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 (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Unified video branded start page – This creates a unified Clipchamp and Stream start page that serves as a single video destination of creation, consumption, and discovery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468289

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar – The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468290
• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Advanced editing from camera – This aligns the capture experience in camera and editor by enabling a seamless switch to the Clipchamp editor to make videos more appealing and impactful using advanced edit capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468293
• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Template creation in Commercial – Users can create their own Clipchamp templates for personal use or distribution across an organization via brand kits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468295

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Transcript-based editing in Clipchamp – We are introducing a novel and streamlined method to quickly and accurately remove any unwanted sections from your Clipchamp projects by leveraging the transcript. With transcript-based editing, browsing text, selecting unwanted words, and removing them will remove them from the video without the need to navigate the timeline. We are looking into making video editing more productive by providing a more intuitive and straightforward editing experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468890
• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Sharing a portion of a video as a clip – Clipchamp allows authors and viewers alike to share a portion of a video without changing the original media. Using draggable handles on the playback timeline, a link containing the desired clip start and end is put on the clipboard for easy sharing. Opening this link will play only the specified clip, and viewers can easily pop out to view the full video if desired. This will allow users to share the most relevant portion of their content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468892

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Updated Admin Controls for recording options – Admin controls will be updated for enterprise customers to better manage the new unified video experience, onboarding new admin policies to enable/disable camera, screen record, and audio record. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468891

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Teams

• Launched (8)
• Rolling out (13)
• In development (23)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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
• 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: 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Updated teams and channels onboarding flow – When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381734
• Microsoft Teams: Request to join a shared channel via channel link – Users who attempt to access a shared channel via a link can request to join the channel. Channel owners will receive the join request and can decide to approve or deny request. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325330
• Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging – Microsoft Teams Meeting users will be notified directly through the error message for why they cannot access meeting chats when their chat access is limited by policy or due to system limitations and unexpected errors. This will only be available in the new Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167211

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: New collaborative Project Studio environment in Microsoft Mesh – The Project Studio environment is a new space for immersive meetings and Mesh events. This space has been designed for synchronous teamwork and productivity for small groups to collaborate on content. Collaboration tools like whiteboards will be added to the environment as they become available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412076
• Microsoft Teams: Download Transcription and View RTMP-In 708 Captions for Town hall and Webinar – This feature allows event organizers to download transcripts for their town hall or webinar instances. It also adds support for displaying RTMP-In 708 captions in transcription. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417156
• Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Chrome (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Chrome browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401116
• Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for anonymous users who join meetings in Edge – The latest Teams meetings experience with performance improvements will be available for anonymous users who join Teams meetings on web in Edge browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401117
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap for GCC High environment – Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410985
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings – This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411568
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions – Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets can now use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412360
• Microsoft Teams: 3×3 video gallery on dual displays for Teams Rooms on Android – Dual display rooms are now capable of presenting up to 18 videos (3×3 on each screen) when no content is being shared during meetings. This enhancement ensures a uniform experience across both Windows and Android Teams Rooms devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415239
• Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android – Admins can switch the screens of Teams Rooms on Android devices in dual display mode remotely, correcting front-of-room display issues without physical support. The screen swap control is accessible in device settings and the Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415243
• Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android – Users can rate how likely they are to recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms from 1 to 5 as well as provide additional comments on Teams Rooms on Android devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415245
• Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for Report a problem – Admins can designate an email address for receiving ‘Report a problem’ submissions from users in Teams Rooms on Android. The email address can be set through device settings and the Teams admin center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415247

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Intelligent suggestions in calendar – Intelligent suggestions will appear in the Places card in calendar and the Places people tab 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  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: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events – We’re adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423475
• Microsoft Teams: Configure External access policies in TAC – External access policies can be managed in Teams admin center. These policies were previously only supported in PowerShell, and we are bringing the same capabilities into the Teams admin center user experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423476
• Microsoft Teams: Automatically set workplace presence to the building level in Teams – When you connect to peripherals in a bring your own device (BYOD) room or at a bookable desk, your workplace presence in Teams will automatically be set to the building level (if you and your admin have given permission), simplifying coordination with others and enabling AI-assisted booking in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422807
• 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

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls – Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468280
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Default enable transcription policy for new tenants – We are updating the default policy for Transcription from “off” to “on” for any new tenant. This change doesn’t mean that every meeting will automatically have transcription enabled, but it will allow users to turn on transcription if needed. This adjustment aligns the default Transcription policy with that of Recording, supporting broader adoption of Transcription and all AI features. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468282
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within GCCH – Users within GCCH will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468867
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing – Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467445
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-Window Support – Teams now supports multiple windows on iPad. Effortlessly organize your Split View experience with two Teams windows to easily navigate across meetings, chats, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467246
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Authentication token modernization for Android-based Microsoft Teams devices – All Android-based Microsoft Teams devices including Teams phone devices, non-touch phones, Teams displays and Teams Panels will use IC3 tokens instead of legacy Skype tokens for authentication. Admins can enable ‘Block Legacy Authentication’ to update their authentication tokens when available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467446
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows – The updated Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows arranges all participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes video on the meeting stage, offers additional layout options, optimizes for single and dual displays, and provides a unified meeting experience across both Teams Rooms and desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468277
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Schedule messages in channels – Like in chat, you can now schedule send messages in channels. You can optimize the timing of your messages based on the recipient’s work hours, out-of-office time, etc, and ensuring your messages are delivered at the most suitable time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467447
• 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: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations – Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423474
• 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
• 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: 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: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages – Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419812
• 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: Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows Devices support for presenters in town halls – Presenters can join and present from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) Windows device in a town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381425

Rollout starts – February 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

• OneDrive: Sync admin reports – GCC – We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393333

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings – This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411568
• SharePoint: Copilot agents in SharePoint – SharePoint users can create a Copilot agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these Copilot agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft 365 admin center: New usage reports for Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection – The new report for Copilot (enterprise data protection) will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users of per app. The report will initially be limited to Copilot usage in the Microsoft 365 App and Microsoft Edge by users with a Microsoft 365 license. In the future, the report will include more apps. Admins can view usage insights as totals and can view trends for the last 7, 30, 90, or 180 days. 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

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – AI & Copilot Resources provider – The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412064
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy – Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412065
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights- Copilot for Sales Metrics & PBI Report – Providing Copilot for Sales metrics for Viva Insights analysts in Advanced insights. Copilot for Sales adoption PBI report to provide a starter template to explore Copilot for Sales adoption across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410201

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Teams Chats in ContextIQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429646
• 🆕 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
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations – Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423474
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to search for answers from the web – Use Copilot in Excel to search for answers from the web and add it to your Excel workbook.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406555
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel – Graph Grounded Chat – Ask Copilot for answers grounded in your work content from the Microsoft Graph—your chats, documents, meetings, and emails—beyond your active Excel workbook. If you’re analyzing a workbook and want to enhance your understanding using information from another source in your tenant, just ask Copilot in Excel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375510

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot general availability for GCC – Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection for the GCC environment is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 GCC users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required).  The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements.  This will help protect 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 (1)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Blanket custom retention policies which apply to all Audit recordTypes – Microsoft Purview is enhancing the Audit custom retention policy experience. With this change, customers can now create blanket custom retention policies which will apply to all Audit recordTypes. This capability will become available in addition to the existing support of manually selecting specific recordTypes in the custom policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395215

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Pop-up enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop – We are expanding the functionality of oversharing pop-ups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled and Message/Attachment is not labeled, File extension is. It will also support a customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414528

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – November 2024

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on only specific email components like email body or attachments. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418131

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS – With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com. Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for eDiscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs – same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. For Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Additionally, customers will experience a faster export capability in the new portal driven through enhancements in backend architecture and optimized partition. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469031
• 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 Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance – This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417483
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the sender’s risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415170

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 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
• 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. 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

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 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 – April 2025

• 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

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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