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 (4)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Autofill columns – This allows SharePoint Premium users to add natural language prompts to document library columns to extract or generate metadata from an uploaded file’s contents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389375
• 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
• Microsoft SharePoint: Resource Specific Consent – Introduction of new .Selected permissions and APIs to support granting applications permissions at all of the levels where it is possible to break inheritance today. This will apply to applications operating in either delegated or app-only mode. Roadmap ID:124842
• SharePoint: In-product feedback button – We are introducing an in-product feedback button to SharePoint, coherent with the rest of the M365 suite. This will provide the option to submit compliments, problems, or suggestions about UI/UX and feature functionality to Microsoft. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383405

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Enhancements to the Text web part – New features coming to the Text web part include enhancements to styling/formatting, bullets/numbered lists, and tables. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394278
• 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
• OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with Text – This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes, when those files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Users can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387807

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• Microsoft Clipchamp: Clipchamp for Education (A3 & A5) – Clipchamp enables rapid editing and creation of videos on OneDrive and SharePoint including features like trim, join, transitions, filters, text overlay, audio controls, screen/camera recording and more. Available via the web or Windows app for Microsoft 365 A3 and Microsoft 365 A5 SKUs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396288

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Teams

• Launched (9)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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: 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Redirect incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call notification – Allows users to easily redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call when receiving calls on a Teams certified phone device. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169887
• Microsoft Teams: App suggestions by task in In-context Stores – Users think about which tasks they need to complete such as creating a survey inside Teams. Now, app suggestions will be organized by tasks the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively. The task-based app suggestions will be added to the Tabs, Messaging Extension, and Bots in-context Stores.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122527
• Microsoft Teams: 4K local HDMI content sharing quality for Teams Rooms on Android – Users can see HDMI content in 4K quality on Teams Rooms on Android devices that support 4K HDMI input, when they share content without joining a Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380667
• Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Android using Teams mobile – Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their mobile device camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. The feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380674
• Microsoft Teams: Home screen refresh for Teams Rooms on Android – The Teams Rooms on Android home screen matches the look and feel of Teams Rooms on Windows, enabling users to engage with a consistent Teams Rooms interface. The touch console features six action buttons and shows the room calendar on the right side of the home screen. A room tip appears at the bottom left corner of the front of room display for user education. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380687

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: 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: Custom emojis and reactions – User can upload their own custom emojis and reactions to personalize their communication. Emojis will be available within the user’s  tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=80659
• 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: 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: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar – File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91163

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms on Windows – Intelligent speaker recognition is being enabled for all Teams Rooms on Windows environments, with intelligent speakers or on existing speakers via the cloud. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique “voiceprint” for each participant. Copilot in Teams can deliver meeting summaries, insights, and action items attributing contributions to individual speakers.  Users can enroll voices in the Teams Desktop. Learn more at the link below. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394668

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms – Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121269
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401116
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: EDU tenant type selection in policy wizard – Admins can now select tenant type for their institution from the policy wizard. This setting can be changed anytime from the wizard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402185
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional support for Teams Live Interpretation – With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the direction they want to provide translation in between the two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear from. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=403103
• Microsoft Teams: SharePoint Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401120

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 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

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401117

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows Devices support for presenters in town halls – Presenters can join and present from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) Windows device in a town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381425

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with Text – This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes, when those files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Users can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387807

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help you create draft quizzes – To help teachers, staff, and information workers save time, Copilot in Forms can now generate ice breakers, fun trivia, quizzes, and assessments with correct answers, which helps users focus more on engagement and interaction with their audience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389148
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 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 Loop: Copilot-assisted Loop Page Creation – Collaborate with Copilot to go from a blank page to a structured document ready for collaboration as quickly as possible. Start from scratch or select an existing page or template as the starting point and Copilot can modify it for the task at hand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=141443

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms aids students with step-by-step solutions for quiz questions – With Copilot in Forms quizzes, teachers can easily generate step-by-step solutions for each question. Teachers have the option to allow students to immediately view their results so they can see what they’ve mastered and where they need further studying using the step-by-step solutions supported by Copilot.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392843
• Microsoft Graph: Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396562

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab trending and recommended prompts – With this feature, customers will be able to see which prompts are new or trending within their organization and receive personalized prompt recommendations in Copilot Lab, powered by Microsoft Graph. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400711
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388742

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document rather than operating on the entire document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380821
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389851

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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 (9)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Teams. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate 15 new Microsoft Teams events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users. The following events will now be provided for all Audit Standard users: 1. MeetingParticipantDetail; 2. MessageSent; 3. MessagesListed; 4. MeetingDetail; 5. MessageUpdated; 6. ChatRetrieved; 7. MessageRead; 8. MessageHostedContentRead; 9. ChatCreated; 10. ChatUpdated; 11. MessageCreatedNotification; 12. MessageDeletedNotification; 13. MessageUpdatedNotification; 14. SubscribedToMessages; 15. MessageHostedContentsListed Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182243
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Exchange and SharePoint Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Microsoft Purview is expanding access to wider cloud security activity events for Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint. As part of the changes, standard users of Purview Audit will begin to generate four new Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint events that were previously generated only for Audit Premium licensed users: MailItemsAccessed, Send, SearchQueryInitiatedExchange, and SearchQueryInitiatedSharepoint. The following logs will differ based on the user’s license and additional metadata will be added to Exchange logs when the user is assigned an Audit Premium license: SensitivityLabel for MailItemsAccessed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380690
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to Copy Rule  – With this feature, admins will have capability to reuse existing rules and make slight edits instead of creating new rules from scratch every time. This will reduce a lot of manual re-work and boost their productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384872
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators – Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted and FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled. You will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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=388734
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improvements to “Deleting of SharePoint files/folders” indicators  – Today “Deleting of SharePoint files” and “Deleting of SharePoint folders” indicators include permanent file or folder deletion event operations FileDeleted, FolderDeleted respectively. With this update, these indicators also capture files/folders moved to recycle bin which includes FileRecycled, FolderRecycled, so you will see more activities being captured by these indicators. 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=389841
• Exchange: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Quarantine End User Allow and Block list management – We are Updating the experience for end user allow and block list management of their emails. With one click, end users will block emails from unwanted senders and prevent those emails from showing up in their default quarantine view anymore as well as in their Quarantine notifications. End users will also be able to allow emails from trusted senders and prevent future emails from those senders from landing in quarantine given there are no Admin overrides in place. End users will also have visibility into Admin overrides that led to a Quarantined email message if there is one.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380185
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – eDiscovery Graph API for purge enhancements to include Exchange items and expand purge limit from 10 to 100 – Now eDiscovery admins using the eDiscovery Graph APIs for purge to remove misplaced emails and or Teams messages from their storage locations can use the eDiscovery Graph API for both Exchange email items and Teams messages. In addition, the prior limit of 10 items per storage location will be expanded to 100 items per storage location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383743
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced multiple action experience from Threat explorer – SecOps can take multiple actions such as purging emails, submissions, and Tenant-level block actions through a single wizard on the bulk of messages. In addition, Tenant-level block URL and File actions are now available directly from Threat explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393937
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Default classification for content matching trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – In the Microsoft Purview compliance center, admins can view items that match trainable classifiers in Content explorer without first needing to create a policy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93266

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Planner: eDiscovery Support for Microsoft Planner – 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 Defender for Office 365: 45 days after last used for Allow – Admins can configure allows to be removed after 45 days from the last used date. This way they can keep ensuring the delivery of the emails till the filtering has learned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372670
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level – Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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=124972
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to delete indicator variants – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will be able to delete any of the indicator variants created. Deletion of variants will directly delete it from all the Insider Risk Management policies being used. Any old insights related to the variants will remain for future reference. 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=376697

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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 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=388737
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD – All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389854

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Cumulative Exfiltration Tuning – With this update, Cumulative Exfiltration Activities will not be detected and scored if the events have already been detected in a previous Cumulative Exfiltration Activity risk. This change will reduce noise for alerts generated from Cumulative Exfiltration Activity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402195
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer – With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=405118
•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page – This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393934
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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=145793

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Outlook: Estimating the Cost of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive and EndPoint – With OCR cost estimator, without incurring any bill and without providing azure subscription, admins will be able to estimate how much they will pay once they turn “ON” the OCR configuration for the selected locations and scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=160009

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Entity Clusters Identified in Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) – The feature will expand upon the automated investigation and response (AIR) by enabling AIR to automatically remediate malicious entity clusters. AIR currently recommends actions for SecOps to approve or decline and this enhancement will allow customers to enable auto-remediation to allow AIR to act on recommendations and soft delete messages included in a malicious URL or malicious file cluster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186576

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