Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter and blogs updates from 16-02-2025

If your organization does not support mobile devices, you can safely ignore this message.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge Mobile for Android and iOS will soon re-enable page summarization features, allowing users to summarize open webpages or PDFs.

[When this will happen:]

Rollout will occur in two phases, beginning in mid-February and ending in late March 2025.

Phase 1: Page summarization only: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rollout mid-February 2025 for non-EU regions and expect to complete by late February 2025.

Phase 2: Full contextual chat and summarization: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rollout mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, the Copilot Chat icon next to the address bar will be displayed by default to all Microsoft Entra ID users. Users can disable Copilot Chat in Settings > General.

In this screenshot: a. Select the Copilot icon to initiate Copilot. b. In Phase 1, selecting the Copilot icon will initiate Page summarization. c. In Phase 2, selecting the icon will initiate Copilot Chat with Page summarization prompt:

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

To disable Copilot Chat in Edge Mobile, view the policy com.microsoft.intune.mam.managedbrowser.ChatPageContext. Learn more: Microsoft Edge Mobile Policy Documentation | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Purview previously offered the flexibility to create event alert policies through the Purview Audit solution (in addition to the more commonly used Data Loss Prevention alerts). On March 24, 2025, we will be retiring the event alerts capability within the Purview Audit solution. With this change, any existing alert policies which had been created through the Audit solution will no longer generate alerts and customers will no longer be able to create new alert policies through the Audit solution. This functionality had already been removed from the Purview Portal’s Audit UI in 2023. Starting March 24, 2025, support for the following cmdlets will also be retired: 

• Get-AuditConfigurationRule
• New-AuditConfigurationRule
• Remove-AuditConfigurationRule
• Set-AuditConfigurationRule 

Please note that the event alerts capability within Purview DLP will remain unaffected by this change. Any alert policies created through Purview DLP will continue to generate alerts as expected. We recommend that you use the alerts functionality within DLP, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Any existing alert policies which you may have created through the Purview Audit solution will no longer generate alerts. Policies created through Purview DLP will remain unaffected. 

[What you need to do to prepare:]

If you have any alert policies created using Purview Audit which you wish to retain, please re-create these alert policies through Purview DLP. To view a list of all alert policies created through audit, please use the Get-AuditConfigurationRule cmdlet, as illustrated below. This will be available to use until March 24, 2025. 

Get-AuditConfigurationRule | Format-List Name,Workload,AuditOperation,Policy

For any new alerting requirements, we recommend that you use the alerts functionality within Purview DLP.

Learn more about DLP Alert Policies here: Get started with data loss prevention alerts | Microsoft Learn 

Coming soon to Microsoft Purview | Insider Risk Management: IRM analysts will be able to identify if a user being investigated has any compromised user alerts in Microsoft Entra. The new visibility will help the analyst formulate the right response action, such as escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420938.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections:

• Sign-in risk detections: Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in
• User risk detections: Compromise risk associated with a specific user

After this rollout:

• Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline in the alert investigation experience.
• Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider Risk Management alerts.

To access the new risk detections, go to Microsoft Purview portal > Settings > Insider Risk Management > Policy indicators > Built-in Indicators. Scroll down to Microsoft Entra ID Protection indicators, open the dropdown menu and select the applicable indicators:

When you create a policy, you will find Microsoft Entra ID Protection indicators on the Indicators page:

This change will be available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. Review your current configuration to determine the impact for your organization. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

• Insider risk management admins can opt into risk detections from Insider Risk Management global settings.
• Insider risk management admins need to opt into risk detection in Insider Risk Management policies.

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.

Learn more

• What are risks in Microsoft Entra ID Protection – Microsoft Entra ID Protection | Microsoft Learn
• Configure policy indicators in insider risk management | Microsoft Learn

If your organization does not support iOS, you can safely ignore this message.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We will introduce support for wired headsets in the Walkie Talkie app for iOS, enhancing communication flexibility and convenience. After this rollout, users can use generic wired headsets with a play/pause button in toggle-to-talk mode, for hands-free operation with one tap. Also, specialized push-to-talk (PTT) headsets will be supported in conventional push-to-talk mode.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 476734.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

This change will be available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Learn more: The Generic wired headsets section in Manage the Walkie Talkie app in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: We will add a control to the meeting presenter toolbar so presenters can more easily access the meeting chat while sharing a window or a screen.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 467445.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

[How this will affect your organization:]

After this rollout, a compact view of the meeting chat (visible to presenter only) will open when the presenter selects the Chat icon on the presenter toolbar:

Closeup view of the chat icon:

This feature will be available by default.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.

Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation.