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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
SharePoint
Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.
- Launched (1)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (1)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft 365: Microsoft 365 Backup – Microsoft 365 Backup Service is a product offering spanning across the OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange Online services that provides customers with a consistent, cross product solution, to recover their M365 data from cataclysmic events such as: at scale ransomware attacks, or malicious/accidental data deletion/corruption by end users. Microsoft 365 Backup Service is available on a pay-as-you-go basis and can be enabled through the Microsoft 365 admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188799
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Drag to order list items – Easily organize your list in the Microsoft Lists app by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380183
- 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
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – October 2024
- 🆕 SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – simple document processing model – A prebuilt model that uses OCR and AI to detect the primary language of the file, key-value pairs, tables, selection marks, and barcodes. As with other models, it can be configured to extract this information to specified library columns. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413430
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
Teams
- Launched (5)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (20)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft Teams: Avatar interaction improvements in Immersive space view – Introducing more avatar reactions and personal boundary on avatars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399553
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap with AI-generated notes and tasks for GCC environments – Enabling AI-generated notes and tasks within the intelligent meeting recap experience for GCC customers, expanding on the features within intelligent recap that are already available to GCC customers today (personalized timeline markers, speaker timeline markers, chapters, and topics). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399938
- Microsoft Teams: Show/hide discover feed – You will now have the flexibility to show or hide (turn off/turn on) discover feed. Users can access this new toggle from the general settings section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399783
- Microsoft Teams: 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: 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
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Teams: Text and UI resizing for Teams Rooms on Windows – IT admins can adjust the size of the text and all other UI elements on the front-of-room display by changing the display scaling settings. Text and UI elements are resized and adjusted for all supported display resolution and scaling combinations (1080p resolution at 100-150% scaling, 4K resolution at 100-300% scaling). This capability is extended to support touch boards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400707
- Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients – We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394269
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – September 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 – October 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Real-time notifications (Live Activities) for Teams meetings on iOS lock screen – iOS Live Activities integration for Teams meetings on mobile allows users to view the live progress of a meeting at-a-glance from their lock screen. Real-time notifications with Live Activities automatically update in real-time so users can see when the meeting has started, when it’s in progress, whether recording is on, when someone needs to be admitted from the lobby, and when the meeting has ended. Live Activities is for iPhones only (iOS16.1). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412616
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Education grid view refresh – Microsoft Teams for Education now has a new refreshed grid view, wherein you will directly be able to get to your assignments or classwork for your classes in grid view. This feature will make it easier and faster for you to get to your assignments, classwork or channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412934
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows – When attending a meeting in a Teams Rooms on Windows, users can now start or stop recording without having to join on their companion device. The start/stop recording button will be available as long as the meeting organizer is not a designated resource account. This feature is available Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412072
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS – With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412359
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for non-touch phones – Quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for non-touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature will enable one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411577
- Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment – Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410985
- Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams – If users want to change what appears behind them in their video meeting or call, they can either blur their background, use Teams virtual background templates, or with a Teams Premium license, they can change their Teams meeting background to a branded logo or image specific to their company. With this new feature, now users on the new VDI solution for Teams can also replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the ‘Video effects and Settings’ option. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410366
- 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: SharePoint Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401120
- 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: 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: 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: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739
Rollout starts – November 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413712
- Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401116
- Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401117
Rollout starts – December 2024
- 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
Rollout starts – June 2025
- Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in webinars – Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392328
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
OneDrive
- Launched (0)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (1)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- N/A
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – September 2024
- 🆕 OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer – A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410218
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
Copilot
- Launched (4)
- Rolling out (2)
- In development (7)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat – Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat usage metrics will be included in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 Usage report. This new feature provides additional usage insights and informs adoption strategy decisions for Microsoft Copilot in your organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377675
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files to ground prompts in Copilot with Graph-grounded chat – Browse OneDrive and SharePoint folders to find files for grounding prompts in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392011
- Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy support for additional external content – This feature includes the ability to support external content including Copilot Lab resources Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395377
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab is now available in Teams on iOS and Android – Explore and use suggested Copilot prompts in Copilot Lab in the Teams app on iOS and Android. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396557
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat – Ground prompts on local files when using Copilot with Graph-grounded chat by clicking “Upload” in the ContextIQ interface. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392010
- Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot – Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372895
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – August 2024
- Microsoft Graph: Graph API – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396562
Rollout starts – September 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in M365 Copilot – The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenia, and Vietnamese. They’re also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411778
- 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection – For users signed in with an Entra account, Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412356
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab – Share a prompt with a coworker – Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Lab, inspiring your co-workers to acheive more with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400710
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team – Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Lab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391636
Rollout starts – October 2024
- Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Lab – New and trending prompts – Keep track of new and trending prompts in your organization in Copilot Lab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400711
Rollout starts – January 2025
- 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot for Advanced Insights App – Copilot in Viva Insights simplifies the query-building process for analysts by suggesting metrics, filters, and attributes that are relevant to the analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399924
Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:
SharePoint
Viva
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview
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 (6)
- Rolling out (0)
- In development (16)
🍾 LAUNCHED
- 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: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Restrict unintentional sharing to unallowed cloud apps and services (macOS) – Ability to restrict unintentional sharing of sensitive items to unallowed cloud apps and services in macOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383739
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access – Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388737
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Trainable Classifiers in Server Side Auto-labeling – Trainable Classifiers are now available for server side auto-labeling policies in exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint. In addition to the 15 Classifiers that are already available, we have now launched 23 more Trainable Classifier to detect sensitive content such as IP and Trade Secrets, sensitive documents pertaining to important business functions such as Finance, Sales, HR, and Material Non Public Information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384094
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data loss prevention (DLP) support for trainable classifiers (U.S. Government clouds) – Trainable classifiers can be added as a condition for data loss prevention (DLP) policies, and enhanced templates and default policies will leverage trainable classifiers. Additionally, classifier-related information and alerts will appear within Activity explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93267
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Support for static and adaptive policy scopes for auto-apply retention labels targeting SITs in Exchange – Auto-apply retention labels targeting sensitive information types in Exchange will now support static include/exclude and adaptive policy scopes. Previously admins could only target all Exchange mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124920
🚂 ROLLING OUT
- N/A
⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT
Rollout starts – August 2024
- 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
- 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. 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=156016
Rollout starts – September 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Open locked records as read only – Files with retention labels marking them as locked records will now open as read only to prevent user edits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407068
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Barriers v2 support for all new onboarding customers – Microsoft Purview Information Barriers v2 (IB v2) is now available for all new onboarding customers. IB v2 has enhanced architecture which enables the following new features: Large-scale segment support: The segment limit in organizations has increased to 5,000. Multi-segment support: Users can be assigned to up to 10 segments. Flexible user discoverability: Organizations can now choose to allow IB-protected users to discover each other while adhering to IB communication and collaboration policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402516
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable – Document didn’t complete scanning – Document name matches patterns – Document size equals or is greater than Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374811
Rollout starts – October 2024
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages – Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413431
- 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.) – With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn’t complete scanning, document name matches patterns, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, and document name contains words or phrases. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410523
- 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 | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate – Currently in public preview, Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85604
- Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD) – Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85606
Rollout starts – February 2025
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates – We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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=409966
- 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
Rollout starts – March 2025
- Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Note: The month and status have been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369015


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