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 (0)
• In development (6)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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?searchterms=468290

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Dashboard in Sites – The dashboard layout webpart will be available on all sites and pages. Currently the dashboard webpart is limited to Home Sites, it will be extended to Team Sites and Communication Sites Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486832
• SharePoint: Card animation – Card animation will enable motion for web parts on Pages and News. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481510

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators – Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486861
• 🆕 SharePoint: SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word – This feature is available to tenants that enable SharePoint eSignature in the Microsoft Admin Center and have Word clients on the Current Channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486707
• SharePoint: Restricted Access Control Enhancements  – New enhancements for RAC policy for SharePoint administrators to restrict access to SharePoint sites including managing M365 group connected sites with M365 groups or Security groups.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483028
• SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites – Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417481

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Teams

• Launched (5)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (27)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Introducing the SCO Setting in Walkie Talkie app for Enhanced Battery Life on older Bluetooth headsets – This feature introduces SCO (Synchronous Connection-Oriented) user setting in the Walkie Talkie app. This feature is designed to manage the Bluetooth headset connection to optimize battery life. When a Bluetooth headset is connected to the Walkie Talkie app, the SCO setting controls whether the microphone remains constantly connected or disconnects after a period of inactivity. This helps in reducing battery drain by allowing the headset to disconnect when not in use and reconnect when needed.  The user control feature allows users to set a timeout period after which the Bluetooth headset will automatically disconnect if there is no activity. While the SCO setting is turned on, users may experience a slight delay in transmission as the headset reconnects. However, once the headset is reconnected, users will hear a sound indicating that they can start transmitting on the app. This brief delay is a small trade-off for the substantial battery savings on older Bluetooth headsets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476733
•  Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for the Walkie Talkie app on iOS – This feature adds the wired support to Walkie Talkie on iOS. It adds support for both specialized PTT headsets and generic headsets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476734
• Microsoft Teams: Share Recap Notes to Outlook (Premium) – Meeting organizers and presenters have the capability to share recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to Outlook, facilitating the seamless sending of post meeting follow-up emails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=423477
• Microsoft Teams: Allow Presenters to moderate Q&A – Organizers of town halls and webinars can now select and assign presenters to also be Q&A moderators, allowing them to manage and publish questions asked during the event. This feature lets organizers make changes to the group of moderators at any time, before or during the event, and it is available to all users organizing a town hall or webinar, regardless of license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469492
• Microsoft Teams: New setting enables meeting participants to move between breakout rooms – Now, meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move freely from one room to another, simplifying breakout room coordination for meeting organizers and participants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=121269

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for touch phones – This feature allows you to configure custom contacts and speed dial on the line key of touch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. It enables you to swiftly access frequently dialled numbers and contacts, incorporating one-touch/press dialling and effortless management of contact lists on touch devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476486
• Microsoft Viva: Refreshed Engage Communities app in Teams mobile – New, mobile-first experience to participate in communities aligned to personal interests and job functions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475969
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting – Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g. Which products had the highest sales), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325873
• Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee increase to 50,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429538
• Microsoft Teams: Shared call history for call delegation on Teams phone devices – Call delegators and their delegates can now view shared call history records for the shared line directly on their Teams phone devices. This enhancement promotes greater transparency and collaboration. All delegates associated with a user will be able to monitor incoming and outgoing calls for the shared line, irrespective of their participation in the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416292

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – April 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Translated Intelligent meeting recap for multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium) – Now, intelligent meeting recap supports multilingual meetings, ensuring you can easily catch up on key discussions even when multiple languages were spoken. After the meeting, your recap is automatically generated in the translation language you selected for live transcription and captions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481144
• Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413712
• Microsoft Teams: User uploaded custom background images for the new VDI solution for Microsoft Teams – With this new feature, users on the new VDI solution for Teams can blur their background, choose a Teams virtual background, or replace their background entirely with any image they want by uploading it through the “Video effects and Settings” option. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=410366

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance (Premium) – This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator assigned by the compliance department is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting,  the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486833
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android – Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486694
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Call quality reports for BYOD rooms in the Pro Management portal – As with Microsoft Teams Rooms, admins can now access detailed call quality reports for BYOD rooms with associated peripherals in the Pro Management portal. These reports include call history and session details that help diagnose network, audio, and video issues. Reports in the Pro Management portal requires a Teams Shared Devices license for the room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486830
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Line key support for shared line and call transfers – This feature will enable you to assign shared lines to a line key and view the boss and delegates of the line along with their presence on Teams Phone devices with touch screens. This feature allows delegates to pick up calls on behalf of the boss by pressing the line key and join active calls. Additionally, users will be able to assign the transfer action to the line key, enabling them to transfer active calls by simply pressing that line key. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486829
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Town hall usage reports in TAC will have all the relevant usage data related to town hall events in the tenant. – When Town hall was released, there were some columns/data related to each Town hall event that were missing in the TAC usage reports for IT Admins. Now all the relevant usage related data are added to the town hall usage reports available in the TAC portal for Admins. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486706
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for BYOD spaces – BYOD spaces now support additional room and desk peripherals, including docking stations and webcams. This enables users to seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for a higher-quality experience. IT admins will receive an expanded view and detailed reports for peripherals associated with BYOD spaces in the Pro Management Portal, when a particular BYOD space has a Teams Shared Devices license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486693
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Button Support on Multiple Connected Peripheral Devices – You can now use the Teams button across peripheral devices without having to manually select a specific device in the Teams devices settings. This ensures a more seamless experience navigating across multiple certified for Microsoft Teams personal peripheral USB devices (with a wire or a dongle) connected to the same host device (such as your laptop). For example, you can use the Teams button on headset A to bring up the meeting pre-join screen, then use the Teams button on headset B to join the meeting, and then use the Teams button on your connected speakerphone to raise hand in the meeting, etc. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485714
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall  – With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486535
• Microsoft Teams: Streamlined, unified role-based access controls (RBAC) for Teams device management – IT admins now benefit from unified role-based access controls across the Teams admin center and Teams Rooms Pro Management portals. This streamlines device management ensuring smooth transitions between portals and consistency in environment management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485760
• Microsoft Teams: Pop-out live captions and Real-time-Text (RTT) in meetings – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize live captions (including live translated captions), and real-time-text (RTT) from the main meeting window. This enables you to position the captions and RTT wherever you prefer on your screen, so you can easily focus on the meeting while viewing the incoming text in a position most comfortable for you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484113
• Microsoft Teams: Room recommender – If no room is booked for a meeting, this AI feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before start when two or more attendees are in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. It considers location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. You can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the invite for everyone. A Teams Premium license is required for the meeting organizer to enable this feature, which is available in Teams Mobile on iOS. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482191
• Microsoft Teams: Introducing new IT administrator policies to control Town hall Event Access – Previously, Microsoft did not provide a way for Teams admins to control who can attend town halls that are created in their organization. With this new policy, tenant administrators can control who can attend town halls created by members in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483250
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response – Copilot in Teams will now have a ‘stop’ button after sending a prompt. This will allow the user to stop Copilot’s response either before the response has started to generate, or even after the response is generating. The user may then start a new prompt if they wish. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325948
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings responses can be exported to Word and Excel – Now, certain responses from Copilot in Teams meetings will have an option to edit in Word or Excel. The edit in option for Word will be available for Copilot responses that are long (more than 1300 characters) and will automatically open a Word document with the response written. The edit in option for Excel will be available for Copilot responses that are formatted in a table, and will automatically open an Excel file with the formatted response added. Copilot responses can only be exported if the meeting policy for the meeting is set to allow copying or forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, transcript, and Copilot responses. The export capability will also inherit the sensitivity label of the meeting (sensitivity labels are available to Teams Premium users).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481352
• Microsoft Teams: GCC High support in Teams Rooms Pro Management – The Pro Management service and admin portal is now available for GCC High customer tenants. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482187
• 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?searchterms=476489
• 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?searchterms=476487
• 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?searchterms=476485
• Microsoft Teams: Webinars in DoD – Teams Webinars are now available for the DoD community. DoD users can now schedule webinar instances with internal audiences, and leverage capabilities such as creation of an event page, attendee registration, automated emails, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475279
• Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support – Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472913
• Microsoft Teams: Bulk operations summary in the Teams admin center – IT admins can monitor and track the status of all bulk operations on Teams Devices through the Teams admin center, enabling large-scale management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=420326
• Microsoft Teams: Remote contact management for Teams Phone devices in Teams admin center – IT admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams admin center (TAC) to Teams Phones as company contacts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=81379

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Select camera in pre-join and during meeting – Users can select an internal or external camera, or keep it turned off, before joining or during Teams meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485713
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: New Teams calendar available to Education customers – The new calendar in Teams will be available to Education customers. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as its one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, the new Teams calendar will be enabled by default, and users can turn it off from the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481281
• Microsoft Teams: App ratings in in-context surfaces. – Now users will be able to view ratings when they view apps within the in-context store in teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483506
• 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?searchterms=476488

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OneDrive

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: New empty state images – You will see new and improved images and text in various views on OneDrive for Web when there are no files associated with those views. These images will appear in new OneDrive accounts that have no stored files, and they may appear in existing OneDrive accounts that have no recent, favorited, shared, or recycled files. As an example, if you have no favorited files, you will see an image of a star with text that reads Items you favorite will show up here. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380177

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

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• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enrichment of Messages in Business Chat – This feature is designed to enhance your communication experience by making it easier to understand and interact with your chat messages in Business Chat. With this feature, you will see cards and hoverable experiences that provide additional details of the chat without leaving your current view. This means you can quickly grasp the context of your conversations and find the information you need more efficiently. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472915

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Analytics available in Microsoft 365 Copilot  – Copilot Analytics is designed to empower every IT and business leader to measure adoption and business impact of Copilot and agents with out-of-the-box experiences in Copilot Dashboard and customizable reporting for deeper analysis against your KPIs. With Viva Insights included, IT admins and analysts can now tailor advanced prebuilt Copilot reports with their business data or create custom reports with organizational attributes, longer usage data sets, and more granular controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=471002
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting – Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g. Which products had the highest sales), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325873

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses – In Communication Compliance, we’re introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety’s Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422334

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Administrator will be able to manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard settings. – Expanding the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard admin settings to AI Administrator role which is the newly announced Entra role. Admin users assigned with the AI Administrator role can efficiently manage Microsoft Copilot Dashboard without the vast privileges of Global admin permissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486700
• 🆕 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?searchterms=486949
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot advanced text analysis in Excel – Copilot can now analyze text by identifying themes or sentiments, cite examples in the data, and insert a column with theme/sentiment labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485188
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot creates an automatic presentation summary – When you open a presentation, Copilot will automatically create a summary, making it easy to understand the content quickly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482542
• PowerPoint: Designer is now part of Copilot, enhanced with new template and slide Suggestions. – Designer is now part of Copilot. Copilot Suggestions now brings you familiar Designer slide layout and presentation template suggestions in a vertical gallery, along with new capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483882
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Add Copilot.cloud.microsoft/Teams/Outlook usage for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat usage report – This feature allows organizations to monitor Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat adoption in Copilot.cloud.microsoft/Teams/Outlook for users without Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses. It enhances the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat report by providing metrics on the number of active users of Copilot.cloud.microsoft/Teams/Outlook and the last activity date for each user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482199
• Microsoft Teams: Translated Intelligent meeting recap for multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium) – Now, intelligent meeting recap supports multilingual meetings, ensuring you can easily catch up on key discussions even when multiple languages were spoken. After the meeting, your recap is automatically generated in the translation language you selected for live transcription and captions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481144
• 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?searchterms=475054
• 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?searchterms=475053
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders – Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new “Attach cloud files” experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413109

Rollout starts – May 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot – When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485181
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot – When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485180
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot – When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485179
• 🆕 SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators – Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486861
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Catch up on a summary of document comments in the top of your document – Copilot will have a Discussion tab in the top of your document to summarize open comments, helping you quickly understand what people have said in comments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483519
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Company-wide prompt publishing – Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486695
• Microsoft Teams: Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response – Copilot in Teams will now have a ‘stop’ button after sending a prompt. This will allow the user to stop Copilot’s response either before the response has started to generate, or even after the response is generating. The user may then start a new prompt if they wish. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325948
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings responses can be exported to Word and Excel – Now, certain responses from Copilot in Teams meetings will have an option to edit in Word or Excel. The edit in option for Word will be available for Copilot responses that are long (more than 1300 characters) and will automatically open a Word document with the response written. The edit in option for Excel will be available for Copilot responses that are formatted in a table, and will automatically open an Excel file with the formatted response added. Copilot responses can only be exported if the meeting policy for the meeting is set to allow copying or forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, transcript, and Copilot responses. The export capability will also inherit the sensitivity label of the meeting (sensitivity labels are available to Teams Premium users).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481352

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Admin role has permissions to manage agents – As an AI Admin, you manage agents with various capabilities including creating and overseeing Copilot connections that index data in Graph and perform actions, controlling which makers can build these connections and regulating the data sources used, maintaining observability over all connections, approving or denying agents, pre-installing them without requiring consent, and viewing them in Microsoft 365 admin center integrated apps page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485735
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules for scenarios like auto publishing Microsoft 365 certified agents and perform bulk cleanup of unused agents.  –  Admins will have the ability to set up rules for various scenarios, such as automatically publishing all Microsoft 365 certified agents and performing bulk cleanups of agents that are no longer in use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481518
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=407897

Rollout starts – September 2025

•  OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Iphone) – With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422324
• OneNote: Summary and Q&A in OneNote Mobile with Copilot (Android) – With this new Summary feature in OneNote mobile, you can create a short and fluent summary of your longer pages which will help to consume relevant information faster. With the Question and Answer at your fingertips, you can get real-time answers to your queries directly within your notes, enhancing your ability to access and utilize information quickly and effectively. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422323
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention based on Last Accessed for files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This creates the ability to apply Retention to each SharePoint or OneDrive item based on when it was last accessed by a user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472030

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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 (5)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – New Allow and Off modes for each activity – The two new modes are Off and Allow. For Off, Endpoint DLP will not trigger events or Alerts and will not trigger notifications. Admins can use this enforcement mode to configure restrictions for a specific group. With Allow, Endpoint DLP will not trigger Alerts and will not trigger notifications but will trigger events in Activity explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480731
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer – Endpoint DLP should show full path of target domain and not just the domain name in Activity Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=471445
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=171586
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced recommendations for no-alert policies – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get insights-enhanced recommendations for policies that do not generate alerts on the policy page. The enhancement provides admins with recommended thresholds derived from real-time analytics, making the recommendations highly actionable and enabling the effectiveness of the policy. 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?searchterms=146861
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Policy deletion enhancement – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions can delete all associated alerts, cases, and users in scope when deleting a policy to help quickly reset and remove inactive 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. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=171601

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements – We are introducing several enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include a comprehensive case-level data source view, the ability to retry failed locations for a more complete search statistics estimate, and the capability to view process reports across all cases. Users will also be able to duplicate search and copy search from hold or hold from search within the same case, reusing the data sources and queries. Additionally, customers will be able to access a more comprehensive reporting in all process reports including information like compliance boundary, encryption settings and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482558
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Separate role added for downloading the original file evidence for Endpoint – Microsoft Purview has introduced a new separate role for downloading the original evidence for Endpoint. It is applicable for both Customer Managed and Microsoft Managed storage when you try to download the evidence using Purview or XDR portal. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478660
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- New scenario based policy templates – We are adding two additional pre-configured quick policy templates for crown jewel protection and email exfiltration for admins that want to deploy scenario specific policy templates with little configurations needed to get started faster. These templates are in addition to the existing data leak and data theft quick policies. All 4 scenario based quick policies can be found in the Policies page> Create Policies. Additional tuning post deployment to meet individual alert volume needs can be expected. 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?searchterms=409966

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – March 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Detect prompt injection attacks and mentions of protected materials in GenAI prompts and responses – In Communication Compliance, we’re introducing the ability to detect potentially risky Generative AI interactions using Azure Content Safety’s Prompt shields and Protected materials classifiers. Detect risk of jailbreak prompt exploitation by malicious users and identify if GenAI responses contain branded/copyrighted material so organizations can maintain content originality and protect their reputations. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are opted in by an admin, and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422334

Rollout starts – April 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  New Inline Protection controls for AI apps in Edge for Business   – With the new inline protection capability for Edge for Business, you can prevent data leakage across the various ways that users interact with sensitive data in the browser, including typing of text directly into a web application or generative AI prompt. Starting with some of the top consumer GenAI apps (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek), admins will be able to block typed prompts containing sensitive data.  The inline protection capability complements existing endpoint DLP controls for uploading or pasting sensitive content in the browser.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486368
• 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 compromised user alerts in Microsoft Entra. 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?searchterms=420938

Rollout starts – May 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices – When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486366
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI- additional Microsoft Copilot integrations – Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI support for Fabric Copilot and Security Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486697
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – New Insider Risk Management Reporting Capabilities – This feature has been delayed, we apologize for the inconvenience. Insider risk management is introducing one central location for all reports including analytics and user activity reports. Additional reports will also be available that will summarize trends in alerts generated and cases created. Sample reports include alerts generated over time, alerts actioned over time, alerts and cases generated by region and department, top triggering events of alerts generated, and average time to triage alerts and cases. The ability to filter reports will also be introduced. Users with the admin, analyst or investigator role will have access to view the new Alerts & cases report. 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?searchterms=420939

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhancements to global exclusions in IRM settings – In this update, we are making the below enhancements to Insider Risk Management (IRM) exclusions to reduce alert noise. Keyword logic update for email – An email will be excluded from scoring only when all the attachments match the keyword exclusions or email subject matches the keyword exclusions. This will be helpful to reduce the email signature noise which commonly contains keyword “”image””. 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?searchterms=483485
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Investigations – Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations empowers data security teams to find and mitigate data risk from sensitive data exposure using generative AI-powered deep content analysis enriched with activity signals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485707
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Copilot for Microsoft 365 retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Copilot for Microsoft 365 interactions using a retention policy location that also includes Microsoft Teams chats. This feature will provide a new location option to manage only Copilot interactions, separate from Microsoft Teams chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=407897

Rollout starts – July 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Investigation integration – Launch a pre-scoped Data Security Investigation (DSI) from an IRM case. When a data security admin identifies a risky user who needs deeper investigation, they can launch a pre-scoped investigation directly from an IRM case, allowing them to view content analysis related to that user and better assess post-incident data impact.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486827
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=171751

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Collection policies impact on IRM – With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by IRM 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 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?searchterms=484082
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Retention based on Last Accessed for files in OneDrive and SharePoint – This creates the ability to apply Retention to each SharePoint or OneDrive item based on when it was last accessed by a user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472030

Rollout starts – October 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse, KQL, and Mirrored databases – 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. In addition, DLP policy support will also extend to Fabric KQL databases and mirrored databases. Mirrored databases include Mirrored Azure Cosmos DB, Mirrored Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Mirrored Azure SQL Database, Mirrored Azure SQL Managed Instance, Mirrored database, Mirrored Snowflake, and Mirrored SQL Server Database. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=420332

Rollout starts – December 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention Restrict access action support for sematic models and lakehouses in Fabric  – Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types matches your semantic models or lakehouses. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422501

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