SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more.

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Here’s a look at what’s happened over the past week:

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: Agents in SharePoint – SharePoint users can create an agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Conditional branching in Microsoft Lists forms – Microsoft Lists forms will enable users to create dynamic forms featuring branching and conditional logic. This update allows users to customize their forms to display relevant questions based on conditions applied to previous responses, empowering them to design smarter forms that adapt to their data collection needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=410771
• SharePoint: Pages authoring accessibility checker – SharePoint Accessibility Assistant empowers content creators to ensure their SharePoint Pages meet accessibility standards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470603
• SharePoint: Editorial Card web part in SharePoint Pages and News – We are introducing a Web Part called the Editorial Card to enhance page experiences. This card-like container allows for manual creation tailored to your needs, creating eye-catching content to capture viewers’ attentions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=414524
• Microsoft Viva: Connections on the SharePoint app bar – The Connections in the SharePoint App bar feature will provide a seamless entry point to Viva Connections from SharePoint, enhancing the synergy between the Intranet and Viva Connections. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468290

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – February 2025

• SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint – Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418126
• SharePoint: Preview for Pages and News – This creates Preview mode for authors to view how their Pages and News will look across different device types while editing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=473452
• SharePoint: Flexible Layouts – New flexible layout sections allow authors to build pages without the strict column structure. Web parts can be dynamically resized and moved within the flexible section. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=395213
• Microsoft Viva: Connections insights and recommendations digest – This creates a periodic digest email to editors of Viva Connections, informing them of the analytics summary of their Connections experience and recommendations to improve engagement. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466739

Release – March 2025

• Microsoft Clipchamp: Template creation in Commercial – Users can create their own Clipchamp templates for personal use or distribution across an organization via brand kits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468295

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Teams

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (12)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution available in additional meeting spaces – You can now take advantage of speaker recognition and transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in additional meeting spaces, from those equipped with a Teams Room to those relying on a user’s PC in a bring you own device (BYOD) room. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot in Teams meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. A Teams Premium license is required on the host desktop in a BYOD room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417155
• Microsoft Teams: Audio support for screen sharing in immersive events – We’re adding audio support for screen sharing in Microsoft Mesh. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they’d like to include system audio when starting a screen share in a Mesh event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423475
• Microsoft Teams: Forward messages to and from channels – You can now forward messages between channels, allowing you to efficiently share important information with relevant team members. To forward a channel message post, channel post reply, or chat message to another channel, 1:1 or group chat, select the message’s ellipsis menu and choose Forward. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=469508
• Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization – With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411138
• Microsoft Teams: Calendar notifications in Teams – Users can now triage the calendar notifications in their Activity Feed and will get notifications for meeting invites, updates, cancellations, and forwards (if the user is the meeting organizer). These notifications will show up as unread in the Activity Feed pane and will display the details when a user clicks on it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=314355

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: Inline preview of files shared – Now you can review a file shared in chat and channels in your flow of work. Select ‘preview’ and scroll through the file’s content without leaving the chat or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421188
• Microsoft Teams: VDI Status Indicator – This feature provides a visual optimization status indicator in Teams for VDI users. It will provide the user with an easy to understand status message (like ‘Optimized’, or ‘Not Optimized’), some contextual information about the optimization mode (optimized with the WebRTC-based solution or the new SlimCore-based solution), and in the not optimized case it will provide a brief description of the problem and an error code, for better supportability. It will also provide an option to repair Teams optimization mode if the user is not optimized (through a restart). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423472
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats – Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464988
• Microsoft Teams: Tag Mentions filter in Activity – To view all your tag mentions, select the tag mentions filter in your activity feed. The ‘@Mentions’ filter allows you to catch up quickly on personal mentions, while the ‘Tag mentions’ filter helps you catch up on the Tag mentions you are part of. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=470598
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced app discovery – With enhanced app discovery users can easily discover and use apps they’ve previously used in group chats, channels, and meetings, allowing them to consent to use the app everywhere in Teams with one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=397089
• Microsoft Teams: Extensibility for PSTN calls – Third-party application developers will be able to extend the PSTN calling experience in Teams with contextual information, making it possible for Teams users to have access to relevant data without leaving the call experience. This brings additional context and workflow integration into calling experiences and makes customer facing professionals more efficient by having data from line of business applications readily available. This functionality is available for developers to integrate their applications and add new functionality to calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468280
• Microsoft Teams: Delayed simultaneous ring setting – For teams with shared call responsibilities, delayed simultaneous ring will ensure calls configure the intended recipient first, instead of notifying everyone the moment a call comes in.  This helps reduce noise and minimizes distractions —especially for roles like delegates and customer service teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=468866
• Microsoft Teams: Automatic installation and update of the Network Device Interface (NDI) in Teams (Windows Only) – This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429537
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Event Recap in Town hall and webinar (Premium) – Intelligent recap is now available for town hall and webinar event instances, just like the intelligent recap experience you are used to in meetings. Event organizer, co-organizers and presenters can now easily explore the meeting recording by speakers and topics, and access AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions. In addition to availability with a Teams Premium license, intelligent event recap features are also available in Copilot for Microsoft 365 licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=371588
• Microsoft Teams: Teams devices update only when idle – Updates from Teams admin center for Teams devices will happen only when they are idle. This will minimise end-user disruption. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418120
• Microsoft Teams: Improvements to the transcription experience in meetings – We’re making improvements to enhance the transcription experience in meetings. First, when transcription, recording, or Copilot are enabled before or during the meeting, users will be prompted to select the spoken language to ensure transcription accuracy. Second, when transcription is enabled (whether by itself or when recording or Copilot are enabled) only the meeting organizer, co-organizers, and transcript initiator will be able to change the spoken language. Next, we’re simplifying the settings by creating a new settings page for meeting spoken language and translation language for live translated captions at Caption settings > Language settings > Meeting spoken language and transcript found at Transcript > Language settings > Meeting spoken language.  Lastly, when participants speak a language that doesn’t match the selected language in the spoken language setting, the meeting organizer, co-organizer and initiator will get a notification that the language is mismatched. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=471426
• Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421607

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Teams: Create channels with ease – Efficiently create channels directly from the header menu, eliminating the need to scroll down to the specific team. As a channel creator, you will have the flexibility to choose from all the teams you can create a channel in to host your new channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=479744
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites – This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476488
• Microsoft Teams: CVI support for Townhall and Webinar presenters – Presenters can now join Teams Townhall and Teams Webinar sessions using third-party video teleconferencing devices (VTC) through Cloud Video Interop (CVI) coordinates provided in presenter invites.  Only trusted CVI devices can join the event and use presenter features like Green Room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476487
• Microsoft Teams: Presenter joins Townhalls via dial-in – Teams Townhall presenters will now have the ability to join their townhalls using dial-in details. These details will be available in the body of the invite email they receive from Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476489
• Microsoft Teams: Presenter Chat while screensharing – Enable presenters to more easily access the meeting chat while screensharing by adding an entry point in the presenter toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=467445

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of Teams notifications on web – You can now customize where your Teams notification appear on your screen when using Teams on web. Options include bottom right, top right, bottom left, and top left, allowing you to choose the most convenient and least intrusive location for a better experience and productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=480720
• Microsoft Teams: ‘Add emoji’ updated keyboard shortcut – Insert emojis directly from your keyboard without any distractions. Use colons (e.g. :smile:) in the compose box to add any emoji, even your custom ones, making it quicker to express yourself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=369345
• Microsoft Teams: Adding and editing external contacts – With this feature, users will now be able to add and edit external contacts from Teams phone devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476485

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OneDrive

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 OneDrive: Upcoming change to shared folder experience in Microsoft OneDrive – With this feature update, when a user clicks a link to a shared folder from Teams chat, channels, email, or other places, they will navigate to the shared folder within the People view of their own OneDrive. This new view, organized by people, will show and allow access to all the files and folders that have been shared with the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=479965

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt with a co-worker – Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400710
• Sharepoint: Sharepoint Agents – SharePoint users can create an agent in SharePoint simply by selecting the SharePoint sites and/or files. Share these agents with your team to use in SharePoint and/or Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=416297

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412064
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot agents in Teams group chats – Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=464988
• Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421607
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Teams team  – Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team, allowing team members to easily discover and utilize these prompts in Copilot Prompt Gallery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=391636
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Enhancements to Copilot admin page – The Copilot page in the Microsoft 365 admin center is the dedicated place for tools, insights, and resources for Copilot administration. The Copilot page will be updated with enhancements to the Overview section and we will be introducing a new Health section. The Overview section will be updated to include key success metrics and insights such as the active user rate, AI assistance score, Copilot assisted hours, and user sentiment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472918
• OneNote: Copilot Chat on OneNote for web and in Teams – Bringing the power of Microsoft Copilot to OneNote for web and in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=417005

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to Copilot Chat prompt input box – This update aligns Copilot Chat prompt input box across chat experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=478654
• SharePoint: Authoring Copilot in SharePoint – Authoring Copilot in SharePoint combines the power of Large Language Models (LLMs), your data in the Microsoft Graph, and best practices to create engaging new web pages. It can utilize built-in templates or custom templates from your organization, along with existing documents as grounding data, to generate high-quality page content. All of this is achieved while upholding our commitment to data security and privacy in the enterprise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418126
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Ability to duplicate Microsoft Copilot Academy – Admins will be able to duplicate Copilot Academy and customize it for their own requirements. They will also be able to duplicate Microsoft curated Learning paths and featured Set. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=412065

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work – Now, instantly get suggestions for slide templates to use while creating slides in PowerPoint. Insert a new slide or start typing the slide name or type of slide and see suggestions in the Copilot Suggestions pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475053
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Suggestions for slide templates as you work – Now, instantly get suggestions for slide templates to use while creating slides in PowerPoint. Insert a new slide or start typing the slide name or type of slide and see suggestions in the Copilot Suggestions pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475054
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Pronoun Awareness in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Microsoft 365 Copilot will soon use pronouns from user profiles when responding, creating a more personalized interaction for users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=478648
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can now reference files to help generate drafts – When creating a form with Copilot, users can now reference existing documents such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Users can also reference an existing form by pasting the form’s URL into the prompt box. Additionally, Copilot can search and suggest relevant files when generating a form, so users can easily create a draft that meets their needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474658
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms has been refreshed to help users better refine and edit their forms – Copilot in Forms has been revamped to more easily help users refine and modify their forms. Users can now type prompts to Copilot to help with editing and refinement, so they can get tailored suggestions and easily get their forms ready to send.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474659
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Read aloud available in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Play back Copilot responses as audio with read aloud in Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=475967
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Copilot Chat developer mode – Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=474450
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize files shared in Teams chat with Copilot – Summarize action on files shared in Teams chat, will allow users to summarize files with one click using Copilot within one-on-one or group chats. It will work on common file types like Word and PDF to start with and other formats will be added over due course. This requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=418564
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Teams Chats in ContextIQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429646
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites – Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413110
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ – When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=413111
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Showing aggregate Likes on prompts – See the amount of likes for prompts in your organization in Copilot Prompt Gallery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=400711

Rollout starts – May 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts – Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=401124

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry can ground their agent in files stored in SharePoint – Tenant Graph grounding provides grounding for agents with relevant information from Microsoft Graph, including files stored in SharePoint. This capability is now available to developers building agents in Azure AI Foundry. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476496
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Custom agent Power BI report in Viva Insights analyst workbench – Custom agent adoption metrics and insights report in Viva Insights analyst workbench. Scope includes custom agents created in Copilot Studio, insights are aggregated on the agent-level.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472020

Rollout starts – September 2025

• Outlook: Prioritize my inbox by Copilot – Prioritize my inbox by Copilot marks high priority mails in your inbox and provides a short summary of the mail’s importance in the message list and the reading pane. Mails can be sorted and filtered by Copilot’s priority. In Web and New Outlook for Windows, you can also choose to have Copilot mark low priority mails. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=411302

Rollout starts – June 2026

•  OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (iPhone) – With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422325
• OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (iPhone) – Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively.  Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422320
• OneNote: Boost productivity using voice with Copilot on OneNote Mobile (Android) – Copilot in OneNote transforms fragmented voice thoughts and conversation recordings into clear, actionable insights. It enhances productivity by accurately capturing and organizing verbal notes, filling in gaps, and providing structured summaries, making it easier to review and utilize information effectively.  Exciting News! Copilot in OneNote can now access and understand verbal notes, synthesize conversations, and transform fragmented thoughts into clear, actionable insights, boosting productivity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422321
• OneNote: Copilot on OneNote brings in notes from Video and Images (Android) – With this new feature in OneNote mobile, you can share videos and images into OneNote and watch the magic unfold. All the key insights from the video and images are captured effortlessly into notes so that you do not have to manually create them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=422322

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Microsoft Purview

Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online – This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=323899
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=380722
• Microsoft Information Protection: Protect your most sensitive content with double key encryption – Double Key Encryption (DKE) provides organizations with a second encryption key for your most sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=472025
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps: Behaviors – A new data type in Microsoft 365 Defender Advanced Hunting. Behaviors will optimize the alerts queue by enabling security teams to focus on the most relevant alerts in their environment. They will indicate what took place in a descriptive form, attached to the MITRE tactics and techniques that are common measure most organizations follow and test their coverage against. This new data type which sits between the raw data and alert, will enable your security teams to prioritize critical alerts in your environment without having to compromise contextual information provided in a behavior that may be important to an investigation. The behaviors data will also enrich the context of related incidents and only correlate anomalies when relevant. Within Defender for Cloud Apps, we have identified some detections that are better suited as behaviors, and we are transforming them to the new data type to reflect it that can be retrieved via advanced hunting. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=124789

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft managed storage) – With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage, the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, or selecting storage in policy workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420333

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Adaptive Protection – Multi-policy selection – Admins can now select multiple Insider Risk Management policies in the “Risk levels for Adaptive Protection” settings to assign risk levels in Adaptive Protection. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=171735

Rollout starts – March 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to fine tune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts.   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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=477363
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=479082
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Export Enhancements – With the export of data being one of the core fundamentals of the solution, Microsoft Purview eDiscovery team is excited to announce significant changes coming to the export feature along with the new user experience in purview.microsoft.com.  Key changes with export enhancements: The biggest change being introduced is that with the new user experience for Ediscovery where Standard and Premium cases have unified structure, the export is also aligned for both the streams – thereby providing a singular experience to customers. The behavior is now unified across all export jobs – same download experience, some report experience, same error messages. Additionally, for Standard customers, the need to install a clickonce application in their machine and use that tool to download data for exporting in azure storage is history. Now, in the new experience, customers don’t need to install the app anymore and can download directly through browser.  Other changes coming through are: – Change in Export limits and ZIP folder partitioning – Better Export settings with more options – New reporting capabilities – Enhancements in Results load file Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=478929
• 🆕Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Downgrade/remove sensitivity label – This feature is an enhancement to the existing IRM Office Indicator – Downgrading sensitivity labels applied to SharePoint files and removing sensitivity labels from SharePoint files.  In the current version, only sensitivity label changes on SharePoint Web app are captured in IRM. But with the latest update, this indicator captures the sensitivity label changes (downgrade/remove) when performed on OneDrive, AIP, and Endpoint (SharePoint file opened in Office app or any sensitivity label change on the local files on your device).  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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=466742
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Entra compromised user signals in IRM – With this feature, IRM analysts can identify if the user being investigated has any compromise user alerts in Microsoft Entra. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc. Microsoft Entra offers two types of compromised user detections: 1. Sign in risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific sign-in. 2. User risk detections – Compromise risk associated with a specific user. – Insider risk management admins can opt into each of the above risk detections from Insider risk management global settings. – Risk detections will be available in the indicator timeline within the alert investigation experience. – Risk detections will not impact the risk score or severity of Insider risk management alerts. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420938
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Introduction of secure workflow to bypass legal holds and retention policies – The first release of Priority cleanup enables admins to create a recurring exception to delete items under a broader retention policy and/or legal hold on Exchange workload. Creating a Priority cleanup will require a separate security role, multiple approvers, and will have a complete audit trail. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=392838
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – Ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=374375

Rollout starts – April 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse – DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses  in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=420332

Rollout starts – May 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP – This allows the customer to use a label for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=476494

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview capabilities for M365 Copilot – Microsoft Purview is launching several capabilities in government cloud environments that help secure and govern data in Microsoft 365 Copilot. These are capabilities in Information Protection, Data Lifecycle Management, Audit, eDiscovery, and Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=479083
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Ability to export policy settings – Insider Risk Management will now supply the ability to export policy configuration settings into a CSV. Any user with admin permissions will be able to export the settings. 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=479758
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=423483
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage – Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=429876
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – App Permissions for Graph API – Now organizations who are automating eDiscovery workflows will be able to authenticate and execute workflows with an application based authentication method. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=169083

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on container label of a group/site/team – This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=421192

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