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A feature enhancement is coming to the Insider Risk Management Office Indicator with more visibility into downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files. With the future 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.
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Just-in-time support on MacOS
You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope.
ID: 417161 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Places – Managed booking with Copilot
Building on booking suggestions, Copilot’s managed booking feature rebooks room declines for single and recurring meetings, especially when room availability varies week to week. Additionally, Copilot will handle any changes, updates, and conflicts to guarantee a room for your meetings.
ID: 422721 Release: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365), Microsoft 365 app, Microsoft Teams, Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR
With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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.
ID: 422730 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: April CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Data export for Viva Glint and Viva Insights data
This feature will allow Viva Insights Analyst to download a CSV file containing Viva Glint survey results joined with Viva Insights organizational data.
ID: 423485 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Actionable Email Notifications for Enhanced Incident Remediation
Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention end-user email notification is getting advanced incident remediation capabilities: actionable email notifications. This new feature allows end users to take remediation actions directly from their mailbox, streamlining the remediation process. The end users will be able take remediation actions on files on OneDrive and SharePoint that caused a policy match. Key actions now available in our email notifications include – stop sharing file, delete file, apply label, override the policy, report false positive and unable to take action. Currently this feature is only available for OneDrive and SharePoint workloads.
ID: 464996 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types
Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope.
ID: 464998 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Math Progress
Accelerate student math skills with Microsoft Teams: Math Progress.
ID: 466737 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – New Outlook for Windows
The Microsoft 365 apps usage report will include usage metrics for the new Outlook for Windows. This feature allows organizations to monitor the adoption and usage of the new Outlook for Windows client within their organization. The report provides detailed metrics on the number of active users who have transitioned from Outlook for Windows (classic) to the new Outlook for Windows.
ID: 466738 Release: Microsoft 365 Admin Center – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Connections insights and recommendations digest
This creates a periodic digest email to editors of Viva Connections, informing them of the analytics summary of their Connections experience and recommendations to improve engagement.
ID: 466739 Release: SharePoint, Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label
This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator – Downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files. In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. But with the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device). Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.
ID: 466742 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Purview supports inheriting sensitivity labels from shared files to Teams meetings (Premium)
For Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium customers, we are making it easier to leverage sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help set the right protection settings to meetings. Admins can now set a label inheritance policy for meeting, so that when an attendee shares a file that has a higher sensitivity than the meeting itself in meeting chat or via Live share, the meeting’s sensitivity can be updated either automatically or via a recommendation to the organizer, to match with the sensitivity of the shared file.
ID: 467247 Release: Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Optional connected experiences privacy setting
This rollout introduces the privacy setting for “Allow the use of additional optional connected experiences in Office” in Outlook on the web which is available in other Office apps today. The setting is found under Settings > General > Privacy and data > Privacy settings.
ID: 467248 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: December CY2024
Outlook: Custom account icons in Outlook Mobile
Soon, you’ll be able to choose a custom icon so that it’s easier to tell your accounts apart while using Outlook on iOS and Android.
ID: 467250 Release: Outlook – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Edit and schedule polls
Users can schedule a poll for publication in Engage. Users can also edit a poll prior to publication, though once published, a poll is not editable. This change brings the edit and schedule capability to polls, like all other post types in Engage (discussion, question, praise, and article).
ID: 467251 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Outlook: Reset people suggestions in Outlook search for GCC and DoD
This feature will allow users to reset, export, and/or opt out of people suggestions in search through settings in the Outlook on the web and the new Outlook for Windows. When a reset is done, all versions of Outlook will reflect the change. This feature is already available in worldwide multitenant and will now be available for customers in GCC and DoD. #newoutlookforwindows
ID: 467252 Release: Outlook – DoD, GCC High, GCC Tags: December CY2024
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files.
This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis.
ID: 467254 Release: Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: March CY2025
Planner: Board view in My Tasks
Board view in My Tasks offers a visual representation of your tasks similar to a kanban board, making it easier to track progress and manage your workload. See all your tasks at a glance and move them between columns to update their progress. You can group tasks by Plan, Progress, Due Date, and Priority, allowing you to tailor the board to your specific needs. Board view is available in addition to the existing grid view in My Tasks.
ID: 467255 Release: Planner – GCC, GCC High, DoD, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: January CY2025
Planner: Increased number of tasks and dependencies per premium plan in Microsoft Planner
Create and manage up to 3,000 tasks and 2,000 dependencies within a Microsoft Planner premium plan.
ID: 467448 Release: Microsoft Project, Planner – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: February CY2025
Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction visibility for multi-room Mesh events
Mesh event attendees can now see raised hands and reactions from attendees in other rooms during large, multi-room Mesh events. This creates a greater sense of audience feedback as a whole across all rooms in a Mesh event and increases total audience engagement. Additionally, event hosts will now be able to move between all rooms in a multi-room Mesh event.
ID: 412078 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Voice and face data export controls
This new feature provides controls for voice and face profile data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, individuals can export their own profile data limiting risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators.
ID: 413709 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), GCC Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events
Mesh events allows for even better collaboration for more people by now supporting guest user attendees into the Mesh PC app. Event organizers can invite guest users outside their organization, providing an opportunity for broader collaboration and networking in Mesh events. Guests can sign in to the Mesh app to join events, participate in discussions, and experience the same interactive features as internal users, all while maintaining secure access control. Guest user creation follows the existing process for tenant guest user creation (outside of Mesh). For this release, guest users would require a Teams Premium license, just like regular tenant attendees, to collaborate within Mesh. Guest access for the Mesh app on Quest and support for anonymous participants will be supported in a future update.
ID: 413713 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame video feed support extended to Teams Rooms on Android and Teams mobile devices
Cloud IntelliFrame, the video framing feature that enhances the visibility of people in the room for online meeting attendees, is now available for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Mobile users when they join a meeting that has participants in a Teams Rooms on Windows.
ID: 415250 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Improved People Search
You can now search for content related to specific people. Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get relevant content suggestions.
ID: 421189 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Teams: Brand Impersonation Protection for Teams Messaging
Identify if an external user is impersonating a brand commonly targeted by phishing attacks, during their initial contact with an enterprise user via Teams messages.
ID: 421190 Release: Microsoft Teams – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Analyst query notification email
We are launching a new feature for a Viva Insights Analyst who will be able to receive a query notification email that provides them with the status of their recently completed query. The notification email will be triggered both for a successful and failed query executed in Advanced Insights (Analyst workbench). Both custom queries and Power BI reports are in the scope of this feature. The Viva Insights Analyst can access the Analyst query notification email from their inbox.
ID: 418128 Release: Microsoft Viva – Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Tags: November CY2024
Weekly Roadmap Update Emails
