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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: New SharePoint Start – New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics. Roadmap ID:124824

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries – SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column.

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Teams

• Launched (8)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation on MacOS – With voice isolation, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings and will now be available on MacOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412359
• Microsoft Teams: 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: Webinars in GCC-High – Teams Webinars is available for GCC-High clouds. This includes similar functionality that is already available for worldwide multi-tenant, such as interactivity for up to 1,000 attendees, registration support,  co-organizer support, breakout rooms, attendee reporting, and Dynamics 365 marketing integration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387790
• Microsoft Teams: Dynamic video tile resizing based on occupancy count from Teams Rooms on Windows – The room video tile dynamically adjusts size based on the number of people in the room. When one person is in the room, the tile matches the remote participant’s size. With two or more people, the room tile expands to be four times larger. Admins can enable or disable the people count feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400706
• Microsoft Teams: Administrative Units for Teams Administration – We are excited to announce the availability of administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration. AUs are a way to delegate admin roles and delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit. With AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. You can assign the following roles, allowing them to manage only the users, groups & devices within their AU: Teams Administrator Teams Device Administrator Teams Communication Administrator Teams Communication Support Engineer Teams Communication Support Specialist Teams Telephony Administrator Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402186
• Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings – The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389368
• 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: 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
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Improved reporting – Additional report fields in the Time Clock export – We’ve expanded the functionality of the time clock export report by adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to analyze and manage workforce activities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422812
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0) – We are excited to announce that the Shifts Graph APIs have transitioned from beta to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users alike. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422813
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Archived Teams’ schedules no longer visible – We’ve improved the schedule view by hiding archived teams’ schedules. This reduces clutter, allowing you to focus on active teams and their schedules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422814
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses – Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it, making interactions feel faster and more engaging. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422261
• 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Admin Center – Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting – We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.”  Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422808
• 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: Ability to take control during screensharing on Web – This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the “Take control” function to request control while another person is screen-sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420327
• 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 – January 2025

•  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: 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: Co-organizer updates in town hall – Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377703
• Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in Webinars – Co-organizers can edit webinar details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168524
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: OneDrive colored folders in File Explorer – A user will be able to view and manage OneDrive colored folders within Windows File Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410218

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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•  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 Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – 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=382106
• 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 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved template support when you create a presentation with Copilot – Once you update your template(s) to PowerPoint’s best practices, your templates will work even better with Copilot. You’ll get beautiful on-brand slides every time you open your optimized template and create a presentation with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417060

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Copilot agents available in Business Chat web mode – In Business Chat web mode, discover and use Copilot agents available for your organization. Agents are custom grounded chats that include specific knowledge sources from work and web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422315
• 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
• 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
  

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 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

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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 (8)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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
• 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: 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: 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: 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
• 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: 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=396570
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – 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=382106

🚂 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: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages – Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413431

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages – Communication Compliance introduces the ability to identify and flag potential workplace safety concerns in user-reported Teams messages. Investigators now have an extra indication to decide what risk exists in user-reported messages and can configure an Inappropriate Content policy to proactively identify similar inappropriate content moving forward.  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=422329
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses? – In Communication Compliance, we’re introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety’s Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations.  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=422334
• 🆕 Microsoft Edge: Authorized group setting in Microsoft Edge for Business – The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for “Printer groups,” “Removable USB device groups,” and “Network share groups” in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422502
• 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: 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: Data Loss Prevention – Admin units support for SharePoint Online – 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 alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422316
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181825
• 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: 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 – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities – Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. Permissions for accessing analytics and user activity reports have not changed. 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=420939
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117531

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  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 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

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