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 (5)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  SharePoint: Restricted Access Control Enhancements  – New enhancements for RAC policy for SharePoint administrators to restrict access to SharePoint sites including managing M365 group connected sites with M365 groups or Security groups.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483028
• SharePoint: Preview for Pages and News – This creates Preview mode for authors to view how their Pages and News will look across different device types while editing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473452
• SharePoint: Site access review from Sharing link reports in Data Access Governance – Site access review allows SharePoint admins to delegate access governance to site owners in the context of potential oversharing as defined within DAG reports. We earlier released site access review from within “Content shared with everyone except external users” report. Now, the same functionality will be available from all “Sharing link” reports as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=414525
• SharePoint: Site Access Review offers a way for SharePoint tenants to empower site owners using Data Access Governance – SharePoint admins can use Data Access Governance reports to discover potential oversharing within their tenant. Once discovered, SharePoint admins can now request that site owners review permissions using the specific context of that report from within the report. They can also track all such requests raised from a central location. The site owners will receive a corresponding email and are redirected to a section within the site (site reviews) that clearly enunciates the corresponding data related to sharing and permissions along with the ability to take action. This feature is now available for Data Access Governance – Permissions based reports – count of permissioned user report. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=406553
• SharePoint: Using Data Access Governance to understand the tenant’s current permission landscape – SharePoint admins can now use Data Access Governance (DAG) to understand their tenant’s current permission landscape and make better decisions regarding applications based on permissions such as Copilot. DAG now provides a report that will reflect the latest state of permissions in the entire tenant and return sites that have a greater count of permissioned users than the SharePoint admin specified number. This count considers users accessing sites via site membership and users accessing via unique permissions, as well and acts like a potential threshold for oversharing. Along with the permissioned user count, the report also provides information on the number of existing sharing links (Anyone and People-in-your-org) in those sites and enables SharePoint admins to identify potential root causes for oversharing. You can find more details about this report at the link below. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=406552

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Create multi-color themes for SharePoint in brand center – We’re bringing a new theme creation experience into brand center that supports multiple colors, allowing you to easily create and manage multi-color themes for your sites and related experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490062

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

• SharePoint: Dashboard in Sites – The dashboard layout webpart will be available on all sites and pages. Currently the dashboard webpart is limited to Home Sites, it will be extended to Team Sites and Communication Sites Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486832
• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Use table of contents in PDF – OneDrive for the web and SharePoint Online can display a table of contents if its already in your PDF. You can select the line item in the table of contents to jump directly to the location of that item in the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859

Rollout starts – June 2025

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint –  Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New dynamic web part for FAQs in Microsoft SharePoint – Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: A new web part for FAQs, to help content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part automatically curates FAQ content by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a human-in-the-loop approach, it ensures information stays accurate, relevant, and trustworthy, making it easier for all page visitors to find the answers they need. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198

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Teams

• Launched (10)
• Rolling out (7)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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: 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: Ad-hoc individual desk booking in Teams – In addition to being able to book a desk in advance through Outlook, now you can instantly reserve an individual desk when plugging into a peripheral on a shared desk. IT admins can also get valuable 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?searchterms=473570
• Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=191528“
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying or forwarding of live captions, transcript, and recap for meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat control for meeting organizers to include live captions, transcription, and meeting recap. With this change, meeting organizers with eligible licenses will see a control called Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript in the meeting options. When this control is enabled, meeting participants wont be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416072
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Meetings will suggest follow up questions to ask it – When Copilot in Teams Meetings responds to a prompt, it will also suggest follow up prompts to ask Copilot that build on the prior response. These questions will generally be based on the response it gave prior, and could be related to honing in on a particular topic, asking for more details, or even reformatting the content into a table if appropriate. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325858
• 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: Tag Mentions filter in Activity – To view all your tag mentions, select the tag mentions filter in your activity feed. The @Mentions filter allows you to catch up quickly on personal mentions, while the Tag mentions filter helps you catch up on the Tag mentions you are part of. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470598
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborative call delegation on Teams phone devices – Teams phone device users will be able to share access to their phone line with a specific group of users, without a structured delegation system. This enables group members to receive calls and initiate calls on behalf of others, enabling a simple and collaborative communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416288
• 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

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•  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: Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response – Copilot in Teams will now have a ‘stop’ button after sending a prompt. This will allow the user to stop Copilot’s response either before the response has started to generate, or even after the response is generating. The user may then start a new prompt if they wish. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325948
• Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ camera controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – If the camera is not currently auto-framing the room, in-room users can now control the Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) of the active camera to keep the focus where they want it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482189
• 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: Presenter joins Townhalls via dial-in – Teams Townhall presenters will now have the ability to join their townhalls using dial-in details. These details will be available in the body of the invite email they receive from Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476489
• Microsoft Teams: CVI support for Townhall and Webinar presenters – Organizations that do not currently use Microsoft Teams can now seamlessly join and present within Teams Town halls using their own video conferencing devices (VTC). By integrating Cloud Video Interoperability (CVI) capabilities into the event form, organizers and presenters receive join codes for their tenant. CVI presenters who join the call will automatically join and interact with other users in the green room prior to the event starting. This capability ensures all participants can see each other (and see the meeting video) without any limitations, providing a seamless and inclusive experience for everyone involved. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476487
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see”  – Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In Manage what attendees see users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491633
• Microsoft Teams: Set New Ringtones in Teams Mobile – This feature allows you to customize and select different sounds for various types of calls, helping you better manage your alerts and distinguish between different incoming communications. For users with Microsoft Teams Phone, this also includes calls for forwarded and delegated calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491438
• Microsoft Teams: Call Waiting Beep Enabled on Desktop – Call Waiting Beep is a feature designed to provide a subtle notification tone when a user is already on a call and a second call comes in. This gentle alert ensures the user is aware of the incoming call without being overly disruptive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491472
• Microsoft Teams: Room recommender – If no room is booked for a meeting, this AI feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before start when two or more attendees are in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. It considers location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. You can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the invite for everyone. A Teams Premium license is required for the meeting organizer to enable this feature, which is available in Teams Mobile on iOS. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482191

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Monitor DNS resolution failures and impact of proxy on Teams meetings with Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center. – Teams administrators can use the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center for monitoring significant impact on meeting quality in their tenant due to DNS resolution failures or proxy (local or cloud). Find  out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492982
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft Defender for Office Tenant Allow block list for domains. – Security admins can use the Tenant Allow/Block List feature in the Microsoft Defender portal to block domains for Microsoft Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492985
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Voice Commands via Siri for Teams Meeting on iOS – Building on the Siri voice commands for iOS, this capability enables users to call someone or ask Copilot to summarize a meeting through Siri voice commands.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490049
• Microsoft Teams: Slide control for presenters – Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484844
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot – Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418564

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Select camera in pre-join and during meeting – Users can select an internal or external camera, or keep it turned off, before joining or during Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485713

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OneDrive

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  OneDrive: OneDrive: New annotation layout and tools for PDF editing – The new PDF annotation layout features a more intuitive design where all annotation tools are now conveniently located in a single row at the top of the screen. A new type of eraser has been added to allow for more precise editing which can remove annotations pixel by pixel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483156
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Use table of contents in PDF – OneDrive for the web and SharePoint Online can display a table of contents if its already in your PDF. You can select the line item in the table of contents to jump directly to the location of that item in the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 OneDrive: Transfer ownership of departing employees files with ease – Weve made it easier to manage files when employees leave account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced Move and keep sharing feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during employee offboarding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493946
• OneDrive: Prompt to Add Personal Account to OneDrive Sync – This feature prompts users who are signed into a personal Microsoft account on a Windows device and actively using their corporate OneDrive to also sign into OneDrive with their personal account. Once signed in, users can access both their personal and corporate OneDrive accounts on the same device—without merging content. The prompt is enabled by default and only appears if a personal account is already in use on the device. Organizations that have previously restricted personal account usage with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see the prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490064
• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint –  Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add licensed stock images, generate images and add brand images from a SharePoint OAL in Word and PowerPoint for GCC environment – Find the perfect image with Copilot in PowerPoint and Word.  Add a licensed stock image, generate an AI image or find an image from your SharePoint OAL. Copilot in PowerPoint and Word connects with your SharePoint organization asset library, making it easy to find and add images approved by your company to keep your presentation or document on brand. Available to government cloud (GCC) environments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492612
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Realtime voice interactions in Word and PowerPoint – Use your voice to talk with Copilot, interact in-real time, and understand the content within your document or presentation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487852

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Hebrew support in Agent builder – Hebrew support in Agent builder Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494152
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add images to your Copilot prompts in M365 applications chat in government clouds – Add images now to Copilot chat in applications of Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote and Outlook. Available to government cloud (GCC) environments. Ask questions about a picture or screenshot, extract text from an image, identify key takeaways from a chart or table, translate image information into copy, ask for suggestions on how to improve content, or generate alt text.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493730
• 🆕 Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot from the address bar – When users type a search query in the Edge address bar, they will have the option to send their search query directly to Copilot for a synthesized, more targeted answer pulling from across the web (and their work content, for premium users).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493287
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC High – Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489217
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the Copilot chat pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489825
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New dynamic web part for FAQs in Microsoft SharePoint – Coming soon for Microsoft SharePoint: A new web part for FAQs, to help content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part automatically curates FAQ content by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a human-in-the-loop approach, it ensures information stays accurate, relevant, and trustworthy, making it easier for all page visitors to find the answers they need. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Skills landscape report for organizations  – A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491022

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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 (4)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management reporting capabilities – Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced.  Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470027
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on the SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. With the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/ remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app, or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device). Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473431
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Gain DLP policy insights with Copilot – Copilot for Security in DLP is capable of summarizing DLP policies. This enhancement enables DLP admins to gain insights on coverage of policies viz. location, classifiers and notifications, and more. DLP admins can get these insights on all the policies or on few selected policies. They will be able to use prompts to gain a deeper view of how a policy is configured for their digital landscape. This helps them align their data posture on a regular basis and make corrections to policy posture as needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=466740
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities – This feature has been delayed, we apologize for the inconvenience. Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. 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=420939
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insightful Policy Performance – The Communication Compliance homepage provides two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. 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=145793

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Diagnostics in the new portal – We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469504

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery additional enhancements – We are introducing several more enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include the ability to delete searches, bulk add data sources, custodian field for items review set and export, and advanced indexing enhancements that will further enhance the user experience in the eDiscovery modern workflows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494160
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Advanced label-based protection for non-Office/PDF files with the Microsoft Purview Information Protection Client – This feature enhances secure collaboration in your organization by using the Information Protection Filer Labeler and Viewer to apply protection from Endpoint DLP. Protected non-Office/PDF files preserve their native file format on-device and can be opened in third party applications. On egress from the machine, these files are protected as PFILEs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493748
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User exclusion – This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from 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=412942
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Admins can follow the in-product message while editing the policy and make the required changes using PowerShell cmdlets. Admins can choose to make this either a Teams chat policy or Copilot policy. If there are existing policies covering other locations together with Teams chat and Copilot interactions in a single policy, admins can create equivalent new policies including the other locations from UI or using PowerShell cmdlets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=407897

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 – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Custom permissions UI enhancements in Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler  – This feature borrows the familiar custom permissions menu in Office and replaces the existing custom permissions UI in the Microsoft Purview Information Protection File Labeler. The new menu enables viewer, restricted editor, editor and owner permissions to be assigned to multiple groups at the same time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493749

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