Microsoft roadmap roundup – 29th April 2024 - SharePoint Stuff (2024)

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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 29th April 2024 - SharePoint Stuff (1)

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

SharePointTeams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (1)
  • In development (9)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • SharePoint: Video Pages –Create video centric page content, like highlighting meeting content or executive messages with the new video pages templates – presenting them inline, playable, and beautiful. These templates are available in both SharePoint and Stream, making it easy to showcase video with a customized and branded pages experience from either application.Roadmap ID:124823

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

  • SharePoint: Content Pane for SharePoint Pages and News –The content pane surfaces relevant authoring tools that help authors quickly browse and add content to SharePoint pages. With this new feature, authors can easily drag and drop web parts, media, and section templates for creating rich and engaging pages.Roadmap ID:124827

Rollout starts – June 2024

  • 🆕 SharePoint: Image shapes – We’re adding the capability to apply a shape over the image web part as well as on inline images in the text web part. Shapes include square, circle, triangle, hexagon, pebble, and teardrop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395210
  • SharePoint: New SharePoint Start –New SharePoint start experience aims to inspire content creators to use their platform. By emphasizing a user-friendly approach that minimizes clicks, it’s now easier to create websites, pages, news, and intranet content. Creators can return to the start experience hub to refine drafts, review past work, and monitor engagement metrics.Roadmap ID:124824

Rollout starts – August 2024

Rollout starts – September 2024

Rollout starts – December 2024

Rollout starts – January 2025

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (8)
  • Rolling out (10)
  • In development (23)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams: Quicker sign in without entering the domain name – Users can skip typing the full user principal name (UPN) and sign in faster on shared and managed devices, by using app configuration policies to autofill the domain name. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=383134
  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified channel creation – We added the option to create a channel directly from the + button in the Teams app, making it easier for the user to create a channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163363
  • Microsoft Teams: Simplified team create – When creating a team, the new default experience will be ‘create a team from scratch’, making it a simpler and quicker experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=163364
  • Microsoft Teams: New Meeting Option and Meeting Policy “Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat” (Premium) – Turn off copying or forwarding of meeting chat is a new meeting option that gives meeting organizer the option to disable copying and sharing features on meeting chat messages for participants in order to reduce the risk of data leak. Once this restriction is enabled, meeting chat participants will not be able to copy chat messages using menu option or keyboard shortcut, forward messages or share messages to Outlook. There is also a new Meeting Policy setting in Teams admin center for admin to control whether user can see or use this feature in Meeting Options page. Admin can also set the default value for this meeting option in Meeting Templates they create. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=186675
  • Microsoft Teams: Private Line – With private line, users will be able to have a private second phone number that they can make available to a select set of callers to call them directly, bypassing delegates, admins, or assistants. Inbound calls to the private line will be distinguished by a unique notification and ringtone. The private line will support incoming calls only. Note: We have updated the cloud instances to reflect the current state. We will create a new roadmap with a new timeline when available. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181616
  • Microsoft Teams: Synced updates for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices and paired consoles – When Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices are updated from the Teams Admin Center, their paired consoles will get updated in tandem, ensuring a seamless experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174344
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting protection support on Teams Rooms on Android – Teams Rooms on Android devices apply the Teams Premium meeting security features including end-to-end encryption and sensitivity labels if the meeting organizer has them turned on. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161423
  • Microsoft Teams: Edit and Delete events support for messages in user: Bot chats – Currently, message events can be accessed by developers. This feature allows developers to access, edit or delete event updates on messages in user:bot chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=102620

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows – Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.</span> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=101332
  • Microsoft Teams: Automatic application updates for new Microsoft Teams Rooms Windows devices – In the quest to deliver low-friction deployment and proactive management for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the Microsoft Teams Rooms for Windows app now automatically checks for, and installs, new application and Windows updates during the initial setup process, ensuring devices are protected and up to date on day one. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=120405
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat shown by default in Gallery View for Teams Rooms on Windows – Meeting Chat is now shown by default when joining a Teams meeting with Teams Rooms on Windows in Gallery View, making it easier to see incoming chat messages on the front of room display. IT Admins can configure the default chat experience for a room, and users can make in-meeting changes to show or hide the chat using the touch console. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332424
  • Microsoft Teams: Zero Touch Provisioning of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices – Zero touch provisioning is a feature that allows you to deploy Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows devices without any physical intervention at the site. It leverages Windows Autopilot and auto-login technologies to automate the enrollment and configuration of the devices from the cloud, using the credentials stored in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management. With Zero touch provisioning, you can reduce the deployment time and cost and improve the security and compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380724
  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to change language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can change the default app language on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows by tapping “More” and then “Language” on the room console. Admins can select up to three languages that users can pick from in the room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380752
  • Microsoft Teams: 4K display UI scaling for Teams Rooms on Windows – 4K-enabled displays, including front of room displays and touch boards, are natively supported on the Teams Rooms experience. Additional disclosure: 4K video is not supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380856
  • Microsoft Teams: new Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows – The new Teams app is now supported on Teams Rooms on Windows, allowing all Teams Rooms devices to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video more reliably. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381157
  • Microsoft Teams: User reported events in Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management – When an end user reports an issue from a Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381430
  • Microsoft Teams: Join meetings with a QR code on Teams Rooms on Windows using Teams mobile – Users can quickly join a meeting from a Teams Room even without forwarding the invite to the room calendar by scanning a QR code using their native mobile camera. The user will then enter the Teams mobile companion mode experience on their mobile. The QR code is found on the Teams Room home screen and can also be scanned to start an ad-hoc meeting or cast content from their mobile to the Teams Room display. If the user does not have the Teams mobile app, they will be directed to download it after scanning the QR code. IT admins can control the QR code feature in the device settings and the Teams admin center. This feature supports cross-tenant meetings when the organization settings and user policies allow it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381460
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting details displayed on pre-join screen – Available for in-tenant participants, the meeting pre-join screen will now include contextual information about the meeting like meeting title, scheduled start time, scheduled end time, and number of participants who have joined the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387789

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – May 2024

Release – June 2024

  • 🆕Microsoft Teams: App centric management for app deployment in Teams Admin Center – App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: ‘Deployed to all users’, ‘Deployed to specific users and groups’, or ‘Deployed to no users’. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394274
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-app feedback experience and policies for Desktop & Web clients – We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394269
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Easily manage Do Not Disturb presence status when screen sharing – We’re introducing a setting that allows Teams Phone Mobile users to opt-out of your presence automatically transitioning to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. When this setting is enabled, users will be able to continue to receive call notifications when presenting, without having to manually adjust their presence status. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393228
  • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Draggable Presenter Toolbar while screensharing – Introducing the ability for presenters to freely drag Presenter Toolbar appearing on top of screen while screensharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394270
  • Bookings: SMS Notifications for Staff scheduled appointments in Bookings (Premium) – If you have a Microsoft Teams Premium license you can now set up SMS text notifications in Microsoft Bookings to be sent to the person booking an appointment. Currently, SMS notifications will be sent only when appointments are scheduled by an attendee via a published booking page. With this update, the capability is extended to include sending SMS confirmations and reminders to the attendee when appointments are booked through the calendar scheduling experience in Bookings by a scheduler or a staff member. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391639
  • Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcripts and user-level controls for who can view and edit meeting transcripts – Introducing a new control for IT administrators to restrict permissions for the download of meeting transcript files (stored in OneDrive for Business) for any users within the tenant. This policy applies to new meeting transcripts across the entire organization. Administrators can exempt people who are members of specified security groups from the policy. This allows admins to specify governance or compliance specialists who should have download access to meeting transcripts. We are also updating the default permissions so that even when the policy is not applied only transcript owners (recording initiator or meeting organizer) will have permission to download or delete the transcript file, while meeting participants can only view the transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition to the tenant-wide policy for download permission, the meeting organizer will be able to select in Stream which participants are restricted from downloading, viewing, and editing the transcript in Stream. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=332800
  • Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for transcription in Teams meetings – The meeting policy that requires explicit consent to be recorded is expanding to include transcription. When the policy is applied, a notification will pop-up when the recording or transcription is initiated requesting consent of all participants to be transcribed and recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on camera or share content in the meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389368
  • Microsoft Teams: Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business – With this change Teams meeting recordings will be saved to the meeting organizer’s OneDrive for Business instead of to the OneDrive for Business folder of the person who initiated the recording. This improves the compliance of recordings as meeting organizers can then manage access permissions and recording file management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116251
  • Microsoft Teams: Multi-panel check-in on Teams panels – If a conference room has multiple panels deployed, admins can now enable check-in and room release for this room. The devices will stay in sync on the check-in status to ensure that the room is released or not released correctly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384065
  • Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381953
  • Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can manage who can record and transcribe meetings (Premium) – We are expanding the existing ‘Who can record’ control for meeting organizers to include transcription. With this change, meeting organizers with a Teams Premium license will see a control called ‘Who can record and transcribe’ in the meeting options, which allows meeting organizers to select from two options: (1) organizers and co-organizers, or (2) organizers, co-organizers, and presenters. This control allows meeting organizers to manage which roles are able to initiate recording and transcription for a meeting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=116819
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655
  • Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the view, download, and delete experience of Teams meeting transcript files – We are streamlining the storage of meeting transcript files. Starting with this feature, all meeting transcript entry points in Teams app will point to the OneDrive for Business copy only. The rollout of this feature also improves the delete experience of the transcript for meeting organizers. Now, when a meeting organizer or co-organizer deletes the transcript in the Microsoft Teams app, this will delete both copies of the transcript (from OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online) at the same time. If the meeting organizer deletes the transcript from Stream, only the copy in OneDrive for Business will be deleted. At the same time, meeting transcripts will stop saving in Exchange Online altogether and all transcript storage will be standardized on OneDrive for Business. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=365720v
  • Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for anonymous join only) – The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only) Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=329253
  • Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings – Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=167330
  • Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status – Microsoft Teams users will be able to control how they get notified in meeting chats through RSVP to their meetings. When you decline a meeting, you will not receive notifications or see the chats in chat list; when you accept a meeting, you will receive notification for all new messages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=161739

Rollout starts – July 2024

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Copilot

  • Launched (2)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (12)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Interact with Copilot in the new Outlook for Windows and web – Interact with Copilot in Outlook, ask questions, or provide instructions directly inside Outlook. Users can type and receive responses from Copilot in a right-hand side panel that can be opened by the user by clicking on the Copilot icon in the top nav bar. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388495
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot with graph grounded chat in the Microsoft 365 mobile app – Microsoft 365 mobile app users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license will be able to receive answers grounded in their organizational graph data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=384868

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2024

  • 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388742
  • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot assisted Loop Page Creation – Collaborate with copilot to go from a blank page to a structured document ready for collaboration as quickly as possible. Start from scratch, or select an existing page or template as the starting point and Copilot can modify it for the task at hand Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393330
  • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat support to generate a SWOT analysis – Users can ask for a SWOT analysis or pro/con list of a document or topic that will analyze their document and bring in relevant enterprise and web context to inform the derived analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=388741
  • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summary in Chat support for document text selection – Summary requests in chat can be limited to operate only on the user-selected text in the document, rather than operating in large part against the entire document Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389851
  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Copilot Adoption Community – We are introducing new capabilities in Engage that will help organizations with their M365 Copilot rollout and adoption journey by bringing together employees in a community of practice. This community will provide a place for employees to ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot. This templatized Copilot adoption community will take away much of the work from the community manager with a set-up checklist, suggested content, suggested members (based on Copilot license assignment), and other features like conversation starters and top Q&As to help with community member engagement. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392100
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Usage reports – Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection – A new product usage report will be added in the Microsoft 365 admin center providing insights into active usage of Microsoft Copilot with commercial data protection. The report will include total active users, average daily active users, and active users per platform (i.e. Bing, Edge, Windows, copilot.microsoft.com, and Copilot mobile app). Usage insights can be viewed as totals and trends for the past 7, 30, 90 or 180-day periods. The report will also show the last activity date per user, anonymized by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377676

Release – June 2024

  • 🆕Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Find the perfect visual with Copilot and Designer in Word – Copilot in Word now integrates with Designer to help you find the perfect image or create a banner to bring your document to life. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380418
  • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can generate quizzes from provided materials – Generating quizzes from provided materials is one of the most commonly requested features in the education industry, and it is now available in Forms. To save time, users can create quizzes from documents, textbooks, or notes using Copilot. Copilot can create draft quizzes based on the provided materials and users’ prompts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389149
  • Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot – Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=372895
  • Microsoft Teams: Copilot for Sales plugin for Copilot in Teams meetings – Admins can enable the Copilot for Sales plugin in the plugin menu. All plugins are toggled ‘off’ by default, and users can toggle it ‘on’ from the plugin menu. When Copilot for Sales plugin is set to ‘on,’ Copilot in Teams meetings will be able to access Sales and Dynamics 365 data to return insights for a summary of the sales opportunity for the meeting based on the transcript, as well as retrieve brand information for the account from Dynamics 365 if the account name was mentioned. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=373655

Release – September 2024

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning – Copilot in Viva Learning will act as a virtual learning companion, assisting users throughout their learning journey and providing personalized guidance, recommendations, and the ability to take actions. Users will be able to leverage Copilot to preview and consume courses from Copilot’s search results, create learning collections in a single click, and see highly relevant search results by asking questions in natural language. Copilot will be visible to users on the Home page, My Learning tab, course details pages, and on Academies. Find out more:

Release – December 2024

    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 (0)
    • Rolling out (4)
    • In development (12)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • N/A

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

      • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Updated submission results – Administrators and security operators will see updated results from submissions. These updates remove any confusion they might have with the current submission result. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389856
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Enriched Data Loss Prevention Alert Email Notifications for DLP Admins – There is now increased information in the alert email notification sent to the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) admin upon a DLP policy match. Previously a DLP alert email only included the user activity and the type of sensitive information matched in the alert. Now, DLP admins will get additional context such as alert ID, policy details, device details, and more. This will help admins quickly assess the priority of an alert and determine the next steps before navigating to the Microsoft Purview DLP alerts page or Microsoft 365 Defender DLP alerts page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369645
      • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Last used date inside Tenant Allow Block List – Tenant allow block list domains & addresses, URL, and file entries will show last used date. This helps admins understand when an entry was last used (either at mailflow or time of click), helping them remove entries which are no longer needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=183908
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels to protect Microsoft Teams shared channels – Sensitivity labels will protect Microsoft Teams shared controls with sharing and discovery controls. Note: The release phase and rollout start month have been updated to show current status. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=174575

      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      Rollout starts – April 2024

      • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Enhanced multiple action experience from Threat explorer – SecOps can take multiple actions such as purging emails, submissions, and Tenant-level block actions through a single wizard on the bulk of messages. In addition, Tenant-level block URL and File actions are now available directly from Threat explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393937

      Rollout starts – May 2024

        • 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Enable associated SharePoint sites to be excluded from retention policies after deletion of Modern Group – If a modern M365 group is deleted, the associated SharePoint has a retention policy, a file with a retention label, or a legal hold, it remains active but orphaned. These sites cannot be excluded from the retention policy after the deletion of the group because of designed modern group scope. The site-level holds are applied when a group is added to a retention policy and the Tenant-level holds are applied when the complete modern group workload is added to a retention policy. Currently, to remove such a hold, the customer has to raise an escalation. With the rollout of this feature, users will be able to exclude the orphaned SPO site from both site-level holds and tenant-level holds as a self-service. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=393962
        • Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Tenant Allow Block list in GCC, GCCH, and DoD – All the Tenant Allow/Block functionality as present in WW environment will be available to admins and security analyst of GCC, GCCH, and DoD. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389854
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Enhancements to the DLP capabilities on macOS endpoints – Mac DLP will have the following capabilities with these enhancements: Context Based Classification and Matched condition and short evidence for advanced classification. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=389378
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Customization and preview of email notifications – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced customization options: 1. Extensive Token Support which provides precise details to end users using the expanded token library. 2. DLP Exchange rule matched email attachment control to choose to include/exclude matched email as an attachment in end-user notifications. 3. Tailored Email Content to customize the sender display name and email body using HTML, markdown, or plain text. 4. Ability to preview the email notification to ensure it meets your requirements. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=381748
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=379673
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has been updated to reflect the current state. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=93268

        Rollout starts – June 2024

          • 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394279
          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Reduce detection to investigation time from 24 hours to 1 hour for Viva Engage – This feature will reduce the detection to investigation time to under an hour for Viva Engage private messages and community conversations, allowing your organization to respond promptly to policy violations. Note: We have updated the clouds to reflect the current state. Gov clouds will be forthcoming later during Q4 of this calendar year. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=181828

          Rollout starts – July 2024

            • 🆕Microsoft Purview: Microsoft Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization – Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=387502

            Rollout starts – August 2024

            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Message/Attachment contains EXO predicates – Introducing two new DLP Exchange predicates: “Message contains” and “Attachment contains” with a focus on DLP evaluation on specific email components like email body or attachments only. Unlike the broader “Content contains” predicate that evaluated entire email envelope, these enable targeted DLP evaluation on specific email components only. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=377000

            Rollout starts – September 2024

            • 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites. Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=394281
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