Weekly summaries

2025-01-25

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management | Adaptive Protection - HR resignation date as a condition for risk level

    Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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.

    Feature ID: 124972

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 06 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available: November CY2023

    Rollout Start: June CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection - HR resignation date as a condition for risk level

    Admins can now select the HR resignation date as a condition to assign a minor, moderate, or elevated risk level. For example, an admin can configure the minor risk level to be assigned when an HR resignation date is sent via the HR connector. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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.

    Feature ID: 171748

    Added to roadmap: Tue Sep 12 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: June CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance - Alert improvements

    This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance.

    Feature ID: 181825

    Added to roadmap: Mon Oct 16 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: JanuaryApril CY2025

    Rollout Start: AprilMay CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 admin center: Adoption Score AI assistance category

    We are introducing a new people experiences category in Adoption Score in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The new category helps organizations understand the adoption Microsoft Copilot features in Microsoft 365.

    Feature ID: 185700

    Added to roadmap: Tue Nov 28 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 Admin Center

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: FebruaryJanuary CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management - Adaptive Protection

    Adaptive Protection is a capability of Microsoft Purview that dynamically assigns appropriate Data Loss Prevention policies to users based on the risk levels analyzed by the machine learning models in Insider Risk Management. 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 to manage security and compliance. 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.

    Feature ID: 335856

    Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Promote members to owners in Loop workspaces

    Loop workspaces support multiple owners, allowing end users to promote members to owners.

    Feature ID: 362124

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 22 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention for endpoints - Support for Four New predicates on Endpoint DLP

    With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint - Document is unscannable - Document didn't complete scanning - Document name matches patterns - Document size equals or is greater than

    Feature ID: 374811

    Added to roadmap: Thu Dec 21 2023

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Outlook: Chat with Copilot in Outlook for Mac

    The same Microsoft Copilot experience you can get in the Microsoft Teams app, at copilot.microsoft.com (work mode) and in other places is now available from within Microsoft Outlook for Mac. You can find the Copilot app in the left app bar.

    Feature ID: 395788

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 11 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Outlook

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Mac

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available: January CY2025

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels

    Dynamic watermarking is a new sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming user’s information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

    Feature ID: 400717

    Added to roadmap: Tue Jun 18 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): ExcelMicrosoft Purview compliance portalPowerPointWord

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available: July CY2024

    Rollout Start: NovemberJanuary CY2024CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Engage – Questions surfacing in Copilot results

    Viva Engage questions from communities, storyline, and Answers will surface in Copilot results.

    Feature ID: 408166

    Added to roadmap: Tue Aug 06 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning - AI & Copilot Resources provider

    The AI & Copilot Resources provider will power the OOB Microsoft Copilot Academy and will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions on the content of this provider.

    Feature ID: 412064

    Added to roadmap: Fri Aug 23 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Viva

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC general availability

    Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC, your AI assistant for work in the GCC environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot GCC is available in Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook (includes mobile), Word, PowerPoint, and Excel as well as other surfaces, including microsoft365.com.More info: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/public-sector-blog/microsoft-copilot-for-microsoft-365-gcc-ga-update-empowering/ba-p/4222952

    Feature ID: 415097

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 31 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s):

    Cloud instance(s): GCC

    Platform(s): DesktopWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: Launched

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Support for Document Property Predicate on Endpoint DLP

    With this capability, admins can extend the condition 'Document Property is' to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint.

    Feature ID: 417482

    Added to roadmap: Mon Sep 23 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC High

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Ability to take control during screensharing on Web

    This update enables meeting participants using the Microsoft Teams web app to use the "Take control" function to request control while another person is screen-sharing.

    Feature ID: 420327

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 08 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: Rolling outLaunched

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: December CY2024

  • Outlook: Org Explorer available for all M365 commercial users

    Org Explorer for Outlook helps you to visualize and explore your company’s internal structure, work teams, and individual roles. This feature will be available in Outlook for all M365 enterprise users, including Microsoft Viva users.

    Feature ID: 421191

    Added to roadmap: Thu Oct 10 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft VivaOutlook

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop - Admin management tasks enabled for all Loop workspaces

    Admins can manage membership, ownership, deletion, and restoration of Loop workspaces in the SharePoint Embedded admin center or PowerShell. These changes are visible within the Loop experience.

    Feature ID: 421613

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 30 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – New personal Loop workspace

    The Loop app now provides a personal workspace to all users, which is shared with Copilot Pages. This personal workspace is a user-owned SharePoint Embedded container, one per user. All governance, lifecycle management and compliance processes apply the same way they would to a user's OneDrive.

    Feature ID: 422727

    Added to roadmap: Wed Oct 23 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Loop

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Microsoft 365 Groups for Managing New Loop workspaces

    When creating a new Loop workspace, users can specify an existing Microsoft 365 Group to manage the workspace's lifetime, governance, and compliance, similar to SharePoint Team sites.

    Feature ID: 422728

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 29 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Loop

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Ideas Workspace Functions as a Shared Loop workspace

    Loop Ideas workspaces are tenant-managed like SharePoint Communication sites. They appear with existing Loop workspaces, with all features such as adding members and organizing pages

    Feature ID: 422729

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 22 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 appMicrosoft Loop

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows

    While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro.

    Feature ID: 423089

    Added to roadmap: Tue Oct 22 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): DoDGCCGCC HighWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Teams and Surface Devices

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create with Copilot in Excel generates templates and tables

    Create with Copilot in Excel helps customers write prompts to generate tailored templates and tables, using multi-turn conversion to refine the table schema, formulas, and visuals.

    Feature ID: 429873

    Added to roadmap: Wed Nov 20 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Excel

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryMarch CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Kickstart your document with contextual prompts

    Copilot includes files and meetings based on your recent activity when suggesting prompts you can use to draft a new document in Word.

    Feature ID: 470997

    Added to roadmap: Wed Dec 11 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Word

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Add a Loop Workspace to your Teams Channel

    Channels in Microsoft Teams streamline collaboration by bringing people, content, and apps together and helping to organize them by project or topic. You will be able to add a Loop workspace tab to standard channels enabling your team to brainstorm, co-create, collect, and organize content—together in real-time. Everyone in the Team gets access to the Loop workspace, even as Team membership changes, and the workspace adheres to the governance, lifecycle, and compliance standards set by the Microsoft 365 Group backing the team. To get started, click the plus sign (+) at the top of the channel and select Loop from the app list.

    Feature ID: 472022

    Added to roadmap: Fri Dec 20 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365 app

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityTargeted Release

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: JanuaryFebruary CY2025

  • Word: Chat with Copilot about selected text

    Start a chat with Copilot while text in your document is selected, and Copilot's response will be scoped to what you have selected.

    Feature ID: 473441

    Added to roadmap: Fri Dec 20 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Word

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): DesktopMacWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In developmentRolling out

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: January CY2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Separate policies to control transcription for Town halls and Webinars

    Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses.

    Feature ID: 473886

    Added to roadmap: Mon Dec 23 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): GCCWorldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2025

  • 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.

    Feature ID: 473887

    Added to roadmap: Mon Dec 23 2024

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Teams

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): AndroidDesktopiOSWeb

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

    Once you integrate your organization's assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.

    Feature ID: 475051

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): PowerPoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot

    Once you integrate your organization's assets into a SharePoint OAL (Organization Asset Library), you will be able to create presentations with your organization's images.

    Feature ID: 475056

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): PowerPoint

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: February CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dictate your prompts in Copilot Chat

    Use the dictation button to input your prompts with speech.

    Feature ID: 475968

    Added to roadmap: Wed Jan 22 2025

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft 365

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Desktop

    Release phase(s): General Availability

    Status: In development

    Other tags: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365)

    Preview Available:

    Rollout Start: FebruaryMarch CY2025

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention - Classification improvements on file read access in MacOS devices using Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

    Data classification on files in MacOS devices will be triggered when handling files on read access to improve classification operations.

    Feature ID: 476099

    Added to roadmap: Fri Jan 17 2025

    Last modified: Fri Jan 24 2025

    Product(s): Microsoft Purview compliance portal

    Cloud instance(s): Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)

    Platform(s): Web

    Release phase(s): General AvailabilityPreview

    Status: In development

    Preview Available: January CY2025

    Rollout Start: MarchFebruary CY2025

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