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 (2)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (6)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Updates to file viewer – The OneDrive file viewer offers a quick and easy way to view your files in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, across all your devices. OneDrive is enhancing the user interface and design of the file viewer to make it more useful and intuitive. We are adding a new toolbar, new panes, and collaboration features. Additionally, the file viewer will open files up to 50% faster once these updates launch. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381752
• Microsoft Stream: New “Add to playlist” functionality – We are updating the functionality of the “Add to playlist” feature in Stream. Soon you will be able to add a video to playlists stored in SharePoint sites while viewing the video in the Stream web app. To add a video to a playlist in a SharePoint site you must be a member or owner of the site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145216

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Image shapes – We’re adding the capability to apply a shape over the image web part as well as on inline images in the text web part. Shapes include square, circle, triangle, hexagon, pebble, and teardrop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395210

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: eSignature sequential signing – Sequential signing enables the creator of an eSignature request to specify the sequence of recipients. The document is first signed by the initial recipient in the sequence, then forwarded to the subsequent recipient for their signature. This process continues in the designated order until every recipient has added their signature. Once everyone has signed, the signed document is made available to all involved. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398990
• SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News – We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386904
• SharePoint: 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

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – Page range setting for prebuilt and structured models – This creates a new setting for prebuilt (contract, invoice, and receipt) and structured/freeform models to specify the file pages to be processed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398960
• 🆕 Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 backup storage – The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399552

Rollout starts – January 2025

•  Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482

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Teams

• Launched (14)
• Rolling out (8)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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
  Microsoft Teams: Live Share support for Chat, Channel, and Collaborative Stageview tab applications – Microsoft Teams applications that use Live Share for building real-time collaborative experiences – previously limited to Meeting Stage and Side Panel tabs – will be able to extend to Chat, Channel, and Collaborative Stageview tabs on desktop and web. Live Share enables collaborative features such as co-watching, co-creating, and co-editing content in real time. All applications enabled in your tenant using the existing Live Share permission will be eligible for this feature. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=38914
  Microsoft Teams: 4K display UI scaling for Teams Rooms on Windows – 4K-enabled displays, including front of room displays and touch boards, are natively supported on the Teams Rooms experience. Additional disclosure: 4K video is not supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380856
  Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows 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 native mobile 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. This feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization settings and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381460
  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: Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows – Meeting Chat is now shown by default when joining a Teams meeting with Teams Rooms on Windows in Gallery View, making it easier to see incoming chat messages on the front of room display. IT Admins can configure the default chat experience for a room, and users can make in-meeting changes to show or hide the chat using the touch console. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332424
  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: Ability to change language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can change the default app language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows by tapping “More” and then “Language” on the room console. Admins can select up to three languages that users can pick from in the room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380752
  Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing webinar for simplified event creation – Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375177
  Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation – Organizers can schedule a new town hall by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=376853
  Microsoft Teams: Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium) – When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371690
  Microsoft Teams: The new Microsoft Teams app – The new Teams has been reimagined from the ground up, delivering up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory. It enables users to collaborate with people across organizational boundaries by seamlessly using Teams across multiple tenants or accounts. Note: We are updating the roadmap Environments and Platforms to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Note: We have reverted the release phase to show the current state. Thank you for your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122540

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
  Microsoft Teams:  Draggable Presenter Toolbar while screensharing – Introducing the ability for presenters to freely drag Presenter Toolbar appearing on top of screen while screensharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394270
  Microsoft Teams: Closed captioning support in Teams Walkie Talkie – Walkie Talkie users can now view captions on the walkie talkie home screen, for transmissions being received. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396558
  Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business – With this change Teams meeting recordings will be saved to the meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business instead of to the OneDrive for Business folder of the person who initiated the recording. This improves the compliance of recordings as meeting organizers can then manage access permissions and recording file management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116251
  Microsoft Teams: Easily manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing – We’re introducing a setting that allows Teams Phone Mobile users to opt-out of your presence automatically transitioning to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. When this setting is enabled, users will be able to continue to receive call notifications when presenting, without having to manually adjust their presence status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393228
  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: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783
  Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings – Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June 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. Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332800
  Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the view, download, and delete experience of Teams meeting transcript files – We are streamlining the storage of meeting transcript files. Starting with this feature, all meeting transcript entry points in Teams app will point to the OneDrive for Business copy only. The rollout of this feature also improves the delete experience of the transcript for meeting organizers. Now, when a meeting organizer or co-organizer deletes the transcript in Microsoft Teams app, this will delete both copies of the transcript (from OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online) at the same time. If the meeting organizer deletes the transcript from Stream, only the copy in OneDrive for Business will be deleted. We also update the default permissions so that meeting organizer and co-organizers 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, the recording/transcript file owner will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript. At the same time, meeting transcripts will stop saving in Exchange Online altogether and all transcript storage will be standardized on OneDrive for Business.  Note: We have updated the description to provide greater clarity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365720

Release – July 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view – Introducing more avatar reactions, personal boundary on avatars, and improved active speaker indication on avatar name tags. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399553
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Show Chat info in Microsoft Teams – Chat users can have access to contextual information including members, pinned messages, shared files and links, and entry point to contextual search from this canvas. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398956
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: School Connection –  Providing access to parents via their phone number – The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams (mobile) empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student’s learning at school. This release enables a parent/guardian to get access to their child’s profile in School Connection if they login to Teams (mobile) with their phone number and the school has registered that phone number as a parent/guardian contact. Additionally, a parent/guardian will easily get access to their child’s profile if the phone number or email address that is registered by the school is saved as a contact information in their Microsoft account. Learn more about School Connection at the link below. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398447
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Teams premium feature usage report for administrators in Teams admin center (Premium) – Teams Premium feature usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) will help administrators understand the usage of various Teams Premium features across users in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398709
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window – When meeting window is minimized, participants can enlarge the small view of Teams meeting to a new bigger gallery view, making it easier to multitask on screen and stay aware of meeting events. Users can choose the size of the minimized gallery view window from the following options: one participant visible in the minimized window, 4 participants visible in the minimized window, fully minimized, or fully expanded. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398449
• Microsoft Teams: Hiding of inactive channels – Easily keep your channels list relevant. Teams will automatically detect inactive channels you haven’t interacted with in a while, and automatically hide them for you. You have the option to review the list of channels and unhide some or all of them, opt out of automatic hiding from settings, or initiate this process on demand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325780
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced sound notification controls – You can change the sound of your notifications to help you stay focused, prioritize quickly and avoid distractions. You can as well make urgent notifications and priority contact notifications more prominent. You can also mute notification sounds when you are busy or in a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93487
• Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts – Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394351

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC – Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395935
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery – With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397089
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account – When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
• 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: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95680

Rollout starts – January 2025

•  Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482

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OneDrive

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Updates to file viewer – The OneDrive file viewer offers a quick and easy way to view your files in OneDrive, Teams, and SharePoint, across all your devices. OneDrive is enhancing the user interface and design of the file viewer to make it more useful and intuitive. We are adding a new toolbar, new panes, and collaboration features. Additionally, the file viewer will open files up to 50% faster once these updates launch. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381752
• OneDrive: Navigation updates in OneDrive for Web – OneDrive for Web will soon support the ability to expand or collapse the left navigation bar. Additionally, OneDrive will have a new command, in the form of a button labeled “+ Add new”, for creating new content and uploading files/folders. This command will be available across Home, My Files, Shared, Favorites, Recycle bin, and all Shared libraries in the Quick Access section. Note: upload functionality will be accessed via the “+ Add new” command. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146068
• OneDrive: Color and font changes in OneDrive for Web – We are introducing minor color, font, and icon changes to user interface on OneDrive for Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146071

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 backup storage – The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399552

Rollout starts – January 2025

•  Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482

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• 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 Viva: Viva Engage Copilot – 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-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168609

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Draft with Copilot in Word based on text, list, or table selection – Use Draft with Copilot in Word with the on-canvas Copilot menu when a user selects text, a list, or a table. This generates new content from Copilot and provides a richer, more interactive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373720
• Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Proactive document summarization – Automatically see a Copilot-generated summary of a document you open. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397096
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms helps you collect more responses to your surveys or quizzes – Copilot in Forms assists form owners by recommending optimal distribution channels and settings for sending forms or quizzes. This includes leveraging email, social media, and QR codes to maximize the benefits of digital forms and quizzes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392844
• 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, if engagement is low, forms owners can leverage Copilot to send reminders for forms or quizzes quickly. Also, Copilot smart reminder can remind owners to check the insights when there are sufficient responses to make decisions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392845
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New proactive assistance in Copilot  – Catch-up is a new experience in Copilot which aims to proactively help users catch up and take action on important updates. It contains a group of cards. Each card has an update related to an important meeting or document. It will work in M365chat and Teams Copilot. It shows up as a tab on the home page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388746
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community – We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392100

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕Excel: Formula data summaries in rows and cells – Add a single formula to summarize column data into one cell. Today, full column calculations produce a unique result in each row, but this new feature gives you the option to calculate all data in a column together to return one result. You can also create a row with formulas that apply for relevant columns; for example, an “add total sales row” will add a SUM formula underneath every column that has sales data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398989

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meeting chat will take the meeting transcript into account – When you ask Copilot in the meeting chat a question, it will use the chat and transcript content as the source.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019

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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 (1)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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: Data Loss Prevention- Enriched Data Loss Prevention Alert Email Notifications for DLP Admins – There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admin upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy details, device details, and more. This will help admins quickly assess the priority of an alert and determine the next steps before navigating to the Microsoft Purview DLP alerts page or Microsoft 365 Defender DLP alerts page.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369645
  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exchange Auto-labeling supports non-mail enabled security groups – Service side auto-labeling now supports scoping of exchange auto-labeling to non-mail enabled security groups.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184909

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: Data Loss Prevention – Customization and preview of email notifications – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced customization options: 1. Extensive Token Support which provides precise details to end users using the expanded token library. 2. DLP Exchange rule matched email attachment control to choose to include/exclude matched email as an attachment in end-user notifications. 3. Tailored Email Content to customize the sender display name and email body using HTML, markdown, or plain text. 4. Ability to preview the email notification to ensure it meets your requirements.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381748

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

•  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: 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 Defender for Office 365: False positive email release from Quarantine through threat explorer, email summary panel, advanced hunting, and custom detection email entity page take action – SecOps can now mange False positives and take move to inbox (i.e. release) quarantined messages from Threat explorer, advanced hunting, custom detection and Email entity page without the need to tab out to the Quarantine portal to take the action.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=184915

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails – In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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=399551
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality – Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396570

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property – This cmdlet allows users to verify the compliance boundary property of a specific OneDrive site, ensuring that the value is correctly configured. If the property is not set or if the site is in arbitration, users can use this cmdlet to assign the property value for the site for compliance boundary to take effect.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398451
  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies – The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392838
  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality – Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396571
  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy wizard enhancements – To enhance the user experience for editing and creating policies, we will be making improvements to the Trigger, Trigger threshold, Indicator threshold, and Summary pages of the policy wizard. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=368825

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience – A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189826

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171751
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery in new Microsoft Purview Portal – Introducing a modernized user interface for key eDiscovery workflows, with simplified creation for cases, searches, and holds. Enhanced data source management allows for easy mapping of all data locations for users, groups, or Teams, with the ability to query location changes and frequent collaborator mapping. New search features include the ability to conduct precise searches using identifier (message ID), sensitivity labels, audit log, or evidence file. View key search statistics trends, including top data sources, sensitive information types, and content types. Long-running processes such as add to review and export now provide full visibility on progress and ETA, with detailed reporting on settings, query input, and item-level location reporting upon completion.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383744

Rollout starts – January 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386900

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels).Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386901

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