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 22 new additions to the roadmap, plus 95 changes over the last week.

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

SharePoint

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (0)
• In development (3)

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Agents page – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared agents in the Agents page of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly from Agent inventory. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Content Management Assessment (CMA) – The Content Management Assessment (CMA) helps tenant admins quickly evaluate site health, permissions, and lifecycle readiness—all in a single, actionable dashboard. It brings together multiple SAM reports, including Site Lifecycle Management (SLM) and Data Access Governance (DAG), and delivers clear, tailored recommendations to strengthen governance and prepare for Copilot onboarding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501427
• Microsoft SharePoint: New web part for FAQs – After further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as “launched.” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. 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

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Teams

• Launched (0)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (23)

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings – Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501107
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Control External Access by Domain for Specific Users and Groups – Gain granular control over external communication. By setting custom External Access policies, you can define domain allow/deny lists and assign them to specific users or groups – capabilities that were previously tenant-wide only (“Teams and Skype for Business users in external organizations”). Use this to pilot with a department, restrict high‑risk roles to approved partners, or open federation broadly where appropriate. Example: Allow Group A to communicate only with a specific domain, while Group B can communicate with all external domains. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501275
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: User reporting for incorrectly identified security concerns – Microsoft Teams now allows users to report messages they believe were incorrectly flagged as security concerns. This feature is available in one-on-one chats, group and meeting chats, as well as public and private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501202
• Microsoft Teams: New Organization chart in the Profile Card for Web and Desktop – With the new org chart users will not only be able to contextaulize a person, they will also be able to scroll through visited profiles, see a manager’s reports counts, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500696
• 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

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Join town halls and webinars as an attendee from Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android can now join Town Halls in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for Town Halls on the Teams desktop app. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500702
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: People count captured by Cloud IntelliFrame in the Pro Management portal reports – Admins get enhanced visibility into room usage from Pro Management portal reports with detailed occupancy data captured by Cloud IntelliFrame during meetings. This insight helps IT more effectively plan and optimize meeting spaces, and is currently available for Teams Rooms on Windows licensed with Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501547
• 🆕Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance – We are updating private channels to align with compliance model for all channels. After this change, compliance policies applied to the team (M365 Group) will apply to all channels in the team – across standard, private, and shared. Private channels will no longer need user level targeting of policies different from other channels, and private channel compliance messages will no longer be copied to user mailboxes, relying on a dedicated, internal mailbox per channel like shared channels. In addition, limits for private channels will be increased so each team can have more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit per team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500380
• Microsoft Teams: Raise hands in Town Hall – Currently in a Teams Town hall, attendees cannot raise their hands and share their microphone and camera as they can in a meeting. With this new update, town halls organized by users with Teams Premium will allow attendees to raise their hand like they would in a standard Teams meeting. The ability to raise a hand can signal to organizers and presenters, who can then bring attendees on screen to allow them to share their camera and microphone. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499889
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent for scheduled and ad-hoc meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can now use the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows for real-time notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings using AI. In hybrid meetings, the agent appears in the notes panel. For in-person meetings, a participant can scan the QR code on the display in the room to invoke the agent as the group’s assistant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499891
• Microsoft Teams: Simplified device settings for voice and face recognition on Teams Rooms” – It’s easier for admins to enable the benefits of intelligent audio and video and Copilot for users in Teams Rooms through a new user interface, and admin settings. These new settings, on the device and in the Pro Management portal, simplify configuration and remove the requirement to use PowerShell, offering improved visibility across rooms. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499615
• 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: Deploy Teams frontline worker pilot in Teams Admin Center – Deploy a frontline worker (FLW) pilot in Teams Admin Center Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498226
• Microsoft Teams: Noise Suppression for Dial-In Participants in Teams Audio Conferences – Microsoft Teams will soon support noise suppression for dial-in participants. This feature automatically filters out background noise (e.g., traffic, typing) for users who join meetings via phone (PSTN). It enhances clarity and reduces distractions for all meeting participants. The feature will be rolled out gradually. However, if you’d like to enable it yourself, you will be able to do so via the Teams Admin Center: 1. Go to Meeting policy 2. Navigate to the Audio & video section 3. Set Noise suppression for dial-in participants to Enabled or programmatically with MicrosoftTeamsPowerShell by setting NoiseSuppressionForDialInParticipants setting inside of CsTeamsMeetingPolicy to “”Enabled””. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496150
• Microsoft Teams: Simultaneous role-specific Teams Town hall and Webinar views in Teams Rooms – With a Teams Room on Windows system, both attendees and presenters for Teams Town halls and Webinars can now simultaneously enjoy unique experiences in the same room. This new feature sets the in-room viewing experience on the front of room display to attendee view by default so presenter-specific features, such as the green room and backroom chat, or off-stage presenters are hidden. Presenters in the room can still see their view on the console and manage everything smoothly without distracting the audience. Available in Teams Rooms Pro. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496368
• Microsoft Teams: BYOD space peripheral health signals and reports in the Pro Management portal – Admins can proactively manage peripherals in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks with reports in the Pro Management portal that now flag if devices are faulty, undetectable by a PC, missing, or moved. Reports in the Pro Management portal require a Teams Shared Devices license for the room, and reports for desks are in public preview. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493319
• Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town hall through “Manage what attendees see”  – Organizers will be able to effortlessly enhance their Teams Town hall presentations. In “Manage what attendees see” users will be able to customize their screen using select layouts, backgrounds, and name tags, resulting in a polished, high-quality, and engaging event. This feature is available with a Teams Premium License. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491633
• Microsoft Teams: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Automatically update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi – When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488800
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Share apps from app bar via right click – Allow users to right-click and share apps directly from the app icon on hover, while using the app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483355
• Microsoft Teams: Ability for all participants to start collaborative annotations – All participants in meetings are now able to start collaborative annotations. This will only be available in the new Microsoft Teams experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=89975

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 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

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OneDrive

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

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• OneDrive: Transfer ownership of departing employees’ files with ease – We’ve made it easier to manage files when employees leave—account cleanup emails are now more prominent, new filters help managers quickly locate key files, and the enhanced “Move and keep sharing” feature supports bulk transfers with consolidated notifications, making the process more efficient. Security and compliance in ownership transfer ensures sensitive data remains protected, access is properly reassigned, and regulatory obligations are met during employee offboarding. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493946

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Unified Conversations (Chat History) List – We’re making it easier to find what you need. This change will mean that users now see a single, streamlined list of all your conversations. No more switching between tabs or wondering where to look for specific conversations. Just select a conversation and you’ll pick up in the same context and mode as where you left off. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498545
• Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Setting to pin M365 Copilot app to Windows taskbar – This feature allows Global and Intune administrators to pin the M365 Copilot app to the Windows taskbar, providing users with easy access to M365 Copilot capabilities like Chat, Search, Agents, Notebooks and Create. This setting applies to all Intune-managed Windows 10 and 11 devices with the app installed. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498221
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint agent web part – SharePoint site page authors can add SharePoint agents to their pages with an agent web part, allowing end users to easily access and interact with SharePoint agents directly from the site pages. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481512
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint Sites – Users will be able to search for and select SharePoint Sites in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413110
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ground prompts using SharePoint and OneDrive Folders – Users will be able to select SharePoint and ODSP Folders from the new “Attach cloud files” experience in CIQ to scope their prompts to. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413109

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Copilot Chat – Usage intensity and new app coverage – The Copilot Chat usage report will include metrics on prompts submitted and expanded coverage across new host applications. Admins will now see total and average prompt counts at both tenant and user levels, along with user activity insights such as active days and last activity dates. Additionally, the report introduces visibility into Copilot Chat usage within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—enabling better tracking of adoption and engagement across these core Microsoft 365 apps. All metrics focus on unlicensed users and support export functionality for further analysis. User-level information is anonymized by default. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495549
• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot search – A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for search in Microsoft 365 Copilot. The report will include total search queries, average search queries per user, search usage trends, and per-user usage insights. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497545
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – August 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generative-AI skills for Create in Microsoft 365 Copilot app for Government Clouds – Design and edit images, posters, banners, infographics, text drafts, and forms with Copilot—align them to your brand using kits built by you or your team. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498548

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Copilot Chat for Teams Chats, Channels, Calling and Meetings – Copilot Chat will soon be available for Teams chats, channels, calling and meetings. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501107
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat-centered experience for creating new documents in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad  –  In the Create experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad, users will see a chat-centered experience to create documents, enabling them to describe the document they want to create in a prompt.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500632
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search based user RSVP status – Users will be able to search for meetings based on Self RSVP and Others RSVP status in Copilot Chat. Example prompts for a user looking for their own RSVP status include: “Meetings I have accepted/declined/marked tentative for today” “Did I accept Project OKR review meeting” “List all events I have not RSVPed”. Example prompts for a user looking for other individuals’ RSVP status include: “List RSVP status of attendees for the review meeting” “Who all have accepted the next meeting?” “Will Sarah attend Project review meet?” Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499429
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496367
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496366
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot uses enterprise assets hosted on SharePoint OAL or Templafy when creating a slide – Once your organization’s assets are integrated into a SharePoint Organization Asset Library (OAL) or connected through Templafy to Microsoft 365 Copilot, you’ll be able to easily create slides using your organization’s approved images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496365
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Increased efficiency with auto-generated Copilot Pages – Copilot Chat can automatically create and open a Page side-by-side when it detects a relevant scenario, enabling instant editing, steering, and sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497161
• 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 365 admin center: Manage SharePoint agents via Agents page – Admins can manage SharePoint agents as shared agents in the Agents page of the Microsoft 365 admin center. They will be able to block/unblock agents directly from Agent inventory. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487857

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to OneDrive file browsing experience in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPad and iPhone – Users on the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPad and iPhone devices will be directed to the standalone OneDrive app for file browsing and management. While users can still access their most recent files and search for OneDrive content within the Microsoft 365 Copilot app, advanced actions like folder navigation, permission settings, downloads, and deletions must be done in the OneDrive app. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501277
• Microsoft 365 Copilot: Initiate Copilot Chat by sharing files to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on iPhone and iPad  – When users on iPhone and iPad choose the action to share a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file from a third party app (including Files) and choose Microsoft 365 Copilot as the target app, the file will be uploaded to chat. Users will then have the option to open a preview of the file or continue their conversation with Copilot Chat.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500633
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent for scheduled and ad-hoc meetings in Teams Rooms on Windows – Users can now use the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows for real-time notes and action items during both scheduled hybrid and impromptu in-person meetings using AI. In hybrid meetings, the agent appears in the notes panel. For in-person meetings, a participant can scan the QR code on the display in the room to invoke the agent as the group’s assistant. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499891
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497541
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference a PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497540
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a PDF file when creating a slide with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference a PDF file when you create a slide with Copilot in PowerPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497536
• 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”—you’ll 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 Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Updated meeting metrics for Intelligent Recap – Copilot Dashboard users can now view metrics that reflect both summarized and recapped meeting activity, offering a more complete view of Copilot’s impact in Teams. These updates replace previous Copilot Assisted Hour calculations and meeting metrics with unified “summarized or recapped” metrics, helping leaders better understand usage across their organization. The updated metrics are available in both the Copilot Dashboard and the M365 Copilot Impact report in Advanced Insights, with additional query support for Intelligent Recap meeting metrics. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494687
• Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot from the address bar – When users type a search query in the Edge address bar, they will have the option to send their search query directly to Copilot for a synthesized, more targeted answer pulling from across the web (and their work content, for premium users).  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493287
• 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 – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Broader access to M365 Copilot Chat insights – Microsoft Viva is expanding access to M365 Copilot Chat Insights in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard by removing the requirement for 50 M365 Copilot licenses, allowing more tenants, including those with fewer licenses, to track adoption trends. Insights will include usage over time, group level adoption, retention, app-level breakdowns, retention, and more. Users can filter by organizational attributes to uncover usage patterns. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501581
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Rich Bing web answer cards on M365 Copilot – M365 Copilot will be showing the rich and interactive Bing web answer cards like Weather, Stocks etc. to relevant queries to enrich the responses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500865
• 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 Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider Risk Management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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=480730

Rollout starts – December 2025

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Microsoft Purview

• Launched (3)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (14)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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: Communication Compliance – Ability to exclude spam and bulk emails  – Communication compliance policies will filter out bulk emails such as newsletters to help customers triage policy matches more efficiently. This will be an option for all policies in Communication Compliance. New policies will have this filtering on by default, but admins will have the option to configure as well as remove the filtering. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance helps organizations detect explicit code of conduct and regulatory compliance violations, such as harassing or threatening language, sharing of adult content, and inappropriate sharing of sensitive information. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are explicitly opted in by an admin, 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=402194
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider risk management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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=394281

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention – Self-helper troubleshooting through Diagnostics page – Admin should be able to troubleshoot device health and policy sync health through Diagnostics page.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501592
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Collection policies impact on IRM – With this update, Microsoft Purview will start supporting collection policies. Collection policies allow customers to scope classification (SITs – Sensitive Information Types) and activities for scoped users. We recommend reviewing collection policies as they can be created by different Purview solution admins to ensure they are setup to detect the activities required by Insider Risk Management policies 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=501582
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Discovery of sensitive data sharing to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer – With this update, Insider Risk Management will support the discovery of sensitive files and text shared to any cloud application or website (inc. GenAI) via network layer. This capability is based on integration with 3rd party network partners (with data being captured via network layer). 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=501539
• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Generative AI apps activities as triggers in IRM – With this update, the generative AI apps indicators will be supported as triggers in Risky AI usage policy. With triggers, customers can define the conditions for bringing the user into the scope of a policy while the generative AI apps indicators are used to determine risk score. 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=501538
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – SharePoint Online extends library permissions to downloaded files. – This new capability ties together SharePoint Online library permissions with Purview sensitivity labeling and protection. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a label on the library, automatically applying that label to all unprotected and unlabeled Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files at rest in the target library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization. This capability also helps protect files as they egress from the original document library, such as for collaboration purposes or attempted exfiltration. Files downloaded from these libraries are protected at download. Users accessing these files outside of SharePoint Online have their rights evaluated in real time against the online copy of the document. Changes to user permissions on the online copy of the document are reflected on downloaded copy, including full access removal. This provides a more streamlined way to revoke access to documents for individual users, versus revoking access on a per-document basis. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=467254
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal – Data Loss Prevention: DLP support for Fabric Lakehouse, KQL, SQL, and Mirrored databases – DLP policy support for Fabric will allow admins to further scope DLP policies to lakehouses in addition to Power BI (which is supported today). Now in Fabric lakehouses, DLP policies can help audit and notify users through Policy Tips based upon sensitive content. In addition, DLP policy support will also extend to Fabric KQL databases, SQL databases and mirrored databases. Mirrored databases include Mirrored Azure Cosmos DB, Mirrored Azure DB for PostgreSQL, Mirrored Azure SQL Database, Mirrored Azure SQL Managed Instance, Mirrored database, Mirrored Snowflake, and Mirrored SQL Server Database. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=420332

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OneDrive support for Data Risk Assessments – Within Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI, OneDrive will be added as a supported location in data risk assessments. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488808
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enhanced Classification Support for Thai Language in Endpoint – Thai Language sentences do not have spaces in between them. And for classification purpose, we relied on right keywords to be added while creating Sensitive Information Type for ensuring accurate match. However, with this feature, spaces will be added automatically in keywords which will ensure higher match accuracy in EndPoint. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=365059

Rollout starts – November 2025

•  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
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Risky AI usage – With this update, Insider Risk Management will help admins identify risky AI usage. We are adding new detections of intentional and unintentional insider risk activity on generative AI apps that can pose a risk to an organization. Activities will include risky prompts containing sensitive info or risky intent and sensitive responses containing sensitive info or is generated from sensitive files or sites.  Coverage will span across Microsoft Copilots and 3P generative AI apps. These detections will also contribute to Adaptive Protection insider risk levels. 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=480730“

Rollout starts – December 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management- Multi selectable DLP policies as an IRM triggering event – Insider Risk Management is releasing the ability to select multiple Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies as triggering events in a policy. Previously, admins could only select one DLP policy as a triggering event within Insider Risk Management policies. 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=493756
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile – DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491016

Rollout starts – January 2026

•  Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: DLP Policy Tip Support in Outlook Mobile – DLP policy tip support for Outlook Mobile enhances data loss prevention measures on mobile devices by providing real-time alerts to help users avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information, ensuring compliance with organizational policies. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491017
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – DLP Policy 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=484854

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