to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389147
• 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 Copilot (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
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): 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
• Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot – Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372895
• OneDrive: Copilot in OneDrive – Copilot in OneDrive, available on OneDrive for Web, will allow you to ask questions and get information from files in your OneDrive without having to open the files. It will also summarize one or multiple files. Copilot in OneDrive will work on the following file types: DOC, DOCX, FLUID, LOOP, PPT, PPTX, XLSX, PDF, ODT, ODP, RTF, ASPX, RTF, TXT, HTM, and HTML. Copilot in OneDrive requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381450
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429
• SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.  Use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with user needs. And all within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124840

Release – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380821
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Graph Grounded Chat – Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375510
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Security Copilot – Contextual Summarization – Communication Compliance introduces the Security Copilot feature to generate contextual summaries of long messages in the context of the conditions that flagged the messages as potentially risky. Investigators can pinpoint the potentially risky content in the message and understand the premise of the entire message with just one click of a button. In addition to contextual summaries, users can ask additional questions in an open text prompt for deeper insight on the message content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388752
• Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats – Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374335
• 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 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
• Excel: Copilot in Excel – Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data in Excel tables by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting portions of data.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180180

Release – July 2024

• 🆕 Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web – With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you have an upcoming meeting, Copilot proactively shows you a “Prepare” button in your inbox which helps you quickly get context for the meeting providing a summary of the meeting and showing and summarizing relevant files leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374723

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
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat usage metrics will be included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Usage report. This new feature provides additional usage insights and informs adoption strategy decisions for Microsoft Copilot in your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377675

Release – 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: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=324079
• 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: 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 Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

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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 (6)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (31)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Data residency commitments – New commitments covering stored content of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be added to existing data residency commitments for Microsoft 365. The commitments will be available for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers through Microsoft Product Terms and data residency product offerings, including the Advanced Data Residency (“ADR”) and Multi-Geo Capabilities add-ons. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382931
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g., outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The cloud environments have been updated to show the current state.  We apologize for any incovenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124779
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure policy tips as popups for labeled emails and attachments (U.S. Government clouds) – Configure DLP rules that display warnings in a popup dialog before sending emails. With this capability, admins can set up rules to provide warnings, require business justifications, or request explicit acknowledgements before sending emails. Furthermore, admins can customize a Compliance URL within a DLP rule, ensuring that end users receive valuable guidance through the popup. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139511
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot – <div>Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities that help with security and compliance of data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185103
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – New Microsoft Graph APIs for retention labels in SharePoint and OneDrive – Organizations can use Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels on items in SharePoint and OneDrive. This update includes the ability to apply and remove retention labels on items, get information about retention labels applied to items, and lock/unlock labels that classify content as records. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145118

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies – Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382607
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security – With Microsoft Purview capabilities in Copilot for Security, your security teams gain unprecedented visibility across the security data. Microsoft Purview brings user risk and data risk insights to help the SOC with comprehensive and enriched signals to understand the full attack story and impact of a security incident. 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=389143
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List – Tenant allow block list domains &amp; addresses, URL, and file entries will show last used date. This helps admins understand when an entry was last used (either at mailflow or time of click), helping them remove entries which are no longer needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183908
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security &amp; Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117546

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Insider Risk Management – Gain comprehensive summary of Insider Risk Management alerts with Copilot for Security – Copilot for Security is embedded in Insider Risk Management to summarize alerts to help accelerate data security investigations. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389147
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption  – Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=78723
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD – All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389854
• 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: Communication Compliance – Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies – Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383136
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced privacy control: Limiting PII data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role – With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383745
• 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=383746
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in Activity explorer – During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377669
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164864
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance: Enhanced Policy Conditions – Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161829
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in activity explorer – During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117609

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Enhancements to insider risk level settings – With this new feature, an admin can choose whether they want to expire the Adaptive Protection insider risk level. Today, this expiration happens automatically, but you can now choose to keep the Adaptive Protection insider risk level for a user, even if their alert is dismissed or case is closed. 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=388736
• 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators  – Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted, FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled, so you will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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=389841
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance Security Copilot – Contextual Summarization – Communication Compliance introduces the Security Copilot feature to generate contextual summaries of long messages in the context of the conditions that flagged the messages as potentially risky. Investigators can pinpoint the potentially risky content in the message and understand the premise of the entire message with just one click of a button. In addition to contextual summaries, users can ask additional questions in an open text prompt for deeper insight on the message content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388752
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377674
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- 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. Note: We have updated this Roadmap to reflect the current status.  We apologize for any inconveniences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186580
• Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint –  With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160009
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Keyword highlight support for document trainable classifiers – Highlight the keywords/phrases that are contributing significantly to the Trainable classifier results, so that users can easily understand the  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=146859
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy – Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. 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=68688

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389842

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376999
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop – We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=367053
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint – Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139457

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 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 – 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 Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

Rollout starts – December 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

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