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 (2)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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
• SharePoint: New Banner web part (updated title area) in SharePoint Pages and News – We’ve made some improvements to the title area on top of the page experience. 1 – Title area is removable now, which is no longer required on your page. 2 – Rebranded the title area as a Banner web part with new layouts! You can add one or more banner(s) to any column of your page, including a full-width section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386904

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Introducing custom fonts for SharePoint – Fonts are more than just letters and symbols, and we’ve heard you. We’re bringing font customization to your SharePoint and Viva Connections experiences with the brand center. Express your personality, style, and brand by adding custom fonts to your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375490
• SharePoint: Centrally manage branding for your organization – We’re introducing new branding and management capabilities that you can use to improve consistency across your sites and pages. Roadmap ID:124838
• SharePoint: Create themes for SharePoint in brand center – We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into the brand center, allowing you to easily create and manage themes for your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375495
• SharePoint: Adobe Acrobat Sign Integration with SharePoint eSignature – SharePoint users who are also Adobe Acrobat sign customers can initiate eSignatures directly from PDF documents. The eSignature request will be processed by Adobe and a copy of the signed document will be automatically saved in SharePoint after signing. This reduces the risks of potential data leakage that customers often report as they move sensitive documents between SharePoint and 3rd party eSignature platforms. Manual download or upload of documents will no longer be required when initiating the request or when saving the signed documents back to SharePoint for long term storage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382129

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance – Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within “Content shared with everyone except external users” report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all “Sharing link” reports as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414525
• 🆕 SharePoint: Auto-run Data Access Governance (DAG) reports – You can now schedule to run your DAG reports automatically every 28 days and also receive notification when the auto-run completes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414526

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Restricted Content Discoverability – This restricts sites from discoverability in organization-wide search and Copilot experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416065

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (21)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Reactions in Town halls (Premium) – Participants can use reactions (like, love, applause, laugh, surprised) to express themselves during a town hall and the reactions appear as a continuous stream on the side of the screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381447
• Microsoft Teams: Join Zoom meetings with an ID and passcode from a Teams room on Android – Teams Rooms on Android can now join Zoom meetings with an ID and a passcode, provided the IT admin has enabled Direct Guest Join meetings for the room. Learn about how to enable Teams Rooms devices to join third-party meetings at the link below. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392822
• Microsoft Teams: View attachments for Meetings in Teams Calendar – File attachments added to a meeting invite in Outlook desktop or web app are now visible for invitees in Teams calendar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=91163

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Teams Meetings will take the meeting chat into account – When you ask Copilot in Teams Meetings a question, it will use the chat and transcript as the source.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
• 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: Custom background on Teams panels – Administrators can upload and set custom background images for Teams panels through the Teams admin center, enabling them to reflect their organization’s branding. This feature will be available for Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Devices licensed panels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402183

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Meeting options to control participants’ ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby – Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings on who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392836

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams menu bar icon with Presence on Mac – Introduction of a Menu Bar icon with a flyout for common workflows that reduces clicks and simplifies checking for at-a-glance information like the presence status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416069
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings – This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411568
• Microsoft Teams: All your teams and channels view – A new ‘your teams and channels’ view provides you with a centralized hub where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels from one page. This interface streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411779
•  Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401120

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: 3×3 video gallery on dual displays for Teams Rooms on Android – Dual display rooms are now capable of presenting up to 18 videos (3×3 on each screen) when no content is being shared during meetings. This enhancement ensures a uniform experience across both Windows and Android Teams Rooms devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415239
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414513
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android – Admins can switch the screens of Teams Rooms on Android devices in dual display mode remotely, correcting front-of-room display issues without physical support. The screen swap control is accessible in device settings and the Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415243
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android – Admins can switch the screens of Teams Rooms on Android devices in dual display mode remotely, correcting front-of-room display issues without physical support. The screen swap control is accessible in device settings and the Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415243
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android – Users can rate how likely they are to recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms from 1 to 5 as well as provide additional comments on Teams Rooms on Android devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415245
• Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for Report a problem – Admins can designate an email address for receiving ‘Report a problem’ submissions from users in Teams Rooms on Android. The email address can be set through device settings and the Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415247
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions – Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412360
• Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization – With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411138
• 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
• 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Queues app on Teams phone devices – Queues app on Teams phone devices enhances call management capabilities by allowing agents to handle incoming calls, view call queues, and manage call history directly from their Teams phone devices, improving efficiency and ensuring effortless communication for agents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416282
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for common area phones – IT admins will be able to manage and add contacts to Teams phone devices deployed in shared spaces through the Teams admin center. This ensures users across the organization can easily call important contacts, such as emergency numbers or help desks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416284
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2024

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment defaulting to ‘On’ – The new policy gives IT admins enhanced flexibility with distinct settings for voice and face enrollment. This adjustment provides greater control over managing these features, allowing organizations to tailor to their needs. Voice and face enrollment will be enabled by default, enabling voice isolation and speaker recognition in meeting rooms and enhancing intelligent meeting recaps and Copilot for meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413708

Rollout starts – April 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: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams – With this new feature, users on the new VDI solution for Teams can blur their background, choose a Teams virtual background, or 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rolling out starts – September 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Sync – Shared Item Delete and Local Mass Delete Confirmation Dialogs – We are shipping an items delete confirmation that will trigger when the user is about to delete shared items. This UI format will also replace the existing mass delete experience. These confirmations will occur when files are deleted from File Explorer when the user is running OneDrive and not paused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415705

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meeting chat will take the meeting transcript into account – When you ask Copilot in the meeting chat a question, it will use the chat and transcript content as the source.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383019
• 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=399921
• Word: 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=397096

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated coaching by Copilot experience in the new Outlook for Windows and web – The new coaching by Copilot experience allows you to apply the coaching suggestions given by Copilot by requesting to rewrite the email message based on the feedback received when using coaching by Copilot. With this update, you can accept and make Copilot rewrite the email in one click based on those coaching suggestions. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392326

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 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 – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Restricted Content Discoverability – This restricts sites from discoverability in organization-wide search and Copilot experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416065

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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 (2)
• In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios: New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=146859
• 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 Microsoft 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: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour – 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=88915
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – | API to set label on files in SharePoint online in bulk – This is a “set-label” API that third parties and ISVs can use to labels many files across SharePoint via scripting or programmatic manner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85620

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: The new Microsoft Purview Portal entering GA – The new Microsoft Purview portal has a streamlined design and unified experience that helps you discover and access data security, risk, and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now extend protection across multiple data estates. Additionally, you can also access new features such as global search, new settings experience, and recommendations.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397889

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

•  Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Archive File Support for Mac Endpoints – Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for endpoints will inspect the content of every archive file when it is created, modified, or read. After inspection, all supported file types in the archive file will be classified and evaluated against active DLP policies and the defined enforcement action will be enforced on the file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft- 365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393653
• 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: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management.   Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=335856

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip & oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components (like email body or attachments) only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416078
• 🆕 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 with 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=415170
• 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: 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 – November 2024

• 🆕  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416481
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI Hub – UX enhancements – The UX for Microsoft Purview AI Hub will have enhancements so that more recommendations can be displayed and triaged. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415451
• 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Alert Spotlighting – On the alert list page, high priority alerts will be spotlighted to help analysts prioritize the most important alerts first. Alerts are spotlighted based on predefined rules which are common across all tenants across all industries. Alert Spotlighting feature was developed to assist admins in prioritizing alerts to be triaged.  Every generated alert has a risk score, a list of activities performed, tags, and triggers. The Alert Spotlighting feature uses this information to decide whether an alert can be spotlighted. Based on a detailed study of alert triage patterns across tenants, we have developed a rule-based algorithm to spotlight alerts that would be of importance to admins, based on historical volume analysis.  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=409967
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions – Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=336046
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165402

Rollout starts – May 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has 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=93268
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93269

Rollout starts – June 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386900

Rollout starts – July 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity label grouping modernization (GCC) – To help improve label usability and configuration, the sensitivity labeling scheme will be simplified to only consist of labels and label groupings. These new label groupings allow admins to better organize and categorize their labels (previously done via parent labels). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=386901

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