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 19 new additions to the roadmap, plus 94 changes over the last week.

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

SharePoint

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs – SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198
• SharePoint: Office 365 CDN in SharePoint – Use Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets to provide better performance for your SharePoint Online pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489230
• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint –  Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796
• SharePoint: Collaborate on SharePoint pages and news with co-authoring – Multiple authors can collaborate on a SharePoint page or news at the same time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=124853

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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Teams

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (4)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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: Interpreter agent available in Teams – The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490740
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap can be shared via link – Meeting participants can now share a link to the meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the recap tab, making it easier to reference and share the meeting recap insights with others. Meeting participants can share the meeting recap link with anyone in their organization, for those users who don’t have access to the recording or transcript, they need to request recording and transcript access before they can access the meeting recap. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=471430

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Teams: Edit and manage Teams Town Hall instances in Outlook – Organizers and co-organizers can now easily edit the details of Teams Town Hall instances. A direct link to the Teams Town Hall edit page is now accessible from Outlook calendar. This enhancement brings the same seamless editing and registration management experience already available in webinar, bringing a consistent experience across all event types. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496986
• Microsoft Teams: Saved messages – Quickly get back to important information without scrolling through long conversations. You can save messages, whether it is a post, a reply or chat message, and find them later in the Saved view in your Chat or Teams list. Click on a saved message to open the full conversation in the right pane, where you can review or reply directly. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496369
• Microsoft Teams: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in ‘Manage what attendees see’ – Following further review, this feature started rolling out in July 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience. An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487431
• Microsoft Teams: Specify who has control of production tools in Teams Town hall – Following further review, this feature started rolling out in July 2025.  A new option in Town hall lets organizers designate who has control of production tools during the event. Organizers can select specific individuals who will be able to start the event, manage what attendees see, and end the event, ensuring a smoother and more organized event experience. Available on Teams desktop app and coming soon for Teams Rooms on Windows.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487432

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams integration with Microsoft Defender for Office Tenant Allow block list for domains. – Security admins can use the Tenant Allow/Block List feature in the Microsoft Defender portal to block domains for Microsoft Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492985

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Intelligent recap for DoD – Intelligent meeting recap uses AI to provide a quick summary of your meeting, highlighting key discussion points, identifying follow-up actions, and offering quick access to significant points such as name mentions, when a screen was shared, individualized speaker markers, topics, and chapters. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500242
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Support for multiple camera views and IntelliFrame from Teams Rooms on Windows in Teams webinar and structured meetings – Multiple camera views and IntelliFrame (Multi-stream and cloud) from Teams Rooms on Windows are now available in Teams webinar and structured meetings with “Manage what attendees see” enabled. Organizers and presenters of these meetings can access intelligent camera views and bring them on the live stage for attendees.  Available with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499894
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Customize captions on Mobile – Live captions are now available on mobile devices with enhanced customization options, making captions easier to read and follow during meetings. You can personalize your captions by adjusting the font color, caption background color, and caption height. These enhancements ensure captions remain accessible and comfortable, especially under varying lighting conditions or when you’re on the go. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499620
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame support on Teams Rooms on Android – Now Cloud IntelliFrame, the AI-based cloud technology that optimizes views of in-room participants for hybrid meetings, is available for Teams Rooms on Android using group framing. It is set as the default in those rooms, while remaining disabled by default in others. Admins can manage this behavior through console settings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499614
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Chat Notes – A new collaborative space is now available directly from your Teams chat, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. Chat notes is available in 1:1 and group chat, and is accessible only to the chat members. Add images, format text, share Loop components, and mention chat members when you require their attention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498159
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Enhanced privacy and stability for live captions  – To improve privacy, when transcription is off, captions will now show only the past five minutes of dialogue instead of the full meeting. If transcription is on, captions display the entire conversation, just like with live transcription. We’re also fixing an issue where changing the caption position could cause data loss—now, moving captions will not affect the text shown. These updates also apply to Real-time Text (RTT), ensuring a consistent and reliable experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499616
• 🆕 Outlook: New Scheduling and Event Creation Experience – The Outlook and Teams calendars will receive an update to the scheduling and event creation experience. Additionally, new capabilities will be available in this new experience to help streamline and enhance scheduling using Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498914
• 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: Silent test call – Silent Test enables IT administrators to proactively run synthetic Teams call simulations to specific subnets, helping assess network readiness and detect potential issues before they impact users, ensuring a seamless communication experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490055

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Live caption translation in Teams Rooms on Android – Users can now choose the translation language you prefer without affecting what other meeting participants see in Teams Rooms on Android. Currently, live captions display in the spoken language by default, this change allows individuals to select their own experience. This feature is available on Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499800
• Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC – Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493742

Rollout starts – January 2026

• Microsoft Teams: Migration Tool for Teams – Customers will now be able to move content seamlessly from public and private channels in a third-party solution to Teams standard channels. A new first-party Migration tool on Microsoft Admin Center (MAC) will allow admins to connect the third-party solution workspace, plan, and perform content migration to Teams. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485709

Rollout starts – August 2026

• Microsoft Teams: Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting – After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time.  We apologize for any inconvenience. Now, Copilot in Teams can analyze content shared on-screen during a meeting when recording is enabled. This, along with meeting transcript and meeting chat, enables users to ask Copilot to summarize or find specific information from screen-shared content (e.g., ‘Which products had the highest sales?’), consolidate insights across both the conversation and presentation (e.g., ‘What was the feedback per slide?’), and draft new content based on the entire meeting (e.g., ‘Rewrite the paragraph shared on the screen incorporating the feedback from the chat’). This works for any content shared while sharing your desktop screen (including but not limited to documents, slides, spreadsheets, and websites, irrespective of platform or app). Support for PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard in Teams will be available at a later date. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=325873

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint –  Apply watermark to PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you add text or images as watermarks to your PDF documents. You can place the watermark in front of your content and choose the perfect location and angle for it. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485796

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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•  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): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for EDU customers ages 13 and older – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 EDU users ages 13 and older 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, powered by the latest large language models with optional web grounding. Admins must take action to enable access. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497916
• 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 SharePoint: New web part for FAQs – SharePoint FAQ web part help assist content owners keep their content fresh and relevant. Powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, this new web part can help content owner easily curate FAQ by working with agents and connected grounding data. With a Human-in-the-Loop approach, it ensures high-quality, trustworthy FAQs—without the hassle. The result? A living FAQ that evolves with your organization’s needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482198
• Microsoft Teams: Interpreter agent available in Teams – The Interpreter agent enables real-time interpretation in Teams meetings in up to nine languages so each participant can speak and listen in the language of their choice. Meeting participants can also opt-in to have Interpreter simulate their personal voice for a more inclusive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490740
• Microsoft Edge: Find on Page in Microsoft Edge for Business will soon be integrated with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat  – Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat to Find on Page (CTRL+F).  This feature seeks to help users more easily find relevant content and save time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489222
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL when creating presentations with Copilot – Once you integrate your organization’s assets into a Sharepoint OAL (Organization Asset Library) you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475064
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses Enterprise assets hosted on Templafy when creating presentations with Copilot – Once you connect your asset library, hosted with Templafy, to Microsoft 365 and Copilot, you will be able to create presentations with your organization’s images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475055
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI – A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475377
• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Copilot to rephrase text as desired through custom prompt in PowerPoint – Now you will be able to rewrite text using Copilot through natural language prompting in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494832
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments – The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for DoD environments. This update includes a UI refresh, a new icon, and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Notebooks, and Apps.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494998
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489828

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Voice chat in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot brings a natural, hands-free conversational experience to your desktop and mobile devices – enabling you to talk to Copilot like a colleague, unlocking a faster, more intuitive way to work. Speak directly to M365 Copilot to search for information, catch up between meetings, brainstorm out loud, and do it all in multiple languages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481138
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat Tools Control – Tools acts as a lightweight entry point into high-value, task-specific Copilot features and capabilities directly from the prompt box. By selecting Tools, users get a menu where they can easily discover and trigger the right Copilot feature or capability for their current task, while also providing consistent interactions across tools. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497298
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat – General Availability for the DoD environment – Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Copilot is available at no additional cost for Microsoft 365 DOD 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 DOD compliance boundary. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494511
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496137
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496136
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add topic(s) through Copilot to your existing presentation – Now, you will be able to add more content to your existing presentation using Copilot. It would help you generate/add new topic(s) with slides that are consistent in look and feel of your existing presentations Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496138
• Outlook: Schedule from email with Copilot – Often you may want to transition a conversation from an email thread to a meeting. Copilot helps you do this by being able to start scheduling right from the email conversation. It saves you time and effort by generating a meeting invite that’s ready for you to review and send. When you click on “Schedule with Copilot” a meeting form will appear with a Copilot generated meeting title, agenda, and conversation summary as well as a pre-filled attendee list from the email thread and an attachment of the original email thread. This feature will be available in the new Outlook for Windows, web, Mac, and mobile. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495260
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments – The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments. This update includes a UI refresh and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Apps, and Notebooks.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495116
• Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Summarization in Edge for Business Context Menu – Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce a Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat summarization menu item to our context menu. This feature will help users quickly unpack and ask questions about their open page.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491473
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Agents in Copilot Chat available on Edge Sidebar – Use agents in Copilot Chat on Edge Sidebar to simplify tasks. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482410
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enhanced Copilot in Engage – Copilot in Engage has now been integrated with M365,providing the same rich access to the M365 Graph, and helping you natively access Microsoft data in the flow of Engage.  Alongside this update, you can expect improved AI-powered writing assistance that bring in email/chat/files data to help craft both the content and style of your message Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481282
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Teams chats in ContextIQ – Users will be able to search for and select Teams chats in ContextIQ to scope their prompts in Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429646

Rollout starts – September 2025

•  Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – M365 Copilot Chat adoption metrics – Insights on M365 Copilot Chat adoption for users not licensed for M365 Copilot. Insights will include usage trends over time, adoption by group, retention, and app level breakdowns. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover adoption patterns. Admins can disable M365 Copilot Chat insights in Microsoft Admin Center. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499899
•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 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=497939
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): 1-click to create a Brief 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 Brief 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot – The Employee Self-Service Agent in M365 Copilot expedites answers for the most common workplace policy-related questions and takes action on key HR and IT related tasks, connecting employees to authorized knowledge bases and HR/IT systems of record for faster resolution time and a streamlined employee experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487836

Rollout starts – October 2025

• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Studio agent report in Insights enhanced with autonomous agents. – Enhancement to Copilot studio agents report (Viva Insights) – 1. Inclusion of agents with “generative” orchestration 2. Autonomous agent adoption and impact (maker led time and cost saving). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499422

Rollout starts – November 2025

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Lifecycle Management- Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete content on OneDrive and SharePoint Online – We’re 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

Rollout starts – December 2025

• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report – Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488104

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Microsoft Purview

• Launched (7)
• Rolling out (3)
• In development (5)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  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
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Timeline view of user activity – This feature offers a comprehensive timeline view of a user’s potentially risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. It includes both interactions with other users and generative AI applications that have been flagged for review. This empowers reviewers by providing context on the user’s history, enabling them to address violations with a complete view of all other potential risky interactions that may result in a data security or compliance incident. As a result, reviewers can make informed decisions, streamlining the review process to be both efficient and effective. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489840
• 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 they’re transferred outside from a user’s 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: Department graph for Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI – A new graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displays the departments of users interacting with M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=475377
• 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: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=171751
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal:  Insider Risk Management – Microsoft Defender for Endpoint alerts – Enables you to import indicators from Microsoft Defender for Endpoint related to unapproved or malicious software installation or bypassing security controls. 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 are updating this item to reflect changes to this deployment. We appreciate your patience.</span> </div> Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=83965

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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 on devices. Adding DoD/GCC/GCC high expected dates Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493750
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Confidence level filtering in Content Explorer Cmdlet – With this feature, we will be providing confidence information in content explorer cmdlet export along with the capability to filter results on the basis of confidence level Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492620
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI – M365 Copilot view – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, a specific page is dedicated to showing protection capabilities and usage for M365 Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489828

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Personal email triggers – In this update, we are adding the recently added email indicators in Insider Risk Management as triggers. 1.  Sending email with attachments to free public domains – Users will be brought into scope of a policy 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 – Users will be brought into scope of a policy 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 triggers in the data leaks or data leaks by priority users template. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496149
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams – Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=165707

Rollout starts – November 2025

• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Lifecycle Management- Introduction of secure workflow to bypass retention holds and delete content on OneDrive and SharePoint Online – We’re 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

Rollout starts – December 2025

• 🆕  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Tip Support in Outlook for Mac – DLP policy tips for Microsoft Outlook for Mac provide real-time notifications to users when their email contains sensitive information that violates organizational policies. Users can see policy tips directly in the mail tip UI and have the option to remove non-compliant recipients or override the policy if necessary. This feature ensures compliance by alerting users to potential data loss risks before sending emails. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498491

Rollout starts – June 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Cloud Attachments preservation for users on hold – Enables cloud attachment preservation for users put on infinite hold so that file versions shared are preserved across any OneDrive or SharePoint site. This is a new capability which is different from the existing capability of applying label to cloud attachments and links present in OneDrive and SharePoint and shared in Exchange, Teams, Viva Engage and Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493752

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