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 (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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
• OneDrive: Annotate PDFs with Text – This feature allows you to annotate and save PDF files with text boxes, when those files are stored in OneDrive and SharePoint. Users can access the annotation feature by opening the PDF in file viewer and selecting “edit”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387807
• SharePoint: eSignature sequential signing – Sequential signing enables the creator of an eSignature request to specify the sequence of recipients. The document is first signed by the initial recipient in the sequence, then forwarded to the subsequent recipient for their signature. This process continues in the designated order until every recipient has added their signature. Once everyone has signed, the signed document is made available to all involved. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398990

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes – Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375500

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI – Secure sites by identifying sites with “similar files” and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415167
• 🆕 SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites – Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417481
• SharePoint: Application Site Creation without Sites.FullControl.All – Currently an application requires Sites.FullControl.All to create new site collections within a tenant. This work will allow applications to use a new scope, Sites.Create.All, to create new site collections without accessing any existing content. During the site creation process the application can request access to the new site, allowing for provisioning scenarios with reduced tenant permissions. Roadmap ID:124843

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Teams

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Teams devices – Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams admin center – If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations like, Software update and device restart, through Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395372

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location on bookable desks – The user’s work location can be automatically set to ‘In the office’ upon plug-in to peripherals at a bookable desk. Once IT enables the policy for a tenant or a group, users can opt-in to automatically update their location making it easier to connect with co-workers when they are in the office. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401118
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Native controls on console for OEM camera features  – In Teams Rooms on Windows meeting rooms, you can now directly control camera features provided by OEMs. Controllable features include group framing, active speaker framing, and OEM specific IntelliFrame views composed on the in-room devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409537

Rollout starts – October 2024

•  Microsoft Teams: Voice and face data export controls – This new feature provides controls for voice and face profile data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own profile data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413709
• 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: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows – Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402517

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar – This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417156
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Users can opt-in to try the new calendar in Teams – The new calendar in Teams combines rich productivity features and the latest innovations like Microsoft Copilot, to help users more seamlessly manage their schedules, prepare for and recap meetings, and even identify optimal days for in-office collaboration. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, users will see the ‘New calendar’ toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams. New calendar is off by default, and users can toggle to try the new experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415415
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying or forwarding of live captions, transcript, and recap for meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat’ control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called ‘Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript’ in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416072
• Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio control for language interpretation – New user setting that enables meeting participants using language interpretation to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411569
• 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: 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 – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Contact sync to Android-based Teams devices from Teams admin center – IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams devices as speed dial contacts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=81379
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices – Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416292
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels – Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel’s home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417153

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A – Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415413
• Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407386

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rolling out starts – October 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416077

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• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Image generation in Copilot chat – Create images using natural language to visualize concepts and ideas within the flow of work in Copilot for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409561

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot – A new column will be added to the Readiness section of the Microsoft 365 Copilot Usage report showing suggested candidates for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new column is intended to help admins with licensing decisions by quickly identifying users who are in a strong position to get the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot based on their relevant Microsoft 365 app usage. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410202

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 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

Rollout starts – October 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot license optimizer – Microsoft 365 Copilot license optimizer is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417484
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Non-Copilot cohort and exclusion list using AAD Groups (Entra ID)  – For the Copilot dashboard, the non-Copilot user cohort list and exclusion list can be managed by Global Administrators using AAD (Azure Active Directory) Groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414515

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites – Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413110
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts – Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401124
• Outlook: Chat with Copilot 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 – January 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Copilot agents in SharePoint – SharePoint users can create a Copilot agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these Copilot agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297
• OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for web and in Teams – Bringing the power of Microsoft Copilot to OneNote for web and in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417005

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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 (6)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive policies. 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=171598
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip and 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=376999
• 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 – 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: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop – We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=367053
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive workloads to users or groups (U.S. Government clouds) – To scope service side auto-labeling for OneDrive locations, you must specify users or groups. Previously, you had to specify sites by URLs. Any existing OneDrive URL sites in auto-labeling policies will continue to work but before you can specify new OneDrive locations, or for restricted admins, you must first delete any existing site URLs. Groups supported: distribution groups, Microsoft 365 groups, mail-enabled security groups, and security groups.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124915

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows – Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385345
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview portal now supports user search functionality – Our global search feature now enables you to search for users within your organization. You’ll find basic information such as names and email addresses. Additionally, if you have role management privileges, you can view assigned role groups and admin units. This means now you can search for navigational results, data, learning resources, and also for users within your organization.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396571
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Modernized user-defined permissions experience – A modernized experience for selecting which users should have which permissions when a sensitivity label configured for user-defined permissions is applied to a file in M365 apps or when a user applies protection using standalone Information Rights Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=189826
• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Mobile – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive mobile apps in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407386

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2024

• 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 – October 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416077
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Create allow directly in Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can create an allow inside the Tenant Allow/Block List to override bulk, spam, and regular confidence phish verdicts directly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406165
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117587

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the condition ‘Document Property is’ to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417482
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance – This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417483
• 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: Data Loss Prevention – New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer – With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=405118
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167531

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by end of 2024 – Classic Microsoft Purview Compliance portal will be retired by 2024 and the new Microsoft Purview portal will provide all existing capabilities and more. The new Purview portal offers a streamlined design and a unified experience, allowing you to discover and access data security, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it resides across your data estate. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415454
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380722

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match (GCC) – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380721

Rollout starts – March 2025

•  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 – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394279
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396575

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints – Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410247

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