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 21 new additions to the roadmap, plus 84 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 (1)
• In development (1)

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🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – January 2026

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge Agent – Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451

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Teams

• Launched (2)
• Rolling out (8)
• In development (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center​ – Teams Administrators will have the ability to remotely collect client diagnostics logs for troubleshooting from users’ devices, aiming to minimize or eliminate the need for user intervention and workflow disruption previously required for collecting diagnostics logs. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491439
• Microsoft Teams: Town halls in DoD – Set up and host large scale events across a DoD organization with the familiar Teams app you use for meetings using town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, green room, the ability to manage what attendees see, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489812

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Teams: AI Workflows in Workflows app – With AI Workflows in the Workflows app, you will have access to custom AI-powered templates to automate complex tasks and streamline daily operations. AI Workflows enhance productivity by simplifying task execution and helping users stay organized throughout the day. Admins can enable this feature to equip users with intelligent automation tools that make managing work more efficient and intuitive. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500379
• 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: 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
• Microsoft Teams: Unified building and endpoint metadata for reporting – Teams Administrators can now use a single, unified process to upload and maintain the building and endpoint metadata that enriches calling and meeting reports. This new process replaces Reporting Labels and ensures that the building and endpoint information you upload is used in both Tenant Admin Center and Call Quality Dashboard. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495830
• Microsoft Teams: New Workflows app experience in Teams and SharePoint – The new Workflows app is to provide an experience that is both simpler and faster to enable everyday Teams and SharePoint users to create automations in three steps or less. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491632
• Microsoft Teams: DoD support in Teams Rooms Pro Management  – Department of Defense (DoD) customer tenants now have access to the Teams Rooms Pro Management service and portal, enabling them to use the remote device management and analytics features of the solution while meeting high security and privacy standards. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493323
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Meeting Protection – Prevent Screen Capture – To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information. This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android). For users joining from unsupported platforms, they will be placed in audio-only mode to maintain the integrity of the meeting’s content. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490561
• 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Facilitator can help manage tasks and create documents – Facilitator can help users manage tasks and create documents during meetings. In addition to the tasks that the agent is automatically capturing during the meeting, users can ask Facilitator directly through the meeting chat to create, edit, and assign tasks, which sync to Planner. For tasks related to document creation, users can assign to Facilitator and it will draft the document based on the meeting discussion. Users can also ask the agent to create a draft document on a topic discussed in the meeting.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500701
• 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: Meeting Agent – The Facilitator agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage your meetings effortlessly. Throughout the meeting, Facilitator takes notes that everyone can co-author, manages the time and agenda, and can quickly surface relevant information from the web or the conversation itself. 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=478611

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Teams: Speed Up App Reviews with Trust-Based Filters – This feature enables IT Administrators in Teams admin center to view and easily filter apps and agents by specific industry standards, certifications and compliance attributes such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and more. This will help with more streamlined app evaluation workflows, enabling faster decisions and broader access to trusted apps across the organization. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503100
• Microsoft Teams:  Forwarded Messages Links – When someone forwards a message in Teams, you’ll now be able to click a link that takes you straight to the original chat or channel where it came from. Note, the link works only if the recipient has access to the original conversation. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503099
• Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent for scheduled meetings in Teams Rooms   – You can take advantage of the Facilitator agent in Teams Rooms on Windows or Android for real-time AI-generated notes, follow up items, and keeping everyone on time during scheduled meetings. Facilitator appears in the meeting chat and participants can toggle between notes, chat, and the agent.  Available in rooms licensed for Teams Rooms Pro. Facilitator for ad-hoc meetings, invoked by QR code scan, is available in public preview.   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

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Agent & bot support for Entra authentication in group chats – Agents & bots in group chats will now be able to authenticate through Entra. When an app requests a user’s Entra token in a group chat, if that user does not have the app installed or Entra consent, they are sent a targeted message. This targeted message is only visible to that user. This message serves two purposes: to ask the user to install the Teams app personally and to open the Entra permission consent dialog. Once both requirements are met, the app can leverage Entra for the requested permissions (e.g., Graph). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503557
• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Camera view switching in multi-camera Teams Rooms on Windows – When in a meeting with another Teams Rooms on Windows that has multiple cameras, you can switch camera views in that room via the participant panel on the console, or video tile on a touch board, to optimize your views. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503104
• Microsoft Teams: Unified Agent and App Availability Management Across Microsoft 365 and Teams Admin Center – Administrators using the Microsoft 365 admin center and Teams admin center who manage agents and apps that work across Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot will be able to apply their changes consistently across all these surfaces. Before this update, changes made through the Integrated Apps section in the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect these apps on Outlook and the Microsoft 365 copilot; similarly, changes made in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. With this change, app and agent availability  will be unified across Teams, Outlook and Microsoft 365 copilot. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503105
• Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Copilot chat summary – Missed many messages? Copilot will automatically generate a summary of the new messages in a chat conversation, so you can catch up quickly without reading every message. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501201
• 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: Rules-Based Enablement of Third-Party Teams Apps in Teams Admin Center – This feature allows M365 administrators to define specific criteria for approving third-party Teams applications within their tenant. Administrators can select from a list of predefined, safe criteria, ensuring that only trusted and compliant applications are made available under this rule. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485712
• Microsoft Teams: Network Strength icon to understand strength of your network – Quickly understand strength of your network along with suggestions to conserve bandwidth if you are experiencing networking issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=414513

Rollout starts – March 2026

• Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites – This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=476488

Rollout starts – September 2026

• 🆕 Microsoft Teams: Channel Agent – Channel agent works alongside you and your team to help you manage projects. It can create status reports, send emails, schedule meetings, co-author documents, and answer questions. Channel agent understands context from meetings, chats, and files, and uses that knowledge to help you move work forward. It’s designed to save time, reduce manual effort, and make collaboration more intelligent. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502526
• Microsoft Teams:  Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls – After further review, we are not able to continue rolling this out at this time.  We apologize for any inconvenience. Introducing a new feature that brings interactive agents into your Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero state prompts and history support for seamless interactions. Currently, only agents built on Copilot support sessions, meaning they can remember the context of previous interactions within the same session for more relevant responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support. All agents from BizChat/Copilot Studio are now available for use in your meetings and calls. This feature allows secure testing and iteration, inviting colleagues for feedback without affecting sensitive data or production channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490564

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OneDrive

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

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•  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 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

•  Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Show more results in Copilot Chat – Users can ask for additional search results (emails, meetings, calendar, and files) 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500864
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500863
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference a Loop or Page when creating a presentation with Copilot – You can now reference a Loop or Page when you create a presentation with Copilot within the PowerPoint application. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500862
• 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=496136

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – September 2025

• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Skills agent – The Skills agent in M365 Copilot, empowers individuals and leaders to easily find experts in the organization, make informed decisions about skill development, and ensure that the organization has the right skills in the era of AI. The Skills agent is powered by the People Skills data layer, which uses advanced AI capabilities to infer skills for every person in the organization, providing a comprehensive view of areas of expertise and focus all in one place. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489823

Rollout starts – October 2025

•  🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your Copilot-generated PowerPoint presentation outline via Pages in Chat – You can now edit and collaborate on the presentation outline generated by Copilot in a Page before the PowerPoint deck is created. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=50178 5
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Admins can deploy and govern agents with MCP in the M365 admin center – Admins can deploy, monitor, and manage agents built with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the M365 admin center for secure enterprise use. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501124
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Overview in Copilot Notebooks – Quickly grasp the key topics, summaries, and insights from your Copilot Notebooks – without having to dig through every document or detail. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503757
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Library in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app – Library is a central, visual-first space in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app where users can easily access their Copilot-generated content like images and pages – as well as Copilot-generated content shared with them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501783
• 🆕 Microsoft 365 admin center: Capacity Pack Support for SharePoint Agent and Copilot Tuning in MAC  – To help organizations manage metered consumption costs for SharePoint Agents and Copilot Tuning, we are introducing support for Capacity Packs in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center (MAC). This feature allows global administrators to use prepaid message subscriptions before incurring pay-as-you-go (PAYG) charges. Each Capacity Pack provides 25,000 Copilot messages per month, which can be allocated to Copilot Chat environments via the Power Platform Admin Center (PPAC). Once enabled, MAC will prioritize consumption from these prepaid packs and automatically switch to PAYG when the pack is exhausted. Admins can monitor usage in PPAC, including: • Total messages consumed • Remaining prepaid capacity • Message allocation per environment Key Benefits: • Streamlined billing setup in MAC • Reduced risk of overage charges • Automated environment provisioning for Copilot Chat • Improved cost visibility and governance Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503145
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Copilot Chat (Web) in Teams & Outlook metrics  – Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics about their Copilot Chat (Web) usage in Teams and Outlook. These updates enable users to better understand both active usage and action counts in Teams and Outlook and will be available in the Copilot Dashboard, as well as with additional query support.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499426
•  Microsoft Edge: Summarization, Translation, and Citation will soon be supported by Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in our menus – Menus in Edge where the user has highlighted content in the browser will soon support a summarization, translation, and citation with Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497135
• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Dashboard: Team Views – Scoped access enables managers to view Copilot insights specific to their own organizations both on the Copilot Dashboard and in additional Copilot reports on the Reports page. This allows leaders at different levels to monitor adoption and impact within their teams, while respecting organizational boundaries and privacy. Admins can configure access criteria and set minimum thresholds. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497111
• Microsoft Edge: Microsoft Edge for Business will soon integrate an entry point into Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat from the address bar – Microsoft Edge for Business plans to introduce an easy way for users to get summaries of their open page from the address bar using Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. This feature seeks to help users more easily understand relevant content and save time. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489822

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Search for meetings organized by a specific person – : This feature allows users to search for and find meetings using Copilot Chat that were organized by a specific person to make it easier to review and manage their calendar. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503859
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can create and deploy custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors across Microsoft 365. – Admins can create custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors in the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre and deploy them across Microsoft 365. This will allow admins to surface their organization’s custom data in Microsoft 365 Copilot via these MCP-based connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501585
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Calendar search for email delegates – Delegates with existing calendar access of other users, can now search for meetings using Copilot Chat, helping to save time and streamline processes. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=413718
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Generate icons using AI in Copilot Studio lite – A picture is worth a thousand words. Before, Copilot Studio agent builders would need to use the default icon or manually upload their own image. This process meant browsing the web for an image, asking different teams for icons, or manually drawing one. Users can now use AI to describe how the icon should look like, thus helping inform end users of the agent’s function more easily, with more expression. Users can now generate icons using AI in the lite version of Copilot Studio in M365. Users can enter custom prompts or use the description of the agent to generate the icon. Alternatively, users can manually upload their own icon or select from a set of pre-created icons. Icons are capped at 1 MB (192px). Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502864
• 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. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=496654

Rollout starts – December 2025

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Improve discovery of Champion connector prompts for Users – Improve discovery of Champion connector prompts – inline suggestive pre & post prompts, prompt library. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502542
• Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics – Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report – Declarative agent adoption metrics and insights in Microsoft 365 Copilot agents report in Viva Insights. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488104

Rollout starts – January 2026

• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Knowledge Agent – Simplifies SharePoint content management and ensures content is Copilot-ready by automating metadata, fixing stale content, enabling fast page creation, improving compliance, and enriching content so Copilot can deliver more accurate, grounded answers. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501451
• 🆕 Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Viva Engage – Agents in communities – Agents in Viva Engage communities supports communities by answering questions, facilitating knowledge sharing, citing sources, and scaling expertise. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499898

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Microsoft Purview

• Launched (4)
• Rolling out (1)
• In development (8)

🍾 LAUNCHED

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams – Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=323894
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – User scoping role-based access control (RBAC) – This introduces delegate management and remediation authority for different people in different regions or organization units with role-based access control (RBAC). For example, German investigators should be able to investigate messages for only German users, and German administrators can only create/manage policies for only German users. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=165402
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Sensitivity analysis for policy tuning – With this update, admins with appropriate permissions will have the ability to view a sensitivity analysis, which shows the  count of users in the organization that would meet specific indicator thresholds. The sensitivity analysis is presented as a bar chart, with potential inputs of an indicator threshold on the x-axis and the corresponding count of users on the y-axis. Admins can utilize this chart to make informed decisions on which threshold to apply for each indicator. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies based on their own internal policies, governance, and organizational requirements. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=156014
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – New cmdlet for Content Explorer – The Content Explorer Export feature has a limitation of exporting data only after drill down to specific location. This update will allow admins to use a new cmdlet within Security & Compliance PowerShell, Export-ContentExplorerData, to export all rows of data for the content that are scanned and shown on the Content Explorer. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=117546

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Always-on diagnostics for Windows endpoints (Phase 1) – This feature release ‘Always-on diagnostics’, captures critical diagnostic data from onboarded endpoint devices running on Windows OS for EDLP issue reporting. Comprehensive trace logs will be automatically recorded and stored locally on the devices, eliminating the need to reproduce issues when submitting investigation requests to Microsoft. It allows for the collection of detailed traces over extended periods (up to 90 days). While raising tickets to submit investigation requests to Microsoft regarding Microsoft Endpoint  DLP, customers can share enhanced diagnostic information with Microsoft without needing to reproduce the exact scenario. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495683

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Audit logs for agent management in Microsoft 365 admin center – Track and audit agent-related admin actions in Microsoft 365 admin center via Purview unified audit logs. This feature enables visibility into agent configuration changes—such as publishing, blocking, updating, or removing agents. Integrated with Purview’s audit search and reporting tools, it helps organizations meet regulatory standards and maintain oversight of agent management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498227
• Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Custom CC policy as IRM indicator – IRM admins can now select any Communication Compliance (CC) Policy alerts as indicators in IRM policies. After this rollout, IRM admins can select any custom CC policies that they would like to bring into IRM and detect if a user has alerts for these CC policies. When an IRM alert is generated, admins can review if there are any alerts for the user within CC under the policies that are enabled as indicators. This feature will help admins and analysts view this information in IRM without switching to CC. 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=489838

Rollout starts – November 2025

• 🆕 Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies – Microsoft Purview Endpoint data loss prevention is expanding coverage to Copilot + PCs initially to support Recall snapshots and determining whether policies exist to prevent capture of windows containing restricted sensitivity labels and Sensitive information types (SITs). Purview admins will author Endpoint DLP custom policies to integrate with Windows Copilot + PC Recall setup by Intune admins for Copilot + PC devices exclusively. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502519

Rollout starts – December 2025

•  Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on Mac Endpoints – Purview policies like Data loss prevention (DLP) auto labelling can scan for sensitive content in most of the textual files, but images are not supported for content scanning today on Mac endpoint devices. We are adding OCR support on Mac endpoints to detect sensitive content in images and apply policies to protect these images. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=410247
• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedrive – As of today, whenever the user wants to enable email notifications the policy tips also need to be enabled and vice versa, but with this decoupling the admin can configure the following: 1) None of policy tips or email notification 2) Only policy tips 3) Only Email Notifications 4) Both Email Notifications and Policy tips Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=394279

Rollout starts – February 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Expanding access to Diagnostics to Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management – We are expanding the access to Diagnostics beyond Global Admin to: Compliance Administrator, Security Administrator and Organization Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500894

Rollout starts – April 2026

• Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Advanced Review Set Query Editor – The Advanced Review Set Query Editor empowers reviewers to harness the power of real-time big data analytics on their review set data. This tool enhances data analysis by offering insights such as identifying top item types, spotting patterns, and trends within the review set. Reviewers can utilize powerful query constructs like complex filtering, pattern-based text extraction, and data format parsing to analyze and find key information specific to their case or organization. The results can then be visualized using time charts, histograms, and other flexible charting solutions, providing a comprehensive understanding of the data’s story.  Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484086

Rollout starts – June 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

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