Microsoft roadmap roundup – 21st July 2025

This week’s edition of the Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup, has 13 new releases across SharePoint, Teams, Purview, and Copilot…

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. This week’s update contains 13 new additions to the roadmap, plus 88 changes over the last week.


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

SharePoint

Includes updates for SharePoint, SharePoint/ Microsoft Syntex.

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2025

  • 🆕 SharePoint: eSignature – globally available – Microsoft’s native eSignature service allows users to request simple electronic signatures from Word & PDF documents in SharePoint. Recipients can easily sign documents without the documents leaving the trusted boundaries of Microsoft. This capability will be now be available in all markets with the exception of China, Indonesia and Türkiye.
     Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497419

    Rollout starts – August 2025

    • 🆕 SharePoint: Sections with Copilot – Sections with Copilot is a new SharePoint authoring tool that allows users to create full-fidelity SharePoint sections with just a prompt. It works by first looking at the context of your page to offer prompt suggestions for what content you need next to offer a starting point. Next, you either select one of those starting points or write your own and optionally ground in a relevant file. Once you click generate, Sections with Copilot then leverages the knowledge and content already inside of your organization and on your page to create rich sections that go beyond just image and text. This could mean meeting transcripts, recent documents, or any other knowledge Copilot has access to, added to an existing page with a click of a button. If the output section isn’t quite right, you can then use AI refinement to make changes to both the content and layout of your section, without ever touching our traditional authoring tools. Some examples include “”change the background image””, “”add John Smith’s contact information””, or “”make the text more professional””. You can also get different suggestions by clicking “”regenerate”” and then choosing your favorite one to refine further. With Sections with Copilot, you can create content faster than ever before, no matter your SharePoint skill level.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498547
    • SharePoint: Header & Footer Enhancements – The site header and footer are key elements of the SharePoint user interface, playing a vital role in navigation, brand expression, and overall user experience. To better align with todays design standards and customer expectations, were introducing a full visual upgrade of the SharePoint site header and footer. This upgrade delivers a more cohesive and contemporary look while offering new preset layouts and enhanced customization options. Organizations will be able to tailor these elements to better reflect their brand identity, improve usability, and create a more engaging, connected experience for employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489225
    • SharePoint: Enterprise Application Insights for SharePoint sites – Enterprise Application Insights is a powerful report which helps SharePoint Administrators to discover all the SharePoint sites that are allowed access by third-party applications registered in your tenant. The report also provides details on the application’s permission and requests count to help admins take further action to strengthen the security of the site. It is part of SharePoint Advanced Management capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=417481

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

      SharePoint
      Teams
      OneDrive
      Copilot
      Microsoft Purview

      Teams

      • Launched (0)
      • Rolling out (0)
      • In development (8)

      🍾 LAUNCHED

      • N/A

        🚂 ROLLING OUT

        • N/A

          ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

          Rollout starts – August 2025

          •  Microsoft Teams: New VDI solution for Teams optimization in Amazon WorkSpaces – New VDI solution for Teams introduces multimedia offloading and optimization solution for Microsoft Teams when running in Amazon WorkSpaces (Personal and Pools). Users of the WorkSpaces Client for Windows can enjoy a high-definition experience in virtual desktops, where audio/video/screensharing are offloaded to the user’s device and processed by the SlimCore media engine. This entry applies to WorkSpaces only (AppStream is not supported). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498355

            Rollout starts – September 2025

            • 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center – Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498226
            • Microsoft Teams: Simultaneous role-specific Teams Town hall and Webinar views in Teams Rooms – With a Teams Room on Windows system, 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: Facilitator agent  – The Facilitator agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage your meetings effortlessly. Throughout the meeting, Facilitator takes notes that everyone can co-author, manages the time and agenda, and can quickly surface relevant information from the web or the conversation itself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478611
            • Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=409534

            Rollout starts – November 2025


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

            SharePoint
            Teams
            OneDrive
            Copilot
            Microsoft Purview

            OneDrive

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

            🍾 LAUNCHED

            • N/A

            🚂 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

            • Launched (11)
            • Rolling out (6)
            • In development (23)

            🍾 LAUNCHED

              🚂 ROLLING OUT

              ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

              Rollout starts – August 2025

              •  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Summarize email with Copilot chat in Outlook – Users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license can now easily summarize emails in a single click, using Copilot chat. Users must have access to Copilot chat and pinning enabled to utilize. This change is coming to both Classic and New Outlook for Windows #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498320
              • 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Unified Conversations (Chat History) List – Were making it easier to find what you need. This change will mean that users now see a single, streamlined list of all your conversations. No more switching between tabs or wondering where to look for specific conversations. Just select a conversation and you’ll pick up in the same context and mode as where you left off. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498545
              • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher is in Microsoft Word – The Researcher agent now has easier entry points on the Word canvas making it faster to go from idea to polished research report without breaking your flow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497833
              • 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 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): Frontier and Microsoft agent user request approval flow in Microsoft 365 admin center – For Admins, agents in the Frontier program can be managed through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. They are listed under the agents & connectors tab in Copilot Control System, where you can view all agent inventory for your organization. Agents built by Microsoft and available in the Frontier program will be displayed in the Agent Store. This feature will support users to request these agents if blocked by organizational policies. Admins will have the opportunity to further approve and reject these user request. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494809
              • Microsoft Viva: Viva Insights – Skills landscape report for organizations  – A Power BI report that provides an overview of the skills distribution in the organization and supports users in identifying skill gaps and making informed decisions on workforce planning, resource allocation, and skilling initiatives. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491022
              • 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): Copilot surfaces key statistics in the top of a document – Copilot includes a summary at the top of key statistics from your Word document. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487855
              • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – After further review, this continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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): Shared mailbox access for emails in Copilot Chat – Users with shared mailbox access will be able to ground Copilot Chat conversations in shared mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488797
              • 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): In Copilot Pages, the Chat can now be used to modify the Page – When a Chat and a Page are open side by side, prompts within the Chat can now be used to modify or add to the contents of the Page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478647
              • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): BizChat – Teams Chats in ContextIQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams Chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in BizChat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429646
              • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat – Scope Copilot queries in emails for delegated mailboxes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416062
              • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Headlines report in Advanced Insights – Insights analysts and leaders are interested in finding highlights and opportunities in their Copilot adoption data, but it can be time-consuming to find the groups that are experiencing dramatic trends or have much higher or lower Copilot usage than expected. Copilot Headlines shows an analyst where interesting things are happening in their data by automatically scanning a query and looking for outliers, changes over time, and differences from dynamic internal benchmarks. Analysts receive the headlines in a Power BI report as a table, along with supporting visualizations to help explore and validate the results. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=408543

                Rollout starts – September 2025

                • 🆕 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): Copilot can now answer questions about opened Copilot Pages in chat – When using Copilot Pages side-by-side in Copilot Chat, you can now ask questions in chat about your open page, and Copilot will provide answers based on the contents of that page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487848
                • Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent  – The Facilitator agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage your meetings effortlessly. Throughout the meeting, Facilitator takes notes that everyone can co-author, manages the time and agenda, and can quickly surface relevant information from the web or the conversation itself. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478611

                Rollout starts – January 2026


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

                SharePoint
                Viva
                Teams
                OneDrive
                Copilot
                Microsoft Purview

                Microsoft Purview

                • Launched (5)
                • Rolling out (2)
                • In development (3)

                🍾 LAUNCHED

                  •  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 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: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention- Paste to Browser prevention support on macOS device with endpoint DLP – Microsoft Purview Endpoint Data Loss Prevention adds support on users trying to paste sensitive content into web browsers on macOS devices using Edge, Safari, and other browsers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483491
                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Admin units support for SharePoint Online – Delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate alerts and audit events for only German users. This update extends support to SharePoint for Microsoft 365.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475970
                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Notify users about hidden content matches in Communication Compliance – This feature is designed to enhance transparency by introducing a notification banner that alerts users when keywords embedded in hidden content, such as hyperlinks or encoded strings, trigger a compliance policy match. With this update, investigators will be able to quickly recognize that some or all keyword matches are not immediately visible in the main content body, saving time and ensuring a more efficient triage experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429872
                  • 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

                  🚂 ROLLING OUT

                  •  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Modern eDiscovery additional enhancements – We are introducing a new set of enhancements to the modernised eDiscovery user interface aimed at improving both functionality and user experience. These updates include the ability to delete searches and direct exports; bulk add data sources and populate the custodian field for items in review sets and exports. We are also rolling out advanced indexing enhancements and 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, which now supports logical operators such as AND, OR, and NEAR for more precise and flexible keyword queries. The ability to configure the maximum export package size, with an updated default value to better support large-scale exports is also included. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494160
                  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Increasing policy template limits for Insider Risk Management – Insider Risk Management will increase policy creation limits from 20 policies per template to 100 maximum overall active policies. For example, an organization may have 50 data leak policy templates because the limit will now apply to all active policies versus each 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=477364

                    ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

                    Rollout starts – July 2025

                    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope – Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=172024

                      Rollout starts – August 2025

                      • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – After further review, this continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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

                      Rollout starts – September 2025

                        • 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Lifecycle Management- Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete content on OneDrive and SharePoint Online – Were introducing a new capability in Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management to bypass retention policies and delete content from OneDrive and SharePoint Online before the hold or retention policy duration expires. This feature helps organizations manage Copilot-related artifacts—such as Teams recordings and transcripts—independently of OneDrive retention polices, so organizations can decide how long they want to keep and when to delete this content. The feature includes support for simulation testing, audit, and disposition reviews, and introduces admin policy authoring flows. These flows are governed by Microsoft Purview role groups to enable the creation and enforcement of defensible deletion policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496151


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