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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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
• SharePoint: Video Pages – Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application. Roadmap ID:124823
• SharePoint: eSignature – Microsoft’s native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from internal and external recipients for a PDF document in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the document leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168828

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring – Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time.   Roadmap ID:124853

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups – Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406554

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Teams

• Launched (12)
• Rolling out (7)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Loop components in Teams chat for GCC – Loop components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93163
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings – Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330
• Microsoft Teams: Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams admin center – Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen (including common area phones). Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388490
• Microsoft Teams: Advanced calling and contact management support on non-touch phones – On non-touch phones users can use advanced calling features such as park/unpark calls, busy on busy, auto restart, and manage contacts and contact groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388494
• Microsoft Teams: Optimize for Video setting for screensharing – Provide setting to optimize screen sharing for video clip by reducing the lag and improving the quality of video playback when sharing video clips in Teams meetings Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93483
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows – IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101332
• Microsoft Teams: User reported events in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management – When an end user reports an issue from a Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. 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=381430
• Microsoft Teams: Select the domain to choose for Teams Email Service – Admins will be able to select the domain to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375694
• Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat – Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375627

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
• Microsoft Teams: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center – If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395372
• Microsoft Teams: Channel cards – Channel cards will provide you quick overview of key information about what is happening within the channel, including who is in the channel and the purpose of the channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397883
• Microsoft Teams: Transfer Teams calls to mobile calls – When using Teams on mobile phones, users can now transfer their ongoing Teams calls to the phone’s native dialer, without any disruption or loss of context. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385349
• 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: 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: Easily manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing – We’re introducing a setting that allows Teams Phone Mobile users to opt-out of your presence automatically transitioning to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. When this setting is enabled, users will be able to continue to receive call notifications when presenting, without having to manually adjust their presence status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393228

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2024

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

Rollout starts – September 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: 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: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows – Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402517
• 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: 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 (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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•  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
• 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: 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=399785
• 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=399925
• Microsoft Teams: Shifts plugin for Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Frontline Managers can use the Shifts plug-in for Copilot to retrieve insights on shifts, open shifts and time off leveraging data from the Shifts app in addition to user and company  data it’s able to access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395783
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bing search integration brings the power of the web to your chats in Word – Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the power of integrated Bing search. And you never have to leave the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374035

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add brand images in M365 Copilot from SharePoint organization asset libraries  – Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406170
• 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel – Preview and “Apply” changes suggested by Copilot – Previously, when a user asked Copilot to make changes to their table data, Copilot would make the changes directly. Now, Copilot will respond with a description of the planned changes, along with a button to “Apply”. Users can choose to refine before applying. This provides more user awareness and control over Copilot’s changes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402191

Rollout starts – August 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=399922
• 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

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot takes emails and meetings into account while drafting content in Word – You will no longer need to reference certain types of organizational data for Copilot to generate contextually relevant content. People and chats will still need to be referenced explicitly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=405753
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Current web content included when drafting with Copilot in Word – Draft with Copilot will include information from Bing search, resulting in content that’s as current as what you would find when searching with Bing on the web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380839

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts – Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401124

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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 (21)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reporting improvements (Leverage policy insights) – Communication Compliance message details report will support additional user filter to create and download the report for specific users in the policy. The items per policy report will provide item counts and actions on the items matched in the specified date range. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=172017
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Message details report – This new Communication Compliance report provides a comprehensive summary of all activities and actions that have occurred against a policy, such as date sent, date flagged, reviewed by, message reconciliation, etc. By providing visibility into policy review activity, this feature can help organizations fulfill regulatory compliance obligations and better track the status and progress for unresolved policy violations. 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=93197
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Reporting improvements – Improvements in the message details reporting interface will help make it easier to create and download reports for specific users under scope of a policy, including number of alerts generated and remediation actions taken within a specified date range. 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=98187
• Microsoft Purview | Endpoint DLP – Advanced classification scanning and protection (U.S. Government clouds) – Advanced classification scanning and protection allows the Microsoft 365 cloud-based data classification service to scan items, classify them, and return the results to the endpoint device. This enables admins to include more advanced classification techniques, such as exact data match, into data loss prevention policies. Admins will also have the flexibility to set a per-device bandwidth limit for a 24-hour period to regulate bandwidth usage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93275
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management-New attributes and features for alert and case – With this update, Insider Risk Management will provide additional attributes for alerts and cases to make it easier to understand which alerts and cases should be prioritized. The additional attributes include details, such as the date the last activity was detected and the last working date of departing employees. In addition, admins with appropriate permissions can customize columns and save a preferred combination of filters and columns.   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=179385
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ending the Microsoft Purview legacy alerts ingestion into Microsoft 365 Defender portal – To increase the relevance of DLP alerts and incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, we are ending the flow of the following legacy alerts into Microsoft 365 Defender portal: eDiscovery Search started or exported, successful exact data match upload, retention auto-labeling policy simulation completed, unusual volume of DLP policy matches, failed exact data match upload, MIP autolabel simulation completed, unusual volume of external file sharing, unusual volume of file deletion. These alerts were created as a result of legacy standalone alert policies. For a better experience, we recommend using the alerting toggle in the DLP policy authoring experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373010
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Expand Investigation Pane to Full Screen for Data Loss Preventions alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender – The investigation experience is now improved with a key usability feature to expand the investigation pane to full screen while reviewing the details of a Data Loss Prevention incident or alert in Microsoft 365 Defender. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185813
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – With this update, we are adding several enhancements to DLP capabilities for macOS endpoints, including ability to create groups of USB, Printer, and Network share and apply different restrictions to different groups; support for most restrictive actions against multiple rule matches; and support for Network share exclusion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174662
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – File Name and File Path filters for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – We are enhancing the filtering experience for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal with the capability to filter the DLP alerts queues by File Name or File Path. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=180989
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered – With this update, PDF files with sensitivity label (and encryption) can be reasoned over in SharePoint Online, searched, or eDiscovered. Additionally, labels can be applied to the existing PDF files hosted in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85617
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints (U.S. Government clouds) – This update provides several DLP capabilities for macOS, including support for Bluetooth, ability to customize notifications, auto-quarantine, tamper protection, ability to create app groups and granular app restrictions policies, and support for Japanese language. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138589
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable document – We are releasing three predicates in the SharePoint DLP area that will provide protection of password protected, unscannable, and partially scannable documents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=138475
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=88816
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration – We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117424
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion – Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to reduce noisy signals. 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=164871
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered (US Government clouds) – With this update, PDF files with sensitivity label (and encryption) can be reasoned over in SharePoint Online, searched, or eDiscovered. Additionally, labels can be applied to the existing PDF files hosted in SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93203
• Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files – This feature enables you to label PDF files at rest via the auto-labeling engine as you would Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85618
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Office Apps on the Web can create PDFs that inherit the source files sensitivity labels – PDFs created from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will inherit their source files sensitivity labels in Office for the Web when the label is unencrypted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145119
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Email signature exclusion – Images in email signatures are by default treated as attachments, which could make it seem like a user is sending emails with attachments many times a day, creating many false alerts in Insider Risk Management. With this update, admins can choose to exclude images in signatures automatically to reduce noisy signals. 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=115499
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Configure inheritance of attachment labels to email messages (U.S. Government clouds) – Configure label policies for email messages with attachments to inherit labels that match the highest classification of those attachments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124887
• 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

•  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: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality – Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396570
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced privacy control: Limiting PII data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role – With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383745
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business-sensitive data to free public domain emails  – In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants.  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393334
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to create custom tags in Communication Compliance policies – Communication Compliance introduces the ability to create custom tags to give Investigators the flexibility of using tags that fit their team/ organization’s requirements. Leverage custom tags to leave more meaningful information for each policy match and to help other investigators understand the status of a message. Default tags will continue to be available for use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383136
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Activity Explorer – Limiting sensitive data access to “Data Classification Content Viewer” role – With this change, an additional role will be introduced which will be required to “View Source” content and expand on “Sensitive Info Type” surrounding context within Activity Explorer. Only users with the specific role of “Data Classification Content Viewers” will be able to access this sensitive data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392099

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2024

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

Rollout starts – August 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create allow directly in Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can create an allow inside the Tenant Allow/Block List to override bulk, spam, and regular confidence phish verdicts directly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406165
• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406166
• 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, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 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 Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes – Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395215
• 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=389840
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. 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=389842
• 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 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=117587

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Third party add-in user report can be sent to Microsoft for analysis – Admins and security analysts of organizations who use a third-party reporting add-in in Outlook can configure using user-reported settings to send their user reports to Microsoft for analysis and learning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406167
• 🆕 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, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 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: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes – Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397753
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities – Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392841
• 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

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails – In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399551

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=176155

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387502

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