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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 7th April 2025

In this week’s Microsoft roadmap roundup there are 37 new updates across SharePoint, Teams, Purview, and Copilot.

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    Rollout starts – June 2025

    Rollout starts – July 2025

    • 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Integrated apps – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared apps in the Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly in the Shared agents tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857

    Rollout starts – September 2025

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

      SharePoint
      Teams
      OneDrive
      Copilot
      Microsoft Purview

      Teams

      • Launched (8)
      • Rolling out (5)
      • In development (18)

      🍾 LAUNCHED

      •  Microsoft Teams: Direct Routing Call Troubleshooting via SIP Ladder – We are launching the SIP Ladder diagram tool in Teams Admin center to enable admins to troubleshoot their Direct Routing calls in a self-serve way. This feature will be available via the Usage reports page under Teams Admin center. It will also enable admins to view the SIP requests, responses and associated SDP data between Microsoft teams proxy and the SBC through which the call was routed. This data will be available for all calls made more than 30 minutes and less than 30 days ago. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479413
      • Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones – This feature allows you to configure custom contacts and speed dial on the line key of touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. It enables you to swiftly access frequently dialed numbers and contacts, incorporating one-touch/press dialing and effortless management of contact lists on touch devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476486
      • Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the transcription experience in meetings – Were 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, were 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 doesnt 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?searchterms=471426
      • 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?searchterms=371588
      • 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?searchterms=467246
      • Microsoft Teams: Email verification for external attendees to join Teams meetings – Meeting organizers can have greater confidence about external attendees joining Teams meetings, this capability enables sending a one-time passcode to the external attendee’s email address for that individual to use during a verification step when joining a Teams meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418125
      • Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle – Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418120
      • Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions – User can upload their own custom emojis and reactions to personalize their communication. Emojis will be available within the users  tenant in chat and channels via the emoji and reaction menus. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=80659

      🚂 ROLLING OUT

      •  Microsoft Teams:  Simplified Notes pane in meetings – Were updating the Notes pane in meetings to streamline the design and make key controls more clear. First, were renaming the header from Meeting notes to Notes to match the panes name in the meeting toolbar.  Second, the file-level controls like Open in new window and Copy component combined into a single header at the top for simplicity. As part of the single header, the control to open the component in the Loop web app will be found in the ellipses menu in the top header and no longer in the Pages icon.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482398
      • Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications on web – You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen when using Teams on web. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480720
      • Microsoft Teams: Quick sharing of files in Teams – Share a file from a chat conversation, Shared tab or a channel post to 1:1 chats, group chats, or channels with fewer clicks. When files are shared, their permissions are maintained, ensuring that recipients have the appropriate access rights. You can add additional information to your message and @mention recipients for greater clarity and alignment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475852
      • Microsoft Teams: Queues App to add Monitor Whisper Barge and Takeover – Authorized users will be able to enter into a monitoring session with selected agents for private coaching. They can listen to customer calls, whisper to the agents for private message, even barge into or takeover the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473884
      • Microsoft Teams: Together Mode New Flow – After further review, this feature continues rolling out. We apologize for any inconvenience. Together mode will get a new simplified flow which will take the user from the beginning to the end through the steps of setting up the scene, assigning the seats and applying for everyone in the call in a transparent and easy-to-understand way. The function itself does not change but there will be more transparency thanks to the icons on the meeting toolbar for an easy access for each next step in the familiar Together mode flow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470427

      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      Rollout starts – April 2025

      •  Microsoft Teams: Enhancing usability for the frontline – We are enhancing the default experience for Frontline Workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. These updates include adding the Viva Engage experience into the Tailored Frontline App Experience and renaming Viva Connections to Home for greater clarity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481280
      • Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution in Teams Rooms on Android – You can now take advantage of speaker recognition, transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in Teams Rooms on Android. Intelligent speaker functionalities are brought to existing speakers via the cloud. 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 and Teams Premium in meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480715
      • 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?searchterms=473887
      • 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?searchterms=473886

      Rollout starts – May 2025

      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Bi-directional Calendar Syncing between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams  – Businesses using Google Workspace for email and calendaring can now enable bidirectional synchronization with Microsoft Teams through the Teams Admin app. This enhanced sync ensures that events created in either platform are seamlessly reflected in both, improving scheduling efficiency and minimizing the risk of missed meetings. With this update, all calendar events—including incoming, outgoing, existing, and new—are fully synchronized. This feature is being rolled out gradually. When rollout is complete, you can sync up to 50,000 users per tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488093
      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Specify who can manage the screen in Town hall – A new option in Town hall lets organizers designate who can manage the screen during the event. Now selected individuals will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487432
      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Detect sensitive content that’s being shared in meetings – Screen content shared during a meeting is protected by detecting sensitive content and alerting the presenter and organizers when it appears. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487433
      • Microsoft Teams: Line key support for shared line and call transfers – This feature will enable you to assign shared lines to a line key and view the boss and delegates of the line along with their presence on Teams Phone devices with touch screens. This feature allows delegates to pick up calls on behalf of the boss by pressing the line key and join active calls. Additionally, users will be able to assign the transfer action to the line key, enabling them to transfer active calls by simply pressing that line key. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486829
      • Microsoft Teams: Town hall usage reports in TAC will have all the relevant usage data related to town hall events in the tenant. – When Town hall was released, there were some columns/data related to each Town hall event that were missing in the TAC usage reports for IT Admins. Now all the relevant usage related data are added to the town hall usage reports available in the TAC portal for Admins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486706
      • Microsoft Teams: Opening Calls in a small window in Teams – Allowing users to open calls in a small window to reduce disruptions in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482747
      • Microsoft Teams: Report a Message for External Collaboration – Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481147
      • Microsoft Teams: Create channels with ease – Efficiently create channels directly from the header menu, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. As a channel creator, you will have the flexibility to choose from all the teams you can create a channel in to host your new channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479744
      • Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notetaking in meetings – The Facilitator agent takes real-time notes during your Teams meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. This frees everyone up to focus and engage deeply in meetings, while also helping drive alignment before the meeting ends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478611
      • Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing – Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=467445

      Rollout starts – June 2025

      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Unified attachment flow on Teams Mobile – Introducing a new content picker for Teams Mobile! Attach any type of content, whether files or media, from the paperclip icon in the compose overflow menu. Our unified attach flow makes it easy and intuitive to attach content from any source location. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488091
      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows with Cloud IntelliFrame – If facial recognition is enabled in organization policies and you’ve enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms on Windows using Cloud IntelliFrame will recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486692
      • Microsoft Teams: Search with apps and agents personalized suggestionss – We are enhancing Teams search personalized suggestions to include apps and agents. When searching in Teams you will now also get apps and agent suggestions which dynamically update as you type.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483252

      Rollout starts – August 2025

      • Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=409534

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

      SharePoint
      Teams
      OneDrive
      Copilot
      Microsoft Purview

      OneDrive

      • Launched (2)
      • Rolling out (0)
      • In development (4)

      🍾 LAUNCHED

      •  OneDrive: View hidden files and folders in ‘Shared with you’ view – This feature allows you to view files and folders you have hidden in the Shared with you view in OneDrive for Web. You can quickly access files and folders you have hidden by clicking on the ‘Hidden’ button in the filter bar. You can also ‘Unhide’ files and bring them back to the ‘Shared with you’ view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=388381
      • OneDrive: Recurring meetings in Meetings view  – The upcoming update to the OneDrive Meetings view will display your recurring meetings in chronological order, providing easy access to all related files, past recordings, and details like the meeting owner, attendees, time, and location. This feature helps you prepare for future meetings by allowing you to quickly access pre-read materials and review recordings or content from past meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=388382

      🚂 ROLLING OUT

      • N/A

      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      Rollout starts – April 2025

      • SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Protect PDF with password – SharePoint Premium users can now secure their PDF files by adding protection that restricts unauthorized access through OneDrive Web. This feature allows you to set an open password, which is required to access the PDF, or an owner password, which sets permissions for actions such as printing or editing the document. This ensures your files remain secure and only accessible to authorized individuals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482193

      Rollout starts – May 2025

      •  OneDrive: Office Files on Hold  – If a tenant has the (EnableHoldTheFile) GPO enabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then end users can open the file in Office to merge changes. If a tenant has the GPO disabled, and the end users run into Office file conflicts, then OneDrive automatically creates a copy of the file in conflict. When tenants have this GPO disabled, it leads to end users potentially having to manually merge hundreds of conflicts because OneDrive automatically forks a file instead of allowing the users to have the option to merge conflicts in Office. The proposal no longer allows tenants to disable this GPO thus not automatically forking a file when in conflict for end users.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429875
      • OneDrive: Enable OCSI for Tenants  – If a tenant has the (EnableAllOcsiClients) GPO enabled, Office and OneDrive are able to communicate smoothly. Right now, tenants have the option to disable the GPO, and when they disable the GPO, it becomes difficult to ensure that all internal versions of Office files are kept up to date so that features like autosave, version history, real time user collab, and merging in the case of conflicts can work.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429874

      Rollout starts – June 2025

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

      SharePoint
      Teams
      OneDrive
      Copilot
      Microsoft Purview

      Copilot

      • Launched (4)
      • Rolling out (4)
      • In development (24)

      🍾 LAUNCHED

      🚂 ROLLING OUT

      •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages in Government Clouds – This brings the editable Copilot Pages feature which is already shipped WW to the government environment. The pages feature enables users to add their M365 Copilot responses to a page where they can edit and share with others for collaboration. This happens right within the M365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485177
      • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): M365 Copilot for GCC Environments: Wave 2  – 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 now available in Stream, SharePoint, OneNote, and Pages in Loop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483357
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. These capabilities will be available once Microsoft 365 Copilot is deployed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479082
      • 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?searchterms=429873

        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

        Rollout starts – April 2025

        •  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agents in Copilot Chat available on Edge Sidebar – Use agents in Copilot Chat on Edge Sidebar to simplify tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482410
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work context suggestions in Copilot Chat ContextIQ menu – Copilot Chat will suggest prompts and work context you have access to as you type in the prompt, helping you find relevant information for your conversations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481135
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Select some text, and instantly get helpful options from Copilot – The Copilot icon in your document margin gives you a variety of actions you can take on your selected text. One click lets you rewrite, get editorial coaching, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483952
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Designer is now part of Copilot, enhanced with new template and slide suggestions –  Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484843
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The chat experience now offers better search refinement on CIQ menu Files tab – Users will now be able to use File Type filters and People refiners to apply search criteria to get to relevant files faster in the CIQ menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481136
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms has been refreshed to help users better refine and edit their forms – Copilot in Forms has been revamped to more easily help users refine and modify their forms. Users can now type prompts to Copilot to help with editing and refinement, so they can get tailored suggestions and easily get their forms ready to send.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474659
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can now reference files to help generate drafts – When creating a form with Copilot, users can now reference existing documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users can also reference an existing form by pasting the form’s URL into the prompt box. Additionally, Copilot can search and suggest relevant files when generating a form, so users can easily create a draft that meets their needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474658
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help monitor response collection and insights – Copilot in Forms can now help you monitor and collect responses for your forms, so you can get the data you need with much less effort. Copilot can create a collection plan, track your progress, and let you know when to take action with reminders and insights. Forms can notify you when early insights are ready, and you can easily continue your analysis with Copilot in Excel. Say goodbye to manual follow-ups and hello to smarter collection and analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470604
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat – Scope Copilot queries in emails for delegated mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416062
        • Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Generate Pulse summary with Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse  – Use Microsoft Copilot in Viva Pulse to receive an AI-generated summary of your results from a Viva Pulse report. Viva Pulse authors can share it with their team members as well use it to promote transparency. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=407863

        Rollout starts – May 2025

        Rollout starts – June 2025

        Rollout starts – July 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings – Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485729
        • 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Integrated apps – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared apps in the Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly in the Shared agents tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint agent web part – SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481512

        Rollout starts – August 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Drafting on a selection includes being able to reference files, people, emails, and meetings – Just like when you’re using Copilot to draft content on a blank line in your document, you can reference resources that provide context in addition to the content you’ve selected in your document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485730

        Rollout starts – September 2025

        Rollout starts – October 2025

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

        SharePoint
        Viva
        Teams
        OneDrive
        Copilot
        Microsoft Purview

        Microsoft Purview

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

        • Launched (4)
        • Rolling out (2)
        • In development (16)

        🍾 LAUNCHED

        •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Recipient-triggered policy tips (policy tip to wait for recipient) – This feature ensures that policy tips are displayed only after recipients are added to an email, minimizing user disruption from DLP policy tips. With this improvement, relevant policy tips are only shown to users as they draft emails after the proper policy conditions are met. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483358
        • 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. 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. Additionally, 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 dont need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478929
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Hold limits increased per hold policy for eDiscovery Premium – The Purview eDiscovery team has increased the limits for Hold policies for eDiscovery Premium in the new purview.microsoft.com portal. The maximum number of mailboxes in a single case hold has been increased from 1,000 to 2,000. This limit includes the combined total of user mailboxes and the mailboxes associated with Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage Groups. The maximum number of sites in a single case hold has been increased from 100 to 2,000. This limit includes the combined total of OneDrive for Business sites, SharePoint sites, and the sites associated with Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Viva Engage Groups. Overall, the maximum allowed locations in a premium case hold policy in a premium case is 4,000 (2,000 each). This is possible through the new user interface in Purview portal and not through the Classic eDiscovery experience. Additionally, this is not currently possible with Graph. The maximum hold limits for a standard case remain the same as earlier: 1,000 mailboxes and 100 sites. All other settings for eDiscovery hold continue as is. Lastly, in case of license downgrade, the system won’t remove any existing holds and won’t allow adding more, such as for a policy with a higher number of locations in it (e.g. 1500 Mailbox and 1500 Sites), and if the case setting is downgraded to E3, you will not be able to add more locations in it based on E3 limits, but you will be able to remove locations from it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=477367
        • 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?searchterms=377674

        🚂 ROLLING OUT

        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. These capabilities will be available once Microsoft 365 Copilot is deployed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479082
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the senders risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415170

        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

        Rollout starts – April 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios – For endpoint DLP customers trying to override a DLP soft warning policy tip. In its current implementation, the end-user must re-initiate the print job for the intended result; whereas with this enhancement the override will be stored for a period of time and execute the print job. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486369
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhancements to global exclusions in IRM settings – In this update, we are making the below enhancements to IRM exclusions to reduce alert noise. 1. Keyword logic update for email – An email will be excluded from scoring only when all the attachments match the keyword exclusions or email subject matches the keyword exclusions. This will be helpful to reduce the email signature noise which commonly contains keyword “image”. 2. Keyword exclusions on both target and source file paths – For signals like file copied to removable media, keyword exclusions apply on both target and source file paths. 3. File path exclusions for removable media – We will start supporting file path exclusions for removable media. 4. Exclusion support for browser – Domain exclusions are now supported for browsing indicators. 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?searchterms=486826

        Rollout starts – May 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Microsoft Purview AI Hub has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI). Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485771
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Data Assessments – Data assessments in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by viewing default assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485767
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP – Edge to enforce USB, network, and printer group restrictions on files – Purview Admins can now use either Removable USB device, Network Share, and/or Printer groups within DLP policies, these restrictions are now extensible to the Edge browser experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486370
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle separate retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps – Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470025

        Rollout starts – June 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Compliance to support Generative AI Applications  – Detection, processing and storage of interactions done on Enterprise AI and AI applications such as Security Copilot, Copilot Studio and others under Microsoft Purview Data Compliance solutions including Data Lifecycle Management, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance will begin using a pay-as-you-go pricing model on May 1 in preparation for general availability. Microsoft Purview Audit will only use pay-as-you-go pricing for audit logs related to non-Microsoft Enterprise AI and AI applications. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat data (with or without a Copilot license) will not be impacted by these new pay-as-you-go meters. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (for example SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488495
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP – This allows the customer to DLP to protect for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact when using Microsoft Purview Information Protection client to apply sensitivity label to these file types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487859
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices – When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486366
        • Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Policy scoping enhancements – With this release, Insider Risk Management administrators can include or exclude specific users, groups, and adaptive scopes within policies. We are also adding support for non-mail enabled Security Groups within IRM policies. 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?searchterms=484081
        • 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 users 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?searchterms=407864

        Rollout starts – July 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP Mac device management support for additional MDM solutions – Endpoint DLP is extending support to Mac devices managed by additional third party MDM solutions other than the currently supported JAMF or Intune. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485798
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content   – Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486828
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP: – App or App Group Restriction support for Edge browser – Previously, Purview Admins could not restrict Edge browser access to sensitive files through Restricted apps or app groups. With this feature, apps or app groups can be configured to be blocked in Edge, including a message showing policy violation info. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485769

        Rollout starts – September 2025

        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business   – With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt. Starting with some of the top consumer GenAI apps (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek), admins will be able to block typed prompts containing sensitive data.  The inline protection capability complements existing endpoint DLP controls for uploading or pasting sensitive content in the browser.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486368

        Rollout starts – October 2025

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