SharePoint Stuff

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

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

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

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

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – March 2026

•  Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities – Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=115482

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Teams

• Launched (12)
• Rolling out (13)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for Webinars – IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for webinars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381950
• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview support for town hall – IT admins can leverage Microsoft Purview for eDiscovery and legal hold needs to maintain compliance for town halls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383530
• Microsoft Teams: Math Progress – Accelerate student math skills with Microsoft Teams: Math Progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466737
• Microsoft Teams: Event Chat for town halls (Premium) – Previously in a town hall, only presenters and organizers could chat with each other. With this new update, attendees, presenters and organizers can now chat together during a town hall using the new Event Chat feature. Presenters and organizers can still chat privately during the town hall as well. A Teams Premium license is required for the organizer role to deploy this feature within town hall instances. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418117
• Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics – Space analytics in Places provides dashboards for buildings, bookable rooms, and desk pools, providing a unified view of key metrics. Users can pick the space type of their interest and dive deeper to know more about its utilization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422719
• 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 – Intelligent suggestions in calendar – Intelligent suggestions will appear in the Places card in calendar and the Places people tab when users have actions to complete to organize their day. Users will be prompted to “quick book” rooms for in-person meetings and desks for in-office days. They will also see recommendations to update their work location to ‘Office’ when needed for in-person events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422723
• 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 Teams: Volume ratio control for language interpretation – New user setting that enables meeting participants using language interpretation to control the volume ratio between the original meeting audio and the interpretation audio. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411569
• Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms – When participants join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the ‘in-room’ participant section of the roster enabling individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413711
• Microsoft Teams: Notification in Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready – Intelligent meeting recap users will receive a notification in Teams Activity feed and banner when intelligent meeting recap is ready. Clicking on the notification in Activity feed will take users right to the intelligent meeting recap experience, which will be visible to the right of the Activity feed. Users can configure their notification settings in Teams settings > Notifications and activity > Apps > Meeting Recap to control where the notification is surfaced (Activity and banner, Activity only, Off) as well as which meetings have notifications enabled (for only meetings with RSVP selection of “Follow,” or all other meetings, or both). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408529
• Microsoft Teams: Custom background on Teams panels – Administrators can upload and set custom background images for Teams panels through the Teams admin center, enabling them to reflect their organization’s branding. This feature will be available for Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Devices licensed panels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402183

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms – Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=121269
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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: Updated Hyperlink Insertion – You can now insert a hyperlink in your chat message text in fewer clicks. Select the text you want to display and paste the URL, without needing to use the traditional hyperlink dialog box.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420942
• Microsoft Teams: Automatically set workplace presence to the building level in Teams – When you connect to peripherals in a bring your own device (BYOD) room or at a bookable desk, your workplace presence in Teams will automatically be set to the building level (if you and your admin have given permission), simplifying coordination with others and enabling AI-assisted booking in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422807
• Microsoft Teams: 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: Queues app on Teams phone devices – Queues app on Teams phone devices enhances call management capabilities by allowing agents to handle incoming calls, view call queues, and manage call history directly from their Teams phone devices, improving efficiency and ensuring effortless communication for agents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416282
• 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: 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: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421607
• Microsoft Teams: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events – We’re adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423475

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Approvals in Teams within DoD – Users within DoD 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=473448
• 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: 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 Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting – Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325873
• 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: 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

Rollout starts – March 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc individual desk booking in Teams – While previously able to reserve a spot within a desk pool, now you can book an individual desk when plugging into a shared desk peripheral. In addition, IT admins can get valuable individual desk utilization data in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal making flexible work environments better for users and IT. This feature requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473570
• 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: 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

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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•  Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights- Copilot for Sales Metrics & PBI Report – Providing Copilot for Sales metrics for Viva Insights analysts in Advanced insights. Copilot for Sales adoption PBI report to provide a starter template to explore Copilot for Sales adoption across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410201
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Quick rewrite, summarize, and to do actions with Copilot on OneNote canvas – Use Copilot right in your workflow by invoking Copilot to generate a summary, a to-do list, or help you rewrite the content on the page or based on your selection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417476
• Microsoft 365: “Help me create” in Microsoft 365 – “Help me create” is a content create feature in Microsoft365.com that is powered by Copilot for Microsoft 365. Like Copilot, “Help me create” is built on Microsoft’s comprehensive approach to security, compliance, and privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383010
• Reference data from the Microsoft cloud when drafting with Copilot in Word – Description & title updated to address a publishing issue, correct description as follows: 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=373735

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Copilot Chat developer mode – Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474450
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Take notes with Copilot in OneNote directly in the flow from the 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

Rollout starts – February 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471004
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting – Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=325873

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Analytics available in Microsoft 365 Copilot  – Copilot Analytics is designed to empower every IT and business leader to measure adoption and business impact of Copilot and agents with out-of-the-box experiences in Copilot Dashboard and customizable reporting for deeper analysis against your KPIs. With Viva Insights included, IT admins and analysts can now tailor advanced prebuilt Copilot reports with their business data or create custom reports with organizational attributes, longer usage data sets, and more granular controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471002
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for Web – Using everyday language, ask Copilot to perform advanced analytics that would usually take you hours or is beyond your skillset like machine learning, predictive forecasting, and more. Copilot will write Python code for you and insert it on the grid, resulting in deeper insights and stunning visuals. Available on Excel for the Web in English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish, with additional languages coming soon. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473459
• 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 Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard Scope Filter enhancements – Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429870

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience  – Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience for declarative agents and API plugins in Teams Toolkit.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474449
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can build custom engine agents with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK – Developers can use the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK to create custom engine agents. These agents, built on their own AI stack, can be deployed to various platforms, including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and other non-Microsoft channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474445
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility –  Automatic project scaffolding in Teams Toolkit for building Graph connectors – Developers can now leverage an automatic project scaffolding for Graph connector applications within the Teams Toolkit, allowing for the generation of a full production-ready Graph connector application from just an API description file, significantly reducing setup time and complexity.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474447

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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 (2)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Review set: Advanced filters – Updates to eDiscovery (Premium) review filters experience that allow admins to construct compound nested filters with either “AND” or “OR” conditions, go back and forth (undo/redo) between different iterations of filters, manage saved filter queries without navigating to a different panel, and use “Is empty/Is not empty” condition for each filter. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124796
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin units support for SharePoint Online – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422316

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Cross workload predicate support on Mac Endpoints (File size, partially scannable, etc.) – With this capability, admins can extend these mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint: document is unscannable, document didn’t complete scanning, document size equals or is greater than, document Property Is, document name contains words or phrases, and document is password protected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410523

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types – Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473460
• 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 in Gov Cloud – Adaptive Protection will now be available in Government clouds. Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377674
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management.   Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=335856

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- OCR Cost Estimator Support for MAC Endpoints – OCR Cost Estimator allows you to estimate the potential cost for using Optical Character Recognition. This means that you will no longer be required to set up an Azure Subscription for billing first and can accurately estimate the cost you would have incurred while using OCR. This will help you to identify the optimal configuration settings for OCR as per your requirements. Cost Estimator can be used for 30 days and will not scan images for sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475063
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – EXPORT ENHANCEMENTS – With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com. Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for eDiscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs – same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. For Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Additionally, customers will experience a faster export capability in the new portal driven through enhancements in backend architecture and optimized partition. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469031
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: AIR Initiated Remediation Logging – The AIR attribution update will empower customers with enhanced insights by deciphering between remediations produced by AIR versus truly manual remediations initiated independently by SecOps teams. Presently, all actions produced by AIR and approved by SecOps are logged as manual remediations throughout the portal. With this update, messages that are remediated as a result of approval of an AIR action will be logged as SecOps approved automated actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389376
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375

Rollout starts – April 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on the SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. With the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/ remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app, or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device).  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473431
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397771
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117546

Rollout starts – May 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management reporting capabilities – Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases.  The ability to filter reports will also be introduced.   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=470027
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Auto-Remediation of Malicious Entity Clusters Identified in Automated Investigation and Response (AIR) – The feature will expand upon the automated investigation and response (AIR) by enabling AIR to automatically remediate malicious entity clusters. AIR currently recommends actions for SecOps to approve or decline and this enhancement will allow customers to enable auto-remediation to allow AIR to act on recommendations and soft delete messages included in a malicious URL or malicious file cluster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186576

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies in Exchange – 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=473493
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=117531

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