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 15 new additions to the roadmap, plus 119 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 (4)
• In development (4)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Compress your PDF – OneDrive for Web now lets you reduce PDF file size with compress feature. You can choose from three different compression levels that best fit your needs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487440
• SharePoint: SharePoint eSignature for Microsoft Word – This feature is available to tenants that enable SharePoint eSignature in the Microsoft Admin Center and have Word clients on the Current Channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486707

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• SharePoint: Header & Footer Enhancements – The site header and footer are key elements of the SharePoint user interface, playing a vital role in navigation, brand expression, and overall user experience. To better align with today’s design standards and customer expectations, we’re introducing a full visual upgrade of the SharePoint site header and footer. This upgrade delivers a more cohesive and contemporary look while offering new preset layouts and enhanced customization options. Organizations will be able to tailor these elements to better reflect their brand identity, improve usability, and create a more engaging, connected experience for employees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489225
• Add multiple SharePoint agents in a single Teams conversation – Users can include more than one SharePoint agent as a participant in a Teams group chat, meeting chat, or channel. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481826
• SharePoint: SharePoint agents are available in Teams app Store – You can find and add SharePoint agents from the Teams app Store. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481824
• SharePoint: SharePoint Agents in Teams Channels – SharePoint agents can be used in a Teams Channel similar to how they can be used in a Teams Group Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481822

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: Metadata understanding in SharePoint agents – This update will allow agents grounded in SharePoint library contents to use and reason over available metadata to better distinguish between similar documents and provide higher-quality answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502516
• SharePoint: Sections with Copilot – Sections with Copilot is a new SharePoint tool that enables users to create SharePoint sections using prompts. It analyzes your page context to suggest content starters, which you can refine or customize. After generating content, it pulls information from within your organization to create rich sections, including meeting transcripts and documents. If adjustments are needed, you can use AI refinement for content and layout changes. Examples include “”change the background image”” or “”add John Smith’s contact information””. You can also click “”regenerate”” for new suggestions. With Sections with Copilot, content creation is faster, regardless of your SharePoint skill level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498547

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 SharePoint: New Microsoft 365 Copilot Skills for SharePoint Administration   – We’re excited to announce two new Copilot skills in the SharePoint Admin Center: 1. Step-by-Step Task Guidance. Copilot can now walk you through the exact steps required to complete common admin tasks. Example: “How can I find sites that are potentially over-permissioned?” What to expect: Copilot will recommend clear, sequential instructions to guide you from start to finish. 2. Multi-Criteria Site Search. Copilot can help you find sites using multiple conditions at once. Example: “Find sites that have been inactive for more than 60 days and are shared externally.”. What to expect: Copilot will generate a filtered list of sites that meet your criteria and suggest recommended actions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501455
• 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 (21)
• Rolling out (6)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Compact Notification Size – Users will now have the ability to change the size of Teams notifications. The compact size takes up less space on the user’s screen and offers a clean, minimalist design. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496175
• Microsoft Teams: Monitor DNS resolution failures and impact of proxy on Teams meetings with Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center. – Teams administrators can use the Best practice configurations dashboard in Teams admin center for monitoring significant impact on meeting quality in their tenant due to DNS resolution failures or proxy (local or cloud). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492982
• Microsoft Teams: New audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing – IT administrators will now have the ability to access detailed logs for both the “Give and Take Control” and “Screenshare” features. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. Specifically, the logs will indicate who initiated or received control, as well as who started the screenshare session, along with the corresponding timestamps and names. This enhancement ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screenshare activities. Accessible in Teams Admin Centre.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489224
• Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams Chat and channels experience in Education – 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. This is an optional opt-in experience.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490057
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: Detect sensitive content that’s being shared in meetings (Premium) – Screen content shared during a meeting is protected by detecting sensitive content and alerting the presenter and organizers when it appears. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487433
• 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: Moderator-Governed Meetings for Information Barrier Compliance (Premium) – This new Microsoft Teams Meeting feature enables secure collaboration between users separated by information barriers (also known as ethical walls) under strict compliance oversight. With this capability, meetings involving participants from restricted groups can proceed only when a designated meeting moderator—assigned by the compliance department—is present. If the last moderator leaves the meeting,  the meeting automatically ends. This ensures real-time compliance monitoring and maintains regulatory integrity during sensitive cross-barrier interactions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486833
• Microsoft Teams: DVR (Digital Video Recording) capabilities for town halls on iOS and Android – Users can now interact with an instance of a live streaming town hall instance in the same way they would a recorded piece of content when viewing via iOS and Android. DVR functionality in town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back within a town hall, navigate to any previously-streamed timestamp, and other abilities that make interacting with a town hall more convenient and makes it easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for all town halls regardless of the license assigned to the organizers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486694
• Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral support for BYOD spaces – With room and desk peripheral support expanded to include docking stations and webcams, Teams users can seamlessly connect and utilize audio and video peripherals for enhanced experiences in bring your own device (BYOD) spaces. IT admins can benefit from automatic association of devices to a space, device inventory, and detailed reports for peripherals in the Pro Management portal. 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=486693
• Microsoft Teams: New Teams calendar available to Education customers – The new calendar in Teams will be available to Education customers. The new calendar in Teams is designed to be familiar and reliable, as it’s one unified calendar that works across new Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the web, Microsoft Places, and now Microsoft Teams. With this update, the new Teams calendar will be enabled by default, and users can turn it off from the “New calendar” toggle at the top right of the calendar app in Teams.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=481281
• 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
• Microsoft Teams: New Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience in GCC – 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=485705
• Microsoft Teams: Personal meeting templates (Premium) – Personal meeting templates enable users to pre-save meeting configurations (meeting options) and schedule meetings quickly with one click. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482537
• Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Text in Teams Meetings and Calls – Real-time Text (RTT) is a fast, accessible, and immediate communication method that transmits text character by character as it is typed. It is particularly valuable in various calling and meeting scenarios where it enables deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, neurodiverse users, and those with speech-related disabilities to engage in real-time conversations through text. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484119
• Microsoft Teams: Townhall concurrent attendees increase to 100,000 – Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audience in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 100,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 50,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 100,000 concurrent attendees by selecting the Max Capacity limit to be as high as desired up to 100,000. Reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption) is recommended for every event. 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=484124
• Microsoft Teams: Copilot only during call – Copilot is only available during the live call session and will not be accessible after the call ends. No recording or transcription is required to use Copilot during the call. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=482745
• Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can enable transcription in multilingual meetings (Copilot and Teams Premium) – We’re introducing a new organizer-level control that no longer requires all meetings to have one common spoken language to be set across all participants. Meeting organizers with Copilot or Teams Premium licenses will see a new control in meeting options called “Enable multilingual speech recognition.” When this is enabled before a meeting, each meeting participant will be able to set their own spoken language during the meeting, and the meeting transcript can accurately reflect each participant’s language of choice.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=473434
• Microsoft Teams: Third-Party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support – Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts used in 3rd party applications chat and meeting applications can utilize the same shortcuts in Teams. To do this, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog from the Settings and more button in the upper right, and select a communication or meeting layout. This enables users to apply the shortcuts they are accustomed to from 3rd party chat and meeting applications. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=472913
• Microsoft Teams: Real-Time Mic Volume Indicator for Teams Meetings – Introducing the Mic Volume Indicator for Teams meetings, a feature designed to provide real-time visual feedback on your audio levels. Positioned on the user bar, this indicator ensures your voice is captured correctly, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” By offering continuous visual confirmation, it enhances user confidence and reduces communication breakdowns. It l streamlines meeting efficiency by minimizing interruptions and ensuring seamless communication. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=468274
• Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Chat, Copilot, and Notes panes can be popped out from the meeting window – When you are in meetings or calls, you will be able to pop out, drag, and resize your meeting panes from the meeting window. This includes Chat, Copilot, and Notes side panes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=421607

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  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
• 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: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for Teams Town hall  – With Ultra-low latency, attendees will now be able to view and participate in a town hall instance at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers. This update significantly improves the attendee experience compared to the typical 20-30 second delay experienced in the past. This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486535
• Microsoft Teams: Short meeting URL – We are making meeting URL shorter and removing unnecessary symbols/info from there to make it more convenient for sharing Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=381953
• Microsoft Teams: Decorate your background for GCC and GCC High environments (Premium) – Decorate your background is now available to customers in the GCC and GCC High environments. Decorate your background is a generative background effect in Teams that makes meetings more fun and personal by using AI to spruce up your meeting background. Blend your physical and digital spaces, enabling you to revamp what’s seen of your physical meeting space for each call. This technology allows for effortless room clean-ups, adding virtual plants, or festive decorations for special events. Decorate your background requires a Teams Premium license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=419811

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Preview changes before sending content live in ‘Manage what attendees see’ – An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature allows organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is going to be displayed on or off the screen before sending the changes live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500871
• Microsoft Teams: Collaborate using Pages in Channels – We are bringing Pages to your Teams Channel experience. Create and collaborate using Pages directly in any of your channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500634
• 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

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: New SlimCore-based optimization for Microsoft Teams in VDI – support for MacOS on Citrix and Azure Virtual Desktops/Windows 365 – This feature allows MAC endpoints to optimize Microsoft Teams in VDI environments with the new SlimCore-based media engine, providing an expanded feature set and multiple improvements in quality, reliability and performance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502524
• 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: 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

Rollout starts – November 2025

•  Microsoft Teams: Immersive events in Microsoft Teams – Host interactive virtual events with avatars in customizable 3D spaces. Schedule immersive events from your Teams calendar and join events directly in Microsoft Teams on PC or Mac. Organizers can customize an immersive event’s 3D space with images, videos, and 3D models, no coding skills required. Attendees can mingle in the 3D space and engage with different features that provide a rich interactive experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500017
• 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

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OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

• N/A

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

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•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Filtering Conversation History – We’re introducing a chat history filtering capability that empowers users to tailor their view of past conversations. This feature enables users to scope their chat history to a more relevant, workflow-aligned view, helping them quickly surface the chats that matters most. This enhancement is designed to support better context recall. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497910
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493733
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493732
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference an Excel file when creating a presentation with Copilot for PowerPoint – You can now reference an Excel file when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493731
• 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): Audio summary of your file  – Copilot can generate audio summaries of your file, making information easy to consume anywhere. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=478649

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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): Configurate format, style, and duration of Audio Overviews in Copilot Notebooks – Users can guide Copilot on the format (podcast-style with dual voices or a single voice), style, and duration while generating an Audio Overview of their Copilot Notebook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499151
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): New file extension for Copilot pages – We are introducing a new file extension for Copilot pages, “.page”. This new file extension will continue to support admin toggles, sensitivity labels, data loss prevention, multi-geo, Purview eDiscovery, version history, export, audit logs, and data subject requests. The functionality and support for the .page file extension will be identical to the existing .loop file extension, with the only difference being the file extension and the associated file icon.  For a comprehensive list of features supported refer to: Summary table of admin management, governance, lifecycle, and compliance capabilities based on experience Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494834
• Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Pin agents in M365 Copilot Chat – This feature enables AI administrators to pin specific agents in M365 Copilot Chat for all users in the tenant or defined users and groups, improving user accessibility to the most relevant and agents for their work. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492613

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Permission details for agents in MAC – The new Unified Permissions Management feature gives admins a consistent view of all required applications and delegated permissions, along with their associated risk levels, enabling clearer understanding of consents. From the permissions tab, admins can now provide consent directly, and once granted by the Global Admin, the AI Admin Role can deploy agents. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502617
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updates to video creation in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Quickly generate videos from a prompt, PowerPoint, PDF, or Word document with Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app—now with transcript-based editing, custom media from OneDrive, natural voiceovers, brand color integration, and a redesigned scene structure for faster, more professional storytelling. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501560
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Session Persistence Enhancement – This feature ensures that conversations are preserved even when users navigate away from a session. As soon as a prompt is submitted, an entry is immediately created in the navigation pane’s session history. This allows users to leave the session and return later just as if they had never left. The update enhances continuity and reliability, making it easier to navigate without losing progress. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500638
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat – Support for emails in ContextIQ – Users can include an email in their prompt as a reference by typing ‘/’ and selecting one from the ContextIQ menu when using either the full app or side pane Copilot Chat experience in Outlook. Copilot Chat will reference the included email as part of its response. This feature applies to users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license (Copilot Chat users) and to users with a license (Microsoft 365 Copilot users) when they are toggled to web scope in chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500377
• 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): Enhanced personalization with memory in Copilot – Microsoft 365 Copilot will improve memory in Copilot by increasing the relevance and quality of Copilot responses based on previous communications. This AI-powered capability improves the relevance and quality of Copilot responses by learning from previous communications. These memories are private to the user. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499153
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Researcher available in Copilot Notebooks – Use Researcher without needing to leave your Copilot Notebook to conduct complex, multi-step research across your enterprise data sources using OpenAI’s deep researcher model with chain-of-thought based iterative reasoning. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493288
• 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 
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for Copilot Chat Navigation Pane in Outlook – The navigation pane has been repositioned from the right side to the left, offering a more intuitive layout. Despite the shift, it continues to host agents and conversation history, ensuring continuity in user experience. This redesign introduces new features, including access to the “All Conversations” page, which provides a comprehensive view of chat history. The change aims to enhance usability and streamline navigation within Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499149
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Updated UI for the Copilot Chat Navigation Pane in Teams – The navigation pane has been repositioned from the right side to the left, offering a more intuitive layout. Despite the shift, it continues to host agents and conversation history, ensuring continuity in user experience. This redesign introduces new features, including access to the “All Conversations” page, which provides a comprehensive view of chat history. The change aims to enhance usability and streamline navigation within Copilot Chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499148

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Show more results in Copilot Chat – Users can ask for additional search results during a multi-turn conversation by saying things like “show me more.” Copilot continues from where it left off, pulling in remaining relevant results to maintain context and improve accuracy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501576
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Copilot Employee Experience Outcomes Report with Viva Glint – A new Power BI report in Viva Insights highlights the relationships and impact of M365 Copilot usage on employee experience sentiment outcomes in Viva Glint. This report enables robust analysis by allowing users to slice and dice data based on Copilot usage segments, different sentiment outcomes and organizational attributes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496654
• 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
• Microsoft Copilot: Pinned chats – Users of Microsoft Copilot with Graph-grounded chat can easily return to their recent chats and organize their work in Microsoft Copilot. With the new pinned chats feature, they can pin up to 15 chats for easy access later. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=374335

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Microsoft Purview

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• Rolling out (4)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Diagnostics in the new portal – After further review, this needs to roll back.  We apologize for any inconvenience. We are building UX to surface the diagnostics that were previously available through cmdlet to be accessible through portal UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=418566

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Detection of True file type in EXO DLP – Traditionally, Exchange has relied solely on the file extension (e.g., .docx, .pdf) to identify the type of an attachment. However, this approach can be bypassed if a file is renamed with a misleading extension. To address this, we’re enhancing our detection logic to go beyond just the visible file extension. With this update, even if a file’s extension is altered, Exchange will evaluate the actual content of the file to determine its true type. This ensures that policies based on file type—such as “File extension is…”—remain effective and secure, even in cases of renamed or disguised attachments. This improvement provides customers with a more robust and reliable way to enforce compliance and security rules around file sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493291
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI: Additional permissions for AI roles – After further review, this continues in development. We apologize for any inconvenience. New roles added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI that are customized to accessing AI data. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489837
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – New inline data protection in Edge for Business for unmanaged Windows and macOS devices – Following further review, we mistakenly marked the roadmap as “launched.” The correct status is In Development. We apologize the inconvenience. When using Microsoft Edge for Business as the secure enterprise browser, Admins in Purview DLP can now configure policies that apply protections directly in the Edge browser that target scenarios where users on unmanaged (or BYO) devices are sharing data to or exfiltrating data from org-managed cloud apps (apps which use Entra authentication for user sign-in). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486366
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Ability to rename the policy and rule names in DLP – This feature gives the ability for the DLP admin to rename the existing policy/rule without having to create the entire the rule or policy again. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=370535

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Data Loss Prevention: DLP to restrict Microsoft 365 Copilot processing on emails with sensitivity labels – Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is extended to preventing Microsoft 365 Copilot from processing emails with sensitivity labels. This feature will allow DLP policies to provide detection of sensitivity labels in emails as enterprise grounding data and restrict access of the labeled emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot chat experiences. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501591
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Site default labeling for SharePoint Online and Copilot – This new capability further integrates SharePoint Online with Purview sensitivity labeling. SharePoint Online document library owners can set a new type of default label on the library, which automatically applies that label to all unprotected Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF files within the library. This simplifies labeling in bulk across document libraries in an organization, enriches DLP and Copilot with signal to allow admins to monitor and restrict access to this content, and enables inheritance of sensitivity labels to output artifacts in Copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485732

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: OCR Audit logs – This feature is designed to provide Audit logs for each OCR transaction; this feature is only available in Exchange and teams workload for public preview.   Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502527

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: UX improvements to the DLP Alerts in Purview Portal – We’re excited to announce UX improvements to the DLP Alerts Portal in Purview to help you triage incidents faster and more efficiently. What’s New: 1. Unified View: Events related to each alert are now available directly on the alerts page — no need to switch to new tab or drill down. 2. Faster Access: Access event details (e.g. Impacted assets) with just 1 click on the main alerts page itself, compared to 4 clicks earlier, reducing triage time significantly. 3. Enhanced Context: We’ve added 4 new columns – Location, DLP Rule name, DLP Policy name, Rule Action to display key alert and event attributes upfront — giving you more visibility at a glance. 4. Performance Boost: Cache improvements to ensure faster load times and a smoother experience. These updates are designed to streamline your workflow, reduce response times, and give you the context you need — all in a single, efficient view. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501787
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention: User based alert aggregation – User-Based Aggregation consolidates DLP alerts by user identity i.e. a DLP rule violations, in a specified aggregation time window, of the same rule and single user will be aggregated into a single alert enabling quicker triage and remediation. Instead of reviewing alerts containing rule match events of multiple users, DLP admin can now analyze grouped DLP rule match events per user, gaining insights into repeated policy violations and anomalous behavior.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501786
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Graph APIs for Standard eDiscovery Cases – Releasing Graph APIs supporting case management, search management and export for tenants with standard eDiscovery licenses. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500869

Rollout starts – January 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Efficient Review with Advanced Minimization Algorithms – Sophisticated algorithms analyze the review set and pick out the best set of documents to review while hiding redundant information. A new analytics relationship view and detailed reports for each analytic run through the new unified reporting format allow you to have confidence in the results. The analytical information is available in both our new insights experience and export load files, allowing you to easily adopt this efficiency boost into any workflow. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485766

Rollout starts – March 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Recommended thresholds – With this update, admins with the appropriate permissions can get tailored recommended thresholds for all the built-in indicators within the policy wizard. This feature enables organizations to fine tune their insider risk policies and get an optimal number of alerts. 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=477363

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