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: Customize your individual sites and experiences with fonts and themes – Site owners will now be able to create branded fonts and themes for their sites and experiences in the brand center by combining the branding assets that the organization provides or by creating their own. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=375500

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Updates for font management capabilities – We are introducing updates that provide capabilities for managing custom fonts for SharePoint and Viva Connections. This includes the ability to hide the From Microsoft font packages from Change the look, apply a font package in your site templates, and updated availability for the From Microsoft font packages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420933

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (30)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot inference and evaluation policy for Copilot in Teams meetings – This policy enables IT admins to block Copilot responses that might infer emotions, make evaluations, discuss personal traits, and use context to deduce answers. When this setting is applied it restricts copilot’s ability to make inferences or evaluations about people or groups when prompted to do so by users. Users cannot disable this setting. The setting applies to Copilot in Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411568
• Microsoft Teams: Improved People Search – You can now search for content related to specific people.  Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get relevant content suggestions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421189
• Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window – When meeting window is minimized, participants can enlarge the small view of Teams meeting to a new bigger gallery view, making it easier to multitask on screen and stay aware of meeting events. Users can choose the size of the minimized gallery view window from the following options: one participant visible in the minimized window, 4 participants visible in the minimized window, fully minimized, or fully expanded. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=398449
• Microsoft Teams: See multiple participants and shared content preview in improved presenter window when screen sharing – When sharing the screen or content, the presenter will now be able to better keep track of the participants’ activity during a meeting. The Improved Presenter Window shows up to four meeting participants (both video and audio), who are active speakers and who raised hands, as well as a preview of the content being shared. Meeting notifications appear in the middle of the screen for better visibility.  This gives presenters increased confidence and awareness of what is happening among participants during a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383653

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap support for ad-hoc meetings and calls – Intelligent recap is available for ad-hoc meetings and calls, like those started from ‘Meet now’ and started from chat. Now, Teams Premium and Copilot for Microsoft 365 licensed users can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411573
• Microsoft Teams: Math Progress – Accelerate student math skills with Microsoft Teams: Math Progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466737

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support – Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472913
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Only meeting organizers, co-organizers, and transcript initiator can change spoken language setting – We’re changing the default permissions for who can set the spoken language for a meeting. Now, when transcription is enabled (whether by itself or when recording or Copilot are enabled) only the meeting organizer, co-organizer, and person who initiated the transcript can change the spoken language for the meeting. This is to ensure accurate transcription of everyone’s speech during the meeting since the spoken language setting and the spoken language used during discussion must match for transcript accuracy. If transcription is not enabled, all meeting participants will be able to change the meeting spoken language. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471426
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Storyline integrated in Teams – Storyline from Viva Engage is now integrated in Teams. Get organization-wide communication from your leaders, discover and share content with your colleagues and express your perspectives, all from your flow of work in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472914
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Allow Presenters to moderate Q&A – Organizers of town halls and webinars can now select and assign presenters to also be Q&A moderators, allowing them to manage and publish questions asked during the event. This feature lets organizers make changes to the group of moderators at any time, before or during the event, and it is available to all users organizing a town hall or webinar, regardless of license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469492
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap can be shared via link – Meeting participants can now share a link to the meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the recap tab, making it easier to reference and share the meeting recap insights with others. Meeting participants can share the meeting recap link with anyone in their organization, for those users who don’t have access to the recording or transcript, they need to request recording and transcript access before they can access the meeting recap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471430
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting Notes now available in Microsoft Teams for Education – Teams meeting Notes, powered by Loop, is now available in Microsoft Teams for Education. Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471005
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams:  Queues App – adding Service level for Realtime stats – Service level is now available as part of Queues App realtime stats. Authorized users will be able to review the Service level metric and adjust staffing accordingly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472023
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Tag Mentions filter in Activity – To view all your tag mentions, select the tag mentions filter in your activity feed. The ‘@Mentions’ filter allows you to catch up quickly on personal mentions, while the ‘Tag mentions’ filter helps you catch up on the Tag mentions you are part of. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470598
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel – The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470597
• 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 starting with classic Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. This makes the open file experience consistent on your Windows PC/device. 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: 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: 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: 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: Approvals in Teams within GCCH – Users within GCCH will now be able to use the Approvals app within Microsoft Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468867
• Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls – Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468280
• Microsoft Teams: 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: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only) – This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429537
• Microsoft Teams: 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: VDI Status Indicator – This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized’, or ‘Not Optimized’), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423472
• Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on desktop and web – Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via desktop or web. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422804
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC, GCC High and DoD environments (Premium) – Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC, GCC High and DoD environments. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419811
• Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists links in Teams messages – Microsoft Lists links in Teams including list item links and form links will now unfurl when shared in Teams messages making them easier to find and access within Teams messages and inside shared tab in chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=419812
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery – With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397089
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows Devices support for presenters in town halls – Presenters can join and present from a Microsoft Teams Room (MTR) Windows device in a town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381425

Rollout starts – March 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Custom Meeting Branding – Support multiple meeting themes per customization policy – Admins can now create and assign multiple meeting themes to a customization policy in the Teams Admin Center. This will allow meeting organizers who are assigned to a customization policy the ability to select from different meeting theme options while scheduling their meetings. Note – this feature requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468868
• 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: Notes powered by Loop now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD – Teams Notes, powered by Loop, is now available for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DoD environments. Teams Notes are Loop components in Teams meetings and chats that allow end users to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items that can be co-authored and edited by everyone. Since Notes are Loop components, they stay in sync across all the places they have been shared. Assigned Tasks automatically sync with ToDo and Planner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418119
• Microsoft Teams: Admin Center – Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting – We are expanding the existing ‘Meeting chat’ control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, “In-meeting only for everyone” and “In-meeting only except anonymous users.” In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called ‘Meeting chat’ under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the ‘Meeting chat’ setting: (1) “On for everyone” (2) “On for everyone but anonymous users” (3) “Off” (4) “In-meeting only for everyone” (5) “In-meeting only except anonymous users.”  Admins can select the “In-meeting only” values to disable participants’ ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these “In-meeting only” values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422808
• Microsoft Teams: 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 – June 2025

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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2024

• Outlook: Video Capture and Upload to OneDrive – Support for bulk export of device status, including username, sync app version, known folders, last sync date, and sync errors. Roadmap ID: 88870

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions about images – Now, you can ask questions about images stored in your OneDrive. Select up to 5 images and ask questions like explaining the contents of an image or extracting relevant text from an image. 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=469499

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – December 2024

• 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 365: Updated settings for the Microsoft 365 app on Windows – The Microsoft 365 app on Windows added settings to pin the app to the taskbar and launch it with a Copilot hardware key. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471004
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Kickstart your document with contextual prompts – Copilot includes files and meetings based on your recent activity when suggesting prompts you can use to draft a new document in Word. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470997
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated welcome screen for the Microsoft 365 app on Windows – The Microsoft 365 app welcome screen on Windows will be updated to display a welcome message and progress bar while the Microsoft 365 app loads. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471447
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – File Sensitivity Labels in Copilot web grounding chat – Copilot web grounding chat responses will now show content sensitivity labels for prompts in which a user has attached or uploaded a Microsoft 365 file like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in Business Chat web mode and Microsoft Copilot chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469497
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quick rewrite, summarize, and to do actions with Copilot on OneNote canvas – Gather and create notes with Copilot in your personal, non-shared OneNote notebooks directly on the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417475
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Charts, Graphs and Data Analysis in Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Business Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420363
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Showing aggregate Likes on prompts – See the amount of likes for 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content – When drafting content that’s based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380848
• 🆕 OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions about images – Now, you can ask questions about images stored in your OneDrive. Select up to 5 images and ask questions like explaining the contents of an image or extracting relevant text from an image. 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=469499

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Microsoft Purview

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

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (customer managed storage) – In the alerts triage and incident management experience, the admin can access a copy of the file that was restricted by DLP. The original file is uploaded to a customer managed storage (Azure blob). The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429871
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389839
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions template – Communication Compliance is introducing a new template dedicated to analyzing all Copilot for Microsoft 365 prompts and response to help ensure content prohibited by customers’ policies, such as harassing or threatening language, is not being used in Copilot for Microsoft 365 interfaces. This scales Communication Compliance’s reach, consistent with Microsoft 365’s expanding interfaces. In addition, administrators are also able to select Copilot chats as a checked location in the policy creation wizard for any new or existing policies. This empowers administrators to fine-tune their management strategy precisely to their organization’s needs, with a focus on user privacy protection. Whether it’s setting specific conditions or deploying trainable classifiers, this feature provides flexibility and adaptability in compliance management, ensuring your organization’s communications remain secure, compliant, and respectful of user privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422328
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on only specific email components like email body or attachments. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418131

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Information Protection: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption – Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472025

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer – Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471445
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot for Microsoft interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472024
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Entra compromised user signals in IRM – With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific user. – Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. – Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. – Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420938
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Ability to increase configuration of CPU and GPU device resource utilization limits in Forensic Evidence – Insider Risk Management Administrators will now be able to increase the CPU and GPU device resource utilization limit for all devices uploading Forensic Evidence clips in their organization. Forensic Evidence will now allow up to 31% CPU and GPU device resource utilization, up from the prior maximum limit of 5%. This enhancement reduces interruptions in the recording and uploading of clips.  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=420940
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies – The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392838

Rollout starts – March 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention based on Last Accessed for files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This creates the ability to apply Retention to each SharePoint or OneDrive item based on when it was last accessed by a user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472030
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Analytics  – Data Security analytics will serve as a launchpad for administrators, enabling them to swiftly navigate day-to-day tasks. It will provide a comprehensive overview of an organization’s sensitive data landscape, visibility into potential risks, and offer contextual recommendations to strengthen the organization’s data security posture. The Data Security Copilot will serve as an intelligent AI assistant layered on top of data security analytics, supporting tasks related to administration, risk assessment, alert triage, and reporting.   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=420941
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced alert and user investigation using Copilot for Security in Insider Risk Management – When investigating alerts within Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, you can now harness the power of Microsoft Copilot for Security. This tool not only provides concise alert summaries, but it also allows you to delve into specific user activities. By doing so, you can promptly assess whether the user associated with the alert warrants further investigation or if the alert can be safely dismissed. Additionally, with just a click, you can obtain a succinct summary of the user’s risk profile, highlighting crucial details and top risk factors. Leveraging Copilot for Security streamlines investigations, ultimately reducing the triage workload and enabling faster decision making. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=407864

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=370535

Rollout starts – May 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380678

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