132 new items were added to the Roadmap this month. Beyond the new Teams chat UI changes, my key new update is PERSONAL USER LOOP WORKSPACES! Every user will now have another default data source that may require preservation and collection. If you have not tested search, export, processing and review of Loop components in your eDiscovery infrastructure, the time is now.
View my take on those with potential eDiscovery Impact and my comments at my Roadmap table. Although nothing new on the new Purview Portal Hub UI, I encourage everyone to start testing and exploring it. I am still occasionally finding the navigation bug, so if you still see the old Premium UI to use this link – https://purview.microsoft.com/ediscovery/casespage – to directly access the new portal.
| Feature | Impact | eDJ | Description | Details | Tags – Product | Tags – Release phase | Release | Last Modified |
| 422727 | 5 | This will force companies to acknowledge Loop and set it as a default hold target like OneDrive and user Mailbox. | 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. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 12/1/2024 | 10/23/2024 |
| 421612 | 1 | Departing user workflows are an essential part of your overall governance process and Loop’s collaborative nature add complications to preservation | Microsoft 365 app: Microsoft Loop – Departed user content workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces | Manage retention and deletion workflows for user-owned Loop workspaces like Copilot Pages when users leave the organization. Notify and provide temporary access to other employees or administrators to save important data before deletion policies take effect. | Microsoft 365 app | General Availability | 4/1/2025 | 10/30/2024 |
| 417158 | 2 | I wonder where the individual replies are stored. | Microsoft Teams: Private moderator replies to individual attendees | Allows moderators to answer questions from specific attendees without displaying the reply to the other participants. This capability can be helpful for sensitive questions, personal inquiries, or follow-up discussions that are not intended to be broadcast to the entire audience. | Microsoft Teams | General Availability | 1/1/2025 | 10/23/2024 |
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