SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, 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 (1)

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• Microsoft Stream: Playlist support for Stream web part in SharePoint – The Stream web part, used when adding video to SharePoint pages and sites, will soon support embedding playlists from the same site in grid and theater layouts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386907

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News – We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386904

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Teams

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

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• Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores – Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores. Roadmap ID:122527

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – April 2024

Release – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Slash Commands – User will be able to type slash in Teams compose box and select a command, helping them complete their task quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=120469
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars – This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392826

Release – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in webinars – 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=392328

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OneDrive

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

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel support for complex formula columns from multiple tables – Utilize complex formulas such as XLOOKUP and SUMIF to create formula columns bringing together data from multiple tables. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391637
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files to ground prompts in Copilot with Graph-grounded chat – Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files for grounding prompts in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392011
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Copilot supports generating multiple formula columns from a single prompt – Users can ask Copilot to generate multiple formula columns suggestions at once, from a single prompt, such as “split the name into first name and last name”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391638

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use a weblink to reference files in Copilot in Word – Users can copy and paste a link of a supported file into the Draft with Copilot UI as a reference instead of searching for it in the file reference menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=367083

Release – July 2024

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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 (0)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (17)

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=152126
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – End-User Tracking and Revocation – From the sensitivity menu, users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their protected files and revoke access when needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164210
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal  –  Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177890

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Support for Two New Predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the two below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint  – Document Property is – Document name contains words or phrases Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181623

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 – Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389840
• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can block top level domain addresses within Tenant Allow/Block List. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389853
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints – In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392840
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Activity Explorer – Limiting sensitive 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=392099
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – HighCompleteness parameter in Search – UnifiedAuditLog Audit cmdlet – Microsoft is introducing a new query parameter which allows you to switch between performance and completeness of query results based on the scenario requirement. When enabled, the query returns more complete search results but may take significantly longer to run. When disabled, the query runs faster but may have missing search results. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388735
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search – Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384092
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow – Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372670

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities – Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392841
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370535
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports – The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377680

Rollout starts – July 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Cloud egress groups (macOS) – Restrict sensitive files that match your policies from being shared with unrestricted cloud service domains. Restrict the use of specified web browsers, identified by their executable names. The specified browsers are blocked from accessing files that match the conditions of an enforced a DLP policy where the upload-to-cloud services restriction is set to block or block override. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383738

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380722

Rollout starts – September 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380721
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – General Security Policy Violations – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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 help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83961
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by priority users – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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 help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83962
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by departing users –  Detects security violations by departing users near their resignation or termination date. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals 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 help ensure user-level privacy. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83963

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