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 thanFeature 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/4222952Feature 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 pagesFeature 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