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 (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Approvals integration in Document Libraries – SharePoint Document Libraries will begin to leverage the Approvals app in Microsoft Teams. Users will be able to navigate to the Automate dropdown, Configure Approvals to enable the feature on the library. Once enabled you can specify the approver for the file, submit a request which will appear in the Approvals app in Teams or can be approved directly in the library. Once approved, the file metadata will update in the Approval status column. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420336

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Clipchamp: Editor simplification and introduction of light mode – This change will simplify the Clipchamp editing experience and increase the space you have on the stage to make great videos. We’re also introducing light mode as a new option for people to choose whether they view the Clipchamp editor in a Light or Dark scheme. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476490
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video drafting in Copilot powered by Clipchamp – Clipchamp brings video creation skills to Copilot. Type your prompt and Clipchamp will write a bespoke script, source high quality stock footage, and assemble a video project with music, voiceover, text overlays and transitions. Open your video project draft in the Clipchamp app to continue to edit, export, and share. This feature is great for informational videos, video messaging, how-to videos, demos, and video presentations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402192

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (19)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Vote on and archive Questions in Teams Q&A – Question voting allows instance participants to upvote the most important questions and sort by highest votes or recent activity. This gives moderators the ability to derive insights from the audience about what topics they care the most about and address them. Additionally, for questions that might be outdated or irrelevant, moderators can move them to a separate feed to ensure that presenters can focus on providing the most value to attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415413
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to take control during screensharing on Web – This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the “Take control” function to request control while another person is screen-sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420327
• Microsoft Viva: Campaign Enhancements – Targeted campaigns and campaigns in the digest – Corporate communications and campaign managers will now have the capability to effectively promote their campaigns by sending notifications directly to users, ensuring they are promptly informed about new campaigns and can readily participate in them. Additionally, campaigns will be discoverable in the engage digest, enhancing visibility and engagement opportunities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382924
• Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it within Teams Workflows – Can’t find a workflow template that matches what you need? You will now be able to describe in detail on how you want your automation to work and from that description generate a workflow to match your needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=382659

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for Teams Room on Windows – Teams Room on Windows will support up to four single stream cameras that will be shown to remote meeting attendees. With multiple camera view, remote meeting attendees will have the ability to follow all the action in the room and manually toggle between views from the room that they want to see. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402517
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations – Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423474
• Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendees – Allows moderators to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417158
• Microsoft Teams: Auto-association of BYOD room devices in the Pro Management portal – Manually associating peripherals to rooms may feel like an endless task if your organization has several bring your own device (BYOD) rooms. IT admins can streamline the process and get enhanced inventory visibility with this feature which utilizes meeting room invite data to intelligently associate peripherals to these spaces. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469495

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the transcription experience in meetings – We’re making improvements to enhance the transcription experience in meetings. First, when transcription, recording, or Copilot are enabled before or during the meeting, users will be prompted to select the spoken language to ensure transcription accuracy. Second, when transcription is enabled (whether by itself or when recording or Copilot are enabled) only the meeting organizer, co-organizers, and transcript initiator will be able to change the spoken language. Next, we’re simplifying the settings by creating a new settings page for meeting spoken language and translation language for live translated captions at Caption settings > Language settings > Meeting spoken language and transcript found at Transcript > Language settings > Meeting spoken language.  Lastly, when participants speak a language that doesn’t match the selected language in the spoken language setting, the meeting organizer, co-organizer and initiator will get a notification that the language is mismatched. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471426
• 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 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718
• Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413712

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Introducing the SCO Setting in Walkie Talkie app for Enhanced Battery Life on older Bluetooth headsets – This feature introduces SCO (Synchronous Connection-Oriented) user setting in the Walkie Talkie app. This feature is designed to manage the Bluetooth headset connection to optimize battery life. When a Bluetooth headset is connected to the Walkie Talkie app, the SCO setting controls whether the microphone remains constantly connected or disconnects after a period of inactivity. This helps in reducing battery drain by allowing the headset to disconnect when not in use and reconnect when needed.  The user control feature allows users to set a timeout period after which the Bluetooth headset will automatically disconnect if there is no activity. While the SCO setting is turned on, users may experience a slight delay in transmission as the headset reconnects. However, once the headset is reconnected, users will hear a sound indicating that they can start transmitting on the app. This brief delay is a small trade-off for the substantial battery savings on older Bluetooth headsets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476733
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Add CVI Coordinates to Townhall and webinar invites – With CVI coordinates in invites, now non-Teams users—such as external customers or partners—can easily join Teams Townhall and webinar meetings using a third-party teleconferencing device. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476487
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites – This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476488
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Townhall Attendee/Presenter email dial in details. – With the release of this feature, the Townhall attendee and presenter invites will have dial in details available in the body of the email. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476489
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for Walkie Talkie on iOS. – This feature adds the wired support to Walkie Talkie on iOS. It adds support for both specialized PTT headsets and generic headsets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476734
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut – Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369345
• 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: Separate policies to control transcription for Town halls and Webinars – Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473886
• Microsoft Teams: Separate recording policies for Town halls and Webinars – Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable recordings. Previously, the recording policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the recording policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473887
• 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: 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: 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: 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: Ability for meeting participants to edit their display name – Teams meeting participants will be able to edit their display name, enabling more flexibility in their meeting presence, regardless of their tenant set display name. Users can make this change during the meeting and it will persist throughout the duration of the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=122934

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC general availability – Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=415097
• Word: Get started on a draft immediately with example prompts – On blank documents, Copilot in Word will provide one-click examples of prompts that quickly help you get going on your document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=399918
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Whiteboard Copilot – First run experience  – Copilot FRE will guide first-time users to discover and leverage the power of Whiteboard Copilot features. ? Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392455

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams now available for multitenant organizations – Copilot is available to users in a multitenant organization, provided the user has an active Copilot license in their host tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423474
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category – We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=185700
• Outlook: Chat with Copilot in Outlook for Mac – The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get in the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (work mode) and in other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395788
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Questions surfacing in Copilot results – Viva Engage questions from communities, storyline, and Answers will surface in Copilot results. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=408166
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – AI & Copilot Resources provider – The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412064
• Word: Chat with Copilot about selected text – Start a chat with Copilot while text in your document is selected, and Copilot’s response will be scoped to what you have selected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473441

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Read aloud available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Play back Copilot responses as audio with read aloud in Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475967
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot – Once you integrate your organization’s assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475051
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot – Once you integrate your organization’s assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475056
• 🆕 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): BizChat – Edge contextual capabilities in Business Chat work mode – In Business Chat work mode, users can ask Copilot questions about web pages and PDFs opened in the Edge browser using page context, such as “summarize this page”. This feature is currently also available in Business Chat web mode. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468884
• Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Space analytics with Copilot – In space analytics, use Copilot to analyze and explain key data points and trends in your space utilization graphs. It compares current utilization metrics such as occupancy, desk usage, and room bookings against previous time periods (e.g. last month, last quarter), highlighting important changes and trends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422718
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Video creation in Copilot Visual Creator powered by Clipchamp – Clipchamp brings video creation skills to Visual Creator in Copilot. Type your prompt and Clipchamp will write a bespoke script, source high quality stock footage, and assemble a video project with music, voiceover, text overlays and transitions. Open your video project draft in Clipchamp app to continue editing, export and share. Great for informational videos, video messaging, how-to, demo and video presentations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=402192

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dictate your prompts in Copilot Chat – Use the dictation button to input your prompts with speech. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475968
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Loop Workspaces in ContextIQ – When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use ContextIQ to scope to your Loop Workspaces content in the Files tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473447
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create with Copilot in Excel generates templates and tables – Create with Copilot in Excel helps customers write prompts to generate tailored templates and tables, using multi-turn conversion to refine the table schema, formulas, and visuals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429873

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for Mac – 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 Mac 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=473456

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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 (3)
• In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level – Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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=124972
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – HR resignation date as a condition for risk level – Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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=171748

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable – Document didn’t complete scanning – Document name matches patterns – Document size equals or is greater than Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374811
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels  – Dynamic watermarking is a new sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400717
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP – With this capability, admins can extend the condition ‘Document Property is’ to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417482

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – General availability of Microsoft partner data connectors for T-Mobile and HKCSL – These connectors will support ingestion for T-Mobile and HKCSL data to user mailboxes and makes them available for compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=477365
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Classification improvements on file read access in MacOS devices using Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Data classification on files in MacOS devices will be triggered when handling files on read access to improve classification operations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476099
• 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 – May 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- DLP alerts as indicators – IRM admins can now select DLP alerts as indicators in IRM policies. IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM. By enabling this indicator, admins can detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins view this information within IRM itself without having to switch to DLP.  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=475057
• Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Third party add-in user report can be sent to Microsoft for analysis – Admins and security analysts of organizations who use a third-party reporting add-in in Outlook can configure using user-reported settings to send their user reports to Microsoft for analysis and learning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=406167
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search – Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384092
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181825

Rollout starts – June 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR – With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=422730
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search – Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392842

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scan cold files in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information – This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business for sensitive data and classify and/or label them accordingly. This includes files that have never been scanned or scanned in some time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475062
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Insider risk management user analytics – With this feature, Insights will be generated for potentially risky behaviors at a user level and will be surfaced across the following experiences: 1) Insider risk management context in DLP alert investigation 2) Insider risk management context in Communication compliance alert investigation 3) Insider risk management context in Microsoft Defender XDR user entity page 4) Advanced hunting in Microsoft Defender XDR. User analytics will cover all eligible users in the tenant including users not in the scope of any Insider risk management policy. During the initial rollout, user analytics will be enabled by default for all customers who have enabled Insider risk management analytics. This will help customers benefit from this additional intelligence right from the start. Customers can enable/disable user analytics in your tenant from Insider risk management Global settings. 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=475058
• 🆕 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=475970

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