SharePoint Stuff

The Microsoft roadmap roundup is a weekly summary of all the newly added items and changes within the Microsoft 365 roadmap, covering SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot and more. This week’s update contains 23 new additions to the roadmap, plus 107 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 (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Use table of contents in PDF – Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482601
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Integrated apps – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared apps in the Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly in the Shared agents tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857
• Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation – Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481826
• SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store – You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481824
• SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822

Rollout starts – November 2025

• SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825
• SharePoint: Agent usage statistics per SharePoint site – SharePoint agents’ usage statistics will be available for every SharePoint site. This will be available on the site analytics page for the site owner persona. This will also include analytics on how many times source files are cited. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480725

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (11)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Shared spaces insights in the Pro Management portal – The new shared spaces insights page in the Pro Management portal provides IT with customized utilization insights, including time-series data visualizations, for shared spaces beginning with Teams Rooms. The feature uses calendar data and occupancy signals from Teams Rooms to track usage with filters for location, business hours, days of the week, and date ranges making it easy to see how spaces are being used. Future updates will include desk and BYOD room spaces. Available with a Teams Rooms Pro license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493318
• 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: New audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing – IT administrators will now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Teams Admin Centre.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489224

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – July 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Custom ringtone behavior and ringtones for assigned line keys – Personalize your Teams phone experience by setting unique ringtones and choosing how each line key alerts you ring only, ring with flash, or flash only. This feature is supported across touch, non-touch, and sidecar devices, giving you full control over how you stay notified Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495451

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Regional Settings Separation – Regional Settings Separation in Microsoft Teams is designed to give users full control over UI language, date, and time formats – either synced with their OS or set manually – for a seamless, globally personalized experience that also addresses common synchronization issues. Find out more:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498895
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Dedicated download option for tracking all registrations in Webinar – Event organizers can now download a distinct registration report (separate from an attendee list) from the Reports section of a Webinar, in order to have visibility and information about all registrants for a particular webinar instance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498490
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Emoji Reactions Workflows – Seamlessly set up workflows started by emoji reactions in Teams. When a user reacts to a message with an emoji, the workflow will be kicked off to handle support tickets or start a helpdesk workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498578

Rollout starts – September 2025

•  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: 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: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall  – With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486535
• Microsoft Teams: Room recommender – If no room is booked for a meeting, this AI feature recommends rooms in the meeting chat an hour before start when two or more attendees are in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. It considers location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best meeting space. You can reserve the suggested room with one click and update the invite for everyone. A Teams Premium license is required for the meeting organizer to enable this feature, which is available in Teams Mobile on iOS. #MicrosoftPlaces Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482191
• Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation – Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481826
• SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822
• Microsoft Teams: Shared tab in channel – The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470597

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  OneDrive: Prompt for permitted users to sign in to OneDrive app with personal Microsoft account – Users have long been able to use personal Microsoft accounts with the OneDrive app on corporate Windows devices unless restricted by admin policy. This new feature introduces a prompt only when a personal account is already signed in on the device, encouraging users to also sign in to the OneDrive app with that account. Administrators who have already restricted personal accounts on corporate devices can continue to manage this as before. Organizations that have already disabled personal OneDrive accounts on corporate devices with the DisablePersonalSync policy will not see this prompt. Administrators can also suppress it using the DisableNewAccountDetection policy. More information on configuring policies can be found here: Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490064
• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint Use table of contents in PDF – OneDrive for the web and SharePoint Online can display a table of contents if its already in your PDF. You can select the line item in the table of contents to jump directly to the location of that item in the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859“

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents – Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480728

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•  Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Copilot Search management and insights – Enable AI administrators to configure, customize, and measure Copilot Search across their organization. This feature provides centralized tools to manage search connectors, tailor search experiences to organizational needs, and gain actionable insights into adoption, usage patterns, and content engagement. Designed to enhance productivity and maximize the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot, it supports both setup and ongoing optimization of enterprise search experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495460
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access audio overviews from the top of your Word document – Ask Copilot to generate an audio overview of your document from the Summary tab in the document snapshot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492615
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491637
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491636
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference up to 5 files when creating a presentation with Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491635
• 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: Information Protection – Scan cold files in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information – This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business for sensitive data and classify and/or label them accordingly. This includes files that have never been scanned or scanned in some time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475062

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Referenced sources are cited in drafted content – When drafting content that’s based on referenced sources, Copilot includes citations in the text it generates, indicating references to information in the content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=380848

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): On-Canvas Copilot and Private Preview in Shared Pages – After making changes to a shared page via chat or on-canvas Copilot, responses appear as private previews, showing content suggestions that you can edit and preview privately before applying them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499025
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Filtering Conversation History – Were introducing a chat history filtering capability that empowers users to tailor their view of past conversations. This feature enables users to scope their chat history to a more relevant, workflow-aligned view, helping them quickly surface the chats that matters most. This enhancement is designed to support better context recall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497910
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Auto-update document sections from new sources – Easily refresh parts of your document using content from other files without copying and pasting. Copilot keeps your formatting intact while pulling in the latest updates from new sources. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497937
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat now supports more file types in search grounding. – We are expanding the file types supported in Copilot Chat to align with the Microsoft Search experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492268
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a Briefing page based on content in Copilot Notebook – The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a Briefing page based on your notebook content no prompt writing needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497134
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a FAQ page based on content in Copilot Notebook – The 1-click page generation feature helps you complete tasks quickly. With a single click, Copilot creates a FAQ page based on your notebook content no prompt writing needed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497133
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Enhanced scope drilldown – Leaders and managers can drilldown and explore data in Copilot Dashboard by indirect groups, unlocking a new layer of visibility into Copilot adoption and impact. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495463
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New file extension for Copilot pages – We are introducing a new file extension for Copilot pages, “.page”. This new file extension will continue to support admin toggles, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, multi-geo, Purview eDiscovery, version history, export, audit logs, and data subject requests. The functionality and support for the .page file extension will be identical to the existing .loop file extension, with the only difference being the file extension and the associated file icon.  For a comprehensive list of features supported refer to: Summary table of admin management, governance, lifecycle, and compliance capabilities based on experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494834
• OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents – Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480728
• Microsoft Viva: Viva Pulse – Pulse users can assign other users as delegates – Viva Pulse users can now assign other users as delegates to create and send pulses on their behalf. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479753

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate a formula with Copilot from the grid upon “=” – Type = anywhere on your grid or in the formula bar and let Copilot generate formulas from natural language, making complex calculations simpler and faster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496362
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Recent activity is part of Copilot’s dynamic document snapshot in Word – Select the Activity tab within the Copilot summary at the top of a document for a summary of recent comments and changes. Choose a time window of 3 days, 1 week, or 2 weeks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497941
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Press and hold Win + C or Copilot key to activate voice on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Press and hold Win + C keys, or the dedicated Copilot key for applicable devices, and the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will activate voice. With voice, talk to Copilot like a personal assistant – interrupting and redirecting at any time to prepare for the workday, create documents, understand topics, and search for information. This shortcut to activate voice means you don’t have to switch between screens to talk with Copilot. Enterprise-grade security and compliance are built in, so conversations stay private while productivity soars. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497849
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views – Scoped access enables managers to view Copilot insights specific to their own organizations both on the Copilot Dashboard and in additional Copilot reports on the Reports page. This allows leaders at different levels to monitor adoption and impact within their teams, while respecting organizational boundaries and privacy. Admins can configure access criteria and set minimum thresholds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497111
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Continue editing in Outlook from Copilot Chat – When Copilot detects that you’re trying to write an email like saying Draft an email to my team thanking them for their hard work on Project K, youll see an Edit in Outlook button. The ‘Edit in Outlook button will open a draft in Outlook, with the subject, message, and recipients filled in, so you can review and send it with ease. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494510
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access SharePoint agents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Use SharePoint agents seamlessly without navigating to the SharePoint site. With this new feature, you can quickly return to your most recently used SharePoint agents directly in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482601
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): People connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot – People connectors for Microsoft 365 Copilot, based on top of Graph connectors, will integrate and enrich people data from various sources into Microsoft 365. This enriched data will enhance experiences in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, the profile card, and people search. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480736
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Integrated apps – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared apps in the Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly in the Shared agents tab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857
• Outlook: Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot available in Copilot Chat in classic Outlook for Windows – We will be adding declarative agents support for agents in Copilot Chat in Outlook. This roadmap item tracks availability in classic Outlook for Windows. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481559
• Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation – Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481826
• SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store – You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store.Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481824
• SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822

Rollout starts – November 2025

• SharePoint: Chat one-on-one with SharePoint agents in Teams – Users can chat one-on-one with a SharePoint agent directly within Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481825

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Microsoft Purview

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (2)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Collection Policies: Scope classifiers and activity to track on all Windows devices – Allow customers to scope classification (SITs- Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=479760
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Scan cold files in SharePoint and OneDrive for sensitive information – This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business for sensitive data and classify and/or label them accordingly. This includes files that have never been scanned or scanned in some time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475062
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Named entity coverage for additional markets and languages (U.S. Government clouds) – Named entities are sensitive information types (SITs) that cant easily be identified by a regular expression or a function; these include person names, physical addresses, and medical terms and conditions. This update expands name and address coverage to an additional 7 countries, such as China and Russia, and expands medical terms and conditions (specifically for the Diseases SIT) to an additional 29 languages covering much of Europe, China, Japan, and Korea.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=139461

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exchange Data Loss Prevention – Image Metadata Scanning without OCR – With this important feature, Purview DLP will now scan and classify sensitive data embedded in image metadata, even if OCR is unavailable. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495459
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: New email indicators to alert on exfiltration of business sensitive data to free public domains or self – In this update, we are adding two new email indicators to Insider Risk Management. 1. Sending email with attachments to free public domains – This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to a free public domain email, potentially leading to a data security incident. 2. Sending email with attachments to self – This alerts when business-sensitive data is potentially leaked from a work email account to user’s personal email account or emailing self, potentially leading to a data security incident. Admins with appropriate permissions can enable these indicators from the settings page and use these new indicators in the data leaks or data theft policy template. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495001

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Ability to fetch the original file resulting in policy match as evidence (Microsoft Managed storage) – With this capability, Admins can choose to store a copy of the file that resulted in a DLP policy match. The admin uses this data to analyze the contents to confirm the full set of data that was exfiltrated to assess severity. To configure Microsoft managed storage, similar to customer managed storage, the user can go to endpoint DLP settings and select Microsoft managed storage. As compared to customer managed storage – the admin need not configure any additional settings like adding a blob, assigning permissions, selecting storage in policy workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497838
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “”All risk factors”” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493754
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer (U.S. Government clouds) – We apologize for the inconvenience, but this item was updated to Rolling out incorrectly. Thank you for your patience. The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117531

Rollout starts – December 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection- Scan existing files in SharePoint and OneDrive for business for sensitive information – This new capability will enable admins to scan existing files at rest in SharePoint or OneDrive for business for sensitive data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499076

Rollout starts – January 2026

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer – This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498915

Rollout starts – February 2025

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Lifecycle Management – Automatic data preservation for high-risk users – Adaptive Protection in Microsoft Purview helps you protect your organizations data by integrating dynamic insider risk levels, determined by data related activities, with various policy engines to automatically moving users in and out of policies as their risk levels change over time. The integration with Data Lifecycle Management will automatically apply retention labels to preserve deleted emails and files based on a users insider risk level.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=392839

Rollout starts – March 2026

•  🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer – This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498916
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit – New filters in Audit Search – Audit Search allows customers to retrieve audit logs relevant to a security or compliance investigation. With this change, customers will now be able to search for relevant audit logs using additional fields such as Record ID, UserKey, UserType, and ClientIP. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=384092

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