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: Optical Character Recognition now supports hybrid PDFs (text and image) – SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to hybrid PDFs, which contain both images and text. Previously, OCR was limited to image-only PDFs, but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from hybrid documents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419808
• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Drag to order list items – Easily organize your list in the Microsoft Lists app by dragging and dropping items into a custom sort order for you and your team. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380183

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• SharePoint: Microsoft Syntex – simple document processing model – A prebuilt model that uses OCR and AI to detect the primary language of the file, key-value pairs, tables, selection marks, and barcodes. As with other models, it can be configured to extract this information to specified library columns. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413430

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Search – query suggestions – Now you can form search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people-query suggestions. Start typing a person name in the search bar, and get recommendations based on results most relevant to you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413112
• 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 Teams: Share content from webapp (browser) to Teams chats, channels, and meetings – Users will now be able to share content from a standalone Teams webapp (from the browser) to Teams chats, channels and meetings (before and during the meeting). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394670

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame video feed support extended to Teams Rooms on Android and Teams mobile devices – Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415250
• 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: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events – Mesh events allows for even better collaboration for more people by now supporting guest user attendees into the Mesh PC app. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to the Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest user creation follows the existing process for tenant guest user creation (outside of Mesh). For this release, guest users would require a Teams Premium license, just like regular tenant attendees, to collaborate within Mesh. Guest access for the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413713
• 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: Voice and face data export controls – This new feature provides controls for voice and face profile data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own profile data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413709
• Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events – Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement.  Additionally, event hosts will now be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412078

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Managed booking with Copilot – Building on booking suggestions, Copilot’s managed booking feature rebooks room declines for single and recurring meetings, especially when room availability varies week to week. Additionally, Copilot will handle any changes, updates, and conflicts to guarantee a room for your meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422721
• 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 Teams: Users can opt-in to try the new calendar in Teams – The new calendar in Teams combines rich productivity features and the latest innovations, like Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft Places, to help users collaborate seamlessly from anywhere. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, users will see the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams. New calendar is off by default, and users can toggle to try the new experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415415

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Math Progress – Accelerate student math skills with Microsoft Teams: Math Progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466737
• 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: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on desktop and web – Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via desktop or web. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422804

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview supports inheriting sensitivity labels from shared files to Teams meetings (Premium) – For Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium customers, we are making it easier to leverage sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help set the right protection settings to meetings. Admins can now set a label inheritance policy for meeting, so that when an attendee shares a file that has a higher sensitivity than the meeting itself in meeting chat or via Live share, the meeting’s sensitivity can be updated either automatically or via a recommendation to the organizer, to match with the sensitivity of the shared file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467247
• 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: 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: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms – Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121269
• 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 – May 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409534

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Integration of Glint and Pulse results into Copilot Dashboard – Initiate a Copilot impact survey that helps leaders and IT admins understand the return on investment of rollout out Copilot and AI tools across their organizations. View results from responses to surveys initiated from Viva Glint or Viva Pulse directly in the Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412358

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Managed booking with Copilot – Building on booking suggestions, Copilot’s managed booking feature rebooks room declines for single and recurring meetings, especially when room availability varies week to week. Additionally, Copilot will handle any changes, updates, and conflicts to guarantee a room for your meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422721
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection – A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center, providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (e.g. Microsoft 365 App and Edge). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90, or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377676
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – Update: Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC general availability – 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 – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard filter and other dashboard enhancements – Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include the following: supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates; and synchronized date ranges across the Readiness and Adoption pages for consistency and ease of analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429870
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot – Copilot for Security in DLP is capable of summarizing DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more.    DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain a deeper view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466740

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot general availability for GCC – 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 (3)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Granular exclusion – Granular exclusion allows admins to adjust and fine tune indicators according to organizational preferences to help tailor the detection of risks that may lead to a potential security incident. For example, admins can configure the indicator “sending email with attachments to recipients outside the organization” to only detect emails sent to personal domains (e.g. outlook.com). In that way, admins can reduce the number of false positives. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389842
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domain emails – In this update, we are enhancing the existing email insight alerts to provide additional information when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. The new domain detection group “Free public domains” will list the common domains used for personal email accounts. Admins with appropriate permissions can choose to select these domains in their indicator variants. 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=399551
• Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Shared mailbox support security group assignments on encrypted mail access in Outlook for Windows – Members in mail-enabled security group that are assigned to a shared mailbox can access encrypted mail directly using Outlook for Windows. Users can access encrypted mail with Do Not Forward or Encrypt-only protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=385345

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Outlook win32 DLP Policy tip & oversharing popup support for new DLP Predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates support for DLP Policy tips and Oversharing popups for E5 users: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on client-side evaluation on specific email components (like email body or attachments) only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only and show DLP Policy tips and oversharing popups accordingly in Outlook win32. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416078
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence | customer managed storage – In the alerts triage & 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=165301

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

•  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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI hub in Microsoft Purview – Update: Microsoft Purview AI Hub is released to general availability. Along with this release, the name has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI) and capabilities have been added that include supporting admin units, displaying AI policies that were created in Purview solutions, and supporting additional AI apps. A version of DSPM for AI is also available to additional licensing, specifically Microsoft 365 E3 and Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. The AI hub in Microsoft Purview is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts – both for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft AI applications.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=188510

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types – Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464998
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Just-in-time support on MacOS – You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete.  When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417161
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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=145793

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot – Copilot for Security in DLP is capable of summarizing DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more.    DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain a deeper view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466740
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview supports inheriting sensitivity labels from shared files to Teams meetings (Premium) – For Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium customers, we are making it easier to leverage sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help set the right protection settings to meetings. Admins can now set a label inheritance policy for meeting, so that when an attendee shares a file that has a higher sensitivity than the meeting itself in meeting chat or via Live share, the meeting’s sensitivity can be updated either automatically or via a recommendation to the organizer, to match with the sensitivity of the shared file. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467247
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include – stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action. Currently this feature is only available for OneDrive and SharePoint workloads. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464996
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator – Downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files.  In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. But with the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device).  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=466742
• 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: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies – The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392838

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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files – This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467254

Rollout starts – April 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR – With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=422730
• 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

Rollout starts – July 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

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint –Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=139457

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