Microsoft Roadmap, messagecenter en blogs updates van 22-11-2024

Updated November 21, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In Microsoft Purview, audit search provides your organization with access to critical audit log event data, allowing you to gain insight and further investigate user activities. The Microsoft Purview Compliance portal’s audit search UI currently includes several search fields (i.e., date range, activities, workloads, users, etc.) to facilitate the retrieval of relevant logs. With a recent update, we have added four additional fields to the audit search UI.

These four fields are described below:

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 384092.

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 (previously early November) and expect to complete by early March 2025 (previously mid-November).

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Security admins in your organization who use audit in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal will be able to use these four additional fields to retrieve relevant audit logs.

[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 as appropriate.

Additional resources

• Search the audit log | Microsoft Learn

Updated November 21, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Purview: We are excited to announce upcoming enhancements to Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). With the forthcoming update, the capability to scan, classify, and protect sensitive content on Windows endpoint devices will be significantly expanded. The number of supported file types will increase from approximately 40 to over 100, aligning endpoint coverage with other platforms like Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. Additionally, this update will introduce several key enhancements, including:

• Detection of labels from protected files (pfiles).
• Identification of sensitive content within file metadata.
• Recognition of sensitive information in PDF form fields.
• Detection of sensitive information in files embedded inside office files (for example, a .txt file inside .pptx file)

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 171586

[When this will happen:]

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late June (previously late July) 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024 (previously early October).

General Availability Worldwide: We will begin rolling out early November 2024 (previously late October) and expect to complete by mid-March 2025 (previously late mid-February.

[How this will affect your organization:]

The upcoming update will enhance DLP’s content scanning on Windows devices. No changes to existing policies are required.

Summary of enhancements:

1. Enhanced file type coverage

The file type coverage to scan, classify, and protect sensitive content on Windows Endpoint devices will increase from 40 file types to over 100.

This means that sensitive content in additional file types like BZ2, EML etc. will also start getting scanned and protected using DLP policies.

2. Detect label in PFILE

The DLP condition “content contains sensitivity label” now has the capability to detect labels from protected files (pfiles). This means that it can now read labels not just from Office and PDF files, but all other files where MIP label with protection can be applied via applications like AIP client, Secude etc. which converts the file into “pfile”.

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A txt file converted to .ptxt (PFile) after applying a label. This label can now be detected with this preview.

3. Scanning metadata

Ability to detect sensitive content in file metadata like custom properties in Office and PDF files.

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4. Scanning content embedded in Microsoft 365 office files

If a file is embedded inside an office file (Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint), the content of the embedded file is also scanned. For example, if a DOCX file containing credit card numbers is inserted into an XLSX file, the content of both XLSX and the embedded DOCX files will be scanned, and credit card numbers will be detected.

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5. Better scanning with PDF files

· Ability to scan and detect sensitive content in PDF forms.

· Ability to scan and detect sensitive content in permission protected PDF files. Permission protected PDF files are ones which do not require any password to open the file and read the content but require a password to edit/copy the content.

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[What you need to do to prepare:]

You do not need do any changes to your existing policies. Your existing policies will seamlessly start scanning additional content as detailed above.

Additional Resources

• Learn about Endpoint data loss prevention | Microsoft Learn

Updated November 21, 2024: The rollout to the UK & Canada has completed. The rollout to the selected European countries has been delayed. However, all of Europe will be supported by December. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft SharePoint eSignature allows users to easily request eSignatures on a PDF document via SharePoint online. Signers can easily add their electronic signature. Signed documents are saved securely back to SharePoint.

As communicated in MC690925 (Updated) SharePoint eSignature electronic signature service (November 2023), SharePoint eSignature is currently available in the United States. With this rollout, eSignature is coming soon to the United Kingdom, Canada, and these European countries:

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
•  France
•  Germany
•  Greece
•  Hungary
•  Ireland
•  Italy
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
•  Luxembourg
•  Malta
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden

[When this will happen:]

We will begin rolling out to the UK, Canada in August 2024, and the European countries in this message in late December 2024 (previously early November). 

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout: Users only had third-party (non-Microsoft) plugin options for eSignatures in SharePoint.

After the rollout: If your region is now supported, you will be able to configure and use SharePoint eSignature in SharePoint.

If you have SharePoint Premium configured before this rollout, you will need to turn on this feature.

If you sign up for SharePoint Premium after the rollout, the feature will be on by default, but you can turn it off.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

References

• Set up SharePoint eSignature | Microsoft Learn
• SharePoint eSignature – Microsoft Adoption (adoption-dev.azurewebsites.net)
• Overview of SharePoint eSignature | Microsoft Learn

Updated November 20, 2024:  We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

This rollout will enable users to use prompts in to create charts, graphs and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat (BizChat). Users can also view the Python code for these charts, graphs, and data analysis. This feature requires a license for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 420363.

[When this will happen:]

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2024 (previously mid-November) and expect to complete by late December 2024 (previously late November).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Before this rollout, Copilot users are not able to use prompts to create charts, graphs, and data analysis in Copilot Business Chat.

After this rollout, Copilot users can enter prompts in Copilot Business Chat to create charts, graphs, and data analysis. To view the Python code that is generated for a chart/graph, users can select the Code button.

This change will be on 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: Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot Business Chat – Microsoft Support

Updated November 21, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 421189

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024 (previously late November).

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users in the organization can now filter search results in Teams by the person with whom the content was shared (e.g. shared by, modified by, participated by)  

[What you need to do to prepare:]

No action is needed to prepare for this rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Updated November 20, 2024: We have updated the content with additional resources

Outlook Data Files (.pst) or Personal Storage Tables files contain Microsoft Outlook user messages and other Outlook items (contacts, appointments, tasks, notes, and journal entries) saved in local files on each user’s computer.

With this rollout, the first phase of support for .pst files in the new Microsoft Outlook for Windows will provide read-only access to Mail items in .pst files. Users will be able to open .pst files, read their e-mails in .pst files, and search .pst files for e-mails. All Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks data are saved in .pst files, but cannot be accessed in this preview. In future releases, we will expand the support for PST support capabilities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 399467.

[When this will happen:]

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late November 2024 and expect to complete by early December 2024.

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

[How this will affect your organization:]

Users will be able to open .pst files, read their e-mails in .pst files, and search .pst files for e-mails.

1. To open an Outlook Data File (.pst), go to Settings > General > Outlook Data Files
2. Select Add file
3. Select Continue to open
4. Select a .pst file and then select Open

Requirements

• Outlook Data Files (.pst) require M365 to be installed.
• Outlook Data Files (.pst) require M365 subscription.
• Outlook Data File support is not available with ARM version of new Outlook for Windows.

Policy

Outlook Data File support is enabled by default in new Outlook for Windows, but you can limit and disable it with the OutlookDataFile mailbox policy. The new Outlook for Windows only enforces the OutlookDataFile policy of the primary account. For more information on enabling the policy, refer to the OutlookDataFile parameter in Set-OwaMailboxPolicy.

NOTE: The group policy used to control Outlook Data File (.pst) in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop does not affect new Outlook for Windows.

[What you need to do to prepare:]

Outlook Data File (.pst) support is enabled by default in new Outlook for Windows. If you organization wants to block or limit Outlook Data File support, set the OutlookDataFile mailbox policy.

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 revised documentation.

Additional resources:  Open and find items in an Outlook Data File (.pst) – Microsoft Support.

• Tailored Experiences is now Personalized offers in the out of box experience (OOBE). You can find it on the Recommendations and offers page.
• The system tray shows a shortened date and time. Also, the notification bell icon might not show if you have set the toggle for “Do not disturb” to on.
• When you right-click apps that you have pinned to the Start menu, jump lists will appear for apps that have jump lists.
• The IME toolbar will hide when apps are in full screen mode. This only occurs when the IME toolbar is active and you type Chinese or Japanese characters.​​​​​​​
• You can share content to an Android device from the context menu in File Explorer and on the desktop. To use this feature, you must install and configure Phone Link on your PC.​​​​​​​
• This update improves the speech-to-text and text-to-speech features in Windows. You might get a message that asks you to update your language files manually.

• Windows 11, versions 24H2: 5046740
• Windows 11, versions 23H2 and 22H2: 5046732
• Windows 10, version 22H2: 5046714