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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 21st April 2025

Bumper, Easter edition of the Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup, with 51 new releases 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 (0)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

    • N/A

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • N/A

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    Rollout starts – April 2025

      Rollout starts – May 2025

        • 🆕 SharePoint: Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries – When you select an item in OneDrive on the Web, the Copilot button appears, offering a range of actions you can perform on that item. The same feature and actions are coming to document library views in SharePoint and Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488297
        • 🆕 SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Use table of contents in PDF – OneDrive for Web can now display a table of contents if its already in your PDF. You can click on the line item to jump directly to the location of that page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482601

        Rollout starts – July 2025

          • 🆕  SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint – Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489230
          • 🆕 SharePoint: Document Libraries – A new forms experience for streamlined document collection – Introducing native forms within SharePoint Document Libraries to streamline document collection. Users can create custom forms directly in libraries for seamless file uploads and metadata submission. Forms can be shared as links within the organization, facilitating document collection without additional access. This integration enhances productivity by simplifying workflows and improving user experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489834
          • 🆕 SharePoint: Improved processing status experience for Content AI models in SharePoint Online – Were introducing a new activity pane in SharePoint Online to help users track and troubleshoot Content AI model processing. Starting with document translation and autofill, users will be able to view real-time status (in progress, completed, failed) for individual files, bulk selections, or the full library. Completed status will include enriched details like language codes, glossary usage, and column extraction counts. This new pane will eventually replace the current processing status column, providing a more consistent and actionable experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489453

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

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          Teams

          • Launched (3)
          • Rolling out (6)
          • In development (25)

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          •  Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment defaulting to ‘On’ – The new policy gives IT admins enhanced flexibility with distinct settings for voice and face enrollment. This adjustment provides greater control over managing these features, allowing organizations to tailor to their needs. Voice and face enrollment will be enabled by default, enabling voice isolation and speaker recognition in meeting rooms and enhancing intelligent meeting recaps and Copilot for meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413708
          •  Microsoft Teams: Embed Support for Teams town hall – Users can now embed Teams town halls in the SharePoint sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular SharePoint site. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=401120
          • Microsoft Teams: Custom Meeting Branding – Support multiple meeting themes per customization policy – Admins can now create and assign multiple meeting themes to a customization policy in the Teams Admin Center. This will allow meeting organizers who are assigned to a customization policy the ability to select from different meeting theme options while scheduling their meetings. Note – this feature requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468868

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          •  Microsoft Teams: Control When Shared Content Is Visible to Attendees in ‘Manage what attendees see’ – An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to control when shared content is visible to attendees. This capability is available for Meetings, Webinars and Town halls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483486
          • 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: Intelligent recap for calls from chat and Meet now meetings now available for GCC High – Intelligent meeting recap will be available in GCC High for impromptu calls and meetings, like those started from Meet now and calls started from chat. You can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends. This capability will be available for users with a Teams Premium or M365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481353
          • Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones – This roadmap was updated to launched by mistake. We apologize the inconvenience.  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: 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

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – May 2025

          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in ‘Manage what attendees see’ – An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487431
          • Microsoft Teams:  Specify who can manage the screen in Teams Town hall – A new option in Town hall lets Organizers designate who can manage the screen shown to attendees during the event. Organizers can select specific individuals who will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. Available on Teams desktop app and coming soon for Teams Rooms on Windows. 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 (Premium) – 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: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android – Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486694
          • Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for BYOD spaces – BYOD spaces now support additional room and desk peripherals, including docking stations and webcams. This enables users to seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for a higher-quality experience. IT admins will receive an expanded view and detailed reports for peripherals associated with BYOD spaces in the Pro Management Portal, when a particular BYOD space has a Teams Shared Devices license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486693
          • Microsoft Teams: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall  – With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486535
          • Microsoft Teams: Add a presenter from the participant roster in a town hall or webinar – Organizers and presenters can quickly add a missing presenter to an ongoing town hall or webinar by calling them directly from the participant roster. Once the missing presenter accepts the call, they instantly join as a presenter, automatically joining the Green Room (if enabled) and added to the event group chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485812
          • Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text in Teams Meetings and Calls – Real-time Text (RTT) is a fast, accessible, and immediate communication method that transmits text character by character as it is typed. It is particularly valuable in various calling and meeting scenarios where it enables deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, neurodiverse users, and those with speech-related disabilities to engage in real-time conversations through text. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484119
          • Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft town hall and webinars from Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows can now join town halls, webinars, and structured meetings in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for all events. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484125
          • Microsoft Teams: Introducing new IT administrator policies to control Town hall Event Access – Previously, Microsoft did not provide a way for Teams admins to control who can attend town halls that are created in their organization. With this new policy, tenant administrators can control who can attend town halls created by members in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483250
          • Microsoft Teams: Copilot only during call – Copilot is only available during the live call session and will not be accessible after the call ends. No recording or transcription is required to use Copilot during the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482745“

          Rollout starts – June 2025

          • 🆕  Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. This is an optional opt-in experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490057
          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town halls in DoD – Set up and host large scale events across a DoD 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?searchterms=489812
          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium] – Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489808
          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488298
          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Outlook for Windows – Classic Outlook for Windows will suggest meeting options based on your meeting details, helping you easily schedule meetings with optimized settings from within the scheduling form. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487858
          • Microsoft Teams: Rules-Based Enablement of Third-Party Teams Apps in Teams Admin Center – This feature allows M365 administrators to define specific criteria for approving third-party Teams applications within their tenant. Administrators can select from a list of predefined, safe criteria, ensuring that only trusted and compliant applications are made available under this rule. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485712
          • Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams – Customers will now be able to move content seamlessly from public and private channels in a third-party solution to Teams standard channels. A new first-party Migration tool on Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to connect the third-party solution workspace, plan, and perform content migration to Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485709
          • Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with lobby chat – Now, meeting organizers and co-organizers can send one-way messages to attendees in the lobby via the lobby chat. The Lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings have more control over meetings with external participants, and external attendees are well informed about the meeting upon meeting start. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480716
          • 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: 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?searchterms=476488
          • 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?searchterms=369345
          • 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?searchterms=470597

          Rollout starts – July 2025

          • 🆕  Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488299
          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New Voice Applications Settings for Authorized Users in GCC High and DoD (Premium) – Voice applications policies allow you to create and assign voice application policies to authorized users. Voice application policies control what configuration changes an authorized user can make to the auto attendants and call queues they’re authorized for. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490056

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

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          OneDrive

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

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          • N/A

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          • N/A

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – April 2025

          • SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Protect PDF with password – SharePoint and OneDrive 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

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

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          Copilot

          • Launched (3)
          • Rolling out (4)
          • In development (29)

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          •  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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recap changes over more time – Recapping the changes you made in Loop is no longer limited to the current session. You can now recap changes that were made over a longer period of time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=369865

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Copilot Chat prompt input box – This update aligns Copilot Chat prompt input box across chat experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478654
          • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work – Now, instantly get suggestions for slide templates to use while creating slides in PowerPoint. Insert a new slide or start typing the slide name or type of slide and see suggestions in the Copilot Suggestions pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475054
          • Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot – Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail’s importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot’s priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=411302
          • Microsoft 365 admin center: AI adoption score – 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?searchterms=185700

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – April 2025

          Rollout starts – May 2025

          Rollout starts – June 2025

          Rollout starts – July 2025

          • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488299

          Rollout starts – August 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 (7)
          • Rolling out (6)
          • In development (15)

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP – Currently, you can create a Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign it to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release features based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for the same user on different devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480732
          • 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 handing files on read access to improve classification operations.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478930
          • 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?searchterms=464998
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Just-in-time support on MacOS – You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417161
          • Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Ability to exclude bulk emails – Communication Compliance policies will allow filtering of bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=100513
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates – We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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=409966
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Insider risk insights in DLP alerts – With this update, a DLP analyst with the right permissions can access an insider risk summary of user activities that may lead to potential data security incidents, as a part of the DLP alert investigation experience in Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender. This feature can help analysts gain context of a DLP alert and make more informed decisions on responses to potential incidents. 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=179880

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP support – Just-in-time on MacOS – You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483354
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements – We are introducing several enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include a comprehensive case-level data source view, the ability to retry failed locations for a more complete search statistics estimate. Users will also be able to duplicate search and copy search from hold or hold from search within the same case, reusing the data sources and queries. Additionally, customers will be able to access a more comprehensive reporting in all process reports including information like compliance boundary, encryption settings and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482558
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify Users about Hidden Content Matches in Communication Compliance – This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417483
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Progressive alert scoring – With this new feature, user activities that could potentially result in data security incidents will be assessed more frequently within a 24-hour period compared with the current practice of once every 24 hours. Alert insights will now be updated every few hours with this increased frequency, providing designated analysts with timely alerts and continuously evolving insights. 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=179883
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator – Downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. But 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?searchterms=466742
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Network Share Coverage and Exclusion Support on Mac Endpoints – With this feature, Sensitive data in files that are stored in network shares and mapped network drives will be protected by DLP policies across Mac endpoints as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=410397

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – May 2025

          • 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Changes to case creation process in Purview portal when confirming alerts from Defender XDR portal and content retention periods in cases – With this release, alerts confirmed from the Defender XDR portal (security.microsoft.com) will not result in automatic case creation in the Purview portal. To create a case, Insider Risk Management analysts or investigators must manually click on the “Confirm all alerts & create case” button in the Purview portal from the alert that was previously confirmed through Defender XDR. When a case is created for a specific user based on the generated alert, related content such as online files and emails, is made available in the Content explorer tab. Additionally, any new content that generates or adds to an alert is included in the Content explorer for review during up to the 30 days from the creation of the Case. After these 30 days, new content identified for the user based on alerts will NOT be added to the Content explorer. To access new content, the existing case must be closed and a new Case created. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489228

          Rollout starts – June 2025

          Rollout starts – July 2025

          • 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Timeline view of user activity – This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user’s potentially risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user’s history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489840

          Rollout starts – September 2025

          Rollout starts – October 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?searchterms=489454
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380678

          Rollout starts – November 2025

          Rollout starts – December 2025

          • 🆕 Microsoft Purview: Inline discovery of sensitive data shared over the network – Extension of Microsoft Purview policies to the network by integrating Purview with your existing Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. Through this integration, admins can intercept and inspect traffic flowing through the network layer to identify the presence of sensitive data and enforce DLP policies on it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488807

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