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 (0)
• In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection – Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117576

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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Teams

• Launched (7)
• Rolling out (12)
• In development (29)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Queues app (Premium) – The new Queues app is a solution for collaboratively handling customer calls natively in Teams. Starting with surfacing call queue calls, your team members can use the Queues app to handle inbound calls, be it PSTN or VOIP. They can make outbound calls on behalf of the call queues or auto attendant that they are assigned to. And they can review the call queue statistics and seamlessly collaborate with their lead and colleagues within the flow of work. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can monitor their call queues and auto attendants in realtime, generate reports on queue and agent performance, configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings, and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379980
• Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – With breakout room support, Teams Rooms on Windows can be added to a breakout room and moved in and out of the main room making it easy for breakout session coordination.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=95680
• Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via Ultrasound – With ultrasound for proximity join, users can more accurately discover and add the Teams Room they are in to their Teams meeting. The user’s companion device detects ultrasound beacons emitted only within the physical Teams Room, providing a more accurate list of nearby room options on the pre-join meeting screen.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380681
• 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
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Show Chat info in Microsoft Teams – Chat users can have access to contextual information including members, pinned messages, shared files and links, and entry point to contextual search from this canvas.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398956
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Third Party app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center – Shipping an enhanced purchase experience in a Teams look and feel for Teams 3 party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customer without a commerce billing account.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=179897

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in town hall – Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377303
•  Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401120
• 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: 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: Digital signage on Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can view dynamic, engaging, and relevant content on the Teams Rooms front-of-room display when the device is not in use. Admins can remotely configure tenant-wide and room-specific digital signage settings at scale from Teams Rooms Pro Management. Integrations with selected third-party digital signage providers and content management systems are supported, initial partners are Appspace and XOGO. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro license customers.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400700
• Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for non-touch phones – Quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for non-touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature will enable one-touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411577
• Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms – When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413711
• Microsoft Teams: Workflows within File Chiclet – You will now be able to run instant workflows and create new file workflows via the file chiclet overflow menu (…)  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381643
• Microsoft Teams: Cross location Shifts – Cross-Location Shifts empowers organizations by enabling their Frontline workers to access and select open shifts from multiple locations within a region. Managers benefit from a larger labor pool by opening shift availability across multiple locations: a worker from one store location may select a shift in any other store across their region. This feature is accessible both via desktop and mobile.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394351
• Microsoft Teams: New security and certification information available for apps and extensions – This feature will equip administrators evaluating apps and copilot extensions for deployment with extensive security and related certification data to help those admins more quickly evaluate that an app and/or extension complies with their tenant security requirements. Initially, the information provided will include results from individual M365 certification tests and evidence submitted by ISVs during Microsoft’s audit of their app or copilot extension. Additionally, for non-certified apps, admins will receive details on data handling, security, and compliance as self-attested by the ISV.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412935
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Cross-platform meetings via SIP join for Teams Rooms – Joining SIP-based conferencing services like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, and others via Teams Rooms offers a seamless collaboration experience, mirroring the native Teams interface. This integration supports features such as 1080p video, dual screen, various layout options, HDMI input, and others contingent on the third-party platform’s in-meeting controls. A SIP calling plan from a CVI partner, currently Pexip, is necessary. This is available for Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400703

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics – Space analytics in Places provides dashboards for buildings, bookable rooms, and desk pools, providing a unified view of key metrics. Users can pick the space type of their interest and dive deeper to know more about its utilization.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422719
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Places – Auto update location with Workplace Presence – With Workplace Presence, you can discover coworkers who are in office nearby. Location will be automatically updated to “office” when we detect that an employee is on site, signaled by the connection of their laptop to a known peripheral, e.g. a known or company-managed monitor in a corporate office, or on a bookable desk. Users can enable/disable “Auto-update my location when detected in the office” via the Places settings menu in Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422716
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Team guidance – With team guidance in Places, managers communicate which days their team should plan to be in the office and what the priorities are for each in-office day. Providing a purpose for team days in the office gives you another reason to come into the office.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422720
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Workplace check-in with Workplace Presence – With Workplace Presence, employees will have the ability to check in to the office in Outlook, Teams, and Places to confirm their work plans, receive check-in reminders, and view others nearby and who planned to come in. #newoutlookforwindows  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422717
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Intelligent suggestions in calendar – Intelligent suggestions will appear in calendar peek cards and the Places people pages when users have actions to complete to organize their day. Users will be prompted to “quick book” rooms for in-person meetings and desks for in-office days. They will also see recommendations to update their work location to “Office” when needed for in-person events.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422723
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, empowering hybrid employees to foster in-office collaboration and leveraging insights into space optimization. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=433684
• Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415249

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats – Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464988
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only) – This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429537
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429538
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town halls now available in GCC-High – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423478
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town halls in GCC-High (Premium) – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423479
• Microsoft Teams: Updated Hyperlink Insertion – You can now insert a hyperlink in 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 dialog box.    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420942
• 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: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413712
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap support for ad-hoc meetings and calls – Intelligent recap is available for ad-hoc meetings and calls, like those started from ‘Meet now’ and started from chat. Now, Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411573
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery – With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397089

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Customize who receives shift request notifications – To streamline your workflow and reduce notifications, we’ve enhanced our notification system so that shift request alerts are now exclusively sent to schedule group owners, and not all owners of a team. This targeted approach ensures that the right people receive the necessary updates, helping team owners maintain focus.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422259
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Notes powered by Loop now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD – Teams Notes, powered by Loop, is now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments. Teams Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418119
• Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared – Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421188
• Microsoft Teams: Live transcription on Teams Rooms on Windows – You can control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes each speaker’s name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, the translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423088
• Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows – While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423089
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC, GCC High and DoD environments (Premium) – Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC, GCC High and DoD environments. 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: Remote contact management for common area phones – IT admins will be able to manage and add contacts to Teams phone devices deployed in shared spaces through the Teams admin center. This ensures users across the organization can easily call important contacts, such as emergency numbers or help desks.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416284
• Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows – When attending a meeting using a Teams Rooms on Windows device, users can now start or stop recording without having to join on their companion device. The start/stop recording button will be available on the Teams Rooms on Windows device for all in-tenant meetings. This feature requires the Teams Rooms Pro license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412072
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414513

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OneDrive

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2024

• 🆕 OneDrive: Enable OCSI for Tenants – If a tenant has the (EnableAllOcsiClients) GPO enabled, Office and OneDrive are able to communicate smoothly. Right now, tenants have the option to disable the GPO, and when they disable the GPO, it becomes difficult to ensure that all internal versions of Office files are kept up to date so that features like autosave, version history, real time user collab, and merging in the case of conflicts can work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429874
• 🆕 OneDrive: Office Files on Hold – If a tenant has the (EnableHoldTheFile) GPO enabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then end users can open the file in Office to merge changes. If a tenant has the GPO disabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then OneDrive automatically creates a copy of the file in conflict. When tenants have this GPO disabled, it leads to end users potentially having to manually merge hundreds of conflicts because OneDrive automatically forks a file instead of allowing the users to have the option to merge conflicts in Office. The proposal no longer allows tenants to disable this GPO thus not automatically forking a file when in conflict for end users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429875

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Microsoft Places is an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, empowering hybrid employees to foster in-office collaboration and leveraging insights into space optimization. Places intelligently allows you to coordinate your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernize how employees make connections, and optimize space management with occupancy and utilization data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=433684
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your AI assistant in the GCC environment – Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415097

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): General availability for the GCC environment – Microsoft Copilot will be generally available for the GCC environment and will be delivered with web grounding OFF by default. This is required to help protect US government sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464984

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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 (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (6)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft 365 apps: Microsoft 365 Apps and Services update to AES256-CBC for encrypting emails and files with Purview Information Protection – Microsoft 365 Apps, Exchange Online, and SharePoint Online will begin to use AES256 in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode by default when emails and documents are encrypted with Microsoft Purview Information Protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117576

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2024

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (customer managed storage) – In the alerts triage and incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429871
• 🆕 Microsoft 365: Cloud Update logs for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users – Activities performed by administrators within the Cloud Update service, like enabling Cloud Update or changing a Cloud Update configuration setting, will generate Audit logs stored in Purview Audit and will be accessible by Microsoft Purview Audit Standard Users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420932

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 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=429872

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage) – With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420333
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance- Customize communication compliance policies with language-specific trainable classifier conditions – Tailor your policy conditions to run Trainable Classifiers for specific languages. By restricting the languages for classifiers, you can reduce false positives and bring precision to your policy conditions. Update your existing policies with ease for a more language-specific compliance approach.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408533

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage – Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429876

Rollout starts – April 2025

Rollout starts – June 2025

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