SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more.

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

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News – The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages. Roadmap ID:124827

Rollout starts – August 2024

• SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.? Use a brief prompt to generate custom sites and pages with content hierarchy, design, and sample content that aligns with user needs. And all within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124840

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Teams

• Launched (7)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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: Intelligent message translation in chats – When you get a message in a different language, you will see translation suggested to help you understand it better. In the settings, you can select which languages you don’t want to translate, and whether to translate messages automatically. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=99841
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap and meeting artifacts automatically shared in chat after meeting – Shortly after a meeting ends, meeting participants will automatically get a set of all the artifacts from the meeting in the meeting chat. Included in this set is a quick entry point to the meeting recap page, the transcript, the recording, Collaborative notes, any files that were shared, a link to any Whiteboard that was used, and the meeting details like date and time of the meeting event. For users with access to intelligent recap, in addition to the entry point to intelligent recap, users will also see highlights like number of speakers, number of name mentions, and suggested tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381121
• Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation – With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people’s voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advanced noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. Voice isolation  is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=125387
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join Teams Rooms on Android – IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android to ensure a level of security and privacy. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380747
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows in Chat – Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams chats. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180364

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center – Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179897
  Microsoft Teams: Workflows – Easier discoverability of Workflows templates – Users will be able to discover which Workflows template was used when they receive a Workflows card in chats and channels. Teams Workflow cards posted from a template will now include a link to the template used. Users will be able to open the workflow template and create their own automated Teams workflows to save them time when completing routine tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393923
  Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – July 2024

• 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: 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 login 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  

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Digital signage on Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. Admins can remotely configure tenant-wide and room-specific digital signage settings at scale from Teams Rooms Pro Management. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems are supported, initial partners are Appspace and XOGO. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400700
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through proximity join for Teams Rooms on Windows – When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Room on Windows with a companion device, in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400702
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Room video tile re-sizing based on people count for Teams Rooms on Windows – Using people count information, the room video tile is dynamically re-sized in Gallery view. If there is only one user in the room, the video tile will be the same size as the remote participant tile. If there is more than one user in the room, the room video tile will be 4x the size of the remote participant tile. Admins will be available to turn on/off the people count capability. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400706
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms – Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform’s in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400703
• Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams – Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398445
  Microsoft Teams: Export Q&A Questions – Event organizers can now export questions that attendees asked as a .CSV file, in order to better understand the questions asked and general sentiment in a meeting or event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398446
• Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel – In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395931
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby – Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392836
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows – Can’t find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382659
• Microsoft Teams: Skin tone setting and reactions – In Teams settings, users have the option to select their preferred skin tone. This preference will be applied to all emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings, allowing users to express themselves more authentically in conversations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323766
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet – You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381643
• Microsoft Teams: Custom background for Teams Rooms on Android – IT admins can upload custom background images on the Teams admin center to reinforce their company brand on their Teams Rooms devices. The main room display, extended room display, and touch console can each have its own specific background image. PNG, JPG, and JPEG, formats are supported. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380671
• Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive – We’re making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395378

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Restricted SharePoint Search – Restricted SharePoint Search (RSS) is a setting that will allow Global/Tenant and SharePoint Admins to disable organization-wide search and select a set of curated SharePoint sites. These selected sites, along with the users’ OneDrive files and content, will then become accessible in search and in the Copilot experiences. This means that whether you have Enterprise Search or Restricted SharePoint Search enabled, users in your organization will still be able to interact with their OneDrive information in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385352
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel chat helper – Customers can get more conversational answers to a broader range of Excel-related questions and prompts from Copilot. For example, the customer can ask how to accomplish a task and Copilot will respond with helpful steps that may include formulas to copy and use. In some cases, Copilot may explain a formula error and supply the corrected formula plus additional guidance to ensure the formula works properly.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394275
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Copilot works on any selection – Copilot will enable the edit box on any worksheet regardless of selection. Copilot will reason over the nearest table or data range to the customer’s selected grid area on the same worksheet. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396560
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Support for Data Ranges Resembling Tables – Copilot can now reason over data ranges with a single row of headers on top, even when they’re not Excel tables. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396561
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab team prompt publishing – This feature gives commercial customers the ability to publish Copilot prompts to groups within their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391636
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Custom chart and PivotTable creation – You can now ask for more specific charts and PivotTables, including specifying the x and y axis of charts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399423
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Summarize text columns – Copilot can analyze columns of text to give you summaries of the information. For example, Copilot will find the main themes in survey responses from open-ended questions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399425
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel support for 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Formula Conditional Formatting – Additional support for complex conditional formats beyond the basic top and bottom or conditional operators. For example, Copilot analyzes two factors when highlighting all rows where the product is bikes and sales is greater than 100. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392454

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated coaching by Copilot experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web – The new coaching by Copilot experience allows you to apply the coaching suggestions given by Copilot by requesting to rewrite the email message based on the feedback received when using coaching by Copilot. With this update, you can accept and make Copilot rewrite the email in one click based on those coaching suggestions. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392326
• 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
• SharePoint: Copilot in SharePoint – Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging web content.  Get assistance drafting your content when creating new pages. Adjust the tone, expand meeting bullets into structured text, or get help making your message more concise. All within our existing commitments to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124840

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Save Prompt, Share Prompt, and Try in App release – With this feature, users of Copilot in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote will be able to save prompts that they have created to Copilot Lab and share them with their coworkers. Also, users on the Copilot Lab website who find a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or OneNote prompt that they like will be able to launch Copilot and run that prompt with a single click of the new “Try in Copilot” button. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400710

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.  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=394281

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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 (1`)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Enable associated SharePoint sites to be excluded from retention policies after deletion of Modern Group – If a modern M365 group is deleted, the associated SharePoint has a retention policy, a file with a retention label, or a legal hold, it remains active but orphaned. These sites cannot be excluded from the retention policy after the deletion of the group because of designed modern group scope. The site-level holds are applied when a group is added to a retention policy and the Tenant-level holds are applied when the complete modern group workload is added to a retention policy. Currently, to remove such a hold, the customer has to raise an escalation. With the rollout of this feature, users will be able to exclude the orphaned SPO site from both site-level holds and tenant-level holds as a self-service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393962
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator – Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382106
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC).For example,– German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users; German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146858
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Ability to change retention period on labels set to start retention based on “When items were labeled” – Previously, admins could not change the retention period set on existing labels configured to start retention from when items were labeled. This feature will remove this restriction, and the resulting behavior will be consistent with other retention label types.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164865
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Surface existing non-Microsoft DLP policies with the migration assistant – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention migration assistant helps you transfer your non-Microsoft existing DLP policies to the Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort. This tool will automatically detect your policy configurations and create equivalent policies in the Microsoft Purview DLP environment. The v1 of the tool supports conversion of Symantec DLP policies only. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=109571
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Scope the administration of retention and retention label policies (U.S. government clouds) – Organizations can leverage Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory to define who can configure and manage policies in Microsoft Purview. This update will include the ability to set a Records Management admin for a specific geography, department, or other unit, who can manage retention and retention label policies for their unit. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117353
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Customized Retention Policies: Long-Term Retention – Releasing several new long-term retention policies as part of the 10-year Audit Log Retention add-on SKU. These include 3 years, 5 years, and 7 years. These are available for customers with the 10-Year retention license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176165
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New default retention for Audit (Standard) – The default retention period for Microsoft Purview Audit (Standard) will change from 90 days to 180 days.  The default retention period for Audit (Premium) remains at 1 year. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171161
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Information Protection Tracking and Revocation – File Registration – When a sensitivity label is used to encrypt an Office file, it is automatically registered for tracking, and previously label-protected Office files are registered the next time they are opened in an updated client. This only applies to local files. Compliance administrators can track and revoke access to registered Office files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=164208
• Microsoft Purview | Audit: Granular scoping with role-based access control (RBAC) – IT departments in large organizations are built in a way that some of the day-to-day tasks are delegated to specific people or roles in the organization following the industry standard of least privilege access. Admins have a need to delegate role-based permissions to users or analysts in a granular way. In some cases, this delegation is based on function, and in other cases it is based on geography or scope of work. In this release, Audit will provide role-based information with Audit search results through the UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=98145
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Incident management in Microsoft Defender portal (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature provides a singular view for incident management by making the Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention incident management experience available in the Microsoft Defender portal. Customers can import all DLP incidents into Microsoft Sentinel to extend correlation, detection and investigation across additional Microsoft and non-Microsoft data sources, and extend automated orchestration flows using Sentinel’s native SOAR capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117575

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA – The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383017

Rollout starts – July 2024

•  Planner: Microsoft Purview eDiscovery support for search and legal holds or similar – 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: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints – In Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP), auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392840
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats – When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, Teams standard and shared channel charts are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users or security groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401126
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Use sensitivity labels in Microsoft 365 apps when connected experiences are disabled – Your organization can now disable connected experiences for privacy concerns without impacting data security policies such as sensitivity labels. Services associated with Microsoft Purview (e.g. sensitivity labels and rights management) are no longer controlled by policy settings to manage privacy controls for Microsoft 365 Apps. Instead, these services will rely on their existing security admin controls in Purview portals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400716
  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA – The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397889
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA – The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384090
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167531

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats – When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, Teams standard and shared channel charts are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users or security groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401127
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only – Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395791

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy –
  Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=68688

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels  – Dynamic watermarking is a new sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400717

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 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

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels.  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=394281

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