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Microsoft roadmap roundup – 7th July 2025

This week’s edition of the Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup, has 21 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 (0)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (0)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (6)
  • In development (3)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • 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

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • 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: 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: 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: Townhall concurrent attendees increase to 100,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 100,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 50,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 100,000 concurrent attendees by selecting the Max Capacity limit to be as high as desired up to 100,000. Reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption) is recommended for every event. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484124
    • Microsoft Teams: 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

    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      Rollout starts – August 2025

      • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: SQL-like commands in the search bar – Efficiently narrow down your search results by using SQL-like commands in the search bar. Users can quickly filter messages, files, or conversations with precise queries such as from:username, with:username or in:channel.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496590

        Rollout starts – September 2025

        • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Preview of multiple camera view in Teams Rooms on Windows – When multiple camera views are enabled in Teams Rooms on Windows, the preview video on the front-of-room display and the camera settings dialog will show multiple camera views. This feature allows in-room users to be aware of all camera streams that are simultaneously streaming to remote users. This feature is available with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496148
        • 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

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

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          OneDrive

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

          🍾 LAUNCHED

          🚂 ROLLING OUT

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – August 2025

          • OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive – Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. 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=469503

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

          SharePoint
          Teams
          OneDrive
          Copilot
          Microsoft Purview

          Copilot

          • Launched (8)
          • Rolling out (8)
          • In development (27)

          🍾 LAUNCHED

            •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Microsoft 365 Copilot App – The Microsoft 365 Copilot app is your starting place for AI at work, offering quick access to secure AI chat, search, files, and content creation in one seamless app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490155 
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 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 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 Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Microsoft Purview AI Hub has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI). Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485771
            • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Data Assessments – Data assessments in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by viewing default assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485767
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Admins can manage Copilot extensibility under Copilot tab in Microsoft 365 admin center – Admins have options to manage Copilot extensibility under Copilot tab including agent management for IT published agents and shared agents.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481829
            • Word: Automatic summary of documents on file-open in Word – When you open a document, Copilot will generate a summary in the Word window. You can hide the summary or open the Copilot chat pane to ask specific questions about the document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=397096
            • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat general availability for GCC – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Copilot is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 GCC users who sign in with their Microsoft Entra account (no Microsoft 365 Copilot license required). Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat offers enterprise data protection (EDP), and secure AI chat designed for work, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. The general availability of this release will be delivered to the users with web grounding OFF by default to meet US Government requirements. This will help protect sensitive information which should not leave the GCC compliance boundary. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=464984

            🚂 ROLLING OUT

              •  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access Copilot Chat in your Microsoft 365 apps – Easily access Copilot Chat from the side pane in your Microsoft 365 apps with a commercial Microsoft 365 license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494830
              • 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 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Language expansion coming in Microsoft 365 Copilot – The broader Microsoft 365 Copilot team are working on supporting 6 new languages across all M365 Copilot features. These are (in alphabetical order) Albanian, Filipino, Icelandic, Malay, Maltese, and Serbian (Cyrillic). The planned release of support for Kazakh language is delayed; we will provide updates as they become available Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489218
              • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Audio summary of your file  – Copilot can generate audio summaries of your file, making information easy to consume anywhere. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478649
              • 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): 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 Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to 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=423483

              ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

              Rollout starts – July 2025

                Rollout starts – August 2025

                  Rollout starts – September 2025

                  • 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Agents usage report – A new agents usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center. The report will be scoped to include agents in M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat with usage by both M365 Copilot licensed and unlicensed users. The report will include total active agent users, total active agents, active users segmentation by licensed and unlicensed users, and active users and active agents segmentation by publisher type (i.e. user-created agents, agents built by your org, agents built by Microsoft, agents built by Microsoft partners). The report will also include usage details per user, agent, and user-agent pair. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497999
                  • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Document snapshot in Word personalizes output – The document snapshot helps the user focus faster by surfacing the most important information for them based on their personal context. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497297
                  • Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Usage reports – Message consumption for Pay-as-you-go experiences in Copilot Chat. – A new report to help IT admins manage costs for billed messages that are Pay-as-you-go enabled for Copilot Chat. Reporting includes drill down of billed messages per user, per billing policy, per agent-level and agent-user level pair. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490738“

                  Rollout starts – October 2025

                    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 (9)
                    • Rolling out (7)
                    • In development (15)

                    🍾 LAUNCHED

                    •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Microsoft Purview AI Hub has been rebranded to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI (DSPM for AI). Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI is a centralized location to gain insights into generative AI activity including the sensitive data flowing in AI prompts.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485771
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – Data Assessments – Data assessments in Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI provides a way for admins to drive data security outcomes by viewing default assessments, reviewing the data sensitivity and user accesses on locations, and performing remediation actions to mitigate risk.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485767
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI- additional Microsoft Copilot integrations – Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI support for Fabric Copilot and Security Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486697
                    • 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: Data Loss Prevention – New predicate in Email DLP – Detect number of domains/Recipients – The “Recipient/Domain Count Over” feature, designed to address a critical need for managing and controlling the distribution of sensitive information via email. This feature allows organizations to set specific policies that trigger alerts or actions when the number of recipients or domains in outgoing emails exceeds a defined threshold. By implementing this feature, organizations can enhance data security, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and prevent unauthorized data dissemination, providing peace of mind and safeguarding sensitive information. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483158
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: Enrich the details of the auto forwarded emails in the Exchange DLP – We are excited to introduce an enhancement to our system that will provide more accurate and detailed information for forwarded emails. This new feature will ensure that the correct user, recipient information, and email evidence are displayed in the alert generated. This improvement will help admins accurately trace the origin and intended recipient of forwarded emails, reducing confusion and minimizing the risk of false positives. The update will be reflected in our audit logs, alerts page, and activity explorer page Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481343
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Paste to Browser prevention support on macOS device with endpoint DLP – Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention adds support for instances where users try to paste sensitive content into a web browser on macOS devices using Edge, Safari, and other browsers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476073
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Enhanced content extraction and file type coverage for DLP on Windows devices – With this release, the file type coverage to scan, classify and protect sensitive content on windows endpoint devices with Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention policies will increase from current ~40 file types to 100+ file types. This release will make the coverage of file types on endpoint consistent with other locations such as Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive. This will also include other enhancements like detecting label from pfile, detecting sensitive content in metadata, and detecting sensitive content in PDF forms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416481
                    • Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Tracking and Revocation in Compliance Portal  – Users can access the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to check who has tried accessing their sensitivity labeled and encrypted local Office files and revoke access when needed.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=177890“

                    🚂 ROLLING OUT

                    •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery additional enhancements – We are introducing a new set of enhancements to the modernized eDiscovery user interface aimed at improving both functionality and user experience. These updates include the ability to delete searches; bulk add data sources and populating custodian field value for items in review sets and exports. We are also rolling out advanced indexing enhancements, along with a tenant-level premium feature toggle to provide greater administrative control. Additionally, users will benefit from a new analytics process report, and improvements to the search condition builder that now supports logical operators such as AND, OR, and NEAR, enabling more precise and flexible keyword queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494160
                    • 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: 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 theyre transferred outside from a users 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: Insider Risk Management – Enhanced alert and user investigation using Copilot for Security in Insider Risk Management – When investigating alerts within Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management, you can now harness the power of Microsoft Copilot for Security. This tool not only provides concise alert summaries, but it also allows you to delve into specific user activities. By doing so, you can promptly assess whether the user associated with the alert warrants further investigation or if the alert can be safely dismissed. Additionally, with just a click, you can obtain a succinct summary of the user’s risk profile, highlighting crucial details and top risk factors. Leveraging Copilot for Security streamlines investigations, ultimately reducing the triage workload and enabling faster decision making. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=407864
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Data Loss Prevention to 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=423483
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Adaptive scopes – Ability to target IRM policies using global Adaptive Scopes. Adaptive scopes within IRM policies allow admins to use existing adaptive scopes created on the Microsoft Purview compliance portal within IRM policies, Adaptive scopes can be created using queries to define user groups dynamically. This feature provides more powerful targeting for policies, allowing different settings to be assigned to users based on attributes from Entra ID without the administrative burden of creating and maintaining groups. 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=409965
                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Save filters for Activity Explorer – This adds the ability to save the filters applied to Activity Explorer and use them later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=397771

                      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                      Rollout starts – July 2025

                      •  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 – SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files. – This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=467254

                        Rollout starts – August 2025

                        •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR – With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=422730
                        • 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
                        • 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 – September 2025

                          •  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) – Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive  – Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information. With Embedded support, OCR will scan content in DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and PDFs (scanned and hybrid containing searchable text and images). This will be in addition to support for standalone images Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497912
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Administrative units support – Administrative units allow admins with appropriate permissions to subdivide the organization into smaller units, and then assign specific admins or role groups that can manage only the members of those units. For example, German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users, and German investigators can only investigate alerts and activities from only German users. 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=422503“

                          Rollout starts – October 2025

                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention Restrict access action support for sematic models and lakehouses in Fabric  – Your organization can now control who can access your data depending on the sensitive information detected in Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. DLP restrict access action allows you to block access to guest users or all users depending on what labels or sensitive information types matches your semantic models or lakehouses. This is in addition to the ability already supported by DLP policies to audit and notify users via Policy Tips based on sensitive content within Fabric semantic models and lakehouses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=422501

                          Rollout starts – November 2025

                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – MIP auto-labeling for Azure SQL & Storage – Extend your sensitivity labels to specific or all subscriptions within Azure Storage and Azure SQL Server via auto-labeling policy. Clearly define labeling conditions for data sources beyond M365 without fear of it interfering with existing M365 files configurations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429876

                          Rollout starts – December 2025

                          •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Bulk replacement or removal of a retention label – Admins can perform a bulk replacement or removal of a retention label using the Purview compliance portal. They can perform the action across the entire tenant or targeted to specific content using KQL and static or adaptive scopes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392456
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – Initiate a Power Automate workflow when the item reaches the end of its retention period. For example, execute a complex disposition approval process or move the file to an archive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117523
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management: New retention actions in Power Automate integration (U.S. Government clouds) – We will release additional retention actions as part of the Power Automate integration with Microsoft Purview Records Management. You can now relabel a file or an email at the end of its retention period or apply a retention label to a file in SharePoint. You can also delete items in SharePoint, OneDrive, or Exchange with all executed retention actions recorded in the Microsoft Purview Audit log. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117425
                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery (Premium) – CMK (Customer Managed Keys) encryption support for data at-rest in Review sets – This release of eDiscovery features the implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) options, allowing users to manage their own encryption keys for the data stored in eDiscovery review sets in addition to the default, strong Microsoft-managed encryption already in place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117569

                          Rollout starts – January 2026

                          • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Priva Privacy Management Multicloud environments – Microsoft Priva Privacy Risk Management extends its overexposure policies into data contained in Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Amazon S3. Organizations can create privacy policies that specify which data sources, databases, or storage buckets are in scope and Priva will automatically notify data asset owners when matches are detected. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=398711

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