Microsoft roadmap roundup – 03 November 2025

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 59 new additions to the roadmap, plus 122 changes over the last week.

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

SharePoint

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November 2025

SharePoint: M365 Agent Access Insights for SharePoint and OneDrive sites – Rich insights on agents accessing content in SharePoint and OneDrive sites as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513273
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432

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 (17)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• Microsoft Teams: Regional Settings Separation – Regional Settings Separation in Microsoft Teams is designed to give users full control over UI language, date, and time formats – either synced with their OS or set manually – for a seamless, globally personalized experience that also addresses common synchronization issues. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498895

• Microsoft Teams: Browser support on Teams Rooms on Windows touch boards – Teams Rooms on Windows-based touch boards, including the Surface Hub 3, now feature a private browsing mode with Microsoft Edge. This functionality allows users to access websites and line-of-business web applications on touch boards both during meetings and outside of them. IT administrators can manage browsing policies to ensure a secure and safe browsing experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494148

• Microsoft Teams: Multiple Emoji Reactions per message – You can now react to messages and posts with multiple emojis per message, enhancing your ability to express a wide range of emotions effectively. Use combinations of emojis for a richer and more nuanced response, quickly conveying your feelings and thoughts, like agreement, urgency or sentiment, without extra replies—keeping discussions focused and efficient. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=491468

• 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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

• Microsoft Teams: Private channels increased limits and transition to group compliance – We are updating private channels to align with compliance model for all channels. After this change, compliance policies applied to the team (M365 Group) will apply to all channels in the team – across standard, private, and shared. Private channels will no longer need user level targeting of policies different from other channels, and private channel compliance messages will no longer be copied to user mailboxes, relying on a dedicated, internal mailbox per channel like shared channels. In addition, limits for private channels will be increased so each team can have more than 30 private channels, up to the 1000 total channel limit per team. Private channel member limits will increase from 250 to 5000. You will also be able to schedule meetings in private channels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=500380

• Microsoft Teams: Chat Notes – A new collaborative space is now available directly from your Teams chat, enabling real-time collaboration, organization of key information, and streamlined communications. Chat notes is available in 1:1 and group chat, and is accessible only to the chat members. Add images, format text, share Loop components, and mention chat members when you require their attention. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498159

• 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. #newoutlookforwindows Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498914

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release: November CY2025

• Microsoft Teams: Discovery and Creation of Agentic Users from Teams and M365 Agent Store – Agentic Users are a new class of AI that operate as independent users within the enterprise workforce. Each embodied agent has its own identity, dedicated access to organizational systems and applications, and the ability to collaborate with humans and other agents. These agents can attend meetings, edit documents, communicate via email and chat, and perform tasks autonomously. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518220

Release: December CY2025 (5)

• Microsoft Teams: Restart your Town hall event – Teams town hall producers can now restart a live event while the event is active in order to address technical issues that might arise during the execution of an instance. Whether technical, network, or other issue, this feature enables those managing the event to quickly resolve problems for attendees. This feature is designed to prevent the need for scheduling entirely new events. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523214

• Microsoft Teams: Consult and merge a PSTN caller through DTMF – Users have always been able to dial a phone number and add someone to a meeting. Now, meeting organizers can seamlessly consult and merge PSTN callers to active Teams meetings even if they are behind auto-attendants that require Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency, or DTMF, navigation. For example, you can connect with and consult a subject matter expert through an audio conference dial-in before adding them to the group discussion. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518218

• Microsoft Teams: Apps in Private Channels for Microsoft Teams – Bring the apps your team relies on—tabs, bots, and message extensions—directly into Private Channels in Microsoft Teams. This update lets channel owners add apps to a specific private 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=518215

• 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: Automatically update your work location via your organization’s Wi-Fi – When users connect to their organization’s Wi-Fi, Teams will soon be able to automatically update their work location to reflect the building they’re working from. This feature will be off by default. Tenant admins will decide whether to enable it and require end-users to opt-in. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=488800

– Release: January CY2026 (3)

• Microsoft Teams: New sharing panel in meetings – improved content discovery and ease of sharing – The sharing panel in today’s meetings is the default place for content discoverability and sharing. New sharing panel UI is crafted with intent of modernising and simplifying default tasks such as window sharing, but also for easier discovery of sharing options and more discoverable file sharing. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502520

• Microsoft Teams: Live meetings indicator for channels – Introducing a new indicator in channels to help users find meetings occurring live within the channel and join them. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513272

• Microsoft Teams: share file in chat with external users – Collaborating with users outside your organization has become more streamlined. You can now share files and Loop components with external users in 1:1, group, and meeting chats. When sending a file or Loop component, it will be automatically provisioned to users in the chat, or you can change its permissions. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=492625

• Microsoft Teams: Adaptive card-based app & copilot agent link unfurling in Teams – Discover and add SharePoint agents in chats and channels from in-context store. Users can click on ‘Add agents and bots’ from the roster drop down. This will open the in-context store, where users can discover SharePoint agents and add them directly to the conversation and collaborate in the group. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=515465

Release: February CY2026

• Microsoft Viva: Engage Communities in Microsoft Teams – Your Viva Engage communities will now be available in Teams along side teams, chats and channels. Engage communities in Microsoft Teams make it simple to connect, share, and learn across your organization. This new experience brings discoverable, asynchronous conversations and leadership engagement into Teams—helping employees explore ideas and perspectives beyond project-based collaboration. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513274

• 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

Release: March CY2026

• Microsoft Teams: Local PTZ for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows – Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will provide native Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) controls for connected cameras that support this capability. The feature will initially contain limited support for cameras with mechanical/optical PTZ, with digital PTZ to come in the future. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=409534

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

OneDrive

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

🍾 LAUNCHED

OneDrive: Sync admin reports – GCC – We are adding support for the OneDrive Sync admin reports for the GCC environment. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=393333

🚂 ROLLING OUT

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November 2025

SharePoint: M365 Agent Access Insights for SharePoint and OneDrive sites – Rich insights on agents accessing content in SharePoint and OneDrive sites as part of SharePoint Advanced Management controls. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513273
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432
Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive – The floating Copilot button is a quick-access button that appears prominently in your OneDrive web interface. It’s your gateway to Copilot-powered actions —right where you need them. Instant Copilot Access: Ask questions about your files, summarize documents, or compare content—all without leaving OneDrive. Contextual Recommendations: The button will suggest helpful actions based on your file selection—like generating a status report from a file you’ve selected or generating a summary of a new file shared with you. Streamlined Navigation: No more hunting through menus; the Copilot floating button brings the most relevant tools to your fingertips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513421
OneDrive: Agents in OneDrive – Find yourself referencing the same files using 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 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

Copilot

Launched (7)
Rolling out (4)
In development (26)

🍾 LAUNCHED

• 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): 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

🚂 ROLLING OUT

• 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 Copilot (Microsoft 365): Access Copilot Chat in your Microsoft 365 apps – Easily access Copilot Chat from the side pane in your Microsoft 365 apps with a commercial Microsoft 365 license or a Microsoft 365 Copilot license. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494830

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Continue editing in Outlook from Copilot Chat – When Copilot detects that you’re trying to write an email—like saying “Draft an email to my team thanking them for their hard work on Project K”—you’ll see an “Edit in Outlook” button. The ‘Edit in Outlook button will open a draft in Outlook, with the subject, message, and recipients filled in, so you can review and send it with ease. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=494510

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release: November CY2025 (16)

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Ask Copilot about highlighted response content – Highlight a sentence, paragraph, or table from the response and ask Copilot to work only on that selection. Get focused explanations, concise summaries, quick translations, or next steps for the exact passage you’re reviewing—no more over broad answers. Your selection is previewed in the prompt so you can edit before you send. It’s a faster, more controlled way to get help right where you’re working. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522616

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot edits on a Page are highlighted by default – When using Copilot to edit a Page, those changes will be highlighted by default, making it easier to review and confirm your edits. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=509112

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Data source specific filters – We are introducing a dynamic filtering experience in Microsoft 365 Copilot search that empowers users to refine their results more precisely by leveraging data source-specific filters in the right rail. When a user selects a data source from the right rail, such as Outlook, SharePoint, Jira, or Copilot Chats, the interface dynamically presents a tailored set of filters specific to that source. These refiners allow users to narrow down results based on attributes unique to the selected data source, such as item type, status, or semantic labels. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506752

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot chats conversations – Copilot Conversations as Search Results: Users can now retrieve historical Copilot interaction, including chats from notebooks, agents, and the main Copilot chat interface, directly in the search results (SERP). Dedicated Data Source in Right Rail: A new entry labeled “Copilot Chats” appears in the right rail, allowing users to scope their search specifically to Copilot-generated content. Scoped Query Formulation (QF) Suggestions: When users select “Copilot Chats” as the active data source, the search box dynamically offers scoped QF suggestions tailored to that source. These suggestions help differentiate between session recall and prompt execution, aligning with user intent. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=506751

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Real-time voice interactions in a podcast in Word – Interact in real time with podcasts created by Copilot in Word. Today, audio summaries help you absorb content on the go, but they’re one-way—listeners can’t clarify or explore without stopping. With this feature, you can ask questions with your voice while listening and get answers instantly, staying in the audio experience and understanding content faster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523206

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use voice for Q&A during Read Aloud in Word – Interact in real time with read aloud in Word with Copilot. While your document is being read aloud, you can ask questions with your voice—such as “What does this mean?” or “Summarize this section”—and get answers instantly. No need to pause and search manually. This keeps you in context, reduces interruptions, and helps you understand and act faster. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=523205

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Computer Use in Researcher – Researcher with Computer Use can securely interact with public, gated, and interactive web content using a virtual computer—enabling you to uncover deeper insights and generate richer reports all grounded in your work data and the web. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=511796

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot icon in File Previewer for OneDrive – A new Copilot icon button provides a quick, visible entry point to Copilot directly within the file previewer in OneDrive. Positioned at the bottom-right corner (instead of the command bar), this button surfaces contextual prompts tailored to the file type and offers seamless access to Copilot chat, making it easier to get insights and take action without leaving the preview experience. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513432

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Chat] Updated UI for Microsoft Copilot Navigation Pane in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, and Teams – We’re refreshing the Copilot Chat navigation pane to simplify the agents list and increase the visible chat history list beyond a user’s five most recent chats with a more prominent chat history search UI. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=516570

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Floating Copilot button in OneDrive – The floating Copilot button is a quick-access button that appears prominently in your OneDrive web interface. It’s your gateway to Copilot-powered actions —right where you need them. Instant Copilot Access: Ask questions about your files, summarize documents, or compare content—all without leaving OneDrive. Contextual Recommendations: The button will suggest helpful actions based on your file selection—like generating a status report from a file you’ve selected or generating a summary of a new file shared with you. Streamlined Navigation: No more hunting through menus; the Copilot floating button brings the most relevant tools to your fingertips. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=513421

• Microsoft 365 admin center: Usage reports – Microsoft 365 Copilot Connectors – A new usage report will be available in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Copilot Connectors in Microsoft 365 Copilot, designed to give organizations a detailed view of how connectors are being used within Microsoft 365 Copilot. This report provides insights into overall connector activity, publisher-level trends, and connector powered response patterns over time, along with detailed user-level connectors adoption data. With these analytics, admins can monitor adoption, identify usage patterns, and optimize Copilot experiences to drive greater value across their organization. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=519571

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] User can create agents scoped on specific item/ container using URL – 1. Maker can create agents by providing 3p URL. 2. Maker can provide either an item URL or a container level, for e.g. ADO ticket/ ADO area path. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502547

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [DevX] Compliance sensitivity labels for custom connectors – Compliance sensitivity labels for custom connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502540

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot for PowerPoint will help you build your story’s narrative – Copilot will help you form your narrative and turn that into a presentation of fully-designed slides. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518213

• Microsoft 365 app: Overview Page in Copilot Notebooks – Users will find Copilot-powered Notebook summaries and insights as a landing page within their Copilot Notebook. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=512430

• 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

– Release: December CY2025 (5)

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Improved content freshness using Copilot connectors with webhooks-led notifications – Copilot connectors will offer improved content freshness with more frequent sync of updates using webhook event notifications. The following connectors are in scope – Azure DevOps, Jira cloud, Confluence cloud, Trello, Asana, Bitbucket, GitHub and Gitlab. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=505441

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins can now edit user mappings and query filters for connected tools like Jira, Confluence, and Salesforce – Support connection edit of user mapping, query filter for SNow, Confluence, Salesforce, Jira connectors. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=503590

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] [Search UX] Custom filter support for data sources on Copilot Search – 1. Allow IT admins to customize filters at a data source level. 2. IT admins can add/delete a filter at data source level. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=502534

– Release: January CY2026 (2)

• Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): AI Learning Agent (AILA) in Microsoft 365 Copilot – Helps in discovery of personalized micro and structured AI Learning Agent (AILA) to help employees upskill and grow in their career. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=490154

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

SharePoint
Teams
OneDrive
Copilot
Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Purview

Launched (4)
Rolling out (0)
In development (13)

🍾 LAUNCHED

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Purview Information Protection – Support for Cross Cloud Protected Files – This feature will enable customers working across cloud boundaries – worldwide cloud to GCC High or Microsoft 365 operated by 21-Vianet, to share files protected with Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels. Recipients in the other cloud will be able to view, edit, print, and more based on rights assigned by the document owner. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495000
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Exchange Data Loss Prevention – Image Metadata Scanning without OCR – With this important feature, Purview DLP will now scan and classify sensitive data embedded in image metadata, even if OCR is unavailable. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=495459
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow – Experience enhancements to IRM alert investigation workflow including updates to the alert’s “”All risk factors”” page and activity explorer. These enhancements will give customers the ability to maximize the visual space for their investigation. We are adding to each component a minimize/ maximize button and hiding the horizontal banner on the Alerts pages by default. We are also enhancing the All Risk Factors page for better UX. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=493754
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: eDiscovery – Review set query report – Within a review set, generate and download a hit-by-term report on a KQL query. Quickly see the count and volume of the items hit on a particular keyword or a list of compound queries. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=384871

🚂 ROLLING OUT

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

⌛ IN DEVELOPMENT

Release – November 2025

Microsoft Purview: Integration with Entra GSA Internet Access to enable sensitive file filtering at the network layer – Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to filter sensitive files at the network layer by integrating with Entra Global Secure Access Internet Access. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect files at the network layer and enforce restrictive actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522096
Microsoft Purview: Inline protection, alerting, and incident management for sensitive data shared over the network through non-Microsoft SASE integrations – Extend Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies and Insider Risk Management indicators to the network by integrating with your existing non-Microsoft Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution. This integration enables organizations to intercept and inspect traffic inline at the network layer and enforce actions based on DLP policy conditions. It helps prevent sensitive data from being shared with untrusted cloud applications through browsers, apps, APIs, add-ins, and more – including generative AI platforms, cloud storage, and content-sharing services – while managing alerts and incidents through Purview and Microsoft Defender. If configured, these signals also inform user risk indicators in Insider Risk Management. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=522095
Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Separate Retention policies for Copilots and AI Apps – Enable admins to configure retention policies for various Copilots and AI Apps. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=520388
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

Release – December 2025

Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for more unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business – Inline protections for text and file uploads, directly integrated into for Edge for Business, can be applied to more unmanaged consumer GenAI apps. Admins can now apply Purview collection policies and Purview DLP policies to detect and protect inline against sensitive data sharing in the Edge browser by users on Intune-managed Windows devices to a selection of new unmanaged app locations. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518643
Microsoft Purview: Inline data security controls (DLP) for file uploads to unmanaged GenAI apps in Edge for Business – Inline protections for file upload protection are directly integrated into for Edge for Business to help prevent data leakage when users upload files to consumer GenAI apps in the browser. In addition to existing text upload controls in Purview collection and DLP policies, Admins can now detect and enforce inline protections on file uploads. Policies can target file-specific conditions such as file size, file type, and sensitive information types, enabling organizations to audit or block activities for users in Edge on Intune-managed Windows devices. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=518642
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Communication Compliance – Advanced trainable classifiers to detect workplace safety scenarios – New detections are being added to Communication Compliance that enables you to build safer online environments by detecting potential hate and violence then assigning severity scores to unsafe text across languages. These classifiers are built using large language models. Microsoft Purview Communication Compliance provides the tools to help organizations detect business conduct and 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=169212

Release – March 2026

Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal: Information Protection – Admin unit scoping in Content Explorer and Data Explorer – This feature introduces Admin Unit scoping to both Content Explorer and Data Explorer, enabling more granular visibility and control over M365 data. It ensures that data exploration respects organizational boundaries defined by Admin Units, enhancing compliance and governance. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=498916
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Decoupling of Policy tips and Email notifications while configuring rules on Data Loss Prevention for Sharepoint and Onedriv – 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=396575

Release – June 2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Enable admins to set default document library label based on container label of a group/site/team – This enables admins to inherit document library label from the container label of a group/site/team. New and edited documents within the default document library will be labeled automatically. If the SharePoint admin had already configured a default document library labeling, this setting will not override it. #copilotcontrolsystem Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=421192

Release – November 2026

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Microsoft 365 Groups scoping in Teams DLP policy extend protection to 1:1/n chats – When scoping policies to Microsoft 365 Groups in Teams DLP policies, members of Teams standard and shared channel chats associated with the groups are currently protected by the policies. This change will automatically extend the protection to standard/shared channels chats in other Microsfot 365 Groups and 1:1/n (non-channel) chats. There is no longer a need to add users, security groups or other Microsoft 365 groups to protect these chats, except for customers that have enabled optical character recognition (OCR) in Teams chat. Find out more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=401127

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