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 (2)
• In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 backup storage – The new Microsoft 365 Backup Storage API enables developers to build customized versions of their applications that are integrated with the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform. This helps to ensure exceptionally fast recovery from typical business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) scenarios, such as ransomware attacks, accidental/malicious deletion, or overwriting of content by employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399552
• SharePoint: Creators and recipients can view, track, and sign their SharePoint eSignature requests in Approvals in Teams – Users can track their SharePoint eSignature requests in the Approvals app in Teams. Users will be notified about new requests, updated about ongoing requests, and will be able to initiate signing within their flow of work in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385012
•  SharePoint: Out-of-the-box document library templates – We are bringing the goodness of List templates to SharePoint document libraries. Creating document libraries will now be a breeze with our ready-made templates with scenario relevant content, structure, metadata, and content types – all to save you time and maintain broader consistency across your content management organization.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124879

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – Page range setting for prebuilt and structured models – This creates a new setting for prebuilt (contract, invoice, and receipt) and structured/freeform models to specify the file pages to be processed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398960
• Microsoft Clipchamp: Brand kit – Extended elements and tenant-wide rollout – Brand kit enables anyone to create and share brand asset collections including colors, fonts, and logos to easily apply brand elements while creating. This release adds support for images, backgrounds, stickers, video, and audio asset types. An organization’s official assets can now be rolled out tenant-wide via SharePoint Organization Asset Libraries (OAL). Brand kit creation, sharing, and manual usage is being made generally available to all Clipchamp for work accounts for users with standard access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398992

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2024

• SharePoint: SharePoint Pages – Design Ideas – By integrating with the Microsoft Designer service, we can now offer authors beautiful ways to improve the look and feel of their SharePoint pages. This is done through tailored section level design suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124846

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (10)
• In development (24)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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: Prevent user from sharing content in externally hosted meetings (Premium) – If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person attending the externally hosted meeting can decide in which externally hosted meetings the user can share their content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=363424

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Microsoft 365 admin centers –  Manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and Microsoft 365 App – Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage Teams apps that work on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App will be able to apply their changes across all three clients (Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App). Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, management of these apps will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 App.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393931
• Microsoft Teams: Simplifying the personal app header – Microsoft Teams personal apps will start showing a new simplified header bar on Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients. With this change, the “About” tab and other utility actions will be moved to the overflow menu. In addition, the “Chat” tab will be moved to a right-hand side panel for apps that support it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396166
• Microsoft Teams: Users will now be notified when their admin unblocks a requested app – Users on teams will be notified when their IT Admin unblocks an app that was previously requested by the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389151
• Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center – App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: ‘Deployed to all users’, ‘Deployed to specific users and groups’, or ‘Deployed to no users’. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394274
• Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph API’s – The Approvals Graph APIs allows developers to create and manage Approvals from any application. This set of APIs allows users to integrate Approvals with line of business application and automate creation and updates of approvals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393926
• 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: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC) – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395373
• Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC) (Premium) – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395374
• Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in chat – The Files tab in chat is now ‘Shared’. The shared tab shows all the files and links that were sent in the chat, making it easier to find them- all in one place. Channels are not affected by this change. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396169
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2024

• Microsoft Viva: Campaign Enhancements – Targeted campaigns and campaigns in the digest – Corporate communications and campaign managers will now have the capability to effectively promote their campaigns by sending notifications directly to users, ensuring they are promptly informed about new campaigns and can readily participate in them. Additionally, campaigns will be discoverable in the engage digest, enhancing visibility and engagement opportunities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382924

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams admins in education will now be able to create and publish custom team templates – Education IT admins can now create team templates from Microsoft Teams admin center. As an admin, you can use templates to easily deploy consistent teams across your organization. With templates, your users can quickly create rich collaboration spaces with predefined settings, channels, and apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408527
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409534
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Native controls for Group Framing, Active Speaker and Edge Composed IntelliFrame – Users will be able to toggle certain camera capabilities provided by the camera OEMs natively on Teams Rooms on Windows. Capabilities covered with this feature includes group framing, active speaker framing, and edge composed IntelliFrame. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409537
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready – Intelligent meeting recap users will receive a notification in Teams Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready. Clicking on the notification in Activity feed will take users right to the intelligent meeting recap experience, which will be visible to the right of the Activity feed. Users can configure their notification settings in Teams settings > Notifications and activity > Apps > Meeting Recap to control where the notification is surfaced (Activity and banner, Activity only, Off) as well as which meetings have notifications enabled (for only meetings with RSVP selection of “Follow,” or all other meetings, or both). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408529
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile – This update allows presenters who were invited using the external presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409228
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars – This feature will now allow event organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars. These labels are visible to organizers when creating an event instance once selected, and notify organizers if the details of the event being created are not valid for the selected sensitivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409226
• 🆕 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: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC – Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395935
• Microsoft Teams: 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: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings – Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394670
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls – This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393227
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars – This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392826
• Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) – If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391639
• Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound – With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380681
• 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: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=329253
• Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows –With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95680

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Outlook: OneDrive for Business Opens in-app for Outlook on the web – Quickly access your OneDrive without having to leave Outlook! Previously, the OneDrive button in Outlook opened a new tab for OneDrive; with this change, you will see OneDrive inline for a consistent and fast experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369520

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
• 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
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community – We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392100
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard delegation – Users can delegate access to the Copilot Dashboard to others within their company. Admins can set policies to manage access to the delegation feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398976

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 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
• Outlook: Apply coaching suggestions for Coaching by Copilot – Apply coaching suggestions will allow users to request a complete rewrite of their email based on feedback from Coaching by Copilot and in one click, accept and rewrite their email with those suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392326
• 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 – 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 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
• Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience – Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397092
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can generate quizzes from provided materials – Generating quizzes from provided materials is one of the most commonly requested features in the education industry, and it is now available in Forms. To save time, users can create quizzes from documents, textbooks, or notes using Copilot. Copilot can create draft quizzes based on the provided materials and users’ prompts. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389149
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Bring the latest from your organization into your Word chats with Microsoft Copilot Graph-grounded search – Ask Copilot a question in Word chat, and Copilot generates an answer using the rich, people-centric data and insights in the Microsoft cloud. That’s the power of Copilot and Microsoft Graph. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374025
• 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=374045

Rollout starts – September 2024

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to search for answers from the web – Use Copilot in Excel to search for answers from the web and add it to your Excel workbook.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406555
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy visibility for users with Copilot SKU and VL Seeded/Premium – Microsoft Copilot Academy will be available for all users with a Copilot for Microsoft License and any of Viva Learning licenses (Seeded or Premium). Admins will also be able to control visibility of Copilot Academy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407387
• 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 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 – March 2025

• Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals – M365 Copilot plugin to search and catch up on goals – The M365 Copilot plugin for Viva Goals empowers you to effortlessly search and pull quick summaries of your team’s OKRs right within Teams. Stay ahead of the game by identifying key risks based on the progress and status of your team’s OKRs, all seamlessly integrated into the flow of work. Unleash the potential of combining Viva Goals data with M365 information, providing your team with a holistic view for improved productivity and collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383012

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Viva: Copilot assisted goal update in Viva Goals – Easily generate a draft update for a goal with less effort by synthesizing progress and status and form subgoals and related work tailored to your preferences through a selection of dynamic check-in templates. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383009

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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 (4)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Cloud egress groups (macOS) – Restrict sensitive files that match your policies from being shared with unrestricted cloud service domains. Restrict the use of specified web browsers, identified by their executable names. The specified browsers are blocked from accessing files that match the conditions of an enforced a DLP policy where the upload-to-cloud services restriction is set to block or block override. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383738
• 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 – OCR support in Insider Risk Management – With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Note: The launch dates were incorrect and have now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Note: The launch state was incorrect and has now been changed to reflect the correct state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117606
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New Teams Logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – <div>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 </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=182242

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Compliance boundary cmdlet tool for managing compliance boundary property – This cmdlet allows users to verify the compliance boundary property of a specific OneDrive site, ensuring that the value is correctly configured. If the property is not set or if the site is in arbitration, users can use this cmdlet to assign the property value for the site for compliance boundary to take effect. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397091

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2024

•  Outlook: Outlook Mobile – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender – The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371383
• Outlook: Outlook for Mac – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender – The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for Mac can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371393
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. 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 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=377674
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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=93324

Rollout starts – September 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements – Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408172
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions – Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408533
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Enrich triage in Communication compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408534
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – 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=117425
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – 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=117523
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements – Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398458

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397771

Rollout starts – November 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced alert and user investigation using Copilot for Security in Insider Risk Management – When investigating alerts within Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, you can now harness the power of Microsoft Copilot for Security. This tool not only provides concise alert summaries, but it also allows you to delve into specific user activities. By doing so, you can promptly assess whether the user associated with the alert warrants further investigation or if the alert can be safely dismissed. Additionally, with just a click, you can obtain a succinct summary of the user’s risk profile, highlighting crucial details and top risk factors. Leveraging Copilot for Security streamlines investigations, ultimately reducing the triage workload and enabling faster decision making. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407864
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Updated permissions – Microsoft Purview AI Hub supports updated permissions including the Microsoft Purview Compliance Administrator role group, Microsoft Purview Security Reader role group, and Microsoft Purview Content Viewer Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408542
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Prompts and responses – Within Microsoft Purview AI Hub, prompts and responses will appear for AI interaction events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408545

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Bulk upload for Priority User Groups – Insider Risk Management Priority user groups will now support bulk upload capabilities.  An IRM administrator will be able to upload a CSV of UPNs that they would like to add to a new or existing priority user group. 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=409540

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Potential high impact user experience enhancements – We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user.&nbsp;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. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=156016
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support – Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users.  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=171717

Rollout starts – March 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time policy alert prediction based on the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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=379477

Rollout starts – June 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management – Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they don’t have too few or too many alerts from a policy. 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=122280
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- OCR support in Insider Risk Management – With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the scanning technique of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to detect potentially risky activities that may lead to data security incidents related to images in SharePoint, Teams messages, and endpoints. 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=171185

Rollout starts – July 2025

• Outlook: Outlook Mobile – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender – The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371383
• Outlook: Outlook for Mac – Junk/Phishing Reporting Actions Integrated with Microsoft Defender – The appearance and behavior of Report Phishing/Report Junk actions in Outlook for Mac can be controlled by admins using User Reported Settings in security.microsoft.com. Admins will be able to control whether these Report actions appear in Outlook, where these messages get reported to, and whether the user is prompted when they report phishing or junk. Admins will also be able to customize text and other aspects of the dialogs that appear before and after users’ report phishing or junk. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371393
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour (U.S. Government clouds) – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. The alert will be reviewed by a policy investigator, who is explicitly granted permission to review policy alerts by the Communication Compliance admin role. 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=93324

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Potential high impact user experience enhancements – We will make some minor experience changes for when a user has been detected as a potential high impact user whose activities may lead to potential data security incidents. These changes will include improving accessibility and providing more prominent highlighting of the reasons for being detected as a potential high impact user. Additionally, we will provide additional descriptors regarding how the risk score booster is applied to the user.  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=171720

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