Microsoft roadmap roundup – 29 September 2025

This week’s edition of the Microsoft 365 roadmap roundup, has 21 new releases across SharePoint, Teams, Purview, and Copilot…

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 20 new additions to the roadmap, plus 152 changes over the last week.


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

SharePoint

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

  • N/A

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Teams

  • Launched (4)
  • Rolling out (5)
  • In development (15)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Teams: Dedicated download option for tracking all registrations in Webinar
  • Event organizers can now download a distinct registration report (separate from an attendee list) from the Reports section of a Webinar, in order to have visibility and information about all registrants for a particular webinar instance.
  • Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498490
  •  Microsoft Teams: Preview Changes Before Sending Live in ‘Manage what attendees see’
  • Following further review, this feature started rolling out in July 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience. An enhancement to the ‘Manage what attendees see’ feature, allowing organizers and presenters to preview changes to what is brought on or off the screen before sending them live to attendees. This capability is only available for Town hall.
  • Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487431
  • Microsoft Teams: Join as attendees in Microsoft town hall and webinars from Teams Rooms on Windows
  • Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows can now join town halls, webinars, and structured meetings in Teams as attendees. You can attend directly from the invited Teams Room, with the same features that attendees have for all events. Available in Teams Rooms Pro.
  • Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=484125
  •  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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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: 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
  • Microsoft Teams: Mute a conversation from Teams for iOS & Android
    Engage network admins and corporate communicators can mute conversations to remove a thread from distribution in the home feed and in email digests directly from the Engage app in Teams for iOS & Android.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503019
  • Microsoft Teams: Polls support in Teams Town hall [Premium]
    Organizers can now create and share polls directly within Teams Town halls, gathering real-time feedback from participants through multiple-choice questions and other types of polls. This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=489808
  • Microsoft Teams: Facilitator 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
  • 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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Apps in Shared Channels for Microsoft Teams
    Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Shared Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific shared channel, so everyone collaborating there (including invited collaborators from other teams or organizations, subject to admin policy) can work in one place without switching contexts.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505791
  • Microsoft Teams: Customize the screen in Teams Town halls through ‘Manage what attendees see’ [Teams Premium]
    The enhanced “Manage what attendees see” experience enables organizers to take their Town hall presentations to the next level. Organizers and presenters can apply layouts, backgrounds, theme colors, and name tags to deliver events that are polished, professional, and highly engaging. This feature is available to organizers with a Teams Premium license.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503299
  • Microsoft Teams: Audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing available for Gov clouds
    IT administrators for Gov cloud customers 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 Microsoft Purview Portal. Available for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD cloud environments.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500893
  • Microsoft Teams: iPad Multi-tasking for Meetings
    Teams on iPad will now support a separate popout window for meetings, enhancing multi-tasking capabilities.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503109
  • Microsoft Teams: Call history Admin control
    Teams admins can now control whether Teams meetings and calls appear in users’ iPhone call logs.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503106

Rollout starts – November 2025

  • Microsoft Teams: Emojis in Section Names
    Choose an emoji to accompany section names in your chats and channels list.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503300
  • Microsoft Teams: New Policy Setting to Require Explicit Consent for Recording and Transcription in Teams 1:1 Calls
    We’re expanding the capability to require explicit consent for recording and transcription to include 1:1 calls in Microsoft Teams. A new setting in the Teams Calling policy allows admins to enforce this requirement before recording or transcription can begin. When a user with the policy initiates recording, transcription, or both in a 1:1 call, the other participant is automatically muted, with their camera and content sharing turned off. The participant will see a prompt asking whether they consent to be included in the recording and transcription.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503295
  • 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: 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: Share meeting recap to SharePoint
    Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498494
  • Microsoft Teams: 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: 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: Shared tab in channel
    The Files tab in channels is now “Shared”. In addition to files that are currently shown from document library, new experience will also show all the files and links shared in the channel conversations. This makes it easier to find content all in one place.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=470597

Rollout stats – December CY2025

Rollout stats – March CY2026

  • Microsoft Teams: Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GCC
    Advanced Collaboration Analytics for GGC provides Teams admins with insights into external collaboration patterns – covering teams, federated domains, channels, guests, and internal users – along with recommended actions to enhance security for external collaboration.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493742

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

  • Launched (1)
  • Rolling out (0)
  • In development (2)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • SharePoint: OneDrive and SharePoint – Use table of contents in PDF – OneDrive for the web and SharePoint Online can display a table of contents if it’s already in your PDF. You can select the line item in the table of contents to jump directly to the location of that item in the page. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486859

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • N/A

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October 2025

  • OneDrive: OneDrive files as knowledge sources for agents
    Allow files from OneDrive to be added as a grounding source in the Sources tab when creating a custom agent. This would apply to agents created from both OneDrive and SharePoint.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480728
  • OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive – Find yourself referencing the same files to Copilot in OneDrive? We are bringing the power of agents to OneDrive, allowing you to build, use, and share your own agents using files and content stored in your OneDrive. This feature requires a Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 license and will be available to commercial customers on OneDrive Web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=469503

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

  • Launched (18)
  • Rolling out (10)
  • In development (22)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments
    The Microsoft 365 app will be updated to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for GCC-M environments. This update includes a UI refresh and quick access to key modules like Chat, Search, Create, Apps, and Notebooks.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495116
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Hebrew support in Agent builder
    Hebrew support in Agent builder
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494152
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): The Create Module in the M365 Copilot app
    The creative hub for AI led artifact generation capabilities
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490760 
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Pages module on Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app
    With the Copilot Pages module in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on your mobile, you can now access all of your Pages in one place on the go.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486857
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Create Copilot Pages from Copilot Chat on your mobile phone
    Create Copilot Pages on your mobile phone to continue working on the go. Pages shared in Microsoft 365 are interactive and automatically synchronized for seamless collaboration.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=485721 
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Prompt Gallery – Share a prompt with a co-worker
    Easily create, save, and share your favorite prompts using Copilot Prompt Gallery, inspiring your co-workers to achieve more with Copilot.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=486949
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Support large documents in Word Copilot
    Support customers referencing large documents
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=483955
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Ability to use the Graph connector selector when using Teams Toolkit
    Developers using Teams Toolkit to author declarative agents can select specific Graph connectors to improve their knowledge grounding.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474446
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use Kiota as an API plugin generation tool
    Developers using Teams Toolkit and Kiota can use them together as an API plugin generation tool. This unlocks new scenarios like searching our repository of public APIs, visually selecting the main integration endpoints and improving the maintainability of existing plugins by using a workspace file and allowing full regeneration of plugin files.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474451
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Extensibility – Automatic project scaffolding in Teams Toolkit for building Graph connectors
    Developers can now leverage an automatic project scaffolding for Graph connector applications within the Teams Toolkit, allowing for the generation of a full production-ready Graph connector application from just an API description file, significantly reducing setup time and complexity.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474447
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Copilot Chat developer mode
    Developers can use Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and enable developer mode to debug.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474450
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot extensibility – Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience
    Developers can use TypeSpec as an authoring experience for declarative agents and API plugins in Teams Toolkit.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=474449
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Easily write a prompt or choose quick actions from the Copilot icon in your Word doc
    The Copilot icon in your document margin makes it easy to quickly add a prompt or choose from a range of quick options Copilot can offer.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415449
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Write a prompt for selected portions of text in Word
    Writing a prompt to draft content based on your selection no longer expands your selection to the entire paragraph, table, or list. You can prompt based on a single sentence or item.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415419
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Write a prompt for selected portions of text in Word
    Writing a prompt to draft content based on your selection no longer expands your selection to the entire paragraph, table, or list. You can prompt based on a single sentence or item.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=415418
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Discover, acquire, and manage agents through in-app store in Word and PowerPoint
    With Copilot extensibility, users can discover, acquire, and manage agents through the unified store. We are excited to introduce the Microsoft 365 unified store to Office documents, enabling users to discover, acquire, and manage agents directly within the in-app store for Word and PowerPoint, with Excel support coming soon.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=433687
  • Microsoft Viva: Microsoft Copilot Dashboard Scope Filter enhancements
    Introducing exciting new features to help you better understand and improve adoption and impact of Copilot for Microsoft 365 through the Copilot Dashboard. Enhancements include supporting multi-select capabilities for Scope filters to facilitate group comparisons and the ability to upload HR organizational data for Scope filter updates.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=429870

🚂 ROLLING OUT

  • 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: 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
  • 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
    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): Shared mailbox access for emails in Copilot Chat
    Users with shared mailbox access will be able to ground Copilot Chat conversations in shared mailboxes.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488797
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Scope delegated mailbox access for emails in Business Chat
    Scope Copilot queries in emails for delegated mailboxes.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=416062
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Email attachment summarization (Modern Attachments)
    Users will be able to reason over additional attachment content, along with the email body, in Copilot Chat. Support will be extended to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pdf, Text, Json and Xml files mentioned in the email as links (Modern Attachments).
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=499657
  • Microsoft Viva: Copilot Dashboard – Copilot Chat in Word, Excel, PowerPoint Metrics
    Copilot Analytics users can now view metrics that reflect Copilot Chat (Work and Web) activity across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These updates reflect the latest addition of Copilot Chat to these apps to help users transition seamlessly between workflows and will be displayed alongside existing app chat metrics for continuity.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498913

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Rollout starts – October CY2025

Rollout starts – November CY2025

  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): GPT-5 in Copilot Studio (embedded Microsoft 365 Copilot experience)
    Create GPT-5-powered agents using Copilot Studio (lite), the embedded agent-building experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502552
  • Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Replace stock video footage with AI-Generated Images in Microsoft 365 Copilot
    Easily swap stock visuals for AI-generated images in your videos using the Create experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot. Powered by OpenAI’s latest image generation model, this feature helps you tailor content, explain concepts more clearly, and help make your videos stand out.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=501570
  • 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: Share meeting recap to SharePoint
    Meeting organizers and presenters can share meeting recap notes and follow-up tasks directly from Teams to SharePoint as a news post, facilitating the seamless sharing of post meeting follow-up details.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498494

Use the links below to switch between each product’s roadmap updates:

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

  • Launched (5)
  • Rolling out (2)
  • In development (7)

🍾 LAUNCHED

  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Security Posture Management for AI: Department Graph
    New graph added to Microsoft Purview Data Security Posture Management for AI displaying the departments of users interacting with AI apps.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=487441
  • 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 in the target library. 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 document library. Changes to user permissions on the document library are reflected on downloaded files, including full revocation for users removed from the document library.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=480735
  • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enriching Insider risk management with Communication compliance as an indicator
    Enhance Insider Risk Management by incorporating communication compliance policy matches as a new indicator for detecting various communication risks, including inappropriate text. Additionally, our system now extends its capabilities to identify potential financial regulatory compliance breaches and violations of any custom communication compliance policy on Teams, Exchange, Yammer, Copilot for Microsoft 365, or third-party channels. This expansion ensures a comprehensive approach to risk detection in diverse communication scenarios.
    Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=382107
  • 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
  • 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

    🚂 ROLLING OUT

    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Export download with pre-authorized link support
      This update enhances the export download experience in Microsoft Purview eDiscovery by introducing support for both pre-authorized and non pre-authorized links. Pre-authorized links offer faster downloads and maintain session continuity for a specified duration. Non pre-authorized links require re-authentication after each connection loss and are needed for restricted environments that allow access only to limited Microsoft 365 IP ranges.
      Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498160
    • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – IRM alerts in XDR
      With this feature, IRM alerts and other supporting data will be available in the following Microsoft Defender XDR experiences: 1. IRM alerts will be surfaced in unified alert and Incident queue in Microsoft Defender XDR. 2. IRM alerts, Indicators, and enriched events will be available in Microsoft Defender XDR advanced hunting. Analysts can leverage KQL queries to identify potentially hidden risky patterns in data security related user activity. 3. IRM alert, Indicators, and enriched events will be exposed through Graph API. This feature can be enabled through “Share data with Microsoft Defender XDR” within Microsoft Insider Risk Management settings. To ensure privacy of the data, all IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR can only be accessed by users with Insider risk analyst or Insider risk investigator permissions in Purview. Existing analysts accessing IRM data in purview will continue to access IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR. IRM data in Microsoft Defender XDR does not honor anonymization. This is to enable effective correlation of IRM alerts with alerts from other solutions in Microsoft Defender XDR platform (such as Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud apps, etc.). 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=422730

      ⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

      October CY2025

      • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection–Email Attachment Preview in Content Explorer
        This feature allows admins to view the attachments of an email inside content explorer.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506746
      • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection–Aggregate option in Export-ContentExplorerData cmdlet
        The Aggregate parameter switch returns the folder level aggregated numbers instead of returning details at the item level. You don’t need to specify a value with this switch. Using this switch significantly reduces the export time. To download the items in a folder, run this cmdlet for specific folders. When you use this switch with the TagName, TagType and Workload parameters, the command returns the following information: SiteUlrs: OneDrive and SharePoint. UPNs: Exchange Online and Teams. The count of items stamped with that tag.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506745
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Metadata Field Enhancements in Process Reporting
        Introducing enhancements to metadata reporting in item.csv exports and Add To Review set CSVs, including new fields such as error details, isEncrypted, and sensitivity label. These updates provide clearer, more detailed insights into items processed during export and review workflows.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506220
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Unique Counting of EDM Matches
        Providing a new mode to count EDM Matches where each row is counted once in addition to the current behavior where each primary element is counted once
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502551
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Copilot Prompt Gallery in Data Security Posture Management
        The Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Copilot Prompt Gallery is a curated collection of prompts and promptbooks created to help users engage more effectively with the Security Copilot experience in DSPM. It acts as a centralized hub where users can explore, search, and leverage prompts that streamline workflows and improve productivity. Designed to support a range of roles and use cases within Data Security, the Prompt Gallery is a powerful resource that enables users to quickly access relevant prompts, accelerate task completion, and unlock the full potential of the Copilot experience.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492618

      November CY2025

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Enhanced Policy Conditions
        Three updates are coming to enhance policy conditions. First, our updated policy conditions enable the detection of messages sent and received both to and from external email addresses, allowing you to identify specific instances of information being shared with external contacts. Secondly, with the new OR condition capability, you can combine multiple conditions within the same policy, creating custom logic to suit your unique compliance requirements. Lastly, to make policy creation and updates a seamless process, we’ve introduced the ability to test conditions before implementing them. By using sample messages, you can evaluate how your conditions will perform and fine-tune them to align with your compliance goals.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=336046
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Adaptive policy scope
        Adaptive policy scopes enable your organization to create scopes that automatically updates which users to include in your policy based on geography, group, or another user attribute. The policy will automatically update to match the criteria defined in the scope instead of you constantly needing to update the static list of users in your policies.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=172024

      December CY2025

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Recommended policy scope
        Leverage policy scope insights to understand the aggregated volume of policy violations that are missed from users that are not currently scoped into the policy. Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect 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 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=168843
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Generate keyword query language from natural language prompt in eDiscovery with Copilot for Security
        Copilot for Security is embedded in eDiscovery to enable users to provide a search prompt in natural language and will translate into keyword query language to help expedite the start of an eDiscovery search.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505444

      January CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention–Endpoint DLP support classification of Azure RMS protected Office documents
        Endpoint DLP can now classify Office files stored in Windows devices that have Azure RMS protection applied. Classification will be triggered when file is used in applications or when just-in-time classification is enabled.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503780

      February CY2026

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Ability to set a retention period for a policy
        Introducing the ability to define how long content captured by a Communication Compliance policy is retained. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are 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=68688

      March CY2026

      • 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
      • Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Service health dashboard
        As a Microsoft Purview user, you’ll be able to view outages, service issues, and advisories that might impact your services. This new dashboard will combine the services and solutions health of Purview, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Cloud Services in one central place in the Purview portal, eliminating the need to go to several places to find this information.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=497944

      November CY2025

      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Integration with Power Automate (GCC-High and DoD)
        Communication Compliance integration with Power Automate allows organizations to configure Power Automate flows to automate tasks for Communication Compliance cases and users. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect regulatory compliance violations (e.g. SEC or FINRA), such as sensitive or confidential information, harassing or threatening language, and sharing of adult content. Built with privacy by design, usernames are pseudonymized by default, role-based access controls are built in, investigators are 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=85606
      • Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Policy insights
        The Communication Compliance homepage will provide two columns that offer a quick overview of policy performance: the first column shows the number of scanned parent items in real time, giving visibility into scanning progress; the second column keeps you informed about parent items that meet policy conditions, ensuring you stay updated on potential issues requiring attention and maintaining control over communication compliance. This item is no longer accurate and is being removed from the roadmap. We apologize for the inconvenience.
        Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=172016


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