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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 30th June 2025

This week’s edition of the Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup, has 24 new releases across SharePoint, Teams, Purview, and Copilot…

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators – Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486861
  • SharePoint: Microsoft Lists – Conditional branching in Microsoft Lists forms – Microsoft Lists forms will enable users to create dynamic forms featuring branching and conditional logic. This update allows users to customize their forms to display relevant questions based on conditions applied to previous responses, empowering them to design smarter forms that adapt to their data collection needs.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=410771

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  •  SharePoint: Modern SharePoint Page Templates – The Modern SharePoint Page Templates feature introduces a new Template Gallery, providing users with a centralized hub to discover, preview, and select from over 50 modern out-of-the-box (OOB) templates and custom templates. This feature empowers users to create high-quality, on-brand pages effortlessly, enhancing productivity while ensuring consistency and visual appeal across SharePoint sites. Key highlights: Template Gallery: Centralized hub to access both Saved on this site (custom templates) and From Microsoft (OOB templates). 50+ new OOB templates: A collection of aesthetically pleasing, professional, and easy-to-use templates that empower users to quickly create visually engaging and consistent content for common use cases like status updates, event announcements, and team introductions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490565
  • SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint – Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489230

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

  • 🆕 SharePoint: Site attestation – Site attestation policy is the newest addition to the site lifecycle management suite. It is a one-stop solution to ensure your sites are secure and compliant by reducing the risk of unmanaged sites. This involves regular reviews by site owners or admins to check and confirm the accuracy of site information, including the site’s necessity, its owners, members, permissions, and sharing settings. You can also choose to automate actions on sites that remain unattested for more than 3 months to prevent risks of content over exposure. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494159

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (2)
  • Rolling out (11)
  • In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

    •  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: Teams Town hall screen management privileges in Teams Rooms on Windows – When the Teams Room on Windows is a co-organizer or a presenter in a town hall, privileges can be granted to start or end the event, manage what attendees see, and promote attendees as presenters, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490050
    • Microsoft Teams: Teams Meeting Audit Events in GCC – Teams Audit Events for Meetings, including MeetingDetail and MeetingParticipantDetail, will soon be available in GCC. This enhancement will provide administrators with comprehensive insights into meeting activities, helping to ensure compliance and improve operational efficiency. MeetingDetail: Captures detailed information about meetings, including start and end times, meeting subject, and organizer details. MeetingParticipantDetail: Logs participant information, including join and leave times, participant roles, and any changes in participant status during the meeting. Audit logs are accessible through the Microsoft Purview portal, where administrators can search, filter, and export audit data for detailed analysis. These logs are essential for maintaining compliance, investigating incidents, and ensuring the security of Teams activities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491010
    • Microsoft Teams: 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: 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: Town halls in DoD – Set up and host large scale events across a DoD organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489812
    • 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: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485705
    • Microsoft Teams: Pop-out live captions and Real-time-Text (RTT) in meetings – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize live captions (including live translated captions), and real-time-text (RTT) from the main meeting window. This enables you to position the captions and RTT wherever you prefer on your screen, so you can easily focus on the meeting while viewing the incoming text in a position most comfortable for you. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484113
    • Microsoft Teams: 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
    • Microsoft Teams: Presenter joins Townhalls via dial-in – Now, with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) code provided in the town hall share event dialog, organizers can share these codes with presenters. With these codes, presenters will join as an attendee and promoted to a presenter to join either the green room or the live session. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476489

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    Rollout starts – July 2025

    • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Theme accent colors – Make Teams feel more like your own with new customization options. Customize Teams colors by choosing your favorite theme accent color just like you can in Outlook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497139
    • Microsoft Teams: Compact Notification Size – Users will now have the ability to change the size of Teams notifications. The compact size takes up less space on the user’s screen and offers a clean, minimalist design. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496175
    • 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: 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: Monitor DNS resolution failures and impact of proxy on Teams meetings with Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center – Teams administrators can use the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center for monitoring significant impact on meeting quality in their tenant due to DNS resolution failures or proxy (local or cloud). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492982
    • Microsoft Teams: share file in chat with external users – Collaborating with users outside your organization has become more streamlined. You can now share files with external users in both 1:1 and group chats. When sending a file, you have the option to either change its permissions or retain the existing ones. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492625
    • Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center – Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users’ devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491439
    • Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization in GCC-High and DoD – With the availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API), it does not stop the malicious user from resending the message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user API will allow the admin to block the malicious user from reaching out again. To make this even more effective, we will utilize a similar feature as the allow/block list in federation to block the malicious user from the entire organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489455
    • 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 – August 2025

    •  Microsoft Teams: Saved messages – Quickly get back to important information without scrolling through long conversations. You can save messages, whether it is a post, a reply or chat message, and find them later in the Saved view in your Chat or Teams list. Click on a saved message to open the full conversation in the right pane, where you can review or reply directly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496369
    • Microsoft Teams: Slash commands for apps  – You can now interact with your favorite apps directly from Teams chat and channels compose box using slash commands.  Type / and start interacting with Apps and Agents, invoke workflows and more.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495002
    • 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: DoD support in Teams Rooms Pro Management  – Department of Defense (DoD) customer tenants now have access to the Teams Rooms Pro Management service and portal, enabling them to use the remote device management and analytics features of the solution while meeting high security and privacy standards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493323
    • Microsoft Teams: Silent test call – Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490055
    • Microsoft Teams: New Voice Applications Settings for Authorized Users in GCC High and DoD (Premium) – Voice applications policies allow you to create and assign voice application policies to authorized users. Voice application policies control what configuration changes an authorized user can make to the auto attendants and call queues they’re authorized for. Authorized users, with permissions from Teams admins, can configure their call queues and auto attendants using Teams settings and opt in or out their team members to optimize for business needs. This is a Teams Premium feature. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490056
    • 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: 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: 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: Slide control for presenters – Meeting or event presenters can now share control of slides with fellow presenters eliminating manual slide changes and maintaining a smooth flow during meetings or webinars.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484844
    • 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

    Rollout starts – September 2025

    • 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

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

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Copilot
    Microsoft Purview

    OneDrive

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

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    • OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings – Select a meeting recording in your OneDrive and ask Copilot to recap the meeting, highlight parts where you were mentioned, or recommend action items and next steps. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469500

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • N/A

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

    • N/A

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

    SharePoint
    Teams
    OneDrive
    Copilot
    Microsoft Purview

    Copilot

    • Launched (6)
    • Rolling out (7)
    • In development (24)

    🍾 LAUNCHED

    •  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 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): 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
    • SharePoint: M365/SharePoint Agent Insights for SharePoint Administrators – Rich insights on SharePoint agents for content governance as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486861
    • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scheduled prompts – Plan ahead by scheduling essential prompts for repeated tasks in Copilot chat. Create a productive routine that helps you stay organized and efficient.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=401124
    • OneDrive: Ask Copilot questions on meeting recordings – Select a meeting recording in your OneDrive and ask Copilot to recap the meeting, highlight parts where you were mentioned, or recommend action items and next steps. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469500

      🚂 ROLLING OUT

        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

        Rollout starts – July 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: M365 Copilot Billing and usage – Budget limits – Admins can set up budget limits for Copilot Pay-as-you-go by defining billing policies scoped to departments or groups. These policies can be assigned to specific Copilot services, such as M365 Copilot Chat or SharePoint-based agents, and configured with budget thresholds and alerting rules. Email notification alerts (soft alerts) are supported, enabling proactive cost control. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497417
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organizations assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, youll be able to easily create slides using your organizations approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496365
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Expanded Input Box on Copilot Chat – Users will be able to expand the Input Box to a full screen view when they type long prompts with lengthy context or instructions. When users copy paste prompts from word editors the prompt box will maintain plain text formatting to sustain readability and review of the prompt. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496597
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Increased efficiency with auto-generated Copilot Pages – Copilot Chat can automatically create and open a Page side-by-side when it detects a relevant scenario, enabling instant editing, steering, and sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497161
        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot.  This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497136
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365):  Copilot Memory – Microsoft 365 Copilot leverages insights inferred from conversations between the user and Copilot, along with data from the Microsoft Graph and custom instructions to provide personalized help for tasks. Users have full control and can view, manage, disable or clear memory at any time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486701
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489837
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web Search Query – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, AI interactions can be filtered to show interactions that contain a web search query and the contents of the web search query are shown.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489836
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489828
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work context suggestions in Copilot Chat ContextIQ menu – Copilot Chat will suggest prompts and work context you have access to as you type in the prompt, helping you find relevant information for your conversations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481135
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat now offers meeting series selection on CIQ Menu – Users will now be able to select meeting series and related instances from CIQ to submit as part of their prompts to Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481137
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites – Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413110
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ – We mistakenly marked this roadmap as “launched.” We apologize for any inconvenience. When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413111
        • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher toggle in Copilot Chat – For users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, easily chat with Researcher in Copilot Chat using the new Researcher toggle in the input box. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490549

        Rollout starts – August 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot search – A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for search in Microsoft 365 Copilot. The report will include total search queries, average search queries per user, search usage trends, and per-user usage insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497545
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organizations assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, youll be able to easily create slides using your organizations approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496367
        • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organizations assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, youll be able to easily create slides using your organizations approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496366
        • 🆕 Microsoft Edge: Summarization, Translation, and Citation will soon be supported by Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in our menus – Menus in Edge where the user has highlighted content in the browser will soon support a summarization, translation, and citation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497135
        • 🆕 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

        Rollout starts – September 2025

        •  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 Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report – Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488104
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488808
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Microsoft 365 Copilot 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

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

        SharePoint
        Viva
        Teams
        OneDrive
        Copilot
        Microsoft Purview

        Microsoft Purview

        Updates listed under this heading combines the following products: Azure Information Protection, Microsoft compliance center, Information Protection, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Intune, Security & Compliance center and Cloud App Security:

        • Launched (5)
        • Rolling out (5)
        • In development (16)

        🍾 LAUNCHED

        •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices – When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in).   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486366
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal : MDM-independent support for Endpoint DLP on MacOS devices – Endpoint DLP is extending support to MacOS devices independent of the MDM solution used to deploy (previously supported through JAMF or Intune). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484137
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery enhancements – We are introducing several enhancements to the eDiscovery modernized user interface. These updates include a comprehensive case-level data source view, the ability to retry failed locations for a more complete search statistics estimate. Users will also be able to duplicate search and copy search from hold or hold from search within the same case, reusing the data sources and queries. Additionally, customers will be able to access a more comprehensive reporting in all process reports including information like compliance boundary, encryption settings and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482558
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Labeling improvement for non-Office/PDF files using endpoint DLP – This allows the customer to use a label for a non-Office/PDF file without productivity impact. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476494
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New workload for Copilot in Content Explorer – With this change, customers will start seeing a new Copilot location within the Content Explorer. This will have all the sensitive information which is present in Copilot conversations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=405118

        🚂 ROLLING OUT

        •  Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Device and Device group-based policy scoping support for Endpoint DLP – Currently you can create Purview Endpoint DLP policy and assign to specific users or user groups. This feature will allow you to create and release feature based on both users and machines. You can use this feature to achieve different policies for same user on different devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491011
        • Microsoft Purview compliance center: Insider Risk Management – Policy scoping enhancements – After further review, we continue rolling this out. We apologize for any inconvenience. With this release, Insider Risk Management administrators can include or exclude specific users, groups, and adaptive scopes within policies. We are also adding support for non-mail enabled Security Groups within IRM policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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=484081
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public  – In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management. 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=483520
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – User exclusion – After further review, we continue rolling this out. We apologize for any inconvenience. This introduces the ability to exclude users and groups from IRM policies. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies 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=412942

        ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

        Rollout starts – July 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on content with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention is extended to Microsoft 365 Copilot.  This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the content in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497136
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489837
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Web Search Query – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, AI interactions can be filtered to show interactions that contain a web search query and the contents of the web search query are shown.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489836
        • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489828
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Diagnostics in the new portal – After further review, this needs to roll back.  We apologize for any inconvenience. We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418566“

        Rollout starts – August 2025

        •  🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator – IRM admins can now select any Communication Compliance (CC) Policy alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select any custom CC policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for these CC policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admins can review if there are any alerts for the user within CC under the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to CC. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489838
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Investigations – Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations empowers data security teams to find and mitigate data risk from sensitive data exposure using generative AI-powered deep content analysis enriched with activity signals. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485707
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Sensitivity labels protection policy support for Azure Storage – Label-based protection support is now possible for Azure Data Lake Gen 2 and Azure Blob storage, all within Microsoft Purview information Protection. You may already know how to protect Microsoft 365 data like documents or emails with sensitivity labels, and you will now be able to apply these labels and the related protections to these additional sources. In addition, you will have a consistent framework for your sensitive information by allowing your existing label scheme and extending it to apply within these sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=394282

        Rollout starts – September 2025

        •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488808
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer – With this update, IRM will support the discovery of sensitive files and text shared to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer. This capability is based on integration with 3rd party network partners (with data being captured via network layer). 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=484084
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM – With this update, the generative AI apps indicators will be supported as triggers in Risky AI usage policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the generative AI apps indicators are used to determine risk score. 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=484083
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle 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=470025
        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Data Lifecycle Management – Separation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot retention policy location from Microsoft Teams chats – Today, admins must manage retention and deletion for Microsoft 365 Copilot 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 – October 2025

        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Data Loss Prevention: DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse, KQL, SQL, and Mirrored databases – DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. In addition, DLP policy support will also extend to Fabric KQL databases, SQL databases and mirrored databases. Mirrored databases include Mirrored Azure Cosmos DB, Mirrored Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Mirrored Azure SQL Database, Mirrored Azure SQL Managed Instance, Mirrored database, Mirrored Snowflake, and Mirrored SQL Server Database. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=420332

        Rollout starts – December 2025

        • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Import Non-M365 data into review set for modern eDiscovery – Microsoft Purview modern eDiscovery experience now enables legal and compliance teams to import non-Microsoft 365 data directly into review set as part of the modern eDiscovery workflow. This feature allows organizations to consolidate all their data into a single secure review environment for streamlined review.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497638

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