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 (2)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

• Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs – SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Permissions report for a given user – SharePoint admin center – This report, under Data access governance within SharePoint admin center, provides SharePoint admin with a list of sites where the given user has direct and indirect permissions at a site/lib/folder/file level Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492621

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Teams

• Launched (7)
• Rolling out (5)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Enhancing usability for the frontline – We are enhancing the default experience for Frontline Workers by making it easier to connect with their organization and introducing more intuitive app names. These updates include adding the Viva Engage experience into the Tailored Frontline App Experience and renaming Viva Connections to Home for greater clarity. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481280
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for calls from chat and Meet now meetings now available for GCC High – Intelligent meeting recap will be available in GCC High for impromptu calls and meetings, like those started from Meet now and calls started from chat. You can easily browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated notes, AI-generated tasks, and name mentions after the ad-hoc meeting ends. This capability will be available for users with a Teams Premium or M365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481353
• Microsoft Teams: Control your mic state during meetings from Windows taskbar available in the new Teams on Windows – After further review, we are not able to roll this out to DoD, thank you for your patience. This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=191528
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components – You can now forward chat messages containing Loop components, allowing for seamless sharing and real-time collaboration across different chats. To forward a message, navigate to it, click on the ellipsis, and select Forward from the menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469507
• Microsoft Teams: Separate policies to control transcription for Town halls and Webinars – Town halls and webinars will now have separate policies to allow or disable transcription in instances. Previously, the transcription policies for town halls and webinars automatically inherited the transcription policy set for meetings. This option to implement different policies for town hall and webinars is available for users on all licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473886

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams:  Specify who can manage the screen in Teams Town hall – A new option in Town hall lets Organizers designate who can manage the screen shown to attendees during the event. Organizers can select specific individuals who will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. Available on Teams desktop app and coming soon for Teams Rooms on Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487432
• Microsoft Teams: Add a presenter from the participant roster in a town hall or webinar – Organizers and presenters can quickly add a missing presenter to an ongoing town hall or webinar by calling them directly from the participant roster. Once the missing presenter accepts the call, they instantly join as a presenter, automatically joining the Green Room (if enabled) and added to the event group chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485812
• Microsoft Teams: App ratings will be available in the unfurled links – App ratings will appear on the unfurled links for shared apps and agents to allow users who rely on ratings to evaluate apps prior to installing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483254
• Microsoft Teams: Standard and Basic licensed Teams rooms on Windows in the Pro Management portal  – The Teams Rooms Pro Management portal now supports and enforces licenses for devices in Teams Rooms on Windows with a Standard or Basic license. IT admins get a unified device management experience through the Pro Management portal where they can manage those devices with the same functionality found in Teams admin center for that license type. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482539
• 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

⌛ 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

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Threads in channels – Threads in channels allow you to start a side conversation within a channel and focus on specific topics while keeping the main conversation clutter-free. You can reply to specific messages and create a separate thread, helping to minimize distractions and foster better collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488300
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Multiple Emoji Reactions per message – You can now react to messages and posts with multiple emojis per message, enhancing your ability to express a wide range of emotions effectively. Use combinations of emojis for a richer and more nuanced response, quickly conveying your feelings and thoughts, like agreement, urgency or sentiment, without extra replies keeping discussions focused and efficient. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491468
• 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: 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

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Default Teams Calling global policy to enable users to transcribe or record calls – Were updating the default global calling policy for new tenants to allow users to transcribe or record calls. Previously, these settings were turned off by default in the host global policy. With this update, recording and transcription will be enabled by default in the global calling policy for new tenants and existing tenants who have not modified the host global policy. This change will not impact existing custom policies or modified global policies. After this rollout, recording and transcription services will be more accessible to users, allowing them to turn on and use recording and transcription as needed during Teams calls. Neither recording nor transcription will be automatically enabled in Teams calls. This update is designed to broaden access to AI-powered features like Calls Recap and Calling Copilot, enhancing the overall calling experience. It also brings calling policy defaults in line with Teams meetings policies, where recording and transcription are already enabled by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494151
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Line key configuration on Teams Phone devices from Teams Admin Center (TAC) – This feature allows admins to configure line keys for various scenarios on Teams phone devices, including personal and common area phones (CAP). Scenarios supported include speed dial, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493320
• Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see”  – Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In Manage what attendees see users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491633
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488298
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC High and DoD – 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=485706
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notetaking in meetings – The Facilitator agent takes real-time notes during your Teams meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. This frees everyone up to focus and engage deeply in meetings, while also helping drive alignment before the meeting ends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478611
• Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=414513
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sharing with Copilot summary – Now supporting PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, Images, and protected files – The ability to include a Copilot summary when sharing a file now extends beyond Word web to cover PowerPoint (web), Excel (web), PDF, image and text files in OneDrive Web, SharePoint document libraries, and M365 File Viewer. You can even summarize protected or confidential files, preserving your sensitivity labels while getting instant overviews. These enhancements broaden your sharing toolkit, accelerate collaboration and keep your data secure. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490156

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): OneNote Pages in M365 Copilot – M365 Copilot experiences can now reason over your OneNote content Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490722
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Read Aloud support added to Copilot chat responses – Read Aloud capability lets you listen to Copilot responses in the chat pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470990
• Outlook: Outlook themes generated by Microsoft Copilot – Make Outlook yours with themes generated by Copilot. You will be able to find these themes in Settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=394682

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Microsoft 365 Copilot App – The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is your starting place for AI at work, offering quick access to secure AI chat, search, files, and content creation in one seamless app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490155
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Sharing with Copilot summary – Now supporting PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, Images, and protected files – The ability to include a Copilot summary when sharing a file now extends beyond Word web to cover PowerPoint (web), Excel (web), PDF, image and text files in OneDrive Web, SharePoint document libraries, and M365 File Viewer. You can even summarize protected or confidential files, preserving your sensitivity labels while getting instant overviews. These enhancements broaden your sharing toolkit, accelerate collaboration and keep your data secure. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490156
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot generates the new presentation in a new file when starting from an existing presentation – Now, when creating a presentation using Copilot from an existing presentation, it will create the new presentation in a new file without affecting the original presentation Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489451
• 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
• Outlook: Summarize email attachments with Copilot – You will now be able to summarize PDF, Word, and PowerPoint email attachments with Copilot in Outlook. The new feature will be available for Outlook Web, the new Outlook for Windows, Outlook Mobile, and the new Outlook for Mac. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475249

⌛ 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
• OneNote: Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote – Users can now access Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote. Using Copilot Notebooks, users can pull together and reason over a wide range of content such as notes, documents, websites, meeting recordings, and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=464995

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments – The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments. This update includes a UI refresh and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Apps, and Notebooks.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495116
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments – The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments. This update includes a UI refresh, a new icon, and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Notebooks, and Apps.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494998
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493733
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493732
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493731
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent Recap – Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilots impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified summarized or recapped metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494687
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API – The new Microsoft 365 Copilot Interaction Export API enable customers and ISVs to export Copilot interaction data for processing in their security and compliance (S+C) applications. This new Interaction Export API captures the user prompts and Copilot responses in the Copilot private interactions and provide insights into the resources Copilot has accessed to generate the response. It will be available in Public Cloud for General Availability. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491631
• Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs – SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher available in Copilot Notebooks – Use Researcher without needing to leave your Copilot Notebook to conduct complex, multi-step research across your enterprise data sources using OpenAIs deep researcher model with chain-of-thought based iterative reasoning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493288
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Intelligent meeting recap can summarize content shared on screen – Intelligent meeting recap can incorporate content shared on screen in the AI-based summary provided after the meeting, providing a richer and more comprehensive recap of the meeting.  It captures details that are shown when a participant shares their screen, ensuring those unspoken insights become part of the meeting recap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490052
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488298
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent notetaking in meetings – The Facilitator agent takes real-time notes during your Teams meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. This frees everyone up to focus and engage deeply in meetings, while also helping drive alignment before the meeting ends. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478611

Rollout starts – September 2025

• Microsoft Graph: Graph API – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage – Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage will be added to the Microsoft Graph API, allowing for the creation of customized reporting and analytics. Metrics included in the Graph API will match those available in the Copilot for Microsoft 365 usage report in the Microsoft 365 admin center, including tenant-level count of enabled users and active users, as well as last activity date per user (all up and per Microsoft 365 app). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=396562

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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 (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Policy sync status on Purview portal – The Policy Sync Status feature enables solution admins to know the policy sync status directly from the Policy page in Purview portal. When a policy is created or updated by a user, the changes are distributed to the locations selected. This new feature will give users insight into whether the policy changes have reached the target locations. This policy sync status feature is available for DLP (excluding endpoint policies), Information Protection, Data Loss Management, Records Management, Information Barriers, and Priva. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481832

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – May 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios – Pause and Resume support for printer scenarios for customers trying to override a DLP soft warning policy tip when submitting a print job. Before this rollout, the user must reinitiate the print job for the intended result. After this rollout, the override will be stored temporarily, and the print job will execute.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486369

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 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 – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “All risk factors” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493754

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Scanner data export for custom reporting – Learn about the state of your scanned repositories and create custom reports with the information protection scanner. Labeling, classification and protection actions on scanned files are stored in SQL tables that form a foundation to feed into custom reports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494839
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Upcoming Update to Audit Records for Microsoft Purview Role Group Changes – To improve clarity and transparency, were updating the audit data for events related to Microsoft Purview role group membership changes. This update affects audit events under the SecurityComplianceRBAC workload (RecordType 87), specifically for operations for GrantPermission, DeletePermission. While the audit schema remains unchanged, the PreExecutionMessage and PostExecutionMessage fields will be refined to better reflect the nature of the changes captured in the logs. Action Required: If your organization consumes these audit log events programmatically (e.g., via scripts or automation tools), please review and update your parsing logic to accommodate the enhanced message content. Rollout Timeline: This change will be rolled out starting in August. We recommend validating your systems against the updated message format as soon as it becomes available in your environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494685
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event – Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management 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=493756

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Just in time protection (JIT) on SharePoint – Just-in-time protection for SharePoint in Microsoft Purview DLP allows organizations to extend protection to unclassified files in SharePoint and apply restrictions defined in DLP policies at the time of egress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=139457

Rollout starts – December 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event – Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management 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=493757
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “All risk factors” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493755

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