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Organization admins and leadership will soon be able to automate reports from the communication compliance tool to better pinpoint problems within the organization and protect targeted and harassed individuals. The timely and predictable data can be analyzed, and behaviors can be corrected. The feature will be available in preview mode in February 2024.
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Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Oversharing Popups enhancements on Outlook win32 desktop
We are expanding the functionality of oversharing popups (Show policy tip as a dialog) in outlook win32 to support the following: 1) Additional scenarios powered with predicates such as Content is not labeled, Message/Attachment is not labeled, and File extension is, and 2) Customizable oversharing dialog with the ability to configure custom title, body, business justifications, and dynamic variables/tokens for matched recipients, attachment names, and labels.
ID: 367053 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2024
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.
ID: 369015 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
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.
ID: 369645 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: External call routing settings
End users will now be able to change their external call routing settings directly from the Teams app, allowing them to decide how incoming PSTN calls are routed. Calls can be redirected based on existing unanswered call settings or sent to voicemail. This new capability provides more flexibility for handling customer communications.
ID: 372120 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Microsoft Endpoint DLP Support for Windows on ARM (ARM64)
With this capability, customers can extend Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and actions to endpoints running Windows on ARM (ARM64) which allows them to detect and protect sensitive data in files part of their digital ecosystem. This allows admins to introduce policy controls for scenarios such as when an information worker using a Windows endpoint powered by ARM64 chipset is accessing sensitive files and performing an exfiltration action such as copying to a USB, or copy to clipboard, notepad, etc.
ID: 372695 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ending the Microsoft Purview legacy alerts ingestion into Microsoft 365 Defender portal
To increase the relevance of DLP alerts and incidents in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, we are ending the flow of the following legacy alerts into Microsoft 365 Defender portal: eDiscovery Search started or exported, successful exact data match upload, retention auto-labeling policy simulation completed, unusual volume of DLP policy matches, failed exact data match upload, MIP autolabel simulation completed, unusual volume of external file sharing, unusual volume of file deletion. These alerts were created as a result of legacy standalone alert policies. For a better experience, we recommend using the alerting toggle in the DLP policy authoring experience.
ID: 373010 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced Incident Communication with DLP Email Templates
You can now elevate your DLP incident management with the power of customizable email templates designed to send email messages to your stakeholders when an event is generated for DLP Policy match. With dynamic variables and tokens at your disposal, you can effortlessly create and maintain email templates, ensuring consistency and efficiency in your communications, along with a documented audit trail. You can utilize these email templates to: inform end users about incidents, their severity, or the analyst’s recommendations; stay on top of remediation efforts by sending follow-up notifications to end users with due dates; keep analysts informed about incident updates and assignments; trigger escalation notifications to managers or other custom targets; notify approvers of pending items with ease; and many more similar scenarios.
ID: 373310 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in a DLP policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage)
With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow.
ID: 373400 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
PowerPoint: New entry point for add-in (WXP) in Home tab for Mac
Support the add-in users to find store entry point more easily and acquire their needed add-ins effectively in Mac.
ID: 374405 Release: Excel, Word, PowerPoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Forms: Supports live data sync to Excel
Microsoft Forms supports quickly and easily syncing form responses to an Excel file. Now you’ll always have the latest information, updated automatically, so you can leverage the full range of Excel functions to analyze your data and collab with your peers.
ID: 374909 Release: Forms, Excel – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: July CY2024
Microsoft Stream: video reactions
This feature will allow users to add or remove reactions to specific points of a recorded video via Stream Web App and Embed. Viewers will be able to see how their colleagues feel about a video and show their support towards the video owner. These reactions will be present in the timeline to highlight the most important parts of the video and can be used for navigation. Also, owners of the video can see detailed analytics about when viewers are reacting to videos and have ability to disable the feature.
ID: 375287 Release: Microsoft Stream – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: June CY2024
Outlook: Sync feature
A button option to initiate email sync is coming to the new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web, this will allow users to ensure that their send and receive email experience is up-to-date. This functionality will be within the View tab of the Ribbon.
ID: 375743 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Whiteboard: Text Styles
This introduces the ability to choose between three different text styles, allowing greater flexibility and personalization of text in whiteboards.
ID: 376848 Release: Whiteboard – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Stream: Add video to a playlist from an embedded video
Users will be able to add a video to a playlist directly from embedded videos across Microsoft 365 (SharePoint pages, Outlook, teams, Viva Engage, etc.) without having to open the video in Stream.
ID: 377306 Release: Microsoft Stream, SharePoint – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Content camera on New Teams Desktop
This feature it will be available on new Team Teams on Windows and Mac, making whiteboards, printed documents, books, and other physical objects the focus of your Teams meeting. With minimal setup, you can help meeting attendees who aren’t in the room feel more included and engaged in your next class, demo, or brainstorming session.
ID: 377670 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: Granular Add-ins availability control from education Office Store
With this feature, education tenant administrators will be able to manage the availability of Add-ins from the Office store at a more granular level. We will provide three options—Non-adult student, Adult student, and Faculty and staff—under Microsoft admin center > Org Settings > User owned apps and services > Let users access the Office store. The options are based on the user’s role and age group properties.
ID: 377677 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Schedule reports
The feature enables users to schedule the export of reports on a recurring or on-demand basis. Additionally, users will be notified when the exported report or items are ready for use and download.
ID: 377680 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – View-only mode for Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection Policies and Labels
This capability allows the admin with view-only restricted permissions to view the Data Loss Prevention and Information Protection policy configuration details without editing the policies or label configurations.
ID: 377681 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, GCC, GCC High Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Co-organizer updates in town hall
Co-organizers can edit town hall details, publish the event, and cancel the event, similar to the organizer.
ID: 377703 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Create more than one Connections experience in the same tenant
This new capability enables customers to create multiple distinct Connections experiences and corresponding home sites within the same tenant. Common scenarios include conglomerates or subsidiaries that require different Connections experiences for different users, each with its own dashboard, feed and resources.
ID: 378407 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Connections Administration in Microsoft Admin Center
Centralized IT administration of Viva Connections experiences along with home sites within the Microsoft Viva admin experience in Microsoft 365 admin center.
ID: 378408 Release: Microsoft Viva – GCC Tags: February CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy tuning analysis for priority content-only policies
Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction of the number of users in a tenant that could potentially match a given set of policy conditions. With this update, policy tuning analysis will support insider risk policies that are scoped for priority content. 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 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.
ID: 378409 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: September CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Automatically view up to 9 videos (3×3) in Teams meetings in Chrome and Edge
Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 4 videos (2×2) on the screen by default (i.e., Gallery view) on web browsers. With this update, users will be able to automatically see up to 9 videos (3×3) on Chrome and Edge on their screen by default without an explicit action.
ID: 122139 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Updates to in-call user experience
Making it easier for users to access calling capabilities with a redesigned user experience during calls.
ID: 141204 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, GCC, DoD Tags: January CY2024
Planner: Rosters supporting container sensitivity labels
Organization admins will now be able to apply container labels to rosters in Microsoft Planner. This is enabled directly in Planner and by using Microsoft Graph APIs. Rosters are created automatically for task lists in Microsoft Loop. Tenant admins can make container labels for these rosters mandatory and set a default label, or not make them mandatory. The roster and the Planner plan contained by the Roster then follow container policy settings. For Graph API requests, if labels are mandatory as per tenant settings, roster creation fails if a label is not provided at the time of request.
ID: 155837 Release: Planner – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams
Immersive spaces in Teams makes it easier for Teams users to transform their meetings into a 3D experience. With just one click, you can connect with your team in a pre-built immersive space right from the view menu in Teams meetings. Note: The roadmap item was inadvertently marked Launched. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
ID: 161720 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
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.
ID: 163363 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC High, DoD Tags: January CY2024
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.
ID: 163364 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes
With the launch of Collaborative notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative notes to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative notes component will generate a Specific People Link (PSL) by default. This link type offers more controlled access than Company Specific Link (CSL). This change also aligns with tenants who have their file-sharing policy set as Specific People. Tenants who previously had Collaborative notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use the feature.
ID: 167328 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Assign staff and set duration for on-demand Virtual Appointments (Premium)
Scheduling administrators and staff managing on-demand appointments can assign specific staff members and set appointment duration to handle on-demand services. This ensures that when an on-demand appointment is requested, there is a designated staff member assigned to the appointment and a defined duration for the appointment is set. The designated staff member also receives a notification to attend the on-demand appointment.
ID: 186560 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat
Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.
ID: 375627 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, DoD, GCC, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Recap now available for Copilot users
Copilot users can access intelligent recap after meetings to get a summary of the meeting, including: personalized timeline markers to easily browse the recordings by when you joined or left, when a screen was shared, and when your name was mentioned; browse recordings by speakers, chapters, and topics; as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, tasks, and jump to name mentions in the transcript.
ID: 375760 Release: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
SharePoint: Accessibility Updates to Tables
Accessibility improvements to tables within the text webpart allow users to specify row and column layouts, as well as provide alternative text labels for screen readers.
ID: 184511 Release: SharePoint – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Frosted Glass Backgrounds in Teams Meetings
We are not rolling out this feature at this time and will make a new announcement when we have an updated timeline. Frosted Glass is a type of background effect that helps users keep their privacy with a background blur, but in a more professional and creative way. It let users have graphics with a blur effect together. Frosted Glass can be activated with a PNG image, that usually comes with some graphics in a transparent background. With the new frosted glass effects, the transparent area is turned into a blur background while the graphic remains as the part of background effect. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
ID: 114214 Release: Microsoft Teams – DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, GCC High Tags: March CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Enable second video stream with “Teams Content Camera on Desktop”
This feature will no longer be rolling out to Teams. We will publish a new announcement when we have a new release schedule confirmed. Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams.
ID: 118580 Release: Microsoft Teams – GCC High, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC, DoD Tags: March CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
