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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 9th December 2024

The Microsoft 365 roadmap update highlights new feature additions and enhancements for Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Copilot, and Purview.

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: New enhancements to Restricted access control using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra security groups – Restricted access control (RAC) is a premium security policy that lets admins restrict access to SharePoint and OneDrive resources to a specific set of users configured using Microsoft 365 or Entra Security groups. As part of this change, new capabilities will be added to review the impact of RAC application using insights reports and additional options to configure the policy will be made available. Also, policy enforcement visibility will be extended to Site owners via SharePoint sites. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406554

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

Rollout starts – March 2025

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (2)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (41)

🍾 LAUNCHED

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

      ⌛ 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: Forward messages to and from channels – You can now forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members. To forward a channel message post, channel post reply, or chat message to another channel, 1:1 or group chat, select the message’s ellipsis menu and choose Forward. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469508
      • Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications – You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469491
      • Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components – You can now forward chat messages containing Loop components, allowing for seamless sharing and real-time collaboration across different chats. To forward a message, navigate to it, click on the ellipsis, and select ‘Forward’ from the menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469507
      • Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces – You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user’s PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417155
      • Microsoft Teams: Delayed simultaneous ring setting – For teams with shared call responsibilities, delayed simultaneous ring will ensure calls configure the intended recipient first, instead of notifying everyone the moment a call comes in.  This helps reduce noise and minimizes distractions —especially for roles like delegates and customer service teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468866
      • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – AI enabled file summaries on Teams mobile – Quickly get a summary of Word, PPT, and PDF files that were shard with you in chat, without leaving your flow of work. Tap the summary icon on the file, and get a summary generated by Copilot. Now you can consume and comprehend the content without reading the entire document on a small mobile screen. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422318
      • Microsoft Teams: IC3 token authorization on Android-based Microsoft Teams devices – All Android-based Microsoft Teams devices including Teams phone, non-touch phones, Teams displays, Teams panels, and Teams Rooms on Android, will use IC3 tokens instead of Skype tokens for modern, secure authorization. Admins can enable ‘Block Legacy Authorization’ to update their tokens when this feature is available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467446
      • Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429538
      • Microsoft Teams: Town halls now available in GCC-High – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423478
      • Microsoft Teams: Town halls in GCC-High (Premium) – Set up and host large scale events across a GCC-High organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423479
      • Planner: Unified Planner tab experience in Microsoft Teams – With this unified tab experience, you can now create and add any basic or premium plan to a Planner tab in Microsoft Teams. To try it, go to any Teams channel and search for Planner after selecting the Apps icon. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464175
      • 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: 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: 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: Together Mode New Flow – Together mode will get a new simplified flow which will take the user from the beginning to the end through the steps of setting up the scene, assigning the seats and applying for everyone in the call in a transparent and easy-to-understand way. The function itself does not change but there will be more transparency thanks to the icons on the meeting toolbar for an easy access for each next step in the familiar Together mode flow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470427
        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: SMS for Microsoft Teams Calling Plans – Enabling the ability to send and receive SMS messages directly from the Teams app on desktop or mobile, making it easy to connect with users outside of your organization who are not using Teams. This feature will be available for Microsoft Teams Calling Plan users in the United States and Canada. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470999
        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: End the Session for Attendees and Presenters Return to Green Room – Organizers and presenters can now end the session with this new “End Event” button for town halls, webinars, and structured meetings. After selecting this button, attendees will see a message on stage stating that the session has concluded, and presenters will return to the Green Room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470432
        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Navigate meetings and messages hands-free with Teams in CarPlay – Stay connected on the move with Teams in CarPlay. Use Siri to respond to notifications and send messages in Teams. Easily join meetings and engage in discussions with quick actions like raising your hand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470998
        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Cross Cloud collaboration in VDI – VDI users can join meetings with people in other Microsoft 365 cloud environments (e.g., a user in GCCH joining a meeting in commercial, GCC or DOD) through three options: authenticated access via cross-cloud meeting connection, authenticated access using a guest account, or anonymous access. These scenarios require Slimcore-based optimization, as WebRTC-based optimization does not support meetings across different cloud environments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471434
        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Open file links preference to extend across M365 apps – When it comes to how links to cloud-hosted Word, Excel, or PowerPoint files should open, you may prefer they open in a browser, desktop apps, or directly in Teams. Now, your Teams file open preference will extend to across Microsoft 365 apps, creating a consistent ‘open file’ experience. If you prefer, you will still be able to choose your Teams file open preference separately. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471000
        • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Inline preview of files shared – Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421188
        • Microsoft Teams: 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: 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: Teams devices update only when idle – Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418120
        • Microsoft Teams: 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: 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

        Rollout starts – March 2025

        • 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

        Rollout starts – April 2025

          Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          OneDrive

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

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          • N/A

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          • N/A

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – April 2025

          • N/A

          Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          Copilot

          • Launched (5)
          • Rolling out (2)
          • In development (20)

          🍾 LAUNCHED

            •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python – With Copilot, you can use natural language to describe the analysis you want to perform, and it will automatically generate, explain, and insert Python code into your Excel spreadsheet. This integration unlocks powerful analytics via Python for visualizations, cleaning data, machine learning, predictive analytics, and more—without needing to be Python proficient yourself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396728
            • 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
            • Outlook: Apply coaching suggestions for Coaching by Copilot – Apply coaching suggestions will allow users to request a complete rewrite of their email based on feedback from Coaching by Copilot and in one click, accept and rewrite their email with those suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392326
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add brand images in M365 Copilot from SharePoint organization asset libraries  – Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406170
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference data from the Microsoft cloud when drafting with Copilot in Word – Draft with Copilot will support attaching rich content from the Microsoft cloud–including emails and meetings–resulting in content that’s more contextually relevant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397095

            🚂 ROLLING OUT

            •  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
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): UX Transparency for Web Queries – With UX transparency of web grounding in Copilot, users will now be able to see the exact queries sent by Copilot in response to a user’s prompt to the web for grounding, along with the list of websites being queried, enhancing their awareness over the process. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419810

              ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

              Rollout starts – December 2024

                Rollout starts – January 2025

                  Rollout starts – February 2025

                    Rollout starts – March 2025

                        Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

                        SharePoint
                        Viva
                        Teams
                        OneDrive
                        Copilot
                        Microsoft Purview

                        Microsoft Purview

                        Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

                        • Launched (8)
                        • Rolling out (3)
                        • In development (22)

                        🍾 LAUNCHED

                          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security – Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397090
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Updated permissions – Microsoft Purview AI Hub supports updated permissions including the Microsoft Purview Compliance Administrator role group, Microsoft Purview Security Reader role group, and Microsoft Purview Content Viewer Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408542
                          • 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
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview AI Hub – Prompts and responses – Within Microsoft Purview AI Hub, prompts and responses will appear for AI interaction events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408545
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: AI Hub – UX enhancements – The UX for Microsoft Purview AI Hub will have enhancements so that more recommendations can be displayed and triaged. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415451
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Policy Scoping changes in Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive – Data Loss Prevention for OneDrive for Business will soon support user accounts and groups as part of the policy scoping location picker. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423484
                          • 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
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection- User Message Recall in Outlook for encrypted messages – Microsoft Purview Advanced Message Encryption will support Exchange Online’s Cloud-based Message Recall feature for encrypted messages in Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413431

                          🚂 ROLLING OUT

                          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Auto-labeling policies support Fingerprinting SITs – Admins can now automatically label files and emails with Fingerprinting SITs via auto-labeling policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=396173
                          • 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
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin Units support for DLP alerts in Microsoft 365 Defender portal – With this capability we are extending the Admin Units capability currently available in Microsoft Purview Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to DLP alerts in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=165995

                            ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                            Rollout starts – December 2024

                            •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Quick Summarization in eDiscovery – Introducing the Quick Summarization feature for eDiscovery, an embedded Security Copilot skill in Purview, designed to streamline case management with an intuitive, at-a-glance overview. This new capability allows users to quickly access a comprehensive summary of eDiscovery cases, holds, and searches, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple tabs to assess status, statistics of completed actions, pending tasks, and ongoing jobs. The Quick Summarization feature consolidates this information into a single, easy-to-understand summary. Additionally, similar summary views are available for both Search and Hold within the eDiscovery case. Powered by existing “contextual summary” skill, the system analyzes case/search/hold metadata and generates natural language summaries, providing users with a clear, actionable overview of key details in real time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466741
                            • 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: Information Protection – Default sensitivity labels and policies enhancements – Eligible customers can activate default labels and policies for Microsoft Purview Information Protection that now extend to meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408172
                            • 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: Data Lifecycle separate retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps – Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470025
                              • 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. We appreciate your patience. 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. 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. We appreciate your patience. 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. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=83963

                                Rollout starts – February 2025

                                •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New email scoring capabilities – Insider risk management (IRM) email scoring logic is being updated. With current logic, a single email to multiple recipients (say “n”) is counted multiple times (n times), and this is creating noise by increasing the risk score. In the new logic, a single email to multiple recipients is counted once, and this new principle is applicable to the email containing multiple unallowed domains or priority content. Once this is rolled out, all the email insights in alerts will display the new count and score.    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=471010
                                • 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 Edge: Authorized group setting in Microsoft Edge for Business – The authorized group setting ensures that Edge respects the settings for “Printer groups,” “Removable USB device groups,” and “Network share groups” in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. This change will prevent users from bypassing Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protections by using Edge, thereby enhancing security and compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422502
                                • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – 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 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
                                • 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 compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats – When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401127
                                      • 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 – 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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