Microsoft roadmap roundup – 5th May 2025

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
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

Launched (2)
Rolling out (0)
In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

SharePoint: Customize your individual sites and experiences with themes – Site owners will now be able to customize their sites and experiences with branded themes. Site owners will create themes using the Site branding feature or will use branding from the organization if there is a brand center set up. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=375500
SharePoint: Introducing archival and other enforcement actions with inactive site lifecycle management policy – Address inactive content on your tenant with inactive sites policy. Admins can configure policies to Detect inactive sites, send notifications to all site owners, and archive these sites or put them in a read-only state if there is no action from notification recipients. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=412940

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796

Rollout starts – June 2025

🆕 SharePoint: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Backfill for SharePoint Sites – We are thrilled to announce a powerful new feature that allows tenant admins to select an existing SharePoint Online (SPO) site and backfill OCR for documents already present in the library. This means you no longer need to move all your documents to a new site to ensure they are OCRed and protected. We plan to release a private preview at end of May, if you would like to enable this feature please reach out the feature team and we will enable the feature on your tenant. Only files without OCR will be processed, ensuring efficient use of resources and preventing double charges for unchanged documents. This update streamlines your workflow, making it easier to manage and protect your documents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491023
SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint – Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489230

Rollout starts – July 2025

SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store – You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store.
Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481824
SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

Launched (3)
Rolling out (1)
In development (24)

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Teams: Native Bluetooth call controls over Hands-Free Protocol for multiple peripheral devices – When you have several peripheral devices connected to Teams, the one you use to answer a call will temporarily become the main device that will be syncing with Teams when using its buttons. After the call, the original device selected in Teams settings will take over again. You can now use multiple native Bluetooth devices and be confident that call controls will function correctly with all of them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475853
Microsoft Teams: Usage reports for bookable desks in the Pro Management portal – IT admins can now access reports on bookable desk spaces in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal to assist with workspace optimization and planning. Reports include analytics on peripherals, usage, reservations, and occupancy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=421604
Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415249

🚂 ROLLING OUT

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity Labels for Loop Components – Sensitivity labels for Loop components – Users can set/apply/view sensitivity labels to loop components to classify and protect content based on its sensitivity level. The labels help enforce policies such as encryption, access control, and content marking to ensure that sensitive information is handled appropriately. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487437
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: 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: Report a Message for External Collaboration – Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481147
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?searchterms=479744
Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center – IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions. Additionally, it provides visibility on recency of client versions. Administrators can now proactively view insights and address issues preventing users from automatically updating to the latest and most secure version of the Teams client. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478609
Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center – IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures. Administrators are equipped with detailed information on issues, insights, and mitigation tools to promptly and effectively address any potential client health problems. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478610
Microsoft Teams: Occupancy status on Teams panels – Teams panels can now smartly utilize signals from Teams Rooms devices or occupancy sensors paired with panels to indicate when a room is in use (e.g. LED glow), so youre not surprised to find an available room is actually occupied. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474441
Microsoft Teams: Updates to Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows – The updated Gallery View in Teams Rooms on Windows arranges all participants in consistent tile sizes, prioritizes video on the meeting stage, offers additional layout options, optimizes for single and dual displays, and provides a unified meeting experience across both Teams Rooms and desktop. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468277
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: Live transcription on Teams Rooms on Windows – You can control live transcription (start, stop, restart) during a meeting from a Team Rooms on Windows device. The real-time transcript includes each speaker’s name and timestamp. You can also change settings including the spoken language, the translated language, and whether the original and translated transcript would show side by side. This feature is available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=423088
Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Windows – While live captions display in the spoken language by default, on Teams Rooms on Windows, you can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=423089

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

🆕 Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent available in Teams – The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490740
Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and DoD – The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490568

Rollout starts – June 2025

🆕 Microsoft Teams: Set New Ringtones in Teams Mobile – This feature allows you to customize and select different sounds for various types of calls, helping you better manage your alerts and distinguish between different incoming communications. For users with Microsoft Teams Phone, this also includes calls for forwarded and delegated calls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491438
🆕 Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center – Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users’ devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491439
🆕 Microsoft Teams: Call Waiting Beep Enabled on Desktop – Call Waiting Beep is a feature designed to provide a subtle notification tone when a user is already on a call and a second call comes in. This gentle alert ensures the user is aware of the incoming call without being overly disruptive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491472
🆕 Microsoft Teams: Teams Meeting Audit Events in GCC – Teams Audit Events for Meetings, including MeetingDetail and MeetingParticipantDetail, will soon be available in GCC. This enhancement will provide administrators with comprehensive insights into meeting activities, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency. MeetingDetail: Captures detailed information about meetings, including start and end times, meeting subject, and organizer details. MeetingParticipantDetail: Logs participant information, including join and leave times, participant roles, and any changes in participant status during the meeting. Audit logs are accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, where administrators can search, filter, and export audit data for detailed analysis. These logs are essential for maintaining compliance, investigating incidents, and ensuring the security of Teams activities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491010
🆕 Microsoft Teams: External group chat policy enforcements for max two orgs – Facilitate creation and maintenance of external group chats with bilateral policy enforcement where members in the chat can belong to a maximum of two tenants. Allow tenant admins to control bilateral chat policy and apply it to users and groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490566
🆕 Microsoft Teams: Silent test call – Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490055
Microsoft Teams: Notify collaborators in chat that are in the office using new mention type @nearby – Enhance in-office collaboration with Microsoft Teams new @nearby mention type. Easily notify teammates who are physically present in the office, streamlining communication and fostering real-time connections. Perfect for quick discussions or impromptu meetings, @nearby keeps your team aligned and efficient. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488801
Microsoft Teams: Automatically set your Work Location via WiFi Network – Simplify your hybrid work experience with Microsoft Teams automatic work location updates. By connecting to your office building Wi-Fi network, Teams can seamlessly set your work location to reflect youre working from the office, ensuring accurate visibility for your colleagues. Stay flexible and eliminate manual updates while enhancing collaboration and scheduling efficiency. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488800
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 support for BYOD spaces – With room and desk peripheral support expanded to include docking stations and webcams, Teams users can seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for enhanced experiences in bring your own device (BYOD) spaces. IT admins can benefit from automatic association of devices to a space, device inventory, and detailed reports for peripherals in the Pro Management portal. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486693
Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485705
Microsoft Teams: Personal meeting templates (Premium) – Personal meeting templates enable users to pre-save meeting configurations (meeting options) and schedule meetings quickly with one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482537
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: Townhall concurrent attendees increase to 100,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 100,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 50,000 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 100,000 concurrent attendees by selecting the Max Capacity limit to be as high as desired up to 100,000. Reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program Microsoft Adoption) is recommended for every event. 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=484124
Microsoft Teams: Copilot summary for transferred calls – When a call is forwarded/transferred to another colleague, users can prompt Copilot to automatically summarize the context, open questions, etc. for the call as a briefing for the receiving colleague. This feature ensures that the recipient is well-informed about the previous conversations related to the transferred call, enhancing their understanding and preparedness. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484123
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: Share apps from app bar via right click – Allow users to right-click and share apps directly from the app icon on hover, while using the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483355
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
Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=89975

Rollout starts – July 2025

Microsoft Teams: Support Audit logs for Give and Take Control and Screen share – IT administrators will now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Teams Admin Centre. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489224
Microsoft Teams: Rules-Based Enablement of Third-Party Teams Apps in Teams Admin Center – This feature allows M365 administrators to define specific criteria for approving third-party Teams applications within their tenant. Administrators can select from a list of predefined, safe criteria, ensuring that only trusted and compliant applications are made available under this rule. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485712

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions about images – Now, you can ask questions about images stored in your OneDrive. Select up to 5 images and ask questions like explaining the contents of an image or extracting relevant text from an image. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469499

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Copilot

Launched (11)
Rolling out (3)
In development (20)

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Viva: Viva Learning – Copilot Academy availability to all Microsoft 365 users – Copilot Academy will be accessible to users without Copilot licenses. Admins will have the option to select their preferred access settings for Copilot Academy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479415
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved template support when you create a presentation with Copilot – Once you update your template(s) to PowerPoint’s best practices, your templates will work even better with Copilot. You’ll get beautiful on-brand slides every time you open your optimized template and create a presentation with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417060
OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions about images – Now, you can ask questions about images stored in your OneDrive. Select up to 5 images and ask questions like explaining the contents of an image or extracting relevant text from an image. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469499
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
SharePoint: Introducing archival and other enforcement actions with inactive site lifecycle management policy – Address inactive content on your tenant with inactive sites policy. Admins can configure policies to Detect inactive sites, send notifications to all site owners, and archive these sites or put them in a read-only state if there is no action from notification recipients. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=412940
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility Admins have transparency on granular metadata for agents – Admins have transparency on granular metadata (data source, custom actions) for agents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429877
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in M365 Copilot – The Copilot for Microsoft 365 team is working on supporting 12 new languages across all M365 Copilot features: Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Greek, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenia, and Vietnamese. They’re also improving the handling of these language variants: Dutch (Belgium), German (Switzerland), English (UK), Spanish (Mexico), and French (Canada). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=411778
Outlook: New Copilot Compose experience – Major improvements to our Copilot Compose experience include a polished, lightweight UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=397092
Outlook: Select specific pieces of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite them – When composing an email, customers can select portions of text in an email and use Copilot to rewrite it. Users can give detailed instructions on how to rewrite and also able to modify tone and length. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392327
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft Copilot with enterprise data protection – For users signed in with an Entra account, Microsoft Copilot will offer enterprise data protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=412356
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can generate quizzes from provided materials – Generating quizzes from provided materials is one of the most commonly requested features in the education industry, and it is now available in Forms. To save time, users can create quizzes from documents, textbooks, or notes using Copilot. Copilot can create draft quizzes based on the provided materials and users’ prompts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=389149

🚂 ROLLING OUT

Outlook: Custom Instructions for draft with Copilot – Give Copilot some instructions about your emails – like the tone, length, greeting – so your Copilot generated drafts sound more like you want them to. #newoutlookforwindow Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=366572
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt to a Microsoft Team’s team – Share custom prompts with members of a Microsoft Teams team from the Copilot Prompt Gallery in Copilot Chat, 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?searchterms=483951
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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

🆕 Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent available in Teams – The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490740
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Metadata for Shared agent management in Microsoft 365 admin center – IT admins can view metadata for Shared agents in Microsoft 365 admin center similar to metadata information for line of business applications built by customer organization. It provides IT admins the opportunity to explore all data besides honoring UX filters for a seamless user experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485772
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 Viva: Copilot Dashboard Trendline Additions – Copilot Dashboard users can now visualize trends in additional key adoption and impact metrics over time to more quickly identify patterns and opportunities in employee adoption for better licensing decisions. Users will be able to now view Adoption metrics on either a monthly or weekly timeframe for specific groups of interest, as well as deep dive into Impact metrics like Copilot Assisted Hours, Actions Taken, and feature-specific dimensions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485727
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 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=484843
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat general availability for GCC – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Copilot is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 GCC users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat designed for work, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements. This will help protect sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=464984
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc – The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415449
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc – The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415448

Rollout starts – June 2025

🆕 Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization in Edge for Business Context Menu – Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce a Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat summarization menu item to our context menu. This feature will help users quickly unpack and ask questions about their open page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491473
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admin control to disable file upload in Copilot Chat – Admins will now have more control to disable File upload for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485775
Microsoft Teams: Copilot summary for transferred calls – When a call is forwarded/transferred to another colleague, users can prompt Copilot to automatically summarize the context, open questions, etc. for the call as a briefing for the receiving colleague. This feature ensures that the recipient is well-informed about the previous conversations related to the transferred call, enhancing their understanding and preparedness. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484123
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot – Once you integrate your organization’s assets into a Sharepoint OAL (Organization Asset Library) you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475064
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?searchterms=472020

Rollout starts – July 2025

Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report – Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488104
Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Prompt category metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard will start showing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompt category metrics within Copilot Chat (work) insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486698
SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store – You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481824
SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI – A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475377

Rollout starts – December 2025

Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Current web content included when drafting with Copilot in Word – Draft with Copilot will include information from Bing search, resulting in content that’s as current as what you would find when searching with Bing on the web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380839

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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 (0)
In development (16)

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft Purview Endpoint DLP blanket protections for unscannable file types – Purview Endpoint DLP supports a set of specific file extensions and types. For file extensions not listed in this document, customers must use the ‘File extension is’ or ‘File type is’ rule condition. However, this approach can be challenging, as it requires manually enumerate all desired file extensions. This feature will enable protection for files outside the standard Purview Endpoint DLP monitoring scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473460
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Quick Summarization in eDiscovery – Introducing the Quick Summarization feature for eDiscovery, an embedded Security Copilot skill in Purview, designed to streamline case management with an intuitive, at-a-glance overview. This new capability allows users to quickly access a comprehensive summary of eDiscovery cases, holds, and searches, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple tabs to assess status, statistics of completed actions, pending tasks, and ongoing jobs. The Quick Summarization feature consolidates this information into a single, easy-to-understand summary. Additionally, similar summary views are available for both Search and Hold within the eDiscovery case. Powered by existing contextual summary skill, the system analyzes case/search/hold metadata and generates natural language summaries, providing users with a clear, actionable overview of key details in real time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=466741
Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance Prioritize analysis of policy-driven alerts with Azure Cognitive Services – Leveraging Azure Cognitive Services, messages already matching policy conditions will be categorized in positive, negative, or neutral sentiment, giving policy investigators more context to prioritize potentially riskier messages to address first .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=88918″
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
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enrich triage in Communication Compliance with Insider Risk context – Enhance the triage experience in communication compliance with Insider Risk Insights. This integration provides investigators with a deeper understanding of the risk profile of message senders, along with a more comprehensive view of the senders risk severity and historical risk-related actions. With this enriched context, investigators are empowered to make more informed and effective remediation decisions, ensuring a robust compliance posture. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415170

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer – This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email within purview content explorer. This will help admins with their investigation process Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485765
🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group – This feature enables policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a group. DG expansion refers to the process of expanding Distribution Groups (DG) to ensure all recipients are evaluated for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. This feature allows organizations to evaluate rules based on recipients contained in distribution groups, increasing the confidence that users will receive relevant warnings while drafting emails with sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491014
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Dynamic watermarking for files protected with sensitivity labels – Dynamic watermarking is a sensitivity label setting that overlays watermark text containing the consuming users information on content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490121
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Full file evidence support for restricted apps – Full File Evidence supports activities like Cloud egress, paste to supported browser, copy to USB, Network share, RDP, Bluetooth app. Now we are expanding full file evidence collection for unallowed apps as well. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479757
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Endpoint DLP shows full path of target domain – 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=480734

Rollout starts – June 2025

🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Enable policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a distribution group – This feature enables policy tips for recipients when emailed as part of a group. DG expansion refers to the process of expanding Distribution Groups (DG) to ensure all recipients are evaluated for Data Loss Prevention (DLP) rules. This feature allows organizations to evaluate rules based on recipients contained in distribution groups, increasing the confidence that users will receive relevant warnings while drafting emails with sensitive content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491015
🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP – Currently you can create Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release feature based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491011
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin units support for SharePoint Online – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475970

Rollout starts – July 2025

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489837
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web Search Query – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, AI interactions can be filtered to show interactions that contain a web search query and the contents of the web search query are shown. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489836
Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Department Graph – New graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displaying the departments of users interacting with AI apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487441
Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489828
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI – A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475377

Rollout starts – September 2025

🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity Label support in Engage – Your organization can now manually apply Information Protection sensitivity labels in Engage. Sensitivity label support in this new application will allow admins to create labels and configure label publishing policies to determine which users and groups can manually label content in Engage. End users will be able to manually apply labels to Engage communities and in turn classify and protect their sensitive data via privacy and external user access controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491918

Rollout starts – November 2025

🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile – DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491017

Rollout starts – December 2025

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Query Editor – The Advanced Review Set Query Editor empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data. This tool enhances data analysis by offering insights such as identifying top item types, spotting patterns, and trends within the review set. Reviewers can utilize powerful query constructs like complex filtering, pattern-based text extraction, and data format parsing to analyze and find key information specific to their case or organization. The results can then be visualized using time charts, histograms, and other flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data’s story. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484086