SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more.

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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Enhanced functionalities to manage SharePoint Embedded Containers through SharePoint Admin Center – The new update empowers the SharePoint Embedded Administrators (SPE Admins) to manage their containers better through sorting and filtering capabilities as well as set sensitivity labels on containers. The SPE Admins now also have user role management capabilities to add, reassign, or remove users from various roles of a container. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468886

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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Teams

• Launched (7)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (29)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: 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 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: 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Teams menu bar icon with Presence on Mac – Introduction of a Menu Bar icon with a flyout for common workflows that reduces clicks and simplifies checking for at-a-glance information like the presence status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416069
• Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile – This update allows presenters who were invited using the external presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409228

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Resize Teams window and left and right panes – Adjust the size of your Teams panes to prioritize what is currently most important for you, and/or snap and resize the Teams window with Windows 11 Snap layouts so you can view multiple applications side by side. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470431
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video – The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469496
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it – When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow ups to keep the conversation going. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or asking what a particular person said during the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325858
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Event Recap in Town hall and webinar (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizer, co-organizers and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are also available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371588
• Microsoft Teams: Auto-association of BYOD room devices in the Pro Management portal – Manually associating peripherals to rooms may feel like an endless task if your organization has several bring your own device (BYOD) rooms. IT admins can streamline the process and get enhanced inventory visibility with this feature which utilizes meeting room invite data to intelligently associate peripherals to these spaces. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469495
• Microsoft Teams: Forward messages with app cards – Messages containing app cards in chats and channels can now be forwarded. To use, navigate to the more actions menu of any message containing an app card, and select “Forward”. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469506
• 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 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 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: Improved reporting – Additional report fields in the Time Clock export – We’ve expanded the functionality of the time clock export report by adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to analyze and manage workforce activities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422812
• Microsoft Teams: Best practice configuration monitoring dashboard in Teams admin center – Microsoft recommends best practices to ensure a smooth collaborative experience on Teams. Best Practices dashboard in Teams admin center allows administrators to monitor and promptly address any non-conformance across their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421185
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices – Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416288
• Microsoft Teams: 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: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices – Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416292
• Microsoft Teams: Custom name for Teams panels – Admins can use the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assign a custom name to their Teams Rooms Pro or Teams Shared Device licensed panels. This new name displays on the panel’s home screen, replacing the global address book name that appears in Outlook or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417153
• Microsoft Teams: Video clip in channel – You can now use Teams video clip in channel, in addition to chat. Record yourself, your screen, or an audio-only clip and attach the video clip to your channel post or reply. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383740
• Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Share Recap Notes to Outlook – Meeting organizers and presenters have the capability to share recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to Outlook, facilitating the seamless sending of post meeting follow-up emails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423477
• Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings – Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468274
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=89975
• 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: 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: New policy for voice and face enrollment defaulting to ‘On’ – The new policy gives IT admins enhanced flexibility with distinct settings for voice and face enrollment. This adjustment provides greater control over managing these features, allowing organizations to tailor to their needs. Voice and face enrollment will be enabled by default, enabling voice isolation and speaker recognition in meeting rooms and enhancing intelligent meeting recaps and Copilot for meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413708
• Microsoft Teams: Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot – Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418564
• 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: Enhanced spell check with multi-language support – Enhanced spell check will help ensure that your messages are clear and professional. When you type your message in the Teams compose box, any issue found will be marked. You can then choose to correct them from options suggested in a dropdown menu, ignore them or add to dictionary. With multi-language support, you can switch between up to three languages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470600
• Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953

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OneDrive

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (1)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: Performance improvements – This feature will provide faster page load times when using OneDrive for Web or when using the Files app in Teams irrespective of your network speed. You will see faster screen loading, sorting, filtering, file moving, and renaming. This increase in speed is made possible by storing file metadata in the local cache of your device as opposed to requesting it from the cloud service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168616
• OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web – The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action. OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=168619

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive – Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469503

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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 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 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated Context IQ menu in Business Chat – Updates to Copilot Context IQ menu provides an intuitive and seamless interaction improving reliability and performance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422307
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – New Copilot adoption metrics and completing total actions taken – This adds seven new Copilot adoption metrics to the Copilot dashboard and Viva Insights Advanced insights. It also updates the “total actions taken” metric in the Copilot dashboard to include these new Copilot adoption metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418379
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt with a co-worker – Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400710

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it – When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow ups to keep the conversation going. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or asking what a particular person said during the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325858
• Outlook: Prepare for Meetings with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web – With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you open an upcoming meeting that has a summary available, click on “Prepare” and get a detailed briefing of your meeting leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374723
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites – Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413110
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested users license assignment flow – Microsoft 365 Copilot suggested user license assignment flow is a new feature in the Microsoft 365 admin center designed to help organizations streamline Microsoft 365 Copilot license assignment and optimize utilization. This feature uses a data-driven approach to suggest users who are in the best position to gain the most value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and efficiently assign licenses to these users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417484
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Prompt suggestions in Copilot chat – Get started in Copilot chat quickly with automatic prompt suggestions that enhance your productivity by providing relevant and context-aware prompts based on your previous interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=409962
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team  – Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391636
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – New and trending prompts – Keep track of new and trending prompts in your organization in Copilot Prompt Gallery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400711

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot – Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418564

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 OneNote: Copilot Pages in OneNote – Access Copilot pages inside OneNote, along with all of your notes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464995

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive – Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469503

Rollout starts – May 2025

• Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats – Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374335

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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 (1)
• In development (18)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – Audit Search Graph API – Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature allows our customers to programmatically access the new async Audit Search experience, which also provides improved reliability and search completeness, through Microsoft Graph API. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167531
• 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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Global exclusions – With this update, all exclusion features currently found under intelligent detections will be relocated to a new tab labeled "Global exclusions" within the insider risk settings. All previously added exclusions in intelligent detections will be migrated to this new tab. The functionality of exclusions remains unchanged. Moreover, admins with appropriate permissions can now add exclusion via defined detection groups, which contain similar entities like domains or file types. This new tab is designed to enhance usability and offers a convenient way to access and manage exclusions. 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=185687

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) trainable classifiers – Leverage trainable classifiers from Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) to recognize various content types specific to your organization. Insider Risk Management in Microsoft 365 correlates various signals from the chip to the cloud to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167221

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2024

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – 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=469509
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection and Conditional Access – Organizations can use insider risk levels in their Conditional Access policies. This includes some minor experience changes in the Adaptive Protection tab in Insider Risk Management, including adding total counts for Conditional Access policies that use Adaptive Protection and new user insights in the user activity timeline when a user is added or removed from an insider risk level. 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=400444
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Recommended policy scope – Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. 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=93260

Rollout starts – January 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – General Security Policy Violations – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83961
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by priority users – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83962
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by departing users – Detects security violations by departing users near their resignation or termination date. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83963

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  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: 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: Data Loss Prevention – New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer – With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=405118
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171751
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services – Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in “positive,” “negative,” or “neutral” sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first.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=88918

Rollout starts – March 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

Rollout starts – April 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Diagnostics in the new portal – We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469504
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate – Currently in public preview, Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. 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. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=85604
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD) – Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. 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=85606

Rollout starts – June 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure SQL, Azure Storage, and Amazon S3 – Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3 buckets, all within Microsoft Purview Information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394282
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management – Multicloud environments – Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398711

Rollout starts – July 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on 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

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