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

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Customize your sites with multi-color themes – Site owners can now apply multi-color themes to their sites. These themes can be offered by Microsoft, created by the brand manager in the brand center, or by the site owners themselves using the new Site branding feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489833

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2025

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Compress your PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you reduce PDF file size with compress feature. You can choose from three different compression levels that best fit your needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487440

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Teams

• Launched (8)
• Rolling out (7)
• In development (31)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Teams: Bi-directional Calendar Syncing between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams  – Businesses using Google Workspace for email and calendaring can now enable bidirectional synchronization with Microsoft Teams through the Teams Admin app. This enhanced sync ensures that events created in either platform are seamlessly reflected in both, improving scheduling efficiency and minimizing the risk of missed meetings. With this update, all calendar events”including incoming, outgoing, existing, and new”are fully synchronized. This feature is being rolled out gradually. When rollout is complete, you can sync up to 50,000 users per tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488093
• 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 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: Admin Center “ Admins can disable ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after the meeting – We are expanding the existing Meeting chat control in Teams Admin Center with two new values, In-meeting only for everyone and In-meeting only except anonymous users. In Teams Admin Center, admins will see a setting called Meeting chat under Meetings > Meeting Policies > Meeting Engagement. Admins can now select from five options in the Meeting chat setting: (1) On for everyone (2) On for everyone but anonymous users (3) Off (4) In-meeting only for everyone (5) In-meeting only except anonymous users.  Admins can select the In-meeting only values to disable participants ability to send messages in the meeting chat before or after the meeting, for meetings organized by specific users in their tenant. When one of these In-meeting only values are selected, participants can read past chat history but no one can send messages in the meeting chat unless the meeting is active. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422808
• Microsoft Teams: Storyline integrated in Teams – Storyline from Viva Engage is now integrated in Teams. Get organization-wide communication from your leaders, discover and share content with your colleagues and express your perspectives, all from your flow of work in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472914
• Microsoft Teams: Auto detection of room audio in BYOD rooms expanded to audio devices with video – The room audio auto-detect and pre-select feature for BYOD rooms that was released in October 2024 now activates the video component of composite audio-video peripherals as the selected camera in Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469496
• Microsoft Teams: Forwarding loop components – After further review, we will not be rolling out to DoD. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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: Resize Teams window and left and right panes – Adjust the size of your Teams panes to prioritize what is currently most important for you, and/or snap and resize the Teams window with Windows 11 Snap layouts so you can view multiple applications side by side. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470431

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Enhanced contextual discovery of agents within Microsoft 365 – Customers now have new experience to discover, install, and use/reuse agents within the Copilot app for Microsoft 365. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486699
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Discover agent in Microsoft Copilot on iOS/Android – Agent has been released to Desktop/Web Copilot and now we are enabling Agent UX in mobile endpoints. It will allow end-users to discover installed agents, add new agents and chat with them in mobile Copilot on Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 Copilot App (formerly Microsoft 365 App). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482545
• Microsoft Teams: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in ‘Manage what attendees see’ – An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487431
• 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: Teams Town hall Organizer/Co-Organizer/Presenter Join as Attendee – Event crew members will soon be able to join a live Town hall as an Attendee during the event to monitor the experience for viewers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484126
• Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft town hall and webinars from Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows can now join town halls, webinars, and structured meetings in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for all events. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484125
• Microsoft Teams: Users can view app ratings before installing apps or agents – We have improved user options for sharing a link for a Teams app or a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent in a chat. Links to apps and agents will have a new preview card with user ratings for users to consider before installing apps or agents in Teams and clear actions like Add (which installs the app or agent) and View detail. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is not required to share Copilot agent links but may be required to install and use the agent. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483356
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot generated summaries for call transfers on Teams phone devices – Copilot generated summary provides an overview of the details and outcomes of transferred calls. It includes information such as the caller’s details, the reason for the transfer, and the final resolution. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475855
• 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: 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Custom ringtone behavior and ringtones for assigned line keys – Personalize your Teams phone experience by setting unique ringtones and choosing how each line key alerts you ring only, ring with flash, or flash only. This feature is supported across touch, non-touch, and sidecar devices, giving you full control over how you stay notified Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495451
• 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 Teams: AI assistant for admins in the Pro Management portal – IT admins can optimize their time and resources by utilizing the Pro Management Portal AI assistant. It offers comprehensive answers to questions about Teams meeting spaces and management solutions and delivers data and insights specific to inventory in the organizations environment. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro and does not require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489821
• Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with lobby chat – Now, meeting organizers and co-organizers can send one-way messages to attendees in the lobby via the lobby chat. The Lobby chat is intended to optimize the lobby experience for all participants, ensuring that organizers are better equipped to run external meetings have more control over meetings with external participants, and external attendees are well informed about the meeting upon meeting start. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480716

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users – Sign language users will benefit from an enhanced meeting experience. Interpreters will be clearly identified in the participant roster and visually distinguished throughout meetings. Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who use sign language will be automatically detected and elevated to active speaker status, ensuring equal prominence with spoken audio participants. This will help create a more equitable and collaborative environment for everyone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494843
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Countdown Timer for Teams Meetings – Manage time and streamline meeting discussions with the new countdown timer for Teams meetings, a tool designed to keep meetings efficient and on schedule. Any user can easily add a timer of any duration to the meeting (up to 100 minutes), which will appear in the meeting window for all participants with controls to start, stop, pause, and add more time. Colors automatically change as the timer gets closer to zero to help keep the speaker on track. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494842
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings can search web and work files, emails and people – We’re rolling out grounding with web search in Copilot for Teams meetings, enabling users to get richer, more insightful responses from Copilot. When IT administrators enable web grounding for Copilot, Copilot will be able to analyze the web to aid it in answering your questions. With added work grounding, Copilot will be able to analyze your work files, emails, and people in your organization to provide deeper insights to your questions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489215
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Suggested contacts for call transfers on Teams phone devices – With this feature, you can reduce clicks and save time with intelligent call transfer suggestions based on your recent activity and call history on Teams phone devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495457
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot Support for 1:1 and Group Calls on Teams Phone Devices – Enhance your calling experience with Copilot on Teams phones devices access intelligent insights during calls using suggested prompts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495453
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal – Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. 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=493319
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Custom Dictionary – Tenant administrators can now upload a Custom Dictionary through the M365 Admin Portal’s Copilot Settings page to include tenant-specific terminologies. This enhancement improves entity recognition in Teams meeting transcripts, benefiting both Recap and Copilot’s understanding of the content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487428
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC – Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493742
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Open Teams’ apps in new window – Organize your work environment to fit your needs. Users can open Teams’ apps, like Chat, Calls, Activity and more in separate windows, allowing users to view and interact with these apps simultaneously. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495003
• 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: 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
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings – Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490051
• Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium] – Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. 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=489808
• 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: 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 update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi – When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488800
• Microsoft Teams: Speaker attribution now  On by default in BYOD rooms with enhanced admin controls – New PowerShell setting (SpeakerAttributionBYOD in csTeamsAIPolicy), enabled by default, gives IT admins more control over speaker attribution in BYOD (bring your own device) meeting rooms. This enhances the experience for users by enabling clear speaker labels and richer in-meeting and post-meeting insights with Microsoft 365 Copilot. Users just enroll profiles via Teams Settings to be recognized. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488301
• Microsoft Teams: Face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows with Cloud IntelliFrame – If facial recognition is enabled in organization policies and you’ve enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms on Windows using Cloud IntelliFrame will recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486692
• 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: 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. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482191
• 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: 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: Copilot only during call – Copilot is only available during the live call session and will not be accessible after the call ends. No recording or transcription is required to use Copilot during the call.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482745
• 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 – October 2025

• 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 (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

• OneDrive: Prompt for permitted users to sign in to OneDrive app with personal Microsoft account – Users have long been able to use personal Microsoft accounts with the OneDrive app on corporate Windows devices—unless restricted by admin policy. This new feature introduces a prompt only when a personal account is already signed in on the device, encouraging users to also sign in to the OneDrive app with that account. Administrators who have already restricted personal accounts on corporate devices can continue to manage this as before. Organizations that have already disabled personal OneDrive accounts on corporate devices with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see this prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy. More information on configuring policies can be found here: Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490064

Rollout starts – July 2025

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Protect PDF with password – SharePoint and OneDrive users can now secure their PDF files by adding protection that restricts unauthorized access through OneDrive Web. This feature allows you to set an open password, which is required to access the PDF, or an owner password, which sets permissions for actions such as printing or editing the document. This ensures your files remain secure and only accessible to authorized individuals Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482193

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot to rewrite text as a list – Copilot in PowerPoint will rewrite paragraphs into bullet points or lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483004
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot to rewrite text as a list – Copilot in PowerPoint will rewrite paragraphs into bullet points or lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483002
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot to rewrite text as a list – Copilot in PowerPoint will rewrite paragraphs into bullet points or lists. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483003

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Discover agent in Microsoft Copilot on iOS/Android – Agent has been released to Desktop/Web Copilot and now we are enabling Agent UX in mobile endpoints. It will allow end-users to discover installed agents, add new agents and chat with them in mobile Copilot on Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 Copilot App (formerly Microsoft 365 App). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482545
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Fix all spelling and grammar issues with Copilot – One-click solution to fix spelling and grammar errors in the document Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483954
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Benchmarks – Compare Copilot active usage with benchmarks in Copilot Dashboard. External benchmarks will provide a reference for how usage compares to other companies. Internal benchmarks will enable users to compare similar groups, within your company. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495464
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Enhanced scope drilldown – Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495463
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Your AI assistant in the DoD environment – Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot your AI assistant for work in the DoD environment. It combines the power of Large Language Models with your work content and context, to help you draft and rewrite, summarize and organize, catch up on what you missed, and get answers to questions via open prompts. Copilot generates answers using the rich, people-centric data and insights available in the Microsoft Graph. Microsoft 365 Copilot is available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app (web), Teams (Chat and Channel) excluding Compose, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Copilot Prompt Gallery. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494508
• 🆕 Outlook: Copilot Prepare for Meeting in Calendar – With so many of us in back-to-back meetings, it can be a real struggle to stay on top of pre-reads, action items, and even what each meeting is about. Copilot can identify and summarize the key points so you can show up prepared in just a few minutes. When you have an upcoming meeting, Copilot proactively shows you a “Prepare” button in your inbox which helps you quickly get context by creating a summary of the meeting and showing and summarizing relevant files, leveraging the power of the Microsoft Graph. Now you have all the most important details you need and can arrive prepared and ready to engage in a productive conversation. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows and web. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495461
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Copilot Search management and insights – Enable AI administrators to configure, customize, and measure Copilot Search across their organization. This feature provides centralized tools to manage search connectors, tailor search experiences to organizational needs, and gain actionable insights into adoption, usage patterns, and content engagement. Designed to enhance productivity and maximize the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it supports both setup and ongoing optimization of enterprise search experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495460
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New file extension for Copilot pages – We are introducing a new file extension for Copilot pages, “.page”. This new file extension will continue to support admin toggles, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, multi-geo, Purview eDiscovery, version history, export, audit logs, and data subject requests. The functionality and support for the .page file extension will be identical to the existing .loop file extension, with the only difference being the file extension and the associated file icon.  For a comprehensive list of features supported refer to: Summary table of admin management, governance, lifecycle, and compliance capabilities based on experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494834
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 Admin Center: M365 Copilot – Billing and usage – Usage insights – As you enable M365 Copilot Chat pay-as-you-go billing, AI administrators can view usage insights to inform agent management decisions. This feature displays the cost and number of messages in total and per agent. Cost and usage details can be filtered by billing policy and date range. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492616
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create a presentation with Copilot from the PowerPoint backstage view – You can now create a presentation with Copilot straight from the PowerPoint backstage view, accessible when you start PowerPoint or when you select the File tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491469
• 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): Copilot in Excel with Python for GCC – Copilot in Excel gains powerful new insights and visualizations with Advanced Analysis. Explore your data in a natural, conversational way, while Copilot does the heavy lifting using Python, a rich programming language that supercharges what is possible in your spreadsheets. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489216
• Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge for Business will soon integrate an entry point into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from the address bar – Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce an easy way for users to get summaries of their open page from the address bar using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This feature seeks to help users more easily understand relevant content and save time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489822
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The chat experience now offers better search refinement on CIQ menu Files tab – Users will now be able to use File Type filters and People refiners to apply search criteria to get to relevant files faster in the CIQ menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481136
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents to run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams – We mistakenly marked the roadmap as “”launched.”” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. Developers can create, test and update custom engine agents using Teams Toolkit & Microsoft Copilot Studio, so that they can run in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474439

Rollout starts – July 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams meetings can search web and work files, emails and people – Were rolling out grounding with web search in Copilot for Teams meetings, enabling users to get richer, more insightful responses from Copilot. When IT administrators enable web grounding for Copilot, Copilot will be able to analyze the web to aid it in answering your questions. With added work grounding, Copilot will be able to analyze your work files, emails, and people in your organization to provide deeper insights to your questions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489215
• Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot from the address bar – When users type a search query in the Edge address bar, they will have the option to send their search query directly to Copilot for a synthesized, more targeted answer pulling from across the web (and their work content, for premium users).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493287
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when creating a PowerPoint presentation – You can now reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when you create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492981
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when creating a PowerPoint presentation – You can now reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when you create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492980
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when creating a PowerPoint presentation – You can now reference a Microsoft Teams meeting when you create a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492979
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings – Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490051
• 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: Copilot only during call – Copilot is only available during the live call session and will not be accessible after the call ends. No recording or transcription is required to use Copilot during the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482745

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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 (6)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Add hyperlink support in warn and block toast messages – With this feature, data officers can now embed hyperlinks within toast messages for specific rules. When this rule is triggered, the end user will see a toast with a customized title and message with a hyperlink. This feature is useful when organizations need to direct users to a specific resource or a repository for more specific instruction (e.g. internal policy SharePoint site). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480733
• 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. This will help them formulate the right response action, like escalating the Incident to SOC teams for quick remediation, etc.  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
• Microsoft Purview | Communication Compliance: Recommended policy scope – Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. 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=93260
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Import and Search function support for Sensitive service domains group – Purview Endpoint DLP improves the management of Sensitive service domains group by allowing you to import a URL group and search a specific URL across all groups. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468292
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=379673
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention- Adding matched attachment details in Activity Explorer for Data Loss Prevention rules in Exchange – With this feature, the admins can see more information like name, size, labels about the attachments present in the email that violated the Data Loss Prevention rules. Note: The month and status have been updated to reflect the current state.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=369015

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Enhanced eDiscovery Premium APIs  – With the changes in Purview eDiscovery experience, the API support for Premium eDiscovery cases is also undergoing enhancements to align with the UI experience. We have the following APIs in Beta currently which will be moved to Live V1 version and ready for end customer use  Search Estimate Statistics Search Export Report Search Export Result Search Add to ReviewSet ReviewSet Export Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495458
• 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Advanced label-based protection for all files on devices – Turning this feature on will allow users to work on files, including files other than Office and PDF files, with sensitivity labels that apply access control settings in an unencrypted state on their devices. Endpoint DLP will continue to monitor and enforce access control and label-based protection on these files even in unencrypted state and automatically encrypt them before they’re transferred outside from a user’s device. This feature is supported only on Windows devices.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487859
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Alert improvements – This feature is about improving the alerting capabilities and customization in Communication Compliance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=181825

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OCR – Restrict OCR Scan to mails sent outside the organization  – The feature will allow you to do OCR for only those mails which are being sent outside the organization. Hence, by using this config, you will not be billed for any internal communications or any incoming mails coming from outside the org.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495547
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exchange Data Loss Prevention – Image Metadata Scanning without OCR – With this important feature, Purview DLP will now scan and classify sensitive data embedded in image metadata, even if OCR is unavailable. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495459
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domains or self – In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains – This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. 2. Sending email with attachments to self – This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user’s personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident. Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these new indicators in the data leaks or data theft policy template. 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=495001
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117546

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Attachments preservation for users on hold – Enables cloud attachment preservation for users put on infinite hold so that file versions shared are preserved across any OneDrive or SharePoint site. This is a new capability which is different from the existing capability of applying label to cloud attachments and links present in OneDrive and SharePoint and shared in Exchange, Teams, Viva Engage and Copilot
   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493752

Rollout starts – March 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Trigger Power automate workflows as outcome of DLP rule match – This introduces a new DLP rule action to trigger custom Power automate workflows when a DLP rule is violated. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380721

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