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 (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Graph: SharePoint Pages API – New graph API to create and manage SharePoint pages and news posts. Roadmap ID: 101166

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 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
• 🆕 SharePoint: Sensitive information processing model – SharePoint Premium users will now have the capability to apply a prebuilt sensitive information processing model to SharePoint libraries. This model is designed to detect and possibly extract sensitive information from documents upon their library. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393336
• Microsoft Syntex: Advanced Tenant Rename – As part of SharePoint Advanced Management, change your SharePoint domain with greater control. This includes the ability to prioritize up to 4,000 sites for early execution as well as support for tenants with total site counts up to 100,000. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180383

Rollout starts – March 2025

• SharePoint: Flexible Layouts – New flexible layout sections allow authors to build pages without the strict column structure. Web parts can be dynamically resized and moved within the flexible section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395213

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Teams

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (13)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Join Teams work meetings from Microsoft Teams (free) and vice versa – This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client. These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167326
• Microsoft Teams: Configure Teams meetings with protection for sensitive data on a mobile device – Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. The labels will follow all the rules that have been set by the administrators, and they will apply to the users in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=178013
• Microsoft Teams: Remove items from your activity feed – Users will be able to remove items they no longer need from their activity feed, helping the user stay on top of their notifications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181794
• Microsoft Teams: Green screen in Teams meetings – Green screen improves the sharpness and definition of the virtual background effect around your face, head, ears, and hair. It also allows you to show a prop or other object in your hand to be more visible to other participants in a call. The virtual background with a green screen provides the best virtual background effect, consuming fewer system resources, allowing your Teams to run smoother. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117941

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Survivable Branch Appliance support for call controls, auto attendants, and call queues – We continue to expand our Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) capabilities. We are adding support for call transfer, forwarding, and the ability to manage call routing settings for calls to a call queue or auto attendant, in the event of an outage. If incoming calls to a call queue or auto attendant are received during an outage, organizations will have the option to choose to redirect these calls to an alternate call queue or auto attendant or to reach a specific user within the site, ensuring that important calls are not missed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384066
• 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: Copilot in Teams meetings now available on mobile after the meeting – In addition to accessing Copilot in Teams during a meeting on mobile devices (available now), you can now access Copilot in Teams and ask questions about eligible meetings after the meeting ends on mobile devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384363
• Microsoft Teams: A single desktop app for all user types – Microsoft Teams on Windows and Mac will support every type of Teams account (work, school or personal) in a single desktop application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383006
• Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone – You can record a video clip with your phone camera and switch your background to any picture you want or make it blurry. With this feature, you can record yourself anywhere and share it with coworkers in your Teams chat or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380852
• 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 meetings Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93483
• Microsoft Teams: 4K local HDMI content sharing quality for Teams Rooms on Android – Users can see HDMI content in 4K quality on Teams Rooms on Android devices that support 4K HDMI input, when they share content without joining a Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380667
• Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Android using Teams mobile – Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their mobile device camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. The feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380674
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Home screen refresh for Teams Rooms on Android – The Teams Rooms on Android home screen matches the look and feel of Teams Rooms on Windows, enabling users to engage with a consistent Teams Rooms interface. The touch console features six action buttons and shows the room calendar on the right side of the home screen. A room tip appears at the bottom left corner of the front of room display for user education. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380687
• Microsoft Teams: Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center – Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374390
• Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users – This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the “External” label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375631
• Microsoft Teams: Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer – Users are now able to click through the annotation layer to interact with content in meetings without restarting the current annotation session. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=127900  

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested app – Users on teams will be notified when their IT Admin unblocks an app that was previously requested by the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389151
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Attach files from SharePoint Sites in the mobile app – Users will be able to browse, multiselect and attach files from SharePoint Sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395375
• Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms – With Microsoft Teams Rooms, participants can be distinguished automatically regardless of what kind of device is capturing audio in a meeting, and their contributions are attributed in the transcript, making meetings more inclusive and productive. Speaker recognition will be enabled for any in-person meeting participant who has completed the simple face and voice enrollment process, and is included on the meeting invitation. They can also see auto-generated meeting action items assigned to them, important decisions, and meeting highlights by using Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394668
• Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s – The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manage Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393926
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows – Easier discoverability of Workflows templates – Users will be able to discover which Workflows template was used when they receive a Workflows card in chats and channels. Teams Workflow cards posted from a template will now include a link to the template used. Users will be able to open the workflow template and create their own automated Teams workflows to save them time when completing routine tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393923
• Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks – With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to shared desks. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal and collect utilization data from these desks for proactive management and planning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=314430
• Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams – New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the existing VDI solution, providing enhanced performance, reliability, and security. It offers additional features such as advanced meeting capabilities and a simpler app update experience for users. This Roadmap entry applies to Windows endpoints connecting to Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375418
• Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=191528

Release – July 2024

•  Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers –  Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App – Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393931
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound – With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380681
• Microsoft Teams: Ultrasound proximity join admin controls for Teams Rooms on Windows – IT admins can use XML files to enable two proximity join settings for Teams Rooms on Windows: enabling ultrasound signals for a user to accurately find and choose a room to join a meeting from, and whether the Teams Rooms automatically accepts the ring from the user’s laptop to join the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381464

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium) – The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379980

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall – Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377703
• Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars – Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168524

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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 Stream: Copilot in Stream – Copilot in Stream leverages LLM (Large Language Model) AI technology to help you quickly get the insights you need from Stream (on SharePoint) videos. With Copilot in Stream you can quickly and effectively summarize any video with a transcript, or ask deep dive questions for topics you need to understand. This feature is only available for customers who have purchased the Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188616

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Loop available in Loop components in Teams and Outlook – People with a Copilot License can now leverage Copilot in Loop when they paste Loop components into the Teams app, Outlook, and Meeting Notes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393539
• 🆕 Outlook: Access Copilot directly in new Outlook for Windows and web – The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Windows and web. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388754
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms Smart Reminder to gain higher engagement from audience – Copilot smart reminder will monitor and proactively share engagement and submission status to a form’s owner in order to suggest follow-up actions. For example, when there is low engagement from audience, with the owner’s consent, it will auto-notify unresponded or all participants to pay attention and fill in the forms or quizzes. Also, Copilot smart reminder can remind owners to check the form’s insights when there are sufficient responses to make decisions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392845
• 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

Release – June 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help you create draft quizzes – To help teachers, staff, and information workers save time, Copilot in Forms can now generate ice breakers, fun trivia, quizzes, and assessments with correct answers, which helps users focus more on engagement and interaction with their audience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389148
• 🆕 Outlook: Access Copilot directly in classic Outlook for Windows – The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get from the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (“Work mode”), and in many other places is now available from within classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388753
• 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. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372895

Release – September 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning will act as a virtual learning companion, assisting users throughout their learning journey and providing personalized guidance, recommendations, and the ability to take actions. Users will be able to leverage Copilot to preview and consume courses from Copilot’s search results, create learning collections in a single click, and see highly relevant search results by asking questions in natural language. Copilot will be visible to users on the Home page, My Learning tab, course details pages, and on Academies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372245

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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 (4)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy template limit increase – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The clouds were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. 2nd Note: The status and launch phase were incorrect and are now updated to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156018
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – With this update, the maximum number of policies for each insider risk policy template increases from 5 to 20. 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=380178
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance-Cross policy remediation actions for enhanced remediation experience – Communication Compliance introduces the ability for an investigator to resolve every instance of a message across all policies with one Resolve action. Customers with several active policies may see the same message captured as a policy match in more than 1 policy: Instead of an investigator Resolving the same message multiple times, Cross Policy Remediation allows investigators to resolve every instance of that message at once. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382608
• Microsoft Graph: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Microsoft Graph APIs to manage retention labels and event-based retention – The first release of Graph APIs for Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management will enable organizations to create and manage retention labels, events, and event types for event-based retention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88276

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – 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; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146858
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 – Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383743
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Default classification for content matching trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – <div>In the Microsoft Purview compliance center, admins can view items that match trainable classifiers in Content explorer without first needing to create a policy. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93266

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Enable deletion of non-empty folders in SharePoint for Microsoft 365 and OneDrive for Business when under a retention policy – With this feature, end users can delete non-empty document library folders containing many files on a site managed by a retention policy. Additionally, this feature ensures that folders covered under a Retention policy and that have been deleted don’t reappear for users who sync a document library offline using OneDrive for Business. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394689
• 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

Rollout starts – June 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Policy service audit logs for policy changes – Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Policy service, like editing a policy configuration, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394280
• 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: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates – <div>You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can utilize these email templates to: inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more similar scenarios. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373310
• 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=336046
• 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
• 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

Rollout starts – July 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint – Improved DLP policy tip reliability – Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows now consistently show the same policy tips that SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business sites have determined should be shown on a file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383018

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392457
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392456

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