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 (1)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Microsoft 365 Archive for Sites – The feature enables you to save on costs of storage exceeding the quota limit by archiving the inactive sites in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171100

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Viva: Connections Advanced Analytics – Enhancements to the current analytics module for Viva Connections will include the following: daily data for 90 days, user retention metrics, and monthly aggregates for the last 12 months. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384851
• SharePoint: Creators and recipients can view, track, and sign their SharePoint eSignature requests in Approvals in Teams – Users can track their SharePoint eSignature requests in the Approvals app in Teams. Users will be notified about new requests, updated about ongoing requests, and will be able to initiate signing within their flow of work in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385012

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 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

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand kit – Extended elements and tenant-wide rollout – Brand kit enables anyone to create and share brand asset collections including colors, fonts, and logos to easily apply brand elements while creating. This release adds support for images, backgrounds, stickers, video, and audio asset types. An organization’s official assets can now be rolled out tenant-wide via SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL). Brand kit creation, sharing, and manual usage is being made generally available to all Clipchamp for work accounts for users with standard access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398992
• 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

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Teams

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (13)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, so users can easily browse the meeting recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186429
• Microsoft Teams: new Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows – The new Teams app is now supported on Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing all Teams Rooms devices to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video more reliably. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381157

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap for transcript-only meetings (Premium) – Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. Intelligent recap features are also available as a part of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185802
• Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow – When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381734
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from three options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters, or (3) No one. This way meeting organizers will be able to manage which roles can initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. This functionality will be available to Teams Premium and Copilot for M365 licensed users.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116819
• 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings – The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389368
• Microsoft Teams: Webinar – Disable social share for attendees – Disable the ability for attendees to share the webinar event page to social networking sites for public events post-registration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393225
• Microsoft Teams: File Image preview in chats and channels – When you share documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF) in chat or channel conversation, you can see a thumbnail image of the file in the thread. This lets you preview the file’s content without opening it and find the file you need quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395936
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent call recap (Premium) – The Calls app in Teams will soon have AI-generated notes and action items from your calls, so you can pay attention to your conversations and save time coordinating next steps. Intelligent call recap will work for both VoIP and PSTN calls, and summaries will be generated from calls for which transcription was enabled. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393229
• Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link – Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325330
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage access to meeting artifacts such as meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot – Introducing a new meeting option that gives meeting organizers the flexibility to manage which attendees have access to meeting artifacts such as transcript, recording, AI-generated recap, and Copilot. Meeting organizers can select from three options: (1) People with existing access, (2) Organizers and Co-organizers, or (3) Specific People. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394688
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – June 2024

•  Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels – If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384065
• 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: Collaborative notes in GCC – Collaborative notes allow meeting 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 ToDo & Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381757

Release – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Message result suggestions when typing to search – You will now see message result suggestions when formulating a query. You can also narrow down search results to “messages” helping you quickly find Teams message content most relevant for you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398955
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Webinar presenter orderability on event page – Users can now customize the list of presenters in the webinar event page via drag and drop functionality. This option can be found under the “Presenter Bio” section of the webinar set-up dialog box. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399465
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Show/hide discover feed – You will now have the flexibility to show or hide (turn off/turn on) discover feed. Users can access this new toggle from the general settings section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399783
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Turn On/Off notifications for a post – Users will now be able to opt in/opt-out from receiving notifications for a post in a channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399782
• Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view – Introducing more avatar reactions and personal boundary on avatars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399553
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time – You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397768
• 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
• 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: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android – Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode, provided the IT admin has enabled Direct Guest Join meetings for the room. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392822

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap with AI-generated notes and tasks for GCC environments – Enabling AI-generated notes and tasks within the intelligent meeting recap experience for GCC customers, expanding on the features within intelligent recap that are already available to GCC customers today (personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, chapters, and topics). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399938
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web – OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it’s in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We’ve added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We’ve also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395379

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•  PowerPoint: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot can create presentations from a PDF file – Copilot in PowerPoint will now be able to support automatically generating a presentation based on a PDF file. This is in addition to the existing support for automatically generating a presentation based on a Word document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft- 365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396344
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use a URL to reference supported 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word – Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=319970
• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference data from the Microsoft cloud when drafting with Copilot in Word – Draft with Copilot will allow users to explicitly add and reference specific mails, chats, meetings, and people.  Draft with Copilot will support attaching rich content from the Microsoft cloud—including emails and meetings—resulting in content that’s more contextually relevant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397095
• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Longer documents can be summarized in chat – Copilot in Word will be able to completely summarize documents that it could only partially summarize before. The upper limit is increasing to about four times more words. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399413
• 🆕Word: Reference PDF files in Copilot in Word – Users can now reference PDF files for Copilot to work with while generating content in Word. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399784
• 🆕Word: Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts – On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399918
• Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word – When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397096

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word – When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399921
• 🆕Outlook: Microsoft Copilot available in Outlook for Mac – The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get in the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (work mode) and in other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac. 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=395788
• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Receive coaching on your writing in Copilot in Word – The Copilot context menu will include an option for getting AI-generated coaching. Copilot will review the writing and offer suggestions for high-impact areas, such as logical structure, flow, and tone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399923
• 🆕Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380477

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word – When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394277

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts – On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399919
• Excel: Copilot in Excel – Copilot in Excel helps you do more with your data in Excel tables by generating formula column suggestions, showing insights in charts and PivotTables, and highlighting interesting portions of data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180180

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category – We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185700

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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 (13)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates –  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: 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
• 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 – Remove export limit in Device Onboarding page – Ability to export all from the device onboarding page without page limits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383742
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Forensic evidence (U.S. Government clouds) – The forensic evidence capability is an opt-in add-in to Insider Risk Management, helping customers’ security teams get visual insights into potentially risky user actions that might lead to a data security incident. Forensic evidence is off by default and policy creation requires dual authorization. Customers determine what triggers the feature and manage investigation processes. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked rolling out and has now been updated to reflect the current release phase. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.</span> </div><div> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117565
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection – Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day.” With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared with their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster.  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168630
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation – Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a security incident. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115496
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177297
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Justification text integration on web for Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Capturing justification text and showing this in Activity Explorer as a part of the label downgrade scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177301
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer – Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177302
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Content type for Teams meetings in Activity Explorer – Adding Teams meeting content type to Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=177362
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation – Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a security incident.   Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171725
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure display colors for sensitivity labels (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature will simplify the policy management experience by enabling administrators to set a label color in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal for their sensitivity labels. Once applied, labels will display this coloring within first-party and third-party applications that support reading the color property, such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (Win32 native apps), or Power BI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124794

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Analytics and Recommendations to understand risks, improve existing policies and improve posture – Microsoft Purview DLP overview page will have two new cards:  for DLP with 2 Cards that show Analytics with 1-click recommendations: Highlighting the key risk and the option to create a one-click policy to mitigate the risk, and Recommendation to fine tune existing DLP policies to make them effective and reduce alerts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383747
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117352

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Saved views in Activity explorer – During an alert investigation, analysts usually use various filters and columns in activity explorer to understand the risk activities that may lead to potential data security incidents. With this update, an Insider Risk Management analyst can quickly use a previously configured combination of filters and columns with one click. This can help analysts efficiently work through recurring activities without manually setting up filters every time. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377669
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management.   Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=335856
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been 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=93268

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access – Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes some minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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=400444
• 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Planner –Data eDiscovery in Microsoft Purview – Conduct a content search for eDiscovery and legal hold on Planner tasks in Microsoft Purview. The Planner data available for eDiscovery includes tasks shared with groups, along with the comments and attachments associated with those tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399550
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities – Activities performed by users like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history within the Purview Audit feature will now begin to generate Audit logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385346
• 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 Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection – Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the &quot;Risk levels for Adaptive Protection&quot; settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171735

Rollout starts – August 2024

•  Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate – Currently in public preview, Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and 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, 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=85604
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD) – Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and 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, 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=85606

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397771
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394279
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by risky users – Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. 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.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83964

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396575

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Adaptive Scopes operator support – Microsoft Purview adaptive scopes will be enhanced to include query support for “contains” and “not contains”. For more information on adaptive scopes, see the link below.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399940
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users – Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organization’s data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a user’s insider risk level.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392839
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146859

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