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 13 new additions to the roadmap, plus 80 changes over the last week.

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

SharePoint

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  SharePoint: Improved processing status experience for Content AI models in SharePoint Online – Were introducing a new activity pane in SharePoint Online to help users track and troubleshoot Content AI model processing. Starting with document translation and autofill, users will be able to view real-time status (in progress, completed, failed) for individual files, bulk selections, or the full library. Completed status will include enriched details like language codes, glossary usage, and column extraction counts. This new pane will eventually replace the current processing status column, providing a more consistent and actionable experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489453
• SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI – Secure sites by identifying sites with “similar files” and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415167

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Updates to News page in SharePoint sites – The News page renders news items in a given site. It is typically accessed via the “see all” experience of a news web part.  We are updating the user experience of this page and bringing in Copilot capabilities to licensed users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499654
• SharePoint: Copilot actions in SharePoint document libraries – When you select an item in OneDrive on the Web, the Copilot button appears, offering a range of actions you can perform on that item. The same feature and actions are coming to document library views in SharePoint and Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488297

Rollout starts – October 2025

• Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint – The new Workflows app is to provide an experience that is both simpler and faster to enable everyday Teams and SharePoint users to create automations in three steps or less. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632

Rollout starts – December 2025

•  SharePoint: SharePoint agent usage statistics across all SharePoint sites – SharePoint agents’ usage statistics would be aggregated across all SharePoint sites and available for the tenant admin persona. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480729
• Microsoft Viva: SharePoint agent analytics on Viva Insights – Explore how your employees used key SharePoint agent features over a given time period and understand the ROI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480726

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Teams

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Teams: Introducing new IT administrator policies to control Town hall Event Access – Previously, Microsoft did not provide a way for Teams admins to control who can attend town halls that are created in their organization. With this new policy, tenant administrators can control who can attend town halls created by members in their organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483250
• Microsoft Teams: Report a Message for External Collaboration – Teams users can now report security risks and concerns in external one-on-one, group and meeting chats. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481147

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Suggested contacts for call transfers on Teams phone devices – With this feature, you can reduce clicks and save time with intelligent call transfer suggestions based on your recent activity and call history on Teams phone devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495457
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot Support for 1:1 and Group Calls on Teams Phone Devices – Enhance your calling experience with Copilot on Teams phones devices access intelligent insights during calls using suggested prompts. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495453
• Microsoft Teams: Custom ringtone behavior and ringtones for assigned line keys – Personalize your Teams phone experience by setting unique ringtones and choosing how each line key alerts you ring only, ring with flash, or flash only. This feature is supported across touch, non-touch, and sidecar devices, giving you full control over how you stay notified. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495451
• Microsoft Teams: Line key configuration on Teams Phone devices from Teams Admin Center (TAC) – This feature allows admins to configure line keys for various scenarios on Teams phone devices, including personal and common area phones (CAP). Scenarios supported include speed dial, shared line, collaborative call delegation, and call transfers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493320
• Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center – Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users’ devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491439
• Planner: New Microsoft Planner app for Microsoft Teams in GCC High and DoD – The new Microsoft Planner app in Teams is a single, unified work management experience. It brings together the simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner into a single and simple solution, that offers individual task management, collaborative work management as well as enterprise work management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490568
• Microsoft Teams: Face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows with Cloud IntelliFrame – If facial recognition is enabled in organization policies and you’ve enrolled your profile via Teams Settings, Teams Rooms on Windows using Cloud IntelliFrame will recognize you, list you in the meeting roster, and optimize camera views for participants making hybrid meetings feel like you are all in the room together. This feature available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486692
• Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC High and DoD – The new, streamlined chat and channels experience makes it easier to stay on top of what matters most and organize your digital workspace. Catch up on chat, channels and teams in one place, create custom sections to organize conversations by topics, use filters to triage messages and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485706

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Search for meetings – You can now search by meeting name or participant, take direct actions like joining, RSVPing, or viewing recaps, and access a dedicated Meetings tab for a streamlined experience. These updates make it easier to find and act on meetings right from the search bar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498496
• Microsoft Teams: Support for PowerPoint live within Cloud Video Interop (CVI) – This new functionality will provide CVI Partners with the ability to display still images when PowerPoint live content is being presented within a Microsoft Teams meeting. The PowerPoint presentation will then be displayed as video content, this will not include animations or embedded videos. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413712

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Share meeting recap to SharePoint – Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498494
• Microsoft Teams: Theme accent colors – Make Teams feel more like your own with new customization options. Customize Teams colors by choosing your favorite theme accent color just like you can in Outlook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497139
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings – Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490051
• Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium] – Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489808
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488298

Rollout starts – October 2025

• Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint – The new Workflows app is to provide an experience that is both simpler and faster to enable everyday Teams and SharePoint users to create automations in three steps or less. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416077

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

• N/A

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•  OneNote: Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote – Users can now access Copilot Notebooks inside OneNote. Using Copilot Notebooks, users can pull together and reason over a wide range of content such as notes, documents, websites, meeting recordings, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=464995
• SharePoint: SharePoint site content & policy comparison using AI – Secure sites by identifying sites with “similar files” and identifying different policies and settings. Admin now choose a site and compare the contents with ALL other sites. The report provides a percentage on how similar the contents of the sites are and then compares the settings. This helps admin to identify and administer same/similar settings and policies to similar sites all using the power of AI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415167
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Graph Connectors in CIQ – We mistakenly marked this roadmap as “launched.” We apologize for any inconvenience. When grounding your prompts in BizChat, you will be able to use CIQ to scope to your 3P data from your Graph Connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413111

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft 365 admin center: M365 Copilot Billing and usage – Budget limits – Admins can set up budget limits for Copilot Pay-as-you-go by defining billing policies scoped to departments or groups. These policies can be assigned to specific Copilot services, such as M365 Copilot Chat or SharePoint-based agents, and configured with budget thresholds and alerting rules. Email notification alerts (soft alerts) are supported, enabling proactive cost control. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497417
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use ContextIQ file suggestions in Copilot Chat – With a Microsoft 365 license, use the ContextIQ ‘/’ to quickly add context to your Copilot Chat prompt from your files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497112

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Email attachment summarization (Classic Attachments) – Now users will be able to reason over attached content along with the body of the email in Copilot Chat. Supported file types are Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, Text, Json and Xml attached to the email (Classic Attachments). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499656
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page – Generating PPT grounded on a Copilot Page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499425
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Copilot Chat (Web) in Teams & Outlook metrics  – Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics about their Copilot Chat (Web) usage in Teams and Outlook. These updates enable users to better understand both active usage and action counts in Teams and Outlook and will be available in the Copilot Dashboard, as well as with additional query support. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499426
• Microsoft Edge: Introducing a new policy that can enable/disable Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business from showing in the toolbar – Edge for Business will now have a dedicated policy (Microsoft365CopilotChatIconEnabled) to enable and disable Copilot in Edge from showing in the Edge toolbar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496140
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Prompt category metrics for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – Viva Insights Copilot Dashboard will start showing Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat prompt category metrics within Copilot Chat (work) insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486698
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can easily manage orphaned agents with comprehensive lifecycle functionality – Admins will have the power to effectively manage the lifecycle of ownerless agents. They can easily filter, identify, block, 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): The chat experience now offers better search refinement on CIQ menu Files tab – Following further review, this feature continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. 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

Rollout starts – September 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Email attachment summarization (Modern Attachments, Item Attachments) – Users will be able to reason over additional attachment content, along with the email body, in Copilot Chat. Support will be extended to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, Text, Json and Xml files mentioned in the email as links (Modern Attachments). Additionally, other item attachments, such as email threads, will also be supported. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499657
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report  – Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Preview). 1.  Addition of Weekly active user count. 2.  Report aggregation changed to weekly to main consistency with other reports. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499421
• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint Metrics – Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics that reflect Copilot Chat (Work and Web) activity across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These updates reflect the latest addition of Copilot Chat to these apps to help users transition seamlessly between workflows and will be displayed alongside existing app chat metrics for continuity. The updated metrics are available in the Copilot Dashboard, the M365 Copilot Adoption and Impact PBI reports, with additional query support for all chat prompt metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498913
• 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): Teams Channels in Context IQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams Channels in the Context IQ menu to help ground their prompts when using Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429645
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can generate an audio overview of your meetings – Copilot can generate an audio overview of your transcribed meetings, transforming one or multiple meetings into an engaging listening experience. Users can choose how they want to listen: select one or two speakers, adjust the tone from concise to playful, and tailor the length. This capability is only available in English currently. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490051
• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent meeting recap available in multi-tenant set ups – Copilot users in business-to-business multi-tenant organization set ups can now view the intelligent meeting recap after the meeting from the resource tenant where the meeting was hosted. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488298

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): See a summary from Copilot of the latest changes and comments in the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint backstage view. – Use Copilot in the backstage view, accessible from the tile tab or start menu, to see a summary of the latest changes and comments made to your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files before opening them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489826
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview of recent comments and changes in Word, Excel, PowerPoint – Use Copilot to see a summary of the latest comments and changes made to your Word, Excel and PowerPoint files using the Copilot chat pane. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489825

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Microsoft Purview

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Endpoint DLP – Protect shadow files for OneDrive – Admins can protect OneDrive shadow files, that are not locally synced on an endpoint device. This feature has a dependency on Just-in-time (JIT) to provide the interim protection. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489842
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- DLP alerts as indicators – IRM admins can now select DLP alerts as indicators in IRM policies. IRM admins can select DLP policies that they would like to bring into IRM. By enabling this indicator, admins can detect if a user has alerts for the pre-selected DLP policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admin can see if there are any high-risk alerts for this user within DLP for the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins view this information within IRM itself without having to switch to DLP. 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=475057“
• OneDrive: View PDFs with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels on OneDrive Web – With this capability, OneDrive users can open PDF files that are protected with Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels and read them using OneDrive web in read-only mode. Only authorized users will be able to access these PDF files. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416077
• 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 users 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: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. 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=156015
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal : Insider Risk Management Real-time policy tuning analysis – Policy tuning analysis provides admins with a real-time prediction based on the number of users that could match a given set of policy conditions. It helps organizations efficiently adjust the selection of indicators and thresholds of activity occurrence, so they dont have too few or too many alerts from a policy. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=122280
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by departing users – Detects security violations by departing users near their resignation or termination date. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=83963
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by priority users – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=83962
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – General Security Policy Violations – Detects security violations by users included in a priority user group. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. 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. Note: We apologize for the shifted timeline. We do appreciate your patience and understanding. Note: We are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=83961
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Security policy violations by risky users – Enabled by the HR 1.2 connector, this policy template detects security violations by users near a stressor event. Includes activity generated by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts, which detect possible security violations performed on devices on devices onboarded to your organization. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, security and policy violations, and more. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=83964

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Changes to case creation process in Purview portal when confirming alerts from Defender XDR portal and content retention periods in cases – With this release, alerts confirmed from the Defender XDR portal (security.microsoft.com) will not result in automatic case creation in the Purview portal. To create a case, Insider Risk Management analysts or investigators must manually click on the “”Confirm all alerts & create case”” button in the Purview portal from the alert that was previously confirmed through Defender XDR. When a case is created for a specific user based on the generated alert, related content such as online files and emails, is made available in the Content explorer tab. Additionally, any new content that generates or adds to an alert is included in the Content explorer for review during up to the 30 days from the creation of the Case. After these 30 days, new content identified for the user based on alerts will NOT be added to the Content explorer. To access new content, the existing case must be closed and a new Case created. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489228
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – 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=117546

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Always-on diagnostics for Windows Endpoints (Phase 2) – Admins can retrieve diagnostic ‘Always-on diagnostic’ traces directly from Windows endpoints and selectively upload them to Microsoft through the Purview Portal at the time of an investigation request such as submitting a support ticket, without disrupting end users or impacting their productivity. This eliminates the need for user coordination while maintaining seamless troubleshooting capabilities. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499431

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention — Always-on diagnostics for macOS endpoints (Phase 1) – This feature release Always-on diagnostics, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on macOS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on onboarded Mac devices, eliminating the need to reproduce issues when submitting investigation requests to Microsoft. It allows for the collection of detailed traces over extended periods (up to 90 days). While raising tickets to submit investigation requests to Microsoft regarding Microsoft Endpoint DLP, customers can share enhanced diagnostic information with Microsoft without needing to reproduce the exact scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499432
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – On demand classification for files on Windows devices – This capability will enable organizations to scan files on Windows devices for sensitive information to meet data discovery requirements for regulatory purposes and inform data security posture accordingly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496593

Rollout starts – December 2025

• Microsoft Purview | Compliance Manager: Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) integration – Compliance Manager now integrates with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, allowing customers to assess their compliance posture across Microsoft 365, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services with resource-level testing and cloud-specific guidance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=167331

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