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 (0)
• In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Improvements for document library version history limits  –  We are increasing version history limits for SharePoint document libraries. Admins can set an appropriate level of recoverability and auditability for their organization. Today Site Owners can set count-based version limits at the individual document library level. With the upcoming changes, people will have two version history settings: 1) Automatic mode that intelligently adjusts based on a version’s age and restore probability, and 2) Manual mode that will allow admins to set version expiration and count limits on the versions created. And tenant admins will be able set version limits that apply universally to all newly created document libraries in their organization; site owners can then update settings for their document library(ies). Version history limits and management also apply to OneDrive.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=145802
• SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News – The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages. Roadmap ID:124827

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: eSignature integration with Adobe and Docusign rolling out globally – Previously, the use third-party providers as part of SharePoint eSignature platform were limited to regions supported by Microsoft’s native SharePoint eSignature. With this release, customers can now enjoy the flexibility of using these third-party providers globally, wherever they are supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421194

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Teams

• Launched (6)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Voting, Filtering, Sorting, and Archiving Questions now available in the Q&A App on Teams – Take your Q&A to the next level with this new update that lets attendees vote on the questions they want presenters to answer. Organizers can sort questions by most voted, filter, and archive questions to keep the discussion focused in meetings and events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398445
• Microsoft Teams: Use Teams Q&A to collect attendee questions in GCC – Teams Q&A enhances meeting and webinar participation for attendees by allowing participants to submit questions and engage in discussions. Organizers can moderate the Q&A feed, highlight important questions, and provide live answers. This feature is ideal for structured meetings and events, promoting an interactive and inclusive environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395935
• Microsoft Teams: Rename general channel – In our efforts to bridge the gaps between general and other channels, introducing the ability to rename the general channel in your team. General channel in a team can be renamed by the team owner, or member (if they have permissions), to show up in the teams and channels list in alphabetical order. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395931
• Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users – This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belongs to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of mergers and acquisitions). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the “External” label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375631
• Microsoft Teams: Unified fun picker – Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in a combined picker. Browse and discover all the fun stuff you need, all in one hub of content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=84023
• Microsoft Teams: Simplified compose box – A simplified compose box UI will make it easier to create and send messages. Edit your message, insert an emoji or call Copilot right from the compose box, or click on the plus button to choose from the extended menu of actions. Note: This is for the new Teams experience only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=123486

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Webinars – This feature allows the organizers of webinars to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392826
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to block Attendee Emails from Teams Town Halls – This feature allows the organizers of town halls to block the sending of attendee emails from Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393227
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Edge: Edge on MacOS now seamlessly opens links in Teams – When you set the default browser to Microsoft Edge on MacOS and enable the feature, web links from the Teams desktop app sent via chats, channels, calendar, and other entry points will seamlessly open automatically in the profile that is signed into Teams app and skips the need to reauthenticate in the browser making it faster and easier to access content.  Administrators can control the availability of this feature using the “Choose Which Browser Opens Web Links” Microsoft 365 policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414521

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Improved People Search – You can now search for content related to specific people.  Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get relevant content suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421189
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging – Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421190
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Name pronunciation – You can now record and share the correct pronunciation of your name, promoting inclusivity and helping colleagues avoid mispronunciations. With a click, you can play and listen to your colleagues’ name pronunciations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420329
• Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls (Premium) – Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer role to deploy this feature within town hall instances. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418117
• 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Usage reports for bookable desks in the Pro Management portal – With a Teams Shared Device license assigned to a desk pool, admins can view valuable analytics for these spaces including number of peripherals, usage, reservations, and occupancy under ‘Reports’ in the portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421604
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Best practice configuration monitoring dashboard in Teams admin center – Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure a smooth collaborative experience on Teams. Best Practices dashboard in Teams admin center allows administrators to monitor and promptly address any non-conformance across their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421185
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion – You can now insert a hyperlink to your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialogue box. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420942
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to give and take control during screensharing on Web – The new update will allow the users to be able to use the give and take control function during screenshare on web similarly to how the users are used to do on the desktop version of the application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420327
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Teams: Bulk operations summary in the Teams admin center – IT admins can monitor and track the status of all bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center, enabling large-scale management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420326
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Email verification for external attendees to join Teams meetings – Meeting organizers can have greater confidence about external attendees joining Teams meetings, this capability enables sending a one-time passcode to the external attendee’s email address for that individual to use during a verification step when joining a Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418125
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC environment (Premium) – Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC environment. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419811
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices – Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416288
• Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle – Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418120
• 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: 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Change to shared folder experience in OneDrive – We’re making a change to the shared folder experience in OneDrive. Currently, when a user opens a shared folder in OneDrive, they are taken to a view of that folder within the sharers OneDrive. In the new experience, opening a shared folder will take the user to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This view, organized by people, shows and allows access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395378

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• OneDrive: Find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search experience in OneDrive Web – OneDrive for web now lets you find your files faster than ever with a new and improved search functionality. Say goodbye to the days of endlessly scrolling through folders to find that one elusive document. With our latest update, locating your files is now faster and more intuitive than ever before. Whether it’s in your personal OneDrive, shared folders, or document libraries, our improved search feature allows you to seamlessly sift through your digital workspace from one centralized location. We’ve added new filters for different file types, ensuring you can pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for and with the date filter, you can narrow down your search results to find files created or modified within a specific timeframe. We understand that searching within a folder or document library is important to you, and for that, we have simplified scoping options that will enable precise searches within folders, sites, or document libraries. We’ve also visually updated the interface with more metadata, ensuring you effortlessly identify the right files every time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395379

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Outlook: Apply coaching suggestions for Coaching by Copilot – Apply coaching suggestions will allow users to request a complete rewrite of their email based on feedback from Coaching by Copilot and in one click, accept and rewrite their email with those suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392326
• Outlook: Select specific pieces of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite them – When composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392327
• Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience – Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397092
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Plugins in copilot.microsoft.com – Users can now use plugins via copilot.microsoft.com to expand Copilot skills. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384848

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

•  Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Amplify editor – The superpowers of Microsoft 365 Copilot will be directly available to you in the Viva Amplify editing experience to revolutionize the way you create and enhance content. Auto-rewrite will create suggestions based on the text you’ve written. Also, you can expand or condense what you have written. Copilot in Amplify will also help you adjust the tone of your content to ensure consistency across your communications and to best suit your audience, whether you need a casual tone for social messages, an engaging tone to compel and draw in your audience, or a professional tone for business communications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411300
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Integration into Microsoft Copilot Dashboard from Viva Insights – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rolling out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. Viva Pulse provides a way for organizations to capture sentiment data that maps to work patterns data from Viva Insights to measure AI adoption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380477

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Web grounding for Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat in Teams and Outlook – Ground conversations in the latest information from the web in Business Chat web mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420330
• Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot – Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394682

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders – Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new “Attach cloud files” experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413109
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to search for answers from the web – Use Copilot in Excel to search for answers from the web and add it to your Excel workbook.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406555
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Graph Grounded Chat – Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375510

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot on OneNote canvas – Use Copilot right in your workflow by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417476
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quick rewrite, summarize, and to do actions with Copilot on OneNote canvas – Use Copilot in your workflow on the canvas by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or to help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417475

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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 (5)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New logs for Audit activities – Activities performed by users within the Purview Audit feature, like submitting an Audit search query, viewing and exporting Audit logs, and deleting search history, will now begin to generate Audit logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392841
•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhancements to the device onboarding page – This adds new enhancements to the device onboarding page, including these: search by IP address to look up devices, filter using the new “Valid user” filter, use a refined device list to only include devices that can be DLP supported (exclude Android devices from showing in the device onboarding list), and use new properties in the export report (valid user, first onboarded date, MDATP device ID, Defender engine version, Defender Mocamp version, Endpoint DLP status, last policy sync time, and Advanced Classification bandwidth usage exceeded). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393934
• 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, data governance, and risk and compliance solutions for all your data, wherever it lives across your data estate. This means you can now access all Purview solutions in one single portal, as well as experiences such as settings, global search, recommendations, and roles and permissions management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383017
• 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=161829
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints-Support for Two New Predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the two below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint  – Document Property is – Document name contains words or phrases Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181623

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Defender for Office 365: IPv6 allow and block support in Tenant Allow/Block List – Admins can create allow and block entries for IPv6 directly inside the Tenant Allow/Block List. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406166
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: 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: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377000

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements – Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398458
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377674

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389839

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions – Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408533
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – 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 – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to inherit document library label from container label of a group/site/team – This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421192
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407897
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Enhancements for eDiscovery support of Loop content – Now eDiscovery admins can review Loop components created in Outlook or Teams within eDiscovery (Premium) as rendered HTML files to help understand the content that has been created within the Loop component. Once the component has been reviewed, it can then be exported as an HTML file to meet the requirements of the case. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380184
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports – The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377680

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Entra compromised user signals in IRM – With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific user. – Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. – Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. – Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. 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=420938

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints – With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410397

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User exclusion – This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM 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=412942
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator – Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382107
• Microsoft Purview: Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Fabric risk indicators in Insider Risk Management – With this update, Insider Risk Management extends its risk-detection capabilities to Microsoft Fabric products by offering ready-to-use risk indicators based on user activities in Power BI. Organizations can use these new indicators in data theft and data leaks 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=388733
• 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 – Recommended policy scope – Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. 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=168843
• 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 – September 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392457

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