SharePoint Stuff

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

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

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

• Launched (1)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482601
• SharePoint: Advanced Page Analytics – SharePoint page analytics will add enhanced reporting capabilities including long-term data, distribution channel filtering, and reactions and promotions, data exports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488502
• 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

Rollout starts – August 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

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Teams

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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 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: Call quality reports for BYOD rooms in the Pro Management portal – As with Microsoft Teams Rooms, admins can now access detailed call quality reports for BYOD rooms with associated peripherals in the Pro Management portal. These reports include call history and session details that help diagnose network, audio, and video issues. Reports in the Pro Management portal requires a Teams Shared Devices license for the room. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486830
• Microsoft Teams: 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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: 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: 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: New Teams calendar available to Education customers – The new calendar in Teams will be available to Education customers. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, the new Teams calendar will be enabled by default, and users can turn it off from the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481281
• Microsoft Teams: 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: 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

⌛ 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: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education – 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. This is an optional opt-in experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490057
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Outlook for Windows – Classic Outlook for Windows will suggest meeting options based on your meeting details, helping you easily schedule meetings with optimized settings from within the scheduling form. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487858
• Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with lobby chat – Now meeting 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: 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

Rollout starts – August 2025

•  🆕Simultaneous role-specific Town hall and webinar views in Teams Rooms on Windows – In Teams Rooms on Windows, both attendees and presenters for Teams Town halls and webinars can now simultaneously enjoy unique experiences in the same room. This new feature sets the in-room viewing experience on the front of room display to attendee view by default so presenter-specific features, such as the green room and backroom chat, or off-stage presenters are hidden. Presenters in the room can still see their view on the console and manage everything smoothly without distracting the audience. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496368
• 🆕 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: Enhanced Meeting Protection – Prevent Screen Capture – To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information. This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android). For users joining from unsupported platforms, they will be placed in audio-only mode to maintain the integrity of the meeting’s content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490561
• Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel – The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470597
• 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

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 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: Migration Tool for Teams – Customers will now be able to move content seamlessly from public and private channels in a third-party solution to Teams standard channels. A new first-party Migration tool on Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to connect the third-party solution workspace, plan, and perform content migration to Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485709
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC and GCC High environments (Premium) – Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC and GCC High environments. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=419811

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Simplified Input box update in Copilot Chat – We are making it easier for users to type prompts with access to CIQ, local files, attach cloud files, and agents by adding it under the Plus Menu. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490548
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People Skills is now available  – We are excited to launch People Skills, an AI-powered service that delivers personalized skills-based experiences across Microsoft 365. Using advanced inferencing, it helps organizations identify skill gaps and promote upskilling. With People Skills, individuals can easily share a current view of their skills and more easily connect with others. People Skills data enriches people-based experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot and in the Microsoft 365 profile card and editor. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485726
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat module UI refresh – Copilot Chat is designed to provide a streamlined UI, making it easy to get started and achieve your goals quickly. It offers a helpful, understanding, and personalized experience, allowing you to search for past interactions, content, agents, or pages with ease. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485716
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a TXT 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=488794
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a TXT 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=488796
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a TXT file when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a TXT 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=488795
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Search past sessions in Copilot Chat  – Search through your past Copilot conversations in Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=388371
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in Forms can help monitor response collection and insights – Copilot in Forms can now help you monitor and collect responses for your forms, so you can get the data you need with much less effort. Copilot can create a collection plan, track your progress, and let you know when to take action with reminders and insights. Forms can notify you when early insights are ready, and you can easily continue your analysis with Copilot in Excel. Say goodbye to manual follow-ups and hello to smarter collection and analysis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470604

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot can generate an audio overview of a notebook – Copilot can turn the referenced files in a notebook into a dynamic audio overview, transforming them into a listening experience thats easy to follow. To generate an audio overview in Copilot Notebooks, select Generate audio overview at the top of the notebook. This capability is only available in English currently. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487854
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot advanced text analysis in Excel – Copilot can now analyze text by identifying themes or sentiments, cite examples in the data, and insert a column with theme/sentiment labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485188
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily select a template while you create a new PowerPoint presentation with Copilot – When creating a new presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint, choose a template from your organization’s collection for on-brand presentations, or select from Microsoft’s handpicked templates, ensuring the new presentation is built as per your chosen template. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485181

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – June 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat – Users will able to select content sources on Copilot Chat. When users select content sources the responses generated will be limited to content from the selected sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496596
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): See a summary from Copilot of the latest changes and comments in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint backstage view – Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489826

Rollout starts – July 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint – Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494832
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint – Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494831
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint – Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494833
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496137
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496136
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496138
• 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 365 Admin Center: Pin agents in M365 Copilot Chat – This feature enables AI administrators to pin specific agents in M365 Copilot Chat for all users in the tenant or defined users and groups, improving user accessibility to the most relevant and agents for their work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492613
• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482601
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can easily manage orphaned agents with comprehensive lifecycle functionality – Admins will have the power to effectively manage the lifecycle of orphaned agents. They can easily identify, manage, reassign, archive, or delete agents that are no longer associated with an owner, ensuring a streamlined and efficient workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481519
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules for scenarios like auto publishing Microsoft 365 certified agents and perform bulk cleanup of unused agents.  –  Admins will have the ability to set up rules for various scenarios, such as automatically publishing all Microsoft 365 certified agents and performing bulk cleanups of agents that are no longer in use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481518
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse users can assign other users as delegates – Viva Pulse users can now assign other users as delegates to create and send pulses on their behalf. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479753
• 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

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat access to page content will soon extend to work across multiple open tabs – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge will soon be able to answer contextual questions about a user’s open window. This extends the existing capability which can only access the open page. All existing user settings and policies and DLP considerations will continue to be respected.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496364
• 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“

Rollout starts – December 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Company-wide prompt publishing – Organizations can build their own collections of prompts that are tailored to their business needs and workflows and distribute these to all users within the tenant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486695

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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 (2)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (10)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint DLP support – Just-in-time on MacOS – You can use Endpoint data loss prevention (DLP) just-in-time (JIT) protection to block all egress activities on monitored files while waiting for policy evaluation to successfully complete. When JIT protection is enabled, and while policy evaluation is processing, Endpoint DLP blocks all egress activities for each user whose account is in the selected scope. Endpoint DLP audits the egress activities for all user accounts that have been excluded (via the Exclude setting) or are otherwise not in scope. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483354
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices – When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486366

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps – Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496652
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices – Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users on devices. Adding DoD/GCC/GCC high expected dates Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493750
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 1) – This feature release Always-on diagnostics, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on Windows OS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on the devices, eliminating the need to reproduce issues when submitting investigation requests to Microsoft. It allows for the collection of detailed traces over extended periods (up to 90 days). While raising tickets to submit investigation requests to Microsoft regarding Microsoft Endpoint  DLP, customers can share enhanced diagnostic information with Microsoft without needing to reproduce the exact scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495683

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Insider Risk Management – Data Security Investigation integration – Launch a pre-scoped Data Security Investigation (DSI) from an IRM case. When a data security admin identifies a risky user who needs deeper investigation, they can launch a pre-scoped investigation directly from an IRM case, allowing them to view content analysis related to that user and better assess post-incident data impact.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486827

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection – Support for Cross Cloud Protected Files – This feature will enable customers working across cloud boundaries – worldwide cloud to GCC High or Microsoft 365 operated by 21-Vianet, to share files protected with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels. Recipients in the other cloud will be able to view, edit, print, and more based on rights assigned by the document owner.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495000
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider Risk Management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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=480730

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – On demand classification for files on Windows devices – This capability will enable organizations to scan files on Windows devices for sensitive information to meet data discovery requirements for regulatory purposes and inform data security posture accordingly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496593
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Apply a retention policy to Microsoft Planner content   – Introducing Data lifecycle management capabilities for Microsoft Planner. Compliance admins can now create a retention policy to manage content located in Microsoft Planner such as tasks for plans associated with an Microsoft 365 Group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486828
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds) – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=93269
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  eDiscovery (Premium) Hold reports – Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis. Note: The status and release month has 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=93268

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